Pengxi has three places to mourn.

"Who are you calling an old woman?!"

"The sisters stripped them of their bones."

Scratching, scratching, hitting, and sucking—the female ghosts were attacking Shi Yulu and her companions. The space at the bottom of the well was too small, making it difficult for the four priests to maneuver, leaving them helpless as the female ghosts bullied them.

Hair disheveled, clothes torn, flames extinguished, the scene chaotic. If Shi Yuluo, being a girl, hadn't been less likely to be beaten and hadn't managed to restrain the group of female ghosts with her swift hand, they would likely have suffered more than just bruises and swelling; their flesh would have been torn and bones broken.

After things calmed down, Rong Yun touched his swollen face and complained a few times. The female ghosts then widened their eyes and spat out phosphorescent fire. If Rong Yun hadn't been skilled, he would have been burned again.

Canglun stood up with a sigh: "Sisters, don't be angry. We didn't mean to bother you. We came here because we have something to do, and we would appreciate your help."

The female ghosts cursed, "You've come to take us away! We're not leaving. We haven't even waited for that heartless bastard to die yet. We're going to torture him day and night."

Canglun calculated with his fingers and advised, "Why are you torturing him? He is a living person, protected by true yang energy. You can't torture him; on the contrary, you are here day and night."

The female ghosts were both angry and anxious: "Even if we can't torment him, we want to watch him be harmed, killed, and trampled underfoot, so that we can feel satisfied!"

Seeing that the female ghosts were about to start crying, Shi Yulu frowned, wanting to gag them. But Cang Lun gestured to her not to do so.

Mo Heng did the math and sensed the injustice of these female ghosts being thrown into the dry, deep well. He immediately felt their pain, and tears welled in his eyes. Who could argue with that? Before he became a priest, he had heard his father talk about these women in the inner palace, their resentments and grudges, their pitiful state.

As he thought about it, Mo Heng remembered his cousin who had married far away in another country, and tears inappropriately streamed down his face. The group of female ghosts saw this and immediately fell silent, having been making a lot of noise.

"Why are you crying!" Rong Yun rolled her eyes and said, "You're not some lonely woman in the palace."

“My poor cousin married far away to another country. I don’t know how much suffering she has to endure. She has to bear all that bitterness and can’t even go home…” Mo Heng choked up. “I can understand how hard it is for my sisters…”

The female ghosts were about to curse Rong Yun, but after hearing Mo Heng's words, they immediately felt that he was a kindred spirit and could understand them, so they stopped cursing.

Seeing this, Canglun immediately advised, "Yes, it is precisely because we understand the suffering of our sisters that we have come here to help you pass on. After reincarnation, it is better to have a good life than to waste it here."

The female ghosts looked at each other; the well water had dried up, and they couldn't remember how long they had been there. Shi Yulu immediately asked, "But if you sisters want to reincarnate, you naturally need to clear your minds of all worldly distractions and eliminate all harm. Sisters, have you ever encountered this ghost?"

As she spoke, Shi Yulu revealed Pei Suqin's appearance to the female ghosts. The ghosts looked closely and were astonished: "Isn't this a noble lady from the palace!"

This is terrible! Pei Suqin has possessed me again!

After some discussion, the four decided to go to the palace that Consort Pei Suqin had brought that night. However, none of the four knew the way, but the female ghosts did and volunteered to be their guides.

Beneath the high walls, a solemn silence descended. Several red lanterns hung orderly on the wall, and palace staff moved about in the night, their bent backs a testament to their submission and helplessness in the face of fate.

The female ghosts were in high spirits; they hadn't come out in a long time. After taking a long detour, the group finally arrived at the palace where Pei Suqin was.

Laughter echoed from inside the house. The female ghosts attempted to pass through the wall, but Shi Yulu stopped them. Pei Suqin was cunning and treacherous, so they couldn't easily enter; the female ghosts feared they would be devoured if they went in.

Just then, a palace maid brought in some refreshments. Cang Lun froze them in place, and then he and Mo Heng impersonated the maids, mimicking their appearances, and went inside in a convincing manner. The rest of the people waited outside for the signal.

The two cautiously entered, and heard a woman's voice say crisply, "Come in, put your things on the table."

Cang Lun and Mo Heng lowered their heads, secretly exchanged a glance, and cautiously walked forward. Just as they placed the food on the table, they were stopped. The female voice laughed again, "Are you new palace maids? Never seen you before. Come, come to me and let me take a good look at you."

Cang Lun and Mo Heng froze, forced to step forward, just as they were thinking of an opportunity to strike. Before they arrived, they looked up, utterly shocked. This was not Pei Suqin at all!

Seeing the situation was turning against them, Cang Lun immediately froze the nobleman in front of him. The group of female ghosts had said the newly arrived nobleman was Pei Suqin, but what they saw was a completely different face. This was too strange! There was a commotion outside, and the two hurried out, where they saw Shi Yuluo and Mo Heng fighting with the female ghosts.

What exactly is going on here?

"You say you are priests who want to save us, but we don't need your salvation! Why don't you kill those who killed us? Shouldn't the gods be protecting us?" the female ghosts shouted. "They don't protect the good people in the world, but let the bad people live long lives. How can we swallow this insult!"

Rong Yun shouted fiercely, "Everyone has their own destiny! If your destiny is bad, you'll die early and be reborn sooner, wouldn't that be better?"

The female ghosts couldn't bear to hear this and threw out the phosphorescent fire again.

These phosphorescent flames had little effect on the priests. As soon as Rong Yun drew his spear, the female ghosts were scattered and fled in all directions.

Suddenly, a golden light rose in the darkness from the east.

That location is the king's sleeping quarters!

Shi Yuluo flew over first, followed closely by the others. They burst through the door and saw Pei Suqin casting a spell to absorb the king's true dragon energy! Shi Yuluo immediately intervened to save him. Pei Suqin dodged, then dragged the king over and intensified his spell, trying to continue absorbing the energy.

An eight-hundred-year-old ghost is still too powerful. Shi Yulu frowned and took out the magic artifact prepared by Zhen Li, intending to suck Pei Suqin into it. But soon, the black shadow that Pei Suqin conjured struck Shi Yulu, and the magic artifact fell to the ground along with her.

Mo Heng and the others rushed in. Rong Yun was about to point his spear at Pei Suqin, but Mo Heng knocked it away before it could strike. "You can't kill her! She's possessing someone!"

Rong Yun was shocked. To be able to possess another person's body while using one's own appearance—in just one year, Pei Suqin's cultivation had reached this level! It was terrifying!

Meanwhile, Cang Lun separated the king from Pei Suqin, and together with Shi Yulu, they restrained Pei Suqin. But Pei Suqin just smiled, waved his hand, and suddenly the entire room was filled with ghosts.

The four of them couldn't help but take a step back. There were so many vengeful spirits in the deep palace, and they were more ferocious and more powerful than ordinary wandering ghosts! It was quite a challenge for the four of them to deal with this group of ghosts in the deep palace.

Mo Heng was about to secretly use the tokens to transmit a signal when Pei Suqin discovered him. She took the tokens from the four people's waists and crushed them one by one: "Once you come here, there's no reason for you to go back!"

"Eat them all!" Pei Suqin commanded, and all the ghosts charged forward. Four of them fought against them, while Pei Suqin watched from the sidelines with a broad smile.

But the four of them quickly realized something was wrong. They had already killed one round of these ghosts, so why were some of them reappearing? Only after they killed them twice more did the ghosts finally disappear completely!

A ghost shouted, "Kill me, and I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"

"What happened?!" Mo Heng asked!

After stabbing a ghost to death, Rong Yun shouted, "What else could it be? Vengeful ghosts are hard to kill!"

Several ghosts tried to escape, and Shi Yulu took the lead in chasing after them. When they got outside, all four of them were shocked! They saw that the palaces were filled with blue spirits, which were the ghosts of the recently deceased!

With a single strike, they were killed! The Canglun Sword fell, and a blue spirit rose before their eyes. The four stood frozen in place, while Pei Suqin clapped and laughed, "Good, good! Even you gods have killed people!"

Panic and fear gripped the hearts of the four priests; they had been killing ghosts, not people!

"Impossible! We're killing these vengeful ghosts! Don't spout nonsense!" Rong Yun thrust his spear at Pei Suqin. "You're spreading heresy! You can't believe me! I'm going to kill you!"

Pei Suqin dodged, and in the process, she grabbed Rong Yun's spear, pulled it back, and thrust it at Rong Yun. She calmly said, "Whether you are killing a person or not, don't you priests know better than I do?"

They watched as the countless blue ghosts began to surge towards them. They heard echoes in the air, "Why kill me? Why kill me? Why kill me..."

The four quickly realized what was happening. They remained silent, filled with regret and even more pain. As priests, they had been tricked by Pei Suqin, unable to distinguish the real ghosts from the living souls mixed in, and were being used by Pei Suqin as if they were ghosts.

Someone was killed without anyone even noticing! This is the imperial palace!

So many people died in the palace overnight, wouldn't the world be in chaos! If even the emperor, a true dragon, dared to offend him, what chance would ordinary people have? As divine officials, their primary duty is to maintain peace in this world!

But not only could they not do it, they also killed living people!

Resentment surged instantly, and Shi Yulu's face darkened: "You actually extracted the souls of living people and used them to fill the gaps among real ghosts. You—I will definitely kill you."

The air was filled with the glint of swords and the killing intent, but those aimed at Shi Yulu were the ghosts she had just killed.

Shi Yulu stopped holding her glass umbrella. In just a moment of hesitation, she was seriously injured and slid to her knees! Mo Heng rushed over to help her up. Cang Lun and Rong Yun became furious. The two of them dodged the ghosts and only wanted to hit Pei Suqin.

However, because they dared not harm the ghosts again, Canglun and Rongyun were repeatedly repelled. The louder Pei Suqin laughed, the angrier they became; the more they wanted to kill Pei Suqin, the more the ghosts howled and went berserk.

The ghosts surrounding the four priests bared their fangs and brandished their claws, constantly throwing phosphorescent flames from their mouths, relentlessly hurling them at the four men. However, because the four men kept dodging, the phosphorescent flames were scattered everywhere, like torches falling on rice paddies, and with a loud bang, a great fire broke out.

Walls pressed against walls, the fire in the deep palace burned endlessly.

The voices of the living began to be heard; they cried out, "Fire! Come out and put out the fire!" These living people could not see the innate blue spirit, nor the four divine officials, but they saw their king, unconscious in the flames. Instantly, chaos erupted throughout the palace!

Disaster is imminent!

Cang Lun flew down, intending to take the king away, but saw the ghosts blocking his way. Before he could kill them all, Pei Suqin added fuel to the fire, mocking, "The king of this country was actually executed by the gods, what a sight to behold! This country is doomed, the world is in chaos, and there's going to be a good show to watch!"

Pei Suqin's words struck the four of them like a thorn, growing rapidly and leaving them wounded all over.

God cannot kill without cause, let alone kill the ruler of a country.

Rong Yun was filled with resentment; he couldn't swallow this insult. He had spent five hundred years attaining immortality, how could he fall from grace like this! His face hardened, veins bulging in his hands, and with a roar, he charged towards Pei Suqin. Mo Heng and Shi Yulu immediately went to rescue the king.

But how could Pei Suqin let them have their way? She shouted at the ghosts, "The king treats you badly, exploiting and slaughtering you with a single word. Now that he is in your hands, why not let him perish and pay the price for his people!"

The demons swarmed forward, hurling countless phosphorescent flames at the king. Even a dragon's body could not withstand the wrath and vengeful spirits of his subjects. The demons needed an outlet!

Mo Heng feared that the king would die and that Weng De would reveal his true form, which frightened the palace maids and guards, who then brandished sticks and swords at him. If Cang Lun hadn't been there to shield him from behind, Mo Heng would have suffered even more.

He decided to possess the king's body, but before he could even enter, he was blocked by the king's true dragon aura. Only then did Mo Heng understand why Pei Suqin couldn't absorb the king's ghost.

Pei Suqin saw Mo Heng and Cang Lun reveal their true forms, supporting the king as they prepared to rush out of the fire. She was immediately displeased, but then an idea came to her. She smiled and said, "The king is my husband. It's not up to you two to be the ones to take the lead in saving him."

As she spoke, Pei Suqin flew down and pounced, snatching the king from Mo Heng and Cang Lun's grasp. She placed herself and the king in a sea of ​​fire on the other side. She woke the sleeping king, held his panicked face, and burst into tears.

The king grabbed Pei Suqin in a panic and asked what had happened.

"Your Majesty, these gods in heaven want us dead. They have surrounded us with fire; they want to destroy your kingdom and hand it over to their descendants. Your Majesty, stop worshipping those false gods. Your Majesty, only I am your only support."