I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

The ghosts pounced at an extremely fast speed.

As it drew nearer, a distorted face emerged from the churning black mist, with eerie green ghost flames flickering in its eye sockets. Countless suffering faces, men, women, young and old, appeared on its soul, struggling, wailing, and rising and falling within the black mist.

"So many faces..."

Li Hanshan's gaze narrowed slightly. This vengeful spirit had devoured countless souls, its body imprisoning a vast number of resentful spirits. The pain on those faces was so real that even from a distance of dozens of feet, one could feel the despair that penetrated to the bone.

The next second, the ghost let out a piercing scream and pounced on him with its claws outstretched.

Li Hanshan did not back down.

He raised his right hand, and with a thought, activated his Pure Yang Meridian at full power. Spiritual energy surged from his dantian, flowing along the Pure Yang Meridian like a river, and instantly converged at his fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, a fireball condensed at the fingertip to the size of a fist, the high temperature emanating from it distorting and deforming the surrounding air.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, his Fireball Technique became many times stronger than when he was cultivating Qi.

"go."

Li Hanshan flicked his finger.

The fireball shot out and collided with the approaching ghosts.

boom!!!

Flames exploded, like a small sun blooming in mid-air.

The ghost let out an extremely mournful scream and was blasted backward.

The fleeing people on the street were stunned at first when they saw this scene, but then overjoyed.

"An immortal! He really is an immortal!"

"The immortal chased that ghost away!"

"Please, immortals, save us!"

The people cheered and applauded for Li Hanshan, and some even knelt down in worship.

Li Hanshan used the Fiery Cloud Step to arrive above the Yin Spirit in a few steps. The Yin Spirit had fallen onto the roof of a house, its soul curled up in a ball. It struggled to escape, but it no longer had the strength to move.

The damage caused by pure yang fire is extraordinary.

"The girl didn't lie to me, the Pure Yang Meridian is indeed powerful."

Li Hanshan was filled with joy.

This spirit's strength is not that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, but rather equivalent to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

In fact, they were more troublesome than ordinary mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators, but Li Hanshan, who had just broken through to Foundation Establishment, killed them with a single blow.

Li Hanshan raised his hand, and a second fireball condensed at his fingertips.

Just then, the ghost let out a weak wail. It was no longer violent or frenzied, but instead carried a deep, indescribable pain and despair.

Li Hanshan's hand paused slightly.

He saw something struggling deep within the spirit's body.

Those were clearly a pair of dark eyes.

His eyes were filled with fear and helplessness, like someone who had been trapped in darkness for far too long and had finally seen a glimmer of light, desperately trying to grasp it.

"Please...please...don't...kill me..."

A faint female voice came from the spirit's body.

Li Hanshan's gaze sharpened, but he didn't fire the fireball in his hand. His divine sense probed into the Yin Soul's body, piercing through layers of black mist, and finally saw the scene at the deepest part of the soul's body.

There, a faint consciousness resided, and the black mist transformed into countless black chains, binding and imprisoning it tightly.

"Who are you?" Li Hanshan asked in a deep voice.

"Senior, I can't remember where I came from..." The woman's voice was broken and filled with pain and exhaustion. "The Yinming Sect turned me into a Yin Soul. I used a secret technique to preserve the last bit of my clarity, but the Yinming Sect sealed me with Yin Sha. I don't know how many years I've been trapped here. Please, save me..."

Li Hanshan remained silent for a moment.

These vengeful spirits are arguably the most powerful method employed by the Yinming Sect cultivators. Those guys from the Yinming Sect have used them to kill countless people, but they themselves are also victims.

"How can I save you?" he asked.

"Your...flames..." the woman's voice grew weaker and weaker, "burn away... the Yin Sha seal... and I can get out..."

Li Hanshan dispersed the fireballs from his fingertips, letting them fall beside the ghost. He crouched down and placed his palm on the ghost's cold body. The touch was like a cloud of solidified ice mist, the chill penetrating his palm and seeping straight into his bones.

He unleashed flames, scorching the black seal that imprisoned the evil spirits.

After acquiring the Pure Yang Meridian, he unleashed Pure Yang Fire, whose power far surpassed that of ordinary flames.

The seal was formed from pure Yin energy, densely wrapped around the consciousness, and in some places it had grown into the consciousness itself.

The burning process required extreme care. If the pure yang fire was too strong, it would harm that fragile consciousness; if it was too weak, it wouldn't burn away the seal. Li Hanshan was completely focused, and fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

About an incense stick later.

The last wisp of black energy was evaporated by the pure yang energy.

The spirit's body trembled violently, no longer in its previous twisted and bizarre monster form, but transformed into the appearance of a young woman, about twenty years old, with delicate and gentle features, wearing a light blue dress, and her long hair hanging down her shoulders.

She floated in mid-air, staring blankly at her hands.

"I...I'm free?"

Her voice trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes. Ghosts don't have real tears; those teardrops vanished as soon as they left their eyes, turning into specks of light. But the mixed emotions of sorrow and joy were more intense than any real tears.

She covered her face and burst into tears.

I cried for a very long time.

Li Hanshan didn't speak, but just stood quietly to the side.

Finally, she stopped crying, wiped away her tears, and respectfully bowed to Li Hanshan.

"Thank you for saving my life, senior." Her voice was still a little choked up, but it had calmed down a lot. "I can't remember my name or where I came from. I only remember that for the past three years, my consciousness was trapped deep within my soul, watching helplessly as I killed and devoured living souls, unable to do anything..."

As she spoke, her eyes reddened again.

Li Hanshan said, "Let bygones be bygones. Now that you've regained consciousness, what are your plans?"

The ghost shook its head, its eyes filled with confusion and helplessness: "This junior has become like this, neither human nor ghost, and I can't even remember my name or where I live... This junior doesn't know where to go either."

She looked up at Li Hanshan, a hint of cautious expectation in her eyes: "Senior, may I follow you?"

Li Hanshan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "Alright. From now on, you will be called Xiao An. May you live a peaceful life from now on."

Xiao An's eyes lit up, and a bright smile bloomed on her delicate face. She bowed solemnly again: "Thank you for bestowing this name upon me, Senior! Xiao An is willing to follow you and repay your life-saving grace!"