Yun Qishen

Mo Langqin shoved Gui Shouyan's shoulder forcefully, trying his best to maintain the most friendly social distance. He roared, "Hey! Can you be a little more clear-headed?! I'm a legitimate businessman, I don't care about lying! Stop lying all the time!"

“I’m perfectly clear-headed, I know everything! Mo Langqin, I know everyone’s past and future, I even know about the existence outside this world, but I just can’t see through you… Why did you become like this…”

As the Ghost Beast Banquet was about to use its ghostly power to merge with Mo Langqin's body, the two bodies repelled each other once again, and the clash of ghostly power made fusion impossible.

"Don't come any closer!" The force of the ghostly repulsion made Mo Langqin feel a burning pain all over her body, as if she had been electrocuted.

"Come and kill me, stop me! Only you can do it, of course I mean the original you." When the Ghost Beast Banquet couldn't merge with him, she had no choice but to readjust her position and lie in Mo Langqin's arms. At this moment, she buried her face in Mo Langqin's chest like a spoiled little girl. "I really love you, and you should love me too."

"..." Mo Langqin was unable to move due to the pressure of the ghost force, and he could only watch helplessly as the ghost beast feast touched him all over.

I'm not clean anymore~
Mo Langqin was on the verge of tears, hoping that some wealthy young master would come to rescue him.

After removing his face from Mo Langqin's chest, Gui Shouyan rubbed his cheek against his again, saying, "Only if I am killed by someone who loves me will I willingly disappear."

"Don't touch me again!" Mo Langqin roared. "I've already made myself very clear! I'm not the soul of the Mo Langqin you know! And—"

Ghost Beast Banquet raised an eyebrow slightly, "And..."

Mo Langqin's voice turned unusually cold. "The Mo Langqin you love, or the Mo Langqin who deeply loves you, will never come back! Never!"

"I don't believe it!" Ghost Beast Banquet roared at Mo Langqin's face, and then slapped him twice.

"If you don't believe me, then I have nothing to say!" Mo Langqin thought to himself. See, he broke down after his self-deception failed.

Ghostly Beast Banquet gathered red ghostly power in her palm, took a deep breath, and then forcefully injected the gathered ghostly power into Mo Langqin's brow. "Then I have nothing left to hold on to."

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It was late at night in Jifu Village.

Mo Li's brows twitched slightly, and the next second he slowly opened his eyes.

Upon seeing Mo Li awake, Mo Ruo immediately rushed over to him with concern, "Brother Mo Li! Brother Mo Li, you're awake! How are you feeling? Are you alright?"

Standing at the door, Ye Yueguishu naturally noticed Mo Li's awakening through Yun Qishen's shoulder.

"Haha, it seems to be over." Night Moon Ghost Book bypassed Yun Qishen, narrowed his fox eyes and looked at the black soul floating above Mo Li, then shook his head. "But this soul hasn't become clear yet, young friend, the purification has failed."

"No...it didn't fail." With Mo Ruo's help, Mo Li sat up straight. The spell to change his soul had greatly depleted his ghost power, and he was completely powerless after waking up.

Just as Mo Li finished speaking, the black, sinful soul dissipated and disappeared from the room.

Night Moon Ghost Book unfolded the landscape painting fan and held it in front of his mouth, chuckling, "You call this not a failure? Young friend, you went to so much trouble, but in the end you still destroyed this evil soul, didn't you? Where is your so-called salvation?"

"Stop calling me 'little friend' all the time. I didn't destroy this soul." Mo Li's usually calm face was now filled with anger. He really disliked this guy, Ye Yue Gui Shu.

"Oh, how so?" Night Moon Ghost Book raised an eyebrow, finding Mo Li extremely amusing, and deliberately exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that this soul insisted on dissipating on its own?"

"Since you know so much, you can't possibly be unaware of this. Don't put on that fake look of surprise." Mo Li clutched his chest, his ghostly power beginning to flow back, causing his body to sway slightly.

Mo Ruo hurriedly helped him up, but Mo Li raised his hand to indicate that he didn't need to. "I'm fine, Mo Ruo, I'm just a little uneasy. My ghost power has begun to recover, so you don't need to worry." Ye Yue Gui Shu closed the landscape painting fan and tapped it gently in his palm. "If the scholar really doesn't understand, then please explain it to him properly, young friend."

“The soul should be outside now. Let’s go outside and talk.” Mo Li gritted his teeth. He wanted to use ghostly power to help him move, but in the end, he walked out of the house with Mo Ruo’s help.

Yun Qishen stood at the doorway, looking up at a circular cloud of smoke emitting a black light in the air. The light from the smoke formed black and red threads, which connected to the souls of the villagers who had been separated from Mo Li's formation earlier.

"Is that plume of black smoke the vengeful spirit that just vanished?"

Mo Li walked to Yun Qishen's side and looked up as well. "That's right, Demon Lord, this is the soul from just now."

Yun Qishen watched as the red and black threads absorbed the red essence from the villagers' souls, and asked with concern, "So what is it doing? Is it absorbing the sins from these villagers' souls?"

"That's it."

"Then why absorb and concentrate it into one of its souls?"

"Because this is the evil it guided out, the evil that separated from this soul," Mo Li explained. "It is precisely because I purified it that it is here to reclaim the evil that separated from it."

Yun Qishen unconsciously touched his chin and began to think.

The Night Moon Ghost Book beside him smiled with half-closed eyes, "After absorbing all the sins, a completely corrupted soul cannot be purified at all."

Mo Li lowered his head and looked at the Night Moon Ghost Book. "The facts are indeed as you said, but I have indeed purified this soul. It's just that he is atoning for his sins now."

"Atonement? Ha." Night Moon Ghost Book couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Interesting."

Yun Qishen also lowered his head to look at Mo Li, "Mo Li, do you mean that you have completely purified this soul, and you have succeeded? It's just that the soul's own will wanted to atone for its sins, so it became connected to the villagers' souls to reclaim its sins?"

"Yes."

"What happens after all these evils are absorbed?"

"This soul will dissipate." Mo Li was not satisfied with the result he had given; he felt he had not truly succeeded. In the end, sin would still be eradicated, not saved.

"But the villagers' souls will be completely purified, and without evil souls, there is no point in being destroyed."

Mo Li's second half of his sentence was clearly directed at the Night Moon Ghost Book.

However, Ye Yueguishu didn't seem to care about the barbs in Mo Li's words. He still smiled with ease, "It has meaning, but what the scholar keeps mentioning is destiny. Even if they are all benevolent souls, the scholar will still take them in. But your actions this time have truly impressed the scholar. I admire you."

Yun Qishen raised an eyebrow and nudged Ye Yueguishu's arm with his elbow, "What's the use of just admiring? You should at least show some appreciation."

Night Moon Ghost Book glanced sideways at Yun Qishen, then unfurled a landscape painting fan towards the cloud of black smoke. "Alright, since the Demon Lord admires you along with the scholar, then the scholar will offer a small token of appreciation!"

Seeing that the Night Moon Ghost Book had broken its promise and attacked the soul, Mo Li's first reaction was anger, and she mobilized her ghostly power to attack him, shouting, "What are you doing!"

Yun Qishen swiftly stopped Mo Li, as fighting the Night Moon Ghost Book here would be a very difficult situation to resolve. (End of Chapter)