In the Cultivation World, ghosts are divided into only three levels, from weak to strong: Vengeful Soul, Evil Ghost, and Fiend. Each level is further divided into eighteen layers. As the names suggest, a “Vengeful Soul” is a soul that can only live in shadows and cannot bear light. The intermediate “Evil Ghost,” unlike the “Vengeful Soul,” has lost the “cloud” radical, meaning they can already walk in sunlight. A “Fiend”, conversely, occupies a vast jungle, signifying a strength that has reached the domain level.
In this world, everything requires time to grow, except for one thing: ghosts! Their strength is primarily related to resentment. The stronger the resentment, the faster they absorb Yin Energy. Some people who die today can become city-destroying Fiends by tomorrow.
Yaoyao is currently in such a state. Her resentment is immense, and the resentment born within her body is like a tangible substance, nourishing her Life Soul and causing it to mutate. She has absorbed all the Yin Energy within dozens of miles surrounding the Yuxiao Sect, with the Yuxiao Sect’s dungeon being the first to be directly affected.
The Yuxiao Sect’s dungeon has always been used to imprison Chimei Wangliang (spirits and monsters). Its Yin Energy is so potent that it rivals even ordinary extremely Yin locations. However, Yaoyao’s Life Soul has now drained it completely within a few breaths.
The Vengeful Souls and Evil Ghosts imprisoned within suddenly found the surrounding Yin Energy gone, causing them to stir restlessly.
“Mas… Master… she… she…”
The disciple holding the torch was the first to see Yaoyao and immediately recoiled in terror.
“What?”
Elder An glared at the disciple displeasedly. At the disciple’s indication, he finally noticed that Yaoyao’s soul was floating in mid-air ahead. At this moment, “she” was enveloped in surging crimson resentment, absorbing all the surrounding Yin Energy like a black hole. Her spiritual body was becoming increasingly solidified, reaching a level visible to the naked eye, and could materialize at any moment.
“Oh my! To become a Vengeful Soul after death! How much resentment do you have towards me?”
Elder An did not realize the severity of the situation. He wore a nonchalant expression on his aged face and then said with ill intent, “Good! I’ll kill you again! Let this little beast shed more tears.”
As his words fell, Elder An casually tossed Mimi, who had stopped crying, aside and thrust his right hand forward, unleashing a palm strike. His internal Fire True Qi surged forth, forming a scorching wave of flames that swept towards “Yaoyao.”
What happened next took Elder An by surprise. The wave of flames, though seemingly surging and powerful, suddenly extinguished within a foot of “Yaoyao,” being directly decomposed by the ink-black Yin Energy.
“Huh?”
Elder An’s palm strike was completely ineffective. He was slightly taken aback and instinctively took a few steps back.
At this moment, Yaoyao’s soul body became even more solidified, quickly breaking free from its ethereal state and materializing. It was as if she had been resurrected, her vertical pupils also regained, albeit stained crimson by the pollution of resentment. In the darkness, they appeared like two burning flames.
The condensation of a physical form marked the “Evil Ghost” realm. Meanwhile, the surrounding Yin Energy continued to pour into her newly formed “body” relentlessly.
“I don’t believe it!”
Elder An was enraged. He concentrated ninety percent of his Spiritual Sense, transforming it into a great saber that he swung directly at Yaoyao’s spiritual body.
A trace of disdain flickered in Yaoyao’s vertical pupils. Without even looking, she continued to float in place absorbing Yin Energy.
The great saber, unimpeded, struck “Yaoyao” with a world-splitting force, then sliced into her as if cutting through tofu.
“I thought you were that strong?”
Elder An scoffed, but his aged face soon showed astonishment again because Yaoyao appeared to be completely unharmed.
A sense of foreboding arose within Elder An. He tried to retract the saber formed by his Spiritual Sense but was horrified to find that he couldn’t pull it back at all.
At that very moment, a powerful suction force emanated from Yaoyao’s body, desperately pulling his Spiritual Sense outwards.
“Ah!”
Elder An let out a pained howl, then desperately clutched his head, concentrating his efforts to resist.
Yaoyao, seizing the advantage, pulled Elder An’s Spiritual Sense out of his body inch by inch.
“Ah! Help me!”
Elder An’s head throbbed as if it were about to split. He quickly lost the ability to resist and began to writhe on the ground in agony.
Yaoyao showed no mercy, pulling out Elder An’s entire Spiritual Sense, and then devouring his Life Soul into her body.
With his soul gone, Elder An lay motionless on the ground, death being only a matter of time.
The disciple was petrified with fear and fled desperately outwards, soon causing a commotion.
Yaoyao did not stop “feeding.” Her new body began to swell, gradually approaching that of a human female, with shapely curves and slender, graceful limbs.
This was not the end. As she continued to absorb Yin Energy, Yaoyao’s skin became fair and smooth. Her fur receded, forming a black dress that covered her “spring scene.” The hair on her head grew rapidly, eventually forming soft, flowing locks. Her cat-like face also began to reshape, quickly transforming into the delicate, oval face of a human girl, with exquisite features, rosy lips as if they had just drunk fresh blood, and two small fangs subtly revealed.
Thus, Yaoyao’s soul body completely transformed into a girl of fifteen or sixteen years. Looking at her body, only the two fluffy beast ears on her head and the long cat tail beneath her dress hinted at her original identity.
“To dare attack the Nine Nether Demonic Cat with Spiritual Sense, you are the first!”
Yaoyao looked down at Elder An on the ground, a hint of disdain on her small face. Then, she walked towards “Mimi” in the corner and picked up her battered elder sister.
Although Mimi had low intelligence, she sensed her sister’s familiar aura, letting out a comfortable “purring” sound. The pain in her body seemed to vanish instantly.
“Sister, don’t be afraid! I’ll take you out now! Yuxiao Sect owes us, and it’s time to collect!”
Yaoyao gently caressed her sister with her fair, tender hand, then strode outwards. Her small body continued to absorb Yin Energy. With every step, her strength grew, and she soon crossed into the “Fiend” realm, equivalent to the “Shentong Realm” of cultivators.
The Vengeful Souls and Evil Ghosts imprisoned in the dungeon sensed the dangerous aura and began to struggle desperately. However, they were all affixed with Talismans, making escape impossible.
Yaoyao walked out unhurriedly, exuding overwhelming Yin Energy. Wherever she passed, the Talismans on the walls spontaneously ignited. The surrounding buildings, stripped of their protection, were rapidly eroded by the Yin Energy, began to decay, and then turned into dust, dissolving into the air as if time had accelerated.
The Vengeful Souls and Evil Ghosts in the dungeon could not escape their fate either. Yaoyao’s long hair spread out like a canopy in all directions, ensnaring them one by one, then rapidly absorbing them like octopus tentacles.
“Audacious Demon Girl! Daring to break out of prison?”
Some guards, fearless and impulsive, rushed forward. However, upon approaching within twenty feet, their physical bodies were decomposed by the Yin Energy, and their souls quickly became Yaoyao’s sustenance.
“My heavens! So much Yin Energy is converging on the dungeon, what on earth happened there?”
The Sect Leader Liu Lei outside was the first to notice something was wrong. His face showed a look of horror, and he quickly ordered someone to notify the various high-level figures.
“After today, Yuxiao Sect will cease to exist!”
Just then, a clear voice spread across the sky above the Yuxiao Sect.
