The yin wind swept up yellow sand, scattering it everywhere. Qin Liuxi caught hold of the Resentful Spirit trying to escape the Heavenly Pearl, pounding it with her fists again and again. If the Resentful Spirit had flesh and blood, the sound would have been like crashing into a big wall.

The one-sided thrashing caused the Resentful Spirit to let out a piercing screech that could pierce others’ eardrums. The sound was jumbled, with men, women, old and young crying and lamenting, as well as wild beasts wailing mournfully. All living things swallowed by the Ghost Tower couldn’t be freed, and after death, they could only become one with the Resentful Spirit.

Imagine, thousands of souls crying out in unison, how mournful it is, driving one to despair. It even displayed the death states of those Resentful Spirits, all shown as a collective, strange and bizarre, making one’s hair stand on end and filling the heart with hopelessness.

But Qin Liuxi chose to selectively go deaf; she heard nothing, and if seen, she pretended not to see, just pressing the Resentful Spirit and beating it to death.

The Resentful Spirit stared in despair at the frenzied person before it. How could such a good girl be so violent?

It tried to use its own poisonous negative energy to crash into her, but upon contact, it was bounced back by the formless yet heavily oppressive Daoist energy within her, suffering a backlash that scattered its resentful energy and drained its own power.

If it went on like this, without a resupply of negative energy, this Resentful Spirit born from resentful souls would utterly vanish.

The Resentful Spirit screamed, "Stop! Stop!"

It understood the importance of recognizing the circumstances. Could it not surrender by raising a white flag?

Qin Liuxi coldly laughed, pulling out her Divine Weapon, saying, "Get in by yourself."

The Divine Weapon lacked a sword soul, and she couldn’t find one for now. This was a perfect opportunity, capturing such a Resentful Spirit, letting it enter the Divine Weapon, and refining it afterwards, naturally housing spirit and soul.

This Resentful Spirit was the Essence Soul refined by the Western Ghost King. In life, he was a War God General, having killed tens of thousands, and after death became a Ghost Cultivator, notorious for his viciousness. Refined by Si Luo, he became the purest. Now it had absorbed so many resentful souls, becoming a Resentful Spirit. Though it was negative energy, it could still be used once tamed, especially after further refinement.

The Resentful Spirit, seeing the Divine Weapon, shrank back, but Qin Liuxi forcefully grasped it and pressed it into the Divine Weapon.

The Divine Weapon immediately filled with violent energy, trembling crazily. The fierce aura raged wildly, so injurious if not kept from others’ sight.

Qin Liuxi drew a line on the blade with her hand, blood falling onto it. She swiped her two fingers over it, suppressing the Resentful Spirit with Soul Consciousness.

"Behave, or I’ll burn you."

The blade trembled once, returning to calm, not daring to make trouble anymore.

Weak, helpless, scared to take a gamble!

Qin Liuxi snorted, placed another prohibition on the entire Divine Weapon, and then put it back into the Qiankun Bag, afraid that merely storing it would mess with other items in the Qiankun Bag.

She flicked a flame onto the collected white bones of Feng Xiu, using it to dispel yin and break the evil aura.

It wasn’t that Qin Liuxi was heartless; these bones were stained with yin energy and resentful energy. Leaving them here would only create yin spirits.

Since the souls were gone, why care about the bones?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, that is the best ending.

Watching the bones turn to ash, scattered by the wind, the resentful aura also vanished in the Karmic Fire that burned away all sin. She recited the Rebirth Mantra once and was about to leave when her whole body suddenly tensed.

Her body nimbly twisted, swinging the Vajra Ruler across the Void, retreating several steps.

Laughter resounded.

Qin Liuxi gazed at the place in the Void that she struck, where a black silhouette emerged. Her pupils constricted, fixing on the shadow, her voice cold and deep, "Evil Buddha Si Luo."

He chuckled and said, "So I’ve evolved from Evil Ghost to Evil Buddha? Not bad, Buddha is a better name. Little thing, you’re more interesting than I imagined."

"It really is you," Qin Liuxi gripped the Vajra Ruler tightly, staring fiercely at his form wrapped in a black robe, blending with the heavens, she coldly laughed, "You’re even pettier than I imagined, not daring to show your face; is that because you can’t face people?"

Si Luo glanced at the Vajra Ruler in her hand, snorted, "Sharp-tongued."

"Sneak attacks aren’t something a good girl should do," he suddenly retreated a few steps, evading the Vajra Ruler she swung towards him. "The Ksitigarbha’s magic treasures all bestowed upon you, even the Great Emperor’s Heavenly Pearl. Seems those old geezers of the Underworld have high hopes for you, wanting to use you to capture me! But don’t be too hasty to expend spiritual power, I didn’t come to fight with you, not yet a fight to the death between us. Of course, that is if you can withstand and meet me at the peak one day."