After I returned, I was a little confused and asked Chuyi, “How could they extract gold powder from some corpses?”

“In ancient times, there was a torture that forced people to swallow gold powder until they died. When the heavy metals in their body exceeded a certain threshold, these people would die.”

I shuddered. This type of torture was too wasteful. Normal people could not understand it.

Chuyi continued, “Everything’s ready. We have to wait for our chance now.”

I was worried as Chuyi had only prepared the Black Gold Powder and nothing else. “I brought the Sirius Whip. Will it work?”

Chuyi sighed emotionally. “She’s also a woman with an unlucky fate. We don’t need to go that hard on her.”

I knew he was talking about the thousand-year-old resentful soul in the mirror.

Song Yushu kept weeping next to me, which was really annoying. I wanted her to stop.

However, Li Mazi told me that Chuyi had asked her to cry because he needed to use her tears tonight.

Well, the items Chuyi required were all strange. From my impression, when a Daoist priest subdued ghosts or demons, except for peach wood swords, they would only use talismans.

We waited until dawn. Chuyi finally stood up and woke up Song Yushu. She was sleeping after she had cried a lot.

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