There was also a Headless Holy Spirit with five spectral patterns, hanging upside down inside a female Holy Slave. Its posture was bizarre, and its aura was hardly weaker than that of the Six-Pattern Holy Spirit.
There were as many as sixteen Holy Slaves who, once possessed, were equivalent to King-Level fighters.
This was a force powerful enough to drive anyone to despair. Almost all the Saints remnants fought prepared to die.
Fortunately, the old man from the Martial Sect displayed peerless strength. In his first battle, he blasted apart half the Five-Pattern Holy Spirit's torso, then calmly led a group away even as the Six-Pattern Holy Spirit pursued them.
Furthermore, the current Yama King possessed unparalleled strategic brilliance. Using a diversion to lure the Six-Pattern Holy Spirit away, he gave the Martial Sect elder the chance to completely destroy the inverted Headless Holy Spirit and seize an extremely unusual "Sacred Artifact."
"Holy Spirits" was what the Saints Organization called the Weird Objects in SSS-Class-3 Sage Domain. They believed these things were the spirits of Sacred Artifacts, and that was indeed the case. Whenever these Weird Objects left the Restricted Zone, they carried a strange object with them, which was the true foundation of their existence.
The Headless Holy Spirit's object was a palm-sized stone sculpture, pure white, depicting a woman with six arms and an eerily beautiful appearance. She hung upside down, with a fist-sized bloody hole in her chest.
Its origins seemed extraordinary. At the cost of ten members' lives, the Saints Organization's remnants finally managed to collectively "enshrine" this Sacred Artifact, gaining power sufficient to affect the Six-Pattern Holy Spirit.
Working with the Martial Sect elder and the Yama King, they launched an offensive against the Holy Spirits, slaughtering many kings among them and severely injuring the