AMRWFA -Chapter 405 A Beautiful Spirit, and the Swindler Who Deceived It

To put it simply, a beautiful spirit doesn’t possess any strong combat ability. It’s like a delicate, ornamental vase—pretty to look at, but fragile and in need of careful care.

However, this “vase” has a subtle, transformative power: wherever it is born, that place is most likely to gradually become a blessed land of spiritual energy in the future.

Now think about it—something that can slowly turn a place into a “heavenly paradise”… what if it were to turn dark?

The spirit, having gotten hold of the spirit-energy bead, was overjoyed. Like a kitten nibbling on a biscuit, it took little bites, happily gnawing away on it right there.

Don’t ask where its mouth is—you can’t see it normally, but when it eats, it somehow appears.

The master panicked upon seeing this and demanded how it could casually eat someone else’s things. What if it was poisoned? Wasn’t it afraid of being poisoned to death?

“Relax. Even if you were poisoned to death, it wouldn’t be,” Ruan Yaoyao stepped in front of the spirit, her face cold. “You’re really something—raising a spirit as if it were a ghost. Quite the talent! Luckily you haven’t had it long. If you had kept it longer, even a good spirit would’ve been led astray by you.”

“What do you mean led astray? I raised it—”

“So what if you raised it? Does that make it yours? It hasn’t formed a contract with you,” Ruan Yaoyao said sharply. “Things born of heaven and earth would live just fine without you. With you, it might actually be worse. And you still have the nerve to say you raised it? Do you even know what it is? What it eats, what it needs, what it’ll become in the future? You don’t know a damn thing! If you keep raising it like this, you’ll become a sinner of Blue Star!”

“What do you mean I’m a sinner of Blue Star? What did I even do?!”

“You swindle and deceive people, and you even drag the spirit into it—how can you say you’ve done nothing?” Ruan Yaoyao gritted her teeth and kicked him to the ground.

Seeing this, the spirit immediately stopped eating and rushed to stand between Ruan Yaoyao and the fake master.

Ruan Yaoyao, still angry, told it to move aside, but the little thing refused.

It quickly hid the spirit-energy bead behind its back, freed both its tiny hands, and began gesturing rapidly in the air.

Ruan Yaoyao: “…”

Sorry, she didn’t understand sign language at all.

The little thing grew even more anxious and repeated its gestures.

“Stop gesturing. I can’t understand you.”

The spirit instantly looked dejected. With a sulky expression, it took the bead from behind its back and pitifully returned it to Ruan Yaoyao.

Ruan Yaoyao felt a pang in her chest.

Such a pure little being—how did it get tricked by that damned man?

She glared fiercely at the fake master before speaking gently to the spirit, “You don’t need to return it. You haven’t eaten properly in a long time—go ahead and eat. Don’t worry, I won’t hit him again. But he did something wrong, and he has to be punished. I must hand him over to the state. Do you understand what that means? Just like you are governed by the Heavenly Dao, we humans have our own highest authority—the state. When you make a mistake, the Heavenly Dao punishes you, right? So when he does something wrong, the state will punish him. Can you accept that?”

The little spirit tilted its head, clearly not understanding what the fake master had done wrong.

Ruan Yaoyao sighed, not in a hurry, and asked Ruan Zhihe to make a call, requesting Minister Qin to personally bring people over.

“Minister Qin is from above—he carries national fortune. If he comes, it’ll be easier for the spirit to trust him than me.”

Ruan Zhihe was startled and quickly made the call.

The fake master, still lying on the ground, overheard them and weakly asked, “Are you… from the state?”

“Yes. What else did you think?” Ruan Yaoyao replied coldly. If she didn’t need to keep him from running, she wouldn’t even want to keep her foot on him—she didn’t want to dirty her shoe.

The fake master immediately put on a flattering smile. “Um… does the state really have something like that ‘Bureau 749’?”

“More or less,” Ruan Yaoyao said.

His pupils shrank in shock. “So what you showed just now… was real?! Damn! Talk about a flood washing over the Dragon King’s temple—we’re on the same side! Master, you see, I—”

He hurriedly explained that he was a Daoist disciple, just not very talented, having only learned superficial things like the I Ching.

Even so, it was only enough to bluff people and make a living.

He swore he had never harmed anyone—at most, he’d just “scammed” a bit of money.

“Heh. ‘Scammed a bit of money’? You made the spirit cooperate with your fraud, and that’s all you call it?” Ruan Yaoyao said coldly. “You know it’s not ordinary, yet you still used it for such things. Are you sure you’re not leading it astray?”

He looked embarrassed. “It doesn’t have any attack power anyway. I was just trying to get by…”

“It has no attack power because it still retains its original goodness. If you corrupt it, it will turn dark. Do you understand what that means? Like in movies—the villain starts weak, but once they turn dark, they suddenly become powerful. When that happens, will you still think you did nothing wrong?”

He swallowed hard, a chill running down his spine. “Th-that won’t happen, right? It just glows… it doesn’t do anything. How could it become that terrifying?!”

“Have you heard that environment shapes people? A spirit influences all living beings around it—plants, animals, monsters, even humans. If you turn it dark, it will stain everything around it with that darkness.”

Fake master: “…”

That terrifying?!

Damn!

He suddenly understood why this stunning woman in front of him looked at him with such disdain.

If he had only been raising a harmless little thing and using it to trick people for a living, that was one thing. But if that little thing could actually harm society, then it was a whole different matter.

Let alone her—even he couldn’t bear that kind of responsibility.

When Minister Qin and his team arrived, the fake master immediately hugged his leg and burst into tears.

“I’ll hand it over! I’ll hand everything over!”

“I’m just an ordinary person—I don’t know anything, I can’t take care of it!”

“Waaah… I really can’t bear such a huge responsibility!”

…

Minister Qin looked utterly confused, not understanding what had happened.

But after hearing the explanation from Ruan Yaoyao, he grasped the seriousness of the situation.

Looking at the fake master again, he seemed to understand his reaction.

In the end, while the fake master did scam money, he wasn’t completely without conscience. A disaster as big as world destruction was something he truly couldn’t shoulder.

Minister Qin was also a bit helpless, because he noticed that the little spirit was very attached to the fake master—wherever he went, it followed.

It wouldn’t listen to anyone else.

In the end, they had no choice but to take both the man and the spirit back together.

Since the spirit insisted on staying with him, they would simply “re-educate” the fake master—give him proper moral lessons and turn him into a person of integrity.

“Waaahhh…” the fake master nearly cried himself to death.

Sure, an iron rice bowl sounded nice—but he didn’t want to be forced into classes every single day!