The next second, a crystalline green light flickered across Lan Lingdu's palm.
Numbers continuously refreshed on the interface.
[Purification Value +4...]
"A Tier 4 Purifier..."
"This is my first time seeing a purifier cleanse an Orc's spiritual sea."
"I have seen other purifiers before, but... isn't this Excellency rather unique?"
"Why is this purifier Excellency's... attribute green? Is she an Elementalist? A Wood-attribute esper?"
Some people guessed her esper attribute based on the energy fluctuations Lan Lingdu displayed.
"Wood-attribute?"
"I've never heard of a Wood-attribute esper being able to purify! I've only ever heard of Wood-attribute healers!"
"I once saw a purifier, and when he used his abilities, his attribute appeared white."
"As everyone knows, purifiers are attribute-less. Even when their abilities materialize, they can only be white!"
"Never mind what color it is. Look, this Orc with severe bestialization—his, his horns are already starting to recede."
While everyone chattered away, debating Lan Lingdu's attribute, as time slowly progressed, the sign of severe bestialization on that Minotaur was vanishing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
First the downy fur on his face, then his tail, and finally the two long horns on top of his head...
At last, beneath the awe-struck and amazed gazes of the crowd, he completely and utterly transformed into a human!
This indicated that the polluting substances on his body had been thoroughly cleansed.
Turning decay into magic and bringing the dead back to life—this was a cold-hearted purifier!
This scene made the eyes of any Orcs carrying polluting substances turn red.
Their gazes toward Lan Lingdu also grew intensely ardent.
The Orcs were filled with regret.
If they had just been a bit sharper earlier, would the one being cleansed right now be them?
A purifier! Someone whom low-level Orcs like them could never hope to encounter in a lifetime had appeared, and she was so easygoing—yet they had stubbornly missed the chance.
Who was to blame? Naturally, they wouldn't blame Lan Lingdu; they only blamed themselves for being too busy chasing stars and hovering around Lan Nuannuan!
Of course, they wouldn't blame themselves too much either; they only blamed Lan Nuannuan for making them commit such a mistake!
It was all this vase's fault!
If she hadn't loved showing off, they wouldn't have overlooked Lan Lingdu the purifier.
Lan Nuannuan never imagined that the favorability she had worked so hard to build up by playing the good person and acting like a saint would plummet into the negative all at once.
Lan Lingdu noticed this keenly, and she was more than happy to see it happen.
Rest assured, this was just the beginning!
Every single way Lan Nuannuan had smeared the original owner's reputation on StarNet, she would settle the score one by one.
Lan Lingdu didn't care about things like reputation, but she knew the original owner cared, otherwise that girl wouldn't have suffered years of internal attrition and died of a mental breakdown.
The Minotaur's Bestialization Index was indeed quite high, but his strength was merely around the intermediate mortal realm, capable of contributing only about fifty thousand purification value to Lan Lingdu.
With Lan Lingdu's current strength, she could cleanse him completely in just two minutes.
However, Lan Lingdu did not want to draw too much attention to herself, so she deliberately dragged it out for five minutes while conveniently putting on a show of physical weakness.
As the purification value on the interface increased, the once pathetic and destitute Orc transformed back into a tall and mighty figure.
Lan Lingdu believed that once her identity as a Tier 4 Purifier spread, an endless stream of Orcs would come knocking on her door to be purified, and she would never have to go out "waylaying" people like a thief again!
The reason Lan Lingdu hadn't used this method earlier was because her level was simply too low and her skills hadn't been upgraded.
If people discovered that she had skyrocketed from Tier 1 or 2 to Tier 4 or 5 in just a few days, she was afraid she would be captured and sliced open for research.
Now that she was Tier 4, she would naturally advance to Tier 5 before long, which was more than enough on Gengdi Planet.
"Excellence! Thank you! You are my second parent, please allow me to call you adoptive father!"
The Minotaur Orc stepped forward excitedly, wanting to shake Lan Lingdu's hand, but she stepped back to avoid him. "Alright, I can be considered to have done a good deed today."
"The sir is truly righteous!"
"The sir is truly handsome and kind-hearted!"
"The sir is truly a role model for our generation!"
Lan Lingdu: "..." Her toes instinctively curled inside her shoes.
She was utterly speechless. These Orcs truly lacked culture; when trying to flatter someone, they just recycled the exact same phrases they had used to praise Lan Nuannuan earlier and slapped them onto her.
The Minotaur very knowingly raised his Light Computer and transferred a massive sum of gold coins into Lan Lingdu's account. A trace of shyness, entirely unbefitting his rugged face, appeared upon it. "Excellence, these three million star coins are my life savings."
Lan Lingdu's eyes lit up, and the fake smile on her lips became a bit more genuine. "Well said, well said!"
She got purification value, and she got paid!
Indeed, the profession of a purifier was simply lucrative!
The Orcs present were all sharp-witted; how could they fail to understand Lan Lingdu's subtle expression?
Money! Why didn't she say so earlier? Anything that could be solved with money was not a problem.
And so, the surrounding Orcs swarmed toward her like madmen.
"Excellence! I, I'll offer one million star coins, can you help me clear the bestialization value from my body?"
"Excellence, I'll offer two million!"
"Three million, nobody fight me for it, I'm the son of the administrative district director."
"I'll offer five million! Is the administrative district director's son anything special? Excellency, look at me..."
"This Minotaur friend, may I ask what your bestialization value was?"
Someone smartly pulled the Minotaur aside to ask.
"Mine was at the mortal peak. If I hadn't been infected, I would have transcended years ago, with a bestialization value of eighty-five percent," the Minotaur said with a proud expression.
Ten minutes ago, if anyone had asked him what his bestialization value was, he would have worn a deathly expression and cursed that person to hell.
Asking an Orc with an eighty percent bestialization value such a question was no different from asking how many days he had left to live.
Now it was different; the higher his bestialization value, the more it demonstrated how powerful his adoptive father—cough!—how powerful the purifier Excellency was!
"What?"
"Is this Excellency really just a Tier 4 Purifier?"
"Idiot! A purifier's cultivation level isn't the same as ours, it matches her own strength. This Excellency is a Wood-attribute esper, I guess her strength has also reached the mortal peak..."
The crowd chattered away, discussing Lan Lingdu's strength.
As for Lan Lingdu, she put on a hypocritical show of sipping a mental energy potion, and selected an Orc who had offered eight million star coins and possessed a bestialization value reaching ninety percent to purify.
This Orc's strength was also around the mortal peak.
Five minutes later.
"Hahaha! Males! Ten years! Do you know how I've survived these past ten years? Ten years ago, my spiritual sea was polluted, and my strength could never advance another inch! Today, that disgusting lump that has been entrenched in my spiritual sea has finally vanished, and I am going to break through."
"I am about to step into the Transcendent realm! Becoming a superhuman existence!"
With that, the superhuman dropped to his knees before Lan Lingdu with a slide!
"Excellence! You are my second parent!"
Lan Lingdu's mouth twitched. All that talk about an adoptive father was a bit redundant; if he just added a bit more money, she would be much happier.
Standing nearby and watching the spectacle for quite a while, Ye Xingze's expression changed as he looked at Lan Lingdu. He instinctively took two steps forward, opening his mouth to make an offer.
Then, suddenly remembering something, his footsteps halted abruptly.
Damn it! He had no money.
Since when had he become unable to even pull out a mere ten million star coins?
And this newly minted wife of his was not the good-for-nothing portrayed in the intelligence reports he had gathered.
Could she perhaps be a super-hot potato that everyone fought over?
Ye Xingze frowned. Should this still somewhat useful female be killed? Or killed?