Broken arm and sword
Hearing the words of the man who had taken the spirit-calling banner, He Shu said calmly, "A real spirit-calling banner cannot be damaged by fire."
"You burned it! Everyone in Guanshan Town will be killed by your act of burning the soul-summoning banner! The wrath of an immortal is beyond the ability of mortals like us to withstand! Uncle He, do you still want to fool us all with such a clumsy lie?"
The others wanted to eat He Shu alive, cursing and cursing loudly, and some even punched He Shu in the face. He Shu was pinned down by many people and could not block. After receiving two punches, blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.
Only Zhang Shengshu looked at Uncle He in a desperate situation, listened to the sound of slaps on his face, and laughed strangely.
"Born after born, there are more and more idiots. The sins of killing are so great that Guanshan Town is cut off here. It is what they deserve."
Uncle He raised his head high, closed his eyes, and resigned himself to the fate of being beaten to death. This was more pleasant than dying tragically at the hands of Zhang Shengshu, who was neither human nor ghost.
After watching Uncle He being beaten for a long time, Zhang Shengshu finally spoke up to stop him, saying, "Stop it! Uncle He will be tortured to death by me. He's not lying, because the real soul-calling flag is with me."
He took off his shirt, exposing his upper body. A spirit-calling banner was sewn onto his chest.
The soul-calling banner on Zhang Shengshu's chest, which was sewn together with his flesh and skin, was extremely similar to the one that Uncle He had just taken out from under the altar. It was even more delicate.
Yuanli stood beside Zhang Shengshu and looked closely at the soul-calling flag sewn on Zhang Shengshu's chest. She didn't see anything wrong with it. It was just an ordinary soul-calling flag.
I called Heng Jin to take a look, but he also shook his head.
Ah Bang said, "The effect of this soul-calling banner is extremely strange. It is one of the three wonders of Guanshan Town, and the mystery of its principle remains unsolved to this day."
Ah Bang snapped his fingers and the illusion stopped.
Ayi whispered in Yuanli's ear, "The real soul-summoning flag is hidden in the illusion of the soul-summoning flag on Zhang Shengshu's chest. Why don't you give it a try and see if you can find the secret of the soul-summoning flag?"
Yuanli whispered to Ayi, "Aren't you afraid of being robbed?"
Aiyi whispered in his ear, "Don't worry. There's a barrier above it set by Lord Hades. If Lord Hades doesn't take it personally, even if Feijie brings him out of Guanshan Town, the soul-calling banner will immediately catch fire and burn the moment it leaves the illusion. Don't worry."
"Isn't it said that real spirit-calling banners cannot be burned?"
"It's true that ordinary flames can't burn the spirit-calling banner, but Lord Hades used your will-o'-the-wisp fire, which is the best for burning the spirit-calling banner."
"That's good."
Thinking of Chi Huang, Yuanli took out the Tianfan Roulette and was about to prick her finger to let the blood drip out to make the wheel spin. Then she heard Chi Huang's voice, "You don't have to prick your finger to let the blood drip out anymore. Now you are the new owner of the Tianfan Roulette. Just take it out and chant the mantra."
Yuanli did not intend to expose Chihuang's existence in front of them before knowing Chihuang's true background, so she did not respond to Chihuang.
As the mantra was chanted, the Tianfan Wheel really began to rotate, and a colorful light emanated from its entire body.
A faint light shone on the spirit-calling banner. Through the illusion, the real banner beneath revealed patterns so red it was almost black. The fine black grains, like sand, seemed to have life, entwined and tangled with each other, forming floating characters and patterns. A light red mist swirled and drifted like smoke.
She remembered that this kind of thing was also on the ruby she brought back from Huamian Village.
She imprinted all the details of the soul-summoning banner deeply into her memory, and then put away the Tianfan Wheel.
After nodding slightly to Abang, he snapped his fingers again, and the illusion resumed.
Zhang Shengshu took out a yellow paper talisman and muttered something to himself. Immediately, the soul-calling banner emitted a thin red smoke carrying countless tiny black dots. They split into small wisps and each flew towards the corpse hanging on the beam.
The moment they drilled into the corpses' noses, the corpses struggled frantically and quickly broke the ropes that were hanging them.
Because they struggled recklessly with such force, four bodies had their heads separated when they fell to the ground. They stood up, picked up their heads, held them in their hands, and tidied up their messy hair, revealing their obscured faces.
There were two corpses with broken necks, their heads tilted uncontrollably, their hair hanging down, revealing faces covered with corpse spots and twisted, dark, and obvious blue veins.
The lucky ones only had broken bones in their arms and legs. The corpses twisted their bodies several times and soon stood up again.
When their faces were revealed, the families of the dead bodies quickly recognized them, but it was too late. Their own lives were in danger and they could only look helplessly and angrily at the tortured corpses.
Zhang Shengshu raised his chin slightly and pointed at the crowd with the tip of his chin. Ten corpses immediately surrounded the crowd with awkward and stiff steps, and did not stop until the corpses were close to the living people outside the crowd. A few of them could not resist and fainted from fear.
After he ordered the corpses to drive the crowd to the center of the temple, he walked to the offering table in front of the stone statue and swept away the incense burner with candles and the offerings on the table.
He took out a block of crimson ink from somewhere on his body, pointed at a beautiful young woman in the crowd, and waved to her, "You, come here and grind the ink for me."
The woman being pointed at shook her head desperately, looked at the ten-year-old armless girl standing next to Zhang Shengshu with guilt and fear, and shook her head even more vigorously to express her rejection.
Zhang Shengshu didn't get angry or scold the ten-year-old armless girl. He touched her head and said to her, "Sister Manman loved to ask Huanhuan to play with her when she was alive, didn't she? We haven't seen each other for a few days. I guess Sister Manman must be bored. Huanhuan, go find Sister Manman and do what Sister Manman loved to do with Huanhuan when she was alive, okay?"
Hearing this, Manman was terrified and retreated desperately. Someone suddenly pushed her from behind, pushing her into the crowd and causing her to collapse on the ground.
She immediately got up and ran towards the door, but was grabbed by the ankle by Huanhuan's broken arm as he crawled out from the corner.
As she struggled, she heard the sound of broken bones. Manman screamed in pain and fell to the ground. The thin skin on her ankle was pierced by the sharp bone fragments.
Her lips turned white from the pain and her forehead was covered with sweat, but she still did not forget to run away. She dragged her body and crawled with her hands, but Huanhuan's broken arm broke her arm again, making her completely unable to move. She could only watch Huanhuan running towards her.
With no way to escape, she seemed to have just remembered to apologize.
"Huanhuan, I didn't mean to hurt you. I was wrong, and I really know I was wrong. Please let me go, okay? I'm your brother A Zhai's wife-to-be! I'm also your future sister-in-law. We're all family. Please spare my life, okay? Please, Huanhuan..."
Huanhuan walked slowly. When she heard Manman's words, she pointed at a dead body with its face covered by messy hair surrounding the crowd, and smiled.
"Since Sister Manman likes him so much, she should stay with him forever. Didn't Sister Manman say that she wanted to be with him forever and love him for a hundred years?"
Huanhuan squatted down in front of her, frowned and stared at her in confusion, asking, "Are you going to break your promise, Sister Manman? No! I've already obeyed Sister Manman and obediently let you chop me to death. Sister must also be a good girl who keeps her promise, otherwise, I will be angry."
As Huan Huan finished her angry words, her appearance gradually became more terrifying. Her body was covered with many wounds from knife cuts. Although they stopped bleeding, they had not healed yet. Some of the wounds were so deep that the bone was exposed. Dozens of narrow wounds appeared on her cute and delicate face.
Manman didn't react as strongly as others when faced with these horrific wounds. She revealed a look of disgust and said, "Then you should just die! Why are you getting up and pretending to be dead and asking for my life? I don't owe you anything! It's all because your brother A Zhai is biased. I'm the one he wants to marry! But what about him? He sleeps in your room every night! He makes love with you without any sense of shame or ethics! He even shamelessly says that you taste better than me! You deserve to die!"
"Your father forced you just like Zhang Zhai forced me, but your mother didn't kill you. Why did you want to kill me? You knew I was also forced. We shed endless tears of being bullied and forced. Am I not also living a life worse than death?"
Huanhuan, who was sober, questioned her, trying to hear some conscience from her mouth.
But she was still young, and when faced with Manman, who had treated her well and said she would save her but ended up killing her with her own hands, she should have stopped looking at her with the same eyes as a human being.
Everyone present heard Huanhuan's words and understood the secret of her father's abuse. Her innocence was ruined. Even if she survived, no one in Guanshan Town would marry her. She couldn't escape her father's cage. Rather than being abused at home for the rest of her life, she would rather die.
Without caring about anything else and giving up the thought of living, Manman laughed crazily and sadly.
"Since you know that he bullied me, you should know! Getting married and having a husband who is still a human being means a lot to me! Besides, I love him! How could I tolerate other women being intimate with him? I put up with Taozi, and now I have to put up with you! I don't want to endure it so hard that I get sick! If you want to take my life, just go ahead and take it. After I die, I can find the people who bullied and bullied me and ask them for their lives. There's no need to act stupid and pitiful and interrogate me here! Haha, what? You still don't think I feel the slightest bit of conscience being condemned? I don't! It's this world that's sorry for me! It's not me who's sorry for others! You should be thanking me! If I hadn't put an end to you, you would have become a sacrifice this year, eaten alive by cats, scratched to pieces by cats, and died miserably with endless hatred and resentment."
Huanhuan no longer listened to her nonsense. Manman was pitiful in some ways, but wasn't her death also pitiful?
The man with the broken arm took out two knives from the dark, and slashed Manman's body slowly but forcefully, avoiding the vital parts and then hitting them with each knife, torturing her, making her suffer but not dying too quickly.
Manman, lying weakly in a pool of blood, looked at Huanhuan and taunted her, "Do you think you're completely innocent? Look at that poor three-year-old girl. She's Zhang Shengshu's biological sister! If she hadn't been forced to replace you as a sacrifice, she would have been the happiest girl in Guanshan Town. Guess what Zhang Shengshu, who originally treated you like a sister without knowing the truth and treated you well, will do now that he has found his own biological sister? What will he do to you, the granddaughter of the enemy who killed her sister?"
After saying this, she closed her eyes with a smile on her face, and waited for death with full anticipation, so that she could resurrect herself and seek revenge.
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