The fortune telling was so accurate that I accidentally accumulated a huge amount of merit!

Chapter 996 The Mirror Covered in Black Cloth
This ordeal was truly tragic, but neither Yunran nor the ginseng fruit seemed to have suffered any major setbacks.

"Throw it into that divine cauldron outside, and purify it together later."

Yun Ran released her grip on the ginseng spirit. Now free, the ginseng spirit had completely lost its previous aggression and obediently awaited its fate.

Upon hearing the order, the little paper figure darted in from outside and grabbed the ginseng root, which now only had half of its body remaining, with one hand.

"Don't worry, Master, leave it to me!"

The little paper figure pinched the ginseng whiskers and shook it up and down a few times. So this was the thing that almost killed the Wang family's granddaughter.

When it flew to the side of the divine cauldron, the little paper figure snorted and threw the ginseng root, which only had half of its body left, into the divine cauldron.

The divine cauldron, which was previously covered in mud, has been almost completely cleaned by the divine servants.

However, this did not restore the divine cauldron to its original state; except for that one corner, the rest remained shiny black.

After discarding the ginseng essence, the little paper figure patted off the deathly aura that had settled on its hands.

"You little brat, you'd better be prepared to have my master purify the death aura from your body!"

Any process involving purification is extremely painful.

The people in the temple looked at the small paper doll artifact in front of them and threw something unknown into the divine cauldron they had just cleaned.

However, they dared not utter a single word and could only watch helplessly.

After the little paper figure flew away again, the people in the temple looked at their high priest.

"High Priest, what do we do now? I have a feeling that the owner of this courtyard is a very dangerous person. The divine cauldron has fallen into her hands..."

Each of them clearly sensed at that moment that if Yun Ran wanted their lives, they wouldn't even have a chance to resist.

The high priests naturally knew what they were thinking, but they could still trust Yunran now.

With their own abilities, they have no way to purify the divine cauldron, and they don't even have the ability to take the divine cauldron away.

Faced with the choice between obeying and possibly dying, and resisting and certainly dying, they could only choose the former.

The high priest glanced at the defenses that they couldn't break through at all.

He said in a deep voice, "Alright, enough of this nonsense, just wait!"

The spirit of the divine cauldron was originally a very noisy creature, but after these divine servants arrived, it became unusually silent.

It's unclear whether it didn't want to reveal more secrets, or whether it felt ashamed that what it had said before didn't match the reputation of these divine servants, and thus became too lazy to speak.

Anyway, things have finally quieted down for once.

In the living room, Yunran glanced at the dust that had settled on the ginseng fruit.

"Go and prepare the things you'll need for purification."

Yunran taught Ginseng Fruit the purification formation, and clearly, Yunran had no intention of doing it herself at this moment.

The reason why Ginseng Fruit was taught these formations that could be delegated to others was, of course, to be lazy.

Now that Yunran has the ginseng fruit and the little paper figure, she can completely free her hands.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have made so many paper dolls to help her.

"Okay, host, I'll go right away!"

Renshenguo turned and left to prepare things. Yunran glanced at her legs, which she had previously been unable to use at all.

After she used her talisman fire to burn away half of the ginseng spirit's body, she actually regained consciousness.

"It seems that the wounds I sustained from being rejected by the world's consciousness will soon heal." On the other side, Xuan Chu, who had split up with Long Ling, finally met up with the people from the General Association.

He witnessed firsthand, from the shadows, that the leader of the General Association had people bring up all the spirits they had encountered along the way.

The whip lashed out with fierce power, trapping the little wolf demon in a circle about a meter in diameter, with nowhere to escape.

The wolf demon's painful howls became a source of amusement for these people.

Xuan Chu frowned deeply, even though he treated all living beings equally and showed no particular favoritism.

Seeing the wolf demon, who was clearly just beginning to develop sentience and was still somewhat bewildered, he felt boundless sympathy.

That was a bit too ruthless.

Until the wolf demon completely fainted, someone came forward, lifted the wolf demon down, and then lifted up other spirits.

After knocking out several monsters, the leader finally stopped whipping them.

The man dropped the whip, and immediately someone came up with a clean cotton towel to wash his hands.

"Boss, we're almost at the border town."

The man, referred to as the leader, tossed the cleansed towel on the ground and gave a faint "hmm."

"Get rid of those beasts!"

"Okay, don't worry."

The leader turned and went back to his tent. The man who had just spoken saw his leader's back disappear and his expression immediately turned fierce.

"You guys, follow me!"

Xuan Chu had a premonition that he was about to witness something very important.

He immediately stuck many more talismans on his body. At this moment, even if he stood in front of these people from the General Association, they probably wouldn't be able to spot him.

As he approached, a strong stench of blood filled Xuan Chu's nostrils.

The monsters that had been whipped unconscious were now barely clinging to life.

Even without personally inspecting them, Xuan Chu could still sense the resentment of these spirits.

Immediately afterwards, Xuan Chu saw these people extracting the souls of these spirits.

The spirits stared blankly at their bodies on the ground, completely unaware of what had happened.

Then, they were stuffed into a mirror covered with a black cloth.

For a fleeting moment, the mirror distorted, and Xuan Chu clearly heard countless wails coming from within.

It sounded very similar to the sound he had heard from the monster in the jar before.

Xuan Chu's gaze immediately fell on the mirror that had once again been covered with a black cloth.

His intuition told him that this mirror was extremely important; if he could obtain it, he might be able to find some clues.

Xuan Chu waited quietly for these people to leave.

He then stepped forward and examined the corpses of the spirits on the ground; clearly, they were dead.

When they had their last breath and were filled with resentment, their souls were brutally extracted while they were still alive.

If all the spirits in that jar were obtained in this way...