Chapter 311: Purifying Spirit

Last night, Yu Huang was squatting on a tree. She had seen that woman’s face under the moonlight and snow.

Yu Huang didn’t know how Lin Jiansheng had managed to see through the woman’s identity, but the woman who was crying was indeed the monster from last night.

The mentor and disciple stood on the hill watching the commotion in silence.

“What were you guys doing at 11 pm last night?” The leader of the hunter team, Gangshan, walked towards the female hunter who was taking care of the child. He looked down at the female hunter’s stubborn eyes and said in a deep voice, “You weren’t in the team at 11 pm last night.”

The huntress gritted her teeth and refused to speak.

The captain subconsciously held the pistol at his waist. He said, “If you don’t explain, I’ll take it that you’ve tacitly agreed.” His ruthless gaze made people shudder.

The female hunter silently took half a step back while protecting the child. Seeing this, the captain immediately pulled out his gun and aimed it at the woman’s chest. “Speak!”

Before the woman could say anything, the boy hiding behind her suddenly spoke. The boy said, “We went hunting last night.”

The woman immediately scolded the little boy. “Who asked you to speak!”

The little boy stood up from behind the woman and looked up at the captain. His gaze was extremely clear and pure.

The little boy pointed at the small mountain where Yu Huang and the others were at and said, “Yesterday evening, I found a severely injured level 1 demon snake on the mountain. I heard that demon beasts all have inner cores. After you guys went to sleep, I dragged my mother to the place where I found the level 1 demon snake. We dug out the inner core from the demon snake’s body. When we came back, Isaac was not with the team.”

With that, the boy unzipped his jacket and pulled out a bloody core.

The inner core of that demon beast was only the size of the boy’s fingernail, but even such a small demon core could be sold for a considerable price. It could allow the mother and son to live carefreely for a month.

Staring at the inner core and smelling the smell of blood that had yet to dissipate completely, the suspicion and wariness in the captain’s eyes faded slightly.

The boy obediently handed the inner core to the captain. There was a pleading look on his red face. “Mr. Gangshan, the inner core is for you. Please let my mother go.”

The captain held the inner core. He looked down at the beautiful female hunter and said with a frown, “You wanted to appropriate the hunting items.”

The woman, afraid to meet Mt. Gang’s eyes, bit her lip and kept her head down.

They were a small team of hunters, so the items they hunted should be gathered together and divided among themselves according to their abilities. Although the female hunter’s actions were not punishable by death, it had already violated the rules of hunters.

The female hunter’s actions angered Captain Gangshan. The captain said, “I won’t punish you since you have a child with you. Take the child and leave!”

Upon hearing that, the female hunter immediately ran off with the child in her arms while leaving a trail of messy footprints on the snow.

The transformed woman saw that the mother and son successfully convinced Gangshan and escaped. She instantly realized how dangerous her situation was.

The female hunter had been removed from the list of suspects, so the remaining woman was the most suspicious one. Gangshan stared at the woman whose face was still wet with tears and said with certainty, “You’re a monster!”

The moment he finished speaking, the other hunters pulled out their pistols and aimed them at the monster.

The woman who was still crying suddenly stopped crying. Her body turned into a black grudge, and that resentment turned into a huge skull. It rushed up and was about to swallow the group of hunters.

The grievous energy was too strong, and there was also a poisonous gas. Gangshan and the others immediately felt suffocated, as if their throats were being held tightly by a hand.

Gangshan and the rest knelt on the ground while feeling despair.

Who could save them?

At this moment, Lin Jiansheng suddenly summoned his scepter and chanted a Spirit Purification Incantation. When the incantation was translated, it probably meant—

“Then Lord, born from red fire, please release your powerful energy and purify all the filth of this world…”

Countless silvery-white strands of psychic energy drifted along the Purifying Spirit Scepter towards the snowy plains in the valley. The ball of raging resentment was trapped in the center by Lin Jiansheng’s psychic energy. It did not have a mouth, but it was howling in pain.

Upon noticing this scene, Gangshan and the others were overjoyed.

“It’s a Purifying Spirit Master!”

They had thought that they would definitely die this time, but Lin Jiansheng had become their salvation.

“Ah!!” The skull struggled with all its might in the midst of the psychic energy, and its cries became weaker and weaker.

The black grievous energy was purified bit by bit by the psychic power and finally turned into wisps of pale white gas.

The grievous energy completely disappeared, and an illusory and frail figure of a woman appeared above the heads of Gangshan and the others. The woman was wearing a tattered dress that didn’t belong to this era. Her dazed eyes gradually regained clarity.

The resentment was purified, and the woman no longer had any desire to kill or destroy.

She recalled her miserable life and the sins she had committed after her death. Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. The woman bowed deeply in Lin Jiansheng’s direction. “Thank you, my lord, for helping me free myself.”

When Lin Jiansheng saw the tears on the woman’s face, he sighed softly and said, “Poor vengeful spirit, go and reincarnate.”

The resentment was purified, and the vengeful spirit that was enslaved by the resentment was finally freed. In the blink of an eye, it vanished from the world.

Seeing this, Yu Huang said in shock, “They’re actually humanoid.”

Lin Jiansheng nodded and said to Yu Huang, “The monsters that were born in the Broken Cliff were all living creatures in the past. Because they died an unnatural death, their resentment was too strong and refused to disperse. Hence, they evolved into monsters.”

Only Level 6 Purifying Spirit Masters and above could easily purify monsters like Desire. This was a level that Yu Huang had yet to reach.

Gangshan and the others were lucky enough to escape this calamity. They were all covered in cold sweat.

Gangshan wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and realized that they had really managed to survive. He hurriedly knelt down towards Lin Jiansheng. “Thank you, Purifying Spirit Master, for saving us and helping us kill this evil spirit!”

Lin Jiansheng swept a cold glance at Gangshan and the rest. He stared at the corpse on the ground and said expressionlessly, “Those who can be targeted by a monster like ‘Desire’ are mostly people who can’t control their lower bodies. If you want to live after entering Broken Cliff, don’t be greedy.”

When they heard that, Gangshan and the others were all shocked. No one dared to refute, and they all respectfully replied, “We’ll follow your instructions!”

Lin Jiansheng glanced at Yu Huang. “Let’s go.”

Hugging her sword, Yu Huang and Lin Jiansheng walked through the valley towards the direction that the mother and son had left.

Gangshan and the others watched them leave with reverence.

“This Lord can easily purify a monster’s spirit. With his ability, he must have already broken through to Level 6. Why would such a powerful person come to the Broken Cliff?”

“Who knows?”