After the ghost bride finished speaking, her tone changed: "My lord, let's go!" Her voice was both gentle and eerie.

Immediately afterwards, a red ribbon shot out from the red sedan chair, lunging at Su Shuzhi like a venomous snake. Before Su Shuzhi could react, the red ribbon had already tightly wrapped around his waist.

Su Shuzhi hurriedly pleaded with the Xuanwu Squad members beside him for help: "Save me! If you can save me, I'll join your squad!"

Liu Yong and the others stood aside, completely ignored by him.

Upon hearing Su Shuzhi's cries for help, the members of the Xuanwu Squad sprang into action. They drew their weapons and pre-prepared talismans and launched a fierce attack on the bridal sedan chair.

However, the paper figures in front of the bridal sedan blocked their way, and a fierce battle ensued.

Two agile figures broke through the paper doll defense line. One of them held a Guan Gong-style broadsword with talismans pasted on the blade, which shone with a dazzling golden light. He swung the broadsword and slashed fiercely at the bridal sedan chair.

Another team member took out a large pair of scissors made of gold, which were engraved with mysterious runes.

With a forceful snip, he cut the red silk ribbon that bound Su Shuzhi.

The broadsword slashed down, and the red light of the bridal sedan chair collided with the golden light of the broadsword, ultimately deflecting it. The ghost bride emerged from the sedan chair with a coquettish laugh, her red veil trembling slightly.

Red smoke began to emanate from her body. Upon seeing this smoke, Xu Anran recalled the scene she had witnessed when she left the temple, and suddenly realized that the ghost bride had been talking to her!

Smoke billowed out, and everyone entered the Ghost Bride's domain. The paper figures, which had just been destroyed, were restored to their original state and stood up again. They attacked everyone nearby indiscriminately. Xu Anran leaned against the wall, not wanting to participate in the fight. Seeing that Xu Anran was leaning against the wall and the paper figures didn't come over, Liu Yong and the others followed suit and stood beside her.

The outcome was quickly decided. The Xuanwu team was indeed strong, and under the Ghost Bride's fierce attacks, they only suffered some injuries. Su Shuzhi, on the other hand, was tied to the paper horse by the Ghost Bride like a rice dumpling, with two paper figures holding him down tightly, making him unable to move.

After capturing the groom, the ghost bride lost interest in everyone else and didn't linger. She turned around, stepped into the bridal sedan chair, and drifted away.

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out: "Wait!" Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was Xu Anran who spoke.

Qi Meng stood beside her, repeatedly nudging her with her elbow to signal her to shut up, wondering to herself, "What's wrong with this person? That female ghost was finally about to leave, why is she making us wait? Is she courting death? Or has she suddenly gone mad?"

To everyone's surprise, the female ghost actually stopped in her tracks and turned around when she heard Xu Anran's voice, as if she wanted to hear what Xu Anran was about to say.

Liu Yong and his team members were stunned. Based on their extensive experience in gossiping, they knew this was no ordinary matter!

Xu Anran left the wall and walked to the middle of the road, stopping about ten steps away from the ghost bride. She smiled apologetically and said, "Um, I wanted to explain to you that I slept for too long and forgot a lot of things. I only just remembered you. I'm sorry!"

The ghost bride said understandingly, "Miss, it's alright. It's been so long, it's normal to forget. I understand. Well then, I'll take my leave. We'll meet again someday."

“Wait a minute, um… Bride, I have something else I need your help with. I actually have amnesia, and I just wanted to ask you, when you were at the temple, did you see any of the people with me? What did they look like? What were their features? Or did I call out their names?” Xu Anran hurriedly called out to the ghost bride as she was about to leave, and began to ask her question.

After listening, the ghost bride pondered for a moment and said, "I didn't hear you speak. I only met you briefly. I remember there were three people with you. A young girl and two children. The girl was pretty and cute, probably just turned 18. The two children were dressed very conservatively, and I couldn't see their faces."

Xu Anran bowed to the ghost bride and said, "Thank you for telling me all this. I'm so sorry to have bothered you!"

"No need to be so polite. Well then, farewell, young lady."

After bidding farewell to the ghost bride, Xu Anran turned to return to Liu Yong and the others. The people behind her were dumbfounded. What was going on? Was this the same eerie and terrifying female ghost from before? Why were they being so polite to her? Was she human? What exactly was she?

After overhearing Xu Anran's conversation with the ghost bride, the Xuanwu Squad thought that perhaps the female ghost was easy to talk to, so why not give it a try?

One of them said, "Um, bride, wait a minute, we can talk..." Before he could finish speaking, the ghost bride covered his mouth with a red ribbon and hung him upside down from a tree by the roadside.

Seeing this, the leader of the Xuanwu Squad knew that it wasn't that the ghost bride was easy to talk to, but rather that the ghost bride was easy to talk to that woman.

So he called out to Xu Anran, "Hey little girl, wait a minute. Can you put in a good word for her and ask her to release the puppeteer? We can discuss anything you want. We have lots of good stuff."

Hearing this, the ghost bride looked at Xu Anran curiously, as did the others, but Xu Anran said, "Let's not bother her. The bride is a nice person, no, a ghost. She just helped me. You guys figure it out yourselves!"

Seeing her refusal, the ghost bride's lips curved slightly under her red veil.

The Xuanwu squad leader was still unwilling to give up and tried to say something more, but the female ghost immediately gagged him and strangled him unconscious with a rope. If it weren't for the talisman protecting him, he would have died long ago.

Seeing this, the others didn't dare to say anything more.

Xu Anran returned to her original position, and Liu Yong and the others breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally over. That was really exciting!

However, just as everyone was preparing to leave, a sound grew closer and closer. The ghost bride, who was about to step into the bridal sedan chair, stopped in her tracks, her face so gloomy it seemed to drip water.

The sound grew closer and closer, and one could vaguely make out what sounded like the footsteps of many people and the knocking of something, interspersed with human voices.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw many figures approaching, while the ghost bride turned to face the group.

Her domain was surrounded by a layer of light golden light. Seeing this, everyone thought that people from this world had come to save them.

The first thing that catches the eye is a huge golden Buddha statue, so solemn, dignified and sacred.

The Buddha statue was carried by several strong monks, and many other monks were chanting sutras while striking wooden fish around it.

Many people followed behind, all devoutly following the Buddha statue with their hands clasped together, like its most sincere believers.