" sob... my child, give me back my child..."
A ghostly wail that pierced straight into the Divine Soul suddenly rang out beside Yun Qing! It also broke through his embarrassment.
The grief and obsession that pierced the heart and gnawed at the bones made even Yun Qing's Immortal King Realm Divine Soul tremble slightly. Among the many ordinary cultivators below, some even had their souls shaken out of their bodies by that cry!
Yun Qing abruptly turned, his Double Pupils reflecting a "female ghost" unlike the others.
Her face was deathly pale, her eyes wept blood, and she wore a tattered coarse-cloth dress. She clutched a mass of black energy tightly to her chest, her blood-tear-blurred eyes "looking" blankly at Yun Qing. The ghostly energy surrounding her was pure and solid, and her mournful sobbing seemed to be the very source of her power.
"My child... my child..." the female ghost murmured. Ignoring the pressure emanating from Yun Qing, she stubbornly drifted closer. Her ghostly claws reached out slightly, as though groping in despair. "Have you seen him? He's about this big..."
In that instant, Yun Qing's Double Pupils saw a village engulfed in roaring flames, women fleeing in panic, swaddled infants held tightly in their arms, and the radiance of spells descending from the sky...
The grief and obsessive longing of hundreds upon thousands of women intertwined into coils of ink-black resentment, ultimately becoming the sorrowful spirit before him.
Bear All Things had already swung up in Yun Qing's hand, its spearhead pulsing with black-and-yellow light, enough to shatter this female ghost's soul with ease. Yet the instant before the spear's edge touched her spirit body, his movement paused, ever so briefly.
Amid the female ghost's weeping, scenes from his previous life kept intertwining before his eyes. *His