After hearing the four speak, Xu Qingtong guessed they had come to seize him, so he pretended he had yet to wake and remained sprawled on the ground.
The group entered the room. One of them took out a pitch-black chain and cast it toward Xu Qingtong's neck.
As the chain flew above his head, Xu Qingtong suddenly felt as though it was about to drag his soul out of his body.
Xu Qingtong was startled. These ghosts did not even possess the strength of the Foundation Establishment Realm, yet they could affect his soul. How uncanny!
He dared not delay. A Divine Sense Thorn swiftly condensed and shot out, striking the one controlling the black chain.
Caught off guard, and with strength far below Xu Qingtong's, that ghost was struck by the Divine Sense Thorn and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye, as though instantly evaporated.
The other three clearly had not grasped the situation and still did not know what had happened. Xu Qingtong struck again, sending out two more Divine Sense Thorns, each hitting one of them.
Only one ghost remained in the room, deliberately spared by Xu Qingtong!
Xu Qingtong rolled to his feet, seized the remaining ghost, and performed the Soul Searching Technique.
After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the ghost in Xu Qingtong's grasp slowly faded until it disappeared.
Through the soul search, Xu Qingtong gained a general understanding of this place. This city was called Dongliu City and belonged to the Southern Domain of the Five Directions Ghost Domains. With fewer than thirty thousand inhabitants in total, it was the most remote little city in the southern ghost domain. Farther east lay the territory of the eastern ghost domain.
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