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"Understood!" Xiao Yefeng said.
"I never expected the village chief to be so twisted. I thought he wanted us to drive them away just to protect himself, but who would have thought he would betray his own people for those things!" Utu gritted his teeth.
Seeing Utu's expression, Xiao Yefeng instructed Zhang Chuanhai to retract his iron chains. He then stood the Black Gold Spirit Banner upright and began to chant a spell. Suddenly, the Black Gold Spirit Banner rose up and hovered above Utu's head. In an instant, Xiao Yefeng pointed at the Black Gold Spirit Banner, and a beam of golden cyan spiritual energy shot forth. The Soul Banner flashed with light, enveloping Utu beneath it. Following that, Xiao Yefeng formed a Psychic Blade and severed the connection between Utu and the Earthly Evil.
"Ah~"
A wailing scream escaped from Utu's mouth. However, instead of cursing or attacking Xiao Yefeng, Utu unexpectedly knelt on the ground and bowed deeply to him!
"Thank you, Master, for granting me my freedom!" Utu expressed his heartfelt gratitude.
Indeed, Xiao Yefeng had cut off Utu's ties with the Earthly Evil, which could be seen as helping him. Without the connection to the Earthly Evil, Utu would no longer absorb its essence and become an Earthly Evil Spirit. Yet, remaining as a wild ghost meant that at least during reincarnation, he would not suffer a lifetime of beastly torment.
This was actually an awkward issue; those who died violently could not reincarnate and were left waiting in the land of death for help from a Geomancer or to be collected by the Yin Si's reincarnation managers. Everything in the world had its own overseers. Human souls fell under the management of Yin Si's Yin Chai, which was governed by the Transcendence's Black and White Impermanence. However, even birds and beasts had their own overseers.
Leopard Tail, Bird Beak, Gills, and Wasp were four Yin officials responsible for managing the Cycle of Reincarnation for beasts, birds, fish, and insects respectively. Humans who could not reincarnate for various reasons would eventually be collected by these four after a long time. Those unwilling to be taken away would have to choose to become Earthly Evil Spirits. However, choosing to become an Earthly Evil Spirit meant opposing Yin Si; if captured, it would lead to an eternal life of beastly fate.
Yet there were exceptions; for instance, ghosts already marked by Yin Si, like Zhang Chuanhai, could still reincarnate even as Earthbound Spirits if someone helped resolve their grievances.
The Soul Banner turned as Utu was enveloped within the Black Gold Spirit Banner. In fact, the Geomancer's Soul Banner was originally prepared for these wandering souls. Being taken by a Geomancer indicated that someone was helping to resolve their issues, at least preventing them from turning into beasts.
As Zitong had been the longest resident of the Black Gold Spirit Banner, seeing another similar being made Zitong quite happy. He cheerfully emerged from the Soul Banner and sat on a hospital bed, swinging his legs while listening to Utu's words.
If anyone were to witness the scene in the room at that moment, they would likely be terrified. Lying on six beds were comatose individuals while the only two living people sat on two empty beds on either side. Three ghosts floated nearby, with Utu being particularly frightening—water droplets continuously dripped down from nowhere without revealing his form. Who wouldn't be scared by such a sight?
"The situation is like this: when those three outsiders came to our village, we welcomed them warmly. However, Chief Uchi suddenly issued a gag order forbidding us from telling them about the dangers behind our village at Fierce God Gorge; instead, he instructed us to tell them there was treasure in the mountain stream," Utu explained.
"But you just said your village wanted you to scare them away!" Lin Mighty Tiger interjected.
"That's right! Uchi made us inadvertently reveal that there was treasure in Fierce God Gorge while pretending he didn't want them near us. However, news of treasure in such a secluded place quickly reached those three outsiders. They secretly circumvented us and headed toward Fierce God Gorge. I didn't want those outsiders to be deceived, so I stopped them," Utu continued.
"So you ended up dead?" Xiao Yefeng asked.
"No, I was driven back to the village, but the next moment I saw the three of them lying outside Fierce God Gorge. I carried them back and found that one was already dead, so I called the police!" Utu explained.
"Then how did you die?" Lin Mighty Tiger asked.
"At first, I only remembered that I smoked a cigarette and then fell asleep. After that, I found my corpse in the Fierce God Pool inside Fierce God Gorge. Then I was pushed away by the cold wind from the mountain stream. Now I know that the half-smoked cigarette butt I saw by the Fierce God Pool belonged to Uchi. He must have knocked me out and thrown me into the pool as a sacrifice to honor the fierce god!" Utu gritted his teeth.
"Hiss! What treasures does your Holy Spirit Village have?" Lin Mighty Tiger finally asked his question.
However, after Lin Mighty Tiger's question, Utu sat on the ground and laughed, "What treasures could there be? At most, it's just some stone carvings left by our ancestors, ancient books, and some useless items!"
"What about those people of yours?" Xiao Yefeng inquired.
"That has to start from when the first person arrived!" Utu revealed everything he knew. This news made Lin Mighty Tiger feel a pang of regret; his entanglement with Utu had begun when the first Geomancer was sent here. Yet he had been fighting with him all along and couldn't defeat Utu, which meant he had never obtained this crucial information. If only he had agreed to Utu earlier, perhaps the other two Geomancers wouldn't have fallen into such dire straits.
It turned out that ever since Utu died, his spirit had been drifting in a dark corner outside Fierce God Gorge. However, everything involving Uchi, the village chief of Holy Spirit Village, and a man in black unfolded before Utu's eyes.
Since the first Geomancer fell into this place, Uchi and that mysterious man had been conversing at the entrance of Fierce God Gorge. Although Utu couldn't hear their intentions, he noticed that the Black Soul Banner in the man's hand looked almost identical to the one Xiao Yefeng held. Utu saw that the man would come to Fierce God Gorge at night to check on the Black Soul Banner standing there before leaving with Uchi.
Right before Utu's eyes, these three Geomancers lay before the Soul Banner. He saw how the Black Soul Banner absorbed the souls of three Geomancers and a woman—those four who now lay here.
As for why Utu came to absorb these four people's Yang energy, it was also revealed through his eavesdropping on Uchi's conversation with that man. It turned out that ghosts could grow by absorbing Yang energy. Knowing nothing about it, Utu decided to give it a try, which led to his prolonged struggle with Lin Mighty Tiger.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yefeng finally understood how things unfolded. For some reason, that mysterious man and village chief Uchi conspired to lure everyone in while that man used the Soul Banner to collect their souls. It seemed likely that Utu was killed by Uchi; however, it was unexpected that Utu's spirit had witnessed everything.
Now what Xiao Yefeng needed to do was reclaim everyone's controlled souls because time was running out. The two ordinary people who first encountered problems could only hold on for about three more hours at most; if their lost souls weren't found and returned to them by then, they would truly die.
However, apart from this information, Xiao Yefeng knew nothing else about this matter. He wondered if the Black Banner in that mysterious man's hand was similar to this Black Gold Spirit Banner and why he wanted to lure Geomancers while stealing their souls. Also, what was Jin Ling doing here risking her life? How did those strange spots appear on her body?
These were still questions. Nevertheless, Xiao Yefeng believed that the Metaphysics Society would surely help him solve part of these issues by getting answers from Yuan Xun.
While Xiao Yefeng was chatting with Utu, he was unaware that on another side, a man was furious because his collection had escaped. At this moment, inside a Bamboo House, a man dressed in bizarre clothing with an egret feather headdress and strange patterns painted on his face was talking to seven dolls in front of him when suddenly one of the lightest-colored dolls exploded.
The seemingly innocuous doll created by Brat turned out to possess immense power. Not only did blood gush from the Mud Doll, but its fragments were capable of piercing through bamboo that had been steamed with Tung Oil.
At that moment, the man inside the Bamboo House was in a dire state. The interior was splattered with blood from the explosion of the Mud Doll, and he himself had blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. His left arm was injured by a flying shard of the doll, a finger-sized hole oozing blood.
"Who did this? How could someone steal my seventh Exorcism! Just one step away! Just one step away from mastering a Seventh Ghost! Once I perfect my Ghost Summoning Technique, that guy will have to look at me differently. Cough cough! Who is it? Ah~" A roar echoed from within the Bamboo House. However, nestled deep within the dense bamboo forest, the house went unnoticed by anyone.
Xiao Yefeng had not anticipated that his casual action would disrupt a long-planned scheme by a Sorcerer. Yet even if he had known, he would have still thwarted this person's plans. Sorcerers were different from Geomancers; while some Geomancers might stray into the Demonic Path, none of the Sorcerers were good people. Their so-called spells were merely tools for harm.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yefeng was unaware of the situation unfolding on his side. At that moment in Beijing North, within a secret base of the Metaphysics Society, Yuan Xun was tightly bound in an isolated room. He appeared dazed, staring blankly at the wall and muttering to himself. At the same time, Jiang Xing was on a call with Xiao Yefeng.
"President! This is what happened," Xiao Yefeng recounted everything to Jiang Xing.
"Well, your thoughts are sound, but you need to be cautious! Knowing all this is one thing, but that person can take souls; you must be careful!" Jiang Xing advised.
Then Jiang Xing asked, "Should I send someone to help you?"
"No need! If I can't resolve this myself, what right do I have to claim revenge?" Xiao Yefeng replied.
"Then be careful! I've sent you everything Yuan Xun instructed," Jiang Xing said.
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