What is Love

Just as the corpse puppet neared the Empty Cicada Wood, the distant mound of bones suddenly began to churn and surge.

Something was burrowing its way beneath the bones!

It moved with extreme speed, arriving at the corpse puppet's feet in the blink of an eye. Then, it violently burst out from the pile, sending countless white bones flying.

The attacker was none other than the Dwarf Ghost.

It rammed headfirst straight into the corpse puppet, knocking the puppet into the air.

Seizing the momentum, the Dwarf Ghost slashed its sharp claws toward the corpse puppet's lower body. Ghostly Qi swirled fiercely around its talons.

The corpse puppet's sturdy left leg was instantly severed clean at the root.

A corpse puppet at the Sixth Layer of Qi Condensation actually could not withstand a single exchange with the Dwarf Ghost.

The Dwarf Ghost prepared to completely dismember the corpse puppet, but it suddenly stopped.

By bursting out of the bone pile, it had exposed the hidden cavern beneath.

Inside that cavern lay the tall Green-faced Female Ghost, looking incredibly feeble. Who knew what method the Dwarf Ghost had used, but it had somehow managed to save the female ghost from the brink of dissipation.

More than a dozen Beetle Gu were currently buzzing around her, brandishing their mandibles as if ready to tear her soul body to shreds at any moment.

"Human, if you dare touch her even once, I will definitely scatter your soul to the winds!"

The Dwarf Ghost reacted like a feral cat whose tail had been stepped on, abruptly flying into a violent rage. The ghostly Qi on its body began to churn intensely, filling the entire karst cave with a chilling, spectral atmosphere.

The Dwarf Ghost's voice was grating, rumbling and wheezing like a broken bellows.

Seeing the Dwarf Ghost's reaction, a faint smile graced the corner of Song Wen's mouth.

He hadn't expected it to actually work!

In the previous cave, the Dwarf Ghost had actually abandoned its attack on them in order to treat the severely injured, dying female ghost.

He had guessed back then that the female ghost was incredibly important to the Dwarf Ghost, or perhaps that their feelings for one another ran exceptionally deep.

Thus, upon discovering the Green-faced Female Ghost, Song Wen decided to use her weakened state to threaten the Dwarf Ghost.

"Give me that three-hundred-year-old Empty Cicada Wood, and I will leave without harming a single hair on her head," Song Wen said.

"Impossible!" the Dwarf Ghost roared.

"Oh? Is that so." Song Wen gave a wicked smile.

The sixteen Black-bellied Beetle Gu surrounding the female ghost suddenly surged with Spiritual Qi. Under the sheer Spiritual Qi turbulence whipped up by their flapping wings, the already incredibly fragile soul body of the female ghost swayed and flickered, as if she might shatter at any moment.

"Stop! Stop right now!" the Dwarf Ghost shouted in panic.

"I will give you the Empty Cicada Wood."

The Dwarf Ghost floated toward the Empty Cicada Wood and reached out to uproot it.

"Brother Tian, no. You went through unspeakable hardships to find and transplant these two stalks of Empty Cicada Wood. They are your Fated Chance to break through and become a Rank Two ghost creature." The weak female ghost suddenly spoke.

Her voice was sharp and piercing, grating like two iron plates scraping together.

The Dwarf Ghost's hand froze on the Empty Cicada Wood as it looked at the female ghost with a deeply conflicted expression.

"But if I don't give him the Empty Cicada Wood, he will kill you!"

"We can always find more Empty Cicada Wood, but if your soul body dissipates, you won't even have the chance to reincarnate."

The Dwarf Ghost's voice, sounding worse than a smashed gong, actually carried a choking sob.

Seeing that the Empty Cicada Wood was practically in his grasp only for unexpected complications to arise from the female ghost's words, Song Wen grew somewhat anxious and urged it on.

"Hurry up and give me the Empty Cicada Wood, otherwise I will strike."

The Dwarf Ghost's expression changed drastically. "Don't kill her! I'll give it to you!" it hastily roared.

With that said, it completely uprooted the Empty Cicada Wood and threw it toward Song Wen.

Watching the Empty Cicada Wood draw closer and closer through the air, Song Wen's face flashed with delight, only to abruptly turn to panic.

The reason was simple: right after calling out, "Brother Tian, goodbye," the Green-faced Female Ghost voluntarily disintegrated her own soul body, scattering her soul to the void.

"No!" the Dwarf Ghost shrieked. Its voice was filled with a miserable, tragic despair, as if it had suddenly lost all meaning in its existence.

Ghostly Qi surged violently around its body, surging like a torrential flood.

In a blur of motion, the Dwarf Ghost rushed into the cavern. Its ghostly Qi poured madly into the female ghost's fracturing soul body, desperately trying to tether the Green-faced Female Ghost to the mortal realm.

However, it was ultimately in vain.

The female ghost's cracked soul body was like a dissipating cloud of smoke; struck by the influx of ghostly Qi, it only scattered faster.

"No!"

Another mournful, furious roar echoed out.

Killing Intent surged; its aura billowed endlessly.

Boundless ghostly Qi swept wildly in all directions.

The sixteen Black-bellied Beetle Gu, having no time to retreat, were caught in the ghostly Qi and instantly lost all vitality. They were swept away by the current, drifting off to who knew where.

Having finally gotten his hands on the Empty Cicada Wood, Song Wen was just activating the Blood Escape Technique to flee when he sensed the deaths of his Black-bellied Beetle Gu.

Earlier, when battling the White Bone Bug, he had lost fifteen Black-bellied Beetle Gu. Now he had lost another sixteen-a staggering total of thirty-one lost in this single venture.

However, Song Wen had no time to dwell on such matters.

He only wanted to get as far away as possible.

A maddened Dwarf Ghost was simply too terrifying.

Song Wen felt like he had pushed his luck too far.

He truly hadn't expected the bond between these two ghosts to be so profound.

For the female ghost's sake, the Dwarf Ghost had been willing to abandon its Fated Chance to advance.

For the Dwarf Ghost's sake, the female ghost had willingly shattered her own soul body.

Such a moving, loyal, unwavering, and regretless love!

To think it had blossomed between two ghosts was simply unbelievable.

Willing to sacrifice everything for each other, even their very lives-perhaps this was love in its purest, most beautiful form.

In stark contrast, the emotional entanglement between Lao Chun and Zi Yi was nothing but madness, sick obsession, and calculation...

Sometimes, human emotions weren't even as pure and sincere as those of monsters and ghosts.

......

The ghostly Qi radiating from the Dwarf Ghost blanketed the entire karst cave. From the mound, countless white bones levitated, floating toward the Dwarf Ghost.

The Dwarf Ghost's aura rapidly climbed, quickly breaking through to the Ninth Layer of Qi Condensation.

In an instant, a massive ghost creature standing over two zhang tall emerged, clad head to toe in what looked like heavy bone armor.

"Human, die!"

The furious roar of the Dwarf Bone Ghost echoed, shaking countless rocks loose from the cave ceiling.

The Dwarf Bone Ghost charged in the direction Song Wen had fled, viciously crashing through countless scattered boulders in its path.

Song Wen had already fled two or three li, but he was using a blood-burning cultivation technique. The bloody scent he left in his wake was completely jarring against the surrounding corpse Qi and Yin Qi, making it glaringly obvious. The Dwarf Ghost simply followed the scent right to him.

The Dwarf Bone Ghost's speed was actually a fraction faster than the exhausted Song Wen's, gradually closing the distance between them.

Bang! Song Wen collided with a Walking Corpse blocking his path. This Walking Corpse, comparable to the Third Layer of Qi Condensation, was instantly smashed to pieces, sending chunks of rotten flesh flying.

More than a dozen Walking Corpses wandering nearby were drawn by the dense blood energy radiating from Song Wen, shambling rapidly toward him.

However, Song Wen was moving far too quickly. Before they could close in, his figure had vanished without a trace.

Closely following him, the two-zhang-tall Dwarf Bone Ghost came charging through. Swept up by its dense ghostly Qi, the Walking Corpses were instantly bowled over to the ground. Layers of rotten flesh were sheared clean off their bodies, revealing stark white bones beneath.

Seeing that it couldn't catch the human ahead, the Dwarf Bone Ghost burned with raging fury.

A transparent sharp blade materialized in front of it. Moving like lightning, it crossed hundreds of meters in a flash, thrusting straight toward the back of Song Wen's head.

Song Wen's body swayed slightly, but his speed was almost completely unaffected as he continued to flee.

Pursuing from behind, the Dwarf Bone Ghost couldn't help but stare in stunned disbelief. It hadn't expected its normally infallible spiritual attack to actually miss.

Not only had it failed to harm that damnable human, but the attack had momentarily slowed its own speed, allowing the distance between them to widen just a little bit more.

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