Although the vicious spirits possessed the strength of combination cultivators, they lacked corresponding attack methods. They couldn’t bring the full strength of real combination cultivators to bear—some soul separation experts were able to beat them back at the first encounter.

What was terrifying about them was their undying body, inexhaustible strength, incomparable speed, and reckless fighting style. They could exhaust a cultivator to death through sheer attrition.

Once a vicious spirit broke through a cultivator’s defenses and injected their bloody light into the cultivator, that changed the human into another vicious spirit. That was the most horrifying of all.

Lu Yun’s group had run into just the lowest level of their kind.

Pfft pfft pfft!

Shi Jian promptly obliterated the eight vicious spirits, but they recombined with a flash of bloody light. However, that gave him enough breathing space to bisect the head of a spirit that was yet to regain movement after...