The babies, who had only stretched out their arms, now floated out of the river. Some of their faces were so burned that the skin could not be seen, some were charred all over, like charcoal, some had their bodies turned into a ball, and no shape could be seen at all, and some had their eyeballs peeled off alive, leaving only black water flowing from the empty eye sockets.
A wave of sadness spread in Jiuxi's heart. What kind of person would do such a cruel thing to such an innocent child? Tears unconsciously slid from her eyes and wet her clothes. She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, but she heard the most sincere cries of these children, in their baby voices, without any resentment, as if they were acting coquettishly to their mother, accusing others of the atrocities committed against them.
Countless cries merged into a most touching melody. Jiuxi seemed to see a scene before his eyes. In the magnificent palace, an old maid walked in step by step. She held a soup bowl in her hand and said to the beautiful woman on the soft couch, "Empress Dowager! The tonic has arrived!"
The Queen Mother had originally closed her eyes to rest, but a beautiful smile graced her lips. Although she was the Queen Mother, her skin was as firm as that of a young girl in her twenties, delicate and smooth, like milk. The old woman removed the lid of the soup bowl, revealing a piercing blood-red liquid...
It was still swelling, its milky white brain covering the entire soup bowl, streaked with blood. The Empress Dowager was actually devouring the bowl mouthful by mouthful. The scene suddenly shifted, and Jiuxi clearly saw the old woman using a knife to cut open the belly of a still-crying baby, because, the Empress Dowager said, a baby's heart was the most nourishing.
Not only did she use babies' bodies to make soup, but the Empress Dowager also ate babies on a daily basis. These were children that the old nanny bought from poor families when she left the palace. Those peasant women and farmers thought that their children would have a good future, but they never expected that they would become food in the steamer.
Later, the Empress Dowager's skin became better and better. She was almost fifty years old, but her skin was still as white as an egg. However, the resentment of the babies was too strong. They tortured the Empress Dowager in her dreams every day. The Empress Dowager had no choice but to beg the old nanny to go outside the palace to find a Taoist priest to exorcise the baby spirits surrounding her. Originally, the Taoist priest could easily kill the baby spirits, but seeing the pitiful appearance of the babies, he didn't do it. Instead, he asked the old nanny to give him the babies' bodies...
With a kind heart, the Taoist priest advised the Queen Mother not to have any thoughts about the baby again, otherwise she would go to the eighteen levels of hell after her death.
The Taoist priest saw this place and buried the bodies of the babies. After the Taoist priest passed away, the water in the cave became more and more. The originally dry and cold land was covered by the running water and turned into the current river. However, it was filled with the remains of babies. For thousands of years, no one came to liberate them. The negative energy and resentment have been lingering here, causing the mountain to be barren and desolate.
In fact, what these infant spirits want is nothing more than salvation. Their resentment has been accumulated here, and the Taoist priest’s promise to save them after a year has not been fulfilled. They went from being expectant at the beginning to being turned into infant spirits now. In fact, they cannot be blamed.
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