Afterlife Department

"So, there he is." Huo Ling said with a frosty tone before he snapped his fingers.

A ball of fire appeared beneath the monster\'s feet that is shaking as Yi Bing raised it by its hands, as if a pig awaiting to be slaughtered.

"AAAAAAAH!!!" the monster screamed because it is being frozen from above while being roasted from below.

The monster\'s domain finally disappeared.

"Xiao Ling!" it was Hao Baiyun. "You are still here…" he said and sighed in relief as his group ran towards them with Xiao Hualing following behind them. "We sensed a strange presence in this area when we are about to leave. We thought it was a yao making trouble but, as expected, it is a monster!" he explained and frowned as he glared at the monster shrieking while Yi Bing and Huo Ling are torturing it with ice and fire, respectively.

Lan Tian\'s brow twitched because the monster is very noisy. Zi Chen took out a handkerchief and stuffed it inside the monster\'s mouth.

"Ugly." Tang Tang said as he pointed the monster.

"En. Very ugly." Tian Tian nodded in agreement as he hid his younger brother behind him.

Yi Bing turned to them. "Take this back with you and interrogate it." He said as he handed the monster whose now half-dead after he froze its arms while Huo Ling burnt its legs. "Surely, you know how to extract information?" he said and glanced at Gu Xingfeng whose lip twitched in annoyance.

"En." Gu Xingfeng answered while Jin Chulin took out a qiankun pouch that sucked the monster inside.

"Xiao Ling. What about you?" Hao Baiyun asked as he looked at Huo Ling.

Yi Bing glanced at Huo Ling before he turned to Hao Baiyun. "We will search this monster\'s lair in the city." He answered.

They all fell silent. They know what Yi Bing meant, that there should be an organization of the monsters hiding in here, or else, where would this powerful monster that can create domain appear here?

"I understand." Hao Baiyun sighed. "Thank you for capturing this monster. We won\'t waste your efforts." He said.

"En." Yi Bing just said before he turned to Xiao Hualing who became a part of the background again.

She should be called a wallflower now.

"You send the information to us, including of that monster\'s identity." Yi Bing told her. He is referring to the information regarding the Golden-Haired Monkey clan.

"I understand!" Xiao Hualing answered and bowed.

"We will take our leave!" Yi Bing said as he grabbed Huo Ling\'s hand before they disappeared.

"Teleportation?!" Zheng Jian exclaimed. "Mr. Bigshot really is a bigshot. He is powerful!" he said.

The others nodded in agreement. Then, they turned to Xiao Hualing.

Xiao Hualing laughed. "I am just… a small flower." She said and scratched her head. "Do you know someone from the flower clan? Maybe I can ask them about the flower clan\'s powers and how to use them?" she asked.

Hao Baiyun, Gu Xingfeng and the others. "…" not only she is clueless of this world, but she is also clueless what she actually is! They thought and placed a palm on their face, as if they can\'t bear to see her pitiful expression. Then, they looked at Zheng Jian who is a tree spirit.

Truly, yao that are land-related are airheads!

…

Somewhere…

"Shizun… shizun, please don\'t leave me!" a young man cried as he knelt beside the bed where an old man lies weakly and is about to die. "Shizun!" he called.

"The world of today is unlike of the world in the past where qi is very abundant…" the old man who is the teacher of the young man said. "The only thing that it is still similar to the past is the existence of the yao… and of the monsters in the West…" he said with a sigh. "But, us… we were all forgotten, as we all declined while time passed, and technology advanced, which also can capture the evil yao and monsters." He coughed.

"Shizun… please speak no more!" the young man said with tears on his face.

"Xiao Mu…" the old man called as he took a deep breath. "They have all looked down upon us after they have created those devices comparable to our spiritual devices, making no one want to join us anymore, and so we further declined." He said and closed his eyes. "Now, you have become the last one… the last one of us… now that I am – " he said and gasped.

"Shizun… shizun?!" the young man cried, panicking.

The old man faintly smiled. "But, despite everything, they won\'t be able to do what you can do – " he said and opened his eyes using all his strength to look at his disciple. " – you can dispel the evilness within one\'s heart… and make their souls pass peacefully, after releasing them from their grievance, resentment… so, xiao Mu – " he said as he sharply inhaled since he can feel his strength leaving him. "Don\'t discriminate, but look at everything with fairness in your eyes. Our fellow humans can become our enemies while the yao who are supposed to be our enemies might become our allies… your allies… so – " he raised his hand and touched the top of his disciple\'s head.

The young man bitterly wept.

"Now that you have become alone… tread carefully in this world…" the old man said. "Also… I believe that you won\'t be alone anymore." He told him.

The young man looked at him with a confused gaze.

The old man smiled. "You will find the one in your heart soon… very soon… so even if you are alone as the last exorcist, you won\'t become lonely in life." He told him as he drew his last breath.

The young man\'s eyes widened in shock. "SHIZUN!!!" he screamed as he cried.

The remaining servants sighed with regret because their old master has died. They are just ordinary people, and they were sent here by the old man\'s children to look after their father to accompany him in his last days. They have already heard that the old man is an exorcist. It is really unfortunate that none of his children are willing to become an exorcist since they are all tied to worldly affairs.

But, the old man\'s fortune came when he found this young man, who had been just a child, then. The old man raised the child and made the child accompany him, and finally, taught the child how to become an exorcist since he saw the child has a talent, and, fortunately, is willing. The child also surprisingly is very talented in medicine, which prolonged the old man\'s life until today, when he can no longer seize the old man\'s soul from the hand of the soul envoy that will fetch him.

"Eh? Isn\'t this Mu Li?" Huo Ling muttered after he and Yi Bing arrived.

"… you have another soul assignment in this world?" Yi Bing looked at Huo Ling in surprise.

"Yeah." Huo Ling nodded and saw the old man\'s soul left his body. "Hello, sir." He greeted and respectfully bowed.

"Soul envoys…" the old man said.

"We are now called \'grim reapers\'." Huo Ling grimaced. Then, he looked at Mu Li.

The old man noticed his gaze. "Xiao Mu\'s time shouldn\'t be around, right?" he nervously asked.

Huo Ling shook his head. "No." he answered.

The old man sighed in relief. "You know my disciple?" he asked.

Huo Ling was startled. "You can tell?" he asked.

The old man nodded. "I calculated his fate before, and know that this lifetime of his is just a passing one." He said.

Huo Ling fell silent. "… he was also a disciple before of someone distinguished as you." He honestly said.

The old man heartily laughed.

"Does sir… wanted to visit his children for one last time before I send you?" Huo Ling asked.

But, to their surprise, the old man shook his head and his soul started to dissipate. "As soon as I left my children, because they have forsaken me, I vowed that only xiao Mu is my family." He said. "You sirs…" he looked at them.

"Actually, we are here for another reason… we will stay in this world longer, so we can look after your disciple on your behalf." Huo Ling told him.

The old man was surprised, before he smiled happily. "Then, I can leave at ease." He said and closed his eyes as his soul was covered in a bright light before he finally disappeared.

Huo Ling sighed with emotion. "He is a good person." He said after he saw the bright light.

It was the Light of Virtue.