Although anyone can wear the Ghost Shroud, only vengeful spirits can wear it without any side effects. Ordinary people who wear the Ghost Shroud will gradually have their bodies eroded by the shroud, becoming increasingly stiff and lifeless.
When the wearer's body is completely devoid of healthy flesh and turns rigid, the Ghost Shroud will trigger a vengeful spirit's revival, and the wearer will transform into a vengeful spirit clad in the shroud.
The [Life-Buying Money], on the other hand, is a special type of currency that can be offered to vengeful spirits during supernatural events. By doing so, the vengeful spirit will never attack you again, even if you meet its killing conditions.
For Xiao Feng at this stage, the abilities of these three supernatural items are rather underwhelming. However, the method of crafting these items from vengeful spirits holds some research value. Therefore, Xiao Feng handed the three items over to his shadow clones for further study, while the remaining simulation rewards were casually tossed into the storage warehouse of the Hueco Mundo.
After putting away his character attribute panel, Xiao Feng sought out Yao Ming and instructed him to gather all the Dou Venerate and Half-Saint experts of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python. Xiao Feng then transformed them all into vengeful spirits.
Aside from Yao Ming, the clan leader, the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python had no other Dou Saint experts. The strongest elders were only advanced Half-Saints, which fell well within Xiao Feng's control. Since Yao Ming's life was entirely in Xiao Feng's hands, he did not oppose this decision. In fact, from a certain perspective, Xiao Feng's actions were beneficial to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python.
During the centuries of Yao Ming's disappearance, the clan had been ruled by Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder, and many of the clan's high-ranking members were their loyalists. If not for Xiao Feng's intervention, Yao Ming would have purged these individuals to secure his position as clan leader, further weakening the clan's strength. Now that all the high-ranking members of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python had been transformed into vengeful spirits by Xiao Feng, the clan's overall power had actually increased.
After fully subjugating the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python, Xiao Feng, led by Yao Ming, arrived before the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet. This ancient tablet, passed down from antiquity, recorded the life's work of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint and contained a drop of his essence blood sealed within.
The Yellow Spring Demon Saint was a superpower from ancient times, reaching the half-step Dou God level at his peak, much like Xiao Xuan. Xiao Feng was determined to obtain both the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's essence blood and his signature technique, Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath.
The Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath was not only a Heaven-ranked high-level Dou Technique but also an extremely rare soundwave-based technique. Even across the entire Dou Qi Continent, it would be difficult to find a second technique of its kind.
In addition to the Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath, the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet also recorded two other Heaven-ranked techniques: the Heaven-ranked low-level Yellow Spring Finger and the Heaven-ranked mid-level Yellow Spring Palm. These two techniques were also treasured heirlooms of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python, and Xiao Feng had already obtained their corresponding scrolls from Yao Ming.
Yao Ming led Xiao Feng to an ancient altar and pointed to a hundred-foot-tall, pale-yellow stone tablet. "Master, this is the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet."
Xiao Feng followed Yao Ming's gesture and saw that the tablet was carved with numerous strange symbols, along with a massive finger and a half-foot-deep palm print. Sensing the overwhelming soul pressure emanating from the tablet, Xiao Feng's expression turned serious.
As expected of a half-step Dou God-level expert. Even a wisp of his remnant soul's pressure is comparable to that of a three or four-star Dou Saint.
"Crackle..."
A burst of lightning suddenly emerged from Xiao Feng's body, coalescing into a clone identical to himself—this was the Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body. With the help of his shadow clones, Xiao Feng had long since mastered this technique to its peak, and the clone's cultivation level was the same as his own, reaching the advanced Half-Saint level.
"Go!"
At Xiao Feng's command, the clone, formed from lightning energy and soul power, charged directly into the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet.
"Boom..."
In the ancient, thunder-filled sky, lightning roared like furious dragons, and the terrifying rumbling caused the entire world to tremble.
"Is this the space inside the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet?"
After entering the tablet, the lightning clone felt a blur before his eyes, and he found himself in a new world. He couldn't help but exclaim, "The Yellow Spring Demon Saint truly lives up to his reputation!"
Perhaps sensing the presence of an intruder, the lightning in the sky began to gather above the clone before ruthlessly striking down at him.
"Bang!!!"
Facing the incoming lightning attacks, the clone remained unfazed and activated Shinra Tensei. An invisible force radiated outward from him, dispersing the lightning bolts that could have severely injured a Half-Saint.
*Because the power of the Rinnegan bloodline had long been integrated into the Immortal Dharma Body, as the Samsara Immortal Body grew stronger, the abilities of the Rinnegan also received an epic enhancement.*
With Xiao Feng's current advanced Half-Saint cultivation, if he were to unleash Shinra Tensei at full power, it could withstand a full-force strike from a one-star Dou Saint.
After blocking the first wave of lightning attacks, the clone loudly declared, "Junior Xiao Feng has come today to offer Senior Yellow Spring Demon Saint an opportunity to break through to the Dou God level. I humbly request an audience with Senior Yellow Spring Demon Saint!"
"Boom..."
As soon as the clone finished speaking, the ground in front of him began to shake violently, and a mountain suddenly rose from the earth. At the peak of this thousand-foot-tall mountain stood a massive throne, upon which sat a figure clad in yellow robes, exuding an aura so terrifying that it made the heavens and earth tremble.
"Junior, do you know what you're saying? What I despise most is being deceived. If you are toying with me, you will not leave here alive today!"
For the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who had never achieved the Dou God level before his death, breaking through to that realm had become his greatest obsession. If Xiao Feng dared to joke about such a matter, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint would not let him off easily.
"Although my strength is somewhat lacking, I have awakened a unique constitution that allows me to randomly glimpse fragments of the future. Thus, I know many hidden secrets," the clone replied calmly, unperturbed by the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's demeanor. "In the future fragments I have seen, decades from now, someone will open the Ancient God Cave left by Tuoshe Ancient God and obtain the embryonic God Pill within.
At that time, someone will consume the Embryonic God Pill to break through to the Dou God level. They will then open a spatial node connecting to the Great Thousand World, reintroducing the long-lost Source Qi to the Dou Qi Continent. Source Qi is the essential substance required for peak Dou Saints to break through to the Dou God level."
(End of Chapter)