However, once this was done, the ghost cultivators of Yellow Springs City were naturally unwilling. Draining away vitality meant taking away lifespan, and only certain exceedingly precious Pills could replenish it.
For a Nascent Soul cultivator, after deducting the lifespan already consumed during cultivation, picking ten or twenty flowers might leave them dead on the spot.
Ordinary lifespan-increasing Pills simply could not sustain this. Whether it was yang lifespan or nether lifespan, it had to be incorporated into the true laws of heaven and earth.
Even Netherworld ghosts could not casually increase someone's lifespan. The Book of Life and Death was firmly controlled by the Yama God.
The Yama God was famed for being iron-faced and merciless. Matters that disrupted the realms of life and death could, if mishandled, become a catastrophic calamity that destroyed the three realms of immortals, ghosts, and mortals.
The Yama God had to keep a tight grip on such matters. Otherwise, the other True Immortals would never agree; if only a few joined forces, they could make him scatter in soul and vanish in spirit.
Since the ghost cultivators of Yellow Springs City refused, several high-ranking Netherworld ghosts came up with another method after deliberating.
They would have the ghost cultivators of Yellow Springs City set traps at spatial nodes in the Yang Realm that could connect to Yellow Springs City.
Once cultivators wandered in by mistake, they could be seized on the Yellow Springs City side and then sent here, to the first level of Asura Prison.
For every cultivator delivered, the Netherworld would give the ghost cultivators of Yellow Springs City different rewards according to the strength of that person's life force.
Yet those Ghost Sect cultivators did not dare act recklessly. The spatial nodes they sought out and could use were generally