This deep-seated jealousy grew stronger with time. More than once, she wished that Nana would never exist.
Originally, she was just thinking about it, especially since Nana was the girl he had personally chosen for the Fallen Flower Cave. Even if she was unwilling, she could only silently hide her resentment in her heart.
But fate is a strange thing. One day, her uncle suddenly told her that Nana's status as the Flower Cave Maiden had been revoked. And she herself had become the only wife of the Cave God.
In this way, she got closer and closer to that person.
But just the day before the wedding ceremony, her ancestor told her that the man had rejected her.
He said that the person he had been waiting for for so long was finally about to arrive. Therefore, all future ceremonies were to be cancelled.
The Flower Cave Maiden was originally a legend, and now it's time for her story to come to an end.
"I'm not reconciled!"
Zhang Xinxin held the photo frame in her hands, looking at the handsome man in the picture who seemed like a god. This man was about to be hers, but he was just one day short!
Just one day!
The ancestors' wish was to achieve true immortality, but that wasn't hers. From the moment she first met that person, her entire focus had shifted away from herself.
Since ancient times, the women of Luohua Cave have always been known for their foolishness and folly, and she knew the reasons perfectly well. That person was simply looking for a substitute. She didn't care anyway; what did a substitute matter? As long as she could be with that person, she didn't care.
But--
"Ah—!!" A scream pierced the sky. She knew she would never have another chance.
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As a loyal and mysterious creature, Lingxi never disregards its master's commands.
This Zhang Xinxin wasn't inherently strange, but she possessed characteristics that bordered on the bizarre. Therefore, she was momentarily at a loss as to how to proceed.
Fortunately, the owner had warned her beforehand that everyone seemed to have a locust tree in their yard, and that the locust tree was bleeding, which meant there was something fishy going on.
So instead of immediately attacking Zhang Xinxin, she first ran to the yard and chopped down the old locust tree.
"Ah—!! No—!!"
The moment the old locust tree fell, a heart-wrenching sound rang out, followed by a deathly silence throughout the courtyard.
When Lingxi returned to the house, she found that Zhang Xinxin had turned into a completely black, withered creature, like a dried corpse that had been buried in a tomb for countless years, ugly and grotesque.
She was able to recognize the other person thanks to the photo frame she was clutching tightly in her hand.
To make sure the body wasn't completely dead, Lingxi set it on fire again, burning the entire corpse before leaving, satisfied.
She was preparing to return to her master's courtyard to wait for him to come back when suddenly, she faintly heard the sound of something breaking in the void.
Then, the ground of the entire courtyard began to violently churn.
Suddenly, a hole was torn open in the churning ground, and a pair of blood-stained arms emerged.
Then came the second pair, the third pair... and so on...
In just a few minutes, the ground in the entire courtyard was completely torn apart, and countless tangled arms struggled desperately to break free, but could not move an inch.
Although Lingxi herself was a strange being, she still almost couldn't help but vomit when she saw this hellish scene.
Even though she loved blood food, she couldn't help but feel afraid when she saw these people covered in blood, forcibly bound together by some unknown method.
Without thinking twice, Lingxi turned around and rushed out.
But when she went outside, she was even more dumbfounded.
It turns out that not only Zhang Xinxin's courtyard, but the entire underground area of the Zhang family's old house was actually made from living human tissue. It was even more cruel than what was in the courtyard.
At a glance, there were countless severed limbs, broken heads, and bodies without limbs. Upon seeing her, they seemed to see some delicious food and struggled desperately towards her.
However, these people seemed to have been forcibly integrated with the ground, and no matter how hard they struggled, they could not be shaken in the slightest.
Lingxi ran around for ages and unexpectedly discovered a secret. Despite the huge commotion at the Zhang family's old house, she didn't see a single person appear.
No one knew where the guards, maids, or elders had gone.
Lingxi panicked. What should she do?
After much thought, she finally followed her master's instructions and scrambled all the way to his courtyard.
The owner said that there were no formations in her courtyard.
As expected, the master's guess was correct once again. Even though the outside world had turned into a living hell, the master's courtyard remained as quiet as if nothing had happened.
Here, it seems as if it has been naturally separated.
However, after searching around the courtyard, she found that none of the white-clad maids seemed to know where San had gone, leaving her alone in the entire courtyard.
Lingxi decided that she would stay here and not go anywhere else.
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Unbeknownst to her, the very moment she chopped down the old locust tree, all the elders of the Zhang family's old residence sensed it. They all immediately rushed to a dark, empty square.
The First Elder, the Third Elder, and the man with the same name as Chu Jiang... all the maids and guards, without exception, rushed here.
If Yan Qing were here, she would recognize at a glance that this location corresponds to the location of the Zhang family's ancestral hall on Cangyun Mountain.
"Quickly! Everyone, get back!" The elder gave the order, and the next moment, his figure disappeared.
"yes!"
The others all agreed in unison, and then one by one, they vanished into thin air.
Just as everyone completely disappeared, the pitch-black ground beneath their feet began to violently churn.
The moon in the sky disappeared without anyone noticing, and a white smoke gradually rose from the ground, accompanied by flying dust and a constant rumbling sound.
Something seemed to be churning up from underground.
The violent shaking lasted for a full quarter of an hour. When it finally stopped, the once empty square was now filled with at least a thousand coffins.
These coffins were much simpler than normal coffins, consisting of only a single layer of wooden planks that looked as if they would crumble at the slightest touch. Moreover, the coffins appeared extremely dilapidated, with many even covered in rotting moss.
Directly in front of all the coffins, a simple little wooden hut had suddenly appeared. It was also covered in moss and dilapidated. However, the entrance to the hut had been deliberately designed to resemble an opening.
If Yan Qing were here, she would recognize at a glance that the entrance to this cave looks exactly the same as the huge cave she came out of.
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