"Ha, you're still young. You probably don't know how difficult it is for a family to have an opportunity to rise to power." Ye Xingchen smiled slightly. "Perhaps this is the only chance in your life. It's normal for the two families to turn against each other."
"You seem to know a lot about wealthy families?" Li Yijin glanced at Ye Xingchen, her expression somewhat complicated.
Indeed, before she was cursed, she always thought her stepmother loved her like her own mother.
“I come from the countryside and don’t understand the ways of the wealthy, but I do understand human nature,” Ye Xingchen said calmly. “Just like your stepmother, you pose no threat to her, but she wants to kill you.”
"Because of you and your brother, you are a thorn in her side."
Li Yijin remained silent for a long time before letting out a soft sigh: "I miss my mother."
Her mother passed away very early. In a wealthy family like the Li family, if it weren't for her brother protecting her, she probably wouldn't even have any bones left by now.
It's a place that everyone longs for, but it's also a place that devours people without spitting out their bones.
"Let's change the subject. This topic is too heavy." Ye Xingchen was silent for a moment, unsure how to comfort her.
"Mm." Li Yijin nodded slowly.
Suddenly, Ye Xingchen slammed on the brakes, and her head lurched forward, nearly hitting it.
"What's wrong?" Li Yijin asked, somewhat displeased.
"Get out of the car." Ye Xingchen quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and got out.
"What's wrong?" Li Yijin was taken aback and quickly followed him out.
However, when she got out of the car, she was completely stunned.
The original road had disappeared, and in front of them were mounds of earth—a cemetery. The two had somehow wandered into this mass grave.
"Where...where is this? Aren't we going home along the ring road?" Li Yijin stammered, a chill creeping into her heart.
"Don't worry, it's just a ghost wall, someone's causing trouble," Ye Xingchen reassured her, then looked around intently.
This place is quite far from the main urban area. He clearly drove back the way he came, and he didn't drive very far.
But the car just inexplicably arrived here; it seems the other party is quite powerful.
Just then, a wave of yin energy swept over them, and a hunched old woman appeared before them.
The old woman held a snake-headed staff, the snake's eyes glowing green, and the surrounding area turned a ghastly green the moment she appeared.
The old woman was none other than Xu Jie's aunt, the one who had vowed to wipe out the Xu family.
She raised her head and smiled coldly: "Little girl from the Li family, come here, come to your mother-in-law."
Her voice was incredibly alluring. Li Yijin was slightly taken aback, her eyes becoming empty and indifferent. She involuntarily got up and slowly walked towards the old lady.
Ye Xingchen reached out and pulled her back: "Where are you going? Isn't it better to stay by my side?"
As Ye Xingchen reprimanded her, he reached out and pinched the joint of Li Yijin's right index finger, releasing his true energy.
Li Yijin immediately came to her senses and quickly retreated behind Ye Xingchen, looking at the old woman with some fear.
"No wonder he survived the curse; it turns out a master has arrived." The old woman raised her head, squinted, and looked at Ye Xingchen with her cloudy eyes: "Boy, you dare to meddle in the affairs of the Southern Expeditionary Sect? Aren't you afraid of being cursed with a blood curse and your whole family dying?"
"I wondered what kind of origin this was. So it's the Southern Expedition lineage from Southeast Asia?" Ye Xingchen smiled slightly: "The most troublesome of the twelve schools of witchcraft."
“That’s right.” The old woman’s eyes gleamed with a faint yellow light. At that moment, her pupils contracted, splitting into slits like a cat’s eyes: “Since you’re meddling in other people’s business, I don’t mind killing you as well.”
“My wife never leaves herself an escape route. You’re quite lucky to have this young girl buried with you before you die.”
As the shape of her eyes changed, the surrounding yin energy suddenly intensified, and a ghastly green smoke rose from the nearby graveyard. Then, mounds of earth rose from the graves, and pairs of rotting hands, covered with flesh and skin, or simply withered bones, dug the soil from the graves.
One by one, people who had been dead for a long time crawled out of the ground because of the summoning of the black magic.
This place is a mass burial ground. Decades ago, during a turbulent era, people were simply buried here with straw mats after they died.
Therefore, this place is mostly filled with unclaimed graves, and since they are unclaimed graves, various kinds of resentment naturally arise.
Dozens of figures, resembling withered grass, dug themselves out of the mud covering their bodies and struggled to emerge from the ground, taking faltering steps toward Ye Xingchen and Li Yijin.
"Ye Xingchen, what should I do, Ye Xingchen? Waaah, I'm scared." Li Yijin was really scared and cried.
She was originally extremely brave; she would explore haunted buildings late at night and play Ouija boards with her classmates in the dormitory. There was no game that was even remotely related to the supernatural that she wouldn't dare to play.
This was the first time she had ever seen a dead person crawl out of a grave, and she was so frightened that her face paled. She clung tightly to Ye Xingchen's clothes, her legs trembling.
"It's nothing, just a few dead people," Ye Xingchen comforted her, then pointed his right hand into the air, and Chixiao appeared in his hand.
He then said in a deep voice, "A breath of noble spirit, a thousand miles of exhilarating wind!"
With a dragon's roar, Chi Xiao unleashed a torrent of sword intent, which carried a majestic and awe-inspiring aura.
With a mighty and righteous spirit, the sword intent of the Supreme Jade Purity Dao Scripture was so strong that it forced back a thousand miles of vengeful spirits with a single strike.
With a whoosh, a gust of air rushed out, and dozens of figures fell down as if destroyed.
Ye Xingchen lunged forward, thrusting his sword at Granny Hong. She casually swung her snake staff to block, and a burst of green mist shot from the snake's head toward Ye Xingchen.
Ye Xingchen forced back the green mist with his Crimson Sky Sword, but a slightly sweet scent still wafted into his nostrils.
"Five Poisonous Qi?" Ye Xingchen frowned slightly.
"Haha, that's right, it's the Five Poisons Gas. You're quite knowledgeable, kid." Granny Hong laughed heartily. "This is a poisonous gas made from the combination of five kinds of corpse poison. If you get poisoned, you'll die within an hour, your intestines will burst and your stomach will rot."
"What should we do about Ye Xingchen? Waaah, let's go to the hospital quickly!" Li Yijin was truly frantic and at her wits' end.
"What are you worried about? Aren't I a doctor myself?" Ye Xingchen smiled. This little girl is quite interesting.
He turned to look at Granny Hong: "The Five Poisons Qi is made by combining five different poisonous insects that have been cursed with corpse oil. It is indeed powerful, but it is useless against the person in question."
"How is this possible?" Granny Hong's expression changed slightly, and she said in a deep voice, "How come you are completely unharmed after being poisoned by the Five Poisons?"
"I forgot to tell you, I'm immune to all poisons." Ye Xingchen smiled slightly, pointed his right hand into the air, and slashed at Hong Po with his sword.
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