Chapter 292: Different Paths

Ying Xiu's face was stern as he glanced at the Ghost who remained unharmed under the ghost artifact. His heart grew heavier, and his voice a bit urgent, "Hongying, have you found what I asked for?"

The Heroic Spirit he addressed as Hongying belonged to the ghostly kind, yet having entered the Central Netherworld and having been baptized by the Vermilion Bird's holy fire, she was entirely unlike the resentful spirits of this place, with their rage reaching the heavens.

She stood silently amidst the deep night, elegant in stature, exuding the aura of a heroine, likely the daughter of a military family in life.