CH 494

494: Still Another Doll

The children weren’t old but they clearly expressed themselves. Considering what they just said, it looked like their souls had been divided in two: one bad, one good. The good part were the ones in front of them, while the bad parts were the ones trapped in the other room.

The evil part of them carried all their negative emotions such as their unwillingness and resentment at being dead, while the other part carried their innocence and kindness as children.

Since ancient times, good and evil were one and the same coin. No one was pure good or pure evil. Only an extreme person who was likely to become a demon could ever be purely good or purely evil without any other emotion.

The children here were unlikely to become demons though; they were just ordinary spirits that had their natures forcefully separated. They had to endure endless pain and were unable to return to the path of reincarnation because their souls weren’t whole.

“Miss Yaoyue, what should we do now?”

“Do we kill all of them?”

“Should we let them fuse then kill them?”

Because the spirits had killed so many of their fellow adventurers, the people there were indignant and wanted to kill the spirits.

“Let’s send them to the underworld. Once there, they can atone for their crimes.” Yaoyue decided after thinking for a moment.

It was unrealistic to send them on the path to reincarnation in their current state. Their shoulders bore so many deaths, their chances of being reborn safely was extremely small. And even if they were lucky enough to be reborn, they would be born into a bad situation with wasted bodies and would surely die within a few years. They needed to pay their karmic debt first before being sent on to reincarnate.

Considering the situation, it was better to send them to the underworld to atone for their wrongs and afterwards reincarnate. Even if they couldn’t reincarnate as geniuses, they wouldn’t have to worry about reincarnating as trash and dying young.

There was just one problem with the decision – that of fusing the soul halves.

They needed Zi Cheng and her heavenly fire to make it work.

Zi Cheng burned the evil halves nearly to death with her heavenly flame before letting the good halves fuse together into a whole. Everything went smoothly.

After the souls were successfully fused back together, the little spirits were sent to the underworld. From there, they would pay the price for their crimes. They would not be allowed back on the path of reincarnation until they earned their redemption.

Feng Wu watched the little guys disappear; eventually her eyes strayed to the window. The rain was still falling down heavily.

Feng Wu wasn’t the only one who how wrong that was, other people noticed too.

It stood to reason, after purifying the evil spirits, the enchantment boundary should have disappeared. And yet the rain was still falling and the boundary was still active.

“Why is this happening?! Why hasn’t the barrier opened?!”

They sent all the evil spirits away didn’t they? Why were they still trapped inside? What in the world was going on?!

“Did we miss something?” Caesar wondered.

“Doll!” Both Ai Lin and Zi Cheng exclaimed in unison.

“Aren’t all the dolls burned? Where are there any other dolls?” Tang scratched his head.

“Not these guys here. The other doll, the one Shani was holding when she died!” Ai Lin remembered they had indeed missed a doll.

“Yes! That doll! We forgot all about it!” Zi Cheng said.

“Then what are we waiting for?! Let’s go burn it!” Someone shouted.

They raced to the place where Shani and the doll had been, but the doll was gone.

They looked at each other in dismay before promptly gathering themselves and searching for the doll.

Search as they might, they could not find it.

“Could someone have taken it!?” One of Caesar’s people whispered to him.

“Whoever has it better take it out right now! How dare you take anything. Do you want to die?!”

“Whoever took it must not want to live anymore!”

“Yea, Shani died because she moved that thing. Does this person want to die? Do they feel they’ve lived too long?!”

No one admitted to moving the doll. So, then where did it go? The doll couldn’t move by itself, could it?

“Are you looking for me?” A giggle, soft and cute, sounded from behind everyone.

They all turned around to see a small girl of about five or six with an adorable, chubby face coming down the stairs. In her hand was a doll.

A small girl appearing randomly wasn’t a big deal, but a small girl appearing here in the mansion holding the doll they were looking for was a very big problem.

Guards immediately went up. They could guess her identity – this little girl was probably the spirit from inside the doll.

She looked different from the other little girls they sent away. She didn’t look like an illusion but very much like a real flesh and blood girl.

“You are the daughter of the master of this house!” Yaoyue yelled out. The realization struck Yaoyue’s heart the moment she saw the little girl, and how her body was different from the other little girls.

“You know who I am!” The little girl’s eyes creased happily.

“As expected, no wonder she looks different from the other spirits.” Ai Lin nodded. She also had the same thought as Yaoyue.

Ming Xi took Feng Wu’s hand and immediately took a step back. The child gave off such a dangerous feeling; there was no way she was an ordinary spirit.

Feng Wu stood beside Ming Xi obediently and communicated with Rui Baby telepathically from time to time. They were in fact discussing the little girl right now.

“Wait for the fight to start, then run. This is a big boss and you won’t win.” Baby said worriedly. “Xiao Chun[notes] is currently in closed cultivation leveling up so he can’t protect you. I will return to the spiritual world immediately and get that seven-colored phoenix to help. Only that guy can help.”

“You said you couldn’t communicate with the outside world.” Feng Wu blinked at Rui Baby questioningly.

“Not with ordinary methods I wouldn’t be able to; but you forget, I’m a rui beast, and no one can best me when it comes to formations. It’s just a shame I can go out, but can’t bring anyone with me; otherwise, I would have already taken you out with me, and I wouldn’t have to go find that seven-colored phoenix bird to save you.”