Chapter 150 It's so frustrating! He's going to harm people!
Zhou Yaren could see the dark figure rushing towards him, and they had already fought twice. It seemed that the figure had some deep-seated hatred for him and was seizing every opportunity to fight him and Xu Zhangfang to the death.
At this moment, Zhou Yaren had no time to ponder the murderous motives of the monstrous creature. Instead, she channeled her grief and anger into power, ruthlessly attacking the monstrous creature that had charged at her.
Based on his previous experience, Zhou Yaren knew how to kill the elephants: to tear through their calyxes far from the waterways and let them die of thirst on the banks.
Ah Cong was kicked hard by Zhou Yaren to the side of the riverbank, crashing down from the rough and rugged Xiaoshan rock wall. This was a slightly wider river embankment, covered with frozen mud, sand and gravel, as if a sac of liquid would dry up before it even reached the riverbank.
Zhou Yaren had no patience to deal with anything else, so she raised her hand and swept out several wind blades to chase after him. As A Cong tried to defend and dodge, the wind blades slashed into the rock wall one after another.
But the next moment, a sharp wind blade severed Ah Cong's wrist holding the knife!
The long sword clattered to the ground, and thick liquid gushed from the broken end. Ah Cong grabbed his severed wrist with his other hand and tried to escape.
Zhou Yaren wouldn't let it escape. A wind blade was gathered in her raised wide sleeve. Before it could pierce A Cong's chest, a hurried shout came from the side: "A Zhao Su!"
Zhou Yaren was suddenly startled. The voice of the newcomer was very familiar, but he couldn't react for a moment.
He wondered whether the sudden appearance of the Gu Master or the Gu Master's shout of "A Zhaosu" would have shocked him more.
Chen Ying stared intently at the frozen Zhou Yaren, and once again spoke with a shocking remark: "Is it not enough that you killed them all? Do you want to kill them again?!"
That resentful accusation, though it was a seemingly random and incoherent sentence, somehow made Zhou Yaren half-understand it, but he didn't get it. His brain felt like it had been struck by lightning: "What did you say?"
Chen Ying repeated each word firmly: "I'm telling you, killing them wasn't enough, do you have to kill them again?!"
Zhou Yaren's mind was in turmoil. The wind blades in her sleeve dissipated, and her raised fingers felt faintly numb in the cold wind: "Them?"
“They, the Undying Ones,” Chen Ying said, moving toward Acong while keeping a watchful eye on him. “The Undying Ones are the last vestiges of the Undying People.”
Zhou Yaren's eyelashes trembled, her blinded eyes staring straight at Acong in front of her.
“Just like a person’s lingering spirit after death,” Chen Ying stood in front of A Cong, shielding him behind her, and revealed the truth word by word, “Wang Xiang is the remains of the Undying People after they were burned and refined. Zhou Yaren, A Zhaosu, do you really want to exterminate them all?!”
Zhou Yaren couldn't tell whether what the Gu master said was the truth or a lie; she was mostly incredulous: "How could this be..."
“You weren’t thrown into the alchemy furnace, you weren’t burned by the flames, and you’re still standing here with your head and body intact, so of course you don’t know what happened to them after they died.” Chen Ying reached behind her back and tightly gripped a section of A Cong’s sleeve, as if afraid that someone would cause trouble, trying to stabilize the situation at the moment.
"Otherwise, how do you think I would know who you really are? Because Ah Cong remembers! Even as a ghost, he still remembers who killed them!" She had risked her life to rush over, protecting Ah Cong tightly behind her. Chen Ying said, "Fang Xiandao threw the Undying People into the alchemy furnace, refining them alive into pills, and then gave them to the boys and girls who were testing the medicine. Oh, those were the boys and girls who went to sea with Xu Fu to search for immortals. During the testing process, they were poisoned, died suddenly, and most of them met a terrible end. To cover their tracks, Fang Xiandao secretly threw their bodies into the river mound."
Zhou Yaren's long eyelashes trembled slightly: "Kawazuka?"
"That's right, it's the river mound in Beiqu!"
The river mound where the drug was buried also contained the remains of those who had tested the drug.
As Bai Yuan once said, after great disasters, the rivers that have flowed for thousands of years will form eddies due to the heavy accumulation of corpses, becoming the resting place of the drowned, called river mounds.
The remains of countless drowned people are buried by the silt at the bottom of the river, and their flesh and bones will rot and dissolve here, polluting the soil and becoming an extremely yin place hidden at the bottom of the water.
Bai Yuan also said at the time: "Many evil sorcerers are mostly immoral. In order to achieve certain goals, they will go to the river to find this extremely yin place."
The reason for seeking them out was not specified by Bai Yuan, but now the Gu Master has provided an answer.
The river mound became a place for hiding filth and destroying evidence of corpses.
Chen Ying made no attempt to hide anything and told Zhou Yaren everything: "Otherwise, how do you think I found my way there? The boys and girls who were testing the medicine drank the pills that were refined into immortal beings. After they died suddenly, their flesh and bones rotted in the river mound. The unabsorbed pills dissolved in the corpse water and decomposed from the rotting corpses, dripping into the river and becoming what is now Wangxiang."
This is absolutely true, she swore, there is not a single falsehood in it: "This is the remains of the Undead."
Chen Ying said, "It's a pity that even though they turned into 'Wang Xiang', they still couldn't escape their fate."
Zhou Yaren's heart and lungs trembled: "What do you mean?"
“When people are down on their luck, even drinking water can cause them to have problems. Those who are not dead will not be able to escape even if they die,” Chen Ying said. “Because back then, a Taiyin/Dao body was placed there, covering an area of dozens of miles. All the demons and monsters had nowhere to escape and suffered along with it, being trapped inside for thousands of years.”
Zhou Ya was deeply shaken.
He suddenly recalled the scene he had seen in the Death Umbrella: the Taiyin/Dao Body falling down, its light swallowing everything, the shadows of mountains and rivers gradually shrinking into a ball, the Dao Body that illuminated the mountains and rivers swallowing all the spirits and demons here and sinking into the land of Beiqu, along with Bai Yuan, into the bottom of the water!
Not only was there a white injustice, but there was also a false image.
From then on, this Dao body became a prison that confined them.
Yes, initially, the Northern Qu did not have any Wangxiang appearing. Wangxiang only began to appear in groups after the Taiyin/Dao body was shattered.
Wang Xiang's appearance was quite shocking and explosive, causing the hollowed-out human skins to collectively rise from the dead, causing panic throughout the entire Beiqu City.
Chen Ying single-handedly turned Bei Qu upside down.
“That’s not right.” Zhou Yaren finally regained some of her composure and keenly noticed the flaw in the Gu Master’s words. “Long before the Taiyin/Dao Body shattered, you had already used leeches to kill people in Beiqu…”
"Yes, I should prepare a few shrouds in advance."
“Wangxiang has clearly been trapped in the Taiyin/Dao body for thousands of years, so how did you know that…”
"Because twelve years ago, someone died unjustly in the Northern Qu Prison. By sheer coincidence, the sacrificial array was activated, causing the airtight Taiyin/Dao body to pry open a crack. Didn't that person release a wisp of Yin energy and beat a grievance drum for that unjustly killed ghost?" Chen Ying said without stammering. "A-Cong slipped out from the crack at that time."
Bai Yuan and Wang Xiang were both imprisoned in the Taiyin/Dao Body, but one was in a prison guarded by a prison god statue and the Bi'an Gate, while the other was immersed in the river water outside the Dao Body.
For a thousand years, they coexisted in this way, each minding their own business, unable to cross each other's boundaries, like two parallel tracks that never intersect, never even meeting. Bai Yuan didn't even know that besides her, there was another group of people in the prison, all dead with their eyes wide open in disbelief.
Naturally, Wang Xiang knew nothing about Bai Yuan.
Like fish that can't get ashore from the bottom of the water, and people who can't go into the water on land, they have no connection.
Ah Cong was the only one who escaped from the Taiyin/Dao body during that accident twelve years ago.
The fish that escaped the net was driven mad by its captivity, disoriented and lost, left only to drift eastward in the endless river. At that time, it could do nothing but angrily create a few large waves, or perhaps vent its frustration by splashing water plants and mud. But that wasn't enough, far from enough to quell its hatred!
He's going to harm people! Humans are all bad! He's going to take revenge!
So he resolved to become a vengeful spirit haunting the Yellow River, dragging down and drowning all those who were swimming, fishing, washing vegetables, washing clothes, or playing by the water.
As a result, after lurking for several months, it didn't manage to kill a life, but instead saved a little girl who was almost drowning.
The little girl was skin and bones, covered in bruises. Unloved by her parents, she was bullied everywhere. First, she was brutally beaten by her parents on the bridge, who called her a worthless, shameless whore, as despicable as could be. Then, she was chased by two vicious-looking thugs who were shouting that they would capture her and teach her a lesson. The little girl stubbornly refused to yield and plunged headfirst into the Yellow River, sinking to the bottom after only a few struggles.
Ah Cong, who intended to kill, hesitated and swam over. He didn't even know what had gotten into him, but he actually did the absurd thing of repaying evil with kindness, pushing the little girl who was about to drown but still had a breath left on her back and letting her float on the water.
At that time, Chen Ying floated on the water outside Shanzhou City all night, her back wrinkled and white from being soaked. When she woke up, she naturally found that a water ghost was supporting her from below.
Despite enduring all the bullying, Chen Ying wasn't afraid at all. Instead, she felt that even ghosts were better than those beasts, worse than pigs and dogs. She even taught Chen Ying how to swim so that she wouldn't drown if she ever had nowhere else to turn and jumped into the river.
Chen Ying is an excellent swimmer, all thanks to A Cong's support during her training.
From then on, the two of them, one human and one elephant, became companions. Chen Ying was no less vengeful than A Cong, so they hit it off and began to conspire together. After all, they couldn't do bad things alone, but together they could come up with wicked ideas for each other. The two of them followed each other's lead and actually carried out these heinous deeds, thus beginning their great days of committing all sorts of evil.
Acong was the only Wangxiang that emerged from the Taiyin/Dao body twelve years ago. Time flies, and he had no relatives or friends in this great river, believing that all the enemies who killed them were dead. Until Azhaosu appeared in Beiqu as a blind master, Acong was caught off guard and encountered the traitor who had betrayed and harmed his own kind.
It raised its lingering hatred once more, ready to kill this sinner who had come to its doorstep. But it was utterly useless; not only could it not defeat him, it almost lost its life at his hands. If Chen Ying hadn't pushed it into the well at the last moment...
Ah Cong was unwilling to accept it. How could it accept it? It was so unwilling!
So he lingered at the bottom of the well for a long time. When he finally managed to climb to the top, he saw the face of another culprit in the courtyard—Xu Fu.
The surrounding houses caught fire, and the raging flames illuminated Xu Fu's face.
Ah Cong will never forget that face.
Ah Cong, who was at the wellhead, wanted to rush out with his knife immediately, but he cut a large gash in his lower back, causing all the knife to drip into the well.
Ah Cong could only search for Chen Ying with burning hatred. No matter what, he had to save Ah Ying first, and then ambush the Taihang Road youths crossing the river at the ferry.
Afterwards, they rushed to the Three Gates natural barrier to seek revenge. Xu Fu and A Zhaosu were already locked in a fierce battle. Wang Xiang disregarded everything and joined the fray, hacking at anyone he saw!
Despite this, Acong still couldn't kill his enemy, and had to ask Aying to risk her life to come here to save him. How frustrating!
Ah Cong clutched his severed wrist, staring at Ah Zhaosu's pretentious face, feeling utterly disgusted. Who was he trying to impress with that tragic expression?
If Azhao Su truly felt any remorse, she should have committed suicide on the spot to atone for her sins. Clearly, Zhou Yaren in front of her did not have this awareness and still lived with a human touch. How could Azhao Su not feel disgusted?
“Ah Zhaosu,” Chen Ying spoke for it, saying what it most wanted to say, “You are the one who truly deserves to die.”
Zhou Yaren's eyes were red. He never expected that the image in front of him was actually the remains of the Undying People.
If the Gu Master hadn't revealed it to him at this moment, he might never have known.
The calamities suffered by the Undead were clearly laid out before him. Zhou Yaren wanted to explain, but he opened his mouth and had no chance to utter a sound.
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