176. Purification

"Is there another space behind the mirror?"

Sulu stood before the void created by the shattered mirror, lost in thought and speechless.

He's making a difficult decision!

"This Ancient Mansion clearly has access restrictions... It's more compatible with spirits; last time I entered as a spirit, I wasn't cursed... Furthermore, it seems to be specifically designed for Necro-Spirit, which can be inferred from Lanny's actions... The best way to explore it is to have Necro-Spirit pave the way."

But this becomes problematic when placed within the Federation.

Necro-Spirit are forbidden professions, and are severely punished by the Church and the Federation.

Because they are not only extremely evil, but also extremely prone to getting out of control, turning into real Evil Spirit and Fierce Spirit, and they have inherited human Wisdom, making them difficult to destroy.

"If a Necro-Spirit can't be found... a spirit is barely acceptable."

Sulu pursed his lips. "We can try it, Soul Projection inside the Ancient Mansion!"

This is indeed a rather dangerous move, because once the spirit leaves the body, there will be no time to protect oneself if the body is in danger.

"Therefore... we cannot go too far, and we cannot even leapfrog!"

Sulu gritted his teeth. "Soul Projection!"

In an instant, his spirit left his body and wandered around.

As the spirit gazed upon its surroundings, everything changed.

Especially inside the mirror, in that pitch-black passage, one could barely make out the room it led to, and there was a figure there.

"It's the Evil Spirit Lanny..."

This almost forgotten Evil Spirit is indeed still in the Ancient Mansion!

Sulu's spirit instantly returned, and he stood up and rushed towards the passage.

"The Evil of This World..."

Hughes muttered to himself as he walked forward step by step.

At this moment, his body had undergone a horrific and utterly disgusting change.

His entire body was covered in blisters, many of which were broken and oozing pus, making him look almost like a dead man.

Even more astonishingly, numerous tentacles emerged from the surrounding darkness, wrapping around his body as if to hinder his progress.

As time passed, those tentacles actually burrowed into his body, and the two began to merge.

"In the name of the Goddess..."

Hughes took another step forward.

Snap!

One of the tentacles on his shoulder, stretched too taut, grew thinner and thinner until it finally burst open, bleeding profusely—this was due to the nature of symbiotic coexistence; an injury to the tentacle meant an injury to Hughes as well.

Hughes frowned, seemingly feeling no pain whatsoever, and continued forward.

Finally, he arrived at the honeycomb-shaped Blackstone, and with all his might, pulled out a dagger covered in holy runes and stabbed it fiercely into the Blackstone.

Puff!

The tip of the dagger encountered only slight resistance on the Blackstone before piercing through it without any obstruction.

The honeycomb-shaped Blackstone shattered into pieces, emitting a cacophony of screams from many voices.

The surging black air currents were about to engulf Hughes in an instant.

At this moment, Hughes's face was filled with the expression of a martyr, and he opened his arms wide.

Outside the Demon Ancient Mansion.

"Hughes has located the core of the Ancient Mansion; let's coordinate our operation!"

An elderly man dressed in Archbishop's robes suddenly appeared in the crowd and gave the order.

He is Malone Trilling, the Archbishop of the Church of the Goddess of Light in this city! A fourth-tier professional, and also the location of the Mind World the Vortex that Sulu sensed earlier.

Previously, he had been hiding himself, waiting to deal with any unexpected incidents.

At this moment, they finally appeared.

"Praise be to the Goddess, you are the Lord of Light! Your followers will gain eternal life in your kingdom!"

Many believers began reciting Scripture in praise of the Goddess of Light.

A white beam of light shot into the sky, piercing the darkness of the Silent Forest and drawing in the sunlight.

"In the name of the Goddess... purify!"

Malone shouted.

A holy radiance filled his entire body, then, as if drawn by something, it shot straight into the Ancient Mansion, swept through countless spaces, and struck Hughes accurately in the back.

Bathed in warm and healing light, Hughes smiled, the pustules and tentacles on his body quickly fell off, his wounds healed rapidly, scabs fell off, revealing fair and delicate skin, and he looked many years younger.

"Darkness, begone!"

Hughes roared, and the Honeycomb Black Stone beneath the dagger shattered completely.

Click!

Click!

The rubble exploded, turning into powder, and finally into tiny specks of light, scattering into nothingness.

The eerie and unsettling feeling surrounding the Demon Ancient Mansion was rapidly fading.

In the Black Forest, numerous extraordinary beings watched as the trees before them turned to ashes, their faces displaying expressions of either ecstatic joy or dread. "The Demon Ancient Mansion... it really has been purified!"

"The Goddess of Light, truly one of the Seven Gods."

"The power of the city's Church is simply outrageous..."

Inside the Ancient Mansion.

Sulu immediately sensed the difference.

The moment the light descended, the entire Ancient Mansion seemed to emit a mournful cry, like the final sob of a person on their deathbed.

"This Demon Ancient Mansion... is dead!"

A strange feeling welled up in his heart.

In the midst of Inspiration, numerous phantom images of the Ancient Mansion the Spirit World are rapidly returning.

Returning with them were the vanished Tier 3 professionals.

"Oh no, I need to speed things up!"

Sulu broke through the wall and entered a cubicle.

This is a secluded room, devoid of furniture, with the floor covered in dust.

In the center of the secret room, a black-covered book was impaled by a dagger and eerily fixed to the floor.

A phantom Evil Spirit stands guard to one side, or perhaps it is praying to the book.

Sulu glanced at it and saw a few characters written in Gulam Language on the cover, which translated to -- <The Book of Nameless Necro-Spirits>!

"The legacy of the Necro-Spirit class? Why is he pinned down by a dagger?"

Sulu stepped forward with some doubt, and after seeing the style of the dagger clearly, he was even more shocked. "This is... Demon Hunting Dagger?"

On the hilt of the dagger is a demon hunter symbol, indicating that this item once belonged to a Witch Hunter!

"The fact that they were able to get this far and seal the Book of Nameless Necro-Spirits shows their incredible strength... I wonder what their fate will be?"

Sulu felt that, judging from the fact that the Demon Ancient Mansion still existed, the other party's fate was probably not good.

At this moment, he could clearly see dark brown marks at the junction of the dagger and the Necro-Book, as if they had been stained with blood.

A scene suddenly flashed before his eyes.

A powerful hand, gripping Demon Hunting Dagger, slammed the <Book of Nameless Necro-Spirits> into the ground.

Glug! Glug!

A large amount of blood flowed from the damaged part of the Necro-Book!

"Both of these are Curio, and their grade is quite high!"

Sulu stepped forward, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Putting everything else aside, the Demon Hunting Dagger is an excellent choice whether you use it yourself or give it to Rhode.