"Rumble..."
In an instant, some of the ghost corpses that had still been sleeping suddenly grew restless all at once.
The several hundred ghost corpses closest to them began letting out piercing shrieks the instant the bell's toll swept over them.
They scurried about ceaselessly as though driven mad.
Just as the others were puzzling over the ghost corpses' strange behavior, Heavenly Lord Gansui excitedly explained to Xu Taiping and the others:
"The Soul-Suppressing Bell's toll can free the divine souls sealed within the ghost corpses from the shackles of their bodies."
"And without those divine souls inside them, the ghost corpses' fighting strength will be greatly diminished."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately said with delight:
"Doesn't that mean I can also use this Soul-Suppressing Bell against ghost corpses when I go to the Lower Realm's Ghost Domain?"
Gansui nodded.
"Of course!"
At those words, Xu Taiping excitedly threw another punch, slamming it hard into the bronze bell.
"Clang...!!"
Amid another toll of the Soul-Suppressing Bell, bursts of blood mist suddenly exploded from the bodies of the ghost corpses gathered before the Bronze Gate, one after another.
For a time, the ghost corpses began fleeing in every direction.
Seeing this, Gansui, who had remained motionless until then, suddenly raised his head and shouted:
"Old friends, it's time to sweep every last bit of this filth out of Danyuan Palace!"
As he spoke, a boom rang out, and the dozens of black shadows, Gansui included, suddenly transformed into enormous storms that swept toward the fleeing ghost corpses from every direction.
Amid the Soul-Suppressing Bell's tolls, the ghost corpses seemed to have lost all their fighting strength, unable to retaliate at all against the attacks of Heavenly Lord Gansui and the others.
"Xiaohei!" Xu Taiping shouted to Xiaohei. "Carry us after the