Chapter 58: It is difficult to paint the skin but it is difficult to paint the bones and the heart
Xiaohuan was born in a small village. Like Daji, she and her family were forced to leave their hometown and become homeless due to harsh politics, wars, demonic disasters and other natural and man-made disasters.
During the escape, Xiaohuan's parents and brothers fell one after another.
Although Xiaohuan was born in poverty, she had parents and brothers who treated her like the apple of their eyes and she was spoiled from childhood.
Even when they were fleeing, he tried his best to protect her.
Even if there is only one bite of food, I will feed her first and then talk about other things.
Her parents and brothers tried their best to feed her alone, but her parents died of starvation and illness one after another during the escape.
Only her brother was left, and he took her to escape to Shannan County, Wujun.
There they met a theatre troupe and seeing that her brother was handsome, agile and hardworking, they took him in as an apprentice, helping out while learning to sing.
I managed to survive.
But the good times did not last long. More than ten years ago, the magistrate of Shannan County colluded with the mountain barbarians and started a rebellion.
Shannan County was plunged into war, and Xiaohuan's brother also died.
Xiaohuan was almost abducted by the mountain barbarians.
Fortunately, she met Chen and rescued her from the mountain barbarians.
Chen Qingyue brought her back to the Chen family in Wujun, and Xiaohuan has been with Chen Qingyue since then.
Because of her previous experience, Xiaohuan is extremely dependent on Chen Qingyue.
Chen Qingyue didn't treat her as a servant either.
Although they are called maids, they are actually treated like sisters.
Xiaohuan unknowingly developed an attachment to it, which slowly turned into an illusion.
She only felt that all the hardships she had gone through before were the trials God gave her for this moment, so that she could be with Chen Qingyue for the rest of her life and she would never be happier.
She thought she had escaped from the sea of suffering and would be with the young lady forever.
Until a few years ago, bad luck struck her again.
When she went out to purchase rouge, powder and other items for Chen Qingyue, she was bumped into by a dandy young man who coveted her beauty and ordered his slaves to kidnap her.
What was done to them was horrible on the outskirts of the city.
Xiaohuan was strangled to death by the young man while she was struggling.
When she died, she suffered inhumane torture, and recalled the hardships of her childhood. Her strong hatred and unwillingness turned into resentment that surged to the sky.
It made her death not yet stiff, and her soul was entangled with resentment.
Not only was his body still stiff, he was still conscious, and his soul had flown out of his body. He watched helplessly as his corpse was being ravaged by that young man.
Afterwards, the young man, for some unknown reason, peeled off her skin and flesh.
Abandon her body in the wilderness and take her skin away.
At that time, she was still conscious but not dead. She suffered inhuman pain and died with great hatred and resentment.
The county's city god had already been alerted, and he sent ghost messengers to capture it to prevent it from turning into a fierce ghost and causing trouble in the world of the living.
But the fact is, Xiaohuan was not taken away by the ghost.
When Xiaohuan appeared again, she had become a creature that was neither human nor ghost.
He killed people everywhere, and after killing them, he liked to eat people's hearts, lungs and internal organs. He would peel off the human skin, outline it with a paintbrush, and wear it on his body, and he could actually change into the person's appearance when he was alive.
She found the young master and tortured him to death using the most brutal means. She took back her own skin, wore it on her body, and returned to Chen Qingyue again.
During this period, people were constantly skinned.
Wu Shusheng, Yi Sanliu, the demon patrol guards, Chen Qingyue's six sons-in-law, Fang Xiaohua, Wei Yuanzhao, and countless innocent people...
And so on and so forth.
The more people he kills, the stronger his ability to paint his skin becomes.
Not only can a piece of skin be transformed into various human forms, but it can also be used to create various illusory images like a painting.
Until Jiang Zhou showed up, even Miss Chen, who was always rude to outsiders, seemed to look at him differently.
He even came to propose marriage.
When proposing, Miss Chen even said in person that marrying him was a good choice.
This made Xiaohuan extremely jealous and resentful, and she had murderous thoughts in her mind.
When the first attack failed, she set a trap in Chen's mansion using human skin.
You Xu and others were mesmerized by the human skin painting and fell into the world of the human skin painting without knowing it.
He knocked Miss Chen unconscious again and killed Xiaoyuan, another personal maid of Miss Chen.
She already had hatred towards Madoka, so she took the opportunity to kill her to vent some of her hatred.
Then they just waited for Jiang Zhou to fall into the trap.
Later, he was beaten half to death by Shenxiu, and his head was snatched away by Jiang Zhou.
The scenes in the Ghost and God Atlas end here.
It turned into a picture of a ghost painted with red dots:
In the small building, red candles were shining brightly, the walls were covered with blood, and human skins were hung all around. And it was right next to the bathtub, obsessively drawing the appearance of Chen Qingyue on a piece of human skin.
[Painted Skin Ghost: It is easy to paint with red and rouge, but difficult to paint the skin. ——People die but are not stiff. They suffer from skinning and die with great resentment. The resentment and evil spirits rise to the sky and condense and do not disperse, gathering into ghosts. They like to eat people's hearts and lungs, and can gather the spirits of the living and the resentment and evil spirits of the dead, turning them into bloody evil beads. They are good at peeling people's skin to paint, and their transformations are lifelike. 】
This painted skin can change in many ways, and even ordinary practitioners cannot see through it. No wonder this painted skin ghost can harm so many people, and neither the Sujing Division nor the Tixing Division can trace her back.
If Chen Qingyue hadn't suddenly found a son-in-law, causing her to lose her composure out of jealousy and hatred, she wouldn't even be exposed to Su Jingsi's eyes.
Although the Ghost and God Atlas allowed him to see a lot, there were also many things that had not yet evolved, leaving him with many mysteries.
He always felt that there were many secrets behind this matter, but they were obscured by thick fog and difficult to see clearly.
For example, why wasn’t Xiaohuan’s ghost taken away by the ghost?
Why did the young man skin her?
The transformation of a dead soul into an evil spirit is usually closely related to its experiences in life and the way it died.
That is a change of cause and effect, good and evil, injustice, there is no logic to it.
The abilities of the transformed ghosts are mostly related to the cause of their own death, which Jiang Zhou couldn't help but think about.
Furthermore, even if demons and monsters kill people, they really don’t need any reason.
But looking at the way Xiaohuan killed people, her methods were extremely meticulous.
Logically, one would not kill indiscriminately and expose oneself.
She killed the demon patrol guards and the knife-wielding man in order to avoid being tracked down.
Wei Yuanzhao was killed because he humiliated Chen Qingyue.
The six sons-in-law are because she does not allow other men to appear around Chen Qingyue.
She killed some men and the entire family of the young man who had insulted her just to vent her anger.
Fang Xiaohua, like Xiaoyuan, is her "rival in love", so she must die.
In addition, many people were killed for no reason.
Is it because killing people can make it stronger? Or is it to vent its desires and resentment?
Just like the death of Wu Shusheng, it would have been easy for Xiaohuan to kill him, so why did she go to so much trouble to disguise herself as Fang Xiaohua and become his concubine first?
If Wu Shusheng had not met that crazy beggar and brought back a pair of broken shoes, he might not have taken action.
Jiang Zhou really couldn't understand it.
There were also some things about Chen Qingyue that confused him.
Anyone other than the corresponding demon that appears in the catalog will become blurred, as if coded.
Jiang Zhou simply speculated from the cause and effect that it was Chen Qingyue who saved Xiaohuan more than ten years ago.
Judging from her age, Chen Qingyue should have been a little girl more than ten years ago.
But the fact is, more than ten years ago, she was this age, and a woman was able to rescue the little girl Xiaohuan from the ferocious and brutal mountain barbarians.
Ten years later, she is still the same age.
There are only two possibilities. First, she is a cultivator. Second, she is not a human...
