Technically, what Shen Xu was using wasn’t the true strange but Xiaolei’s sub-fire.

Before retreating, Xiaolei and Xiaomu divided a sub-fire for Shen Xu to use.

However, the sub-fires were attached to the main flame, and since he didn’t want to disturb the two fires’ retreat, Shen Xu had intentionally avoided using the sub-fires.

Unfortunately, he encountered Meng Quan, and without the lightning element fire, Shen Xu didn’t think he could defeat the upgraded evil ghost.

’Let’s make quick work of it.’ He thought and narrowed his eyes.

A moment later, he threw the sub-fire and waited until it arrived in front of the evil ghost.

Soon after, the fire turned into a net and enveloped the evil ghost.

"You..." Meng Quan shouted, but a pained screech drowned his words.

As everyone watched, Meng Quan’s natal ghost rolled on the ground, trying to get rid of the lightning fire net, but its actions were futile. The more it struggled, the tighter the net became and before long, only its pained screams could be heard in the surroundings.

"I will kill you." Meng Quan shouted and rushed towards Shen Xu.

He was, in fact, panicking.

After all, all ghosts, regardless of their cultivation level, were afraid of lightning.

Most importantly, Shen Xu’s lightning wasn’t ordinary lightning but a strange lightning fire.

If he didn’t get rid of Shen Xu as soon as possible, his natal ghost would soon be reduced to ash, and he would have nowhere to cry.

With such thoughts in mind, Meng Quan swung his sword.

"Mountain cleaving sword." He shouted, and a domineering sword attack flew towards Shen Xu.

Seeing the attack, the double dodged, but Meng Quan didn’t give him a chance to relax.

Just as his feet landed on the ground, another attack arrived, and Shen Xu was forced to dodge again.

’I must kill him right away.’ Meng Quan thought and waved his ghost banner.

Soon after, five level eight evil ghosts flew out and began attacking Shen Xu.

Facing Meng Quan and the five level eight evil ghosts, Shen Xu couldn’t afford to be careless, so he took out his hammer.

A moment later, he hastily retreated and swung the hammer.

"Unrivalled dissonant hammer art, second turn." He shouted.

The first turn of the unrivalled dissonant hammer art was a single-target attack, and the second was a crowd attack.

However, the attack didn’t inflict equal damage on all opponents.

At this time, all six opponents were attacked, but unfortunately, Meng Quan received a less powerful attack and wasn’t injured.

That said, one evil ghost was directly killed, while two were seriously injured.

Seeing this, Meng Quan gritted his teeth in anger.

He didn’t expect that Shen Xu still had the soul power to oppose him, and for the first time, he felt that he may have kicked an iron plate.

’Does he really have endless soul power?’ He wondered and hurriedly swallowed two soul-replenishing pills.

As a ghost refiner who relied on soul power to drive ghosts, Meng Quan usually kept a ready supply of soul-replenishing pills.

Unfortunately, soul-replenishing pills were rare, and even he only had one bottle.

’I need to kill him before I am forced to take more pills.’ He thought, but he was unlucky to encounter Shen Xu.

While Meng Quan took low-grade soul replenishing pills, Shen Xu took perfect-grade pills.

As a result, Shen Xu’s soul power recovered much faster than Meng Quan’s, and before long, the double raised his hammer and attacked again.

At the same time, he controlled the sub-fire, injecting more qi into it to help it burn hotter and faster.

Seeing this, Meng Quan tried to recall the natal ghost, but the ghost was trapped in the fire net and couldn’t extricate itself, no matter how much it struggled.

"Shen Xu, let my ghost go." Meng Quan roared, but the double rolled his eyes.

Shen Xu couldn’t say that he and Zhen Yuan were good people.

However, they certainly were not evil, and when they encountered such loathsome practises as ghost refining, they naturally couldn’t let it go.

’You are destined to fall at my hands.’ He thought, and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Simultaneously, the fire net burned hotter and faster, as if reflecting his emotions.

.....

On the ship, the tribulation transcending realm elders turned to Luo Jianfeng.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, isn’t your Tianxuan sect hiding too deeply?" Someone asked, and Luo Jianfeng narrowed his eyes.

He didn’t expect Shen Xu to own a strange fire, and for the first time, he deeply regretted drawing attention to Zhen Yuan and the double.

After all, strange fires were rare treasures of heaven and earth.

Now that Shen Xu had exposed one, a bloodbath was bound to follow, and the Tianxuan sect may become a target of criticism.

’This is going to be troublesome.’ He thought, using his spiritual sense to watch the fight.

"Rare treasures of heaven and earth should belong to the capable. What do you think, fellow Daoist Luo?" Wang Haiwen asked, his face a mask of greed.

"Some treasures belong to the destined. Trying to snatch them can only end in disaster." Someone said, and everyone turned to look at the person.

The person was a female cultivator who was dressed in white and wore a blindfold around her eyes.

"Does fellow Daoist Bai have an opinion?’ Wang Haiwen asked, but Bai Lingshu frowned, as if she disdained talking to the person.

However, she eventually put her dislike aside and answered the question.

"I think the fellow Daoists don’t need an explanation about destiny." She said, and several people sighed, but others were unwilling.

They all knew that they were ants in front of destiny.

However, they were cultivators, and all of them were striving against the sky. Considering that, how could they accept that they couldn’t get a treasure that someone weaker than them had gotten?

Seeing the people’s unwillingness, Bai Lingshu shook her head.

’Everything is hurtling towards the future I foresaw.’ She thought and sighed with a helpless expression.