Upon arriving near one meter Cole, the crowd of ghosts, all of them got slower until a wall of them was created by being stacked together. It was the effect of Virgo's [Time Field].

After getting stacked together, the crowd of ghosts gets more horrendous and terrifying, defeating many horror movies from Earth, if not all.

This time, the smiling face of the devilish handsome man vanished and a frown was etched on it. His grip on the Netherworld Ghost Flag have also subconsciously tighten.

Seeing this, the rage on Cole's mind and heart lessen a little bit after his opponent become wary of him. He then take that chance that the crowd of ghost have accumulated on one area and basically have their movement stop due to 1,000 times slowness effect of Virgo's [Time Field] and use Purifying Evil Radiance Orb's skills.

Immediately, as though he turn into the sun itself, bright light enough to blind person is fully released from Cole's body. It was the Purifying Evil Radiance Orb' [Exorcist Evil] and [Purifying Light].

The moment it was casted, a slow, distorted cry could be heard from the crowd of ghosts and a suspicious black smoke could be seen released by their body, which immediately turn whiter the moment it was exposed to light. And that white smoke flow towards Cole's hands, specifically to Soul Jade Bangle he wore.

Ghosts are also a member of Spirit Race, just like Elementals. The same as them, ghosts don't have any physical body and was fully made up of Soul-Energy. It was only normal that after they were refined and cleaned by [Purifying Light], they were turned into a pure Soul-Energy that will immediately scatter back to Heaven and Earth. But since his Soul Jade Bangle automatically absorbs the free Soul-Energy in the air, not even an ounce of it got wasted and scatter in the air.

In terms of efficiency and utility, Cole believed that his Heaven-Rank Soul Jade Bangle won't even fall in defeat with Baldy. He don't know why he think of it this way since the difference between Heaven-Rank and Divine-Rank equipment was like of Heaven and Earth, but he convince himself that it should have something to do with the fact that his Soul Jade Bangle was personally crafted by his mysterious and all powerful Messiah Tree.

In just a short moment, the body of the ghosts have started to become more transparent. Their distorted, slow cry have also become weaker as second pass by. It was apparent that the ghost that have the average strength of Tier-5 don't even pose a threat to Baldy. A Divine-Rank Artifact and the one who even refine a Saint-Level Devil for hundreds, if not thousands, of years is by no means a joke.

"A Light-type buddhist technique?! Your a buddhist cultivator?!" The other man exclaimed in shock, looking at Cole with his wide open eyes.

It it true that demonic cultivators have a great disadvantage when facing buddhist cultivators since most of the latters techniques oppose their own, just like how Light have a great disadvantage with yin creatures like ghosts who usually live in dark and cold places. It was like a creature that lives from cold place was suddenly brought to a mouth of bubbling volcano.

However, demonic path cultivators should not live this long and become a nightmare and headache for many generations, eventhough they mostly live in hiding and move covertly, if those little disadvantages could immediately defeat them.

It was just that Cole's move overwhelmed the other party. Approximately, there should be less than three-hundred Tier-5 Malicious Ghost he send to attack Cole. Even a Void Sensing-Stage light-buddhist cultivator will have a hard time facing a crowd of three-hundred Malicious Ghost, much less almost defeat them in almost a minute. Not to say that his opponent, Cole, was just a Ninth-Level Nascent Soul-Stage, not even a peak level but just a cultivator that just step on Ninth-Level.

What if the other party reach Void Sensing? One should know that unlike the previous stage, Body Tempering, Mana Gathering, Core Formation and even Nascent Soul-Stage, the breakthrough to Void Sensing brought massive changes to cultivators strength. If the increase of Peak-Level Body Tempering-Stage to First-Level Mana Gathering-Stage, or Peak-Level Core Formation-Stage to First-Level Nascent Soul-Stage, could be said to be ten times, then breaking through to Void Sensing-Stage will have a hundred times to thousand times increase in cultivators abilities and strength, due and depending on their comprehended [Concept].

For the first time in devilish handsome man's smooth sailing and arrogant life, he felt threatened by another person. His grip on the Netherworld Ghost Flag tighten even more.

In addition, the moment he felt that there's something wrong with his army of ghosts after they enter a certain distance from his opponent, he immediately try to recall his slaves back near him. However, as though all of them carried a massive mountain behind their back, their speed could not even be called crawling, it was as if they were... stopped in time.

But no matter how hard he tried to convinced himself, he don't want to believe that someone from a low quality place like Azure Territory can produce a people that have the talent of Time-Affinity.

However, he might want to believe or not, there is one thing certain in that moment– those Malicious Ghosts he send to attack the other party are done for. It was fortunate that those he sends was just a trash of ghost army of Netherworld Ghost Flag or the lose will be hard for him to bear.

Instantly, the man decided to abandon the less than three-hundred Malicious Ghosts and started to make a run for it. The unpredictability of the other party threaten him. It was better to escape while the other party was still occupied by other tasks.

Silently, the body of the devilish man started to become transparent and fuse with the surrounding.

But Cole is angry at the man and this little move didn't escape his detection. Without even trying of concealing it, he commanded Celia loudly, "Don't let him escape!"

As if she teleports, Celia reappear in the next second beside the vanishing silhouette of devil man. It was apparent that she use the superior speed of Divine Dragon in that movement.

After she arrived beside the man, with her faced covered with serious expression, her fist suddenly ignited with purple fire and punched towards the transparent body of the demonic man.

A shock expression appear on man's face once again, not expecting that the little girl he don't pay a mind was actually an expert too. What's more, her way of attacking is through barbaric way like punching, which don't fit her immature beauty temperament.

After recovering from his shocked state, the man immediately dodged the punch and started to create some distance between her. However, to his suprise, his pride [Vanishing Ghost Step] seems have no effect to her, his every movement was followed by the little girl and her fiery punch.

[Vanishing Ghost Step] was a innate skill he recieved by his special Ghost Devil Physique. When using this skill, like a vanishing ghost, he will vanish from eyesight that even cultivator's [Divine Sense] can't detect. This skill was one of his source of arrogance and killed many using this assassination ability.

But his ghosts skills seems like don't have any desired effect by this two people! It was like they were the very bane of his existence.

Once again, while trying to evade her attacks, his shock have reach the peak about this little group he encounter. And knowing that he won't be able to escape as long as the little girl remain on chasing him, and that chance will even get slimmer if the other guy finished on killing the army of ghosts he send and attack him simultaneously, he decided to summon two Tier-5 Malicious Ghost then send them to occupy the little girl.

"Kyaaa~~!!" The two ghosts maliciously cry, immediately approach Celia with their vicious mouth wide open and their hands resembled a claw were aim at her head.

The demonic cultivator man sneered at Celia before he focus his all on escaping from the scene.

But he only removed his eyesight from Celia by millisecond and he immediately heard a loud shriek of a dying ghosts.

The demonic cultivator man's heart skip a beat and turn his head to look, and what he saw have no weaker impact than the bright light Cole emits. He saw that the two Tier-5 Malicious Ghost he send was currently covered with purple fire and getting burned by it.

Since the army of ghosts being refined by Cole was slowed by 1,000 times, their emotions wasn't even have a chance to be transferred to devil man through their connection with Netherworld Ghost Flag, but this time, he could clearly perceived the pain those two ghost felt.

Eventhough those two are practically a dead creature and their sense of pain was almost nonexistent, he could heard that they were overwhelmed with feeling of pain that they don't even have a consciousness to attack as their mind was fully occupied with the painful torture they were in.

The man's felt that he was poured with cold water. Basically, after he enter the transparent ghost state using his special physique, he was no different from other ghost in terms of their body structure. If those two ghost got burned into that state, then the outcome if he'd get touched by that purple fire should be no different...

"I have to escape from this place fast!" He screamed inside his head.

The work of refining the army of ghosts was actually done by Baldy and Virgo. But since he don't want to expose the existence of Purifying Evil Radiance Orb being with him, he had no choice but to remain on his current spot and create a scene that he's using his own skill rather than from artifcat. Due to this, third of his attention was focused at Celia and demonic cultivator man's battle.

And after sometime, Cole could see that the latter have an adamant expression of escaping. However, no matter how many number of ghosts he send at Celia, all of them only have one result– getting burned by purple fire.

Celia's [Soul Fire] is truly a bane of spirit type creatures.

After some time, Cole finally confirm two things.

First, the man can't summon a ghost that exceeds Third-Level of Tier-5. Basically, until now, all of the Malicious Ghosts he summoned only have strength of Third-Level of Tier-5 and the lowest was First-Level of Tier-5.

Second, those ghosts, eventhough they have strength equivalent to Tier-5, they can't use any [Concept] at all. He don't have any ounce of idea how this happen but the only reason he could think of was that those ghosts was no different from a puppet who have no own consciousness. They can't think for themselves and could only follow the commands of the holder of Netherworld Ghost Flag. However, eventhough they can't use [Concept], their capabilities was of truly Tier-5 standards. It was only because the opponents those ghost face are Cole and Celia and they don't even given a chance to shine and show their true capabilities.

Since Cole knew that the Netherworld Ghost Flag was currently damaged, he knew that the other party can only fully control a ghosts that have the strength of Third-Level Tier-5. Probably, if he summon much powerful ghosts, his control over them should be weaken to some extent that will greatly burden him if he done that.

What's more, Celia could burn a Third-Level Tier-5 Malicious Ghosts fastly. Summoning a Fourth-Level should have no any effect but summoning any more powerful than that pose a great burden to the devil man's mental force.

And if he can't control the ghosts he summoned, he might received a backlash and... might even get attacked by those Malicious Ghosts. Don't say about escaping, he might even get killed by his own summoned ghosts.

Cole don't know the extent of torture those ghosts experience inside the Netherworld Ghost Flag but he knew that the moment those shackles that bind and control them is released, even momentarily, they will definitely enact revenge to the holder of the equipment.

It's just what people said, a demonic equipment or artifact like Netherworld Ghost Flag is like a double edged sword; they might be powerful but the backlash they could cause could even kill their owner.

Suddenly, a sadistic smile appear on Cole's face...