At this moment, the Ghost King's essence blood sprayed onto the crack, and before it could solidify, the character "Liang" from Luoo Youshan had already surged forth, pushing the four characters in front, crashing violently onto the crack. The crack split open once more from the impact, this time with a gap wide enough to fit a fist.

Subsequently, a male student with the character "Rang" also charged forward, pushing the five characters ahead, crashing violently onto the crack.

BOOM!!!

This time, the crack burst open and shattered, creating a hole the size of a vat in the Valley Protection Formation, with cracks spreading across its edges, shocking to behold.

But the Power of Dao behind didn't stop, continuing to surge forward, nine Powers of Dao merging into one, piercing through the hole, charging towards the Ghost King within the Valley Protection Formation.

Although Ghost Five had profound cultivation, he didn't dare face the Power of Dao head-on, let alone nine Powers of Dao. It would be impossible to withstand them even at a level above Ghost King Rank.

In fear, he quickly flashed back and retreated.

The nine Powers of Dao, merged into a string, like a bone-pursuing awl, tightly chasing the Ghost King.

The Ghost King could no longer defend the formation, fleeing in a panic.

Seeing this, Fang Qiu didn't hesitate any longer, holding the spell in his hand, waving it once more, driving the Golden Leaf Flying Boat, crashing towards the vat-sized hole.

BOOM!!!!

With an earth-shattering sound, the Golden Leaf Flying Boat crashed into the vat-sized hole, causing it to split open again, creating a hole the size of a window.

The Golden Leaf Flying Boat rushed out of the hole, breaking through the formation.

With the Golden Leaf Flying Boat breaking through the formation, the Corpse Yin Valley's Valley Protection Formation collapsed, shattering into pieces.

The Valley Protection Formation held great significance for the Corpse Yin Valley, being the safety cornerstone of the entire sect, the safety guarantee for all ghost cultivators in the valley.

For hundreds to thousands of years, the Corpse Yin Valley's Valley Protection Formation stood indestructible, safeguarding all the ghost cultivators within the valley. Its sudden collapse inevitably caused chaos, and with the collapse of the Valley Protection Formation, the Corpse Yin Valley echoed with the panicked cries of ghost cultivators, scattering like headless flies in panic.

The Corpse Yin Sect fell into chaos.

The Ghost King, being hunted by a dragon-like string of Power of Dao, was also powerless to stabilize the situation, fleeing all the way to the Ghost King Sect's mountain gate.

The location of the Ghost King Sect is on a platform atop a great mountain.

That was originally a mountain stretching hundreds of miles, but somehow it was mysteriously sheared off in half by some immense divine skill.

On this platform, majestic halls stood, countless exquisite pavilions. However, despite the grandeur of those halls, they felt foreboding and cold, shrouded heavily with Corpse Qi.

Though the pavilions were exquisite, the reliefs in detail were of skeletons and fierce ghosts, or malevolent gods and vicious demons.

Especially the thousand-zhang high grand arch at the main gate, seemingly built from countless bones, with fierce, sinister vengeful spirits pinned alive within, howling and cursing, in agony. If one were to approach, they would be entangled and devoured by countless vengeful souls within a few breaths.

At the top of the arch, the words "Ghost King Sect" were menacingly written in three giant characters. If one looked closely, they could see each character seemed alive, writhing slightly, occasionally showing a vague, fierce human face, constantly emanating a soaring aura of resentment. These were indeed the human cultivators previously exterminated by the Ghost King Sect, their souls captured and refined into ghost servants through years of ghost fire processing.

The ghost servants constantly endured the agony of Yin Fiend's body-forging, and once the sect was attacked, they must desperately resist the enemy. Their existence was truly worse than death.

Due to the deep resentment carried by these ghost servants, they were also known as Vengeful Spirits.

Upon seeing the Ghost King's figure, those Vengeful Spirits showed extreme fear, each as silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to make a sound.

After the Ghost King flew into the mountain gate, he opened his mouth and recited a string of incantations. Upon hearing the incantations, the Vengeful Spirits let out sharp, piercing cries, rushing out from the arch towards the dragon-like Power of Dao.

The Power of Dao, advancing ferociously, halted abruptly upon encountering the Vengeful Spirits, becoming stagnant. The Vengeful Spirits were also filled with fear of the Power of Dao, not proactively attacking, but apparently controlled by the Ghost King, aligning densely together to form a wall-like barrier, blocking the advance of the Power of Dao.

This phenomenon, while surprising the Ghost King, also filled him with pride, as he stood with hands behind his back inside the arch, standing arrogantly.

Just then, the Golden Leaf Flying Boat flew over swiftly.

With a splash, a ghost cultivator's corpse was thrown from the Golden Leaf Flying Boat onto the ground inside the arch, right at the Ghost King's feet. It was precisely the ghost cultivator who led the way.

Now devoid of value, Wang Xiaoqiang naturally wouldn't spare his life, killing him and throwing out his corpse to intimidate. After tossing out the ghost cultivator's corpse, Wang Xiaoqiang shouted, "Ghost King, release our people quickly, or today we will destroy the Ghost King Sect!"

The Ghost King glanced at the ghost cultivator's corpse at his feet, a trace of anger and ferocity crossing his face, then looked up at Wang Xiaoqiang on the Golden Leaf Flying Boat, saying, "Heh, quite a big mouth you have, destroy the Ghost King Sect? I'd like to see how you'll achieve that."

Wang Xiaoqiang's will surged, trying to push the halted Path of Courage forward, attempting to bypass the Vengeful Spirits and attack the Ghost King but was entangled by two Vengeful Spirits.

Not only was Wang Xiaoqiang's Courage character entangled, but so was Fang Qiu's Li character and the Power of Dao from other students, all ensnared by the Vengeful Spirits.

It was apparent that the Power of Dao didn't fear the Vengeful Spirits but was unwilling to collide with them. This phenomenon puzzled Wang Xiaoqiang and the other students.

"Those are the souls of your human cultivators; do you wish to kill each other? Haha..." the Ghost King laughed triumphantly.

"The souls of human cultivators?..." Fang Qiu pondered for a moment, then said, "These are Vengeful Spirits; everyone retract your Power of Dao, don't harm them."

After reminding everyone, Fang Qiu immediately retracted his Li character.

Fang Qiu had heard from Old Master about Vengeful Spirits; they were ghost servants refined from the souls of human cultivators killed by ghost cultivators using ghost fire. As Vengeful Spirits, they didn't wish to oppose humans but were forced by the Ghost King's pressure to confront human cultivators. They endured immense suffering, truly worse than death!

Old Master had once reminded Fang Qiu to avoid harming them if he encountered Vengeful Spirits in the Ghost Territory.

As members of the same clan, should we rush into the fray so easily!?

The other seven students, upon hearing they were the souls of human cultivators, immediately retracted their Power of Dao, only Wang Xiaoqiang remained unmoved.

Wang Xiaoqiang drew out the War God Hammer, pointing at the Ghost King from afar, shouting, "Ghost King, do you think this will thwart us? Even if it's the souls of human cultivators, if they block my way, I'll make them vanish into nothingness just the same!"

Upon hearing this, the Vengeful Spirits showed extreme fear and agony.

"Wang Xiaoqiang, it seems I've underestimated you. Your heart is even more ruthless than mine!" the Ghost King squinted at Wang Xiaoqiang, "Alright, human cultivators killing human souls, how interesting, how wonderful, I'll eagerly await the show!"

Seeing Wang Xiaoqiang about to act, Fang Qiu showed a look of reluctance and said, "Little Qiang, you mustn't!"

Wang Xiaoqiang said, "Senior Brother, have you ever heard the saying, 'The dead must make way for the living'? These Vengeful Spirits have already died in their previous life and are suffering continuously day and night. Rather than living such a humiliating existence, it's better to perish early, it's a form of release!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)

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