Demon Taming: Start by synthesizing a Lantern Ghost with Divine and Demonic Talents

Chapter 6 Lantern Ghost

Piles of rubble, withered branches and leaves, overgrown weeds, and nameless, low-quality tombstones everywhere.

All around are the ruins of the ancient city walls, with black bricks rolling down from them, giving one a vague idea that a prosperous foreign ghost kingdom once stood here in those distant years.

It was only midday, but the sky was already somewhat gray, and the basin was shrouded in mist, making it difficult to see far.

Li Chunfeng recalled the dangers on the first level of Yin Ground.

There are generally three types of ghostly creatures: ghouls, skeleton soldiers, and demons.

The ghouls are the weakest; their only problem is their speed, agility, and ability to travel in packs, making a single ghoul less of a threat. A single hit will significantly reduce their movement speed.

Skeleton soldiers belong to the Bone Spirit race, but have not yet reached a higher rank. They are neither fast nor agile, merely skeletons, and are extremely fierce and aggressive, readily attacking any living creatures that pass by.

The demons and ghosts include human-shaped zombies and undead, as well as various beast-shaped half-beasts. They are characterized by their thick skin and flesh, and their appearances are often accompanied by various plagues and toxins. If you can't break them, it's best not to touch them.

In addition, there are some particularly troublesome ghosts and evil spirits, which are regularly cleansed by patrol teams.

Li Chunfeng, with the Demon-Slaying Blade in one hand and the Soul-Breaking Gun hanging at his waist, walked around half of the mass grave, but did not encounter a single ghost or monster.

Did the patrol team sweep the area so thoroughly?

Looking at the sky, I suddenly realized what was going on.

At this time, the sun was blazing, and unless one was an extremely powerful demon or ghost, no ordinary little devil would dare to come out and provoke such bad luck.

Li Chunfeng familiarized himself with the two spells while patiently waiting.

In the Ghost Realm, daylight hours are short, and as time passed, the weather gradually darkened. The instant the sun set, Li Chunfeng felt a chill creep over him, causing him to shiver.

Fortunately, he had already mastered the body-strengthening technique, and his qi and blood were quite abundant, so he didn't feel uncomfortable with the slight chill.

Bathed in the eerie wind, the spiritual power within his divine aperture became even more agile than usual, making him even more vigilant.

A few lone crows cawed in the distance, the cold wind blowing harder and harder, its howling sound like the wailing of ghosts and wolves. The scenery, which looked alright during the day, turned eerie and terrifying at night.

This environment cannot frighten a man who has emerged from the apocalypse.

Soon, the wilderness was no longer dark, and flickering eerie lights appeared in the mass grave.

What Li Chunfeng was waiting for had appeared—the Lantern Ghost.

During this time, he consulted a lot of information and finally had a clear idea of ​​his first demon pet, which was the Lantern Ghost.

If people knew that the Nine-Aperture Genius, whom the Mountain and Sea Academy had only produced once in a long time, was actually considering using a Lantern Ghost as a demon pet, they would probably laugh their heads off. But this was a choice he had made after careful consideration.

Lantern ghosts are a relatively harmless type of ghost, and they can be found in some cemeteries in the Earthly Realm. In the mass graves of the Ghost Realm, they are as numerous as fireflies in summer.

They would frighten timid people passing by the cemetery at night, such as turning white lanterns into red lanterns or the character for "fortune" into the character for "mourning," and making ghostly faces to scare passersby.

But they are also notorious for bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

If they encounter something that is not afraid of them, they will spontaneously avoid it.

Even the bravest kids dare to go up and challenge it to a fight.

If you're not brave enough and get scared out of your wits by the lantern ghosts, at most they'll drain some of your scattered spiritual energy, and you'll be fine after sleeping for a couple of days at home. That's their most dangerous tactic.

The Lantern Ghost race is vast and constantly emerging.

With a large number of people, there will always be a few outliers.

Some mutated lantern ghosts possess abilities such as creating clones and using telekinetic fists to conjure small fists to smash people; these are probably the geniuses of their kind.

If the lantern ghost gets angry, it will spit at living people—emitting sparks the size of sesame seeds.

This kind of spark, when it hits a person, doesn't cause much harm, but it causes excruciating pain, as if it were burning directly on the soul; it's extremely dangerous. Like a child climbing a tree who encounters a spittle, once the ordeal is experienced, they never want to suffer it again.

Therefore, these creatures became monsters that were disliked by both humans and dogs in the wilderness.

Even the patrol teams didn't have the time or inclination to specifically deal with these lantern ghosts that could never be eradicated.

The Lantern Ghost's Heart Lamp is an innate skill, like the tail light of a firefly. As long as the Lantern Ghost exists, the Heart Lamp will never go out.

The light of the Heart Lamp can also ward off evil spirits and bring peace of mind, making it an invaluable tool for aiding cultivation and visualization. Furthermore, it has the effect of tempering the soul, ensuring that thoughts remain pure and clean. Some practitioners even actively capture lantern spirits and keep them in quiet rooms to assist their cultivation.

The ghosts and monsters born from a filthy place gave rise to the purest light of the heart in the world; perhaps this is the wonder of nature.

In Li Chunfeng's view, "the lamp of the heart, the spark, the fist, the clone..."

The qualities displayed by the Lantern Ghost clan were enough to attract him.

Moreover, the Lantern Ghost possesses the ability to 'devour souls,' which is of utmost importance to Li Chunfeng.

However, among the demons and monsters, quite a few possess the talent of soul devouring. Even if the Lantern Ghost is excellent, it still requires immense courage to choose it as your first destined demon pet.

What truly gave Li Chunfeng the confidence to choose the Lantern Ghost as his natal demon pet was the mysterious Divine Aperture Land.

A cultivator's divine aperture exists between the real and the illusory, its true form resembling chaos. It is the original birthplace of a person's three souls and seven spirits, the ancestral home of the divine soul. In most cases, nothing exists besides the human divine soul.

Within Li Chunfeng's divine aperture were mountains and water, with nine towering mountains surrounding a celestial pool, resembling a silver moon fallen among the mountains.

Above each of the nine mountain peaks, a 'bright moon' floats.

These nine 'bright moons' are naturally the manifestations of the nine soul apertures.

Eight of the rounds were somewhat dim and not yet open. Only one round, the 'bright moon,' shone brightly and had already formed a passage between itself and the central celestial pool, signifying that a soul aperture had been opened.

Outsiders only know that his divine aperture has nine soul apertures, but that is not the case.

At the bottom of the unseen Heavenly Lake, a huge dark shadow floats, like the reflection of the bright moon.

This hidden passage, though open, belongs to the summoning space of the dead soul servants of the [Throne of Night], and cannot be equated with the natal demon pet.

The difference between a soul servant and a natal demon pet is significant. The death of a soul servant will not affect its own soul aperture, nor will it nourish its master.

This wondrous and mysterious scene is quite similar to the legendary inner realm.

However, the inner vision of a cultivator of divine souls can only be constructed by a True Monarch of the Nascent Soul stage.

The True Lord of Transformation can materialize the inner landscape and construct the divine soul domain with just his own divine soul power. He can directly mobilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth for his own use without using any magic or supernatural powers.

Unfortunately, the secrets of the Nascent Soul Realm were beyond Li Chunfeng's reach.

Li Chunfeng was also unable to share his private matters with other cultivators who possessed extraordinary celestial phenomena, so he decided to "just consider it a small inner landscape for now."

The small interior with such amazing phenomena must be extraordinary in its own way.

Li Chunfeng possessed three extraordinary talents:

Firstly, the concept-based talent is unique: [Soul Fusion and Unity].

It is possible to fuse souls of the same origin into one, and to synthesize a higher-grade item using three talents or even magic seeds of the same origin and grade. It is also possible to fuse a soul source of a lower grade into the origin that was originally intended to be improved. The fusion of souls of different origins will produce random effects, which are uncontrollable and may be good or bad.

The highest level of fusion cannot exceed two major realms of one's own cultivation, except for talents.

The Soul Fusion formula is: [ ] + [ ] + [ ] + [Fairy Pet] = [Fairy Pet + 1]

Secondly, the Silver Heavenly Pool at the center of the Nine Mountains is a place where moonlight gathers, possessing the effects of calming the soul and rapidly healing injuries.

Thirdly, it manifests an inner realm, which can suppress enemies whose realm is lower than one's own.

Of these three extraordinary innate abilities, [Soul Fusion] is clearly the most important.

It was precisely this conceptual supernatural power that led Li Chunfeng to choose a large number of demonic pets, which would be more beneficial for his future development.

Lantern ghosts happen to be the most common low-level ghosts.

The incomplete jade disc carried his soul through time, leading him to Li Chunfeng in this world, probably because he recognized Li Chunfeng's talent.

(End of this chapter)