"I couldn't understand what that female ghost was thinking...
Since the princess's corpse was a vessel for storing magical power, the key to her complete resurrection, it was incredibly important. So why insist on leaving it aboveground in the care of a lord controlled by a demon art, instead of moving it straight underground and hiding it in the Demon Head Mound?!"
Wasn't leaving it up there just handing someone else a weakness to exploit?
Moving it underground and controlling a guard or two to watch it around the clock would have been much safer than leaving it in the lord's room and practically advertising that something was hidden there.
He really had no idea how that female ghost's mind worked.
She looked so cunning, yet kept doing stupid things.
"I hope all the ghosts I meet from now on are this adorable."
Li Xia voiced his hopes.
The instant he touched the princess's corpse and extracted dozens of streams of magical power from her body...
Underground, at the Demon Head Mound, the female ghost's expression changed drastically.
"Who? Who touched the young lady I was using as a vessel for possession?"
The thought that someone might have discovered the ninety-two streams of magical power she had painstakingly collected filled her with anxiety.
Yet she could not leave just now. First, she had to deal with the two monks before her.
"I'll take my time savoring you two when I get back..."
The female ghost struck swiftly, breaking the limbs of both the old and young mage without either putting up any resistance. Their usual staves, prayer beads, and other consecrated implements were thrown into the deep pit where the evil aura was thickest.
Only by eating them alive later could she obtain the fullest magical power they possessed