"What are all these things? Why did you bring them back?" Li Ling set down the object in his hand, discreetly wiped his hands, and asked Zuo Zhongliang.
"Your Highness, you may not know this, but these are the remnants of ghostly beings-grudge essence!" Zuo Zhongliang replied.
"Hmm? Grudge essence?" Li Ling's expression shifted slightly. "I think I've heard of it before."
Grudge essence was the Ghost Dao's counterpart to the Divine Path's incense and fire prayer power.
Ghostly beings were born of obsession. Their souls and wills contained an undying element, which combined with the Yin-Yang gang baleful energy of the natural world to condense a yin spirit body, giving rise to ghost souls, vengeful spirits, evil ghosts, and the like.
Yet he had always assumed it was something akin to origin energy. He had never imagined that, like dream spirits, it could evolve and condense into all manner of tangible objects.
This truly bore out the saying: knowledge gained on paper always proved shallow.
Some things remained incomprehensible unless you put them into practice yourself and examined them closely, even when a book spelled them out clearly.
At this thought, Li Ling inspected the objects again. Sure enough, he discovered qualities similar to those of objects from dreamscapes.
Setting aside their foul, corrupt stench, he could sense a power unique to sentient beings within them, giving the objects a texture akin to rainbow flowers.
The spiritual will of living beings, particularly humans, the most spiritually gifted of all creatures, manifested within them. They were crystallizations of spiritual will.
Unlike rainbow flowers, those spiritual blossoms of dreams, however, their power tended more toward the yin and the negative, containing a greater mingling of resentment and hatred, as well as profoundly evil, corrupting forces.
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