"Such a cycle may allow one to live in this world like a walking corpse, but have you ever thought about how many people you would kill?"
"What does it matter to me how many people die?" The woman smiled wickedly. "My dear daughter, you are willing to give me your body, that's enough."
"Lu Yinan, she's going to take over your body, are you still so stubborn?" Ye Xingchen glanced at Lu Yinan.
"No, she wouldn't hurt me. She's my mother, she would never hurt me." Lü Yinan shook her head desperately.
"Haha, my own daughter, how could I harm her? You all, don't waste your energy. My dear daughter, come here." The woman gave the order to Lü Yinan.
Lu Yinan looked at her mother, who was neither human nor ghost, and then silently walked forward.
"You want me to live, to stay with you forever, right?" the woman asked.
“Yes, I want you to be with me forever.” Lü Yinan nodded vigorously.
"Then you should give something in return." The woman smiled slightly: "The time is almost up, give me your life."
The woman suddenly reached out and grabbed Lü Yinan by the neck. Her strength was astonishing; she lifted Lü Yinan up with one hand.
"No, no. Don't kill me." At the critical moment, Lü Yinan suddenly regained her senses.
The woman before him was just a corpse. Although she had once been his mother, she had forgotten most of what happened before she died.
She didn't care about the mother-daughter relationship at all; she only wanted to kill herself and take over her body.
"How can I live if you don't hand over your body? My dear daughter, go in peace so that I can live forever." The woman screamed and laughed shrilly, her hands slowly tightening.
Lu Yinan's legs suddenly stiffened. She struggled incessantly, but to no avail. It looked like she was about to be strangled to death.
Suddenly, a slanted sword light burst forth, followed by a scream, and one of the woman's arms was severed.
With a thud, Lü Yinan fell to the ground, panting heavily. Li Yijin quickly helped her up and hid behind Ye Xingchen.
The woman stared in disbelief at her arm lying on the ground, screaming, "You destroyed my body, I'll kill you... I'll definitely kill you."
"You call this a body? It's more like a corpse," Ye Xingchen said calmly.
White maggots were wriggling in her arm that had fallen to the ground, and a strong stench of death emanated from it.
Lu Yinan has fully regained her senses. She has been with her mother these past few days, but influenced by Jiang Mu, she sees her mother as a complete person, even with the same appearance as when she was alive.
Only now did she realize that she had been living with corpses all these days, and that the woman in front of her, whose body was almost rotting, was no longer her mother. She was just a corpse that was trying to survive in the world as a walking dead so that she could survive.
"I'll kill you!" the woman screamed, lunging at Ye Xingchen.
She feels no pain at all and is incredibly strong; three or five ordinary people probably couldn't even get close to her.
Moreover, she has been to the dead; if you scratch her with her fingernails or bite off a bit of skin with her teeth, you will quickly turn into a corpse.
Ye Xingchen brought his right sword fingers together, let out a clear whistle, and his true energy surged forth.
Bang... The woman was sent flying more than ten meters away by Ye Xingchen's sword finger strike.
She rolled over, screamed, and lunged at Ye Xingchen again.
Ye Xingchen changed his right hand gesture and pointed a finger at her brow.
With a whoosh, a white aura emanated from her forehead, instantly shattering her swordsmanship to a near-total degree.
With a thud, the woman knelt on the ground, staring wide-eyed at Ye Xingchen, making gurgling sounds in her throat.
Ye Xingchen grabbed at the air with his right hand, and a piece of white paper appeared in his hand. He then tore open the tip of his other finger, and a drop of blood suddenly floated in mid-air. Ye Xingchen grabbed at the air again, and the blood turned into a blood mist. He drew a series of lines in mid-air, and a talisman was formed.
The Supreme Jade Purity Dao Scripture, Talisman Chapter: Blood Condensation as Medium, Spiritual Light Curved Talisman.
To achieve this, one can use blood as a catalyst and white paper as a medium, eliminating the need for the usual steps of drawing talismans with cinnabar and white paper, and performing altar rituals.
"Go and reincarnate in peace. If you remain stubborn, be careful, or I will destroy you and reduce you to ashes." Ye Xingchen warned, holding a talisman.
"I'll fight you to the death!" the woman screamed, her eyeballs suddenly slid down, and countless white worms suddenly poured out of her seven orifices. These worms split into two, then into four, and instantly became a sea of worms.
“Stubborn to the end, he deserves to be punished.” Ye Xingchen frowned and pointed the talisman in his hand forward.
The talisman, imbued with his true energy, suddenly fell from his fingertips, drifting gently to the ground like a leaf.
The instant the paper fell to the ground, a burst of fire erupted with a loud bang, forming a ring of fire on the ground that surrounded the woman.
In an instant, black smoke rose up, and countless nematodes, trapped in the ring of fire, scattered in panic.
The ring of fire suddenly tightened, countless small insects were reduced to ashes, and the woman's body burst into flames.
"Nannan, save me, Nannan! It's my mother!" the woman screamed and wailed, trying to appeal to Lü Yinan's emotions and get her to save her again.
However, Lü Yinan has now regained consciousness. She is hiding in Li Yijin's arms, watching the woman with wide eyes.
"Why? Why are you doing this to me? I was abandoned by your father, and you are my daughter, yet you can only watch me be burned alive?" A hoarse voice rang out.
"You initiated the divorce because your first love came back from abroad, and you wanted to elope with him." Ye Xingchen ruthlessly exposed her: "But your first love turned around and ran away with someone else."
"At this point, you regret it and want to remarry Lü Cheng, but you still can't let go of your noble head. What kind of person is Lü Cheng? He can tolerate your betrayal once, how could he possibly treat you the same way as before? So you use your daughter as leverage to try to blackmail him."
"Unfortunately, something unexpected happened in the end. Even now, don't you still think it's all your own fault?"
"Nonsense, utter nonsense! I swear, even if I become a ghost... I won't let you go! I swear..."
The sound gradually faded, then with a loud bang, flames shot into the sky. The fire gradually subsided, and the woman was reduced to ashes.
Lü Yinan collapsed to her knees with a thud and burst into tears.
"The ashes have been collected. Give them a proper burial," Ye Xingchen said. "Your mother is dead. Even if she came back to life, she would be a walking corpse. Moreover, she wouldn't remember most of what happened in her life. She had no feelings for you at all."
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