Just when Gu Qingze wanted to "finish off the attack", Chu Lingxiao signaled him to stop.
Although Gu Qingze didn't understand his thoughts, he still obeyed his words obediently.
After seeing him stop, Chu Lingxiao smiled at him with relief. Then, he put on that sharp expression again, as if he was looking at something, or examining something, and looked at the mysterious object.
"Now that you are about to die and your plans have failed, there is no point in keeping the souls of those eleven brides. It would be better to do a good deed before you die and release them."
Chu Lingxiao's voice was firm and powerful, as if it was an order that could not be disobeyed.
The mysterious creature looked at him with resentment. If its eyes could turn into blades, Chu Lingxiao would have been torn to pieces by it. But unfortunately it couldn't, so even if it blinded itself, it would be of no use.
"...Don't even think about it. Even if my plan fails, I won't let their souls go. I will pollute and torture their souls so that they won't have peace even after death."
The voice was sharp and piercing, and as he spoke, he let out a "hehehe" laugh, sounding like a vicious villain.
This villain is truly a villain... Could he not be so stereotypically evil?
Gu Qingze couldn't help but complain silently in his heart.
When Chu Lingxiao heard the words of the mysterious creature, his golden eyes looked even brighter, even to the point of being scary.
As long as you are stared at by those eyes, it feels as if you are completely seen through, leaving you with nowhere to hide.
Of course, Gu Qingze was not afraid of this kind of look. After all, he told Ling Xiao everything except what he couldn't say, and he didn't have any secrets.
But the mysterious object was different. When it was stared at with such eyes, it always felt as if it was being seen through and it was full of oppression. In addition, Chu Lingxiao was approaching it step by step, and the oppressive feeling was even stronger.
The mysterious creature shouted, "What...what are you going to do? If you want to kill me, do it now. Don't dilly-dally."
Unexpectedly, the response was a look of pity: "You can't impose your pain on others and prevent them from being happy just because of your experience."
"I admit that you are a pitiful woman, abandoned by a heartless man. Left alone in troubled times, you sacrificed half of your soul and became a thing that is neither human nor ghost."
"But are those brides at fault? Because you are unhappy, you kill all the brides one by one, jealous of them and resentful of them."
"And what I find even more incomprehensible is...every wrong has its perpetrator. After you gained the ability to retaliate, instead of killing the person who betrayed you, you harmed those innocent brides."
"Isn't it just that you couldn't bear to do it? That man clearly let you down, yet you couldn't bear to kill him. Those brides were clearly innocent, yet you used them to vent your anger."
Chu Lingxiao's words were like a sharp sword, piercing the heart of the mysterious creature.
"Twelve brides, a blood sacrifice, and then you will construct your own new body. With a more beautiful appearance, you will go to meet that man, the man who has clearly betrayed you."
"Tsk, how ridiculous, sad, pitiful and hateful." Chu Lingxiao lowered his eyes, as if mocking her, but also as if he was simply making his own evaluation.
"No, that's not the case! You don't know anything, you don't know anything, what qualifications do you have to say that!"
The mysterious creature retorted loudly, and the cloth wrapped around its body fell off bit by bit, revealing a horrible body with only flesh and blood but no skin.
Her tears swirled in her eyes and then slowly slid down like pearls from a broken string.
The pity in Chu Lingxiao's eyes gradually dissipated, and he slowly said, "But this is what I sense. This is the truth you have been hiding in your heart, the truth you are unwilling to admit."
"To this end, you even lied to yourself. On the surface, you kept telling yourself that you wanted to put on a good-looking appearance and go find that ungrateful person to seek revenge. But deep down, you really wanted to see him and rekindle your relationship with him."
"But you hate yourself for being like this. You hate yourself for not being able to hate that man even after being betrayed. So you keep putting off finding him."
"You chose to be here because Cangyun City is your hometown. You can't bear to see other women in Cangyun City get happiness, so you kill them if you see them."
".....Do you want me to say more?" Chu Lingxiao stared at her straightly, with a condescending look in his eyes.
The ghost cultivator did not answer him, but just kept repeating: "It's not like this, it's not like this, it's not like this..."
Chu Lingxiao raised the corners of his lips slightly, but without a trace of smile: "Well, if you think I'm wrong and I misunderstood you, then prove it to me."
"Prove that you are not jealous of other people's happiness, jealous that those brides are living better than you."
Chu Lingxiao pressed on step by step, not giving her any time to think.
"You must free their souls now and give them relief. Otherwise, you will continue to harm others out of jealousy and resentment."
Chu Lingxiao's voice slowed down again, becoming extremely gentle, which could be described as a combination of soft and hard tactics: "Be good, be obedient, okay?"
The ghost cultivator cried for a while, then finally lowered his hands that were covering his face. He then waved his hands a few times, and eleven souls ran out, flew into the air, and gradually became airborne...
However, although the wronged souls of the eleven brides have regained their freedom, they are still resentful towards the ghost cultivator and cannot let it go.
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