While King Yama was still dumbfounded, Zhang Tianle had already finished his calculations. The moment he finished, he grabbed the ring, then ripped off the transparent, multicolored bubble hanging from the Demon-Subduing Ruler and handed it to him.

King Yama took it blankly, and subconsciously replied, "You guys believe in fate way too much, don't you?"

Even making a last-minute decision requires consulting the heavens.

Is it really necessary to go this far?

He had never been so speechless in his life.

Then he glanced at Lu Kongming inside the colorful bubble and couldn't help but squint.

This reminded him of some unpleasant memories from the past. He glanced at Yue Niang, who was hiding not far away trying to minimize her presence, then turned his gaze back to Zhang Tianle.

"Hmm. I tell fortunes for others, so naturally I believe in fate." After the Wheel King took the Demon-Subduing Ruler, Zhang Tianle asked, "Shall I draw the array diagram for you when I get back?"

King Yama beckoned to Lu Wuchang, who was waiting on the side, and said, "You go back with him later to get the drawn talisman array. I'll go back to get the Red Lotus Karmic Fire."

Without waiting for Lu Wuchang's reply, he waved to the group of ghost messengers behind him: "Go back!"

"Here you go!"

Countless ghost messengers entered the underworld path, but in the blink of an eye they disappeared before Zhang Tianle and his companions' eyes, as if they had never appeared at all.

Only after King Yama left did Moon Maiden dare to float over.

Lu Wuchang glanced at Yue Niang but didn't say anything.

When Yue Niang arrived in front of Zhang Tianle, she looked at the colorful bubbles that Zhang Tianle had bound to her hands.

To be precise, when she saw Lu Kongming inside the transparent, colorful bubble, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

After so many years, she finally saw her husband again.

His soul is still here, and he's perfectly fine!

Zhang Tianle handed the colorful bubble to Yue Niang. On the way back, he had already consulted the system and repeated its words: "His soul is fine. As long as he is exposed to sunlight, the bubble will burst and he will be able to come out. However, his soul is relatively weak. After he comes out, we need to arrange for him to be reincarnated in time, otherwise his soul will be unstable and cause some adverse consequences."

"Okay." Moon Maiden carefully accepted the colorful bubble, as if she had received the most precious treasure in the world.

After taking the bubble, she stared intently at Lu Kongming, who was curled up inside and in a coma.

At the same time, a system notification sounded in Zhang Tianle's mind.

[Congratulations, host, on completing the mission. Reward: Innate Divination Technique, Mysterious Gifts: Innate Divination Jar, Innate Coins. (Note: Fortune-Changing Set; explore this feature yourself.) Innate Divination Technique transmission complete. Innate Divination Jar and Innate Coins have been placed in the host's inventory.]

Zhang Tianle felt the divination knowledge that had suddenly appeared in his mind: "..."

The system has already equipped him with a complete fortune-telling kit.

Just as Zhang Tianle was feeling a little dizzy, Yue Niang performed an ancient salute to him: "Thank you so much this time! Without you, Kongming would probably..."

Yue Niang choked up at this point, then seemed to remember something.

She made a "yue" sound and spat out a grayish-white bead from her mouth.

After she spat out the bead, her face turned deathly pale, and then her skin and flesh began to turn to ash and gradually dissipate. After spitting out the bead, she weathered away at an extremely terrifying speed.

"I don't have anything to give you, this is my ghost bead, I hope you won't find it undesirable. Consider it an apology gift to your junior sister."

As soon as she finished speaking, her physical body completely dissipated into the air.

Instead, she was replaced by a ghost.

The old man who drove the corpses realized what was happening just as Yue Niang was about to spit out the pearl and rushed over, but he was no match for Yue Niang's speed.

So by the time he rushed to Zhang Tianle, Yue Niang had already completed all her actions.

"You're insane! You're fucking insane! Do you know what your actions mean? If the aura of annihilation falls upon the mortal realm again, who will deal with it? You..."

The reason why these righteous people can tolerate Yue Niang's occasional misbehavior is precisely because Yue Niang can absorb the energy of annihilation. Otherwise, given the nature of the Xuanxue Guild, they would have dealt with this unruly element of Yue Niang long ago.

However, for the sake of the bigger picture, even though Yue Niang sometimes did things that were very improper and excessive, they had no choice but to swallow their pride and clean up after her.

Now, Yue Niang actually spat out the Ghost Pearl and gave it to someone else right in front of him, completely destroying her own physical body and the only storage container that could absorb the energy of annihilation without injury.

He could already imagine how those old geezers from the Metaphysics Guild would criticize and lecture him.

Hearing the old man's words, Yue Niang sneered, "Don't forget what I promised you. If you agreed to help me rescue Kongming, I would help you absorb the annihilation energy. But so many years have passed, and have you done anything about it? You've completely forgotten our agreement and have been treating me like a fool, controlling me to absorb the dissipated annihilation energy for you. Now that Kongming has returned, why should I continue to be your tool?"

The old man who drove the corpses was speechless after Yue Niang's words.

To be honest, their ancestors were indeed somewhat unethical in this regard.

In order to preserve Yue Niang's life and enable her to absorb the energy of annihilation to maintain the normal operation of the human world.

The elders of various schools of Taoism often used special magic to transfer their lives to her, allowing her to achieve a state close to immortality.

Lu Kongming was the best way to control Yue Niang.

As long as Yue Niang maintains her love for Lu Kongming, they can use this matter to keep her hanging on.

More importantly, none of the various schools of Taoism could enter the cycle of reincarnation, so naturally no one could save Lu Kongming.

So many years have passed, and the reason they were able to keep Yue Niang in suspense was actually by using a kind of mirror magic, which allowed Yue Niang to know that Lu Kongming was still alive, and if he performed exceptionally well, he could even have Yue Niang communicate with Lu Kongming.

This is why Yue Niang has always been able to persevere and believe in the Metaphysics Guild.

But who knew that Zhang Tianle would shatter all of this?

"You! You!! You!!! Ugh!"

The old man who drove the corpses pointed at Yue Niang, but he couldn't utter a single complete sentence.

"Are you still angry?" Zhang Tianle asked Liu Yiyi.

Having spent so much time together, Liu Yiyi naturally knew that her senior brother was asking about what Yue Niang had done to her at the hospital.

Liu Yiyi glanced at the balloon held in Yue Niang's hand, and at her ghostly form that sometimes flickered in and out of existence, and shook her head at Zhang Tianle: "Don't be angry. Senior brother, she's quite pitiful too, please let her go."

Zhang Tianle shook his head: "You're just too kind after all."

Even so, he did not cause any more trouble for Yue Niang. If Yue Niang had not apologized earlier, he would have definitely sought her out for a confrontation.

He handed the ghost bead to Liu Yiyi: "Let's go."