In fact, she is the one who should say thank you.
If the original owner had not left, Jin Banwei might not have had a second life, nor would she have met Ren Qiao.
Although the original owner may not exist, the system should also choose a new medium for her, but Jin Banwei feels that if a new medium is used, then the ghost bride drawn may not be Ren Qiao, as there are intricate connections between these people.
But... this doesn't seem right. Li Jin said that Bai Xiaozhu's soul came to the ghost town with her. How could a soul that has gone to the ghost town go out and reincarnate? If the soul is incomplete, then the original owner must be a fool.
There is a Bai Xiaozhu in the ghost town, and the one who reincarnated is also a Bai Xiaozhu.
Could it be that there are two Bai Xiaozhu in this world?
But even if there was, it had nothing to do with her anymore. There was no connection between her and the original owner. She used to be grateful to the original owner for giving her a second life, but after she had some of the original owner's memories, she realized that this was a two-way gift.
Now, her body, appearance and even soul are all from her original world. In a sense, she can no longer be said to have traveled through time and space, and the original owner was just a medium that led her here. So even if there are two Bai Xiaozhu in the world, it has nothing to do with her, and that nightmare has even less to do with her.
She roughly guessed the identity of Yan, another friend of Ren Qiao, Bai Xiaozhu's lover - Ren Qianjing.
Jin Banwei is just Jin Banwei, she is not Bai Xiaozhu, and she has nothing to do with Ren Qianjing, but Ren Qiao is related to these people.
There are too many unclear things here.
For example, why are there two Bai Xiaozhu in the world?
For example, why did Ren Qianjing, who was clearly a human, turn into a snake after death? And why did she treat the reincarnated Bai Xiaozhu in such a way, hurting her former lover to such an extent? Did Ren Qianjing really love Bai Xiaozhu?
For example, since they have clearly been reincarnated, why is the original owner still called Bai Xiaozhu?
For example, where did Ren Qiao's friend Sheng Changyi go? She became completely invisible in this story.
…
It's too complicated.
Jin Banwei covered her head, and the original owner's dream reappeared in her mind.
Are there really two Bai Xiaozhu in the world? The gentle one is called Bai Xiaozhu, and the clever one is called Bai Xiaoxi.
Are they twins?
This can also explain why a soul was devoured by the fox lady in the ghost town, but Bai Xiaozhu was reincarnated.
But if they are twins, which one is Ren Qiao's friend? The one in the ghost town? Or the reincarnated one?
While Jin Banwei was pondering, they arrived at the ghost town.
The fox lady's status in the city was indeed extraordinary. On her wedding day, even the outside of the city walls were hung with red lanterns and red silk. Before entering the city, one could hear bursts of joyful sounds. It was quite a big scene.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up, and the ghost soldiers carrying the sedan chair became agitated. Their movements began to change with joy, and even their mouths overflowed with the words sung by the twelve underworld boys: "Fox fairy, marry a wife, break the beads, cut the body, bleed blood, cut flesh flesh, sister, sister, sister, her head fell off, sister, sister, she shed tears..."
Their voices were not as clear and tender as those of children. Instead, they were low, dull and even more terrifying and weird.
Jin Banwei's face changed drastically: "Not good, she is trying to steal control of the ghost soldiers from me."
This “she” is naturally the Fox Lady. Apart from her, it is hard to find anyone else in this city who has such ability.
Suddenly, a faint blue thread of fire appeared in front of Jin Banwei's eyes and overflowed from the sedan chair. Jin Banwei immediately grabbed Guan Jiyue, and the two jumped off the sedan chair together. The sedan chair exploded to pieces almost the moment they left, along with the eight ghost soldiers carrying the sedan chair.
This sedan chair originally belonged to Lady Fox, so it was easy for her to do anything with it.
But hadn't Guan Jiyue tampered with this sedan before? How could she be easily controlled by her?
Guan Jiyue patted the dust off her body and looked at the burning sedan coldly: "Jin Banwei, look carefully."
Jin Banwei looked into the flames and saw hundreds of ghost faces inside. Their faces were hideous and they had sharp teeth in their mouths. It was even impossible to tell what kind of creatures they were in life. They clung to the sedan chair, one ghost face circling another, and wailed because of the burning pain of the fire. They wanted to leave the sedan chair, but were trapped there by pieces of talisman paper and could only watch their bodies burn into black mist.
So it was not the fox lady who blew up the sedan chair, but Guan Jiyue's talisman.
The densely packed ghost faces made Jin Banwei's eyes a little uncomfortable. She rubbed her eyes and asked, "What are these?"
"Residual souls." Guan Jiyue took out hundreds of talisman papers and said calmly, "When the ghost king devours a soul, he usually does not eat the entire soul intact, but leaves a little residual soul as a slave that he can control at will. These souls are probably the ghost slaves of the fox lady."
Guan Jiyue handed the talisman to Jin Banwei: "Get ready to attack the city."
Jin Banwei took a look at the extra talisman papers in her hand. Each one was a Soul-Fixing Talisman. She understood Guan Jiyue's meaning. In order to prevent the fox lady from snatching control of the Yin Soldiers from her again, the Soul-Fixing Talisman was indeed the only choice.
Growth in desperate situations far exceeds normal progress. After entering the seal, Jin Banwei is improving at an extremely fast speed.
She immediately moved, biting the tips of her index fingers on both hands, and two strands of blood strung together hundreds of talisman papers: "Yin and Yang are born from the extremes, all living things have their own way, the universe is broken, and all talismans obey my orders!"
The hundred pieces of talisman paper were pulled by her blood and fell one by one on the remaining ghost soldiers.
After the talisman paper fell, the yin energy on those ghost soldiers became more abundant, and even their eyes became sharper.
Jin Banwei nodded with satisfaction. She took out the special wicker paper and bamboo sword she had just drawn. The wicker paper made of special material was actually emitting a light golden glow, and there was spiritual energy floating in Jin Banwei's palm. Jin Banwei didn't have time to marvel at how good the things produced by the system were.
She immediately used a bamboo knife to cut the wicker paper into square pieces of paper of the same size.
The next moment, she used a bamboo knife to cut her palm, and gently clasped her hands together. The pale golden paper was stained with her blood, and the golden light became more intense: "Ghost soldiers, listen to my order, take the knife!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she threw the wicker paper in her hand out, and the wicker paper of the same size turned into black knives in an instant and flew towards the ghost soldiers.
The moment they grasped the golden sword, the paper man's body was actually covered with a thin half armor.
With weapons and armor, the Yin soldiers' momentum was raised to a higher level. Guan Jiyue was somewhat amazed at Jin Banwei's fancy tricks: "You can actually give them weapons, then why didn't you use them just now? You let them fight with bare hands for so long, and why is this armor only halfway?"
If she had to explain, it was that she just didn't know how to do it. This is a skill that can only be mastered by those who have mastered the third-level paper-making technique, and it is not possible to perform it with her means. If it weren't for the special wicker paper that raised her current upper limit, she would not be able to conjure up weapons now.
As for the armor, I'll wait until she masters the fifth-level paper-making technique and see if she can conjure it up in its entirety.
Jin Banwei silently expressed a lot in her heart, but when she came to her lips, there were only two words: "Waste of blood."
Guan Jiyue glanced at Jin Banwei's palm, which had stopped bleeding. Her white palm was covered with her own blood. She could clearly feel Jin Banwei's lips turn two shades paler. "A Yin-Yang sorcerer cannot be afraid of bleeding."
Jin Banwei looked up at the sky in silence.
Next time, next time can you let her draw out a pool of blood?
The Yin-Yang Master already consumes a lot of blood, and the Paper-Maker consumes even more. She sees that Guan Jiyue doesn't use as much blood as she does, and Guan Jiyue doesn't feel sorry for her, but she feels sorry for herself.
She numbly pinched her fingers and said, "The righteous path of heaven and earth, the ghost soldiers obey my orders, charge!"
After she gave the order, those Yin soldiers, holding black knives and wearing half black armor, led by nine Yin generals, rushed into the city like heroes.
Jin Banwei suddenly felt like she was being called upon to perform in a duel.
This is because she was not fully prepared. If she was given enough time, she could have created a large army. Of course, her blood and energy at this stage would not be able to sustain so many ghost soldiers, but she might be able to use them in the future.
With the Yin soldiers leading the way, Jin Banwei and Guan Jiyue entered the city relatively smoothly. Basically, if they encountered any rebellious ghosts, they could rely on the Yin soldiers and generals to deal with them. Moreover, the ghosts in the city looked very weak, as if they had been tortured for many years, and their consciousness of resistance was very weak, so Jin Banwei only arranged for the Yin soldiers to control them. They were not here to massacre the city, but to get rid of the Ghost King.
She and Guan Jiyue ran towards the ghost town palace. Before they reached the palace, a bloody wind suddenly blew up.
A strong stench and the sound of ghosts crying in the wind, miserable and resentful, hit the eardrums again and again. Jin Banwei covered her ears: "It seems to be coming."
Sure enough, before they could go over to her, the fox lady came out by herself.
The first thing Jin Banwei saw was a furry tail. The dark black hair was mixed with some white hair. The thick and dense hair did not look aggressive and was even very soft. It came heavily towards them. Guan Jiyue pushed Jin Banwei and said, "Get out of the way!"
After they moved away, the ground that was hit suddenly cracked and a huge deep pit appeared.
The hairs were completely standing up at this moment, like the spikes on a hedgehog. The tail swept across the ground, leaving cracks on the ground. This was not a furry tail at all, but more like a lethal weapon.
Jin Banwei and Guan Jiyue dodged in a somewhat awkward manner. Guan Jiyue gritted his teeth and blasted a purple lightning talisman towards the tail. The tail was very huge, but extremely agile. Sensing the approach of danger, it quickly retracted it.
After the purple lightning net dissipated, a ghostly figure appeared on the eaves. She was about thirty years old, and quite pretty, but with some fox hair on her face. Her eyes were green and shiny, as if spiritual mist was flowing in her eyes.
She has three tails in total, each with different broken ends, making her look like a fox demon that has been stitched together.
She is the fox lady.
Fox Lady stared at Jin Banwei and the others with her green eyes, and said in a cold tone: "I don't know how you managed to capture Ghost Emperor and the others? And you also stole my bride?"
They couldn't capture the Ghost Emperor. They were just separated by the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams Formation in a special way. As for Li Jin, she didn't want to come back here on her own.
Jin Banwei replied, "You don't really want to marry her."
"In that case, I'll use you to make it up to me. I haven't eaten fresh flesh and blood for a long time."
The fox lady had a greedy look on her face as her tongue licked across her lips, the green light in her eyes becoming even stronger.
A hungry ghost naturally cannot let go of delicious food.
Lady Fox didn't want to let them go, and they didn't want to let Lady Fox go either. She was filled with too much blood, so strong that she looked like a demon crawling out of hell. According to Li Jin, Lady Fox was one of the earliest ghosts here, so she had existed for at least three thousand years. She would marry one person every year, and if she ate one person, she would have eaten thousands of people. She was undoubtedly an evil ghost that must be killed.
Guan Jiyue opened the battle formation, and the Five Emperors Coin Sword appeared again in his hand: "That depends on whether you have the ability."
She rushed towards the fox lady with the sword in hand. The fox lady's three tails began to grow longer and swung towards Guan Jiyue. Suddenly, she flew into the air, and with the elastic force of her tail, she bypassed Guan Jiyue and rushed towards Jin Banwei: "Get rid of the weak one first!"
The fox lady had a clear goal. Her sharp claws had just grasped Jin Banwei's neck. Jin Banwei's eyes were once again stained red, and a faint red mist flowed out of her body. The fox lady's face suddenly changed: "You, why do you smell like her?"
She seemed to have discovered something horrifying. The strength of her claws that were grabbing Jin Banwei's neck was gradually weakening. Jin Banwei took the opportunity to escape from her control. She put a spiritual fire talisman on her arm and the flames suddenly shot up. The intense pain did not allow the fox lady to regain focus. She grabbed Jin Banwei's body with her other hand and half of a light red figure was pulled out.
With a gentle face, beautiful features, and a hint of divinity, even if she were a ghost, she would be different.
And that face was undoubtedly her nightmare.
She trembled all over, her tongue knotted: "It's you, it's you!"
Guan Jiyue took the opportunity to stick a talisman on her arm. The fox lady suddenly pulled her hand back, and the soul that was taken out floated back into Jin Banwei's body.
She retreated back to Jin Banwei, her expression a little complicated: "The soul in your body is Ren Qiao's, but why is it different from the one I saw before?"
Guan Jiyue also saw Ren Qiao's original appearance. Jin Banwei suddenly had a bold guess. Could it be that the beautiful face was only relying on Ren Qiao's main soul? That's why her residual soul restored her original appearance, allowing Guan Jiyue and the others to see her original appearance clearly.
"Didn't I just tell you that this face is the face of the ghost sister? I will explain the rest to you in detail later."
Guan Jiyue nodded. She had really decided to get involved in the cause and effect of Jin Banwei and Ren Qiao.
A ghost that is ridiculously powerful but has only good intentions and does not eat humans. It has no grave, no memories, and even its appearance is deliberately hidden. This is too strange, as if there is a huge conspiracy hidden.
Perhaps, by getting to the bottom of this matter, she could also uncover the truth behind her family’s extermination.
The ghost kings who besieged Yang Street at that time were obviously controlled. She had been investigating for so many years but had no clues as to why this was so powerful and mysterious.
There was also a mysterious and powerful force standing behind Ren Qiao, and it was hard for Guan Jiyue not to associate them together. After all, both besieging Yang Street and creating such a powerful ghost required extraordinary strength.
And based on all the information we have now, Ren Qiao has been dead for about a hundred years, and the siege of Yangjie happened seventy years ago.
Let's make a hypothesis. If Renqiao was created by a mysterious force, could the ghost kings besieging Yangjie also be created by them? That's why they can control so many ghost kings at the same time.
The truth, the truth, Guan Jiyue's heart almost jumped up. She had never felt that she was so close to the truth.
After seeing Ren Qiao's residual soul, Lady Fox went completely insane: "Hahahaha, you're dead, you can actually die too! Good death! Such a good death!"
She clapped her hands gently, and it was obvious that she was celebrating the news of Ren Qiao's death.
Jin Banwei walked forward, and the fox lady instinctively took a step back.
"You seem very afraid of me." To be precise, it is the soul of Ren Qiao in her body.
"Why would I be afraid of an ant?" The fox lady pressed her brow and laughed softly, but her body was still shaking uncontrollably, blood and tears gradually seeped out of her eyes, and her face suddenly became gloomy and terrifying: "I won't kill you, but there are ghosts who can kill you."
She seemed to have made some decision, and her three tails began to wave violently, stirring up waves of sand and gravel.
Jin Banwei and the other person were blinded by the sand and gravel. Jin Banwei felt as if a huge force was biting her body. She seemed to be picked up and suddenly retreated backwards.
"Guan Jiyue!" She hurriedly called Guan Jiyue's name, but she didn't hear any response from Guan Jiyue.
Jin Banwei suddenly fell from mid-air and hit the ground heavily. She was seeing stars and she covered her eyes. Her vision was blocked, but her sense of smell became clearer. Jin Banwei smelled the fragrance of bamboo.
She shuddered and came to her senses.
Jin Banwei opened her eyes and saw the bamboo forest covered with red beads again. This was the third time she had seen this bamboo forest.
Another ghost formation?
It seems not to be the case. Any ghost formation will have more or less the breath of the ghosts who set up the formation, but there is no scent of the fox lady here, and nothing started to attack her. The only explanation is that she was sent by the fox lady to the place where the bamboo forest was originally stationed. In other words, these are real, and are no longer the power misappropriated by the ghost camp.
Jin Banwei narrowed her eyes and looked carefully at the surrounding traces. There were no obvious signs of damage, but there were fewer red beads on the bamboo branches.
Why did the fox lady send her here? Thinking carefully about what the fox lady said, did the fox lady mean that there were ghosts here that could kill her?
But why didn't she see the ghost?
"Are you the living person with Yu Li's aura?"
Suddenly a gentle voice sounded, and Jin Banwei shuddered: "Who?"
The thin bamboos in front of me actually began to move slowly, and they were getting closer to each other. As they moved, the red beads hanging on the bamboo branches also swayed and collided, making dull and low sounds. Finally, the bamboos in front of me slowly gathered into a person's waist, and a green mist floated out of the bamboo forest, and a woman with a bit of charm and gentle eyes walked out.
She was wearing an old school uniform, and her youthful face showed that she was definitely not very old when she died.
She knew this face.
"Bai Xiaozhu?"
In fact, Jin Banwei didn't know what the original owner looked like at first. After all, before she saw the original owner's face when she came here, the system had already taken back the original owner's blood, body and appearance, and changed everything into her original appearance. She only knew that the book said that the original owner was more beautiful.
But just now she possessed the original owner's memory fragments. In the memory fragments, she saw the original owner's appearance, and the ghost in front of her had the same face as the original owner.
But she looked much gentler, with a warm smile at the corners of her eyes.
As expected, there were two Bai Xiaozhu.
But shouldn't she be eaten by the fox lady? Why is she here? Is she the ghost that the fox lady said wanted to kill her?
"Do you know me? It seems that Yu Li has mentioned me to you. Little girl, let me ask you a question. How many years have passed outside?" Bai Xiaozhu smiled gently, but her eyes were clearly full of smiles. However, the curve of her mouth was a little strange. When she mentioned Yu Li, her tone was also very cold, which was completely unlike what Li Jin said, that they were very good friends.
The Bai Xiaozhu in front of her made her feel a little uncomfortable.
"More than one hundred and ten years." Although she answered, Jin Banwei subconsciously stepped back.
Suddenly, Bai Xiaozhu's body retreated back into the bamboo forest, and suddenly appeared from the bamboo behind Jin Banwei. She put her hands on Jin Banwei's waist, and her long nails sank into the soft flesh. She directly scratched Jin Banwei's skin: "You are so weak. She still likes to make friends with the weak as always."
The pain in her waist made Jin Banwei suddenly break free from Bai Xiaozhu's hand. She covered the wound with one hand and touched the talisman paper with the other.
Bai Xiaozhu is very strong. She is much stronger than the Red Ghost. Although she is not as good as the Fox Lady, she is also a ghost king.
She didn't want to take action against Ren Qiao's friends, but... Bai Xiaozhu seemed to have a big problem.
Jin Banwei looked at Bai Xiaozhu warily, her peripheral vision wary of the bamboo beside her. She said, "Wait, aren't you Yu Li's friend? I'm her friend too, maybe we can talk."
"You are Yu Li's friend? You have the scent of her soul on you. I thought you devoured her soul."
So did she think that she had hurt her former friend, and that was why she attacked her just now?
This guess made Jin Banwei less guarded, but at this moment, the bamboo on the right side of Jin Banwei emitted a faint green light. Jin Banwei pulled out the peach wood sword, picked up a calming talisman at the tip of the sword and stabbed it towards the place where the green light was coming out, which was Bai Xiaozhu who had suddenly changed position.
Her eyes turned colder: "Do you still want to kill me?"
Bai Xiaozhu looked at the talisman paper on her chest, a little surprised, and then smiled softly: "It doesn't seem that weak."
The calming talisman made Bai Xiaozhu's body pause for a moment, but she soon disappeared into the bamboo forest again, with only her head exposed. Her eyes were fixed on Jin Banwei's rapidly healing wound, which was the recovery speed of a ghost.
"It's strange. She was willing to lend her soul to you, but why did she forget to tell you that she and I are not friends."
Jin Banwei's heart tightened: "What do you mean?"
Bai Xiaozhu's head slowly disappeared into the bamboo forest. When the green light reappeared, she had appeared behind Jin Banwei. This time, she stretched out her sharp claws and scratched Jin Banwei's entire shoulder. The smile on her face was still gentle, but the curve of her mouth became more and more strange. "Of course it's just on the surface. If I hadn't tricked her down the mountain, she wouldn't have been caught."
"You! Li Jin said you two were once best friends!" Sure enough, it was not her illusion, Bai Xiaozhu's smile was just a little strange.
"Li Jin..." Bai Xiaozhu pressed her eyebrows and laughed sarcastically: "She hasn't disappeared yet, how disappointing."
She was not a warm and gentle person, she was even a bit cruel and bloody, and her words even contained hidden stories from the past.
She covered her injured shoulder and swung the peach wood sword vigorously, immediately cutting off dozens of thin bamboos, but those thin bamboos soon recovered again. Bai Xiaozhu emerged from behind her again, and this time she grabbed Jin Banwei's heart.
Jin Banwei could actually see some traces with her eyes, but her body was completely unable to keep up.
Although Ren Qiao's residual soul greatly increased her strength and speed, her own body was too weak. She was just a newbie who had just touched the Yin and Yang world. It was still too difficult for her to compare with the Ghost King.
Jin Banwei gritted her teeth, recited a mantra silently, and placed a fire curse talisman on her chest. The flames passed through her heart and burned Bai Xiaozhu's hand. She used her own body as a medium and finally succeeded in injuring Bai Xiaozhu.
Although it would damage her body, fortunately Ren Qiao's soul was only located in a corner of her body, not in her heart, so the Curse Fire Talisman would not hurt Ren Qiao's soul.
The power of high-level talisman paper is very different from that of intermediate-level talisman paper. The black flames wrapped around Bai Xiaozhu's arm, making a "sizzling" sound. Her soul was burned into drops of black water. Bai Xiaozhu's smile finally couldn't be suppressed: "I'm starting to hate you."
She cut off her entire arm and quickly disappeared into the bamboo forest. Clusters of black flames sprang up in the forest, and the red beads on the bamboo branches made low sobbing sounds.
Bai Xiaozhu actually used these ghost bamboos to offset the power of the fire curse talisman.
When she appeared again, the black flame was gone from her body, but her soul was a little weaker. Her arms were slowly growing back, but the speed was very slow. After all, that was the power of the high-level talisman paper.
Looking at the arm that had not grown back, Bai Xiaozhu showed an angry expression on her face: "You are really as annoying as Yu Li."
Jin Banwei felt a pain in her heart. She was getting closer to the truth, but these truths made the ghost in her heart even more pitiful. The classmates she sacrificed herself to save resented her, and even her good friends hated her.
Jin Banwei quietly clenched the peach wood sword in her hand, secretly moving all the strength in her body: "Bai Xiaozhu, let me ask you again, shouldn't you and Yu Li be friends?"
"Friends? Yes, we seem to be very good friends in the eyes of others." Bai Xiaozhu seemed to have remembered something funny. She covered her lips with a smile on her face, "But it's a pity, I don't really need friends."
"I have a lover and a sister. It is precious to be able to protect my family in troubled times. Why would I need a wild man from the mountains as a friend? If it weren't for the two boxes of gold and my sister, why would I run to the deep mountains to find her?"
"That place is so remote, Qian Jing and I were almost eaten by wolves..."
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