Long Ji gazed at the Ghost Bride before him, his heart churning with emotions that surged like crashing waves.
He knew full well that the Ghost Bride had not willingly become a creature of such terrible malevolence. She, too, was a victim.
Yet Long Ji could not help worrying:
If I let this Ghost Bride out, who can guarantee that she can be kept under control?
If she escapes her restraints and slaughters at will, wreaking havoc across the world until everyone hunts her like a rat scurrying across the street, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Still, the Ghost Bride was a creature of extreme malevolence. Her strength was clearly formidable, and her potential was unfathomable.
If he could bring her into his service, she would undoubtedly be an extraordinarily rare and powerful ally.
At present, however, Long Ji was alone, with no one to support or assist him.
His cultivation was only at the third level of the Body Integration Realm. Against enemies this powerful, his strength simply fell short of his ambitions.
Although he could instantly kill Void Insight Realm experts, that was only possible through ambush.
In a head-on confrontation, without using his special trump cards, the outcome would be uncertain.
What weighed even more heavily on Long Ji was that experts crowded this palace like clouds. Void Insight Realm and Great Vehicle Realm masters were everywhere, and even Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts were far from uncommon.
The Ox Demon who had forced him to risk his life probing the traps, for instance, was an expert at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
With his current strength, he was still a long way from taking revenge on that Ox Demon.
In other words, for now he could only skulk about like a rat, keeping his