Assimilate

Hao Xuan waited for the guard to get out of earshot before he addressed the creature that was standing on the other side of the stone doorway.

"Did you die recently? Why are you here?"

The creature answered by floating several feet off the ground and undoing the illusions which had allowed it to take human form. Its true appearance was mostly shrouded in copious amounts of Yin Qi revealing only two bright red eyes that were staring Hao Xuan down.

Hao Xuan felt the surge in power and sighed in response. It was far above anything that he could sense with his current cultivation and from the looks of it even breaking through to the Profound Realm would not help much.

It was the second strongest creature from the underworld that he had come across besides 'Ashura of the Six Paths'.

"Not recent at all then. You're old, very old. But why come here then? It's not like there are many people passing through."