Marketplace.
Dashiell and Lionel Strickland replaced the original positions of Scarlett Jennings and Susan, staring at each other.
Scarlett and the others hadn’t returned yet. They didn’t know when she and Susan would co back, so they could only stay in place.
Just as Dashiell contemplated whether to report the situation to the Security Bureau and have them send people over.
Suddenly, the presence belonging to Scarlett Jennings and Susan appeared in another location.
Imdiately following, a ssage from Scarlett Jennings arrived for him and Lionel Strickland.
The ssage said she had returned and asked the two to head ho first.
Lionel Strickland, knowing that everyone was safe, naturally listened to whatever Scarlett Jennings said, but Dashiell was not so obedient.
He had to see her with his own eyes to be at ease.
So he dragged Lionel Strickland directly back to Demon Street.
Returning to the small courtyard in Demon Street, Dashiell instinctively went to push the door open. Suddenly, as if thinking of sothing, he paused and chose to knock instead.
Fortunately, soone inside heard the commotion and imdiately responded,
"Co in."
Only then did Dashiell swagger in with Lionel Strickland, and upon seeing Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalrs standing in the courtyard, he was about to ask Scarlett why she suddenly took the child into the Domain.
Unexpectedly, under the ginkgo tree before them, the child was wrapped in vines like a cocoon, with only his head exposed, placed entirely beneath the ginkgo tree with an added layer of a Golden Light Barrier around it.
Dashiell was almost dumbfounded,
"Scarlett... did he, did he do sothing bad we don’t know about?"
After all, given Scarlett’s temperant, she’s not the type to "discipline" a child this way.
However, speaking of which, if the child did sothing wrong, taking him into the Domain for education would be enough, but then wrapping him up like this afterward seems a bit too much, doesn’t it?
Dashiell hesitated about whether to plead for the child.
Then Scarlett Jennings briefly explained what had just happened,
"Susan is Shu’e’s avatar."
With just a few words, the concise explanation was sufficient for Dashiell to instantly grasp the situation, imdiately becoming serious, and he changed his plea to,
"These vines don’t look very sturdy, maybe add so more Prohibition on him?"
If that doesn’t work, considering the large prisons of the Security Bureau and the Mystic Regulation Office could be an option.
Ever since it was known that Shu’e was the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog’s escape, many in the Mystical Sect viewed this na as a symbol of danger.
Even the Security Bureau had issued an announcent, not calling for the Mystical Sect or the Demon Clan to search for Shu’e’s whereabouts and capture him, but instead issuing a warning.
The warning was that no Mystical Sect or Demon Clan mbers should ever confront Shu’e alone without full confidence.
If soone lacking skills faced Shu’e alone, they would most likely et their doom.
Moreover, there was a risk of being consud by Shu’e’s malice, becoming a source of "nourishnt" for him.
As Scarlett and Samuel’s close ally, Dashiell was well aware of what Shu’e’s existence implied.
His gaze at Susan was complex and wary.
It was truly difficult to fathom how a seemingly pure and harmless child could be an avatar of Shu’e...
After all, he had just taken action against a dostic abuser upon discovering the malice.
Not long ago, he even saw the abuser’s post about being angry and violent in public after a breakup, attempting to harm his girlfriend. His body inexplicably caught fire, and upon hospital checks, although unhard, continued to roll around, screaming in pain and heat...
Faced with Dashiell’s gaze, Susan, like a child who had done sothing wrong, slightly lowered his head.
Since successfully reincarnating, besides Shu’e, Dashiell was the second person he encountered.
He took him shopping for clothes and offered good food; Susan didn’t want to be disliked by him.
Fortunately, Scarlett Jennings tily explained the situation, confirming that Shu’e’s consciousness had dissipated, revealing the real Susan before them.
Only then did Dashiell silently breathe a sigh of relief.
He asked Scarlett Jennings, "Why didn’t you send him to be supervised by the Mystic Regulation Office but brought him back to the courtyard? Is there another plan for him?"
Although Dashiell was usually carefree, there were tis his instincts were sharp, like now.
Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalrs exchanged a glance, revealing the plan they had previously discussed.
"Although Susan was created as an avatar by Shu’e with a fragnt of the Divine Soul, he naturally belongs to the Phoenix lineage. Shu’e used this to bring Susan into our midst, which actually gives us another opportunity."
A chance to rescue the Five-Colored Divine Soul that Shu’e intended to consu.
Since Shu’e could manipulate Susan using the Five-Colored Divine Soul, conversely, they could leverage Susan’s connection to the Five-Colored Divine Soul to re-incorporate it into Susan’s reincarnated body, ultimately freeing it from Shu’e.
This idea erged partly because Samuel Chalrs, as an old friend, hoped to help liberate the Divine Soul from malice’s control if possible.
Moreover, if Shu’e lost the power of the Five-Colored Divine Soul, his body’s power might further weaken.
Though the Phoenix Fire could suppress malice, the Phoenix itself served as the best vessel to harbor such malice.
"To draw back the remaining Divine Soul from Shu’e’s body, Susan’s current Divine Soul power is insufficient. So we pondered that only the Phoenix itself could retrieve the Phoenix Divine Soul."
Thus, the conclusion they reached was—
"Seek the Five-Colored from three thousand years ago that hasn’t yet been consud by malice, using its Divine Soul to retrieve the Phoenix’s Divine Soul devoured three millennia ago."
Although they had yet to discuss the exact execution, this was currently their only feasible option.
Upon hearing this, Dashiell was dumbfounded again,
"How can you find a Divine Soul from three thousand years ago? You can’t possibly an taking Susan back three thousand years to search directly, right?"
Saying this, he looked at the two before him and swallowed silently, whispering, "No way?"
Traveling through ti like this?
Is it even possible to do such a thing?!
Then Samuel Chalrs spoke slowly,
"To travel back in ti, returning to the past, isn’t possible for the ordinary, but as I know, the Sage Tree not only connects the Three Realms but also possesses the ability to transcend ti and space."
Braxton Weaver nodded in agreent,
"It seems there’s such a saying, but unfortunately, as an Ancient Divine Tree, the Sage Tree has long been extinct and is nowhere to be found."
Saying this, Braxton Weaver noticed Samuel Chalrs and Scarlett Jennings both looking at him intently.
Not just those two, even Dashiell directed an eager gaze toward him.
Braxton Weaver was montarily stunned, and in the next second, as if realizing sothing, he quickly said,
"I, I never plucked a Sage branch!"
Though he had a habit of collecting things he’s fond of, the Sage Tree, he never snatched from!
Mainly because, he never ca across one.
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