966: Chapter 603 966: Chapter 603 Jiang Tang was straightforward, with a wave of his hand, he released the Artifact Spirit from the Hell Palace into the haunted courtyard.
The Magical Treasure took a spin around the Imperial Palace!
The Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace actually quite liked it here, where there were so many Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts to enrich the Hell Palace!
These Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts were quite pleased, initially reluctant to enter the Hell Palace because the Artifact Spirit was a stranger to them and they did not trust it, especially since the State Preceptor had previously controlled them!
Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts that could enter the Soul Banner were the powerful ones, already imbued with mana, turned into Puppets.
The ones wandering outside were merely arranged by the State Preceptor, allowing the evil spirits to wreak havoc in the Imperial Palace.
The State Preceptor created an array akin to Hell within the Imperial Palace, certainly not comparable to the ordinary ghosts outside the nation!
His reasoning for setting this up here was clear; he had rooted himself in cultivation for over a decade, improving his body, possessing the power to reach the heavens, and certain resources could only be provided by the Emperor!
Even if the wealthy offered these things from outside, it would be a risky affair!
After all, the Emperor trusted the Heavenly Master and needed the Pills he provided, conveniently setting up a base for her in the Imperial Palace!
The State Preceptor didn’t choose to do this deep in the mountains because he believed many were no match for him, and even if they knew he posed a danger to the people, they couldn’t hold him accountable!
All these were the Emperor’s arrangements, and besides, no one else could compete with his abilities!
Not everyone could see ghosts or know about his cultivation of Evil Cultivation Spells.
Jiang Tang, Ye Tian, Eryao, and Green Ox could see the ghosts, certainly a testament to their abilities, surpassing even the State Preceptor!
To them, so-called Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts were merely a little exhausted, no more than that!
For them, reducing these ghosts to dust was as effortless as a pinch of the hand!
Moreover, Jiang Tang had the Hell Palace and could command the Artifact Spirit to do work at a mere thought, rounding up those Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts harmful to the people into the Hell Palace.
Doing this was equivalent to severing the State Preceptor’s left and right arms, collecting all the evil spirits and wronged souls from the entire Imperial Palace, and his Soul Banner could not deal with Eryao’s Divine Dragon Power.
When the Hell Palace’ Artifact Spirit collected the palace’s ghosts into the magic artifact, new ghosts appeared during the day, almost dissipated by the glaring Red Sun.
Their mana was even less than the ordinary ghosts of the Hell Palace before; those who had been bullied here and not devoured gained some ability after surviving!
They would hide during the day and only emerge at night!
Just having entered the Hell Palace, they were not yet able to hide, miserably on the verge of soul dispersion under the blazing Red Sun!
They used to strut arrogantly within the palace, but now they were mere Puppets of the State Preceptor, tools for committing evil!
Now, standing abruptly in the Hell Palace, on the verge of soul dispersion by the sun yet feeling nothing, the palace’s Demonic Beasts were natural enemies of ghosts, slaughtering the daylight intruders with their claws!
So many ghosts entering the Hell Palace all at once weren’t as numerous as the Demonic Beasts, which while basking in the sun, would swipe or pinch them casually.
Are these the fearsome Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts?
They were now like powerless stones in the Hell Palace, standing still, at the mercy of the sun’s rays and abuse by the Demonic Beasts.
No wonder these ghosts had become so foolish; transformed into Puppets by the State Preceptor, now free from his control, they were like soulless stones, dumbly standing under the sun, allowing the Demonic Beasts to bully them.
Their foolish appearance was so stupid, unhidden and unresisting to the attacks!
Demonic Beasts soon lost interest in their play, as tormenting lifeless stones became boring even if initially fun.
Besides, the Demonic Beasts had no qualms about bullying these human ghosts, though there was no enmity with these new ghosts.
Moreover, they were so wooden, so unresponsive to being hit, their interest waned in the play.
From the sunlight of the Hell Palace to the night when the moon rose, the baked ghosts had lost much vitality, relying only on the bit of strength previously forged by Mages to prevent soul dispersion under the Red Sun’s gaze.
At night, their recovery phase began, illuminated by the moon and mended by the darkness, they stood dumbly still, unaware that in the Hell Palace, ghosts were waiting to strike them when they were down.
Daytime bullying by Demonic Beasts was just beating and harming; they didn’t consume the souls.
Powerful ghosts in the Hell Palace had shapes and Soul Pills; these new ghosts were exactly the supplements some Evil Ghosts and Wronged Ghosts sought to replenish their energy!
Naturally, one eats raw pork, and the arrival of mighty Qi made these new ghosts somewhat scared, a fear rooted in the soul.
But in this new place, still being Puppets with numb senses, they failed to hide, devoured bite by bite by the more powerful ghosts, leaving them even more battered!
What was consumed was not their souls but the abilities belonging to the Evil Ghosts and the Wronged Ghosts’ resentments!