Plus, with what she had seen during this time, there was almost no one in this ghost city wearing white clothes…
Clearly, Salen had misunderstood! He thought she was the one in the prophecy!
Damn it!! His actions were clearly meant to intimidate her, to test her!
“Didn’t a woman in white fall into the ghost realm a few days ago?”
As a sudden, affirmative voice sounded, Su Xianzhi, who had initially paid no mind, heard the latter half of the sentence!
“It is said that she is at the Nascent Soul stage of cultivation, yet she is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her beauty is unparalleled!”
In an instant, the white-clothed maiden on the high platform’s eyes widened, her face filled with astonishment!
Nascent Soul stage? Seventeen or eighteen years old!? A few days ago? And beautiful! Could it be…
Just then, the gloomy Ghost King suddenly turned his head towards the candidate area rooms, his expression gradually turning cold and chilling…
At the same moment, in a corner of the candidate area, a faint white light flashed, gone in an instant! Very few people noticed!
Not long after Jin Bao’er activated the teleportation array, she heard a whooshing sound followed by sobbing. She quickly opened her eyes, picked up the little girl beside her, and instinctively became vigilant.
Upon looking, she saw beautiful women with distressed faces, filled with fear and despair, some even repeatedly murmuring that they didn't want to die! Among these women were cultivators at the Core Formation stage, and even a few at the early Nascent Soul stage. Even if their appearances were ordinary, their cultivation was not low.
Jin Bao’er’s eyes flashed with surprise at the sounds. It seemed her teleportation array had been made very successfully, truly arriving at the Ghost King’s concubine selection ceremony! It seemed she really was a talisman cultivator…
“I heard that during the Ghost King’s concubine selection, he will absorb the souls of the women that very night, transferring their cultivation to himself to stabilize his own…”
As she was thinking, a woman not far away squatted on the ground, murmuring to herself, her eyes vacant and filled with despair!
Hearing this, the surrounding women covered their mouths in fear, their eyes full of terror. Trembling voices quickly came.
“Don’t… don’t say it! I don’t want to turn to dust! I only entered the ghost city seven years ago, and I just reached the Core Formation stage! If I had known the consequences of cultivation would be like this, I definitely wouldn’t have… sob…”
“What should we do? What if I am chosen…”
The desperate cries of one person quickly spread to everyone else! The room, which had been filled with quiet sobs, was instantly filled with sharp screams of terror. They even used their ghost cultivation powers to frantically attack the room door, but it was useless. Instead, they were repelled by a gray gas that scattered throughout the room!
Seeing this, Jin Bao’er quickly moved to the side, pressing herself against the door. It seemed the Ghost King had made preparations to prevent them from escaping or resisting!
This gray mist was so familiar. She figured the spiritual energy fluctuations from her teleportation array must have already been detected.
Thinking this, she looked at the ghost cultivators in chaos around her, an idea forming in her mind. She raised her hand and knocked out the woman beside her, then quickly took off her dark clothes and put them on herself…
The little girl wearing a little skirt watched this scene, blinking her eyes, looking quite curious! Then she squatted down and poked the face of the female ghost cultivator on the ground, her brow furrowed tightly!
“What an uncomfortable smell! It’s nothing like the smell on Big Sister!”
Hearing the voice, Jin Bao’er looked at the little girl on the ground with a complex expression. Smell? She meant aura, right! She had residual spiritual energy on her, while the ghost cultivator on the ground had yin energy. For Baby, a spirit crystal of the ghost realm, to prefer spiritual energy over yin energy…
Could it be! She was a spirit crystal condensed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the cultivation world, not from the ghost realm?
As she pondered this, the ghost attendant outside opened the door, their gloomy expression and deathly pale face looking directly at the women in chaos inside, their tone extremely obscure and strange, saying.
“The concubine selection ceremony is about to begin. Please come out.”
The released women’s faces became even more grim, but they still rushed out quickly. Some ghost cultivators immediately tried to escape in the chaos, only to be enveloped by the gray mist the next second…
“Ah!!”
Sharp screams rang out. The expressions of terror and helplessness on the faces of several female ghost cultivators had no time to appear before they completely vanished, turning into thick gray mist…
This scene seemed to have happened many times. The surrounding ghost cultivators’ faces changed, showing only fear and nothing else! And those who had tried to escape but were too slow to act stiffened completely, losing all thought of escape.
Jin Bao’er lowered her head, concealing all the aura on her body and hiding Baby behind her…
Fortunately, the group of women concealed her thoroughly, not revealing any abnormalities! Coupled with Baby’s innate ability to be imperceptible, and the fact that the ghost cultivators were still shaken by what had just happened, no one paid any attention to them.
At this moment, she glanced sideways towards the high platform in front, noticing the man surrounded by gray mist, his expression extremely unpleasant. This must be Salen, the Ghost King.
Indeed, the aura was the same as that day. His appearance was ordinary, but his eyes were like those of a corpse, filled with gray and white, very eerie!
As she looked, a flash of white caught her eye, causing her pupils to instantly dilate. Her surprise was evident on her face, and she quickly lowered her head!
The white-clothed woman on the platform, who had been feeling extremely suppressed, suddenly felt a familiar and surprised gaze. She quickly raised her head to look at the women in front of her, searching for a long time without detecting any abnormality.
“My concubine, are you perhaps jealous? Why such an expression?”
The man beside her spoke in a cold and cruel tone. His words seemed doting, but his face remained unchanged, as emotionless as before.
Hearing this devilish voice, Su Xianzhi’s body instinctively stiffened, her pupils shrinking!
“You… you misunderstand! I just…”
Her flustered nervousness instantly drew a loud laugh from Salen!
Jin Bao’er lowered her gaze, finally confirming that the so-called new concubine was indeed Su Xianzhi! Although she didn’t know why Salen, the Ghost King, was also infatuated by Su Xianzhi’s charm, it didn’t stop her from dealing with both of them together!
The method of selecting concubines was simple. Female cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage were directly chosen. Among those at the Core Formation stage, some with good appearances and who were virgins were chosen. Those who were ugly or had low cultivation and were not virgins were rejected and taken away, their fate unknown!
Under the gloomy dark red sky, the scene was extremely quiet, and no one dared to speak! Salen’s few words determined the chosen individuals, the entire process resembling a solemn sacrificial ceremony, devoid of any wedding joy.
Soon, led by Su Xianzhi, they were taken to the backyard. Ghost King Salen sat in front, his cold gaze watching their retreating backs.
The journey was silent. Jin Bao’er pretended to be terrified and stayed among the crowd until a female cultivator suddenly rushed forward, knocked Su Xianzhi unconscious, and then turned to escape…