"Grand Mage, please, you must help us get rid of... no, lay that thing to rest!"
The Grand Mage smiled gently.
"Since I came here and encountered it, fate must have brought us together."
"Rest assured. We of the Heavenly Derivation Sect would never stand by and do nothing when faced with something like this."
At this point, the Grand Mage added, "However, you'll have to prepare the supplies needed to lay it to rest."
Xie Songde immediately replied, "Just tell me what you need, Grandmaster. I'll get it ready!"
The Grand Mage nodded, then said, "Forty-nine qian of cinnabar, of the finest quality; forty-nine jin of black dog blood, from purebred dogs."
Xie Songde hurriedly noted it down on his phone, but soon his fingers stopped moving.
"Forty-nine seven-star stones, each weighing seven liang... forty-nine Dragon-Patterned Beads, each the size of a pigeon's egg... forty-nine jin of netherworld soil... forty-nine liang of earth abyss iron... forty-nine branches of snow cedar wood, each at least a meter long..."
"G-Grandmaster, please wait."
A fine sweat covered Xie Songde's forehead as he interrupted the Grand Mage.
He knew what cinnabar and black dog blood were, but he had never even heard of the rest!
"How about this, Grandmaster? Work out what you need, and I'll provide the funds for you to buy it. I really don't understand the things you're talking about."
Understanding dawned on the Grand Mage.
"In that case, I'll give you my junior brother's contact information. You won't need to give me any money. Just buy the supplies directly from him."
"The materials for the rites will cost around ten thousand a day. That's no small sum."
"If that thing still hasn't voluntarily shed its malevolence after forty-nine days, we'll need some special materials. Those will cost about as