I used folk talismans to ward off the evil spirit.

Chapter 44 Using Gu to Transform into Humans, the Calamity of the Abyss

Jiang Jun put another fern tip into his mouth, gently bit down, and a sweet juice burst on his tongue.

The tender shoots are crisp and refreshing, with a slight elasticity when chewed, and a subtle fragrance slides down the throat, making the throat feel much clearer.

Seeing this, Liu Yan felt relieved, but was also curious about the taste of this thing, so she smiled and said, "Senior, give me another one."

Jiang Jun smiled and nodded, breaking off all the tender shoots from the two spirit ferns, one for each person present: "Everyone, please have a taste."

Liu Yan, Lin Zhengyang, and Cai Liang all took the food and slowly savored it.

Lin Dingxuan chewed slowly, his eyes narrowed into slits, his face full of satisfaction: "Tsk, this is really delicious."

After everyone had shared the two spirit ferns, Liu Yan was still somewhat reluctant to leave.

She cleared her throat and was pleasantly surprised to find, "My pharyngitis seems to be getting better?"

Although those who wield demons possess power, they suffer from various physical ailments due to the corrosive influence of demonic energy, with the areas related to the side effects of their own demonic possessions being the most severely affected.

Liu Yan's natal artifact, named "Screaming Owl Roar," is designed to affect her throat.

Jiang Jun shook his head: "It's just treating the symptoms, not the root cause. The Dumb Fern is still too low-grade. If there were some elite-level related mutated plants, they might be able to cure your throat."

Even so, Liu Yan was pleasantly surprised: "Senior, may I take one of these two spirit ferns back with me?"

Although the tender shoots have been pinched off, the fern itself remains active and can still be cultivated to continuously produce new shoots.

Jiang Jun waved his hand: "It's just a little something. One is for your company, and the other is for Director Liu."

Liu Yan smiled and thanked him, her gaze towards Jiang Jun becoming more affectionate.

Over the next two days, with Su Tie and Liu Yan as witnesses, Jiang Jun purified the other eight strange plants one by one.

Unfortunately, the effects of the skirmisher-level spiritual plants were very weak, and no more top-quality plants like "withered skull flower → sunflower" were produced.

Among the three bizarre medicinal herbs, "Twin Vengeance" and "Rotten Heart Yellow," like the Yellow Essence Ghost Child, were all reduced to their original forms.

Its medicinal properties show no change yet, but its efficiency in converting spiritual energy is similar.

For a newcomer like Cai Liang who is just beginning to explore the art of suppressing evil spirits, only one plant is needed for his cultivation.

Only the "ginseng gu," once successfully transformed, went against the grain and vaguely took on a human-like form.

One of them even grew slits resembling seven orifices, making it look like a human.

Jiang Jun used his divine sense to investigate and was surprised to find that the spirit within was exceptionally active, as if the North American ginseng was about to become a spirit.

Looking at Liu Yan's expectant yet nervous eyes, Jiang Jun pondered for a moment: "Has this ginseng poison had any blood on its hands before?"

Liu Yan quickly waved her hand: "Absolutely not. Our Department of Mysteries has rules that monsters that have harmed people, even if they have medicinal effects, cannot be eaten. They must either be used to cultivate other monsters or traded to the Star River Federation."

"These surviving living beings were captured shortly after their metamorphosis. Although they are monsters, they have never harmed anyone, which is why they were purified with divine artifacts and refined into secret medicines to assist the police officers in their cultivation."

Jiang Jun nodded slightly: "In that case, I'll leave this North American ginseng spiritual plant here for now. I'll see if I can enlighten it using the Dao of Suppressing Objects. If I can succeed, it might be another major breakthrough."

Liu Yan nodded repeatedly: "Let's do as you say, senior."

Jiang Jun looked at the group of spiritual plants that had been purified and said, "I will keep one of each of the three types of medicinal plants. As for the rest, you two can divide them up, Master Lin and Director Liu."

Lin Zhengyang and Liu Yan thanked him repeatedly and discussed how to divide the spiritual plants among themselves.

Having witnessed firsthand Jiang Jun's methods of transforming bizarre plants into spiritual plants, Liu Yan showed great enthusiasm for this collaboration and brought over a dozen more bizarre plants of the "scattered soldier" and "roaming warrior" levels from the Department of Mysticism.

Jiang Jun checked everything one by one, and after completing the handover, he smiled and said, "I still need time to cultivate, so I'll leave these with me for now. After the purification is complete, I'll send them to the Department of Divine Wonders and the Green Bamboo Temple on another day."

"Thank you for your help, senior!"

"Respectfully bidding farewell to the esteemed master!"

The people present all bowed in unison.

With a thought, Jiang Jun connected with the original form of the "Ghostly Prohibition" talisman and disappeared from Qingzhu Temple in the next moment.

At the same time, Cai Liang's figure also vanished from the ghost realm and returned to the real world.

After Jiang Jun left, Liu Yan and Su Tie also said goodbye to Lin Zhengyang and returned to the Department of Divine Wonders.

"Sister Liu, you said that this senior didn't keep much of the spiritual plants he purified for himself, giving most of them to us. What was he after?" Su Tie asked, puzzled.

Liu Yan rolled her eyes at him: "You're about to become a bureau chief, you should use your brain more. It's not that you don't have a brain, it's that you don't like to think things through."

Su Tie just chuckled awkwardly.

Liu Yan looked back at Qingzhu Temple: "In this world, besides this pioneer who opened up the way to suppress evil spirits, who else can transform monsters into spiritual beings?"

"If you want to take, you must first give. He left all the spiritual plants to us so that we could taste the benefits first, and he was sure that we would need a lot of spiritual plants."

"When he officially opens his path and the Abyss of Deception brings down calamity, can we, the entire Divine Bureau, even for the sake of a long-term supply of spiritual plants, sit idly by and watch him face this calamity? We must do everything in our power to help him."

Su Tie sighed, "This is truly an unsolvable scheme. The General Commander previously said not to easily get involved in the calamity of opening the path, but now it seems that won't work."

Liu Yan nodded, then suddenly asked, "Now that you have reached the peak of the Refinement Realm and are in the Divine Response Abyss, your spiritual perception is at its strongest."

"How much of this senior's background have you figured out? What level of transcendence has he reached? Why has there been no record of him before?"

Su Tie frowned, and after a long while, he admitted, "I can't see through it. His imperial robes must be a set of extremely high-quality divine artifacts. Unless we use the 'Chen Wang Jian' (a type of ancient Chinese jade tablet), we won't be able to find even a trace of them."

The two looked at each other in silence, then returned to the Department of Mysteries to report to Li Ming what they had seen and heard over the past few days.

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Jiang Jun returned home and looked at the group of spiritual plants and strange plants he had brought back, feeling somewhat worried.

So many flowers and plants, it would be difficult to arrange them all. Luckily, the Department of the Supernatural took over a batch, otherwise there simply wouldn't be enough room in the house.

Fortunately, the wooden boxes containing the strange plants all bore seals left by the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Otherwise, if these things caused trouble, the entire building would be in turmoil.

He placed several transformed spiritual plants on various balconies to bask in the sun, and then concealed them with "Guibuxu" to prevent anyone from noticing anything amiss.

The wooden boxes containing the strange plants were piled together, and the "Divine Rooster Talisman" was temporarily used to suppress them.

However, the Divine Rooster Talisman is specifically designed to counter the Five Poisons and is a treasure for killing. Using it to suppress and seal is merely a case of overwhelming force and flying bricks; it is not its proper application.

He frowned in thought: "It seems that the fourth item could perhaps be a treasure to suppress the seal."

As he pondered, he took out the golden lotus seed given to him by the Department of Mysteries: "Let me see what mysteries this wondrous object holds."