Earning Money

Wenren Sheng thought for a while, then turned to Stone Flower. "Teacher, what do you make of the answer given by that old giant stone?"

"The answer is obvious. It means your Spiritual Candlelight is exceptionally dazzling and cannot be contained, so it radiates into the mysterious world and draws many Peeping Toms. They are trying to bewilder you, tempt you into falling, and turn you into a vessel for their descent and possession." Stone Flower spoke as though it were only natural, not finding Wenren Sheng's question strange in the slightest.

"From the sound of it, Teacher, have you encountered this phenomenon before?" Wenren Sheng asked humbly.

Though he was intelligent and wise enough, he had been an Otherworldly User for too short a time. He lacked experience and practical knowledge.

"Of course I have. Some sufficiently special Otherworldly Users can hear those whispers in the mind you mentioned. I have heard them once or twice myself. They are all words meant to shake you and corrupt you. Consider it a threshold. It is like with Ordinary People: if you are an unremarkable pauper, naturally no one will bother trying to lure you. But once you stand out, you will face all sorts of temptations." Stone Flower spoke calmly.

Wenren Sheng immediately understood. Recalling the Patrol Division files he had read, he remembered similar cases. However, those descriptions referred to mental contamination during cultivation, which should have been the same thing as the whispers in his mind.

His case was simply more unusual. That thing was better at disguising itself.

His guess had been correct. It truly was some hidden Peeping Tom, still trying to deceive him. It had chosen the wrong target.

With a genius mind like his and his experience as an investigator, how could he possibly