Listening to this group of distinguished big shots completely disregard their humility and demeanor, tripping over each other to claim credit in front of him, Alex half-listened and half-guessed, roughly understanding the cause and effect of the situation.

Although he did not know why this peak Supreme Realm ghost cultivator would hide in his Holy Land’s woods to watch his juniors pee, looking at these people’s proud and smug faces, and this ghost cultivator’s dying state, it was not hard to imagine what kind of inhumane devastation this poor ghost cultivator had just experienced.

"Gentlemen, thank you for your righteous intervention, capturing this suspicious ghost for my Hale family." Alex cupped his fists and smiled faintly.

"This favor, I will definitely repay in the future!"

Hearing this, the crowd instantly revealed joyful expressions. Getting this single sentence from Alex meant their efforts tonight were not in vain.

Alex walked forward expressionlessly, looking down at the dead ghost before him. "Speak, what kind of malicious ghost are you, and who sent you?"

However, this dead ghost was too severely injured right now. He could not even make a sound.

Brook scrambled to say from the side. "Saint Lord Alex, I remember! This fellow just said he is the Thunder Ghost King, one of the Four Great Ghost Kings of the Hundred Ghost Mountain Range!"

"He even threatened us, saying if we dared touch a single hair on his body, he would make sure we all died a horrible death!"

"Oh?" Hearing this, Alex could not help but raise an eyebrow with interest.

Although this thing, beaten black and blue, heavily injured, reeking of blood and urine, had absolutely none of the imposing presence of a Ghost King, his cultivation, which was on par with the Nether Earth Ghost King, served as the most powerful evidence.

"The Master of the South High Peak of the Hundred Ghost Mountain Range, the Thunder Ghost King." Alex bent down and crouched in front of him.

"Speak, did the Nether Earth Ghost King send you here to seek revenge on me?"

The Thunder Ghost King weakly shot Alex a glance, then closed his eyes again, seemingly too lazy to even pay attention.

Alex narrowed his eyes slightly, a chilling smile curling at his mouth.

"If you will not speak, I have other ways to know."

With that, seething purple light permeated Alex’s palm, and he viciously grabbed the top of the Thunder Ghost King’s head.

Grabbed by this massive hand, the Thunder Ghost King instantly shuddered violently. His pupils became dilated and lifeless, his mouth opened slightly, drool spilling out.

It was as if his brain had been plucked out, turning him into an idiot.

Seeing this, Thalen and the others could not help but reveal looks of sympathy.

At this moment, watching the Thunder Ghost King fall into Alex’s hands, he was simply even more pitiful than when he had been ganged up on and brutally beaten by them.

After all, no matter how ruthlessly they struck, it was merely torturing his physical body. But right now, Alex was directly and mercilessly ravaging the Thunder Ghost King’s consciousness and soul.

"Hiss..." Aelin could not help but secretly click his tongue. Opening his folding fan to cover his face, he whispered to Kaia Star beside him.

"Princess Kaia, did you see that? This is Saint Lord Alex’s exclusive ultimate technique, the Rakshasa Soul-Extinguishing Technique!"

"Oh?" Kaia revealed a look of curiosity.

"Is this cultivation method very formidable?"

"If you ask if it is formidable, it is actually not that formidable. Merely a Low-Grade Supreme Tier secret technique." Aelin smiled with interest.

"However, this technique is not used for combat. Rather, it allows one to directly reach into the opponent’s brain and extract any information from the sea of consciousness at will."

"In other words, no secret can be hidden in front of Saint Lord Alex. No matter how firm their willpower, at the hands of the Rakshasa Soul-Extinguishing Technique, they can only obediently spit out the intelligence themselves."

Kaia listened in a daze, saying in astonishment. "Then would this technique not be the perfect counter against enemy spies and informants? If I could learn this, the people in my Purple Star Dynasty’s Interrogation and Torture Departments could all be dismissed to go home."

For a moment, her heart was incredibly excited, an eager gleam shining in her eyes. "No matter what, I absolutely must properly win over Saint Lord Alex this time! At the very least, I must get him to impart this technique so I can bring it back to the Purple Star Dynasty!"

Aelin Feather gave a dry laugh and shook his head. "Princess Kaia, you are too naive. This Rakshasa Soul-Extinguishing Technique is the Hale family’s unpassed secret technique."

"Even within the Hale family, only the successive Saint Lords have the qualification to cultivate it. It is absolutely impossible to impart it to an outsider."

"Is that so?" Kaia Star smiled confidently.

"Then what if I use our Purple Star Dynasty’s Immovable Lord Technique to exchange for it?"

Aelin froze slightly, his pupils instantly quaking, his face full of horror. "Princess Kaia, are you crazy? The Immovable Lord Technique is your Star Imperial Family’s strongest secret technique, the cultivation method closest to a Saint-tier divine ability in the current world."

"Using such a divine ability to exchange for a Low-Grade Supreme Tier secret technique, is that not far too much of a loss?"

"A loss? I do not think so." Kaia Star smiled.

"If I merely used the Immovable Lord Technique to exchange for a Low-Grade Supreme Tier secret technique, that would naturally be extremely foolish."

"However, if I could use this to get closer to Saint Lord Alex, or even take the opportunity to invite him for a trip to our Purple Star Dynasty, then it would be extremely worth it. Fourth Prince, would you not say?"

Aelin fell silent, a massive uproar inevitably rising in his heart. He had not expected the Purple Star Dynasty would invest such massive capital to win over Alex.

The few things he brought were completely and utterly outshined.

In the time it took Kaia and Aelin to converse, Alex had already completely turned the Thunder Ghost King’s sea of consciousness upside down.

The Nether Earth Ghost King’s revenge conspiracy was made crystal clear to him.