Chapter 69 - 40: Purified Spirit Body! Where Is the Nightmare Vengeful Mother Hiding?

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The handsome young boy lying in bed suddenly opened his eyes, his bright eyes regained their former clarity and vitality, and the fatigue and exhaustion in his features disappeared completely.

Aunt Lu: "Awake? How do you feel?"

Xu Ran smiled confidently: "Perfect condition."

"I knew it, there’s nothing a good sleep can’t solve. If there is, just sleep twice."

Ha! Do you really think the golden achievement he achieved after more than six hundred days of self-discipline is just for show? Mere pollution is not worth mentioning.

There wasn’t even a trace of pollution left in his body.

Perfect!

Aunt Lu was surprised, touching Xu Ran’s forehead: "Strange, what’s this ability of yours, clearing pollution just with a nap..."

Xu Ran spread his hands: "I have no idea, from childhood to now, whenever I’m feeling unwell, I just sleep it off."

Aunt Lu and Ye Ping looked at each other, greatly shocked and puzzled.

Xu Ran, refreshed, jumped off the bed: "But those talismans are truly bizarre, like grievances, or more like curses related to the soul and fate, all in all, extremely dangerous."

Ye Ping: "That’s why I insisted on confiscating those talismans, not letting you carry them around. Anything related to Resentful Gods is bizarre to the extreme! One careless move and things could go wrong!"

"Even after confiscating those talismans, a major disaster almost occurred!"

Xu Ran waved his hand: "This is not Uncle Ye’s fault. The main culprit is that detestable Talisman Vengeful God."

Xu Ran’s features relaxed into a warm and bright smile, quietly adding the Talisman Vengeful God to his list of sworn enemies.

"Aunt Lu, sorry to trouble you to come here in the middle of the night. You should go back and rest! Uncle Ye and I plan to search for the Nightmare Vengeful Mother’s trace tonight."

Aunt Lu was surprised: "Searching in the dead of night?"

Xu Ran nodded: "Yes."

"Ghostly entities should prefer the night, and in the dark environment, they might be more relaxed, potentially showing some flaws!"

Aunt Lu was skeptical: "That’s not necessarily so, I recall Ping often searched once or twice in the dead of night, but still found no clue."

Ye Ping felt embarrassed: "..."

Lies don’t hurt people, but the truth is a sharp blade.

He stuttered: "Uh... uh, Xiao Ran is different, maybe he’ll have new discoveries?"

Aunt Lu remained silent. Just now, she subconsciously felt that—perhaps Xu Ran’s Comprehension Root Bone could really be the key to breaking through?

Can Comprehension Root Bone also distort others’ thinking?

Strange.

Clearly a problem even the Investigation Corps couldn’t solve, yet she was hoping on a child, isn’t that a bit absurd?

Aunt Lu gave Xu Ran a strange look, then glanced at Ye Ping: "Regardless of new findings, remember to protect Xiao Ran, don’t let more problems arise."

Ye Ping nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely be cautious this time."

Aunt Lu: "Alright, you all go find the Nightmare Vengeful Mother."

"Okay."

Xu Ran climbed onto the window, moving on the wall like a gecko.

Gecko Wall-Climbing Skill progress +1...

Gecko Wall-Climbing Skill progress +1...

Gecko Wall-Climbing Skill progress +1...

Uncle Ye looked up at the extraordinary Xu Ran and didn’t know what to say.

"You can even climb walls, when did you learn this?"

Xu Ran made up a random story: "Learned it from watching a gecko."

Uncle Ye was curious: "Mantis Fist, Tiger Crane Fist, can you learn them?"

Xu Ran: "Can’t learn those."

Uncle Ye: "They can be learned."

Xu Ran: "Really can’t learn those."

Xu Ran was at a loss for words, if he could have learned it, he would’ve mastered the Third Sequence fist technique by now, but unfortunately, the fist technique just can’t be triggered, what can he do?

Uncle Ye: "Really can’t learn?"

"Uncle Ye, don’t force it."

Xu Ran quickly leaped between buildings, reaching the topmost layer of the highest building in Jing City—the Phoenix Tower.

Uncle Ye was skeptical: "Comprehension Root Bone, what can’t it learn? You must be keeping something secret."

Xu Ran spread his hands with a smile: "I’m not hiding anything... truly can’t learn the fist technique. I don’t know why either."

Uncle Ye’s eyes were full of doubt, but he didn’t persist on the topic: "By the way, what are we doing on a tall building?"

Xu Ran said seriously: "Feng Shui observation."

Uncle Ye was confused: "Feng Shui observation?"

Xu Ran’s eyes were bright: "Yes, if I were the Nightmare Vengeful Mother, the best hiding place would be the place with the best Feng Shui."

Uncle Ye laughed: "The Nightmare Vengeful Mother likes to capture children, and it has tens of thousands of zombie babies on it, so it might be lurking at abortion hospitals, morgues, placenta disposal sites... but we’ve checked all those places. No results."

Xu Ran’s serious demeanor broke: "Checked all those places?"

Uncle Ye glanced at Xu Ran: "We’re not idiots, okay? We’ve even checked the sewers several times! When I first arrived, I even checked all the mountains around Jing City."

Upon hearing this, Xu Ran was filled with respect; it seemed Uncle Ye and the Investigation Corps had put in a lot of hard work in unnoticeable places.

"But really, no trace at all?"

Uncle Ye: "Really, no trace at all!"

With one wrong line of thinking, Xu Ran quickly changed perspective: "Did the cultivators on the front line find any parasite-like creatures? For example, like lice and fleas, hiding on the Nightmare Vengeful Mother to mask its ghostly aura?"

Uncle Ye: "The Ghost Planet only invaded Blue Star a few years ago, no such creatures have been found yet..."

"But your guess... might be close to the truth—a creature that can mask ghostly aura is concealing the Nightmare Vengeful Mother’s aura! That’s why we can’t find it anyhow!"

This line of thought opened up for Uncle Ye, yet also gave him more headaches.

Because humans know too little about ghostly entities and the Ghost Planet, they’re groping in the dark; even if they guess some creature is masking the Nightmare Vengeful Mother’s aura, they still have no approach!

Xu Ran frowned in thought: "Our lack of understanding of ghostly entities puts us at a disadvantage. Guessing alone is useless..."

Uncle Ye sighed: "So we really can’t find it? Just wait for it to show up on its own? It has harmed over thirty thousand children already... its next appearance might lead to even greater disasters! Sigh..."

As time passed, Ye Ping’s worry about the Nightmare Vengeful Mother deepened bit by bit.

The main issue is it’s too eerie, capable of causing nightmares for children directly. If its power grows, causing harm to Jing City’s children remotely, how could he stop it?

Though there are already three strong spiritual element aids, hidden in Jing City as a precaution, they might not be enough!

The Nightmare Vengeful Mother can directly enter a child’s dream realm! This ability is like a ticking time bomb!

If it could be found before its eruption and eliminated, it’d undoubtedly be the most efficient and least troublesome solution.

But if it launches its own attack, it becomes a huge problem.

Then, they’d not only have to deploy powerful individuals to stop the Nightmare Vengeful Mother but also care for the safety of the children.

It’s akin to defusing a bomb, while fighting the bomber, and also rescuing vulnerable hostages... the difficulty doesn’t just slightly increase!

Thinking of these, Uncle Ye gritted his teeth with annoyance: "It’s really infuriating."

"If it would just come out for a fight, even if injured and bedridden for two or three years, I’d be willing. But these ghostly entities are so nauseating, always hiding in shadows!!"

Xu Ran frowned, pondering: "Think carefully again, see if there’s a breakthrough point..."

"Firstly, the outbreak of citywide nightmares in Jing City suggests the main body should be hidden there, otherwise there’s no need for a citywide nightmare. There’s definitely a reason for a citywide nightmare.

Secondly, the abductions by ghoul spirits are nationwide. The kidnapped children sacrifice into energy bodies, but they can’t possibly transmit over long distances. There must be accomplices transporting this energy from all over the country to the main body."

"So what’s the most convenient, discrete, and safest way of transportation?"

Xu Ran posed the question.

Behind Ye Ping’s mind, a brilliant inspiration suddenly flashed by, as if he had the answer, looking at Xu Ran with a peculiar expression.

"You mean...?"