The ghost messengers capturing evil spirits and bringing them back to the underworld is a great achievement and would be rewarded by their superiors.

Although this evil spirit is different from ordinary ghosts, as its soul has been infused with a ghost immortal token, capturing it would be a sure-fire way to make a profit.

They don't care how the higher-ups deal with this evil spirit; according to the rules, he will receive the due reward.

In addition, Ye Xianya's soul was so powerful that it put a lot of pressure on these ghost messengers, so they locked Zhuang Meihua's soul.

Just as dusk was falling and the sun was setting, it also meant that the yang energy was dissipating and the yin energy was spreading, and the power of the underworld was taking over this land.

A tributary of the Naihe River slowly appeared in the distance, and several ghost messengers, carrying Zhuang Meihua's soul, gradually led her into the Naihe River.

Zhengzheng couldn't help but widen her eyes: "I...I've never seen such a strange phenomenon before. I've only heard of the Naihe River, but I've never seen it in person!"

"That's because your strength has increased, so everything you see is naturally closer to reality." Ye Xianya said, frowning slightly. "Moreover... when encountering such a fierce ghost, if the ghost messengers escort her to the Yellow Springs, she might break free of her chains and escape to continue wreaking havoc on the human world. Only by entering the River of Helplessness can there be no chance of anything going wrong!"

"Sister, this Naihe River is not what I imagined. It's like a stream, and the river is too narrow!" Zhengzheng said with a smile.

"The River Naihe is actually very wide. This is just a tributary that appears when it is receiving souls. Once the soul of this vengeful ghost is received, it will naturally dissipate!"

As soon as Ye Xianya finished speaking, Zhengzheng noticed that this tributary of the Naihe River was slowly disappearing.

"Zhuang Meihua is the daughter of the Ghost King. Aren't you afraid that the Ghost King will come to take revenge?" Zhengzheng asked, raising her head.

"According to the rules of heaven and earth, Bei Tu, as a ghost king, cannot appear in the human world. Of course, the Naihe River is not a thing of the human world, but a thing of the underworld. He can appear in the Naihe River and use his supernatural powers to deal with it. However... I'm not stupid. In the future, whenever I see the Naihe River appear, I will stay away from it."

As Ye Xianya spoke, she looked up at the moon that was slowly appearing in the sky and said to Zhengzheng, "It's getting dark soon, let's hurry back to the palace, Daddy and Mommy are definitely waiting for me to have dinner!"

“Okay!” Zhengzheng nodded quickly.

"As for this village?" Ye Xianya turned to look at Liu Family Village.

Apart from the courtyard where Liu Shen and Yuan Yuzhen used to live, the rest of the village was dilapidated.

Liu Shen was already a dying man, his body radiating deathly aura. Without Zhuang Meihua plundering his yang energy to prolong his life, Liu Shen wouldn't have lived for more than a few days.

“Madam Yuan, Liu Shen has only three days left to live. You have two choices: either divorce him and return to your parents’ home immediately, or wait until he passes away before going back. However, by then, you will be a widow,” Ye Xianya said, turning her head.

Upon hearing this, Madam Yuan nodded, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Ye Xianya: "Thank you for informing me, Princess. You saved my life. I have no way to repay your great kindness. I will definitely burn incense and pray for you every day in the future."

Ye Xianya calculated that Madam Yuan would not encounter any danger. Her brother was already driving an oxcart to Liu Family Village and would arrive tonight to take her away.

Ye Xianya did not linger there. She instructed Madam Yuan to keep the protective amulet she had given her safe and wait for her brother to come and pick her up before leaving with Zhengzheng.

"Wife!" Liu Shen, sitting on the ground, spoke weakly.

"My husband knew all along that my mother-in-law was a ghost, not a human, right?" Madam Yuan asked.

"I didn't know when I was young, but when I grew up, whenever I was critically ill and felt like I was about to die, my mother would steal the yang energy from living people to prolong my life. From then on, I knew she was a ghost, and a very powerful one at that. My mother also told me about her past and that I was born to a ghost." Liu Shen knew that he couldn't hide it all, so he told Yuan Niangzi directly.

After all, the young Taoist nun had already said everything she needed to say.

He simply hadn't expected that his own mother, as the daughter of the Ghost King, with her formidable strength and the protection of the Ghost Immortal Token, would be no match for that little Taoist nun.

“Before I married you, I married another woman. She was a maid my mother bought. My mother said that her birth date and time were auspicious for me, so she made me marry her. Three years later... she was affected by the death energy on me and became terminally ill. I begged my mother to save her, but my mother... directly absorbed her soul. After that, I married you.”

“Your birth chart is purely Yang, and your destiny is extremely auspicious. My mother said that you would definitely be able to bear me a child. It’s just a pity that our village is filled with ghostly energy. Even if your destiny is good, it has been affected. We have been married for five years, but we still have no children.” Liu Shen said with a regretful expression.

After hearing his words, Madam Yuan was relieved that she had not given birth to Liu Shen's child.

This person was born of a ghost. He should have died like his mother, Zhuang Meihua, but Zhuang Meihua defied the heavens and gave birth to Liu Shen. She even stole the yang energy from other people to prolong Liu Shen's life.

Just thinking about how she should have married someone who had died long ago and shared a bed with him for five years gave Madam Yuan goosebumps all over her body.

That's really creepy.

It's truly a blessing from heaven that she didn't have a child with him.

Otherwise, she really wouldn't know what to do with herself and her child.

“My wife, I know… what we’ve done is very unfair to you. I haven’t wanted to hit or scold you all these years, but my mother is just too terrible. I’m afraid that if I’m too good to you, she will become jealous and eat your soul like she did to Song’er, causing your soul to be scattered and you to never be able to reincarnate. I don’t want to ruin you, so I have no choice but to… I have no choice but to take action against you.”

“Every time I hit you or scolded you, I felt very sad and hated myself for being too weak and not daring to disobey my mother. As soon as I got back to the house, I would apply medicine to you and do my best to be good to you.” Only by doing this could he alleviate the guilt in his heart.

"It's not that I haven't thought about rebelling against my mother, but I'm only alive because of her. She's extremely powerful, a demon. Let alone an ordinary person like me with a weak body, even if I were a cultivator, I couldn't do anything to her." Liu Shen said with a self-deprecating smile, "To be honest, I've been terrified of my mother since I can remember. I dare not disobey her or disobey her!"

"I both love and hate her. She was taken away by those ghost messengers just now. I felt heartbroken but also relieved. It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my head. I felt lighter than ever before. Although I only have three days to live, I am very happy."

As Liu Shen said this, his face showed a pleading expression: "My wife, I have land deeds and land deeds, fifty acres of fertile land, eighty acres of mountain land planted with fruit trees, and I also have a small shop in the capital. In addition, there are two hundred taels of silver in that wooden box in the house. If my wife is willing to take care of me for three more days, after I die, bury me in a thin coffin, and burn some incense and paper money for me every Qingming Festival and on my death anniversary, I will give all of this property to my wife."