At first, when the common folk learned they were going to turn into those "Strange Objects," they were all terrified; some of the weaker-willed ones even broke down crying in front of everyone.
Luo Yunji ignored them. He drove everyone who had shown no abnormalities in the examination out of the place, while he himself stayed behind.
"State Preceptor!" Everyone stared at Luo Yunji's actions in shock and called out anxiously, wanting him to hurry and leave the people already tainted by the Gray Mist.
"Back off. Don't get in the way here! You may have shown no problems in the examination, but there's no guarantee there isn't something I failed to notice." Luo Yunji frowned deeply and waved them away.
"State Preceptor, you can't stay here!" Behind Luo Yunji, those who had been found to have Gray Smoke on them looked at him with ashen faces and shouted.
"I'm staying to test a few things. If this Gray Smoke isn't investigated clearly, it will become a grave threat. All of you cooperate with me properly later!" Luo Yunji raised a hand, cutting off those who still wanted to persuade him to leave.
"State Preceptor..." The few people who had been frightened into tears earlier looked at Luo Yunji through choked sobs, their eyes full of gratitude and self-loathing. When they had thought they were doomed to die, they had never imagined Luo Yunji would choose to stay and remain with them. At a time like this, it would be a lie to say they were not moved.
Luo Yunji tried quite a few methods. When this Gray Mist was on living bodies, Buddhist power had a surprisingly tiny effect in purifying it. Each time some of it was destroyed, even more would grow.
And as some of the Gray