Chapter 125
After having gathered all the soulless cultivators in Garric Sloan’s mansion, Michelle sat in a corner and started taking out the twelve Soul Seeking Pendants, each containing a thousand souls, that she had yet to break. She was going to free the souls so they would return to the bodies where they belonged. After that, she would have to coordinate the people who came back to their senses so they would return to the lower realm since they were originally from there.
When she took out the pendants, she stared at them for a moment before a thought struck her. She glanced at her spatial bracelet before looking at the soulless cultivators. If she returned their souls to them in the Land of Exile, they would be even more confused than if she did it in the lower realm, but bringing twelve thousand people through the barrier was basically impossible.
Not because they couldn’t pass through the barrier of Heavenly Law when they were in the lower realm, since they were all in the Spirit rank, but because their number would attract unnecessary attention if she brought them all out at once. Even if she used her spatial bracelet, she would have to make multiple trips, as fitting twelve thousand people inside was impossible.
With a sigh, Michelle put the Soul Seeking Pendants into her spatial ring and then stared at the cultivators in front of her. She didn’t know how many times she would have to go back and forth, but to prevent any pointless trouble, she decided to take the cultivators to the lower realm before freeing their souls. However, she needed to find a place in the lower realm where she could leave twelve thousand people. So it seemed that it was better to catch up with Kieran, Ivona, and Anastasia first, so they could go to the lower realm together before doing anything more.
So, Michelle bid farewell to the Archduke and went to the mountain range where her friends were already fighting monsters.
The next day, Michelle reached the barrier, but Kieran and the others were nowhere to be seen, so she contacted Snow, who was with them, to ask their location. But for a long while, Snow didn’t answer, so Michelle decided to use the contract to sense where Snow was and followed the directions. Within the next fifteen minutes, she heard the sound of fighting, and it was quite intense. So it seemed her friends had met a formidable opponent. But for something like that to happen when they were still in the Land of Exile was fairly surprising.
Stopping some distance from the fight, Michelle climbed a tree and looked down at the scene, her eyes widening. Kieran and Ivona were nearly unconscious, lying weakly on the ground, and Snow was by their side, in the shape of a small white fox, curled up and unmoving, probably unconscious too. Mare was in a similar state, coiled into a small bundle next to Snow. The only one on her feet was Anastasia, trying to fight off a huge plant with a body of thorny vines coiled together into a sphere and long, sharp vines like tentacles spreading out from the body, attacking Anastasia relentlessly.
Seeing that from above, Michelle frowned a bit. The movements of the plant weren’t so fast that Anastasia wouldn’t be able to take care of it with her usual skill, so why was she clearly struggling? And the state Kieran and the rest were in just showed that the plant beast was much more dangerous than it seemed.
Very quickly, Michelle felt a strange, spicy scent fill the air, making her frown. "So... it’s poisonous..." she muttered as she jumped off the tree and landed behind Anastasia. "Let’s take care of this thing quickly!" she said as her eyes flashed coldly.