If an emergency arose, the one keeping watch would definitely not warn the other two. In their eyes, she would choose to flee at the very first opportunity.
Not only that, but she might even sabotage the other two before running, using them as bait to buy herself enough time to escape safely.
After all, this was exactly what each of them secretly intended to do.
Thus, the three of them had been sitting there, staring warily at one another.
Just then...
The three of them suddenly froze, as if they had sensed something.
“This feeling... it's very familiar.”
“It's yin qi!”
“It seems so, but this freezing aura is incredibly pure. It's cleaner than all the ghosts I've ever seen combined, as if it has been purified.”
In the Paranormal World, all ghosts were formed from various lingering obsessions.
Whether it was longing, resentment, or hatred, they had to have possessed some sort of obsession before death. Consequently, once they turned into ghosts, they would more or less carry some chaotic, impure energy.
When encountering living humans, this chaotic energy would inflict a certain amount of mental shock on their consciousness.
For instance, they might hear incomprehensible whispers, or have their minds consumed by rage and malice, driving them to attack others in a frenzy.
But the yin qi they were sensing right now did not carry any mental shock at all.
It was simply cold—purely freezing.
And such a pure ghost was an absolute treasure to them... no, to all cultivators!
“My god, if we can capture it and take it back, we'll make a fortune!”
“I remember at the last underground auction jointly held by the ten cities, a ghost with sixty percent yin qi purity appeared, and it was only a low-level Wandering Soul.”
“Do you know what the final bid was? Sixty million! Sixty million!”
“And this one...”
“Its purity is definitely over ninety percent. Besides, the total amount of yin qi definitely surpasses a Wandering Soul. It might be a Malevolent Ghost!”
The speaker was Han Mingming, who had a head of blonde hair.
At this moment, her face was flushed with excitement, as if she had taken some sort of stimulant.
However, she quickly calmed herself down and licked her lips.
“How about... the three of us work together to capture and suppress it, and then sell it after we leave?”
“Trust me, the price will definitely be dozens of times higher than that Wandering Soul!”
The other two were also deeply tempted by her words.
Zhou Yunyun's purple eyes flickered slightly.
She was somewhat hesitant, or rather, she didn't quite agree.
“I think we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. This is a specter dungeon, not the outside world. That means the ghosts appearing here might be different from the ones we've seen before—”
Before she could finish her sentence, the three of them noticed that the freezing aura from before had suddenly intensified significantly.
Han Mingming, who had just proposed capturing the ghost, had wanted to retort when she heard Zhou Yunyun's disagreement, but now her heart was also pounding with unease.
If it was only at the level of a Malevolent Ghost, the three of them could still handle it.
But this freezing aura was growing stronger and stronger, making her feel a trace of anxiety.
None of the three spoke further. The cloth strips wrapped around them and the light veils they wore began to slowly shift and wind around their curvaceous bodies.
Cold sweat broke out on Han Mingming's forehead.
“The freezing aura is still getting stronger. This doesn't feel right.”
“Can you sense where the ghost is?”
The other two also shook their heads.
“Not yet. Everyone be careful, this ghost might be planning a sneak attack.”
Zuo Lin'an, who had been observing from the shadows, raised an eyebrow as he watched the cloth strips and veils coiling around them like slithering snakes.
So, what are those things used for?
And if he hadn't misheard, these three wanted to capture him?
Yin qi purity?
So his specter aura is very pure?
Then what is chaotic yin qi like?
Just now, they had also mentioned purification.
The ghosts of the 【Paranormal World】 had very chaotic yin qi, but it could be purified.
Moreover, once purified, they would become highly precious items, even capable of appearing at the underground auction jointly held by the ten cities.
He didn't know which ten cities they were, but it sounded anything but simple.
“So... to the cultivators of the Paranormal World, specters might actually become a precious resource?”
However, specters were different from ghosts; they couldn't be killed.
Furthermore, they acted entirely based on rules and were immune to all physical and chemical attacks.
The methods they used against ghosts would be completely useless against specters.
But!
As long as the profit was high enough.
Zuo Lin'an believed that the people of the Paranormal World would definitely rack their brains to find ways to suppress specters and then exploit them.
“Perhaps the people of the entire Paranormal World will even push for specter assimilation?”
Zuo Lin'an shook his head.
Whatever, no use overthinking this for now.
As for how things would develop in the future, he would find out in due time anyway.
His gaze fell upon the three women. He continued to release his specter aura, keeping it contained within a certain range so as not to alert the two Daoists inside the old residence.
He planned to deal with those two last.
As the specter aura grew denser, the three women felt a freezing chill seep into their very bones, and their hands and feet began to grow cold and stiff.
Han Mingming's expression shifted repeatedly, turning extremely unsightly.
“Oh no, the intensity of this yin qi seems to be close to a Fierce Ghost!”
The moment the words left her mouth, she made a decisive turn and fled. The other two were a step slower.
Watching the three of them flee in three different directions, Zuo Lin'an couldn't help but chuckle softly.
“How considerate.”
He cast a glance in each of the three directions.
“This blonde one looks the most pleasing to the eye. I'll kill her first.”
Zuo Lin'an remembered that it was this Han Mingming who had just said he was worth a fortune and wanted to capture him for money.
Concealing his figure, he took a step forward, his form flickering as he swiftly gave chase.
A player's speed was naturally no match for Zuo Lin'an's.
However, there were still two minutes before the hour, so he planned to chase her for a bit first to apply some pressure.
Since Han Mingming had been the first to flee, she believed that as long as she ran the fastest, the ghost would go after the slowest one.
After all, the slower one ran, the easier they were to catch.
She had often done this in the past.
But she never expected that her calculations would fail this time.
She could feel that she had already run a great distance, yet that bone-chilling yin qi still followed her like a shadow, showing signs of growing even colder.
The ghost had targeted her!
“Damn it!”
Han Mingming gritted her teeth and cursed.
“Why did it target me?”
It was a one-in-three chance. How did she end up being the one?!
Why was she so unlucky!
In the next instant, the light veil on her body began to flutter, wrapping around the surrounding withered trees and lifting her entire body into the air, allowing her to move rapidly through the withered forest.
Seeing this, Zuo Lin'an reached out casually, and a boning knife appeared in his hand.
He swiftly caught up and threw it at the light veil, which looked as thin as a cicada's wing but was incredibly resilient.
The boning knife sliced through effortlessly, severing the veil with its blade.
The cut was perfectly clean, without the slightest resistance!
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