Mortal: Supreme Being of the Ghost Path

The Corpse-Raising Grounds, under a hazy sky, atop a low mound.

Qin Han sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, his breathing steady. Centered on him, layers upon layers of magic arrays, densely packed and crisscrossing, covered an area of ​​several miles.

For example, there were illusion arrays, concealment arrays, defensive arrays... all sorts of arrays were layered on top of each other, completely covering this area, so that not even a trace of its aura could be leaked out.

At each key node of the formation, six ferocious, terrifying green-haired monsters stood silently like statues, guarding the six directions respectively.

They were covered in long, dark green fur, had empty eyes, protruding fangs, and exuded a strong aura of death.

The corpse energy intertwined with the spiritual light of the formation, forming faint barriers that firmly protected Qin Han in the center.

These green-haired monsters are the Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses that Qin Han specially ordered Xuan Gu to refine!

Although their cultivation level was only at the Core Formation stage, under the enhancement of the formation, the aura they emitted was extremely astonishing. They guarded Qin Han in his seclusion and arduous cultivation without leaving his side, and they were quite a force to be reckoned with.

Qin Han kept his eyes closed and remained motionless, surrounded by a faint, eerie black and red aura, radiating an extremely sharp and oppressive aura.

The aura was domineering and chilling, seemingly capable of corroding everything, giving people an extremely dangerous feeling.

At this point, six years had passed since he went into seclusion.

Over the years, he has never left this place that raises corpses.

With the help of the dense corpse energy in this place, he had completely transformed all his magical power two years ago.

Now, what flows through his body is no longer the ordinary yin energy or ghost energy, but the domineering and fierce corpse energy that corrodes everything!

Compared to before, his strength has clearly improved to a new level, and the power of his attacks has increased by at least several times.

In addition, he also used the accelerating effect of the Yin Gathering Pool in the cauldron to cultivate the "Demon-Slaying Technique" to the fifth level.

This incomplete ghost cultivation technique only has five levels. Although Qin Han did not have the complete version, he obtained a lot of cultivation insights from Xuan Gu and, through his own exploration, managed to successfully complete the cultivation technique.

He also mastered all the killing techniques recorded in the cultivation method, such as Xuan Yin Ghost Qi and Ghost Huang Nails.

Especially the Ghostly Nail, now that it is used again, its power is many times stronger than when it was tested at the stone gate of the cave.

Moreover, he did not neglect the cultivation of the Profound Soul Yin Fire.

Over the years, he has been cultivating his skills while nurturing this fire, and now he has mastered it to an extremely high degree.

The black flames were already as easy to control as his own limbs, and he could manipulate them at will.

It seems quite safe to use it now to refine the Asura Sacred Fire.

However, just to be on the safe side, Qin Han decided to wait until he had formed his Nascent Soul before carefully studying the method of refining the Asura Sacred Flame.

During this period, he also took the time to refine many elixirs that were very beneficial for Nascent Soul formation.

Most of the pill formulas were scavenged from Xuan Gu's secret cave, while the spiritual materials were purchased from the Qiyuan Island auction house and various raw material shops.

Although his alchemy skills were not particularly refined, with the help of the time flow in the world within the cauldron and the Yin Gathering Pool, he managed to refine quite a few pills of decent quality, batch after batch.

Now, his entire body is brimming with magical power, and the corpse energy within him is surging endlessly, ready to break through the final bottleneck at any moment.

However, Qin Han did not make a move immediately.

He slowly opened his eyes, and with a thought, a gray-white brocade handkerchief flew out from the world inside the cauldron and quietly floated in front of him.

The handkerchief was about a foot square, with dark patterns flowing across its surface, and a faint, eerie aura emanated from it.

Qin Han frowned slightly, his gaze falling on the brocade handkerchief as he pondered to himself.

In recent years, this handkerchief has shown unusual behavior every now and then.

Sometimes the surface patterns flow faster, sometimes a low humming sound is emitted, and sometimes a faint light is emitted that fluctuates in intensity.

Yesterday, the anomaly reappeared, and it was more intense than ever before.

On the surface of the handkerchief, some kind of obscure and strange symbols seemed to be about to emerge. These symbols were faint and indistinct, and could not be distinguished at all.

Qin Han stared at the object for a long time, his expression shifting between light and dark.

He tried to probe into it with his divine sense, but was instantly repelled by an invisible barrier.

He even tried to activate it with magic, but it was completely ineffective, like throwing a stone into the sea.

This handkerchief seemed to have its own consciousness, only revealing its secrets when it was willing to.

"What exactly is that thing...?"

Qin Han muttered to himself, then simply put the handkerchief away and put it back into the depths of the cauldron's world.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and once again adjusted the surging magical power within his body.

……

Time flies, and several more months have passed.

In the Corpse-Raising Grounds, under a hazy sky, the low mound was still shrouded in layers of formations, with six Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses standing guard around it like statues, motionless.

Everything looked the same as it had a few months ago, except that the aura of corpses in the air seemed to be a bit stronger than before.

On that very day, a sudden change occurred!

But then, the once calm, grayish-white mist above the silent mound suddenly began to surge violently, as if stirred by an invisible giant hand. It then began to spin and churn at a speed visible to the naked eye, and continued to spread outwards.

Within a few breaths, the corpse-evil energy within a radius of dozens of miles was completely stirred up, forming dozens of yin energy vortexes of varying sizes, slowly rotating in the sky...

The eerie black and red aura surged instantly, spreading in all directions like a tidal wave.

The ground began to tremble slightly, gravel bounced, and dust flew up.

The six Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses trembled slightly due to the recent events, but they remained steadfastly guarding their original positions.

The array's spiritual light began to flicker violently, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, emitting a low buzzing sound, as if it were resisting the increasingly strong pressure.

The next moment, with a loud "boom", an extremely terrifying and earth-shattering powerful pressure suddenly erupted from the center of the mound, forcefully shattering the layers of formations with overwhelming force!

The array formations and restrictions that Qin Han had carefully set up were easily torn apart by that pressure, as if they were made of paper. In an instant, the spiritual light shattered, the array exploded, and a mess was left behind.

But the oppressive force did not diminish at all, and continued to roar in all directions.

For hundreds of miles around, every corner of the Corpse-Raising Ground was shrouded in this terrifying pressure.

The scattered piles of bones rattled and crashed, the broken altars collapsed one after another, and even the aura of corpses that permeated the air was forced to retreat to a greater distance.

Qin Han sat cross-legged in the center of the mound, surrounded by an almost tangible black-red aura of corpse energy, his entire being lost in a profound and mysterious state...