Chapter 152: Bing-Ding Fire Seizes the Light of Sun and Moon; Marriage Is Ordained by Heaven
Yin creatures were inherently formless and extremely difficult to kill outright.
Unless Qi Refining cultivators had opened their Origin Gate, solidified their Brain Spirit, and learned method formulas and Dao techniques, they were usually helpless against them.
This was also why, when vicious ghosts took lives in the mortal world, commoners could only seek help from cultivators.
Those swindling itinerant Daoists knew a few tricks of the Fire-Control Art at best. How could they deal with Yin spirits that had gained any real strength?
Especially in [Fengdu], some ghosts had cultivated successfully, gathering turbid Yin and amassing Sha Qi to form solid bodies harder than refined iron. Even law artifacts and blades could not kill them, making them all the more troublesome.
The Tiger-Head Fierce Baleful Beasts before them was one such example. Yang Xun drove the Black Sha Pagoda Lock with all his might, its heavy iron rings thrashing like a giant python, yet they seemed to strike a colossal statue cast of bronze and iron. At most, a few sparks flew; they could not damage its core.
Unless he used Ding Fire Dao techniques. But the many Ghost Kingdoms beneath the Bottomless Abyss were all formed from deposits of boundless, dense Yin balefulness. Human cultivators had no way to absorb spirit chance and replenish their primordial essence.
As one side waned and the other waxed, ghosts and Yin creatures instead ran rampant without restraint.
"A ghost at the eighth level of Qi Refining-something I could kill with a flick of my hand-and it actually dares swagger around."
Jiang Yi strode forward like a dragon or tiger. The ground beneath his feet seemed to shorten on its own, and he crossed to the