Chapter 210: The Malice Finger and the Endless Training Grounds

Discussing cultivation in such an environment truly felt like hell. Especially with the incessant screams echoing from upstairs and the stench of various burning things assaulting my nostrils, even the protective artifacts couldn’t completely block it out.

Raising my head, I saw a person, entirely engulfed in flames, clinging to the anti-theft grate. They desperately reached out to us, screaming and struggling as the fire consumed them, but they were trapped, unable to escape. All I could see was their expression of agony and despair.

Immediately after, several more figures plummeted from the air. Some were ablaze, others were not, but all of them hit the ground with a sickening thud, their bodies reduced to mangled flesh, blood splattering everywhere.

“Are we… supposed to cultivate in this kind of environment?” Xiao Qing asked, retreating several steps in alarm. She had noticed that the people who had just fallen weren’t entirely dead; they were still twitching on the ground, struggling to get up.

“Of course! Not only is there ample malevolent energy, but we also have targets. Isn’t this an ideal training ground? Watch closely.” Mo Qingyan raised her hand, aiming at one of the fallen figures.

Engulfed in flames, their limbs grotesquely twisted from the fall, and their skin covered in burns, the figure still managed to rise. They stared at us with blood-red eyes, filled with hatred and torment.

In that instant, a surge of malevolent energy condensed at Mo Qingyan’s fingertip. With a casual flick of her hand, the energy formed into a concentrated beam, instantly piercing the person’s head and causing it to explode.

Not stopping there, Mo Qingyan continued to point her finger at the other figures plummeting from above, exploding their heads one by one. Brain matter and blood splattered everywhere, and only after their heads were obliterated did they finally collapse motionless.

“Are these… are these all ghosts? Were they truly destroyed just like that?”

Xiao Qing covered her mouth, averting her gaze. The gruesome and cruel scene made her nauseous; she couldn’t bear to look at the grotesque piles of flesh, which, despite their mutilation, were still attempting to rise before being instantly obliterated by Mo Qingyan.

“That’s right, they are all people who met a tragic end in the fire,” Mo Qingyan explained. “Within the sealed inferno, they endlessly relive their deaths. That means the ghosts jumping from upstairs are those who, in their desperation back then, chose to jump to their deaths.”

“They aren’t so easily destroyed, or rather, not so easily freed. As long as this ghost domain persists, as long as the resentment hasn’t dissipated and the seal remains unbroken, they will endlessly repeat their past suffering and deaths.”

“However, precisely because of this, they make perfect training targets for us. After all, a group of not-so-powerful ghosts can infinitely revive within this burning hellscape. You can practice on them without any reservations.”

As Mo Qingyan spoke, another five or six figures leaped from the upper floors. Just like before, they crashed to the ground, shattered, yet still dragged their broken bodies up, driven by the vengeful spirits’ hatred for the living, and lunged towards us.

“Watch carefully; I’ll demonstrate it again. This technique is called the Malice Finger. You condense malevolent energy at your fingertip, then release it.” Mo Qingyan raised her hand.

Six consecutive beams of malevolent energy shot out, instantly exploding the heads of all the newly fallen figures.

‘In that moment, I actually felt an inexplicable sense of coolness. A beautiful high school girl, raising her finger, mercilessly slaying screaming vengeful spirits, one shot, one kill—it felt like a quickdraw cowboy in a Western film.’

“I want to learn! Please teach me!” I exclaimed, raising my hand. I meticulously observed Mo Qingyan’s hand gestures and the flow of malevolent energy around her.

“A diligent student, I don’t dislike that at all. Watch closely. First, sense the malevolent energy around you. Then, use your mind to mobilize it, condense it onto your finger, aim at your enemy, and unleash it all at once!” Mo Qingyan instructed and demonstrated simultaneously.

This time, she didn’t even wait for the ghosts to hit the ground. She simply raised her finger towards the sky, like shooting birds, firing a beam of malevolent energy with each flick. By the time the ghosts landed, they had already been pierced by the Malice Finger, dissipating into malevolent energy.

“I’ll give it a try.” I mimicked Mo Qingyan’s movements, extending my hand, three fingers clasped together, index finger extended, and thumb cocked for aiming. I pointed forward, and Xiao Qing, following suit, adopted the same stance.

Then, I began to attempt to sense the surrounding malevolent energy. The air around us was filled with scorching heat; without the protection of the artifacts, I would have been instantly incinerated.

Nevertheless, I persisted in trying to perceive the malevolent energy, attempting to gather it. Initially, the energy remained unresponsive. But then, the Iron Thread Gu on my arm began to absorb the surrounding malevolent energy, channeling it into my hand.

I felt a burning sensation in my finger as I desperately concentrated the malevolent energy there. When it reached its absolute limit and could no longer be contained, the energy burst forth like a bomb.

If Mo Qingyan’s Malice Finger was a precise beam, what I shot out was a scattershot. To be more blunt, it was like a burst of flatulence or a split stream of urine—a mere expulsion of air. Aside from slightly disturbing the flames in front of me, there was no other effect.

As I stood there awkwardly, Mo Qingyan unexpectedly praised, “How impressive! Yubing, your talent is quite good. When I first practiced, it took me at least three hours to learn how to draw in malevolent energy. I never expected you to grasp it in just a few minutes!”

Xiao Qing also looked at me in astonishment. She hadn’t even managed to get a reaction from the energy around her, yet I was already able to attract it to my finger and expel it.

“Actually, it was the Gu worm helping me attract the malevolent energy,” I said with a wry smile. “And what I shot out was completely shapeless; it didn’t form properly at all.”

“I see, no wonder. I thought it was too fast,” Mo Qingyan acknowledged. “But this is also a shortcut. As long as you continuously sense and expel malevolent energy through your body, you will quickly grasp how to control it. As for how to shoot powerful malevolent energy projectiles, that’s the next step to learn.”

“Is that so? Xiao Qing, you can also try using your Gu worm to help you gather malevolent energy. I remember the Jade Gecko also has that function,” I reminded her.

Xiao Qing, being a clever girl, quickly instructed her Jade Gecko to greedily devour the malevolent energy, then concentrate it in her hand. Soon, she too was able to spray out malevolent energy.

Jia Cheng and Xushan watched us practice gathering malevolent energy. Jia Cheng gave a bitter smile, “I’m truly envious. Back then, I didn’t have a Gu worm to help me practice; it took me six hours just to sense the malevolent energy.”

“I used a cursed artifact to assist in guiding the malevolent energy, and it still took me about four hours,” Xushan added. “Qingyan, on the other hand, managed to grasp the method of guiding malevolent energy in three hours without any assistance. She’s truly a genius.”

After Mo Qingyan began instructing us, the vengeful ghosts leaping down were left unattended. They staggered to their feet, extending their charred, skeletal claws towards us.

“Yue’er, these ghostly things are all yours,” Mo Qingyan said. “You can devour them however you like; this is the promise I made to you.”

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