The king gasped. "Do you mean to say that these black spirits are already dead?"

"More precisely, they're monsters that were created from souls."

"Are they ghosts or spirits?"

"Similar to both, but not truly either. They're weapons of war created by the death spirits, manufactured from a combination of corpses and the living."

The king clarified, "The death spirits are the mastermind behind all this, then?"

"You wouldn't understand even if I explained it, and knowing too much would only put you in danger. Finish cleaning up the rest of the black spirits first."

If Zhang Lie were to tell the new king that the black spirits were being controlled by the death spirits, whom even the other superior worlds feared, he doubted any good would come out of it—it...