The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 374

Chapter 374: Chapter 374 The Breath of Heavenly Dao

Azura Loomis glared, still trying to speak, but without the system’s protection, she couldn’t resist the power of the Silence Talisman at all.

Scarlett Jennings was anxious to check on Samuel Chalmers and no longer paid attention to her. Instead, she turned to Caius Carew and brought up another matter.

"Azura Loomis previously set up several underworld artifacts at the Jennings Family estate. Today, the system originally intended to use the resentful energies from those artifacts against me. It simply didn’t succeed. When you take her away, make sure to bring those artifacts back with you as well."

Caius Carew recalled Scarlett mentioning this earlier and immediately nodded seriously. He then delegated the task to Victor Quintero.

Scarlett Jennings hadn’t planned to bring this up, but as soon as she did, Azura Loomis suddenly became agitated, her eyes widened in rage, her expression clearly full of questions.

Even though she couldn’t speak, Scarlett knew exactly what Azura wanted to ask.

"You want to ask why those underworld artifacts failed to harm me?"

Azura Loomis stared daggers at her, still unable to comprehend why. After all, the system had assured her that Scarlett’s soul body had already been invaded by the yin-resentful energy.

It was precisely because Scarlett was supposedly doomed that Azura dared to show up so brazenly, expecting to harvest her fortune.

The system couldn’t possibly have lied to her.

So, what went wrong?

"The answer is simple."

Scarlett Jennings said, "When I temporarily removed those underworld artifacts, I had already anticipated potential backlash from them, so I made someone craft a Substitute Doll for me ahead of time."

When the yin-resentful energy surged out at that moment, it followed the system’s directives and targeted Scarlett’s aura.

However, the energy didn’t attack Scarlett herself—it attacked her substitute instead.

Azura Loomis stared blankly, completely stupefied this time.

A substitute...

No wonder, no wonder even the system had been fooled!

That system... worthless!

It couldn’t even discern a substitute!

Both Azura and the system lacked enough knowledge about Mystical Sect methods and therefore didn’t know about magical techniques like the Substitute Technique.

After all, substitutes were commonly used within the Mystical Sect.

For example, when regular folks provoked malevolent ghosts, and masters either couldn’t or didn’t want to confront the ghosts directly, they would resolve the karmic entanglement between the person and ghost by using a substitute to bear the consequences—essentially, a roundabout way to save the person’s life.

Coincidentally, one of Scarlett Jennings’s classmates had recently been focused on research into Substitute Dolls.

...

In the Jennings Family’s basement.

Stella Gibson, holding a doll in her arms, looked at the geomancy array in front of her. Several underworld artifacts were arranged within it, and in their midst lay the already ravaged Substitute Doll. She yawned out of boredom.

"I wonder how Scarlett is faring with everything outside?"

She was getting sleepy.

Sigh, she wanted to sleep.

Across from her, Gregory Xander sat with an overly tense face, his mantra-signing fingers nearly cramped from overuse.

While suppressing the yin-resentful energy within the array, he gritted his teeth and coldly scolded,

"If you’re bored, help me suppress the lingering energy in here!"

He turned and glared at Ashton Todd nearby,

"And you! Didn’t Scarlett pay you for your services? Your spiritual power delivery has been spotty; is that how the instructors at the academy taught you?"

Both of them looked thoroughly innocent at the accusation.

Stella Gibson: "I only make Substitute Dolls. Suppressing resentful energies is beyond me."

Ashton Todd: "True, I was paid, but my specialty lies in Geomancy Arrays, and I set up half of this array myself."

You can critique my skill level, but don’t accuse me of taking money and shirking work.

No one doubts my professional ethics in this field.

Not even you, Gregory!

Gregory Xander: ...

If he’d known earlier that Scarlett brought in this dynamic duo, he’d never have agreed to help her out, not even if it killed him.

In the end, he bore the brunt of it all.