After Su Jiu finished purifying the Soul-Locking Book, she left the City Lord's Residence with Yun Huanling and the others.
Before leaving, she glanced at the City Lord, who had stood silently in a corner the entire time, then addressed the cultivators who had also been preparing to leave. "That heretical cultivator won't be coming back, so you no longer need to fear for your lives.
"Besides, having taken so many pills from the City Lord's Residence, you ought to fulfill the promises you made." Su Jiu did not want these cultivators to leave because of her influence. After all, however unreliable the City Lord's actions had been, she had ultimately been acting for the sake of Peace City as a whole.
No sooner had Su Jiu finished speaking than a Storage Bag appeared abruptly in the City Lord's hand.
The City Lord recognized it. The bag contained precisely the pills she had given their group over the past few days. But thinking about it, three Spirit Transformation cultivators and one Out-of-Body cultivator probably had no use for ordinary-quality, low-tier Spirit-Gathering Pills.
The City Lord looked at Su Jiu with complicated feelings. This was a female cultivator who truly held righteousness in her heart, someone who could even set aside personal grievances.
Now that Su Jiu had spoken, even if not everyone stayed, at least some would.
The City Lord felt both gratitude and guilt toward Su Jiu. Had she not interfered, everything might have reached a more satisfactory conclusion.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs.
On her way out of the City Lord's Residence, Su Jiu opened the book again. As quickly as she could, she returned the living souls that had not yet been corrupted to the bodies of those still unconscious.
An hour later, the spoiled, willful Second