As soon as the scholar’s soul dispersed, the giant palm holding Qi Xuansu disintegrated. Qi Xuansu fell back to the ground and regained his freedom.0

At this point, they had captured He Nian and killed the scholar, Bai Yongguan, Zhu Cheng, and Xia Chang. Out of the seven cultists in Zhang Yuelu’s divination, only Lin Zhenyuan and the Shaman were missing.0

Qi Xuansu searched the scholar’s body and found nothing on him. He wondered if the scholar had hidden his money elsewhere or if he had handed it over to the Lingshan Witch Cult. He guessed it was probably the former.1

After all, the scholar was a mid-level member of the Lingshan Witch Cult, so he should have amassed some private funds. However, the scholar did not have a magical receptacle, so he had to hide his money somewhere. Qi Xuansu wondered who would be so lucky to have kept these cultists’ money since they were dead.0

According to the rules of the Daoist Order, a heretic's wealth was considered dirty money, so the money would have to be surrendered to the Order.0

Spiritual objects were quite common in the Daoist community, but they were not so common outside the community. If Zhang Yuelu was not a member of the Daoist Order, even if...0