I can push my cultivation progress to the end

As fellow possessors of the Red Dust Gathering Yin Method, a pure torrent of evil intent naturally couldn't truly harm the Finger Ghost.

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But what if the torrent of evil intent released by Li Hai wasn't so pure?

In reality, after engaging in a 'cursing match' with that Finger Ghost, Li Hai had already quietly pushed the 《High-Level Yuan Breath Yang Refining Method》, obtained from the old man of the Demon Slaying Division, to the pinnacle of its potential, thereby elevating his术法 cultivation realm to the level of [Spirit Convergence Outing].

The so-called Spirit Convergence Outing refers to the projection of the Yin Spirit.

Those with pure Yin and no Yang are ghosts, those with mixed Yin and Yang are Yin Spirits, and those with pure Yang and no Yin are Yang Spirits.

When mortals die, their Yin souls leave their bodies and become ghosts, while the souls of cultivators that are neither fully Yin nor fully Yang are called Yin Spirits.

To put it bluntly, a Yin Spirit is a type of ghost possessing clear spiritual awareness and Yang energy magic power. It's just that Daoist priests and sorcerers have firm minds and their physical bodies still exist, so they can maintain their focus without scattering and won't go mad, residing permanently in the mortal realm without falling into reincarnation.

Therefore, it's only natural that even after the Yin Spirit leaves the body, it can still expend Yang energy to release術法 magic, although the power is much weaker than when the Yin Spirit resides in the body. However, it's still stronger than a sorcerer in the Soul Gathering and Spirit Condensation realm.

In short, a detached Yin Spirit exists between a residing Yin Spirit and a Soul Gathering sorcerer.

And after Li Hai engaged in a 'cursing match' with the Finger Ghost, he chose to implement a two-pronged approach.

His physical body (ghost body) continued to engage in back-and-forth exchanges with the Finger Ghost, while his Yin Spirit (soul) detached from his body, constantly consuming yellow talismans to cast Fire Essence Curse, Exorcism Curse, Nightmare Removal Curse, Five Thunder Curse, Demon Subduing Curse… and other ghost-restraining talisman techniques, mixing them into the torrent of evil intent to bombard it endlessly.

For a time, the entire underground training ground was completely covered in golden-red talisman flames, azure lightning, and soul-stirring thunderous sounds, completely dispelling the original oppressive and gloomy ghost atmosphere.

And after being subjected to this barrage, the Finger Ghost naturally suffered greatly.

Three or two individual talisman techniques couldn't really do anything to it, at most losing a dozen or twenty fingers. However, when a dozen or twenty, or even more, talisman techniques bombarded it every second, the nature of the situation completely changed.

Because a quantitative change can trigger a qualitative change.

Thus, under Li Hai's dual offensive, the Finger Ghost began to retreat steadily.

Not only did the area of the training ground it originally occupied shrink significantly, but its efficiency in absorbing Yin energy to generate fingers also gradually fell behind the number of fingers it was losing.

In simple gaming terms, the Finger Ghost's health regeneration speed could no longer keep up with its health depletion speed.

If things continued like this, the Finger Ghost's defeat was only a matter of time.

But even so, Li Hai wasn't satisfied.

"Too slow, too slow."

Li Hai's Yin Spirit, hovering formlessly above Li Hai's ghost body, murmured, "I've already consumed over a thousand yellow talismans, but I still haven't defeated this Finger Ghost… Hmm~ I have to cut off its source of Yin energy."

As soon as Li Hai thought this, the formless evil spirits that had been wandering throughout the training ground immediately followed his will, darting towards the dozens of blurred 'human' shapes enveloped by mixed evil intent and raging thunder flames.

"I've always been curious, if a constantly regenerating monster has its head cut off, then when its head grows a body, and the body grows a head…"

Looking remotely at the transparent soul body of the formless evil spirit, faintly flickering with the characters 'Nai He' on its surface, Li Hai's Yin Spirit muttered, "Which head of this monster will take the lead?"

No sooner said than done.

Like a sinister hyena, the formless evil spirit stealthily approached the Finger Ghost and immediately opened the portal of Dongtian, swallowing the equivalent of four or five 'human' portions of severed fingers, and then scurried away.

And the mass of Finger Ghost remnants, consisting of thousands or even tens of thousands of fingers, plunged into the Gui You Dongtian and immediately stirred restlessly, crawling around like headless flies.

However, due to the urgency of the battle, even if Li Hai noticed this situation, he didn't have the leisure to investigate it. He immediately cast a spell 'remotely' and began to bombard the crawling fingers.

At the same time, he also multi-tasked, continuing to control the formless evil spirit to carry out sneak attacks.

Just like that, as time gradually passed.

That Finger Ghost was eventually tormented by Li Hai until it was only less than half a 'human' in size.

Whoosh—

The formless evil spirit darted over again, 'swallowing' the Finger Ghost into the Gui You Dongtian in one gulp.

"What's wrong? Not so impressive anymore? Weren't you very impressive just now? Heh~"

Subsequently, before the Finger Ghost could react, hundreds of densely packed yellow talismans appeared one after another around Li Hai.

As soon as these yellow talismans appeared, they all spontaneously combusted without fire, eventually transforming into streams of talisman fire and lightning, crashing down with a rumble, slamming into that pile of dying finger mass.

Boom!

The entire partial hall suddenly shook.

The Finger Ghost died.

At the same time, Li Hai finally obtained the third fragment of a strong individual since arriving in this world.

"Strange, strange."

Regarding this, Li Hai muttered with some doubts, "Previously, I killed Guo Huaijin and A Su, and obtained two fragments. This time, I killed the Finger Ghost, which was obviously stronger than both of them combined, but I only got one fragment. Tsk~ How is this calculated anyway?"

Unable to figure it out for a moment, he simply stopped thinking about it and began to ponder the affairs of the Gui You Dongtian.

"This… is this the so-called Soul Remains?"

Holding a pitch-black spinal bone that only he in his ghost state could see and touch, Li Hai muttered, "How should I feed it to the Dongtian?"

While pondering, the red-light scroll spread out on the black desk dozens of feet away vibrated slightly and suddenly burst forth with extremely dazzling brilliance.

"Hmm?"

Li Hai followed the light and saw that the wisps of brilliance emanating from the scroll had actually materialized into a line of dazzling small characters:

"Grind bone into powder, to serve as a brush, paint into the scroll, to fill the gaps"

"The meaning of these words…"

Li Hai slowly shifted his gaze to the Soul Remains in his palm, "Is it to grind this spinal bone left behind by the Finger Ghost into powder, and then use it as pigment to paint on that scroll?"

After pondering for a moment, he decided to give it a try.

A while later~

"Where should I paint it?"

Holding a pile of black ash placed on the desk, Li Hai examined the large blank spaces on the scroll and muttered, "I can't even tell which is which at all. Forget it, I'll just paint it randomly."

Having said that, Li Hai generously pushed all the black ash onto the scroll, preparing to start painting.

But before his fingers could even stroke it twice, the pile of black ash instantly liquefied into ink, and began to wander around the scroll on its own.

This made Li Hai both puzzled and amazed, so he couldn't help but mutter:

"After all this time, it turns out you're automatic, huh? Heh, I was racking my brains trying to figure out where to paint. Never mind."

Having said that, he quietly watched the ink brush write like a dragon or snake on the scroll.

After a short while, a slightly larger circular pattern was drawn on the right side of the scroll, closely adjacent to the small rectangular pattern representing the partial hall.

And on the side of this pattern, three small characters were written:

"East Forest Garden"