Chapter 48 048 Cause of Death: The gods in heaven are all bad news...

The more Yun Tianjiao listened to the voice, the more familiar it seemed.

A crybaby? It's Qiongzhi!!

Overjoyed, she hurried toward the wooden staircase in the center of the tower hall.

The thumping sounds from upstairs grew louder and louder, each one more violent than the last. Finally, a loud crack was heard, the sound of wood breaking was heard, and at the same time, a large hole appeared above the twin water ghost heads, and a figure covered in black energy crashed down.

The twin water ghosts ran for their lives, but the figure grabbed them by the neck with one hand and pulled them back.

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah... So annoying, it's you two again..."

The two water ghosts were being shaken around in this man's hands, like two rag dolls.

The water ghost brother wailed, "Ancestor! Little ancestor! Stop shaking me! Stop shaking me! You're shaking my soul apart!!!"

The water ghost brother remained composed, enduring the torment without uttering a sound, but suddenly raised his eyes with a gloomy gaze, staring at the large hole in the roof above.

A ring of heads huddled around the hole, shrinking back under the gaze of the water ghost. One of the round-headed octopus monsters raised two tentacles to feign innocence: "It's none of our business, Brother Water! We couldn't stop them, we really couldn't!"

"Yes, yes, that old lady stomped her foot and tumbled down through the six-story tower, and the hole above our heads hasn't been patched up yet!" A scorpion demon chimed in, pointing with her tail at the same large hole above them, connecting to the fourth floor of the tower.

A group of demons were also gathered around the hole, watching the spectacle.

"...Qiongzhi?"

The moment the figure fell from the rooftop, Yun Tianjiao stopped and turned around. He looked at the familiar clothes and hair ornaments on the person, but they were shrouded in soaring black mist and could not be seen clearly. For a moment, he could not recognize the person.

The girl ghost spirit, who was frantically shaking the twin water ghosts and crying, paused. She remained facing away from Yun Tianjiao, still holding one water ghost by the neck with each hand, and turned her head 180 degrees to stare blankly at Yun Tianjiao.

"Tianjiao... Sister Tianjiao?" She was still sobbing, her face pale and ashen, no longer as bright and pretty as before. Her eyes were also empty, her pupils were very large, almost squeezing out the whites of her eyes completely.

"It's me, I've come to find you." Yun Tianjiao looked at Shen Qiongzhi without any fear. Thinking back to before they parted, she was a lively and cheerful young girl, and his heart was filled with tenderness.

Thump—thump—

Shen Qiongzhi released her grip, dropping the pitiful water ghost twins to the ground, and then swung them leisurely towards Yun Tianjiao.

"My lord, my lord, be careful!" the water ghost brother warned.

Yun Tianjiao sheathed his Ghost-Slaying Blade and, as Shen Qiongzhi lunged at him, opened his arms and gently embraced her.

"Waaaaah... Sister Tianjiao! Sister Tianjiao... You've finally come to find me! I was so scared, I want to leave this awful place, waaaaah!!"

Shen Qiongzhi nestled in Yun Tianjiao's arms, crying her heart out. Large tears rolled down her cheeks, but the black aura around her gradually dissipated. Apart from her bloodless lips and pale face, she looked almost exactly the same as when she was alive.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here..." Yun Tianjiao gently stroked the back of Shen Qiongzhi's head, soothing her softly.

At this moment, the demons who were watching the commotion from the third floor, and the twin water ghosts who were helping each other up, all cast resentful glances at Shen Qiongzhi.

Afraid? They should be the ones who are afraid, right?

Ever since this crybaby came in, they've been living in constant fear and misery! They're the victims, after all!

Shen Qiongzhi cried for a long time, and Yun Tianjiao's entire shoulder was almost soaked with tears before he gradually calmed down.

"Qiongzhi, what happened to you? How could... how could..." Yun Tianjiao said it twice, but she couldn't bring herself to say the word "death." She still couldn't accept the fact that her younger sister, who had followed her around since childhood and called her Tianjiao, was dead.

Shen Qiongzhi sniffed, her long eyelashes drooping, revealing a hint of shyness. "I... I don't know what happened. After entering the Puppet Bride's illusion, I became a puppet controlled by threads, unable to move..."

Yun Tianjiao and Shen Qiongzhi, as the first and second ranked pilgrims of the Heavenly God, entered the same illusion. Hearing Shen Qiongzhi say this, she knew that the two of them had the same initial situation when they entered the illusion. They were both playing a girl named "Zhen'er" who had been made into a puppet bride by her heartless parents and was to be married to the Mountain Lord.

"And then?" Yun Tianjiao pressed, seeing that Shen Qiongzhi remained silent.

Shen Qiongzhi bit her lip shyly, looking extremely embarrassed. If she were still alive, her cheeks would have turned bright red with embarrassment.

"Then...then Immortal Lord Zhu Jing came to find me...He said he liked me very much, and, and wanted to do that kind of thing with me..." Shen Qiongzhi's voice grew softer and softer, but her face showed the sweetness of a young girl thinking of her beloved.

Yun Tianjiao's eyes darkened, and she lifted Shen Qiongzhi's increasingly lowered face, looking into her dark and innocent eyes as she asked, "And then? You agreed?"

"I... I couldn't refuse. My body was completely controlled by the puppet strings at the time, and those strings were in the hands of Immortal Lord Zhu Jing. Naturally... naturally he could do whatever he wanted with them..."

Yun Tianjiao was furious, his face turning terribly gloomy.

Qiongzhi was too young, an innocent and ignorant girl, and did not even understand that this was rape.

"And then? Did he kill you?"

Shen Qiongzhi shook her head blankly, "I don't know. I think I just fainted. I don't remember anything. When I woke up and opened my eyes, I was already in this dark and sunless dilapidated tower. They, they all said... I'm dead, sob sob..."

As she spoke, Shen Qiongzhi began to cry again.

The gods plotted against their most loyal worshippers, first raping and then killing them, draining their blood and flesh, and then casting their souls into the Tower of Sorrow, condemning them to eternal damnation. What a vicious method this was!

Yun Tianjiao thought of what Shen Hengzhen had said about Shen Qiongzhi's death, that she was left with only a human skin, which was made into a paper kite and flew in the air. He took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress his trembling hands due to anger, took out a handkerchief to wipe away Shen Qiongzhi's tears, and coaxed her, "Don't worry, I will definitely avenge you, and make that Zhu Jing be reduced to ashes and his soul destroyed, to be buried with you!"

To everyone's surprise, Shen Qiongzhi was terrified when she heard this. She grabbed Yun Tianjiao's hand and shook her head like a rattle drum.

"No, no! Sister Tianjiao, it definitely wasn't Immortal Lord Zhujing who killed me, he's innocent! I believe in Immortal Lord Zhujing, he would never harm me! There's no god in the world more virtuous than him! There must be some misunderstanding here!"

Shen Qiongzhi's words left the group of demons watching from afar completely stunned.

"They're all gods, how could they be good?"

"The people in this Tower of Sorrow were all imprisoned here by those damned gods!"

"That's right! None of the gods in heaven are any good!"

The demons chimed in with their own opinions, and Shen Qiongzhi, upon hearing this, began to emit black smoke again, rising into the air, hands on her hips, glaring angrily, releasing a powerful aura.

"Don't talk nonsense! Even if all the gods in the world did evil deeds, Immortal Lord Zhujing wouldn't! He must have been wronged!! He must have been!!"

Shen Qiongzhi's voice became sharp and piercing, seemingly extremely aggressive to the demons. Painful groans rose and fell, begging and pleading for Shen Qiongzhi to stop her.

It was probably because Yun Tianjiao was a living person that he was not affected by Shen Qiongzhi's resentment. Even so, he was still astonished by Shen Qiongzhi's power.

She once heard a minor deity say that if a person with an originally excellent destiny is forcibly altered by external forces and dies a violent death, they will generate great resentment, and a ghost king might suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Although Yun Tianjiao had previously checked Shen Qiongzhi's Book of Fate in the Ghost Realm, which recorded that she did indeed die at the age of fifteen, he could not be certain whether the Book of Fate had been altered.

Shen Qiongzhi was the daughter of the Prime Minister and the future Empress of Yunchi Kingdom. Her destiny was incredibly noble. However, she died tragically and was imprisoned in the Tongbei Tower, never to be reincarnated. If this was not her original fate, then it would be understandable that she harbored such great resentment after her death.

Shen Qiongzhi unleashed a barrage of attacks on the demons, then began to cry sadly again, large tears rolling down her cheeks. She turned and flew back to Yun Tianjiao, saying pitifully, "Sister Tianjiao, believe me, Immortal Lord Zhujing will never hurt me."

But he did that to you when you were powerless to act, which already hurt you.

Yun Tianjiao was still furious, but he could only helplessly pat her head and say, "Alright, I will definitely investigate this matter carefully and get justice for you."

Shen Qiongzhi shook her head, took Yun Tianjiao's hand, and emphasized earnestly, "It's not about seeking justice for me, but about clearing Zhu Jingxianjun's name!"

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How come I never noticed before that this kid is hopelessly infatuated with love...?