When I dragged Xiaoyue and slammed open the iron gate on the top floor, Mengmeng's body was already halfway suspended in mid-air.
Her long, black hair, like octopus tentacles, wrapped around her waist and abdomen, dragging her toward the abyss outside the building.
"Grab her hand!"
I tossed the Thunderstrike Sword to Xiaoyue, temporarily forcing back the strands of hair that were tangling around me.
The water-controlling envoy's iron chains pierced through the iron gate and came after them.
As I turned around, I happened to see that the water ripples on his black official robes had turned blood-red, and dirty water was seeping out from every fold.
With a wave of the hand, the pipes throughout the building roared, and sewage surged in from all directions, creating a terrifying scene reminiscent of the apocalypse.
"Xiaoyue! Cut the hair off her ankle with your sword!"
I bit my tongue, drew a red sun talisman in my palm, and pressed it towards the silver lock on Mengmeng's chest.
The moment my fingertips touched the silver lock, a cold force surged up my arm.
Countless chaotic images flashed through my mind.
Many years ago, on a stormy night, the Dragon Slayer Team carved talismans on the back of the stone tortoise.
Mengmeng's mother fell into the sewage...
"The three souls return to their places, the seven spirits are sacrificed..."
Mengmeng's voice suddenly became clear.
The image of the water-controlling envoy was reflected in those empty eyes.
I suddenly woke up with a start.
The female ghost's obsession was not what we thought at all, but rather a human sacrifice used to control the stone turtle by suppressing the water!
"break!"
I shouted and ripped the silver lock off, stuffing it into Mengmeng's hand.
The lightning bolts from the Thunderstrike Sword surged in Xiaoyue's hand as she closed her eyes and severed the last few strands of hair.
Mengmeng's body suddenly plummeted downwards.
The moment I lunged forward to hug her, the chains of the Water Suppressor had already wrapped around my ankles.
His face was pressed extremely close, black sewage churning beneath his scaly skin, and the wide grin at the corners of his mouth almost stretched to his ears.
"The sacrifice is complete, and the stone tortoise has awakened."
A loud bang suddenly exploded in the sky.
The outline of the stone turtle was fully revealed in the lightning.
The "Dragon Slayer Team" talisman on its back had collapsed, and what was gushing out of the cracks in its tortoise shell was not magma, but the blood of the earth veins, still warm from its body.
"Xiaoyue! Soak your sanitary napkins in the blood of the earth veins!"
I roared and threw out all the Five Emperors Coins.
The copper coins formed an array in the air, temporarily trapping the water-suppressing envoy.
Xiaoyue paused for half a second, then ripped off her sanitary napkin and threw it at the stone turtle.
The moment the sanitary napkin came into contact with the earth vein blood, it ignited with golden flames that spread along the patterns on the stone tortoise's shell, eventually piecing together a complete suppression array!
The water-suppressing envoy let out a deafening roar, and the iron chains in the array snapped.
I took the opportunity to press the silver lock onto Mengmeng's forehead.
Suddenly, something burst into flames above her hands, as if something was burning.
From the ashes, the ghostly figure of a woman emerged.
This time, the female ghost is no longer in a rotting state, but a young mother wearing a blue and white school uniform.
She smiled at Mengmeng, her fingertips brushing through her daughter's hair: "Don't be afraid, Mommy will never leave you again..."
Flames formed from the blood of the earth veins swept across the entire rooftop.
The figure of the water-suppressing envoy gradually became transparent in the firelight.
In his final gaze at the stone tortoise, there was both resentment and relief: "Three hundred years... I can finally sleep..."
Before he finished speaking, his body transformed into countless black hairs, merging into the cracks in the stone tortoise's shell.
The stone tortoise's roar gradually subsided, and the mountain closed up again.
Mengmeng woke up in my arms.
She gazed in the direction where the female ghost had vanished, tears welling in her eyes: "Master, I heard my mother say that she and the water of the town have returned home..."
Yes, they've all gone home!
...
When the first rays of dawn pierced through the dark clouds, everything vanished.
Xiaoyue slumped onto the floral sofa, the dirty water stains on her sky-blue jeans gone, as if last night's battle was just an absurd dream.
“Master…” she suddenly pointed out the window, her voice trembling.
"All that sewage... is gone?"
I followed her gaze and saw that Tongning Community was as quiet as ever in the morning light.
The asphalt road, which had been cracked by the flood last night, was now smooth as new. Fine dappled sunlight filtered through the branches of the locust trees along the street, and several elderly people sat on stone benches picking vegetables, as if nothing had happened.
"It's not a hallucination."
I picked up the silver lock from the coffee table; the tortoise-shell pattern on the lock surface gleamed with a warm luster in the sunlight.
"When the Dragon Slayer Team used the stone tortoise to suppress the earth's veins, they set up a Yin-Yang barrier inside the lock core. Our battle last night actually took place in the spirit world."
At this moment, Mengmeng fainted again.
Or perhaps she never woke up at all.
"Master, look at Mengmeng! She looks terrible!"
Xiaoyue ran over and hugged Mengmeng tightly, her eyes a little red.
I gestured for her to be patient and said I would take a look.
I held Mengmeng's wrist to take her pulse.
Her pulse was weak and thready, clearly a sign that her soul had left her body and had not yet returned.
Before she could finish speaking, Mengmeng suddenly uttered a faint murmur.
Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and the silver lock on her chest suddenly felt hot.
I quickly pressed my hand against her forehead, and the chill from my fingertips made my heart tighten.
Two of her three souls and seven spirits still remain in the underworld.
"Quick, get the red cloth!"
I turned to Xiaoyue and shouted, "Bring all the Five Emperor Coins from the living room!"
While Xiaoyue frantically searched, I had already drawn a soul-suppressing talisman on Mengmeng's forehead with cinnabar.
Amidst the clinking of coins, she suddenly spoke: "Master, Mengmeng, she..."
"If the soul has been separated from the body for more than twelve hours, it must be immediately guided back to its place."
I pressed the five-emperor coins onto Mengmeng's Tanzhong acupoint: "When she wakes up, go to the crossroads, wrap seven coins in yellow paper, and draw an open circle in the southwest direction."
"Southwest?" Xiaoyue was stunned.
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