: A Bountiful Harvest in One Night!

"No!"

Almost simultaneously, Shen Kun and Shen Yuan expressed strong protests!

"The lantern ghosts will pounce on you in an instant, sucking your flesh dry!"

Shen Yi didn't say much, but simply pointed to the open space between the spirits and the wooden house.

"After I upgraded the house today, any monsters that approach the house will suffer some damage."

"That's why they lingered in the courtyard, unable to get close to the house."

Shen Kun and his companion were skeptical.

Indeed, the spirit's behavior tonight was quite strange.

After observing carefully for a while, they discovered that the spirit would indeed retreat when it came within two meters of the wooden house, as if it were being attacked.

"If I collect enough Shadowwood, I might be able to further reinforce our cabin, and the Shadowwood Longbow might also be able to be strengthened again."

Shen Yi said slowly.

If you want to obtain the Yin Soul Wood, you'll have to face the Lantern Ghost sooner or later.

Now that there's a chance to hunt lantern ghosts, he naturally wants to give it a try.

Upon hearing this, both Shen Kun and Shen Yuan fell into deep thought.

After a moment, Shen Kun looked up again and said in a deep voice:

"Alright! But brother, you can't go out. You can shoot arrows inside the house. I'll guard the gate."

"Can."

Shen Yi nodded in agreement, but he was still not entirely at ease as he left the house.

After her two older brothers made their decision, the younger sister, Shen Yuan, quickly brought over the quiver.

The three siblings cautiously approached the door.

Shen Yi gripped the bow and arrow, a sense of precision rising within him as he drew an arrow and nocked it onto the bowstring.

He gave Shen Kun a meaningful look.

Without hesitation, Shen Kun immediately opened the wooden door a crack.

Shen Yi's deep gaze fell on a lantern ghost outside the house. He quickly aimed at the target, and the long arrow instantly flew out through the crack in the door!

call out--

There was only a soft sound.

Snapped!

A dull, resonant sound of wood being struck echoed through the courtyard.

Shen Yi looked over and saw that the arrow had just pierced through the black wooden skeleton of a lantern ghost, scattering the ball of blood light inside the lantern.

According to the experience passed down by his parents, the most important thing about the lantern ghost is the two flames of spirit inside it.

All that's needed is to scatter the two flames of spirit, and the lantern ghost will be killed.

However, the lantern spirit's spiritual fire cannot be destroyed by ordinary objects.

The bows and arrows of their Black Mountain Village are made of deep ebony, which is extremely tough. Because they naturally gather yang energy, they have a suppressive effect on spirits and monsters.

If the bow and arrow are made of ordinary bamboo or wood, they will be instantly burned to ashes when they come into contact with the spiritual fire of the lantern ghost.

"We got it!" Shen Kun exclaimed excitedly in a low voice when he saw this.

Shen Yi didn't stop moving. The next second, he instinctively drew a second arrow and shot it out. The second ball of spiritual fire of the lantern ghost was extinguished by the arrow.

In an instant, the lantern ghost lost all its power in mid-air and fell heavily to the ground with a "thud".

Successfully killed a lantern ghost!

Shen Kun and Shen Yuan were overjoyed.

Shen Yi had already drawn his third arrow at that moment.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

He didn't stop shooting arrows, continuously firing them through the crack in the door at the lantern ghost outside!

Lantern ghosts fell one after another, but their numbers did not decrease, as if the entire Black Mountain was filled with their shadows, and they kept coming in endlessly.

However, they dared not approach the house of Shen Yi and his sister, and all lingered in the courtyard as live targets!

"Big brother, we're almost out of arrows," Shen Yuan reminded him.

She had taken out all the arrows in the house, and now there were only two left.

Shen Yi glanced at the arrows; there were just enough left to kill another lantern ghost.

call out!call out!

After the two arrows were shot, Shen Kun immediately closed the wooden door, and his tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

He never imagined that he would be hunting spirits before he even became a cultivator.

Shen Kun looked at Shen Yi, his eyes filled with even greater respect.

"A total of sixteen lantern ghosts were killed."

Shen Yuan, having kept track of the number of lantern ghosts she had hunted, spoke up.

"Sixteen..."

Shen Yi shook his head.

If he had enough arrows, he could kill even more lantern ghosts tonight!

Arrows made from dark ebony are limited.

Although parents usually retrieve them, many are still lost in the wild and cannot be found.

They currently only have thirty-two Deep Black Arrows capable of harming spirits. To acquire more Deep Black Arrows, they must see if anyone in the village is willing to sell them.

Or... travel to the deeper parts of Black Mountain to find Deep Ebony and craft Deep Ebony Arrows yourself.

They learned archery from a young age and were no strangers to arrow making.

However, the places where ebony grows are too dangerous, as monsters may appear there.

Usually, it's a group of villagers who go out to search for deep ebony.

"Perhaps, we should try upgrading the ordinary wooden arrows?"

A thought popped into Shen Yi's mind.

I just don't know how much wear and tear will occur.

Since there are no ordinary arrows at home, Shen Yi has no way to try it out and can only wait until tomorrow.

"Go to sleep first, we'll retrieve the spirit wood from the lantern ghost tomorrow!"

Shen Yi looked at his two younger siblings.

However, due to what had just happened, both of them were invigorated and not sleepy for the time being.

Shen Kun went to the side to practice the Wild Bull Technique. He needed to enter the Qi and Blood Realm as soon as possible so that he could better help his elder brother.

Shen Yuan then went to Shen Yi's side and asked him about his experience in cultivating the Wild Bull Technique.

Previously, her spiritual enlightenment was overseen by the two elders of the Shen family.

However, this responsibility has now fallen on Shen Yi, the eldest son of the Shen family.

Shen Yi let her nestle in his arms and patiently explained the details of the Wild Bull Kung Fu.

A night passes in the blink of an eye.

As dawn broke, the spirits that roamed the mountains and fields during the night had vanished, as if they had never existed.

Shen Yi got up and walked out of the house, and saw that there were indeed a bunch of lantern ghost bodies lying in the yard!

The lantern ghost has a bizarre appearance, consisting of a frame made of more than ten black tree branches of varying lengths, wrapped in a thin white film.

Among these dozen or so black branches, only one is a ghost tree.

It is the black tree branch standing in the center of the inside of the lantern.

This piece of wood is responsible for carrying the spiritual fire of the lantern ghost, which is why it is so special.

Shen Yi used all his strength to barely manage to break off the Yin Soul Wood.

If it weren't for the suppressive effect of the Yin-Suppressing Wooden House, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary people to deal with the Lantern Ghost.

[Tier 1 Folk Material 'Soul Wood' detected. Collect it?]

Yes!

[Materials collected: 2 Shadow Wood]

Seeing the Yin Soul Wood enter the tent, Shen Yi was full of energy and continued to dismantle the Yin Soul Wood from the Lantern Ghost.

When Shen Kun and his companion woke up, they saw Shen Yi busy in the courtyard, and their drowsiness immediately dissipated.

"Brother, your injuries haven't healed yet. Why didn't you wake me up to help?"

Shen Kun strode into the courtyard and said.

"It's alright, my injuries are much better now."

Shen Yi waved his hand, removed the last piece of Yin Soul Wood, and a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

[Materials collected: 17 Shadow Wood]!