"No--!"
Chen Dashan lunged forward, wielding a razor whose blade gleamed with the bluish light of corpse poison.
Liu Sandao suddenly turned around, his ox bone carving knife drawing a half-circle of blood-red light, sparks flying the instant it collided with the razor.
The two fought with ruthless moves, like wild beasts battling.
Chen Dashan's clothes were cut open with a carving knife, revealing the human skin talisman wrapped around his waist.
Liu Sandao's Taoist robe was also slashed open with several bloody cuts by the razor. The blood splattered on the fragments of the Yin-Suppressing Pillar and strangely followed the cuts.
I raised my still-trembling Thunderstrike Sword, intending to rush forward to help, but I saw Liu Sandao suddenly stagger back to the ruins of the Zhenyin Stake, his back slamming heavily against the broken wooden stake.
He coughed up blood and roared, "Go! That girl's soul hasn't returned yet!"
Only then did I realize that Chun Tao's intermittent cries were coming from the direction of the bridal chamber in the distance, mixed with Ah Xiu's incoherent babbling.
Chen Dashan seized the opportunity to throw off the iron chain wrapped around the human skin, but Liu Sandao used a fragment of the Soul-Suppressing Bell to tightly bind his wrist.
The two tumbled and fell into the ravine of the mass grave.
"Wait for me!"
I shouted at the ravine filled with black mist.
At that moment, the sound of tiles breaking came from the direction of the bridal chamber.
I gripped the still-hot Thunderstrike Sword and ran away.
When I arrived at the bridal chamber, Chuntao and Axiu were huddled together, trembling.
Chun Tao's eyes had regained their clarity, and Ah Xiu finally showed a relieved smile on her face.
In the distance, a final loud bang came from the direction of the ancestral hall. I knew then that it was all over.
As the first rays of sunlight shone on the village, Liu Sandao stood on the mass grave, staring blankly at the fragment of the Soul-Suppressing Bell in his hand.
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