The beast was greatly injured having broken plenty of bones in the process. Even its featureless mask like skull was cracker and crying sounds came from its mouth.

"Damn this noise!" Shirong blocked his ears.

The noise was quite loud and gave Shirong a headache. It seemed to contain a strange power as it spread wide and made the trees shiver like a wet man in snow. It was an eerie sight, and Shirong couldn't help but think something was wrong.

Lin Wu felt the same and checked the map for any anomalies, but couldn't see anything different. Though he could see the position of the Specter Skull Hound on the map which was a good sign.

"I'll end this noise!" Shirong said in a pissed tone as he sent the spirit sword flying at the beast's head.

But before it could reach the beast it was blown away by a strong gust of grey wind. It seemed to have come out of nowhere and what was even more shocking was Shirong's Wind attribute spirit Qi which should have negated it was useless against it.

"What kind of a wind is that?" Shirong couldn't help but say.

He recalled the spirit sword and heard more cries coming from around him.

~WOOOO~

The ghosts started to come out of the twisting and coiling trees and soon populated the area. It didn't take it long for them to notice Shirong and they came rushing at him while letting out screeching sounds.

"Begone!" Shirong said as he shot out lightning from his hands.

~zap~

The Marsh Ghosts that were rushing at him were easily exterminated by the lightning and faded away into nothingness.

~KIIIII~

But at the same time, the Specter Skull Hound let out a sound that seemed like a mix between a howl and scream. The sound was sharp and hurt Shirong's ears. But that was not the only effect that it had.

The nearby Ghosts that were attacking Shirong were suddenly frozen in mid air. Then, they were sucked towards the Specter Skull Hound and entered his mouth. The beast's mouth acted like a vacuum and it sucked all the ghosts that were in the area.

~Huala~

The beast consuming the ghosts seemed to have an effect on it and the injuries it had all started to heal. In less than five seconds it was fully healed and even seemed to be better than its original state.

"Oh boy… this is not just a high level mob, it's also a regenerating mob." Lin Wu commented as he popped a slice of a fruit that looked similar to papaya.

~nom~

Shirong felt a bit dumbfounded at this action of the beast and had not expected this to happen. His dumbfounded expression soon turned to that of fury though.

"Enough! This ends now!" Shirong spat out.

"Oop! Duty time!" Lin Wu said as he was drawn by Shirong.

Lin Wu changed its form and Shirong clasped him firmly in his hand. His over ten meter long body looked massive compared to Shirong.

"Immortal Crystal Armament: Glaive From!" Shirong shouted as the spear morphed into a huge Glaive.

Shirong flew up in the air and twirled around, infusing the spirit Qi into the Immortal Crystal armament.

~Shua~

The immortal weapon started to glow with a bright green light as arcs of electricity jumped across it.

"Oo it tingles…" Lin Wu said internally.

Then Lifting the Glaive high up Shirong swung it hard, straight at the Specter Skull Hound. The attack wasn't just in a single line though. Instead, it spread in a cone like shape and by the time it reached the beast its range had expanded to over thirty meters.

"Immortal Sky Shaker Art: Thunder Purge!"

The cone of lighting decimated everything in its path and left a long gully in the earth. It lasted for five seconds after which it finally disappeared. The Specter Skull hound was now nowhere to be seen.

Lin Wu checked the map and saw that it's marker had now disappeared.

"Dead." Lin Wu confirmed.

~DENG~

Shirong stabbed the Immortal Crystal Armament in the ground and kneeled, feeling exhausted. It was evident that the skill he had just used was not something that could be used often. Shirong was already in the Nascent Soul realm and had large stores of spirit Qi along with a quick recovery rate too.

If a skill put him in this condition in just a single use, it meant that it was no common skill. Lin Wu felt curious and checked Shirong's Dantian, finding that he had depleted around half of his liquid spirit Qi in there.

"Damn, that's a powerful skill. I haven't seen him use it before though… did he learn that recently?" Lin Wu wondered.

Lin Wu's guess was actually correct. Shirong had learned this skill when he was cultivating in the city a while back. He had already known about the skill of course and all that was left to do was to comprehend it. Which he did, taking advantage of those two days.

It was understandable why the skill needed some extra few steps to learn, seeing its power.

"System, you recorded it, right?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Affirmative." The system responded simply.

"Good. Gotta collect the best attacks." Lin Wu said, feeling happy.

After about ten minutes of rest, Shirong stood up and stored the Immortal Crystal Armament in his ring before scanning the surroundings with his spirit sense.

"Hmm… no ghosts or any other beasts?" Shirong spoke.

This felt unusual to him, as what he had done was basically a huge beacon for others to find his location. While he could understand that the ghosts would not approach him due to the extreme Yang of the lightning and the beasts due to the sheer amount of spirit Qi in that attack, he felt like others should have still come.

Shirong was dead sure there was someone observing him, but couldn't tell where or who they were. His eyes randomly went to the path from where the beast had come from, and he went there.

"Let's see where this leads too…"