Li Xiang the Immortal
67 - The Spirit of Evil

"Are you sure we're leaving now? It's night now." Xiao Xing Fu said as the two began to enter the forest that was in the east direction of the village. "Our power is drained. We better rest and replenish our strength. Then tomorrow morning we go straight there."

"We don't have much time." Bai Nuan stopped and clenched his hands, "If you are afraid, then you just go back to the village and wait for me there. I don't need your help."

Xiao Xing Fu frowned and stopped, "What are you saying? How can I leave you alone at night in the woods?"

"Because you're afraid to get anywhere he says. You're afraid you'll die in a place like that. Then before that happens, it's better not to follow me. Just protect yourself. After all, you have nothing to do with this at all. No need to waste your life on a stranger like me." Bai Nuan was about to leave.

Before the girl actually left, Xiao Xing Fu clasped her wrist, "Wait."

Bai Nuan glanced to the side, "Let go of my hand."

"You're not a stranger to me. I ti..," Xiao Xing Fu suddenly shook her head, "We've been together for 2 months. You may be a stranger to me. We've become te. man.

And so, I want to help. I wouldn't be afraid to die if it was for my friend. I'll try to protect you as much as I can."

Bai Nuan was stunned by the young man's words. He pulled out his hand held by Xiao Xing Fu, "J-if that's what you want, yasudah. Don't take responsibility from me when you die." Speak it quickly.

Xiao Xing Fu smiled happily, "If you want to leave now, I will take you and take care of you. So don't throw me out."

"As much as you can," Bai Nuan walked ahead of Xiao Xing Fu.

After walking for hours, they finally reached the place that Shao Gang had said. Tens of meters in front of them was an old temple with several houses behind it that looked messy. The house looks like it has been burned, only the wood that supports the house still remains strong standing. Although it has been weathered to age along with scratches throughout the house point.

"There's home. Does this place have residents?" Xiao Xing Fu muttered.

"No need to think about that. Look, there's some flowers of hope in there!" Bai Nuan pointed to the old temple courtyard that looked about to collapse.

Xiao Xing Fu looked in the direction he was pointing. There are 5 flowers that he saw have a shape like jasmine with blue, then each flower has its own stem. "That must be the flower she was told!" Pleased speech.

Bai Nuan smiled happily. It was as if there was a great hope in front of him right now that could manifest his wish. "In that case, we'd better get it right away."

Xiao Xing Fu nodded enthusiastically. He and Bai Nuan intended to step forward. However just three steps they took, a white mist arrived coming out of nowhere. This caused both of them to stop and not be able to see clearly.

"Sir, are you still beside me?" Xiao Xing Fu.

"Yes, I'm here. Let us not be separated in the mist." Say the girl.

The Ggrrrr Krakk Krakk

"W-did you hear that?" Bai Nuan said.

"Like growling? Moreover, there was a sound like a bone was bitten by a savage beast?" Xiao Xing Fu said doubtfully.

Shortly after the strange sound that appeared, the white mist slowly disappeared by itself, displaying hundreds of spirit spirits that were shaped like undead, yet transparent. But there are also some undead who really have meat, even though it has rotted.

A spirit that had the appearance of a corpse with a transparent body meant that it had quite a strong power. His spirit body could be harmed even then if the person fighting him possessed strength comparable or stronger than him. However, it cannot enter the bodies of others.

While if the spirit with a shape almost like a smoke ball means weak and can hurt the opponent if, into the body of someone who matches his spirit. If it does not match his spirit, then he will not be able to possess it and cannot hurt the living. Likewise with cultivators who wanted to eradicate evil spirits. They cannot kill a weak spirit before it enters a person's body. Then a cultivator could exterminate a weak spirit when that spirit had just come out from a possessed person.

Meanwhile, a spirit with a corpse body meant having a strong power. Almost comparable to a 1-star sky level cultivator. If they possessed a living person, then they could take over that human mind.

Evil spirit itself is formed from the negative nature of someone who is dead. The power they possessed was not comparable to that of the person while still alive. However, not everyone who dies creates their evil spirit. Because in addition to being formed from a person's negative nature, the, evil spirits can exist because the dead person is not willing if he died at that time or they die with a vengeance that has not been avenged.

However, even if the person has both or one of those reasons, it does not mean they can create an evil spirit. For example, an ordinary person who was not a cultivator. Although he has a grudge that has not been avenged, but if he does not have a strong good spirit, then when he died, he could not create an evil spirit naturally. But even if they could create evil spirits, they would not be able to survive for long in the world. It was different with cultivators.

Only spirits with corpse bodies had thoughts of how to fight, they could also speak. As for the other spirits who were quite strong and weak, they had no thoughts of how to fight or even speak. They could only attack relentlessly when they were already targeting someone.

The stench and rancid smell of blood mixed into one since their arrival. Xiao Xing Fu and Bai Nuan even had to close their noses as they could not stand the smell.

"W-what's this? W-why..there are so many powerful spirits here?" Bai Nuan said in surprise. If he looked in front of him, then he could see if there were 2 dead spirits. He had not even counted the other corpse-bodied spirits that were all around farther away from where he stood.

All around Bai Nuan and Xiao Xing Fu were quite strong spirits and strong spirits. There were no weak spirits in this place at all.

"They are very much. How'this?" Xiao Xing Fu muttered. "What should we do? We can't beat them all, Nuan."

Bai Nuan swallowed his saliva. His gaze was now fixed on the flower of hope that was far enough in front of him and was blocked by the multitude of spirits. "Even if we want to leave this place, it's impossible. They're closing the road for us to go."

"We can use teleportation paper. We just need to tear it apart, because we've already marked the sect as the destination of this teleportation." Xiao Xing Fu.

"Can't! I've gone far away to this place, there's no way I'll go without bringing anything." Bai Nuan picked up the sword sheathed on his left waist. He also held it with both hands.

Ggrrrr

Dozens of transparent-bodied spirits floated close to Bai Nuan ever since the girl pulled out her sword. They have sharp, long transparent nails. A snarling sound came out of their mouths.

"You've always been stubborn. Therefore, I cannot leave you alone here." Xiao Xing Fu pulled the sword sheathed on his left waist. He ran closer to the spirits.

Meanwhile, Bai Nuan turned around to face the transparent bodied spirits that were behind them.

Xiao Xing Fu coated his sword with a small yellow lightning bolt. He swung it strongly and vigorously towards the spirits who came to him.

!!

Xiao Xing Fu was shocked when he saw that his sword had only pierced through the bodies of those spirits. Though he should have been able to slash through quite powerful spirits like them. "Why can't I–"

Gggrr

Some spirits directly attacked and injured Xiao Xing Fu's body. They could touch and injure the young man's body, while Xiao Xing Fu could not touch let alone injure them.

Xiao Xing Fu jumped back. He did not stop thinking, why did something like this happen?

"Sir, can you hurt them?" He said half in panic as he saw some spirits that had just attacked him move towards them.

"Only some. For the rest, I cannot hurt them! How's this?!" Said Bai Nuan who also looked a little panicked and confused. He jumped back continuously until his back came into contact with Xiao Xing Fu's back.

"Partially only?" Inner Xiao Xing Fu. "How do you attack them?"

"I attacked them like I always did. I just focused my strength on the sword and started slashing. But only a few of them were hurt."

Gggrr

Those spirit spirits attacked Xiao Xing Fu and Bai Nuan with their claws. Meanwhile, both of them could only survive the many attacks they had carried out. The wound started to scratch on the bodies of the two who could only survive. The corpse-bodied spirit had not even moved at all, yet it had already obtained some injuries from the spirit spirits they were fighting.

"We can't keep going like this." Inner Xiao Xing Fu. "Master, you follow me from behind. We will penetrate this crowd of spirits and approach towards the temple. There is no spirit there. Maybe they can't get into it."

"I understand." Reply Bai Nuan while nodding. He swung the sword firmly forward to keep away some spirits. However, only a few of them were injured by his sword.

Xiao Xing Fu did the same. Although some of the spirits were not wounded by his sword, he ran towards the front where the temple was. Bai Nuan himself followed him and helped slash the spirit spirits around them or block his path.