Ghosts could be found wherever cultivators and arcane beasts were absent in the Hongmeng. Some weaker cultivators couldn’t even travel alone in the wild—they were too easily targeted by a variety of vengeful and vicious ghosts.

When Zhuo Bufan took Lu Yun and the little fox to Starcloud City and had their trip interrupted by the Redbud King’s forcefield, they’d hurried to the closest Redbud City to avoid running into ghosts in the wild.

Now with Starspace Region falling to the ghosts, ghost kings in nearby regions broke through the cultivator blockade and surged in to reinforce their new territory.

Lu Yun had gained some clues from the self detonated ghost king, which was why he’d decided to disguise himself as a ghost and sneak in to destroy the central crystal vein, thereby destroying the ghost nest.

There seems to be cultivators working with the ghosts.

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