Evil Corpse Soul
"With its face so ruined, how can you still recognize it? It looks a bit like a human, but an ordinary human being rotten like this would have been a corpse long ago." Yuanli said.
Ai stretched out his hand and an ice blade appeared in his hand. He turned the ice blade, which was almost as tall as a person, and threw it out. The ice blade spun so quickly that only the afterimage could be seen.
The ice blade spun and stopped on the monster's head. As the biting cold air fell on the monster, his soul appeared. He was indeed a human, and he looked like a young and handsome boy when he was alive.
After reading, Aiyi retracted the ice blade and said, "Did you see those eyeballs? Aside from the pair already in his eye sockets, the rest aren't his own. Each one came from a sinful evil spirit. Of course, the one with the heaviest killing record is this young man. He poisoned the village well, killing everyone in the village. He hunted down and killed any who managed to escape. After they were all dead, he hanged their bodies from the century-old tree at the village entrance."
Yuanli asked, "Can he remember who turned him into what he is now? Also, is he a human or a ghost now?"
Ayi said, "Except for the memories of his murders and the memories of him entering Gushu Mountain today, all other memories have been deliberately erased. Strictly speaking, he is now a murderous corpse."
Upon hearing this, Yuanli immediately checked his memory. As she had guessed, the boy's memory was blank. It must have been Chang Mei's doing.
"It's very likely that his memory was also extracted by Chang Mei, and it's also blank. It seems that he is most likely related to Xie Yuan's group. He collects miasma and resentment, and he also becomes a fierce corpse to collect evil spirits. What exactly does he want to do? I only heard that Xie Yuan cultivates by absorbing miasma and resentment, but I have never heard of Xie Yuan's cultivation or any skills requiring evil spirits. Is he just going through all the trouble to find this kind of ruby?"
Ah Bang said, "These evil corpses and the souls that just turned into white smoke were carefully selected. Ordinary humans, even if they are far away from home, can only be picked out from a hundred miles away. Oh no! One in ten thousand miles away can produce such a sinful and unforgivable evil soul. Even if the soul of such a person goes to hell, it will definitely go to the eighteenth level of hell, with almost no chance of reincarnation. The reason why we didn't help those remaining souls just now is because their souls were already heading towards a fate of ashes and smoke when they floated out."
"This thing that looks like a ruby is simply a vessel that absorbs resentment and greed." Heng Jin snatched the ruby from the boy's hand and examined it carefully, discovering that it was engraved with words. "The words engraved on it are the birth dates of the other four souls besides Chen Wanmei."
"How do you know?"
"When you showed me their memories, wasn't there a memory of them matching their horoscopes with the first village chief of Huamian Village before they got married? Even though the piece of paper with their horoscopes only flashed by, I kept thinking, wasn't he trying to cheat on me? He couldn't have matched his horoscopes with all four women, could he? He couldn't have chosen women with compatible horoscopes, could he? And, look at those four characters above; they all represent the extremely yin zodiac."
Ah Bang and Ah Yi took the ruby that Heng Jin handed them and examined it carefully. "It must be the existence of this thing that caused the souls of Hua Mian Village to be trapped here, unable to leave. The reason why there are no infant souls among the souls that appeared in Hua Mian Village is because they were all refined into ghost children in this stone."
"Ghost boy?"
Ah Bang continued to explain, "How do you explain the 'ghost boy'? Ah Li, you know that some people in the mortal world raise little ghosts, right? The meaning of a ghost boy is similar to that, except that they are usually raised by evil spirits like the corpse king to help them do evil things. I've heard rumors that the most evil one brought disaster to an entire town. To this day, that town is still deserted and no one dares to go there. Because the town is in a strange location, built on two closely connected high mountains, it is said that the area is so deserted that trees have grown wildly, blocking the road, and the only way is to walk."
"Is the town you are talking about called Guanshan Town? The whole town is quite rich, and the people in the town live a prosperous life by making good coffins." Yuanli asked.
"It seems to be called this name, have you heard of it?"
"Of course I've heard of it. The strange things in Guanshan Town were a hot topic even among the monsters after dinner! When I was wandering around and was captured by the Black Bear Monster and used as food, I heard about it from the monsters working under him, but they didn't mention that the source of the strange things in Guanshan Town was actually the ghost boy."
"Did you hear them say that the souls of those who died of the plague were restless, unable to close their eyes after death, and refused to leave, so they were causing trouble? Later, the Ghost King ordered water to use them to raise evil corpses and then they were dealt with by the underworld?" A Bang had an expression of understanding.
"Yes, yes, yes. Although some of the details they spread sound a bit false, it's basically what you meant. Could it be... that the truth is not like this?"
Yuanli began to get excited. She loved listening to these suspenseful and weird stories and legends the most.
Ah Pang kept her in suspense and teased her, "The truth is much more exciting than this. The hidden secrets will surprise you to the point of dropping your jaw! Do you want to hear it, Ah Li? It's very scary. If you have nightmares after listening to it and you can't sleep, and Ah Cha hasn't come back yet, I wonder who will sleep with you? Haha, you coward!"
As usual, after he finished mocking A'li for being a coward before telling the ghost story, he felt Heng Jin's unfriendly gaze, but he was not afraid at all, as he was going to say those words on purpose.
"I want to listen! Go ahead and tell me!"
"Well, it's a long story. I'll tell you in detail after I've dealt with things here."
"Okay, okay, okay."
Ah Yi understood Ah Pang's behavior, so she joined in the joke and said, "Are you sure you don't want to wait for Ah Cha to come back before letting Ah Pang tell you ghost stories?"
She could think of what Abang said just now as a habit of blurting out. Even the most serious Ayi did the same thing. Yuanli found it difficult to ignore their real intentions.
However, she also wanted to find some trouble for Heng Jin, "But it will take a long time for Ah Cha to come back. It's okay, I still have Jiuwei to sleep with me."
"Okay, okay. Are you in a hurry to go back later? If not, let's go back to the Netherworld. The atmosphere will be more intense and you can have an immersive experience. If it's late, you can sleep in the Netherworld Palace. It's the bedroom you and A-Cha live in anyway." A-Bang added while the iron was hot.
They all knew that A-Cha liked A-Li, and now that he was gone after experiencing a tribulation, they, as his friends and subordinates, should unite to fight the enemy.
"It's a good opportunity to be with Ah Xiang. I haven't seen her for a long time. I'm not in a hurry to go back."
The three of them tacitly ignored Heng Jin and chatted animatedly. They agreed that they would not even bother to be polite and ask him if he wanted to join them.
Since the ruby contained a ghost boy that had been raised, and no one knew what kind of life it had become, they could not hastily release it from the ruby and bring it back to the underworld. Instead, they decided to take the soul out of the corpse, fake the scene of the corpse's self-explosion, and bring it back to the underworld together with the ruby, waiting for Cha Suxun to come back before deciding how to deal with it.
However, when Abang Ayi tried to extract the soul of the corpse, just when he was halfway through, the soul of the corpse became extremely unstable and shook violently, leaving afterimages, as if it had split into four or five souls.
The eyes on his body bulged, and finally exploded quickly. The flesh around the blood pit formed by the explosion began to wriggle and tremble slightly, and finally teeth emerged from under the flesh.
The place where the teeth came out looked like a mouth. After two sounds of teeth colliding, a chanting sound was heard.
Looking closely, it was the mouth formed by the bloody teeth that was chanting.
In an instant, the half-extracted soul of the corpse began to emit white smoke like a remnant soul. The soul could not make a sound, but one could see the pain expressed in his actions.
Ah Bang quickly used the soul-locking chain to trap his soul, slowing down the speed at which white smoke came out of the corpse's soul.
However, the next moment, the ruby seemed to have received a call, and the light it emitted became brighter. The color of the sand mist lingering around it deepened, and a lot of it seeped out from the ruby, greedily wrapped in white smoke.
"It's inhaling this white smoke!"
Upon hearing this, Ai immediately placed the ice blade at arm's length in front of the ruby and blew on it. Countless cold air drifted onto the ruby, freezing it into an ice lump.
Ah Bang felt the cold and wanted to return it to Heng Jin, only to find that his hand and the ruby were frozen together.
"It's so cold, Ayi."
"You're not a living thing, so it's okay for you to get cold. Even in the Netherworld, you wouldn't complain about being cold."
"But this is your ice blade, you come and try it! A'li, look at him! He is bullying me again!" A'bang put his hand in front of her and accused her.
Ayi pushed his hand back, "Do you still want A-Li to hold it for you? Okay, let's finish it quickly so we can go back and play immersive games with A-Li."
As he spoke, Ai grabbed the corpse's soul and quickly pulled it out. The moment the soul was intact, the cold air blown out by the ice blade froze him as well.
"He's about to explode. Once Emperor Hengjin unties the Immortal Binding Rope, we'll immediately teleport to the inside of the ancestral hall to avoid being stained by the flesh and blood after the explosion."
After several people nodded to confirm each other, Heng Jin quickly retracted the Immortal Binding Rope and teleported to the ancestral hall with them.
There was a huge explosion outside, and some small pieces of rubble fell from the stone wall above.
Fortunately, after the fight with the Su Yang stone statue in the ancestral hall, there were piles of rubble everywhere, which helped to shield them from the exploded flesh and blood.
Yuanli called out the five souls and tried to liberate them again. This time, all five of them were successful. They knelt on the ground with tears of gratitude and kowtowed to her repeatedly.
"Let's go home together, Ari."
"Okay, okay."
Yuanli agreed happily, and then heard Hengjin cough twice.
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