Chapter 55

Youny Geey was well aware of Ghost Spirits' trickiness: different from other types of ghostly entities, a Ghostly Spirit could possess an individual. And once it managed to do that, Youny Geey's special methods against it would no longer work. He had to fight the possessed man hand-to-hand.

Once a man was possessed, his strength would be greatly enhanced for the time being. This skill of Ghost Spirits was hard to counter.

If Youny Geey had not been exhausted now, he would have been in no fear of this skill, but the reality was the opposite. Furthermore, anyone among Le Xaan's group was a strongly built man, the type of target a Ghost Spirit desired the most.

Now that Youny Geey ran out of strength, the situation would turn extremely precarious if the Ghost Spirit succeeded in its attempt.

"Run!"

Although Youny Geey almost couldn't catch his breath, he still briskly rushed toward the group of men.

However, Youny Geey was apparently much slower than this Ghost Spirit.

At the beat of a heart, the white form dashed at Le Xaan, who boasted the most robust body among the pack of them.

Youny Geey's heart skipped a beat. If something bad happened to Le Xaan, then he and Dquan Ronri would be in grave trouble in Gourian City.

Within just a single day, he learned of how much weight the Le name carried across the city from his contacts with people not bound by rank and file.

He exerted special footwork that granted him great swiftness, trying to block the white silhouette in its tracks.

"Clang!"

In that instant, a flash of white light streaked through the air.

Le Xaan's eyes were bugling.

His right hand drew his blade from behind his back before he slashed it down at the white figure.

A tiger snarl resounded from the edge, turning the flow of air all around him tumultuous.

Its cold glow was glaring, accompanied by a ferocious tiger growl.

"Roar!"

"Poof!"

Upon impact of the slash, the white form shot backward, spinning round and round in midair like a piece of rag and eventually evaporating with a sizzling sound.

The whole place sank into silence as Le Xaan slowly sheathed his blade.

His upper-body muscles grew visibly larger due to the increased flow of blood. Now, he had a fierce and vicious aura about him, making him resemble a human-form beast.

Youny Geey paused in his steps and gaped at this sight. And then he cast a glance at the spot where the Ghost Spirit vanished and then gazed at the mighty-looking Le Xaan. He stood there at a loss for words.

Meanwhile, Dquan Ronri was awestruck as her eyes sparkled. She walked up to the side of Youny Geey as she remarked,

"Brother Youny Geey, Young Master Xaan is truly powerful... "

Dquan Ronri was just a beginner, so she was not aware of what the slash of Le Xaan meant.

However, Youny Geey was different from her. He stared at Le Xaan wide-eyed until Le Xaan walked up to him and broke the silence.

"Reverend Youny, I appreciate your efforts. If not for the fact that you've severely injured the Ghost Spirit, I would not have been able to kill it with just one blow." Le Xaan said with a amiable smile.

"... Young Master Xaan... you're too polite."

Youny Geey jolted back to his senses and then shook his head.

"To be honest, I knew a lot of fellow spirit exorcists. Some of them use some special methods to do away with these spirits. But none of them could manage to kill spirits while exerting only their inner body Qi. This is the first time I've seen it... "

As he said this, he recalled his words that martial arts posed little threats to Ghost Spirits.

Considering this, he could not help but laugh bitterly.

"Oh?" Le Xaan was stunned by what Youny Geey said.

With an awkward smile on his face, Youny Geey explained seriously. His impatience in the morning had completely disappeared without a trace.

"Actually, martial arts sometimes works. But that would only be true for those with inner body Qi of the fire property or other special ones.

But their destructive power is limited... For example. To kill a spirit, I only need to mobilize one-hundredth of my power, but you have to use up fifty-hundredth of your power with your fire-property inner body Qi."

After hearing this, Le Xaan got the gist of it and realized the reason why Youny Geey held martial arts experts in low regard. The efficiency gap was simply too huge.

"As for why you was able to execute the Ghost Spirit with a single strike, it was partly because I have caused some injuries to it and partly because your inner body Qi has some properties that counteract a Ghost Spirit."

Youny Geey added.

Behind Le Xaan were Veur Hamvy and the other guards who followed Le Xaan here. They had all witnessed Le Xaan's slash at the floating white silhouette.

They were somewhat fearful on their road here, but now they found themselves bolder.

Now, all of them looked at Le Xaan with an admiring gaze.

Even though Youny Geey was able to knock off those ghosts with great ease, their young master was no ordinary person either.

Earlier on, Veur Hamvy was frightened, especially when the Ghost Spirit flew over. That really scared the hell out of him.

Back then, his back soaked with sweat, his mind went blank from terror while he stood rooted to the spot.

The majority of these guards turned tail and ran away, tossing away their weapons and torches on the ground.

"Tidy the place and survey the area around to see if there are any other people."

Le Xaan looked over his shoulder and glanced at the guards behind him before turning to Veur Hamvy.