Mid-Autumn Night.
"Miss Yun, I'm sorry." Jiu Gui chuckled, "Who said your price couldn't compare to the God-Forging Pill?"
He sat cross-legged in a dim secret room, surrounded by green candlelight, making his pale face look like a ghost.
A bronze basin was filled with turbid black water, and the surface of the water reflected the grand scene of the lantern festival thousands of miles away. It was exactly where Yun Lanyi was.
"The time has come."
His skinny fingers pinched a piece of jade pendant fragment, which was still stained with Yun Lanyi's scent, enough to be the initiator of a nightmare.
Jiugui threw the fragments into the black water, and the water surface suddenly boiled and wisps of black smoke emerged.
He formed seals with his hands, his black robe fluttering without wind, and his hoarse incantation echoed in the secret room:
"The soul returns to the underworld, haunted by nightmares."
On the long street of the Lantern Festival, Yun Lanyi was pretending to admire the lanterns, but in fact he was secretly staring at Yun Ji's figure.
Suddenly, her feet felt cold.
Looking down, she saw wisps of black mist seeping out from the cracks in the bluestone slabs, wrapping around her embroidered shoes like a living thing.
"What the—"
Before she finished speaking, black fog suddenly rose up!
Like a ghost hand, it climbed up rapidly along her skirt and entered her body through her mouth, nose and ears in the blink of an eye!
Yun Lanyi's whole body stiffened, and her pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip.
The surrounding noise faded away in an instant, leaving only the roar of blood rushing in my ears.
She wanted to scream, but found that she couldn't even move her fingertips, as if her soul was imprisoned deep inside her body, and she could only watch her body go crazy uncontrollably.
"Well--"
Yun Lanyi's whole body stiffened and her pupils suddenly contracted.
She only felt an extremely cold breath instantly invading every part of her body. The scene in front of her began to distort and blur. The laughter in her ears gradually turned into strange whispers, as if countless people were whispering in her mind.
"Miss Yun, who do you think you can manipulate?"
A hoarse voice sounded in her heart. Yun Lanyi felt cold all over and wanted to scream, but she found that her throat seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand and she couldn't make a sound!
The scene in front of me suddenly changed!
The brightly lit streets disappeared, replaced by a bloody wasteland.
The sky was low, dark clouds were rolling, and shrill wails came from afar, as if thousands of wronged souls were wailing.
Yun Lanyi looked around in horror. What she was stepping on was no longer bluestone slabs, but sticky blood mud. Every step she took made a creepy sound.
"Where is this?! Let me out!"
She was finally able to speak, but her voice was hoarse and not like her own.
Hehehe…
Cold laughter came from all directions, and the masked Nine Ghosts slowly appeared in front of her, their black robes fluttering in the wind, and their eyes were filled with ghostly fire.
"Ms. Yun, welcome to your nightmare."
"You!" Yun Lanyi never expected that the person who would appear before her would be Jiu Gui. "Why did you come to me? Shouldn't you be looking for Yun Ji?"
Yun Lan Yi was trembling all over and turned around to escape, but just as she took a step, countless pale arms suddenly stretched out from under her feet and grabbed her ankles tightly!
"ah--"
She screamed and fell down, blood and mud splattered all over her body.
Those arms were icy cold, and their nails were as sharp as knives, tearing at the hem of her skirt bit by bit, as if they wanted to drag her into the depths of hell!
"Get out! Get out!"
She kicked and kicked frantically, but the arms became more and more numerous and eventually submerged her completely.
On the long street of the Lantern Festival, the crowd was still laughing and talking, and no one noticed Yun Lanyi's abnormality.
She stood there, her eyes empty, but a strange smile slowly appeared at the corner of her lips.
Suddenly, she ripped open her clothes!
Hiss——
The luxurious gauze dress was torn by her own hands, exposing her snow-white shoulders and arms to everyone's eyes.
"Lan Yi?" At this moment, Madam Yun finally realized that something was wrong. "What's wrong with you?"
But Yun Lanyi seemed not to hear anything. Instead, she smiled foolishly, began to tear her hair, and muttered to herself:
"Get away, don't touch me, you evil ghosts!"
Her voice grew louder and louder, eventually turning into a shrill scream.
Madam Yun stepped forward and tried to hold her back, but she pushed her away!
"Get out! You all want to hurt me!"
…
Amidst the bloody wasteland, the wind howled.
Yun Lan Yi was pressed into the sticky blood mud by countless pale ghost hands, her long hair was disheveled, and her luxurious dress had already been torn to pieces.
She struggled desperately, but those cold fingers gripped her wrists and ankles like iron pliers, and even strangled her throat, preventing her from even screaming.
Jiugui squatted down, pinched Yun Lanyi's chin with his skinny fingers, and forced her to look up.
"Miss Yun, do you think your plan is perfect?"
Yun Lanyi's terrified face was reflected in his pitch-black eyes.
"I really feel sorry for you!"
Yun Lanyi was trembling all over and her lips were trembling.
"You, you accepted the gift from the Yun family, how dare you betray me?!"
Jiu Gui chuckled.
"It's a pity that someone offered a higher price than you."
He took out a black porcelain bottle from his sleeve, with pink mist lingering around the mouth of the bottle.
Yun Lanyi's pupils suddenly shrank: "What is this?!"
Jiugui slowly explained.
"This is Hehuan Powder. Just one drop can make a person burn with lust and lose their mind."
In the illusion, Jiugui is the master, and he can control Yun Lanyi in the illusion at will.
"No, you can't!"
Yun Lanyi shook her head frantically, but Jiu Gui had already pinched her cheeks and forced the medicine in the bottle into her mouth.
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