Volume 2 Chapter 12: Journey to Ghost City

  A group of people stood at the confluence of the Black River and the Yin Corpse River, gazing out at the merging waters. Lu Yun looked for a while, then suddenly turned back to the others with a smile on his handsome face, which held a hint of mystery and nonchalance. "Everyone be careful to hide your presence around here," Lu Yun said with a smile. "I'll go scout ahead alone. Don't worry about me, just take care of yourselves, that's all." His calm smile carried a sense of ease and confidence.

  On the side, Zi Yang Zhen Ren, Yun Feng, and Feng Yuan Yang all whispered to him to be careful. However, Ao Xue and Cang Yue just looked at him lightly, no one spoke. Lu Yun's gaze swept over the crowd, lingering on Ao Xue and Cang Yue's faces for a moment, a faint smile floating on his face. Without speaking, just a knowing smile, explained a lot.

  Lu Yun turned around, gazing at the horizon with a hint of pride in his eyes. His body shone brightly for an instant before he vanished into thin air, leaving no trace behind. Watching Lu Yun's disappearing figure, Feng Yuanyang let out a soft sigh: "Even now, we still can't believe it - he only cultivated in Yiyuan for two years and yet reached such heights. Even with my current level of cultivation, I couldn't achieve the effortless and natural transformation he just displayed. Perhaps his body holds secrets that are unknown to us!" Ziyang True Person's face revealed a strange expression upon hearing this, but inwardly, she let out a soft sigh. Aosnow and Cangyue exchanged a glance, neither of them speaking up.

  Yun Feng changed the subject, "Let's find a place to hide first and wait for news about Lu Yun. Let's go." After finishing speaking, he took the lead and left, heading down towards the mountain cliff on the left. The rest of the people looked at each other and followed him.

  Cleverly crossing the Black River, Lu Yun easily entered the most mysterious depths of the Ghost Domain. With no one else around, Lu Yun could act without any scruples, completely at his own will. At this moment, Lu Yun's entire body transformed into a wisp of black smoke, with an eerie and ominous aura that permeated all around. In order to avoid being detected by the ghostly creatures, Lu Yun employed the Ghost Sect's Soul Transformation technique, fully adjusting his aura to match that of the ghostly creatures.

  Crossing the Black River, Lu Yun transformed into a thin mist, carefully observing the surroundings. After drifting for a while, Lu Yun discovered that at the confluence of the Black River and the Yin Corpse River, two extremely powerful ghostly auras were hidden. The two ghostly auras were very obscure, as if something was concealing their presence. Lu Yun approached quietly. Soon, Lu Yun entered the two auras. As soon as he entered, Lu Yun's heart shook suddenly; he could never have imagined that these two auras, which seemed insignificant, actually contained thousands of ghostly spirits. Countless consciousness and thoughts were chaotically intertwined within the auras, making it impossible for Lu Yun to understand what they expressed at first.

  Carefully searching for those ghosts, Lu Yun soon found an exceptionally powerful ghost in the first cluster of energy, which seemed to be their leader. Slowly approaching Lu Yun. When those strange talismans were imprinted on the ghost's body, only a mournful cry was heard, and then the ghost turned into a wisp of black smoke, sucked into the light shield outside Lu Yun's body.

  Silently standing in mid-air, countless ghostly objects surrounded him, letting out screams as they flew towards Lu Yun's body like moths to a flame. Every single ghost object that drew near was instantly transformed into wisps of black smoke, sucked into the black light surrounding Lu Yun's body. In this moment, Lu Yun was like a whirlpool, frantically absorbing all the ghost objects around him and devouring every soul.

  Slowly, the talismans emitted from Lu Yun's body became more and more dense, gradually forming a pattern outside his body. Upon closer inspection, it was actually a ghost face, with a thread of black light flashing on its forehead, slowly revealing a king character. As the ghost face pattern became clearer, a suit of black armor also slowly appeared in front of him. At that moment, Lu Yun's entire body flashed with light, and the complete Ghost King armor appeared on his body, completely concealing his original appearance.

  Through the ghost mask, Lu Yun's eyes shone with a black, enchanting light as he coldly stared at the ghost immortal who had suddenly appeared before him. The green eyes flashed with an unprecedented shock, and the ghost immortal trembled, saying: "What kind of person are you? Why did you use a human body to cultivate my Ghost Domain's supreme technique, 'Soul Refining', to the legendary realm of 'Wang Jia Rebirth' that no one has ever successfully cultivated?"

  With a cold smile, Lu Yun's voice at this moment was extremely gloomy. Looking at the shocked ghost fairy, Lu Yun said in a low voice: "Why, you don't need to know. Now I'll use you to try out the power of this Ghost King Battle Armor." As soon as he finished speaking, his entire body appeared three feet beside the ghost fairy, his hands forming a devouring heaven gesture, making a grabbing motion in mid-air.

  A strange, eerie voice escaped from the ghost's mouth as his body instantly transformed into a swirling vortex of light that surrounded Lu Yun's body and spun at high speed. The air around them churned violently, with dark, malevolent energy infused with soul-devouring, bone-dissolving power, consuming the true essence surrounding Lu Yun. At this moment, the ghost unexpectedly also employed Soul Transformation, completely encircling Lu Yun.

  Lu Yun let out a cold laugh, and the Ghost King's armor on his body shone brightly for an instant. A powerful force beyond compare suddenly rebounded, and with one move, he sent the Ghost Immortal flying. His hands grasped at nothing, and that powerful and eerie soul-invading power was instantly absorbed into his hands, transforming into his own strength.

  The green eyes of the ghost fairy flashed with a hint of terror, as if understanding the power of the Ghost King's armor. Her eyes spun rapidly, seemingly thinking of a way to counterattack. Lu Yun was not a benevolent person and would not give her time to come up with a bad idea. After absorbing the powerful Ghost Qi True Essence, his body instantly transformed into over a hundred residual shadows, which rolled back towards the ghost fairy. Countless Lu Yuns appeared in mid-air, overlapping each other, flashing black light of ghost energy, layer upon layer around the ghost fairy, forming a peculiar true vacuum sphere that was slowly compressing.

  The demon's eyes were shocked, his body transformed into a black gas sphere, spinning at an incredible speed of 9,900 times per second. Feeling the vacuum ball outside was completely sealed without any gaps, the demon couldn't help but furiously roar, his body wildly colliding inside the vacuum ball. The immense power caused the slowly compressing vacuum ball to constantly stretch and shrink, changing shape from time to time, apparently both sides were stuck in a stalemate.

  He gazed coldly at the crazily struggling ghost fairy, and a gloomy cold smile appeared in Lu Yun's eyes. Gradually increasing his power, Lu Yun wanted to see just how strong this ghost fairy, who was known as the strongest in the Ghost Domain, really was. In the past, even Ao Xue's divine sword, Purple Shadow, had not been able to kill it; today, he would use his Soul Transformation to see if he could kill it. As he looked at the ghost fairy, a hint of surprise suddenly appeared in Lu Yun's smiling eyes. Turning around, looking towards the Ghost King City, Lu Yun's face revealed a serious expression, and his eyes became somewhat strange.