Chapter 709 216: Visitors from the Salvation Society

Shen Bai asked, "Why?"

Yang Yuan Daoist answered, "A Forbidden Land is called such because no one who enters has ever come out alive."

Shen Bai got the gist of it.

It meant that even someone on Eunuch Chen's level would likely find it difficult to escape the Forbidden Land after entering.

Thinking of this, Shen Bai shifted his gaze to the Drunken Daoist.

He knew the Drunken Daoist wanted to retrieve his Jade Pendant. But now that it had fallen into the Desolate Forbidden Land, he figured the man would have to reconsider.

But just as the thought crossed his mind, the Drunken Daoist stood up.

"I'm leaving."

Shen Bai frowned. "Senior, are you going to the Desolate Forbidden Land?"

The Drunken Daoist replied without a moment's hesitation, "That's right. That item is mine. It contains my life's work. I can't just let it be lost in the Desolate Forbidden Land."

"Besides, I've lived long enough. My Dao has reached its peak, and taking another step is very difficult, but the Forbidden Land might be the key to taking that final step."

"I've long wanted to test it. Even if my Jade Pendant hadn't fallen in, I probably would have gone in one day anyway. This just moves up the timetable."

Hearing this, Shen Bai didn't try to stop him.

It would have been useless to try anyway; after all, it was the man's own affair.

Not long after, the Drunken Daoist departed alone, without another word.

Shen Bai looked at the three heads on the table and said, "It must have been rather dispiriting for you, Daoist, to see such a bloody sight as soon as you arrived."

Yang Yuan Daoist shook his head. He then took another letter from his robes and placed it on the table. "Lord Shen, I also brought a letter for you from the Dean on this trip."

"The Dean has already set out to investigate the various nations for individuals possessed by entities from the Era of Ten Thousand Cities. He left this letter before his departure, instructing me to deliver it to you shortly after he was gone. The time has come."

Shen Bai looked at the letter, slightly curious, and was about to open it when he was stopped by Yang Yuan Daoist.

"I'd rather not see the secrets inside. Please open it after I've left, Lord Shen."

With that, Yang Yuan Daoist's departure was as swift as his arrival. He transformed into a streak of light and vanished from sight.

Shen Bai watched him go with a helpless sigh. Faced with these figures who came and went as they pleased, he could only turn his attention to the letter in his hand and open it.

As he opened it, Shen Bai wondered, 'What on earth could the Dean of the Academy want with me?'

The letter was covered in small characters, every single one of which was so hideously ugly that a single glance was enough to make one want to find a toilet and vomit into it for three days and three nights.

The Dean's handwriting was hideously ugly, and the Prime Minister's paintings were an assault on the eyes.

In Shen Bai's opinion, the two of them were a real pair.

If he weren't on the verge of reaching the Void Realm, the sight of this handwriting alone would have been enough to make him tear the letter to shreds.

Fortunately, Shen Bai managed to fight back the intense urge to vomit and read the letter to the end.

When he finished, he immediately slapped the letter face-down on the table. "Red Makeup," he said, "find a brazier and burn this."

He truly never wanted to lay eyes on those characters again.

Red Makeup obediently picked up the letter, placed it in the brazier, and burned it to ash.

Shen Bai watched the letter turn to ash, lost in thought.

The letter stated that the Dean, following the Saint Martial Emperor's directive, had secretly departed to travel through the various nations.

His purpose was to use his special methods to identify the possessed individuals.

If possession had not yet occurred, he would extract the Divine Soul from the Era of Ten Thousand Cities and completely obliterate it, leaving only the host's innate talent behind.

If the host had already been possessed, he would exterminate them without mercy.

His first destination was the Great Yue Country, which bordered the Great Zhou Country.

Extremely few people were aware of the true nature of this mission.

After all, the Dean's official reason for his travels was a simple pretext about academic exchange among Scholars.

This was why Yang Yuan Daoist had been reluctant to let Shen Bai open the letter in his presence.

The Dean had also included another message.

It was a message for Shen Bai, from Eunuch Chen.

It concerned the Celestial Pride Salvation Society.

The Celestial Pride Salvation Society seemed to have run into some trouble recently, but the specifics of the problem had not been announced.

Eunuch Chen informed Shen Bai that if the Celestial Pride Salvation Society came looking for him, he should help them as much as possible.

The purpose was twofold: to earn the Salvation Society's trust and to uncover the spy in their midst.

'You know, if this letter hadn't reminded me, I'd have almost forgotten that organization even existed.'

Shen Bai rubbed his chin, thinking to himself.

In total, there were these two matters. As far as he was concerned, neither of them posed any immediate conflict with his own plans.

The Dean's secret mission to deal with the possessed was the Dean's affair. And as for the Salvation Society, if they didn't seek him out, he certainly wasn't going to waste his time looking for them.

'So for now, I should just focus on grinding my Skill Level.'

Shen Bai stretched.

He was already extremely close to the Void Realm. He just needed to grind his Infinite Divination Skill to Level 6, and then he could truly step into the Void Realm.

It was still early, so after a moment of thought, Shen Bai took Red Makeup and Amber out for a meal.

After they had eaten, he returned leisurely to his five-story building to continue grinding his Infinite Divination Skill's Skill Level.

...

Time passed slowly, and many days went by in the blink of an eye.

During this time, the entire Jianghu of Lingyun Dao was thrown into a complete frenzy.

The Three Great Demonic Forces had been wiped out overnight.

The Observatory had rounded up all the remaining Demonic Forces and brought them to justice.

Some claimed to have seen a gentle, refined Daoist take action, wiping out the Three Great Demonic Forces.