Ling Tian saw Hu Lan toss the satchel over. A thought flashed through his mind, intending to put it into his spiritual realm.
However, Ling Tian miscalculated this time. The satchel fell to the ground. Ling Tian tried several more times, all failing. The item simply wouldn't go into his spiritual realm.
Ling Tian pondered it carefully and immediately understood. His spiritual realm was actually another space, and this satchel, though Ling Tian didn't know how large its internal space was, was also another space within itself.
A significant meaning of space laws was independence; it was almost impossible to place an object from one miniature universe into another.
"Good, this is very good. I see your sincerity..."
Hearing Ling Tian say this, Hu Lan breathed a sigh of relief. But the next moment, "Bang!"
It was as if a high-speed lead ball had hit a watermelon, and then tofu pudding splattered everywhere.
Soon, a mass of black energy condensed on Hu Lan's corpse. This black energy quickly formed into a human shape, with an extremely ferocious expression on its face!
Ling Tian was not surprised by this situation. Hu Lan was a cultivator of immense power, and his soul's strength far surpassed that of ordinary people. It was not difficult for his soul to detach from his body for a short period after death.
However, Ling Tian also saw that this fellow died with his eyes wide open, and his soul was also showing signs of turning into a vengeful spirit.
"You... you actually deceived me! You have no martial ethics!" Hu Lan's soul cursed Ling Tian.
"Heh, do I need to have any martial ethics to deal with a scourge like you?
The only good evil path is a dead evil path. Letting you live is irresponsible to all living beings.
As a member of the Righteous Alliance, I have a duty to act on behalf of heaven!"
"Good, very good. I've noted this enmity, and one day, I will repay it tenfold!"
Hu Lan's ghost finished speaking and turned to flee. He knew very well that he was in a spiritual form, which was not safe. This Ling Tian was too terrifying; a single fire talisman thrown at him would cause his soul to scatter.
However, to Ling Tian's surprise, Hu Lan's ghost did not flee far but instead floated directly upwards. At an altitude of more than 50 meters above the ground, the ghost formed a hand seal.
The next moment, around the cold pond, a large amount of Yin-attribute heaven and earth spiritual energy began to converge towards Hu Lan's ghost!
In an instant, Hu Lan's ghost, like a magnet, absorbed the heaven and earth spiritual energy frantically, and his spiritual body gradually became more solidified.
Hu Lan in mid-air felt incredibly comfortable. The sense of accomplishment was unprecedented. He could feel his soul's strength constantly growing!
"Heh heh, this 'Xuan Yin Ghost Art' is truly powerful, terrifying indeed!"
When Hu Lan first obtained this 'Xuan Yin Ghost Art', he couldn't understand many of its contents. He only knew that it was a very powerful cultivation technique that could absorb Yin energy for cultivation.
After cultivating this technique, his strength grew rapidly. In the 'Xuan Yin Ghost Art', there was a saying that the physical body was actually a restraint. To cultivate this technique to a high level, one had to abandon their physical body.
In layman's terms, it meant committing suicide, destroying one's body, and transforming into a ghost to achieve faster cultivation results and unleash more potent techniques.
Hu Lan could only reserve his opinion on this. After all, it was better to live a lowly life than to die well. Moreover, after the physical body truly died, whether the soul would still exist and maintain its original state was uncertain. Hu Lan dared not gamble.
But this time, Ling Tian had shot him in the head, and he couldn't help but have his soul leave his body. As a result, Hu Lan was surprised to find that in his spiritual form, the cultivation speed of the Xuan Yin Ghost Art was like cheating, and some techniques that he couldn't use before could now be employed!
Ling Tian frowned as he watched Hu Lan floating in mid-air, continuously growing stronger. He instinctively felt that this thing was not good, and this fellow seemed dangerous.
Ling Tian directly raised his gun and pulled the trigger.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three silver bullets instantly struck the spiritual body. However, these silver bullets only left three grape-sized holes on the spiritual body, and these holes were quickly filled by the dense Yin energy in the sky.
"Heh heh, don't think you can do anything to me with that broken gun. I'm not afraid of your broken gun anymore. Come at me if you dare. Let's see how many bullets you have, heh heh..." As he said this, Hu Lan's face was contorted, and he was in a state of madness.
Just then, Hu Lan's spiritual body suddenly extended its hands, and from his hands, two masses of black energy emerged. These two masses of black energy spun and rolled, quickly forming two Yin Sha.
The faces of these two Yin Sha were almost identical to the ferocious expression on Hu Lan's face at that moment.
It is worth mentioning that after these two Yin Sha appeared, they also began to absorb the heaven and earth spiritual energy and dense Yin energy along with Hu Lan. Then, the size of the two Yin Sha also became larger and larger, and their forms became more solidified!
Hu Lan laughed heartily. Soon, two more masses of Yin Sha condensed from his hands. These two masses of Yin Sha also seemed to have a life of their own, rapidly solidifying, growing larger and larger...
In just a few minutes, more than a dozen Yin Sha appeared around Hu Lan, flying and circling his spiritual body. This scene reminded Ling Tian of a phrase: a dance of demons!
"Heh heh, Ling Tian, you've turned me into this neither human nor ghost state. I won't let you off today. I will turn your soul into Yin Sha, so you will never be reborn!"
Looking at the Yin Sha flying all over the sky, a cold smile appeared on Ling Tian's lips. He felt that this guy talked too much and had lost his mind.
It was as the saying goes, when the heavens want to destroy a person, they first make them mad.
In fact, if Hu Lan had directly flown away after becoming a spiritual body, Ling Tian would have had to put in some effort to kill him.
But he never expected this guy to turn back and provoke Ling Tian. In fact, if it were the living Hu Lan, he might not have done so. This old fellow had lived for so long and knew how to avoid harm.
But the problem was, he was now in a ghost form, and souls were very susceptible to certain obsessions. Hu Lan had been killed by Ling Tian, and his hatred for Ling Tian had caused him to completely lose his reason.
Seeing that more than 30 Yin Sha had gathered around him, Hu Lan extended his withered finger, pointed at Ling Tian, and issued a command to those Yin Sha.
"Kill him!"