In a certain sense, because Zhang Yanhang is now floating outside the window while the other party can only use the hanging rope to play on the swing inside the room, Zhang Yanhang even feels that he himself is more like a ghost than the other party.

Of course, ghosts, these low-level life forms, are essentially far different from his current True Immortal-level Awakener status, and there is no comparison at all.

This is also the reason why he believes there is probably no Fifth Tier ghost in the Main World, after all, a Fifth Tier ghost would likely have become a Ghost Immortal. Ghosts can't enter the Ashen World like Awakeners, so how could they advance so quickly? Unless it's some ultimate old ghost forcibly surviving the End of Dharma Era from ancient times.

Zhang Yanhang was now enjoying the sight of the other party swinging while contemplating what gentle method he could possibly use to capture the other party. After all, the ghost container is ready, but he hasn't thought of a capture method yet.

Honestly speaking, given his current rank, forget about any attack, even just a casual release of high-quality Spiritual Energy from his body could forcibly shock to death such a small Second-tier ghost, but killing is definitely not his goal; he just wants to capture the other party.

"Speaking of which, I've promoted to Fifth Tier, and it seems like I have never held back in battles, always aimed to kill the enemies..."

So, Zhang Yanhang can be said to have quite a rare experience in monster capturing.

"I remember there's an immobilization spell in my spell list, Sixth Circle? I wonder if it can be used in this regard..."

Zhang Yanhang opened his spell list to check and found that his immobilization spell was a Biological Immobilization Technique, including humans and monsters, but excluding undead creatures; undead creatures can only be immobilized using Necromancy Immobilization.

"Dang it, I used to think this immobilization spell was quite useful, but now I just feel it's kind of lame."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that he seemed to have only used this Biological Immobilization Technique on Zhao Yalan.

Just as Zhang Yanhang continued searching his spell list for something more useful, the hanging ghost on the swing suddenly made a sound like a beer bottle cap being opened between its neck and head, 'ber~', and then its body forcibly detached from its neck and pounced straight in Zhang Yanhang's direction after crossing the window.

Zhang Yanhang hurriedly used the lowest-level Zero Ring Magic Trick, Mage's Hand, to gently catch the body and smoothly stuff it into the Demon Refining Pot, "Whoa, what kind of throwing-yourself-into-arms is this? So considerate?"

After instinctively completing all this, Zhang Yanhang finally had the chance to complain.

Although he doesn't know how the middle-aged male ghost managed to separate his head and body, it doesn't stop Zhang Yanhang from forcibly pulling the head, still tightly tied to the hanging rope, over with Mage's Hand and stuffing it into the Demon Refining Pot.

Incidentally, before being stuffed into the Demon Refining Pot, the middle-aged male ghost had been maintaining a shocked expression with both eyeballs bulging out, and Zhang Yanhang thought that this guy might not even know he had such a special ability.

After forcibly pulling down the middle-aged hanging ghost's head, Zhang Yanhang unexpectedly found that Mage's Hand seemed to be quite an excellent method for ghost capturing. After all, it's sufficiently low-level, and energy attacks can touch the ghost's body.

Moreover, speaking of Mage's Hand as low-level, that also depends on who is using it. His rank in the DND worldview is already Saint level, on par with the embodiment of a Divine walking among mortals, so using it is naturally at a completely different level than an ordinary Mage.

Following Zhang Yanhang's promotion through several ranks, the Mage's Hand, originally responsible for picking up clutter and helping move things, although still not adept at attacking, is quite effective in handling these low-level ghosts.

Therefore, after identifying the method, Zhang Yanhang immediately went to the hiding spot of the third ghost, a small, two-story building burned in a fire, similarly appearing long abandoned.

In the basement of this abandoned two-story building, Zhang Yanhang found a pitch-black ghost completely burned like charcoal, unable to discern its gender but likely male, and Zhang Yanhang was willing to call it simply Black Ghost.

Zhang Yanhang discovered the basement door blocked by debris and a shattered wooden shelf, suspecting it was the shelf's collapse during the fire that trapped this Black Ghost in the basement, burning it alive.

Perhaps because Black Ghosts tend to be more irritable, this clearly First Tier trash ghost exhibited a stronger aggressiveness than the previous two Second Tier ghosts. As soon as Zhang Yanhang flew nearby, this guy began violently shaking the door, trying to get out.

But unfortunately, what couldn't be done in life couldn't be achieved in death either. Although this First Tier Black Ghost was eagerly trying to break the door, it couldn't and wouldn't break.

Eventually, Zhang Yanhang decided to be generous and used Mage's Hand to clear the debris from the basement door, releasing him.

But as soon as it was released, this Charcoal Ghost tried attacking Zhang Yanhang again. Unfortunately, it couldn't fly, only bouncing around like a senseless monkey, trying to reach Zhang Yanhang floating at a height of over ten meters, which was clearly impossible.

So, Zhang Yanhang immediately used the Mage's Hand invented by white old (law) masters to instantly subdue it and stuff it into the Demon Refining Pot.

After the initial victory, Zhang Yanhang proceeded with consecutive wins, repeating the process, capturing dozens of ghosts in Juyang County. Although it's called a county, it still has a population of millions, making the density of dozens of ghosts merely one in ten thousand, quite rare actually.

Zhang Yanhang believed that in a city of a million people under the Spiritual Qi Recovery, with only this many ghosts, the only explanation was that the relevant departments had indeed been frequently cleaning up, thus leaving him with only this few ghosts, mostly located in remote areas where their existence wasn't a big deal.

Just like the typical Charcoal Ghost, if you don't open the door for it, it won't get out forever, or like the middle-aged hanging ghost, this earth-bound spirit won't get out either if you don't venture recklessly.

One can only say, as long as people don't court death, they can indeed continue to live, but if they are determined to court death and explore haunted houses, no one can save them.

Although Zhang Yanhang captured dozens of ghosts, because they were all First and Second Tier low-level ghosts, he thought a few of them certainly wouldn't yield much Soul Power. He should persist further and capture hundreds of ghosts to start attempting to create the Wise Man's Stone for the first time.

If the Wise Man's Stone were relatively easy to refine, he felt that perhaps this time, during the downtime when the Transmission Channel was cooling down, he might be able to gather sufficient Life Span to unlock a new Luck Value bonus.

However, increasing Life Span is inherently difficult; expecting to extend one's life by several thousand years solely through the Wise Man's Stone is certainly no easy task.

After all, gathering the vast number of ghosts required to provide Soul Power is a challenging and time-consuming effort.

After resolving the matters in Juyang County, Zhang Yanhang immediately flew to Guangyang City.

Guangyang City is much larger than Juyang County, covering several thousand square kilometers. It took Zhang Yanhang several scans to cover the entire area, and as expected, he found more ghosts here than in Juyang County, numbering at least in the hundreds.

Of course, these low-level ghosts can be addressed later. Zhang Yanhang's current interest lies in the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and the Evil Ghosts guarding them. Since they are referred to as Evil Ghosts, Zhang Yanhang believes that these ghosts must be quite powerful.

After quickly locating an abandoned cellar in the suburbs and scanning its interior, Zhang Yanhang confirmed that the ghosts surrounding the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were at least of the Second Tier, with a few Third Tier ghosts mixed in, totaling around twenty to thirty in number.

More critically, Zhang Yanhang discovered a Peak Third Tier Fusion Ghost in close proximity to the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. He estimated that if it consumed the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, it could immediately advance to the Fourth Tier.

As for what constitutes a Fusion Ghost, it's because Zhang Yanhang noticed this Peak Third Tier Ghost appeared to be a patchwork of a family of three. On its shoulders were the heads of a middle-aged man and woman, resembling a father and mother, while its abdomen bore the head of a child around seven or eight years old.

The child's mouth was unusually large, almost as if it had been cut in half, giving it a somewhat bizarre appearance.

At this moment, the child's head at the abdomen opened its large mouth and extended a toad-like long tongue, instantly wrapping around a Second Tier Starving Ghost at the edge and stuffing it into its mouth, starting to chew voraciously.

The other Second and Third Tier Evil Ghosts nearby seemed dazed, fixated on the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures adorned with a human face design, motionless and unresponsive.

Seeing the ghost dare to snatch his food, Zhang Yanhang became instantly aggravated and immediately extended his Mage's Hand to seize the ghost, "No eating! Spit it out for Grandpa!"

How could he let this inexplicable, bizarre little ghost consume the Evil Ghosts he had set his sights on?

Fortunately, as a Fifth Tier Awakener, Zhang Yanhang was quick and managed to successfully snatch the Second Tier Starving Ghost from the mouth of the Three-in-one Fusion Ghost.

However, upon the attack on the child's head at the abdomen, the previously dopey-looking middle-aged man and woman's heads suddenly became alert and began to attack Zhang Yanhang.

The left mother's head shot red lasers from her eyes, instantly piercing the walls of the cellar and aiming at Zhang Yanhang in the air.

The right father's head then inhaled deeply like a toad, puffing up the cheeks, and released a sonic wave gun, completely overturning the cellar.

"You dare attack me? How ignorant of your overreaching limits!"

Though this level of attack was trivial to Zhang Yanhang, he was indeed somewhat annoyed.

Suddenly, on the Mage's Hand grasping the abdomen of the Fusion Ghost, a layer of brilliant golden light emerged, and with a light squeeze, the child's head on the Three-in-one Fusion Ghost's abdomen became bloodied and indistinguishable, deeply caved in.

When the child's head was crushed beyond recognition, the heads of the middle-aged man and woman on the shoulders spewed large mouthfuls of blood, as if suffering severe injuries.

Zhang Yanhang thought it should not go to waste; immediately, a brilliant golden light formed a cubic around these ghostly blood, capturing it before they hit the ground and enveloping the Three-in-one Fusion Ghost as well. After a quick compression, he similarly sent it into the Demon Refining Pot.

After conducting several experiments, Zhang Yanhang realized that perhaps the Indestructible Golden Body is also quite effective against these low-level ghosts, or rather, any supporting methods like this are quite handy.

After dealing with the only resisting Three-in-one Family Ghost, the remaining dopey and unresponsive Second and Third Tier Evil Ghosts were effortlessly grasped one by one by the Mage's Hand and all sent into the Demon Refining Pot.

Including these ghosts, the number of ghosts in Zhang Yanhang's Demon Refining Pot was close to reaching three digits, with over ninety in total. However, it was evident that this was still far from meeting Zhang Yanhang's Soul Power refining needs, and he would need to continue capturing the remaining ghosts in Guangyang City.

"By the way, is it related to that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that those Second and Third Tier Evil Ghosts appeared dazed just now?"

Looking at the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures with the human face on its leaves before him, Zhang Yanhang, driven by curiosity, inquired using Multiple Choice and discovered it was called Human-faced Corpse Fragrance Devil's Tongue. It could induce hallucinations in ghosts and humans who smelled the corpse fragrance, and consuming it could greatly enhance the strength of ghosts and cultivators practicing corresponding Cultivation Techniques.

"It seems possible that the little ghost within the Three-in-one Ghost might have somehow gained immunity to the hallucinations of the Corpse Fragrance Devil's Tongue, causing it to fortuitously feast on other ghosts while its parents were entranced."

Zhang Yanhang even suspected that the reason why this Three-in-one Ghost could grow to the strength of Peak Third Tier was likely due to the little ghost inadvertently consuming many other ghosts, thus passively boosting its strength rapidly.

But clearly, when attacked, these hallucinating ghosts had a significant chance of waking up, which explains why the parents returned to normal after the child was hit, and also why the child chose to only consume the Second Tier ghosts at the periphery and not the other Third Tier ghosts around it; after all, the Second Tier ghosts offered no resistance, but there was a possibility it couldn't defeat the Third Tier ghosts.

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