Clutching the Executioner’s Great Blade, he stepped back into the night.
Hu Ma felt, faintly, that this was actually a good chance to temper himself.
Back in Shima Town, after he had forged the General’s Seal and already broken through two mansion gates, and with the recent days’ repeated clashes, all the opponents he’d met had been tough customers.
Coupled with the fact that his blood-feeding had been ample, his abilities had grown by several degrees.
Gradually, he began to glimpse what lay beyond the third gate of the year-keeper’s mansion.
Once you pushed open the third gate, you reached the fiercest level of entering the mansion as a year-keeper: the spirit receives incense while the body walks yin and yang.
Simply put, it meant using a living body to walk inside the Yin Mansion.
In truth, ghost-walkers didn’t need to wait until such a late stage.
Open the first gate and some of the more skilled practitioners, even at the Ascension step, could borrow a path through the Yin Mansion with their arts.
But because he was born from the ghost-walker kin and had learned the year-keeper’s techniques, Hu Ma had never tried that path.
Still, ghost-walkers borrowed the Yin Mansion by relying on a method.
What if he himself could use his flesh to walk the Yin Mansion?