Chapter 166 This filthy world, I'd rather have never existed.

You Bingyue tried her best to support herself, but she had limited weight and there was nothing nearby to stabilize her body, and she was about to give up.

Suddenly, Du Ziheng ran over and shielded her.

Du Ziheng had a talisman given to him by Yu Zhiyi, so no matter how strong the yin wind formed by the evil energy was, it couldn't harm them.

Although Ouyang Shuo was also affected by the yin wind, the impact was not that great.

Seeing Yu Zhiyi standing motionless like a mountain, he was unwilling but had to admit that she seemed to have some skills. So he laboriously moved to her side: "Before that thing comes out, let's work together to make it vanish into thin air!"

As he finished speaking, the murderous aura intensified.

A terrifying force sent him flying again.

Yu Zhiyi looked at him indifferently: "If you can't speak properly, you can shut up. Otherwise, you'll only make yourself look stupid as the chief disciple of Longhu Mountain."

This time, Ouyang Shuo did not vomit blood.

But he couldn't speak.

Yu Zhiyi ignored her and stared indifferently at the scarlet river in front of her.

The river water churned without wind, and in a moment, the malevolent energy on the river surface gathered and transformed into the shape of a woman.

The woman was dressed in tattered hemp clothing, her body was swollen, and her head looked as if it had been hit hard by something. There was a severe wound on her head, through which the white brain matter could even be seen. Her face was also covered in unblemished flesh.

Li Changhuai and his companion only glanced at each other before vomiting together in a hug.

You Bingyue also felt a little nauseous, but in her past life she had been a murderer and had seen all sorts of deaths, so she only found the woman's red and white face disgusting, but she could still bear it.

Even with his resolute character, Du Ziheng's face turned pale at this moment.

But he managed to hold it in and didn't vomit.

Although the woman's eyes were not clearly visible on her face, everyone could feel that gazes were fixed on them, filled with coldness.

The chill caused Li Changhuai and his companion to vomit even more violently.

Ouyang Shuo finally swallowed the mouthful of blood. He got up again and looked at the woman in front of him with a solemn expression: "You are the female ghost who caused the tragic deaths of eight innocent people in Caonan Village!"

He drew his longsword, a golden light swirling at its tip, and coldly said, "I am Ouyang Shuo, the 281st generation chief disciple of Longhu Mountain. Considering your tragic death, I will spare your remnant soul if you obediently surrender."

"If you remain stubborn and unyielding, all that awaits you is annihilation!"

A cold wind rose again, and terrifying black energy once more swept towards Ouyang Shuo.

However, this time, when the malevolent energy touched the longsword, it seemed to have encountered something terrifying, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into inch-by-inch white light and dissipated into the world.

Ouyang Shuo curled his lips: "What I hold in my hand is a divine weapon, which is not something that you, a low-level evil thing, can resist. I advise you to obediently surrender."

You Bingyue breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother Ouyang is amazing."

He then looked at the female ghost: "Why bother talking to such an evil creature? Beat it until it submits and avenge the dead!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded: "That makes sense."

Du Ziheng frowned: "Don't be impatient. I think there might be more to the story than meets the eye back then."

"What secret could possibly justify the loss of eight lives?"

You Bingyue retorted coldly.

Ouyang Shuo said disdainfully, "I never expected that Young Master Du would be such a womanly and soft-hearted person."

He stopped talking nonsense and unleashed his ultimate move.

With a flick of his long arm, he tossed the longsword into the air.

At the same time, he made hand seals and chanted: "Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Lie, Qian, Xing, Zhu Xie!"

Golden light surged from the longsword.

The golden light formed the shape of a dragon and hurtled towards the female ghost.

Du Ziheng was shocked to see the golden dragon.

Li Changhuai and his companion seemed to have witnessed a miracle: "This round is in the bag."

Before the words were even finished, the female ghost suddenly vanished from the spot.

It did not disappear into thin air, but rather transformed into black malevolent energy that scattered throughout the world.

The malevolent energy split into several streams, blasting towards Ouyang Shuo from all directions.

Ouyang Shuo was knocked away by one of the evil energies. This time, he was unable to get up again, nor was he able to swallow the surging blood.

As the stench of blood in the air intensified, the crimson light within the malevolent aura also grew stronger.

Ouyang Shuo suddenly saw dark clouds above the village.

Feeling his strength draining away, he couldn't even clutch his chest, which felt like it was shattered. Only one thought remained in his mind: this journey truly meant certain death.

The malevolent energy gathered above him, carrying a terrifying power that seemed capable of destroying the world.

Ouyang Shuo opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He gave a wry smile.

His life is over.

Just when Ouyang Shuo thought he was going to die, a clear female voice rang out: "Although I don't really want to save this fool, if you kill him, your hands will be stained with the blood of innocent people, and I will no longer be able to let you reincarnate."

The murderous aura suddenly froze.

In a short while, it continued to bombard Ouyang Shuo with an aura of destruction.

Yu Zhiyi sighed, "He did have a sharp tongue, but it doesn't warrant death."

No one saw how she moved. By the time everyone noticed, she was already standing beside Ouyang Shuo, her long, slender, and fair fingers outstretched, easily blocking the terrifying aura.

Having narrowly escaped death, Ouyang Shuo stared wide-eyed at the beautiful figure before him, hardly believing what he was seeing.

She actually blocked the evil energy with just two fingers!

Yu Zhiyi flipped her wrist and flicked her finger, causing the evil energy to retreat back onto the river and transform back into the appearance of a peasant girl with a shattered head.

"Why... are you stopping me..."

It opened its mouth and emitted a cold, cracking sound.

"I thought you were different from them..."

“I’m here to help you, so I have to stop you,” Yu Zhiyi said. “The eight people who died back then were innocent, and it’s karma for you to watch them die. But if you kill him, you will owe him karma and you won’t be able to be reincarnated.”

"Reincarnation?" The female ghost suddenly laughed.

The laughter was even more unpleasant than the crying.

What's so good about being born into a good family? What's so good about being born as a human?

She suddenly stopped laughing, and a heavy aura of malevolence surged and trembled with the fluctuations of her emotions: "If I could, I would rather have never been to this filthy world!"

Yu Zhiyi sighed again.

“Your name is Cao Zhaodi, and you are from Caonan Village.”

"You are the eldest daughter in the family. The father and daughter favored boys over girls. After you were born, they had two more daughters, and finally, they had a son as they wished."

"Before you gave birth to your son, your parents always scolded you for being a burden, beat you, and didn't give you food. They said that it was because you were born that no boy would want to come to your family."

"So when your younger brother was born, you were the happiest person in the family. You thought that after your parents got what they wanted, they would no longer mistreat you."

"I never imagined that the birth of your younger brother would deepen your nightmare."