Chapter 15

The bone horse, which had been struck by a special ghostly soul earlier and then fled in fright, finally showed signs of its injuries. Its speed had slowed down several times compared to before.

Originally, the bone horse had strong bones, but now the white bones had begun to turn gray, and cracks were appearing one after another. Moreover, the joints of the bones had begun to disengage. The few cartilages in the bone horse's lower jaw had also fallen off at some point. The faint soul light inside the bone horse, which symbolized health, had become much weaker than before.

Riding the bone horse, dodging and stopping, Hu Donghan finally left the inner part of the Ghost Ridge and entered the outer part. At the same time, Hu Donghan let out a sigh of relief.

Finding a safe place, Hu Donghan dismounted the bone horse and let it rest to recover its yin energy. As for Hu Donghan, he touched the old bronze ring on his finger and released the ghost he had obtained earlier.

The appearance of ghosts, before being cultivated with ghost-controlling techniques, is actually the same. They are all transparent-like spiritual bodies, with ghostly soul light inside, symbolizing the ghost's level.

How to identify ghosts is clearly explained in the jade slip given by the Yin Soul Sect to its outer disciples.

The levels of ghosts, from the lowest to the highest, are divided into Common Ghost, Low-grade, Middle-grade, High-grade, Supreme-grade, and above Supreme-grade, which is the Celestial Ghost. The method to identify the level of a ghost is to look at the color of the ghostly soul light.

The ghostly soul light of a Common Ghost is white, which is the color of the ghost Hu Donghan obtained; the ghostly soul light of a Low-grade ghost is green, and then the Middle-grade, High-grade, and Supreme-grade ghosts correspond to blue, red, and purple, respectively. As for the legendary Celestial Ghost, no one knows the color of its ghostly soul light.

Different levels of ghosts have different growth potentials. For example, a Common Ghost can generally only grow to the peak of the Qi Condensation stage, and at most to the Foundation Establishment stage. Other levels of ghosts also have their own growth limits. For example, a Supreme-grade ghost could possibly reach the Soul Formation stage. As for the Celestial Ghost, it is a legendary existence. It is said that the Celestial Ghost has no growth limit, and if properly cultivated, it could even reach a higher realm!

Of course, the higher the level of the ghost, the rarer it is. A Common Ghost might appear after clearing eighty to ninety ghostly souls. A Low-grade ghost might appear after clearing five to six thousand ghostly souls. As for Middle-grade, High-grade, and Supreme-grade ghosts, the difficulty increases by a thousand times! The Yin Soul Sect manages countless burial grounds, graveyards, and ghostly valleys, but within the entire sect, only one Core Formation elder possesses a Supreme-grade ghost.

Once one possesses a Supreme-grade ghost, even the worst five-element cultivator could be directly promoted to the inner sect, or even become a true disciple. This shows how important a Supreme-grade ghost is!

As for the Celestial Ghost—this has always been just a legend within the Yin Soul Sect. No one knows what a Celestial Ghost looks like.

"The ghostly soul light inside the ghost is just white, which means that this ghost I obtained with great difficulty is just an ordinary Common Ghost. However, I didn't have high expectations for this ghost. Even if it's just a Common Ghost, it's enough for me to practice the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao.'"

"Next, I need to gather some wandering souls to feed the ghost, and then return to Stacked Peaks Peak to make plans..."

After sitting in meditation and slightly recovering his spiritual energy, Hu Donghan stood up, preparing to return.

"Huh? Where did the bone horse go?"

As he stood up, Hu Donghan suddenly realized something was wrong—the bone horse, which had been kneeling and recovering nearby, had disappeared.

Looking around, he couldn't see the bone horse. Hu Donghan scanned the surroundings a few times and then followed the traces left by the bone horse on the ground.

After chasing for a few hundred meters, Hu Donghan noticed something was off again.

The direction the bone horse was heading was actually toward the inner part of the Ghost Ridge!

"Why would the bone horse go to the inner part of the Ghost Ridge? Well, no matter the reason, I'll go and check it out first. If it goes too deep, I'll have to leave on my own."

With his mind made up, Hu Donghan chased the bone horse for about a mile into the inner part of the Ghost Ridge. Finally, he saw the bone horse in the distance. At the same time, Hu Donghan was stunned by what he saw—

The bone horse was right in front of him.

And in front of the bone horse was a pit of corpses!

In this pit of corpses, countless bodies were densely packed. Only a small part of these bodies were human, but most were animals; some were already rotten, while others were still intact. The corpse qi and yin energy around the pit of corpses completely isolated the surrounding environment, like a dense fog.

"If the corpse qi here is used to cultivate zombies..."

Thinking of the zombie cultivation method in the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' Hu Donghan felt a surge of excitement.

In his previous life, Hu Donghan had searched for a place with corpse qi but couldn't find one. In the end, three zombies evolved into walking corpses by feeding on human qi. In this life, he had found a place to cultivate zombies so easily! If he had such a place to cultivate zombies, combined with the zombie cultivation method in the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' Hu Donghan was confident he could cultivate an Iron Armor Zombie in three years!

"According to the information in the jade slip given by the sect, this pit of corpses should be where the sect specifically raids wild beasts from the Soul Severing Mountains and then slaughters them here! Over time, so much corpse qi has formed here..."

Hu Donghan organized the information in his mind and thought about the sect's methods of cultivating ghosts.

"Such a pit of corpses, at least one exists in each ghost cultivation field. The ghost cultivation field in the Ghost Ridge is not the largest. The sect even has a ghost cultivation field for Core Formation elders to hunt ghosts! How dense would the corpse qi be in such a ghost cultivation field?!"

As he thought, Hu Donghan's eyes sparkled with excitement:

"Alas... Unfortunately, my current strength is insufficient, and I haven't even cultivated the basic ghost-controlling technique. As for spending time cultivating zombies, that's even more out of the question."

"Right now, the most important thing is to first control this Common Ghost. If the ghost-controlling technique in the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao' can be used together with the ghost-controlling technique, then the zombie cultivation method should also be similar. The most important thing now is to improve my strength!"

Shaking his head, Hu Donghan cleared his mind of the chaotic thoughts.

Right now, the most important thing is to return to Stacked Peaks Peak to cultivate.