First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 176: Zhang Taian Appears Again

It hasn't left yet?

Shen Mo looked at the Ghost General with mixed feelings in his heart.

For him.

Just over twenty days ago, he was still fighting side by side with Zhang Taian on the city walls of Tian Shun Guo Jing Shi, resisting the ghost tide together.

Seeing each other again, an old friend is still an old friend!

But it was a late-stage third-order ghost that entered the secret realm of Tian Shun Guan.

Unlike Shen Mo's sentimentality, Chen Mengze and the others' faces changed drastically.

When they came out of Tian Shun Guan, they heard Peng Chen's account of their previous encounter and knew that the Ghost General was a formidable ghost creature that was extremely cruel and bloodthirsty.

Therefore, they all took out their magical tools, talismans, and even their hidden means.

They intended to join forces to snatch a glimmer of hope from the Ghost General!

What caught Shen Mo's attention was the magical tool that Geng Zheng took out, a Profound Grade top-grade flying sword, with a flowing spiritual light and an unstoppable sharpness.

Obviously, it was the "great opportunity" they obtained from Tian Shun Guan!

The Ghost General Zhang Taian ignored their hostility and stared straight at Shen Mo with its crimson eyes, filled with anger and madness.

After all, in its perspective.

Just an hour ago, Shen Mo had saved its prey from its hands and successfully escaped into Tian Shun Guan.

"Whoosh!"

The Ghost General disappeared instantly.

When it reappeared, it was already in front of Shen Mo.

"Splash!"

The Soul Refining Banner surged with blood light, and the imprint of the Ghost General's soul on it shimmered.

At the moment when he saw the Ghost General, Shen Mo was already prepared.

He knew how powerful a third-order ghost creature was, and he couldn't even escape from the hands of a third-order early-stage Heaven Abandoning Ghost King using all his means.

Not to mention confronting a stronger Ghost General!

Inside the secret realm of Tian Shun Guan, he used the Soul Refining Banner to refine a part of Zhang Taian's soul.

He was waiting for this moment!

As the incomplete imprint on the banner lit up, the Ghost General's body suddenly stiffened.

Its ghost hand reaching towards Shen Mo also froze in mid-air.

Even though it was a third-order ghost, it was still restricted by the Soul Refining Banner!

Shen Mo saw a hint of doubt and confusion flash through its crimson eyes, and even the madness subsided slightly.

"Capture!"

Shen Mo silently recited the Soul Refining Mantra in his heart.

Blood rainbows surged out of the banner, entwining the body of the Ghost General like a blood python strangling its prey.

"Not good! With my cultivation level, I am completely powerless to refine a late-stage third-order soul general."

Shen Mo's face changed drastically.

The spiritual power that had just recovered in his body had already dried up in just one breath.

Even his divine soul felt a tearing sensation, as if it wanted to drag his soul into the Soul Refining Banner and turn it into the fuel for refining and capturing souls.

All along, the soul generals Shen Mo had refined had never exceeded a major realm!

For example, the Ghost Bride, Hong Jue San Ren, and other ghost spirits and the souls of cultivators.

Now that he tried it, problems indeed arose!

"Splash!"

The Soul Refining Banner shook, and all the blood rainbows that captured the souls were retracted.

Shen Mo made a decisive decision and immediately stopped the Soul Refining Mantra, swallowing a recovery pill he obtained from Chen Mengze.

Fortunately, the incomplete imprint was still there.

Even though he couldn't control the Ghost General like the other soul generals, he could still barely suppress it, preventing it from attacking them.

"With my current cultivation strength, I can only refine peak second-order and below soul generals."

"Even if I can severely injure and suppress a third-order creature, I'm afraid I still don't have the ability to capture it in the banner."

"For now, I need to reach at least the seventh stage of Qi Gathering to refine a third-order early-stage soul general."

"As for the Ghost General..."

"Don't even think about it until I reach the Spirit Sea Realm!"

Chen Mengze and the others were shocked and speechless when they saw Shen Mo suppressing the Ghost General with the Soul Refining Banner.

They approached Shen Mo one by one to inquire about the reason.

After all, just an hour ago, he was forced by the Ghost General to flee into the Ghost Gate.

If he had possessed such means earlier, why would he have risked entering the Ghost Gate?

The fact that Tian Shun Kingdom had become abandoned by the heavens and turned into the Ghost Domain was not something that needed to be concealed.

Shen Mo briefly mentioned the matter related to Zhang Tai'an and received a series of sighs in return.

Just at that moment, the Ghost General made a move.

The crimson in its eyes faded significantly, replaced by a hint of clarity.

"Shen... Immortal Master! It's... you."

The Ghost General spoke!

Although its voice was very hoarse and unclear, everyone understood its meaning.

Shen Mo's heart trembled.

But soon he felt relieved.

Even the Third Stage Initial Stage Abandoned Ghost King maintained a certain "sanity" and could converse with him.

Zhang Tai'an, who had even stronger strength, could speak, so it was not impossible to understand.

What was rare was that it still remembered itself!

After all, since Tian Shun Kingdom became the Ghost Domain and turned into the Ghost Country Ruins in the hands of the four powerful beings, thousands of years had already passed.

Too much time had passed.

Shen Mo suspected that it might be because of the Soul Refining Banner.

The banner had refined a part of its soul, and when stimulated by the spell, it recovered some memories of that part of its soul.

"It's me! General Zhang, we meet again."

Shen Mo nodded and replied with a smile.

"Shen Immortal Master... just now... I, the subordinate, didn't want... to kill you. You..."

Although it had become somewhat clear-headed, Zhang Tai'an had died once after all.

And it had spent endless years in the Ghost Domain, not as foolish as other ghost souls, so it was not easy.

Especially from its perspective.

The first time it saw Shen Mo was on the city wall of the capital.

Now, after a long time had passed, the second meeting was just an hour ago.

Shen Mo's appearance and strength were almost unchanged from when they first met.

This strangeness made the confused Zhang Tai'an unable to figure it out, and he could only express that his previous attempt to kill Shen Mo was not his intention.

Zhang Tai'an might also know that it was now difficult for it to communicate with people.

Slowly, it took out two objects from its chest with its heavily ghost-infested hand.

One of them was a wine jug that had been emptied of spirit wine.

The other was a low-grade Qiankun Bag.

When Shen Mo and it had a drink on the city wall of the capital, after the spirit wine was finished, it took the wine jug away.

It only maintained the effect of keeping the spirit wine and not losing its spirituality.

It was not worth many spirit stones and was not made of rare materials.

According to reason, after so many years, even a magical tool would have decayed.

However, this wine jug, nurtured by Zhang Tai'an's ghost energy, still looked as new as ever, even emitting a faint aura of a ghostly magical tool.

As for the low-grade Qiankun Bag, it was a gift from Shen Mo.

He had stuffed a lot of cultivation resources into it back then.

Due to its material, it couldn't be nurtured by ghost energy like the wine jug.

Now, this Qiankun Bag was already in a state of disrepair and could no longer be used for cultivation, but it was still kept close.

Looking at these two objects, Zhang Tai'an regarded them as treasures.

Shen Mo had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

He rummaged through the Qiankun Bag and didn't find any spirit wine. Only then did he remember that all the wine-like substances similar to spirit wine had been used up during his battle with the Abandoned Ghost King.

He had to put on a thick-skinned face and borrowed a jar of spirit wine from Chen Mengze.

Zhang Tai'an lifted his face mask, revealing a face that was similar to but different from the one from years ago.

"Gurgle!"

"Hiss~~~~ Good wine!"

After drinking all the spirit wine in the cup, what it spat out was not only the aroma of wine but also a trace of chilling ghost aura.

(End of this chapter)