The White Immortal had taken an interest in my status and wanted Master and me to go into the restricted zone in Ghost Cry City to retrieve a medicinal ingredient.
Otherwise, there was no way they would have been so generous, giving us this spirit-communing root and five-hundred-year-old wild ginseng outright.
Put simply, it all came down to those few things Lu Feng had said earlier.
I had an S-class classified file and was someone the Five Directions Secret Bureau had to protect.
If anything happened to me in Ghost Cry City, the Secret Bureau would inevitably intervene and provide a safety net...
People grew craftier with age, and spirits were no different.
Since Master had agreed, there was nothing more to say.
Once Master and White Granny finished their drinks, the middle-aged White Immortal standing beside me, the one named White Four, handed me the thousand-year-old Spirit-Communing Cypress Root Core.
"Young friend, please take it!"
At that moment, Master turned back and nodded to me.
I accepted without further ceremony and took the root in my hand.
It felt icy cold. It looked like a root, but it didn't quite feel like one.
It was heavy. This little root, only ten centimeters long, felt like it weighed over a kilogram.
White Granny spoke up then.
"A spirit-communing root core like this can dispel sinister energies. Just feed a wisp of true qi into it to activate it.
"It will slowly neutralize the misfortune qi in your body..."
Hearing that, I gave it a try.
I fed in a wisp of true qi, and the instant it entered, I felt the root change.
I could feel it wriggling.
In that instant, it seemed to come alive, swaying slightly in my hand.
It looked like a big black leech about ten