Li Hai glanced at the token, then casually put it into his pocket.
Then, he flipped his hand and took out the jade box named Soul Binding Cocoon.
According to the old man, this box sealed a dangerous evil ghost that had caused the complete annihilation of all personnel at this outpost.
But it was precisely this danger that greatly interested Li Hai.
So, he wanted to release it.
As for what the old man had previously said about handing the box over to the Demon Slayer Division Headquarters for handling, Li Hai indicated that it was unnecessary to be so troublesome.
Anyway, handling it was handling it, so it might as well be put to good use and fed to the Guiyou Cave Heaven to unlock a new building, which would be more valuable.
Thinking this, Li Hai walked out of the storeroom and onto the open ground outside, then raised his hand and abruptly tore off the Talismanic Incantation on the jade box.
Hiss~~~
With a faint, almost inaudible hum, an extremely eerie and sinister aura instantly enveloped Li Hai from all directions.
However, after sensing this evil Qi, he sighed with some disappointment:
"After all that, it's just a Fierce Soul-level ghost. I thought you would be more formidable."
Although he said that, judging from the surging evil Qi around him, this ghost, also of Fierce Soul-level, was clearly much stronger than A Su; it had likely reached the Peak of the Fierce Soul-level.
"Hehehe, it doesn't matter. Let me see what new tricks you have up your sleeve."
Amidst a long laugh, Li Hai, whose face was pale and greenish, even covered in corpse spots, suddenly flew ten zhang into the air, and from all over his body, large streams of extremely thick and deep resentful Qi surged out.
At the same time, a ferocious, tyrannical Formless Evil Spirit, constantly restless and roaring, appeared unknowingly in the dark Void Realm around him.
Roar!
As soon as this Evil Spirit appeared, it roared and sniffed like a hungry evil wolf that hadn't eaten for a hundred or eighty years, swiftly flying towards the ground and circling rapidly within a large area.
It wanted to find the Unknown fierce ghost that had already escaped the jade box but was now hidden somewhere.
And as this Evil Spirit circled, it also cackled wildly, as if mocking the ghost's cowardly act of hiding itself.
This blatant provocation naturally enraged that evil ghost.
So, the next moment, a hissing sound, similar to thousands of tiny snakes moving quickly, suddenly appeared in the cracks and crevices all over the training ground below Li Hai.
However, when Li Hai looked down following the sound, he found that what was moving in the ground cracks were not snakes at all, but countless densely packed, blood-stained, incomplete fingers.
These countless fingers constantly squirmed, pulsed, and drilled out of the ground cracks like a swarm of worms, and after emerging, they quickly assembled and stacked up like building blocks into terrifying human figures, some female, some male, some children, and some elders.
These hundreds of 'people' slowly stood up from the ground and then uniformly raised their heads, staring intently at Li Hai suspended in the air with grayish-white eyes made of fingernails, and cursed viciously in various voices simultaneously:
"You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die..."
These invisible curses, like tangible poisonous arrows, instantly converged into a river as they left the mouths of these hundreds of 'people', sweeping with immense speed towards Li Hai above.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Because the speed of this torrent was too fast, Li Hai was completely engulfed before he could react, plunging into a boiling ocean of malevolence.
Under such a frantic assault of malevolence, let alone ordinary people, even top-tier Steel Grade martial artists with extremely firm Heart-Nature would quickly have their minds eroded and their soul consciousness melted, becoming mindless cripples.
However, Li Hai, after falling into this torrent of malevolence, was miraculously unharmed; he even absorbed it completely, then strangely twisted and expanded, suddenly splitting into thousands of horrifying and bizarre severed fingers, mixed with dripping blood, pattering onto the ground.
That's right, after this finger ghost appeared, Li Hai clearly saw its personal interface, and in a single thought, he learned all of its skills and pushed them to the highest level.
And this ghost's personal interface was—
Character Name: Unknown
Rank Level: Ghost Dao → Fierce Soul-level
Skills: "Ghost Body Soul Remains," "Delicate Deceptive Appendages," "Mortal World Yin Accumulating Method (Incomplete)"
Trait Entries: 【Ethereal Body Level 2】 【詭象 Level 2】 【Demonic Finger Level 2】 【Malevolence Level 2】
Strongest Fragment: None
As the fundamental existence of all ghosts—"Ghost Body Soul Remains" goes without saying, this ghost's true unique skills were the latter two Ghost Dao evil arts: "Delicate Deceptive Appendages" and the incomplete "Mortal World Yin Accumulating Method."
The former allows the ghost to split and differentiate into a large number of severed fingers carrying its own thoughts and consciousness, then overwhelm enemies like a swarm of insects.
In addition to this quantity-over-quality attack method, this evil art can also control a small number of fingers individually for various small and precise operations, so detailed that it can even use those individual fingers as building blocks to assemble large numbers of humans, animals, and objects.
Finally, as long as the surrounding Yin Qi is continuous, those severed fingers can constantly and continuously split and deform under the evil power of the ghost art "Delicate Deceptive Appendages."
As for the latter, "Mortal World Yin Accumulating Method," it is a new method of Yin Qi absorption completely different from "Evil Ground Yin Accumulating Method" and "Yin Accumulating."
Those two methods, one extracts the evil Yin Qi from an Evil Ground, and the other extracts Yin Qi from deep mountains and old forests.
However, Mortal World Yin Accumulating extracts the sinister Qi contained within the Mortal World.
And just as the "Evil" method allows ghosts to control the myriad evil Qi of an Evil Ground, and the "Yin" method allows ghosts to conceal their Qi and hide their traces, this "Red" method also grants ghosts a certain bizarre ability.
That is, it can refine and store the malevolence of human hearts and the myriad hatreds of the Mortal World, then gather them into a river to bombard enemies.
However... no matter how bizarre and powerful these finger ghost skills were, they now all belonged to Li Hai.
Therefore, when the thousands of severed fingers that had split and incarnated from him fell to the ground, they too began to stack and assemble, quickly forming blurry human figures and gathering into teams, cursing back at the hundreds of 'people' that the finger ghost had transformed into:
"You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die... You deserve to die..."
Whoosh~
Instantly, the invisible curses of hundreds of 'Li Hais' also condensed into a torrent of malevolence, rumbling and sweeping towards the 'group' of finger ghosts who were completely stunned by witnessing this scene.
Boom!
For a moment, this vast, dilapidated training ground was completely covered by surging, boiling streams of malevolence, and all sights became blurred and chaotic, as if an oil painting had been splashed with boiling water, due to this malevolence.