Chapter 561 - 327 Heavenly Ghost
Li Shiming sipped his Third Grade Spirit Tea while taking out a storage bag given to him by his clone, Li Yuanba. From it, he retrieved the Ghost Banner Treasure and a Jade Scroll.
The Jade Scroll contained a cultivation technique for controlling ghosts called the ’No Thought Earth Willow Netherworld Scripture,’ sourced by his clone Yuan Ba, who had excellent relations through trade channels with the Guardian Golden Core Elders.
Each Guardian Golden Core Elder possessed significant influence within their sect, and obtaining a cultivation technique for controlling ghosts was likely best through the Demon Sect. Given Yuan Ba’s favorable connections within the Senluo Sect, he managed to acquire this ’No Thought Earth Willow Netherworld Scripture.’
Li Shiming cast a strand of his Divine Thought into the Jade Scroll, and the content of the ’No Thought Earth Willow Netherworld Scripture’ was instantly recorded by him.
In the time it took to finish the cup of Third Grade Spirit Tea in his hand, he had completed studying the ’No Thought Earth Willow Netherworld Scripture’ and mastered it entirely.
The Third Grade Fierce Ghost within the Ghost Banner Treasure, though residing inside the treasure and shielded from the Heavenly and Earthly winds, still needed continual energy replenishment; otherwise, its energy would keep depleting.
Unless in some special environments that could nurture ghosts and spirits, or if a Devil Cultivator used special methods to cultivate them, ghosts were not normally seen.
The reason lay in the environment, under the effects of the Heaven and Earth winds, no ghosts could survive in this world.
Being a Third Grade Fierce Ghost placed it at an extremely formidable level among fierce ghosts, equivalent to the Golden Core Realm, but it was equally bound by the Rules of Heaven and Earth. Without the Ghost Banner Treasure for protection, its energy would deplete even faster.
There were two methods for Devil Cultivators to nurture fierce ghosts. One was to coexist with the ghost, sharing the cultivator’s own blood and spirit, thus preventing the ghost from losing energy, but this increased the risk of losing one’s mind to demonic paths.