Zhu Yanyi spent her days saving lives and her nights guiding souls, driving away all the bad energy in the area.
Her efforts brought a surprising benefit: the aftershocks grew fewer. After a week, they seemed to vanish completely.
Zhu Yanyi thought this was normal. But Yan Aohan saw more karmic merit golden light on her and knew she was the cause.
Disasters always create resentful spirits. It is natural. Who wants to die for no reason? Those who die unexpectedly feel unwilling. Even without consciousness, their last breath of resentment remains. It is hard for these wronged souls to find the Underworld.
Zhu Yanyi used the Human Book to guide them into the Underworld. This resolved their final resentment.
Because of this, the world stabilized. With no resentment, the aftershocks faded. This was the result of human kindness.
A week later, finding no critically injured patients, Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan left quietly. This place was only two hundred kilometers from Yun Province. They had their own tasks. Zhu Yanyi needed to meet that sorcerer.
Sorcerers are not a respectable profession. They use witchcraft and curses. Most come from poor families or are orphans from war. Old sorcerers take them to deep mountains or graveyards to train.
Sorcerers can be good or bad. Good ones are White Robe Sorcerers. Bad ones are Black Robe Sorcerers.
The one helping Dong Qianjin was clearly a Black Robe Sorcerer. They have no moral底线. Money is everything. For money, they do anything against their conscience. Casting curses is easy for them.
Such sorcerers are pests among humans. Zhu Yanyi would not let them survive.
Following the address from Dong Qianjin, Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan arrived late at night, around three o’clock. The place was remote, but cultivators can scan with their spiritual power. They found it quickly.
Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow at the house. It sat halfway up a mountain, above a village. The house was a beautiful three-story villa with a large garden. To ordinary people, it looked like a rich person’s mansion. But seeing the plants in the yard, Zhu Yanyi frowned.
“This person is not good,” she said.
“How do you know?” Yan Aohan asked.
Zhu Yanyi pointed from the wall to the garden below. “None of these plants save lives. They are all poisonous herbs. I don’t believe this sorcerer uses them to heal.”
Poisonous herbs can heal, but Zhu Yanyi knew this was not simple healing.
Yan Aohan nodded. “Then let’s go look.”
They flew from the wall to the third-floor balcony, making no sound. This distance was easy for their cultivation level.
They entered the third floor. It was empty, but to be safe, Zhu Yanyi threw some medicine into the air. This drug would put anyone here to sleep. It was a good time for rest.
They checked room by room. In one room, Zhu Yanyi saw a faint light. She scanned with her spiritual sense and felt movement. She opened the door slightly and entered.
Inside stood a huge glass enclosure. Through the glass, Zhu Yanyi saw it was full of poisonous creatures. Snakes, toads, scorpions, centipedes, and more. There were hundreds of kinds, named and unnamed.
“What is this? So many poisonous insects?” Yan Aohan asked.
“They are making the Hundred Insects Gu,” Zhu Yanyi said, her face dark.
“The Hundred Insects Gu means over a hundred poisonous insects eat each other. The last one survives. Then they suffocate it alive over fire, dry it, add the maker’s blood, and grind it into powder. When this powder enters a body, the poison acts like a hundred insects writhing inside. Imagine the pain. This person cannot stay alive.”
Back in the mortal world, Zhu Yanyi felt such strong killing intent for the first time.
Yan Aohan nodded slightly. “Indeed, they cannot stay.” If such people remained, he did not know what else would happen.
Zhu Yanyi threw Ice Blue into the glass enclosure. Ice Blue appeared, and all poisons died. The insects burned to ash.
“Let’s check other rooms.” Since they were here, Zhu Yanyi planned to inspect thoroughly. What should be destroyed would be destroyed. Leaving it would only harm people.
Zhu Yanyi was truly shocked by what she found. Besides the insects, another room grew evil plants in pots. Datura, vines, Bad Woman Grass, Mad Horse Wood, Poisonous Eggplant, and more. There were fifty or sixty kinds.
Zhu Yanyi sighed. She collected a small amount for study. If someone was poisoned by these plants later, she needed to know how to cure them. The rest she destroyed. Keeping them was useless.
Most rooms on the third floor held things. Finished poisons, secret medicines, Gu worms, and growing evil plants and insects. Fortunately, Zhu Yanyi destroyed them all.
After the third floor, they went to the second floor.
“Ani, don’t look,” Yan Aohan said, covering Zhu Yanyi’s eyes as he saw inside one room.
Zhu Yanyi could not see, but she smelled blood. She patted Yan Aohan’s hand. “I am fine. You forgot I am a healer.”
Yan Aohan sighed. “Ani, do not take it to heart.”
Her words warned of the horror inside. But when Zhu Yanyi saw it, she felt a huge surge of killing intent for the first time.
There were over ten human skins hanging there. They were complete. And they were children’s skins.