Facing Chu Xiu’s question, Jiang Miaoyin fell silent for a moment.

After a while, she took a deep breath and confessed, "Senior, I don’t want to hide it from you. The talent of the Murder Ghost is truly too abnormal; no one wants to provoke it."

"At the time, I wasn’t sure you could definitely defeat the Murder Ghost, and even if you won, you’d have to face its endless harassment. Also, by then, I had already lost a Substitute Curse Spirit, and you know how valuable such a summoned creature that grants the summoner a second life is, Senior."

"The Murder Ghost isn’t good at reconnaissance, so for me, immediately playing dead to rid myself of its harassment was the best solution."

"Then why did you change your mind at the last minute?" Chu Xiu asked.

Jiang Miaoyin chuckled awkwardly, "Well, it was greed, wasn’t it? At that time, those twenty-seven Holy Spirits were right in front of me. Those are twenty-seven King Tiers! Who could resist?"

Chu Xiu smiled and said nothing more.

He’s not the kind of person who fusses over such trivial matters. Everyone is selfish, especially in the Abyss, where naïve fools without cunning have long become unnoticed skeletons.

That Jiang Miaoyin would instinctively lend a hand when the Holy Spirits attacked him was already quite rare.

What he’s more concerned about now is...

"Did you find any connection between the Murder Ghost’s Spirit Puppet and its true body?" Chu Xiu asked.

He originally thought that after his divine sense was greatly enhanced, he could directly kill the Murder Ghost’s true body by tracing the Spirit Puppet back to its source. After all, any remote control method must have a channel for manipulation and information transmission; the more powerful the puppet, the more obvious this becomes.

But he didn’t expect that this time he still couldn’t see any connection, as if the Spirit Puppet was just an independent entity.

"I didn’t find anything," Jiang Miaoyin shook her head, "The most troublesome part about the Murder Ghost is that it doesn’t use remote control but ’Soul Transfer.’ It can be said that until the moment before its death, the Spirit Puppet is its true body."

This statement made Chu Xiu’s brow furrow further, "Even with Soul Transfer, there must be a process of movement. The soul doesn’t just appear and disappear out of thin air."

He had been waiting, planning to strike when the Spirit Puppet was destroyed and the Murder Ghost’s soul was forced back to its body.

But he hadn’t seen any trace of soul movement at all.

Jiang Miaoyin smiled bitterly, "Senior, did you forget about its talent? It maintains an ’unstable spatial passage’ between the Spirit Puppet and its true body using some special means. This passage is fragile and difficult for a physical entity to enter, but it’s an excellent place for a spirit body to escape."

"The specifics of how it operates are unknown, but it has been hypothesized that the spatial passage connects to a certain part of the Spirit Puppet, and as soon as the external body of the Spirit Puppet begins to collapse, it automatically opens for escape."

"Oh, and someone once tried to directly obliterate the Murder Ghost’s soul with a Mental Attack Skill, but each Spirit Puppet carries a special array. When the mental attack exceeds a certain threshold, it automatically opens a spatial passage to escape."

Hearing this, even Chu Xiu felt numb. The bastard has thought of everything.

Now he understood why Jiang Miaoyin was so afraid of the Murder Ghost.

This was simply like an unkillable, inescapable vengeful Fierce Ghost; the name Murder Ghost was well-deserved—truly, there are only wrongly named names, never wrongly named nicknames.

And no wonder it has an SSS-level talent; it’s absolutely outrageous.

But then Chu Xiu thought of something.

From his last trial, he seemed to have obtained three legendary Hands of Deprivation that he hadn’t used yet...

Although they were General Tier, merging three of them could just form a King Tier one.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiu’s expression turned peculiar.

On the other side, Jiang Miaoyin mistakenly thought Chu Xiu was afraid of the Murder Ghost, and hurriedly added, "But Senior, you don’t have to worry too much. It’s difficult to refine Spirit Puppets with strong Concealment attributes. You’ve destroyed two in a row, so the Murder Ghost probably doesn’t have many left."

"Low Quality trash puppets are practically useless; for every one it sends, we just kill one."

"Hmm." Chu Xiu replied perfunctorily, already starting to think about how to capture the Murder Ghost’s true body.

As he pondered, he continued walking forward and soon arrived at the Bronze Giant Gate.

This Bronze Giant Gate was nearly a hundred meters tall. Though it was called bronze, it was actually made of some strange metal similar in color, showing no signs of rust even after all these years.

Chu Xiu gave it a gentle flick, producing a crisp sound, and only a shallow mark appeared where he struck.

"Such a hard material." Chu Xiu praised.

He spread out his divine sense to probe behind the Bronze Giant Gate, but it seemed like a magical array was engraved on the other side, blocking his investigation.

His divine sense only penetrated a dozen meters before being pushed back by an unusual force.

"The array here is still operational; it appears to have birthed an intelligent Ghost."

Chu Xiu said, as four High-tier Ghost Generals appeared beside him, hovering in the air and placing their hands on the Bronze Giant Gate. Then, with their Soul Bodies vibrating, thousands of tons of Giant Strength surged forth, pushing the Bronze Giant Gate inward.

The Bronze Giant Gate emitted a piercing grinding sound, like a massive creature groaning in rage.

"Senior, let me assist you!" Jiang Miaoyin shouted.

Another Curse Spirit emerged from behind her, its entire body shrouded in black mist, resembling a cloud, but with a metallic skeleton within.

Chu Xiu sensed a familiar aura from it.