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“The eternal lamp within Star-Plucking Tower has burned without going out for four hundred years, always bathed in divine grace. Over time, that gave rise to a lamp spirit.” Bai Ziqi lowered the lamp spirit on his fingertip toward the ground. “It is the natural bane of evil yin spirits and evil qi. It hates evil with a passion.”
At once, white flames sprang up across the ground.
The constables standing nearby hurriedly jumped back, but the fire gave off no heat at all and did not burn anyone.
Then the lamp spirit floated outward in a wavering drift.
Wherever it passed, it left behind a small cluster of pale white flame on the ground.
“It will follow the trail of evil qi.” Bai Ziqi took the lead himself. “Come, this aura should be what Cheng Yu left behind.”
Following the trail of white fire, the group headed onward, and sure enough, it led toward the back hill. There, a cliff dropped off by about seventy meters. It was not very high, but it was steep, with an almost seventy-degree angle.
All the constables had ridden over on horseback. There was no way they could simply jump straight down.
He Lingchuan immediately said to them, “Go back the way you came down the hill and catch up as fast as possible.”
The lamp spirit had already drifted to about midway down the cliff and clearly had no intention of waiting. Fortunately, the white flames it left behind were conspicuous. Once the...
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