At the third quarter of midnight, the full moon hung high in the sky, and all was silent.
The group arrived at the He family courtyard without making a sound.
"Go in."
Jing Le waved his hand, and the white tiger leaped, carrying Jing Le and Duan Feibai into the courtyard. The other ten people then climbed over the wall and entered.
The courtyard was no longer the same as it had been during the day.
Thick black fog enveloped the entire courtyard, and the light of the full moon could not penetrate it.
It was pitch black inside.
"Take out the luminous pearl."
Jing Le took out a luminous pearl from her spatial storage and gestured for the others to do the same.
Duan Feibai and Ying San, along with eleven others, shared a small storage bag, which Jing Le had kept in his spatial storage for who knows how many years, and casually gave it to them.
"yes."
As soon as more than a dozen luminous pearls appeared, they illuminated the courtyard.
The surrounding environment is also clearly visible.
Red ribbons intertwined, large red candlesticks flickered, and red double happiness symbols covered the doors and windows.
The open main door faces a wedding hall.
An old woman sat at the head of the table, flanked by the other members of the household.
A bride in red is kneeling in front of the wedding hall with her back to the crowd.
This is a wedding scene.
Thinking back to what the old woman said during the day, this might be the site of the ghost marriage that took place back then.
As soon as they entered the courtyard, they were drawn into the bride's territory.
"Hiss, this..."
Shadow Three and the others gasped in shock; it was the first time they had ever seen anything like this, and their hair stood on end.
This is a real encounter with a "ghost".
Jing Le opened the door to a new world for them.
Is it really okay for the first lesson to be this terrifying?
The commotion also woke up the bride.
The bride slowly rose and turned to face the crowd.
He was also holding a memorial tablet in his hands.
The bride's voice came from under the red veil: "Are you all here to congratulate me on my wedding?"
How should I answer that?
They all knew about this girl's past and knew she was a pitiful person.
There is no such thing as blessing.
"No, we've come to help you escape this sea of suffering."
Jing Le jumped off the tiger's back and spoke frankly.
Hahahahaha.
Upon hearing this, the bride burst into laughter, and the memorial tablet in her hand shattered with a crack.
"Take me away from this sea of suffering? Why should I take me away from this sea of suffering?"
"Once midnight has passed, I will be able to leave this place forever. Those who owe me will have to pay the price. Don't think that you can just leave the courtyard and be done with it."
"They owe me all of this."
With a wave of her hand, the bride lifted the red veil from her head, revealing her true face.
Two lines of bloody tears streamed down his cheeks.
"Don't be so stubborn. If you truly become the Ghost King tonight, you will never be reincarnated."
Jing Le immediately realized that the bride opposite him had already taken the lives of innocent people, and if she continued, Heaven would not tolerate her.
If you make a mistake and are not punished in the mortal world, you will be held accountable in the underworld.
But this bride has already murdered innocent people, so at least she will be reincarnated to be punished.
Otherwise, all that awaits her is to vanish into thin air.
"So what if I don't enter the cycle of reincarnation? My life has been tragic enough. I suffered all kinds of hardships in just three days after marrying into the He family. Even after death, I will be suppressed here to continue to contribute to the He family."
"Why should I? The world is inherently unfair, and since no one will uphold justice for me, I will do it myself."
The bride stared intently at Jing Le with bloody tears in her eyes, expressing her resentment.
What happened to her was even worse than what the old lady had described yesterday.
The bride's name was Wu Qiuniang. She was sold to the He family by her father at the age of sixteen and married the youngest son of the He family.
She figured, "Let him marry me then. At least I'll have something to eat." She didn't object to the ghost marriage.
However, on the night of her wedding, the master, the second son, and the third son of the mansion all sneaked into her bridal chamber.
It's easy to imagine what happened inside; those three beasts abused her for an entire night.
The next night, the men didn't let her go either.
On the third day, the second wife discovered this and reported it to the old lady. The old lady was furious and ordered a coffin to be prepared. She had the woman, who was lying on the bed barely clothed, tied up, thrown into the coffin, and buried alive.
"You have no idea what it feels like to be buried alive underground. I struggled to break free of the ropes, trying to escape, but they buried me too deep, I couldn't get out... Heh..."
The intense resentment surged violently with the bride's words.
The three of them really learned something new; they realized that sometimes, the human heart can be the most cruel thing.
"Stop stalling. With me here, you won't get anywhere tonight."
Jing Le was not affected by the bride's words. Although she had indeed died unjustly, that was not a reason for her to harm innocent people.
As the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor; if she wants revenge, she should go after the person who wronged her.
If that were the case, Jing Le wouldn't care.
But now that she has killed innocent people, she must bear the consequences.
The spiritual power, imbued with the golden light of merit, was unleashed and struck towards the wedding hall.
"Click!"
The illusion shattered one by one.
Indeed, everything they had just seen was an illusion conjured up by the bride.
Where are the houses in front of them?
At the location of the house, the recently deceased scholar is chained there.
There was a black array pattern under their feet, which Ying San and the others couldn't see, but Jing Le could.
That was a formation that extracted soul power for its own use.
It can directly extract the soul of a recently deceased person and infuse the refined soul power into oneself.
"It really is a Soul Refining Array. Tell me, who is behind you?"
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