NOVPUBThe heart-devouring ghost was completely stunned, lying on the ground and vomiting blood profusely.
It couldn’t understand why the frail-looking Zhu Ling would have such great strength; most importantly, when she kicked just now, the heart-devouring ghost found it couldn’t dodge at all!
This feeling was very strange, as if you clearly knew the opponent was about to hit you, but you just couldn’t react in time.
But that shouldn’t be the case—how could human reactions compare with its own?
The heart-devouring ghost wouldn’t give up and wanted to try again.
After all, if it could devour the heart of the little girl in front of it, it could recover a lot of power, and even the wounds it had now could heal.
However, just as the heart-devouring ghost was about to make a move, a very strong aura suddenly emanated from Zhu Ling!
Dragon... Dragon Clan!
The previously frenzied heart-devouring ghost’s eyes instantly cleared.
Its desire to attack vanished in an instant; all that remained was endless fear and submission.
It had never imagined that standing in front of it was an actual dragon!
The heart-devouring ghost subconsciously wanted to run away, but the bloodline oppression from the Dragon Clan was simply too powerful.
As a lower-class species like it, by now it was completely terrified and had lost control over its body.
Zhu Ling looked at the heart-devouring ghost with disdain.
"What inferior trash, even daring to fight with me. Brother, come and deal with it; I don’t want to dirty my hands."
Zhu Ling’s understanding of the heart-devouring ghost was ultimately limited; she thought that as long as she could use her Spiritual Power to pierce the ghost’s chest, she could kill it.
So Zhu Ling flicked her finger and pierced the heart-devouring ghost’s chest with a stream of Spiritual Power, then handed the nearly lifeless ghost over to Wu Bin to handle.
The fear of death, at this moment, overcame the fear of the higher-ranking Dragon Clan.
The heart-devouring ghost, with its chest pierced through, eventually regained control over its body.
Without thinking, it immediately tried to run into the nearby grove of trees.
Zhu Ling was stunned by this scene; she hadn’t expected that even with its chest blown open by her, the heart-devouring ghost could still move?
Did dealing with such a weakling still require her to expend a considerable amount of Spiritual Power to obliterate it?
Just as Zhu Ling was somewhat reluctant to think this way, Wu Bin arrived just in time with his sword.
"Move back!"
Worried about accidentally hurting Zhu Ling, Wu Bin still instinctively shouted to move back, then his long sword directly chopped toward the back of the heart-devouring ghost.
Initially, the heart-devouring ghost didn’t take Wu Bin seriously; at that moment, its attention was all on Zhu Ling.
After all, if Zhu Ling didn’t want it to escape, she had plenty of ways to completely obliterate it.
However, when the heart-devouring ghost caught a glimpse with the corner of its eye that Wu Bin’s long sword was actually aimed toward its back, it panicked instantly.
That was where its vital spot was; how did Wu Bin know to attack there?
The fleeing heart-devouring ghost let out a sharp scream, trying to scare Wu Bin off with this method.
But since Wu Bin had already made his move, he was naturally not going to be frightened off by the scream.
By then it was too late for the heart-devouring ghost to turn and defend itself, so it could only watch helplessly as Wu Bin’s long sword heavily chopped onto its lower back.
Crack!
After slicing through the flesh, the sword did not feel like it was chopping on hard bones but rather on brittle glass.
Accompanied by a crisp sound, the heart-devouring ghost fell to the ground with a wail.
Its entire skin became wrinkled and full of scars, as if its body was rapidly aging and deteriorating!
Before Wu Bin could step forward to deliver a finishing blow, the heart-devouring ghost already lay motionless on the ground, completely dead.
Zhu Ling looked at Wu Bin with a surprised expression.
"Bro, you really have some tricks up your sleeve; how did you know cutting there would definitely kill it?"
When Zhu Ling had failed to kill the heart-eating ghost earlier, she had already realized that this heart-eating ghost must have some kind of life-saving secret technique, similar to the "Golden Bell Shield."
However, while the Golden Bell Shield defends by resisting damage, the heart-eating ghost shifts its vital points to other parts of its body to avoid fatal injuries.
Although the methods differ, the ultimate goal is the same — to preserve itself as much as possible.
And one of the ways to break such a life-saving secret technique is to find the vital spot.
Once you find the vital spot, just like earlier, it results in an instant kill.
However, each heart-eating ghost’s vital spot is located in a different position, and furthermore, these heart-eating ghosts can move their vital spot periodically. How did Wu Bin know exactly where it was?
Seeing Zhu Ling curiously looking at him, Wu Bin said somewhat awkwardly, "How would I know? I just chopped randomly; who knew that was the vital spot. I didn’t even know what a vital spot was before I made the cut."
Zhu Ling was somewhat skeptical of Wu Bin’s explanation, but she soon stopped dwelling on it.
After all, how Wu Bin did it had nothing to do with her. As long as she knew Wu Bin wouldn’t harm her, that was enough.
Having realized this, Zhu Ling immediately ran over to the corpse of the heart-eating ghost, cut open its chest with a small knife, and took out two beads.
One bead was red and the other blue, both looking quite extraordinary.
Wu Bin asked, "Are these also demon cores?"
Zhu Ling shook her head and said, "The heart-eating ghost is from the Ghost Clan, it doesn’t have demon cores, only ghost cores. There are two types of ghost cores, one Yin and one Yang."
"The blue one is the Yin core, the better you train the Yin core, the stronger you become at night, and you can also gain some special abilities."
"The red one is the Yang core, the better you train the Yang core, the more freely you can move under the sunlight, and some ghost clan members with highly developed Yang cores are not afraid of sunlight at all; they can act just like the living during the day."
After finishing her explanation, Zhu Ling stuffed the two beads into Wu Bin’s hands.
"Ghost cores are useless to us from the Dragon Clan. No matter how well you train them, they are trash and can’t restore Spiritual Power. So, I’m giving these two ghost cores to you; you can use them as marbles."
Wu Bin couldn’t help but laugh and cry. You specifically ran over there to dig out these two ghost cores just to give me something to play marbles with?
Isn’t that a bit too capricious?
The moment the two ghost cores touched Wu Bin’s hands, a system notification sounded in his mind.
Ding.
[Detected host has obtained a heart-eating ghost’s ghost cores, do you want to refine for a new skill?]
Wu Bin’s eyes instantly widened.
What the hell?
This can be refined?
Weren’t ghost cores supposed to be trash?
Without the slightest hesitation, having an extra life-saving skill was always good.
Wu Bin immediately threw the ghost cores into the system to refine them.
The next second, a new skill appeared in Wu Bin’s mind.
[Crisis Turnabout (Passive): Passively blocks one fatal damage, cooldown time twenty-four hours.]
Hiss!
Seeing the skill updated by the system, Wu Bin’s eyes widened instantly.
This skill is awesome!
Doesn’t that mean I can’t die anymore?
