Meimei turns into Li
Meimei said, "I really didn't cry. When the memorial service began, I smelled a particularly beautiful floral fragrance, something I had never smelled before. But the moment I smelled the fragrance, my memories of my previous life began to rapidly replay in my mind. I had a moment where I wanted to cry, but I really didn't cry."
The other four souls also said one after another that they did not shed tears. All the souls smelled the fragrance, and their memories of their previous lives reappeared in their minds.
Ah Bang sent a telepathic message to Yuan Li, "No one in the Netherworld understands the weeping of the dead better than Ah Xiang. Do you want me to call her over as well?"
Yuanli refused through telepathic communication, "Forget it. Ah Xiang's Mengpo Soup is already very hard work, and she is the only one who makes it. Besides, the salvation of their five souls failed. I always feel that tears are not the key. It's better to listen to it again."
After listening to their telepathic communication, Ayi said, "Do you five dare to say that you all wholeheartedly want to go to hell and be judged so that you can be reincarnated?"
After hearing this, Chu Chu frowned and asked in doubt, "If given a choice, who wouldn't want to be reincarnated?"
"Yes, it's possible that you have unfulfilled wishes, or you want to seek revenge. If not, you wouldn't have become earthbound spirits in the first place. Does what I said make sense?" Yuanli said calmly, with no expression on her face.
She imitated Heng Jin's usual icy expression when she was out and about, making it hard to tell what she was feeling at the moment.
She maintained this expression, gazing at the five souls until they showed signs of guilt and panic. Then she said, "If you refuse to be honest, I have no other choice. Even if I perform ten more salvation rituals, the result will still be the same."
After saying that, Yuanli waited for their reaction for a moment, but there was still complete silence and no one spoke.
She turned sideways and said to Abang and Ayi, "There are too many souls here. I'll have to trouble the two ghost messengers to take the souls that have been successfully liberated to the underworld first. There seems to be a monster here that deliberately collects souls. I'm worried that they will encounter accidents here."
"Okay Star Lord, I will take your soul away immediately."
Niutou Abang tightened the soul-locking chain in his hand to cooperate with her. As Ayi slammed the ice blade in her hand into the ground, a thick smoke suddenly emitted from the ground beneath their feet, covering the ground beneath all the souls.
Seeing that she was really about to leave, the spirit of the woman standing next to Meimei said to her anxiously, "How foolish! Sister Meimei! You've waited so long for this opportunity, this chance to start over, but those men's souls have basically been taken away by monsters. This is the worst possible outcome for them. Why would you lose your chance of reincarnation because of those beasts?"
Perhaps it was because the woman who was giving advice took the lead, and seeing that she and the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Souls had no unhappy reactions or any other reactions of dissuasion, the other souls who had been anxiously trying to persuade with their eyes and expressions also began to persuade in a soft voice.
Meimei smiled bitterly and said to the woman who was trying to persuade her, "Adong, I know you understand my feelings best. There's no need to persuade me anymore. Go and reincarnate well. Don't worry about me. If there's an afterlife, I'll still be your sister."
A-Dong said, "I knew it! Ever since the monster took away the men's remaining souls, you have no intention of letting go of your hatred and reincarnating as you promised me."
If Adong were still a living person at this moment, she would have been heartbroken with tears in her eyes, but she was just a soul and could not express much emotion except through her tone.
"I can't let go! If I were a person who would listen to good advice, after I met Hua Qingming that year, everyone would not have advised me that Hua Qingming was not a good person. But I still fell in love with him without hesitation, even at the cost of breaking off relations with my father, almost angering him to death, and still foolishly followed Hua Qingming back to his hometown. All of this is my own fault. I understand the fate I might face, just like when I first met Hua Qingming. He betrayed me! Killed me! Eat me! Most of the people present here came because they were alone and had someone to rely on, but what about me! I truly loved him! He loved me too! But he said... his parents and fellow villagers all needed to fill their stomachs to survive, and I didn't want to be his so-called virtuous wife who persuaded the innocent women who were deceived to give birth to children for food. No matter how much he loved me, it was nothing compared to filling his stomach to survive, he said..."
Meimei's emotions were already very unstable when she said this. Her soul lost control due to her collapse. She cried in vain without tears. Black smoke began to come out of her soul and her face looked horrible.
"He said he truly loved me, but his last bit of conscience had long been worn away by the cannibalism of the past. He loved me, but he simply loved eating my flesh more! But he wouldn't let the villagers starve! My husband saw with his own eyes how I was forced into the steamer and cooked. Before I died, I saw him standing in front of my steamer, chatting and laughing, even loudly discussing which piece of my meat would be the most tender! Now that I know the ancestral hall steamer can extract their residual souls, how could I possibly let this village and their residual souls go!"
After roaring and accusing, Meimei turned completely fierce. Her soul no longer showed her young and beautiful appearance. Instead, her horrible face became bloody and mutilated, with many teeth marks on her body or the appearance of being bitten to pieces.
The clothes she wore were torn and loose, clearly men's. Her nails had grown wildly, becoming long and pointed.
She grabbed the corner of her clothes and said to Adong, "Adong, look, this clothes was made by Hua Qingming after the whole village had eaten my flesh. He used his tattered clothes to wrap up the remaining bones of my body, sewed them into a cloth bag, and threw them into this underground river! He stood on the shore, hugging the cloth bag and crying, telling me to rest in peace, reincarnate well, and be my husband and wife in the next life. Don't seek revenge on him, and hate this unfair and cruel world if you want to. I only told you this much, but what I didn't tell you is that he sewed the cloth bag because he had the yellow talisman to suppress me! But he didn't know that the old Taoist priest was a liar and the yellow talisman was useless. But..."
Ah Dong was shocked and distressed, "But Meimei, you..."
"Adong, you see, there have been many times over the years when I've wanted to turn into a ghost and take my life, but because of you, and because my sisters believed in me, we worked together to support each other and prayed to the heavens to open their eyes and allow us to reincarnate, so I have always restrained myself. Now that you are all well and almost ready to enter the underworld, I have no worries anymore. As for the four of you who failed to be liberated like me, the Star Lord has already reminded you to be honest. He even told you to tell the truth in both explicit and implicit words after the failure, but you still kept silent. In that case, you can't blame anyone else. You still need to remain grateful and do your best to save yourselves."
After saying this, Meimei knelt down and kowtowed three times to the Broom Star Lord and the others. After that, she said, "I know the Yin Messenger is here. I have become a fierce ghost. I was either forcibly taken in or beaten to death. But I ask you to let me participate in capturing the monster and confirm whether Hua Qingming is among the remaining souls taken away by the monster."
"Even if you confirm whether Hua Qingming is among the remaining souls taken away by the monster, what can you do? He is already a dead soul, and you cannot take his life."
"I know there's nothing I can do... Xingjun, I'm willing to be the bait and help you catch the monster."
"Meimei, I never intended to ask you to help me catch monsters from the beginning. I won't risk your souls to capture monsters. The reason I asked if you were willing to help was just to confirm whether you still had good intentions. Whether Hua Qingming was taken away by a monster or has gone to hell, he will get the retribution he deserves. It is the responsibility of the underworld officials to judge his crimes. You are not only foolish but also useless to exchange your own soul for his retribution."
After saying this, Yuanli used her spirit to transmit a voice to Ayi, "Ayi, Meimei has transformed into a fierce spirit. I have never heard of or seen a fierce earthbound spirit. Can this kind of spirit be taken away by force?"
Ayi replied through telepathic communication, "The last time we encountered a soul in this situation, we couldn't forcibly take it away and destroy it. This soul hasn't yet taken anyone's life, so we can't destroy it yet."
"Once she has a life on her hands and is still an earthbound spirit, the end will inevitably be annihilation, right?" Yuanli asked through telepathy.
Ayi said through telepathy, "Yes, we cannot allow it to remain in the human world and cause further trouble."
Meimei realized that what she wanted seemed impossible, so she wanted to escape and hide. However, the moment she ran away, she was tied back by Ayi's invisible power.
Yuanli, holding on to the idea of saving as many souls as possible, agreed: "Meimei, I can agree to let you follow me to confirm, but you also have to promise me that you will never kill anyone, even that monster."
Hearing this, Meimei immediately knelt upright with tears of gratitude. Her frightening expression also improved with her joy. She made an oath gesture, "I, Chen Wanmei, swear to the Broom Star Lord that I will never take anyone's life, even that monster. If they break this oath, I will be reduced to ashes and never reincarnate!"
Meimei made a solemn oath because she was afraid that the Broom Star God would not believe her and might change his mind.
Yuanli nodded in response, and then telepathically told Abang and Ayi about the monster.
Ah Bang communicated with the spirits, saying, "This isn't the only monster of this kind that's appeared recently. This month, reports have surfaced of a monster deliberately collecting evil spirits in several distant locations. We've sent out numerous attempts to capture it, but every time we succeeded, the monster self-destructed, leaving the ground littered with body parts, flesh, and blood. Even trying to piece together what was causing the trouble proved impossible."
Aiyi echoed through telepathic communication, "When this monster explodes, the captured evil spirits are suddenly unsealed and flee in all directions, forming a dark mass, with ghosts howling and wailing. The ghost officials have to spend a lot of time and effort to recapture the evil spirits. But it seems like these monsters are endless. They always appear one after another, committing crimes one after another, giving us a headache."
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