(Thanks to Bei Ming Luo Yu for the tip; bonus chapter 16/25)
Li Qinwu made as if to take the hand bone back, and the monk hurriedly hugged it to his chest.
"I never said I wouldn't trade, but you have to give me some time to verify whether it's genuine, right? How about this? I'll take it back first and gather the God-Emperor's devout followers to study it. If it really is the Saint's Remains, I'll hand the merchant ship over to you. How does that sound?"
Li Qinwu agreed with great flair. This thing was useless to him anyway, and he could make as many as he wanted. Even if the monk broke his word and ran off, he would not lose much.
The monk left carrying a golden hand bone with its middle finger raised. A week later, a 1.5-kilometer-long armed merchant ship was delivered to Li Qinwu.
Over that week, the monk gathered their devout followers and studied the hand bone.
Although they did not find the saint Li Qinwu had mentioned, they discovered that the hand bone truly possessed the power to dispel evil.
Their pilgrim ship held many Daemonic artifacts in containment. They had collected these artifacts from various worlds and imprisoned them with ritual arrays.
One of them was a golden goblet. If wine was poured into it and given to someone to drink, that person would be possessed by a Lesser Daemon and go on a mad killing spree.
The monks found an unlucky man who had volunteered himself and made him drink the wine, allowing the Lesser Daemon to possess his body.
The Lesser Daemon immediately began screaming madly, trying to kill someone.
The monk took out the hand bone, raised its middle finger at the Lesser Daemon, and shouted an