The First Immortal of Destiny

"SWOOSH!"

"SWOOSH!"

"CLANG!"

Several streaks of sword light burst forth.

A giant ghost with a green face and sharp fangs, standing ten zhang tall, suffered terrible wounds all over its body.

After a roar like muffled thunder, it fell unwillingly to the ground.

Immense ghost qi, like black smoke, surged out from its wounds, forming cloud-like clusters of ghost qi within a short time.

"Damned Green-skinned Fierce Ghost, such thick skin and tough flesh, it's too hard to kill!"

The disciple of the Heaven Sword Sect, Jiang Yingying, was somewhat annoyed and vented her anger on the gradually dissolving ghost body by ferociously hacking it with her sword a few times.

The ghost qi spewed out for a long time before it finally dissipated.

On the ground, only a hideous, ugly green ghost skin and a crystal-clear soul core the size of a baby's fist remained.

After Shen Mo and his party decided to head to Death Jaw, they set off directly towards the depths of the Ghost Nation Ruins.

All six of them came from the Five Great Sects.

The one with the lowest cultivation, Shen Mo, had reached the Qi Gathering Realm Layer II, while the highest, Jiang Yingying, was at Qi Gathering Realm Layer VI.

Such a team, in the Ghost Nation Ruins, was also considered a formidable small group.

Even late-stage cultivators in the Qi Gathering Realm, if not from well-known major sects, dared not easily provoke them.

Therefore, along the way, they saved themselves a lot of trouble.

However, in the Ghost Nation Ruins, compared to the locust-like treasure-hunting cultivators, there were more various types of strange ghosts.

The deeper they went, the more this was so!

Even though Shen Mo and the others were not weak, after they went deeper into the ruins, they encountered several extremely dangerous situations.

Large amounts of Hungry Ghosts, Drowned Ghosts, Hanged Ghosts, and others gathered to form a Ghost Tide, obscuring the sky.

Like a real tide, it swept across.

Once engulfed by it, even the powerful in the Spirit Sea Realm would probably die in resentment!

Shen Mo and his party had to flee at the sight of this.

There were also extremely powerful great ghosts whose Skills were even stranger than the Ghost Bride's; they quietly possessed Li Yu and Peng Chenshu, disciples from the Heaven Sword Sect.

Among them, one was at the Qi Gathering Realm Layer IV, and the other was at Qi Gathering Realm Layer V.

Just based on cultivation, they far surpassed Shen Mo.

However, they had not yet comprehended their own sword intent, and relatively speaking, they were the weak point of this temporary team.

After being possessed by the great ghost, their temperaments changed drastically, and they directly attacked Shen Mo and the others.

In the end, it was Shen Mo who trapped the two with The Big Dipper Array, and Jiang Yingying, using the Heaven Sword Sect's secret technique, the 'Demon-Purging Heart Sword', managed to cut out the possessing great ghost.

But from start to finish, they didn't get a clear look at what the Possession Ghost looked like, or whether it was one or two of them!

Shen Mo used his Destiny Ability: Bright Vision, and when the Possession Ghost left its body, he vaguely saw two ghost figures, one large and one small.

When he took out the Soul Refining Flag intending to refine those two ghosts, they seemed to sense the danger.

They suddenly disappeared without a trace!

Not long after, Shen Mo and his group encountered a band of rogue cultivators fighting amongst themselves nearby.

Without much thought, they knew it was the work of those two Possession Ghosts!

Just like the previous time, as soon as Shen Mo brought out the Soul Refining Flag, the two ghost figures, one large and one small, disappeared again, leaving Shen Mo cursing on the spot.

If it weren't for his promise to Chen Mengze to go to Death Jaw, he would have definitely continued the search, vowing not to stop until he had refined these two ghosts into Soul Generals for his Soul Refining Flag!

...

As for the Green-skinned Fierce Ghost that they had just killed together, it actually hadn't been provoked by Shen Mo and the others.

Instead, it was a few disciples from another immortal sect who had ventured into a forbidden land and incurred the chase of the Green-skinned Ghost.

Having ventured this deep, the information recorded on the jade slip map was no longer complete.

For hundreds, even thousands, of miles all around, lay vast expanses of unknown territory.

It was normal to blunder into dangerous and forbidden lands.

But those disciples from Dark Black Mountain were too unscrupulous. When they realized they couldn't shake off the Green-skinned Fierce Ghost, they intentionally led it towards Shen Mo and his party.

Even Geng Zheng would show no mercy towards these kinds of cultivators.

As a result, they died under the wrath of Shen Mo's party before the Green-skinned Fierce Ghost even reached them.

Dealing with the Green-skinned Fierce Ghost, however, was not so simple.

All six of them had exceptional skills, especially the disciples from the Heaven Sword Sect. They cultivated extremely sharp swordplay, but most of the sharp sword Qi they unleashed was neutralized by the Green-skinned Ghost's eerily resilient skin.

For a while, the scene resembled mortals with swords and sabers hacking at a thick-skinned elephantine demonic beast!

After a strenuous battle, they finally managed to wear it down to its death.

What a pity. If I could refine this Green-skinned Ghost into a Soul General, it would have made an excellent meat shield. Shen Mo felt a bit regretful.

Anyway, since the Soul Refining Flag was already exposed, he no longer felt the need to hide it.

He started to unashamedly use the Soul Refining Flag to refine any ghosts he deemed worthy, transforming them into Soul Generals on his flag.

Of course, he wouldn't use the hundreds of minor Heavenly Demons; otherwise, releasing so many would scare Chen Mengze and the others.

All in all, a hundred or so new Soul Generals were added to the Soul Refining Flag.

Unfortunately, their quality was a cause for concern!

Most of them were relatively robust and superior individuals among ordinary ghosts, like Hungry Ghosts, Drowned Ghosts, and Hanged Ghosts.

He didn't come across a single one with quality as high as the Ghost Bride.

So when he encountered the large and small Possession Ghosts, he had practically started to drool.

Not to mention the extraordinarily defensive Green-skinned Ghost!

Regrettably, he tried several times, but each time the blood-red light unleashed by the Soul Refining Flag was torn apart by the Green-skinned Ghost.

This was true even in the two breaths before its death.

Right up until it collapsed, the Soul Refining Flag failed to achieve its purpose!

Shen Mo attributed this failure to the Green-skinned Ghost's unique characteristics.

It maintained its peak strength right until the moment of death. For the Soul Refining Flag to successfully refine a Soul General, the target had to be utterly incapable of resistance.

"How should we split the eerie green skin and the soul core left by the Green-skinned Ghost?" asked Peng Chenshu, a disciple of the Heaven Sword Sect.

Shen Mo's mind stirred. The Green-skinned Ghost had been so difficult to deal with largely due to that peculiar green skin. He could imagine that whether for refining inner armor or a defensive magic artifact, this piece of green skin was top-grade raw material.

Previously, the Green-skinned Ghost had stood ten zhang tall. However, upon its demise, the remaining green skin shrank to roughly the size of a person.

It was impossible to divide it evenly!

"How about we use other cultivation resources and bid for it? Whoever gets this piece of green skin and the soul core will compensate the others with their Spirit Stones or resources," Shen Mo suggested.

For him, bidding was the most suitable method.

Otherwise, whether by cultivation level or by numbers, he and Chen Mengze would be at a disadvantage.

Jiang Yingying sought the opinions of Geng Zheng and the other two, then nodded in agreement with this distribution plan.

Regardless of who got the green skin, everyone else would receive a substantial income.

"I bid five hundred Lower Grade Spirit Stones and a middle-grade profound-level magic sword." The first to make an offer was Geng Zheng.

Previously, because he was surrounded by the Sword Array cast by Shen Mo, his robes had become ragged.

Subsequently, the idea of refining a high-grade magic robe arose in his mind.

"As expected of Brother Geng, you even have a middle-grade profound-level magic sword. The Geng Clan really values you," the Heaven Sword Sect's Li Yu teased, then directly stated his withdrawal from the bidding.