Chapter 44

Putting aside the thoughts in his mind, Lin Haoming cast several spells towards the children.

Very soon, over a dozen children woke up all at once.

After waking up, each of them looked at Lin Haoming with fear, as if they were afraid of being subjected to inhumane torture, worse than death.

Lin Haoming looked at the children and said softly, "Don't be afraid. Qian Yuanshu, who harmed you, and Yongfu are already dead. I will use my magic to remove the worms from your bodies, and from now on, you will be free!"

Hearing Lin Haoming's words, everyone looked at him in surprise, and for a moment, they still couldn't believe it.

However, Lin Haoming didn't pay attention to them and immediately cast his spell.

Seeing Lin Haoming cast his spell, many of the children instinctively screamed, but soon they realized that the expected pain did not appear. Instead, after a short while, small worms flew out of their bodies and finally landed in Lin Haoming's hand.

Lin Haoming had a spirit beast bag in his hand, and he put all the worms into it. He had already decided to cultivate the "Divine Bone Technique." These worms were still useful; since they had absorbed the spiritual essence of these children, they couldn't be returned. He had saved them, so they should give him some reward.

"Alright, you can go now!"

Next, Lin Haoming directly untied the ropes on their bodies. The children fell to the ground, and at that moment, they finally believed that they were truly saved.

Reunited with the light of day, these children were overjoyed to the point of tears. Some of them even prostrated themselves before Lin Haoming.

At this moment, Lin Haoming quickly felt a surge of powerful merit being absorbed by the merit bead. At this point, Lin Haoming finally confirmed that indeed, only cultivators could give him merit, even though these children had very weak cultivation.

His divine sense sank into the merit bead, and in just a short moment, Lin Haoming discovered that the merit he possessed had reached seven small merits, which greatly satisfied him. Indeed, saving a life was better than building a seven-story pagoda, and this merit was not comparable to ordinary gratitude.

But just as Lin Haoming's divine sense withdrew from the merit bead, he suddenly sternly shouted, "What are you doing?"

Hearing Lin Haoming's shout, the young boys looked at him in fear, not daring to breathe heavily.

Lin Haoming's eyes were particularly cold as he glared at them and said angrily, "Who allowed you to step on her? Do you deserve it? Get out of here!"

Hearing Lin Haoming's words, these young boys were terrified and immediately ran out of the passage, fearing that Lin Haoming would make them suffer again.

At this moment, Lin Haoming looked at Li Wanru's corpse, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. He discovered that although Li Wanru was dead, her soul was still in her body, seemingly unable to leave it.

Lin Haoming was curious and carefully examined her. It turned out that Qian Yuanshu had tampered with Li Wanru's body. It seemed that Qian Yuanshu had only nominally taken her as a disciple, and once his cultivation technique was complete, he would still kill her to eliminate any witnesses.

Thinking about Qian Yuanshu's methods, Lin Haoming didn't think Li Wanru had much chance of survival. Now, her current fate might be the best.

Lin Haoming cast several spells to help Li Wanru remove the restrictions Qian Yuanshu had placed on her. Soon, a white light orb emerged from Li Wanru's already shattered forehead.

The light orb emitted a gentle glow, giving a sense of great peace.

Lin Haoming knew that this was Li Wanru's soul. After the light orb appeared, it seemed to intentionally circle around Lin Haoming three times before flying towards the passage.

Lin Haoming casually released a fireball to burn Li Wanru's corpse, then followed the light orb out. Soon, he saw the light orb fly out of the palace, ascending into the sky and flying higher and higher, eventually transforming into a point of starlight, seemingly merging with the stars in the sky.

At the moment the light orb disappeared, Lin Haoming suddenly felt an incredibly powerful surge of merit being absorbed by the merit bead.

Upon closer inspection, Lin Haoming found that the merit bead had not only gathered the nine small merits needed to unlock the spirit-gathering bead's seal but also had an extra small merit to unlock the second layer of the demon-gathering bead's seal.

Lin Haoming felt a wave of joy. He hadn't expected that helping Li Wanru casually would bring him such great benefits, especially since they were, to some extent, enemies.

But no matter what, Lin Haoming knew that with this merit, he would never forget her name.

Outside the Yongfu Palace, the dozen or so children gathered before Li Shun Tian.

Lin Haoming glanced at them and instructed, "Shun Tian, pick out the children with suitable potential. We'll take them back to the sect later. I'm going to rest at the Lingxiao Tower first!"

Li Shun Tian knew that Lin Haoming's rest was probably just an excuse. The real reason was to ponder Qian Yuanshu's secrets. But since he had taken a blood oath, he could only listen obediently. Moreover, killing Qian Yuanshu needed an excuse, and privately harming children with good spiritual roots was a good one. At least with this excuse, the sect wouldn't trouble him over an inner sect disciple, and finding a qualified child could also earn him sect contributions.

Of course, Lin Haoming didn't have time to deal with these matters now. After leaving the task to Li Shun Tian, he flew directly to the Lingxiao Tower.

The seal on the top floor of the Lingxiao Tower was gone. Although he could easily enter, Lin Haoming felt somewhat disappointed.

Because the presence of a seal indicated that there might be something valuable inside, and now it seemed there was nothing of value.

Indeed, after entering, Lin Haoming found only a low-grade magical mat with a simple spirit-gathering array carved on it, which could increase the absorption of spiritual energy by 20-30%. However, Lin Haoming usually used the Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Array for cultivation, so this mat was useless to him and could only be sold for spirit stones at a discount.

Fortunately, Lin Haoming wasn't there for such a small thing. After arriving, he directly activated the array and first unlocked the fourth layer of the spirit-gathering bead's seal, then took out the spirit-gathering bead.

As Lin Haoming had expected, after unlocking the fourth layer, he found that the spirit-gathering bead had indeed increased its capacity, but it also increased the speed at which it replenished the spiritual energy of spirit stones.

Lin Haoming tried placing a medium-grade spirit stone next to the spirit-gathering bead and observed for a while. As expected, it now took only one day to fully replenish the spiritual energy of a medium-grade spirit stone.

This result was quite satisfactory for Lin Haoming. However, when he looked at the requirements to unlock the fifth layer, he found that the needed merit had tripled, requiring twenty-seven complete small merits to unlock.

Thinking about how much effort it took to gather nine complete small merits, and this time it was purely luck, gathering twenty-seven small merits was no easy task. But according to his estimation, the fifth layer was quite important, so Lin Haoming could only think of ways to earn more merit.

PS: Request for favorites, request for favorites, request for favorites!

Page flip AD starts

Page flip AD ends