The female ghost’s hair began to swell, and her black locks turned blood red.
Leo felt a sense of danger and quickly conjured up another protective barrier in front of him. The blood-red hair exploded like countless iron nails, swarming towards Leo’s location.
To his surprise, the hair easily broke through his protective barrier and attacked him directly. In the next second, Leo was sent flying backwards and slammed into a nearby tombstone with great force, shattering it into pieces.
“Damn it!” he cursed under his breath. He had underestimated the female ghost’s power again. If not for his Spiritual Power protection, he would have been in serious trouble tonight.
Leo got up from the ground despite feeling pain all over his body. He brushed off the dirt on himself as if nothing had happened before taking out another Talisman from his pocket.
Under the stimulation of Spiritual Power, the Talismans did not ignite but flew out of Leo’s hand, aiming directly at the white-robed female ghost.
The Talismans swiftly circled around the wary eyes of the female ghost, then exploded with a loud bang.
The explosion of the Talismans caused the female ghost’s face to tighten. Just as she was preparing to defend herself, a fierce fire suddenly ignited beneath her feet, instantly engulfing her.
This time, the female ghost did not let out a scream. A white mist rose from the flames.
The mist broke through the blockade of the fire and rushed towards the surrounding tombstones. After circling around the tombstones for a few times, the figure of the female ghost reappeared, still pure white from head to toe, without a single hair out of place.
“A mere trivial trick, what can it do against me?” The female ghost seemed to have complete confidence in Leo, exuding arrogance.
As soon as the female ghost finished speaking, a faint glow lit up on the surrounding tombstones.
An evil smile appeared at the corner of the female ghost’s mouth. She raised her hands towards the sky and chanted an incantation in her mouth.
Leo suddenly felt something strange beneath his feet, but by the time he reacted and tried to escape, it was already too late.
Two fleshless hands grabbed his ankles, and a tremendous force pulled him downward.
Although startled, Leo remained calm and shouted, “Bring forth the blade!”
Gathering his Spiritual Power, a large knife shimmering with cold light appeared in his hand.
With a powerful swing, the knife in his hand chopped off the skeletal hands that gripped his ankles.
Then, Leo threw the large knife into the air, and it transformed into a sickle.
The sickle whirled around, severing all the skeletal hands that emerged from the ground.
However, the severed skeletal hands sprouted back like mushrooms after rain. Leo knew that it would be futile to continue severing them. The best way to deal with this trick was to capture the ringleader.
With a thought, Leo directed the sickle to attack the female ghost on one side.
The female ghost reacted quickly. As the sickle approached her, she had already turned into white smoke and disappeared in place. At the same time, Leo also disappeared.
As expected, where Leo had been standing, countless black hairs were inserted into the ground like steel needles.
Leo had no choice but to dispel the sickle.
When the figure of the female ghost reappeared, the commotion on the ground intensified.
Amidst a sound resembling the wailing of countless ghosts, dozens of skeletons slowly emerged from the ground.
Some of these skeletons were halfway decayed, with flesh and skin hanging from their bones, emitting a strong stench.
After crawling out of the ground, the skeletons immediately surrounded Leo, baring their teeth and claws.
Looking at the approaching terrifying skeletons, even the courageous Leo couldn’t help but feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.
Once again, he extended his right hand, gathering his Spiritual Power, and shouted, “Bring forth the blade!”
This time, a large knife burning with raging flames appeared in his hand.
Evil entities feared fire, which was why Leo had added flames to the blade’s surface.
At this moment, the two skeletons in front had already pounced forward.
Leo swung the flaming blade in his hand horizontally, cutting the two skeletons in half. The torn cloth strips and putrid flesh on the skeletons ignited in flames.
The shattered skeletons formed two piles of burning fire on the ground.
The remaining skeletons seemed undeterred by the flaming blade in Leo’s hand. Two fell, but four more lunged forward, like starved hyenas finding food.
Although this food was dangerous, the “hyenas” driven mad by hunger didn’t care about their own lives.
The sole purpose of these skeletons was to tear this living person to shreds!
And so, Leo began to slash and strike, his flaming limbs flying everywhere.
The number of skeletons increased, slowly surrounding Leo completely.
The white-robed female ghost stood on the side, calmly observing with her hands folded, as if she were watching an exciting performance.
Leo started to pant, and the movements of his blade became slower and slower. Several times, he nearly fell to the ground from the assault of a skeleton. The unbearable stench even made him feel the urge to vomit.
Seeing the encirclement closing in and more skeletons being killed, it was clear that if things continued like this, he would be drowned by these malevolent ghostly skeletons.
In a critical moment, a flash of inspiration sparked in Leo’s mind. While his body floated in mid-air, he summoned an Earth Fire Talisman.
Fierce flames burst out from the ground, like the fires of hell, incinerating everything on the surface.
In just a short time, the skeletons on the ground were burned to ashes, and no new skeletons crawled out from the earth.
Now the female ghost understood Leo’s power. She opened her mouth, and a black pearl floated out from within.
“You brat, your strength is not weak indeed. You’ve forced me to use the Ghost Spirit Pearl. Tonight, I shall make you the sacrifice for my Ghost Spirit Pearl!”
The cherry-sized black pearl floated in front of the female ghost, slowly rotating, as black light flickered on its surface.
Leo used his Spiritual Power to probe, but he couldn’t discern what exactly this thing was.
Knowing that hesitation would lead to change, Leo immediately condensed his Spiritual Power into an object and threw a spear towards the female ghost.
The female ghost rapidly formed a hand seal with both hands, and the Ghost Spirit Pearl in front of her began to move.
The black energy on the surface of the Ghost Spirit Pearl surged, and in the blink of an eye, substantial black energy formed an oversized black shield.
The spear formed by condensed Spiritual Power shot towards the black shield and instantly shattered and dissipated.
Just as Leo was stunned, the black hair on the female ghost’s head grew wild again. Like octopus tentacles, it rapidly swept towards Leo.
Leo couldn’t sit idly by. He bit his left index finger, formed a hand seal with one hand, and pointed several times in the air. A golden curtain of light appeared in front of him.
When the female ghost’s black hair touched the golden curtain of light, an exploding sound rang out, and white smoke rose from the ghost’s hair.
Luckily, the ghost’s hair retracted quickly; otherwise, it would have surely caught fire.
The female ghost gently caressed her hair with a look of dismay on her face, as though her beloved treasure had been damaged.
When the female ghost looked up at Leo again, her face became terrifyingly grim.