[Candle Gaze] Revealed Its Might, Clearing Suspicion; [Jianmu] Stirred, Purple Thunder Extended an Invitation

Lin Changheng immediately disposed of the red-robed Core Formation cultivator's remains.

As before, he buried the body in the [Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land], adding another fresh grave mound.

Beneath every mound lay a cultivator who had once been Lin Chang's enemy. Their flesh slowly decomposed within the blessed land, becoming the purest spiritual energy and nourishing this little world he carried with him.

The more he buried, the richer the blessed land's spiritual energy became.

Notably, many of the older grave mounds had gradually flattened. Their bones had completely dissolved, leaving room for fresh burials.

The Black Soul Banner hung in midair within the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land. Lin Changheng cast the red-robed cultivator's soul into it. A soundless wail rang out before countless strands of yin energy enveloped the soul and dragged it to the bottom.

He would become its eighth ghost king!

Lin Changheng had also deliberately studied the [Black Soul Banner], the treasure artifact he had obtained from [True Person Sacred Heart] of the Yue Kingdom's Demonic Path. He found it remarkably inefficient at nurturing Core Formation souls into ghost kings.

The problem lay neither with the treasure artifact nor with its primary material, the Core Formation souls, but with the supplementary materials needed to refine ghosts!

According to the Demonic Path's methods for refining ghost kings, one had to provide an endless supply of special "nutrients." Every kind involved slaughter and plunder, naturally entailing countless deeds that provoked the wrath of heaven and man and violated all decency. To demonic cultivators, such things were utterly commonplace.

They cared only about power.

But although Lin Changheng had never claimed to be a righteous gentleman, he would not commit such filthy deeds. That path was closed to him.

He could kill others and seize their treasures, but he could not