The Lu Case (Part 2)
Yuanli kept turning her head to catch the fleeting figure. Light shone down from the center of the roof, becoming brighter and brighter. The black shadows just now turned into graceful flying dancers.
They danced and circled in the sky with Yuanli's feet as the center point until they landed on the ground. With the swirling smoke, they looked like fairies descending to earth.
Yuanli's attention was unconsciously attracted to them. Her eyes were fixed on the green-dressed dancer passing by, and she gradually became obsessed with her.
By the time she came to her senses and realized something was wrong, she had already merged with the group and was floating in the air in her thin dancer's outfit.
His body was out of control, and he was dancing the dance he had just seen today, as if he was suffering from what people in the mortal world call "sleep paralysis".
There was a voice in her heart that kept persuading her to give up struggling, but as soon as she had the slightest thought of giving up, even a little bit, she would clearly feel her body sinking.
When the situation became critical, fortunately Xiaobai bit her silently and pulled her out of the "man-eating swamp" completely.
Yuanli could see clearly now that the people before her were not graceful dancers at all, but skinny and sickly drug addicts, their cheeks so sunken that they were almost touching their teeth.
The clothes they wore when they arrived no longer fit them, and their skinny bodies swayed in them. Even in this horrible state, they still had that self-indulgent, sickly smile on their faces.
While dancing, Yuanli raised her wrist to observe the injury. Apart from a sharp tooth mark, there was no wound.
The addicts' dancing moves and even expressions were all different, more like they were entertaining themselves, and there were no repetitive moments, which was exactly what Yuanli wanted.
According to the formation that she had copied countless times in her mind, Yuanli painted the porcelain vase in her hand with the accompaniment of dance steps and music.
The music grew more intense, as if deliberately sped up, its engulfing effect becoming ever more intense. Yuanli omitted the dance steps used to conceal it and directly began to draw the remaining steps.
At the moment when the pipa string suddenly broke, her toes made the final half circle, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and the formation was completed.
The drug addict dancing in the air suddenly fell to the ground, his limbs piled up weirdly, like the wall of corpses that the cat demon likes to pile up, but he still maintained that silly smile.
A cold wind blew inside the Peony Building, and the light in the room faded. A dark shadow approached from behind the pitch-black ebony screen.
"Is Lu Ning's last wish for you to massacre the city for fun?"
Hearing the sound, the black shadow retreated, and within three steps, its body hit the empty barrier, making a dull sound.
"Demons have their own ways, and humans have their own rules. You and I are both aliens in the human world. It's not easy to have human status, so why should we make things difficult for each other?"
Yuanli gathered her hands hidden behind her back, controlling the golden threads in her palms, with the ends of the threads connecting to the entire formation.
"The alien is you, not me."
As Yuanli tightened the golden thread in her hand, the array disk shrank at a visible speed. It could be said that it was shrinking with the place where Yuanli was standing as the center point.
The luxurious decorations on the walls around the formation broke and shattered, the sound of sharp claws digging into the ground could be heard, and wisps of black smoke rose from behind the ebony screen.
Yuanli recited the ancient curse from the underworld of Fengdu. The powder she sprinkled while dancing now emitted a scarlet light and was about to burst out. The struggling strength of the black shadow gradually weakened, along with the size of the black shadow.
The array shrank to within three meters of her feet, and the black shadow revealed its true appearance under the light.
It shivered and trembled as it curled up on its side, with its furry cat-paw arms in its sleeves holding its round head and covering its face. It no longer looked like Luning at all.
"Why?! I'm only fulfilling the last, hateful wish of a desperate woman. What's wrong with me? Don't all mortals claim to be just and want to uncover the veil behind wishes?"
Yuanli had no time to respond to its sad and angry accusations. As the last ancient curse fell, the array plate seemed to suddenly come back to life and turned upside down, bringing the two of them into another darkness. The array plate was still there under their feet, but it seemed as if a thin layer of water was wrapping around it to protect it, making it impossible to touch.
The scarlet light that was about to burst out flew up from the array plate, and the moment it jumped out of the water, the scarlet light was torn off and transformed into silver butterflies.
Countless silver butterflies surrounded the two of them. The moment their vision became clear again, Yuanli opened her eyes and found herself standing on another unfamiliar formation plate.
Kneeling in front of him was a child with a dirty face and wearing coarse, ragged clothes. Blood was flowing from her ears and the corners of her mouth, and she was muttering to herself.
Yuanli didn't understand her language, but she always felt it was very familiar, as if she had heard something similar somewhere.
Yuanli couldn't help but think carefully. The wooden door was pushed open a little, and the girl's eyes were full of red bloodshot, her pupils turned black and white, and black blood kept flowing from the corners of her eyes.
The girl felt the warmth on her cheeks, but instead of panicking, she smiled in relief. Ashes were blown by the wind and landed on her eyes, but she seemed neither to feel nor to see them.
A snow-white kitten slipped in from the crack of the door and walked straight towards her. The room was not very bright, but the shadow of the white cat's feet was clearly visible.
The white cat's fur is very beautiful, but its facial features are as sloppily assembled as if it had been run over by a bullock cart. It is really not cute at all, and even looks scary.
As for her facial features, she looks more like an old lady who has been doing evil things all her life.
When the cat's claws touched the edge of the formation, the characters drawn with wood ash began to spontaneously drill towards its feet.
The kitten cried miserably, and its shadow reflected on the ground jumped up and clung to the white cat, with a faint light emitting from its pupils.
In an instant, the black cat shadow rushed towards the girl's forehead, drilled into her body and disappeared.
"All the culprits who brought injustice to the Lu family are buried in the ground. Those who wantonly fabricated stories about the Lu family will not die peacefully. Merciful Xue Gu, I hope you will fulfill my last wish..."
The black cat voluntarily signed a contract with him and successfully took over his body, and the formation was completed.
The girl held on to the end, and the formation quickly combusted, burning everything until the white cat's body was burned into a black ball. The girl then sat up, holding her forehead and licking the back of her hand subconsciously.
Her eyes turned into black and white, and she completely disappeared outside the cabin.
The scene before Yuanli vanished again and she returned to the formation. It was not until she heard the last wish spoken out from Lu Ning's mouth that she understood what the cat demon had done.
Li Nu's identity was revealed from the moment her name became known.
The cat demon climbed up from the ground with a self-deprecating laugh, its shoulders shaking with the arc of its smile, and the strange rouge on its face looked alien.
"It's better to die in your hands." The cat demon shrugged resignedly. "There are too many of them. Too many people who made up stories. I can't kill them all. The last wish my master made was too extreme. I found out too late, too late..."
"You kill too much, I..."
"I know, three hundred and sixty-four. I counted them. I killed all the way here from the same county. Fortunately, the main culprit and the accomplices are almost all killed. Almost there... When I see her, I won't be too embarrassed to even look at her from afar..."
The raccoon slave took the initiative and knelt at the center of the formation, kowtowed and begged, "My master's last wish contained too much. I haven't killed even half of them yet. The resentment wrapped around this body contains a tiny bit of her soul. I am willing to endure the backlash. Please, help me and give her even the slightest chance of reincarnation."
"You are Xue Gu, the specific target for sacrificial possession. Even if you have only practiced for a hundred years, you should be the most familiar with the ins and outs of this. This is not something I can stop you from doing."
The raccoon slave anxiously crawled forward a few steps and pleaded, "You can do it, you can do it. You know how to use the Blocking Formation, and your wrist is protected by the Jiao God. Moreover, you look very similar to the thirty-fourth generation Lord of the Demon Realm. She created the Execution Formation, so maybe you can do it too?"
Xue Gu's words were like thunder in her ears, and everything that Xue Gu showed her next through her telepathic memory was even more devastating to her.
Xue Gu said that her hometown was in a secret place like a paradise. Her ancestors had received the blessing of Li Wan and were fortunate to live in Guixu Realm. The family genealogy books left behind today still contain descriptions of Guixu Realm by her ancestors.
By chance, the ancestor left Guixu Realm and came to the human world, where he met another Snow Girl who was born by absorbing the beauty of the mountain spirit Yuexiu in the mountains and forests.
He voluntarily stayed outside the Guixu realm. The Lord of the Demon Realm would occasionally pass by and visit him, and he would set up a barrier to protect them.
Li Wan created a barrier formation for them to prevent bad consequences and left a warning for their descendants. It exists like a belief in a god in the family tree.
In that secret realm, they set up an incense altar and built a statue. The statue was towering. No matter where you were in the secret realm, you could see the statue of Li Wan by looking up.
What is most clear in Xue Gu's memory is the face of the statue. It is the belief that every Xue Gu has been worshipped by her parents and brothers morning and evening since she was born.
Xue Gu does not believe in gods, but they believe in Li Wan.
"What are you standing there for? Let me show you the unwavering faith of my people."
Xue Gu knelt down and kowtowed devoutly towards the towering statue in the sky. When she looked back, the face of the Li Wan statue suddenly appeared enlarged in front of her.
The true appearance on the statues, painted in the family tree, and seen in the memories of generations of Snow Gu elders from the first generation of Snow Gu ancestors.
"Did you see it? Isn't it very similar? Thirty thousand years ago, she died while trying to suppress the Six Realms and Eight Wastelands. Our Xue Gu clan still finds it hard to accept her death. With your uncanny resemblance to her, you would be worshipped as a goddess in our place."
They were so similar that Yuanli couldn't believe it. It was not an exaggeration to say that they were twin sisters. However, for her, this was not something to be happy about.
"You don't seem to be at all happy, little demon. You should consider yourself lucky. The cat demon case has caused panic throughout the capital, but you haven't even seen a cat, and you've even been able to go in and out of the red-light district safely several times. You have this because of your face."
"I can achieve this because of my... face." Yuanli stood where she was, her right hand unconsciously stroking her face, repeating this sentence over and over again.
Looking back on everything I had gained, the exclusive favor of Lord Pluto and the innate love of Emperor Hengjin, when I think about it carefully, it all came too easily.
Is it all because of this face...
So what is she? Is she a kite? Or is she a substitute for someone who reminds me of her.
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