Chapter 18

The Medicinal Spirit Ghost, in a strict sense, can be considered a branch of the Wood Attribute Soul Entities. The special ability of the Medicinal Spirit Ghost is something that almost all cultivators would envy: cultivating spirit herbs, generating spirit liquids, and refining elixirs!

The Medicinal Spirit Ghost, as its name suggests, has a unique ability towards spirit herbs. Wherever there is a Medicinal Spirit Ghost, the growth rate of medicinal herbs is twice as fast as in other places! The size of the area covered varies depending on the strength of the Medicinal Spirit Ghost. Of course, if it were only twice as fast, it would only make some cultivators envious. What truly makes people envious is that the Medicinal Spirit Ghost can consume the yin energy within its body to focus on cultivating one or a few specific herbs! Once the Medicinal Spirit Ghost focuses on cultivating herbs, as long as there is enough yin energy, theoretically, it can increase the growth rate of the herbs by up to thirty times!

Thirty times! What does this mean? It means that herbs that need thirty years to mature can mature in just one year if cultivated by the Medicinal Spirit Ghost! If the alchemy masters knew this, they would not just have red eyes; they would be drooling.

And the ability of the Medicinal Spirit Ghost to cultivate spirit herbs is just one of its abilities. The Medicinal Spirit Ghost also has a special ability to condense spirit liquids with specific effects of certain spirit herbs based on its current cultivation level! These spirit liquids, whether consumed or used in alchemy, can produce the same effects as those spirit herbs.

The last ability of the Medicinal Spirit Ghost is to refine elixirs. Among cultivators, those with the talent to be alchemists are extremely rare and are considered treasures in the cultivator community. An alchemist does not have to worry about not having enough elixirs to improve their cultivation and does not need to take risks to obtain resources. The Medicinal Spirit Ghost, as long as the elixir formulas, ingredients, and alchemy furnaces are prepared, can refine elixirs on its own. The initial success rate of refining elixirs might not be high, but the more it refines, the higher the success rate will become. The attraction this has for a cultivator is self-evident!

In short, having a Medicinal Spirit Ghost means that as long as it can keep up with your cultivation level, you do not have to worry about cultivation resources.

Given the remarkable effects of the Medicinal Spirit Ghost, it is no wonder Hu Donghan regretted not having one in his previous life.

However, although the Medicinal Spirit Ghost is a special soul entity derived from the Wood Attribute Soul Entities, it cannot be cultivated from a Wood Attribute Soul Entity. It must be cultivated from a Non-Attribute Soul Entity! This is why Hu Donghan was so excited and happy when he discovered that the ordinary ghost was actually a Non-Attribute Soul Entity.

Once he has a Medicinal Spirit Ghost and enough spirit herbs to support it, even with his mediocre talent of four middle-grade spiritual roots, Hu Donghan's cultivation speed can rival that of geniuses! After all, even geniuses cannot take elixirs every day and every meal!

"In the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' the soul entity is the foundation, while zombies, skeletons, and miscellaneous categories can only assist in cultivation once the soul entity has achieved a certain level. However, the three categories of zombies, skeletons, and miscellaneous also have their excellent points! For example, the zombie category focuses on using corpse energy to assist in cultivation. Once a suitable place for raising corpses is found, it is not too difficult to raise a powerful zombie within two or three years. Skeletons mainly rely on death energy, which makes their bones hard and has a strong interference ability. Once they move, they are unstoppable. As for the miscellaneous category, there are many techniques related to soul entities, zombies, and skeletons, mostly characterized by their sinister and bizarre nature. There are also some drugs related to the three categories that can assist in my cultivation and enhance the strength of soul entities, zombies, and skeletons, serving as a great help to me..."

"However, the other three categories cannot be cultivated for now. For now, I must focus on the soul entity category, first using the strange technique to raise the ordinary ghost and cultivate it into a Medicinal Spirit Ghost to enhance my own strength! To cultivate it into a Medicinal Spirit Ghost, I must first use the Soul List technique from the general principles of the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao' to寄托 the soul of the ordinary ghost onto my divine soul's Soul List!"

"Condensing the Soul List, if I did not have the experience from my previous life, it might take some effort in this life. However, since I have already condensed a Soul List once, it is much easier. In the general principles of the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' I just need to visualize the soul entity part in my mind and then follow the guidance within—"

"Condense!"

With a clear shout of "Condense," Hu Donghan felt a series of characters appear in his mind. These characters drew on the power of his divine soul, eventually forming a huge stone tablet in his sea of consciousness. The characters on the tablet kept rolling, finally transforming into mysterious runes that formed the character "List" on the stone tablet.

As soon as the Soul List was formed, Hu Donghan was about to send the soul of the ordinary ghost into the Soul List when he suddenly felt a disturbance in his divine soul.

Hu Donghan, sensing the problem in his divine soul, did not dare to be careless and quickly gathered his mind to control his divine soul. However, at this moment, he found that his divine soul was completely out of control! Just as Hu Donghan's divine soul lost control, another huge stone tablet formed in his sea of consciousness, with the character "List" on it.

This was another Soul List!

After the second Soul List was fully formed, Hu Donghan slowly regained control of his divine soul.

As soon as he could control his divine soul, Hu Donghan immediately examined it. After several checks, he finally opened his eyes in disbelief and exclaimed in surprise, "This... This is impossible! Two Soul Lists!"

The newly formed Soul List was not a false existence but a real second Soul List!

One divine soul, yet it had two Soul Lists!

With the experience from his previous life studying the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' Hu Donghan naturally knew that controlling soul entities mainly relied on the Soul List! The number of soul entities a Soul List can accommodate varies with the strength of the cultivator. Once the number and strength of the soul entities exceed the control of the Soul List, it will cause a backlash. Therefore, the importance of the Soul List to cultivators practicing the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao' is self-evident.

Now, Hu Donghan had two Soul Lists! This meant that the number of soul entities he could control would be twice as many as with one Soul List!

And the increase in strength from two Soul Lists would certainly not be just double!

"Why do I have two Soul Lists in my divine soul? According to the general principles of the 'True Interpretation of Ghost Dao,' a divine soul can only have one Soul List!"

"That's right! Could it be because I transmigrated to this world, and my current divine soul, in addition to my own, also includes the divine soul of the unfortunate person whose body I occupied? If that's the case, I can be considered to have two divine souls, and the appearance of two Soul Lists in my sea of consciousness seems reasonable."

"With two Soul Lists, if I still cannot reach the peak in this life, I will truly be letting myself down!"