Mortal: Supreme Being of the Ghost Path

The moment the giant needle turned completely white, the black-robed man's expression changed drastically.

"This...how is this possible?!"

His eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the giant needle radiating a blinding white glow, his lips trembling slightly.

He frantically made hand seals, trying to reconnect his mind with the talisman.

However, after trying for a while, he found incredulously that all connection between Fu Bao and him had completely disappeared, as if it had never existed.

"You..." The man in black robes suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with horror as he looked at Qin Han.

But Qin Han had no intention of giving the other party a chance to breathe. Without hesitation, he raised his hand and made a move. The giant white needle responded and spun in the air, its tip pointing directly at the man in black robes.

"That's impossible!"

The black-robed man's voice seemed to change tone. He had actually had his control of the talisman stolen by someone else? This completely overturned his understanding of the cultivation world!

At that moment, the giant white needle hummed and transformed into a blinding white light, heading straight for his heart!

The man in the black robe's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly patted the storage bag at his waist, and a skull the size of a fist flew out of it.

The skull was entirely white, with two eerie green flames flickering in its empty eye sockets, and its fangs protruding from its mouth, making it look ferocious and terrifying.

It swelled in the wind, growing to a size of about ten feet in the blink of an eye, completely enveloping the black-robed man. The skull's jaws were tightly closed, and a layer of dark ghostly energy shield appeared on its surface, completely isolating the inside from the outside.

But the man in black robes wasn't satisfied. He gritted his teeth and mobilized all the remaining magical power in his body, condensing another layer of dark blue protective shield several feet thick on his body.

He gritted his teeth and activated the Soul Locking Tower, but he was overdrawing his magic power. Before he could even make a hand seal, a loud "boom" was heard, and the white giant needle had already hit the skull, making a deafening sound.

The ghostly aura shield on the skull's surface was as thin as paper, easily torn apart by the giant needle.

Immediately afterwards, the skull itself exploded with a crisp sound, turning into countless fragments that scattered in all directions.

Upon seeing this, the man in black robes froze, completely dumbfounded.

Before he could even react, the giant white needle pierced through the dark blue protective shield on his body with overwhelming force, passing right through his chest!

At the same time, a powerful surge of pure Yang energy rushed in from the wound, rampaging through the black-robed man's body and destroying his flesh.

The man in black robes endured the excruciating pain and strained to look down at the bowl-sized hole in his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He opened his mouth, as if to say something, but only spat out a mouthful of blood.

The next moment, a hazy ball of light flew out from above his head; it was the man's soul!

As soon as the soul appeared, it fled into the depths of the Blood Ice Forest at an extremely fast speed.

However, Qin Han was prepared for this. He raised his hand and a huge suction force surged from his palm, pulling the soul from a distance and firmly imprisoning it in his hand.

The soul struggled desperately in Qin Han's palm, but it was like an ant trying to shake a tree, unable to break free at all.

"Let me go!"

The black-robed man's voice came from the soul, furious and somewhat hysterical.

"I am the young master of the Ghost King Sect! If you kill me, my sect will make you wish you were dead! There will be nowhere for you to hide, neither inside nor outside the Star Sea!"

Qin Han stared expressionlessly at the soul in his hand, listening to the other party's threatening words, his gaze extremely cold.

He didn't speak, but slowly raised his other hand and placed his five fingers on the soul body.

As a strange black aura surged out, the black-robed man's soul trembled violently, followed by a shrill scream!

It was Qin Han who was searching this person's soul!

"Fellow Daoist..."

Before long, the black-robed man's voice began to tremble, and his previous arrogance had completely vanished.

"No... Master! Master, spare my life! I'll give you anything you want! Treasures, cultivation techniques, elixirs, and all sorts of rare and precious ghost-path herbs—I'll offer them all to you! Just spare my life..."

Qin Han sneered upon hearing this, his tone chilling: "Killing you and then searching your soul will still give me what I want."

After saying that, he tightened his five fingers, and the speed of the soul search suddenly increased.

The black-robed man's soul trembled violently, and the hazy gray light visibly dimmed.

At the same time, his screams grew weaker and weaker, as if they might disappear at any moment.

"You...you'll regret this!" The black-robed man's voice became broken and extremely weak, "My Ghost King Sect...will not...let you go..."

However, Qin Han simply ignored this.

After all, he was a rogue cultivator, all alone, without any worries or burdens, and without any weaknesses. These threatening words had absolutely no effect on him.

As the last piece of memory was stripped away, the black-robed man's soul became almost transparent, like a candle flickering in the wind, teetering on the verge of collapse.

Just as Qin Han was about to raise his hand to kill it, he suddenly heard a muffled "bang" and the soul exploded on the spot, turning into countless gray light spots that scattered in all directions.

Qin Han frowned, his gaze sharpened, and he raised his hand to dispel the protective ghost mist. He then saw an extremely faint remnant soul shoot out from the explosion at an incredible speed, fleeing into the depths of the Blood Ice Forest.

"Don't let this young master catch you—"

The voice of that remnant soul echoed through the Blood Ice Forest, carrying an intense and venomous hatred.

"Otherwise, I'll make you pay a hundredfold!"

Although Qin Han raised his hand in time and shot out a burst of ghostly energy, he still missed.

The remnant soul was too fast; it disappeared into the depths of the Blood Ice Forest in the blink of an eye, leaving no trace of its presence.

"Ghost cultivators... are truly troublesome." Qin Han helplessly withdrew his hand, his brows furrowed, and he shook his head.

He had long heard that ghost cultivators had many ways to protect themselves, and today he experienced it for himself.

His physical body was destroyed, his soul was searched, yet he still managed to escape with a wisp of his remnant soul.

Fortunately, he had the upper hand this time. Although it was all thanks to the Creation Cauldron, he was still in bad shape. In order to resist the giant needle that the talisman had transformed into, he had used up all his magic power.

Thinking of this, Qin Han's gaze fell on the body on the ground, then swept over the several magical treasures scattered around it, as well as the storage bag at its waist, and his brows gradually relaxed.

"That's enough."

He raised his hand and summoned the black-robed man's storage bag from a distance. He probed into it with his divine sense and, after a cursory scan, a hint of wild joy flashed in his eyes.

The contents here were far more numerous than he had anticipated, including various ancient books and scriptures on the path of ghosts, as well as elixirs, spiritual herbs, and talismans...

But what surprised him most was that there was actually a cultivation technique called "Demon-Slaying Technique" inside, which was the very technique that the black-robed man mainly cultivated!

Judging from the information obtained from the soul search, this person's identity is not fake. He is indeed the young master of a sect called "Ghost King Sect" in the outer sea. The reason he came to break into the Void Heaven Palace is to steal the Heaven-Mending Pill in the inner palace!

To ensure a successful treasure hunt, they specially brought these many treasures from within the sect.

However, when this person discovered that the Void Heaven Palace had appeared in the world, it had attracted eight Nascent Soul cultivators at once, and he was immediately disheartened.

Just as he was hesitating whether to continue deeper into the inner palace to wait for an opportunity or to retreat, he unexpectedly ran into himself. What a twist of fate!

Thinking of this, Qin Han raised his hand again and summoned all the ancient treasures scattered to the side: the Soul Locking Tower, the Bone Ring, the gourd-shaped magic weapon, and the "Yinming Needle" talisman treasure that had been transformed back into a talisman.

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