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Chapter 1176: Forced Breakthrough (Part 1)

Gu Mo City has many Spirit Mediums, and quite a few Spirit Masters. For Big Sister, as a woman, to firmly hold the top position, with other Spirit Masters not daring to act presumptuously in front of her, it's naturally impossible without a certain level of strength and means.

Big Sister's own strength had already reached the pinnacle of a Spirit Master. This level of power was not only unmatched among the Spirit Mediums in Gu Mo City, but even looking across the entire city, few could reach such a height.

However, just like Yi Xuan, the leader of the Talisman Cult, Big Sister rarely made a move. Those who had witnessed her in action were either her closest confidantes, or they were dead. Thus, few knew her true strength.

Yet today, Big Sister not only unleashed her full power, but also employed all of her formidable techniques one by one. This even included methods she believed were not yet ready and had been unwilling to use prematurely.

Summoning a Spirit Aspect was one of her powerful techniques, as was the secret Spirit Art of Soul Fusion. And now, her consumption of a massive number of ghosts to drastically increase her strength was her ultimate resort.

She originally did not want to use this method, but at this moment, she had no choice. If she didn't use it now, she would soon die tragically by Yang Haoran's hand. If it truly came to that, then there would be no meaning in holding back this technique.

Precisely because she considered this point, even though the method, in her eyes, was not yet mature enough and hadn't reached her ideal standard, she still decided to use it now.

Big Sister was an ambitious person. Ever since she became a Spirit Medium, the goal she set for herself was never just to be a Spirit Master, but to reach an even higher realm. Even when her strength reached the pinnacle of a Spirit Master, she never thought of stopping there. Instead, she wanted to continue climbing, to witness the scenery at the very top with her own eyes.

One step beyond the pinnacle of a Spirit Master lay a brand new realm: Grand Spirit Master. However, taking this step and firmly establishing oneself was no easy feat, nor was it something that could be accomplished in three or five years. Even doubling that time didn't guarantee success.

She desired to break through, but she didn't want to spend too long doing it. After all, in this chaotic world, the sooner she broke through to the Grand Spirit Master realm, the greater her chances of survival, and the greater her gains would be.

Therefore, she decided to choose a shortcut to breakthrough. Even if it meant wasting a significant amount of resources and incurring a certain degree of danger, she resolved to take this path.

Thus, she began collecting ghosts in large quantities, feeding them at any cost. However, these ghosts weren't for her subordinate Spirit Masters or Spirit Mediums; they were for herself. She wanted to drastically increase her own strength by devouring these cultivated ghosts!

For a Spirit Medium, using ghosts to enhance one's power was not difficult. One merely needed to have their Guardian Spirit devour the ghosts. This way, not only would the Guardian Spirit's strength increase, but the master's power would also rise accordingly.

However, she did not do that. She wanted to enhance her own strength, not that of her Guardian Spirit. Therefore, she could not let her Guardian Spirit devour these ghosts. If she did, a portion of the power converted from these ghosts would inevitably fall to the Guardian Spirit.

But without going through the Guardian Spirit, it was simply impossible for her flesh-and-blood body to directly devour ghosts to increase her power. Doing so would only cause the energy within her body to become violent and chaotic. Not only would she fail to enhance her strength, but she might even lose her life.

To achieve her goal, she sought solutions through various channels, and in the end, she truly found a viable method. However, this method had a strict condition: it could only succeed after the master and Guardian Spirit performed Soul Fusion. Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible to succeed, and forcing the attempt would only cost her life.

According to the records of this method, after Soul Fusion, the master's physical body would undergo a transformation. With the corresponding technique, one could not only devour ghosts and absorb their power, but also transfer all of the absorbed power directly to the master, without the Guardian Spirit receiving even a speck, despite any existing contract between master and spirit.

However, to successfully achieve Soul Fusion with a Guardian Spirit, the Guardian Spirit had to be a Blood-Clad. This was difficult for most Spirit Masters, but for her, it was not an issue, as her Guardian Spirit was already Blood-Clad.

Therefore, she began to follow the instructions in the method, using secret arts to plant complex and profound runes on the ghosts she intended to devour. This allowed her to control the ghosts while also facilitating their eventual consumption, increasing both the speed of ingestion and refinement.

For safety, she first experimented with a small number of ghosts to test the method's feasibility. The result made her very happy: the method truly worked.

However, because the number of ghosts was small and their strength was weak, the increase in her power at the time was not significant. Still, she did successfully improve her strength by a little, which was indeed a fact.

According to the method's records, the more ghosts devoured at once, and the stronger those ghosts were, the greater the power boost gained after consumption. However, the danger coefficient also increased accordingly.

Big Sister's choice had never wavered from beginning to end: to collect and feed more. Even though she knew doing so carried significant risks, to satisfy her ambition, she still decided to proceed.

As the number of ghosts she cultivated grew, and their strength steadily increased, her ideal outcome was no longer simply to break through to the Grand Spirit Master realm. She not only wanted to successfully break through, but also to stabilize her position within the Grand Spirit Master realm, and ideally, achieve a breakthrough to the mid-stage Grand Spirit Master in one fell swoop!

Originally, the number of ghosts she had on hand hadn't reached her ideal quantity, nor had their strength met her requirements. But now, facing Yang Haoran, whose power far exceeded her imagination, she decisively chose to employ this method.

It was precisely because she had activated this technique that the current scene unfolded.

This was her last trump card. If even this couldn't deal with Yang Haoran, then she truly had no other options.

At the same time, she placed all her hopes on this trump card!

After devouring a vast number of ghosts through a special method, the power fluctuations erupting from Big Sister's body were growing at a terrifying speed.

Boom! ! !

With a thunderous crash, Remnant Moon shattered the cage formed by the Spirit Art. Although the cage's defenses had been greatly enhanced by the proxy's massive infusion of Spirit Power, it was still no match for Remnant Moon. After just a few clashes, the cage was pulverized by Remnant Moon's fierce assault, dissipating into strands of Yin Qi.

That Remnant Moon could break through the cage in such a short time didn't surprise Big Sister's proxy in the slightest, as this was entirely within expectations.

After the proxy had infused the cage with Spirit Power, she formed hand seals once more. By the time Remnant Moon shattered the cage, her second Spirit Art had already been completed.

“Spirit Art! Skeleton Ghost Mountain! ! ! ”

A massive mountain formed from skulls suddenly appeared above Remnant Moon. Ghost Qi surged from the mountain, and numerous hideous Evil Spirits coiled around its perimeter. Accompanied by an eerie, terrifying ghostly laughter, the mountain crashed down towards Remnant Moon below.

This Skeleton Ghost Mountain not only possessed formidable destructive power, but also extremely strong defenses. It could be used for both offense and defense, and also to suppress targets.

Big Sister's proxy, in casting this art, naturally didn't hope to truly destroy or successfully suppress Remnant Moon. She merely wished to hold Remnant Moon back for a little longer, to buy more time for her main body.

Boom! ! !

With another deafening crash, the Skeleton Ghost Mountain successfully struck Remnant Moon. Remnant Moon was not shattered by the impact; it merely sank a short distance before coming to a steady halt in mid-air. No matter how Big Sister's proxy manipulated it or how much Spirit Power she infused into the Skeleton Ghost Mountain, it could not press Remnant Moon down by another inch.

A black gleam flashed, and the colossal Skeleton Ghost Mountain was directly split in half by Remnant Moon. The hideous Evil Spirits that had been cackling around the Skeleton Ghost Mountain all let out a mournful shriek at the instant it was severed, exploding one after another. The two halves of the Skeleton Ghost Mountain then immediately exploded as well, dissolving into strands of Yin Qi.