A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 562 The True Form of the Evil Spirit
Everyone stared in horror at the evil "ghost bride" before them.

Her entire body was crimson red, and her red veil exuded a strong stench of blood. But what was even more terrifying was the evil belly of this "ghost bride," which had been cut open and turned inside out. It was empty inside, already rotten and decaying, emitting a nauseatingly strong stench of corpses...

During the ten-day intensive training, Lin Youjian and Liu Su told them many cases of evil spirits, hoping to prepare them mentally.

But at this moment, upon seeing the malevolent "ghost bride," everyone lost their composure and were so frightened that their hearts trembled!

That bone-chilling cold and immense terror instantly pierced through them!

They could all sense how terrifying this thing was!
Just then, a warm and intoxicating soft voice drifted out from under the red veil, lingering in the ears of everyone present.

"My child, my child. Where are you? Mommy misses you so much..."

The eerie, intoxicating voice instantly startled everyone present; it seemed to possess some kind of magic, capable of completely captivating one's mind...

Within Duan Rong's sea of ​​consciousness, a burst of five-colored fluorescence suddenly flashed around the Mirror-like body.

Duan Rong suddenly woke up and roared coldly.

"go!"

The people who had been losing their composure were instantly brought back to their senses by Duan Rong's shout.

They all knew how terrifying the thing before them was and wanted to leave, but just as they were about to turn away, the crimson veil on the "ghost bride's" evil head moved without wind, and one corner of it gently lifted.

A face was revealed!

For a moment, everyone froze! That face seemed to possess an irresistible charm!
Duan Rong was also rooted to the spot, staring blankly at the face under the red veil!
That was actually Lü Qingzhu's face.

“Qingzhu…” A strange and bewildered look flashed in Duan Rong’s eyes. If he were of sound mind, he would naturally know that this evil spirit could not possibly be Lü Qingzhu.
But what's important isn't the face, but the dense darkness beneath the "ghost bride's" sinister feet. Just a moment ago, several barely perceptible, arm-thick black shadows emerged from there.

The dark shapes resembled tree branches, crisscrossing each other.

At the end of each shadowy figure was a dark, shadowy hand.

Those shadowy hands had already grabbed the feet of each of them.

Just as a shadowy hand grabbed Duan Rong's foot, he saw Lü Qingzhu's face under the veil!
Not only did Duan Rong stand there with a strange and bewildered expression, but everyone present also stared at the "ghost bride" with strange expressions, at the face revealed by the corner of her red veil.

But each of them saw a different face! That was the deepest, softest part of their hearts!
Guo Tian's eyes were already brimming with tears, and his usually stiff face was now contorted with emotion. "Mom!..."

Just then, several red dots suddenly flew out from the deep darkness beneath the evil feet of the "ghost bride"!
As the red dots flew, they grew larger and larger, eventually becoming several red veils!

The red veils, as soon as they flew out, soared into the night sky, where they spun on their own...

Immediately, bursts of children's voices came from the red veils spinning in the night sky, echoing through the tranquil night air.

"The ugly girl is getting married, and Sister Pomegranate is the matchmaker. A long handkerchief hangs on the door, a short handkerchief wipes the lamp, making it sparkle. The dowry is prepared in the apricot garden, and the wedding is held in the peach garden. Father gives me a golden ring, Mother gives me a water dragon skirt..."

Just as that eerie, clear child's voice rang out overhead, everyone who had been looking in a daze looked up in surprise.

Just as they looked up, under the red veil that was spinning in the night sky, ghostly faces suddenly appeared, and those ghostly faces were clearly their own faces!

They were all pale-faced, with strange, stiff smiles on their faces!

Just then, an extremely cold aura suddenly emanated from the ghostly face under the red veil that was spinning alone in the night sky, causing everyone to shiver involuntarily!
The moment that chilling aura arrived, the red veils that had been spinning in the night sky suddenly drifted down slowly, covering the faces of the people who had raised their heads!

At this moment, they all seemed to be possessed, kneeling down on their own, their faces upturned in a daze. These men were now acting like shy and effeminate girls, making delicate gestures with their fingers, and looking strangely at their own ghostly faces on the slowly falling red veil, just like a loving woman gazing at her lover!
Of the group, only Duan Rong remained standing there alone, not kneeling. He stared blankly at the red veil slowly descending into the night sky above, his expression strange. Beneath the veil was a ghostly face of his own.

At this moment, high above Duan Rong's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, a ghostly face suddenly appeared!
The ghostly face resembled Duan Rong, but with a pale, stiff, and wicked smile on its face! It slowly descended from the sky!
The clear, glassy body sitting cross-legged in his sea of ​​consciousness suddenly looked up at the ghostly face that was about to cover his head!
At this moment, the Mingjing Liuli body suddenly shone with a riot of colors, and at the same time, the cloud-like aura emanating from between its brows continued to churn, flashing with white light!

At that very moment, Duan Rong suddenly woke up!
The moment Duan Rong awoke, he immediately saw his own ghostly face and red veil falling from the night sky, and a chill ran down his spine.

This is too creepy!?
Duan Rong's eyes narrowed, and he unleashed a soul piercing attack on the ghostly face above his head that was grinning evilly!

During the ten-day intensive training, Lin Youjian and Liu Su did not tell them whether the soul techniques practiced in the Womb Treasury Sutra, such as Soul Thorn and Mars, could be used to deal with evil spirits!
Because none of the people from the sect who entered the Divine Demon Ruins before were able to form a Divine Soul Thorn at the Qi Cyclone Realm!

The Garbhadhatu Sutra is not something that can be easily mastered!

Lin Youjian and Liu Su were unaware that Duan Rong had already mastered the thirteenth level of the Fetal Treasury Scripture. Even if they did know, they couldn't tell Duan Rong whether the Soul Thorn and Mars could deal with evil spirits! Because neither of them had any experience using Soul Techniques to deal with evil spirits!
Therefore, Duan Rong had to figure this out himself!

The reason Duan Rong shot out the Divine Soul Thorn at the first moment was because he thought the Divine Soul Thorn could attack the ghost face and red veil that were falling from above his head.

The red veil did not appear in his mind's eye, but the ghostly face did.

Anything that can appear in his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness must be a divine soul!
Since it is a spirit body, the spirit thorn can be used to attack!
The Soul Piercer is a mental attack that arrives almost instantly upon being launched!

The ghostly face with its eerie, stiff smile was instantly pierced by the Soul-Slaying Thorn, and with a pop, it turned into a wisp of white smoke that dissipated into the air!

Just then, the evil body of the "ghost bride" visibly trembled, and a venomous aura enveloped Duan Rong. At that moment, Duan Rong finally saw clearly that the face beneath the evil "ghost bride's" red veil was not Lü Qingzhu's face at all; it was clearly a rotting, maggot-infested face!

At this moment, Duan Rong stood alone in the darkness, while the people around him knelt there with strange and awkward expressions!

Without hesitation, Duan Rong retreated rapidly, widening the distance between himself and the evil "ghost bride," and then fired two more soul-piercing darts at the two ghostly faces and red veils in the night sky!
The ghost faces above Guo Tian and Du Wan's heads instantly turned into white smoke!

The reason why Duan Rong used the Soul-Slaying Thorn to attack the falling ghost faces the first time, instead of attacking the "Ghost Bride" evil spirit's true form!

Firstly, by attacking those ghost faces, he could save Guo Tian and Du Wan.

Even more importantly, Duan Rong has not yet discovered the true form of the "ghost bride" evil spirit!

He was certain that the rotting, stinking, and creepy corpse was not the true form of the "ghost bride" evil spirit, because he could not sense any spiritual fluctuations in that rotting, stinking corpse with its belly turned inside out.

There was no fluctuation of spiritual energy, which means that the evil spirit's true form was not inside the corpse!
If he were to use the Soul-Slaying Thorn to attack, without concealing his rotting corpse, it would be like attacking a lump of rotten flesh! That would be completely useless and a pure waste of the Soul-Slaying Thorn!
His Soul Spikes take time to condense, and once one is used, there is one less left!
Duan Rong used the Soul-Slaying Thorn to destroy two more ghost faces! The body of the "Ghost Bride" evil spirit trembled twice, and a corner of its red veil suddenly lifted slightly without wind. At this moment, several ghost faces with red veils that were slowly falling in the night sky suddenly flew towards the "Ghost Bride" evil spirit!
Clearly, Duan Rong's destruction of three ghost faces in a row caused the "Ghost Bride" evil spirit some pain, so it summoned back the remaining red veils to prevent them from being destroyed by Duan Rong.

The ghostly faces and red veils floating in the night sky all flew into the dense darkness beneath the feet of the "ghost bride" evil spirit, and then disappeared into the depths of that darkness, as if they had merged into it...

In that instant, Duan Rong's pupils suddenly contracted, and he finally knew what the evil "ghost bride" was.

The true form of the "Ghost Bride" evil spirit is not the rotting, foul-smelling corpse dressed in crimson blood. The true form of the evil spirit is the dense darkness beneath its feet!

That's the real evil spirit!
That rotting, stinking corpse was merely a vessel chosen by the evil spirit!

Just as Duan Rong was certain that the dense darkness beneath the evil spirit's feet was its true form, he suddenly discovered that from within that dense darkness, shadowy figures had emerged, each with a dark, shadowy hand, one of which was gripping his right ankle!
Even when Duan Rong retreated, the shadowy hand followed him relentlessly!
Just then, after the evil "ghost bride" retracted several ghost faces, the blood-red veil on its head suddenly flipped up completely, revealing its rotten, maggot-infested face!

Duan Rong looked at the shadowy hand gripping his feet and the rotten, maggot-infested face of the evil spirit, and felt a chill and nausea.

At that moment, the rotting eyes on that rotten face moved, seemingly staring at Duan Rong with venomous resentment. And just as those two rotting eyes moved, two crawling maggots fell to the ground...

Suddenly, the evil "ghost bride" raised her hands, her body moved without wind, and her blackened hands reached out to grab Duan Rong!

Duan Rong destroyed three of its ghost faces, and it has now clearly made Duan Rong its target, temporarily abandoning its attack on the others!
The moment that evil form activated, Duan Rong retreated again!

He knew he absolutely could not let that dense darkness get close!

Since it could parasitize that corpse, it could also parasitize itself! After all, if it weren't for his strong divine sense and the eruption of his refined, clear, glassy body within his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, that close-up ghost face would probably have already controlled him.

As Duan Rong retreated rapidly, he suddenly unleashed three Soul Spikes in quick succession!
The three soul-piercing darts, like silent nails, instantly pierced into the dense darkness beneath the evil spirit's feet!

Three plumes of white smoke rose instantly!

The evil body of the "ghost bride" suddenly froze, trembling like a leaf, and maggots fell off her face in large numbers! At the same time, a shrill scream came from the deep, dark mass beneath her feet, accompanied by wisps of white smoke!

Just as screams rang out and white smoke rose, the dark hands that had been gripping everyone's ankles suddenly withdrew and disappeared into the thick darkness!
The moment those shadowy hands retreated, Guo Tian, ​​Du Wan, and the other five suddenly woke up!
The moment they awoke, they saw beside them a rotting face, spitting out maggots, amidst shrill screams and puffs of white smoke.

They all gasped for breath, their faces turning pale. They realized they were all kneeling there, behaving in a strange, demure manner, like daughters...

"go!"

Duan Rong shouted, and everyone instantly realized what was happening, turning their heads sharply to look at Duan Rong standing not far behind them!
The crowd sprang up like springs and rushed toward Duan Rong.

Originally, there were three red veils, but the ghostly faces were pierced and destroyed by the soul-piercing daggers shot by Duan Rong. These three red veils were not taken back into the dense darkness by the evil spirit of the "ghost bride." It was as if, without the pull of the ghostly faces, these three eerie red veils could not be directly controlled by the evil spirit.

After the ghost faces were pierced, the three eerie, blood-red veils fell to the ground in the dark night, seemingly without a master!

One of them landed not far from where Jin Rong was standing!

As the crowd rushed toward him, Duan Rong grabbed the red veil at his feet and dashed into the darkness.

Since the evil spirit cannot be directly controlled by this red veil, and it seems to be able to completely merge into the dense darkness of the evil spirit's body, Duan Rong decided to study it, at least to see if he could read the spirit of the artifact.

Everyone rushed out from the flames by the pool. At this moment, Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue returned with torches in hand!

When Lu Chu saw Su Xinjue following behind Jiang Hanyan, his heart sank. The evil spirit could actually transform into one of them to approach them!
That's absolutely terrifying!

Then he recalled the eerie and terrifying scene when they awoke—the sight of them kneeling and acting like shy daughters! And the maggot-infested, rotten face of that evil spirit! And just now, he had seen his lover from his youth on that maggot-infested, rotten face!
The moment Guo Tian saw Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue, he shouted to them, "Evil spirits are here! Run!"

"Evil spirit!?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue both paled. They turned to look and saw a figure, its body as red as blood, standing in a strange posture within the firelight beside the pool, with wisps of white smoke rising beside it...

At this moment, the eerie screams of the "ghost bride" by the pool ceased, and she slowly straightened up...

(End of this chapter)