Han Xiuguang had been an ordinary Core Formation cultivator back then, and his cultivation was still at Core Formation now.
But compared to before, every trace of life had vanished from him, replaced by pure yin baleful qi. The impression he gave was entirely different.
He stood right there, yet had the texture of a phantom, an unreal quality like a dream or a bubble, or a wisp of blue smoke that the wind might scatter at any moment.
Yet a special power gathered his true form within it, keeping him condensed rather than dispersed, forever maintaining that faint, almost nonexistent presence.
"You aren't dead?" Immortal Long exclaimed in surprise, then immediately added, "No, you're already dead!"
An unusual gleam flashed through his eyes, and he could not help looking moved. "Is this the legendary... ghost immortal?"
A ghost immortal was still an immortal, by no means comparable to ordinary ghost cultivators or artificially created yin spirits and other spectral beings.
To be precise, it was also one of the attainments of achieving the Dao and becoming an immortal. Accounts of it had circulated during the Primordial Era, and even the more distant age of remote antiquity, and cultivators everywhere had pursued it as well.
"Indeed. After death, we of the Netherworld Sect can attain ghost immortality, much like the Heavenly Court's apotheosis!"
Han Xiuguang revealed what he relied upon, which was also one of the Netherworld Sect's greatest sources of confidence in opposing the righteous Immortal Sects.
"So it really is true!" Immortal Long sighed, then said quietly, "I have long heard that the Daoist of Yellow Springs passed down a tradition that sought enlightenment through the Netherworld, specializing in the world after death.
"Cultivators of this lineage believe that a person's existence in this world is merely a