Sixty years of blacksmithing, a single hammer blow forging a celestial being.

In an instant, he sensed dozens of incredibly powerful ghosts within the soul banner.

There were actually dozens of ghostly auras within this soul banner.

Moreover, each aura was from someone at least at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Two of them even reached the Golden Core realm!

Feeling the power of the soul within the Soul Banner, Li Ping'an was taken aback.

No wonder that Old Ancestor of Extreme Yin was trying every means to take it back.

There's actually the soul of a Golden Core cultivator inside; that's quite extraordinary.

You must understand that in order to absorb souls into the Soul Banner...

The enemy must be completely defeated, and their souls must be extracted and refined personally.

Then, after a long period of refining, there is only a slight chance that his soul can be refined into this soul banner.

In other words, even though there are only a few dozen souls inside the Soul Banner.

But in reality, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivators who sacrificed themselves for this soul banner.

There were even the souls of those two Golden Core cultivators.

They were probably only two who succeeded by chance after countless Golden Core cultivators had died.

No wonder the Yin Ancestor spared no effort to snatch back the Soul Banner.

This was definitely a soul banner that he had put a great deal of effort into making.

However, feeling the violent soul power within the soul banner, Li Ping'an was somewhat troubled.

The Soul Banner is here, and the power of the soul can be felt.

But how should it be used?

Just then, Lu Xue's voice rang out from behind again.

"Li Ping'an! Are you trying to pull some trick on me again? Hmph, I advise you to be discerning, or you might not even leave a whole corpse behind!"

Lu Xue's voice was already filled with coldness.

He knew that Li Ping'an was definitely up to some trick.

They had already made up their minds not to give him any more chances.

Just as Lu Xue was about to draw her sword, this sword cleaved through the air with a burst of sword energy.

Without further hesitation, Li Ping'an rolled around on the ground.

Facing Lu Xue, he opened the soul banner in his hand with a whoosh.

In an instant, dozens of streams of soul power floated out from the soul banner.

It formed thick fog that exuded a chilling power.

They screamed horribly as they stumbled through the woods.

So many souls! I know there are many souls within this soul banner.

But when they saw dozens of souls running rampant in the sky, wailing in agony, they were shocked.

Li Ping'an was still quite shocked.

Lu Xue was also startled by this sudden scene.

He could sense the extremely terrifying, chilling aura emanating from these spirits.

There were even two souls whose strength surpassed his!

"What is this?"

Lu Xue was taken aback and didn't even have the energy to pay attention to Li Ping'an.

Because he sensed an extremely deadly danger emanating from these spirits.

After these souls wandered around countless times, Li Ping'an...

He finally found a way to control souls.

Simply hold the Soul Banner, input your spiritual power, and then activate it with your mind to control the Soul Banner in the sky.

After he mastered this method.

All the souls in the sky immediately changed direction and rushed towards Lu Xue.

"What are these things?"

He watched as those hideous skeletons roared and pounced on him from within the black mist.

Even though Lu Xue's cultivation was profound and her willpower was stronger than that of ordinary people.

At this moment, I was still so frightened that I was completely at a loss.

This scene is simply too terrifying.

Until two hideous and terrifying skeletons rushed in front of him.

Lu Xue then belatedly realized what was happening.

He quickly retreated while simultaneously unleashing two sword energies.

However, these two sword strikes had no effect whatsoever on the two powerful spirits at the head of the group.

It was as if a clay ox had vanished into the sea; it passed right through them.

This terrified Lu Xue so much that she almost lost her mind.

In a panic, he immediately pulled out a teleportation talisman from his pocket and crushed it.

His figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

However, the ghosts did not give up after their search failed.

Instead, it turned and headed straight in another direction.

Li Ping'an couldn't see clearly in that direction at all.

But judging from the madness of those ghosts...

It can be concluded that Lu Xue's teleportation direction should be that location.

Sure enough, within a few breaths, Lu Xue flew back again on her flying magic artifact.

Behind him, dozens of ghosts were chasing him frantically.

Lu Xue was no longer as flustered as before.

He has figured out the origin of these ghosts.

These are the ghosts released from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in Li Ping'an's hand.

"Li Ping'an! You damned traitor! You really are a spy from the demon race!"

Lu Xue was now in a state of great confusion.

He used to see Li Ping'an as a cat playing with a mouse.

They viewed this struggle and bloodshed as nothing more than a game.

I never expected Li Ping'an to resort to such tactics at the last moment.

Being chased by dozens of shrill ghosts from behind is a feeling that no one would find pleasant.

Most importantly, these ghosts were completely unaffected by his sword energy.

To be precise, it is completely unaffected by physical attacks.

Even though Lu Xue tried her best, she couldn't get rid of these ghosts.

Several times, when he flew too slowly, one or two ghosts caught up with him and stuck to his clothes.

Lu Xue immediately got goosebumps; it was just too disgusting.

Taking advantage of this opening, Li Ping'an had already escaped several meters away.

He unleashed all his spiritual power and ran wildly through the forest.

He only hoped that these ghosts could hold Lu Xue back for a short while so that he could escape.

However, Lu Xue was not an easy person to become a saintess.

After being caught by these ghosts several times, Lu Xue could no longer hold back.

He stopped caring how disgusting or terrifying those ghostly things were.

Instead, he stopped abruptly and pulled out a golden talisman from his pocket.

As he chanted incantations, the talisman suddenly emitted a blinding light.

"Heaven and Earth are boundless, the righteous laws of Heaven and Earth! Break!"

Lu Xue then tossed the talisman into the sky.

In an instant, a golden beam of light descended from the sky, enveloping all the ghosts that rushed towards them.

The moment the ghosts came into contact with the golden light, they let out extremely mournful screams.

As if scorched by flames, they all fled backward.

However, the golden light seemed to possess a spirit, closely following the ghosts.

They were so clearly visible in the woods that they had nowhere to hide.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Xue quickly retreated, putting distance between herself and the ghosts.

"Li Ping'an! I swear I will not rest until I kill you today!"

Lu Xue's eyes were bloodshot; she was completely enraged.

He looked disheveled at the moment, with several scratches on his Taoist robe caused by ghosts.

Her hair was also a bit disheveled, and she no longer had the aloof fairy-like appearance she had before.

Li Ping'an was overjoyed to see this.

I never expected the Soul Banner to be so powerful.

It's incredible that they were able to force Saintess Lu Xue into such a sorry state.

However, he also knew that with Lu Xue's strength, these ghosts probably wouldn't be able to stop her for long.

The right thing to do is to seize the time to escape.

Without further hesitation, he turned and ran wildly into the depths of the woods.

However, he hadn't run far when he heard a sharp whooshing sound behind him.

Looking back, Lu Xue could be seen to have already broken free from the ghosts' clutches.