The wounds on the four people's necks quickly healed.

"Divine Movement Talisman! Shield Talisman!"

The four of them slapped talismans onto themselves and turned to run away.

However, at this moment.

Ye Shu's spiritual power suddenly spread out, pressing down on the four like a mountain. They fell to their knees with a thud, their knees shattering.

"Ah——"

The four of them were pressed to the ground by an invisible force, their ugly faces pressed tightly to the floor, their features distorted.

They were terrified to the extreme.

This was truly the end; a delicate young boy had already caused them a great fall, and behind him was a super powerful being with Qi Blood like a mountain.

Despair...

"Upper God, please save us!"

"We are your faithful followers!"

"Only you can give us a way out... Ah ah ah."

The four of them howled for help, but what met them was not rescue, but change—their bodies suddenly turned into mummies, and four bright red blood masses flew out from their chests, drilling into the mysterious divine statue.

The mysterious divine statue trembled violently! Its golden divine eye suddenly opened.

"Why do you not worship when you see my god?"

Ye Shu revealed himself, his gaze piercing through the divine statue's disguise: "Pretending to be a god with no means of attack, dare you call yourself a deity?

Will you come out to face your death, or should I crush you to dust?"

The mysterious divine statue's eyes changed, glaring resentfully at Ye Ping.

"Disrespect towards my god shall result in death!"

Ye Shu sneered: "All you can do is talk tough?"

Saying this, he raised his arm, a half-meter wide white light sphere instantly illuminating the stone chamber like daylight.

The cleansing light beam shot towards the mysterious divine statue at light speed.

The mysterious divine statue remained still, its resentful gaze fixed on Ye Ping and Xu Ran.

"Boom!"

The light beam crushed the mysterious divine statue, and the terrifying energy instantaneously blasted a long "tunnel" within the mountain, connecting to the outside.

A red moon tilted its head, peering into the cave to see the unfolding scene.

"Disrespect towards my god shall result in death!"

The statue shattered into powder, turning into a mass of black pollution.

Even upon destruction, the statue remained unafraid, its sinister laughter echoing through the cave repeatedly: "My task is complete. What if you have destroyed me? You can only destroy one divine statue. My god will become formless. My god's talismans will surely benefit billions of beings, and my god will ascend to the highest!"

Xu Ran frowned: "Such arrogance!"

Ye Ping sighed: "It's not wrong. Its talismans are indeed terrifying... Divine Movement Talisman allows these people to match the speed of Mountain Realm Cultivators; Healing Blood Talisman can instantly heal even fatal throat cuts...

Cultivators spend a lifetime working towards this, but a few children sacrificed can earn it. How many cultivators do you think will forsake their conscience to become its followers?"

Xu Ran did not reply, but instead squatted down and fished out a few talismans from the four mummies.

Ye Ping's pupils constricted: "Xiao Ran, what are you doing? You're not planning to try using them, are you?"

Xu Ran smiled calmly: "Don't worry, Ye Shu, I definitely won't use them. When I first saw these talismans, my hair stood on end, sensing a danger that chilled me."

"I just want to see what the principle behind them is. To be able to instantly heal such fatal injuries like a slashed throat! That's divine recovery power. If I could understand the principle, remove the negative effects, and mass-produce them for cultivators, wouldn't that be perfect?"

Ye Ping was astonished, Xu Ran indeed had a unique mindset, thinking of neutralizing such mysterious talismans?

Are you trying to compete with this Resentful God? To do what it does, leaving it nowhere to go.

"Be careful, it's best not to come into contact, it might be polluted by the Resentful God."

"I'll be careful."

Xu Ran focused, lifting a talisman under the candlelight, observing carefully.

Using [High-level Comprehension] and [Observing Carefully] to fully understand, after two or three minutes, he felt dizzy: 'Even with my High-level Comprehension, I can't understand it at all?'

Xu Ran found it quite interesting and challenging: "A bit of a challenge, good, good."

He said, folding the talisman, tucked it into his pocket.

Ye Ping quickly took out several golden talismans: "You can't keep these with you. Let me take care of them, I'll hand them over to the institute."

Xu Ran: "… Give me one…"

Ye Ping sternly refused: "I can't give you this! The pollution of the Resentful God is not a trivial matter. If it causes any serious consequences, I can't be held responsible!

Once you are strong enough to resist a certain degree of contamination, I'll give it to you for research. How about that?"

Xu Ran rubbed his temples: "You make a good point. I've only studied it for a few minutes, and I'm already feeling unbearably drowsy. This talisman is truly bizarre!"

"I might as well wait until I've read tens of thousands more books before figuring it out."

Xu Ran nodded graciously and no longer insisted.

Ye Ping chuckled; he had no idea what Xu Ran meant by "reading tens of thousands more books," he simply took out a strange silken bag and placed the talismans inside.

Once the talismans were in the bag, the ominous sense of danger that had made Xu Ran's hair stand on end vanished instantly.

Xu Ran looked surprised.

Uncle Ye patiently explained: "This is called a Parasitic Pocket. It's made from blood threads produced by a special parasite on the Resentful God's planet—lice ants. These lice ants can parasitize on Resentful Beasts, and their blood threads can counteract contamination to a certain extent.

Items made from it are often used for handling contaminated objects. For instance, by placing the contaminated item in the pocket, the pollution is reduced to a harmless level for me."

Xu Ran suddenly understood: "Oh, I read about that in books."

"You've read quite a lot!"

Ye Ping praised, put away the Parasitic Pocket, and then patted Xu Ran on the shoulder: "You have done a great job. This trafficking group had terrifying potential!

If they were allowed to kidnap children every now and then, and trade sacrifices for Qi Blood-increasing blood talismans… near Jing City, there might emerge four Mountain Realm Cultivators with no evil they wouldn't commit! Hundreds of families would be torn apart!"

"I suspect other cities might also have statues providing Mysterious Talismans. I'll report the situation, and each city can carry out a sweep, which would prevent problems before they occur."

Hearing Uncle Ye's words, Xu Ran pondered deeply, had he really done a great job?

How should he feel? In the face of compliments, he should be happy.

But he glanced at the Golden Achievement [Celestial Human Form] description—well, the second trafficking hadn't disappeared yet. This showed that maliciously exploiting bugs didn't work; he could only wait obediently for a real trafficking event to happen.

"Heh."

Xu Ran chuckled, almost predicting that the bug wouldn't work.

However, regardless, he had rescued three little girls this time and solved a potential major threat in Jing City in advance, indirectly saving hundreds of families, a gain satisfying enough to lift his spirits.

Ye Ping glanced at the moon: "It's getting late. I'll use spiritual power to bring the three of them back to the city first."

Xu Ran: "Okay."

After saying this, he floated out directly from the tunnel Uncle Ye created.

Uncle Ye lifted the three little girls with spiritual power and closely followed Xu Ran.

Under the looming red moon.

Two figures, like ghosts speeding through.

It took two hours for the pair to return to Jing City.

Xu Ran stood on the city wall, his mind still dwelling on the Mysterious Talismans.

"Mysterious Talismans… Surely the Resentful God who invented these talismans didn't intend to benefit mankind… The price might be life itself."

"Yet in the face of the huge temptation of becoming a Mountain Realm expert within half a year, people will often lose their rationality."

"So even a cleaning operation is only a temporary fix, unless the Resentful God behind it is completely eradicated, or harmless talismans are created."

"Of course, harmless talismans definitely won't work as immediately as Mysterious Talismans, so harmless talismans can't completely solve the problem."

"It is still necessary to kill the Resentful God to get to the root of the issue…"

Xu Ran shook his head; no matter from which aspect, the Mysterious Talismans, in the future, will become a very tricky big problem.

With these thoughts, he turned his gaze onto Uncle Ye.

At this moment, Uncle Ye was handing over the three little girls to the City Guard: "These are three kidnapped children, go find their relatives."

Leader of the City Guard: "Yes, sir!"

Giving out the orders.

Uncle Ye landed beside Xu Ran.

"How about it, do you want to take a rest?"

Xu Ran raised his smartwatch and glanced at the time: "It's ten o'clock now. I don't know why, but I'm exhausted… Should I sleep for four hours first? Move at two in the morning."

Ye Ping was startled: "Exhausted? Is it physical exhaustion, or mental fatigue? Oh no, could it be you've been contaminated by the Resentful God? I'll go get Aunt Lu to come purify you!"

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