Within the Dragon Phoenix Academy's Back Graveyard, a sturdy figure slowly walked out from the darkness. The figure was filled with a corrosive aura. Evidently, this was a corpse, one without any life left in it. Occupying this corpse was an evil spirit. It was an evil spirit at the cultivation level of late-stage Sovereign Realm, and it possessed a dreadfully sinister consciousness.

It had awakened from its slumber after sensing an aura filled with vitality. And without any hesitation, it had rushed straight to the outer fringe of the Back Graveyard. Before long, it appeared not far from Xiang Shaoyun's position. Its eye sockets were empty, with two clumps of radiance pulsing within them, looking incredibly eerie.

"What a young body. I finally have a chance at rebirth," muttered the evil spirit in joy as it charged Xiang Shaoyun. But before it could even approach Xiang Shaoyun, the nether prison devil puppet attacked mercilessly and stopped it.

Unwilling to back off, the evil spirit clashed with the puppet. Evidently, the evil spirit was comparable to the puppet in strength. Thus, Xiang Shaoyun stopped cultivating and stood up. Looking at the battle, his face turned slightly solemn as he said, "Is this a Sovereign Realm zombie? No, that doesn't seem to be the case."

The corpse occupied by the evil spirit was not as sturdy as the puppet. After a short while of close combat, it was destroyed. The evil spirit ignored the corpse and flew out before pouncing at Xiang Shaoyun.

"Give your body up," said the evil spirit as he charged toward Xiang Shaoyun's head.

Without any hesitation, Xiang Shaoyun activated Yun Flame's power. The moment the evil spirit approached, Yun Flame's power harmed it, causing it to quickly retreat in pain.

"Damn it! You actually have a flame of extreme yang? But that is not enough to stop me from taking over your body!" cursed the evil spirit before it fled.

A slight worry surfaced in Xiang Shaoyun's heart as he looked at the fleeing evil spirit. He did not dare to allow a high-level evil spirit like this into his Nether Soul Domain. Although the ghostrunes were the nemeses of evil spirits, he still feared that a mishap might happen. If the evil spirit ended up taking over his Nether Soul Domain, he would be in deep trouble.

Although the nether prison devil puppet was sufficiently powerful, it couldn't do anything toward these evil spirits that did not have physical bodies. After leaving, the evil spirit would definitely return prepared. That was the source of Xiang Shaoyun's worry.

"Forget it. It's not like I have any other options. I'll just have to face whatever it throws at me," said Xiang Shaoyun to himself.

Before long, he found that a large number of skeletons were advancing toward him. One ought to know that these skeletons were supposed to only stay in their own territories. Now that they had all come here, it was clear this was the handiwork of that evil spirit. Furthermore, some of these skeletons could even fly. Each of the skeletons had traces of the evil spirit's soul power on them.

"Things are getting troublesome," muttered Xiang Shaoyun, who started getting anxious.

Without any hesitation, he stored the three birds into his astral cosmos sea. It had been proven that the astral cosmos sea was capable of storing living beings. Money was living proof of that. He also did the same with the nether prison devil puppet.

"Kid, have you given up? Come, obediently sacrifice your soul to me," said the evil spirit.

Xiang Shaoyun ignored its words and activated his Nether Shadow Evanescence, vanishing right where he stood. The Nether Shadow Evanescence was one of the three greatest abilities of the Imperial Nether Clan due to the trait of invisibility in the Imperial Nether Clan's bloodline.

After absorbing the power of the dark heart, Xiang Shaoyun's bloodline had grown considerably due to the combination of his devilish energy and dark energy. Thus, he could now easily hide himself for about an hour in this state. When the evil spirit saw that Xiang Shaoyun had disappeared, it grew anxious.

"You won't be able to hide from me! I will definitely find you!" roared the evil spirit.

Generally, as evil spirits existed in an incorporeal form, they could easily detect the existence of illusions. Regular concealment techniques wouldn't work against them. However, the trait of invisibility in the Imperial Nether Clan's bloodline was too powerful. Thus, when Xiang Shaoyun used the Nether Shadow Evanescence, not even the evil spirit could locate him.

After Xiang Shaoyun confirmed that the evil spirit couldn't sense him, he brazenly approached it. He was sure that a conscious evil spirit couldn't stay floating out in the world for a prolonged period of time because it would result in complete death through the exhaustion of soul power.

The evil spirit, behaving as if it had gone mad, ordered the skeletons to search everywhere for Xiang Shaoyun. The evil spirit itself also flew everywhere, trying to sense where Xiang Shaoyun was hiding. It was completely oblivious to the fact that Xiang Shaoyun was slowly approaching it. But when Xiang Shaoyun finally got near it, its acute soul perception detected some abnormalities. It was at that time that a beam of flame shot out from Xiang Shaoyun's finger.

Swish!

The finger beam attack was his fastest attack. Carrying Yun Flame's power with it, the beam shot forth and struck the evil spirit, which couldn't react in time. The evil spirit wailed as a portion of its soul power was destroyed, causing its body to become even more translucent.

"I'm going to crush you!" After being injured, the evil spirit's temper worsened, and it bombarded Xiang Shaoyun's location with a flying skeleton.

However, Xiang Shaoyun had long moved away after releasing his attack. From a different direction, he shot another beam of flame toward the evil spirit. Such flame of extreme yang was the nemesis of the evil spirit, and each time the evil spirit was struck, its soul power greatly decreased. Completely helpless against Xiang Shaoyun, it decided to flee.

But at this point, Xiang Shaoyun no longer feared it. After the evil spirit left, Xiang Shaoyun did not remain. Instead, he left as well. He decided to return to the place where he had met the vampire bats and see if he could find anything there. In any case, the vampire bats weren't that much of a threat to him. It wouldn't be a bad idea to switch his camp location. Before long, he arrived at the territory of the vampire bats.

The moment the vampire bats detected Xiang Shaoyun, they attacked. He couldn't even be bothered to fight them. He directly released the nether prison devil puppet to deal with them. These vampire bats were all Emperors, and thus, they couldn't pose any threat to the puppet.

Xiang Shaoyun had his guesses that although the academy might be harsh toward him, they would still allow him a chance to live. So long as he stayed away from the depths of the Back Graveyard, he would be fine.