There must be something hateful about pitiful people, and there must be something pitiful about hateful ghosts that is worthy of pity. But pity is pity, but it is not worthy of sympathy.
The ghost girl's name is Luo Qingsu, a native of Jiangzhou during the Republic of China period. She was originally a young lady from a wealthy family, but her family was robbed by a thug and she was the only one who managed to escape. She planned to go to her uncle's house in the countryside, but she met the villains again when she took a fishing boat across the river. The two brothers who owned the boat saw that she was alone, so they were tempted by her beauty and raped her. Fearing that she would report to the authorities, the two brothers simply put her in a trap and sank her into the river.
Luo Qingsu was unwilling to accept her death, and a trace of obsession floated in the river all day long. By chance, due to a small earthquake, she followed the river into the general's tomb, where she absorbed a large amount of evil energy, so her strength increased greatly and her memories before her death were restored.
After turning into a fierce ghost, Luo Qingsu killed the two brothers who had harmed her and their families, and refined them into ghosts to harm the nearby waters with the help of the river. Later, residents on both sides of the strait invited a monk from Jiangzhou City to subdue her. Because the monk was compassionate, he did not kill her, but took her back to a temple in Jiangzhou, intending to use Buddhism to save her. Unfortunately, wars broke out frequently later, and the monk's temple was not immune to the war , and the monks in the temple fled for refuge. Before leaving, the monk sealed her in a jar and hid it under the bricks and stones in the main hall, hoping to use the Buddha statue to suppress her anger, and planned to come back after the war to continue to save her.
But when the war was over, the monk did not return, and the temple gradually became a dilapidated temple. Luo Qingsu never waited for the day to come out under the Buddha statue. It was not until decades later that the domestic economy developed and the urban area of ​​Jiangzhou continued to expand outward. In just a few years, the place where the temple was located had been incorporated into the urban area of ​​Jiangzhou, and a large number of commercial houses were built, and the temple could not escape the result of being demolished. When the foundation of the building was laid, the seal of the jar was broken, and Luo Qingsu, who had been sleeping for nearly a hundred years, finally had the opportunity to run out. Luo Qingsu's cultivation was greatly damaged after running out, and he returned to the general's tomb after many twists and turns. He lay dormant there for several years before "re-emerging".
"Lao Luo, you've been talking for so long, why don't you tell me why you want to harm Xiaoying? If you keep talking like this, it will be dawn soon."
After listening to the story for so long, Tan Xuan's ears were almost callused. He really couldn't listen any longer and could only interrupt the female ghost from telling her life story.
"She..." Luo Qingsu glanced at Jiang Yingyue who was standing beside Tan Xuan. After a moment of confusion, he remembered that this was the one Tan Xuan was thinking about. He smiled said, "She is young and beautiful, and her body is clean. I originally planned to borrow her body to travel around the world now, but I didn't expect to meet you. It's fate."
Looking at the gloomy female ghost, Tan Xuan did not show any sympathy. Instead, he frowned and sneered, saying, "You plan to use a corpse to revive, do you have the ability? Besides, there are so many young girls. Although Xiaoying is beautiful, it is impossible that you have not met the right one in all these years. Do you think I can believe what you said?"
Luo Qingsu looked back at Tan Xuan's eyes with a calm expression, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't lie to you. To use a corpse to revive the soul, the other party must have a compatible horoscope with mine, and I have to wait until the right time to perform it. In the past few years, I have found several suitable targets, but when they reached the age required for reviving the soul, they were no longer in a complete body, so she is the only one who meets the requirements so far."
This explanation was really something Tan Xuan could not refute. After all, the two points that Luo Qingsu mentioned were indeed rare. He turned his head to look at Jiang Yingyue, feeling happy again, but this made Jiang Yingyue shyly turn her head away.
Tan Xuan turned his head, bit his lip, and then asked a new question.
"You said you wanted to harm Xiaoying for her body, but your subordinate who was beaten by me just now and only had a head left said that Xiaoying was her target. What's going on?"
"The one you're talking about is Zuo Qian. Her horoscope also meets my requirements. She was one of my targets before. But she left the area for a few years. When she came back, not only was her body incomplete, but she was also pregnant. But I still took her in."
Tan Xuan couldn't help but snorted, "It's useless. You still want to hurt her. It seems that you are really unforgivable."
Luo Qingsu didn't care about Tan Xuan's anger, he just laughed and explained: "I saw the method of borrowing corpses to revive the dead in the study of the general's tomb. You have been to the general's tomb. The dead ghost in the coffin was not a good person when he was alive. I don't dare to believe the things he collected, so I plan to let Zuo Qian try first. If she succeeds, I will do it."
Tan Xuan shook his head, speechless about Luo Qingsu's cautious approach. "You are so cautious, but you still need to find a guinea pig. I don't know how you became an evil ghost. If I don't know, I really can't imagine that your personality can kill so many people."
Luo Qingsu smiled miserably and shook his head. " How could I have survived until now if I hadn't been careful at every step? People's hearts are unpredictable, ghosts are even more cunning, and everywhere is a world where the strong prey on the weak. Besides, Zuo Qian was originally my test subject, otherwise how could I let her have her own consciousness."
"Was it the first time you met Xiaoying on the way to Tongyu in the summer? How come you ran away without any trace when I came back from Tongyu?" Tan Xuan changed the subject again.
"Yes, I thought she was good when I saw her that time, but I didn't know if she met my requirements, so after receiving your warning, I let them leave to avoid attracting your attention. I waited until I confirmed that she did meet my requirements before chasing her to Jiangzhou again."
Tan Xuan laughed and said self-deprecatingly: "So you were afraid of alerting the enemy. I thought you had discovered my identity. It turns out I was too self-righteous."
"No, I was reckless. If I had known that you were Mu Ye's lover, I would not have dared to pay attention to her no matter how brave I was."
Tan Xuan shook his head. "It's useless to say that now. There are not so many ifs in the world. Things have already happened. All we can face is the result. Well, now that we have said everything we need to say, you should get ready and hit the road."
"ah!"
Luo Qingsu was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Tan Xuan to be so direct. He would tear down the bridge after crossing the river without any euphemism. But she was not panicked at all. She looked into Tan Xuan's eyes and said softly, "There used to be quite a few books in the general's tomb. They recorded a lot of secret techniques that guy had collected during his lifetime. Although the tomb was later opened by thieves, those books were weathered by the dust. But I was lucky enough to read and remember some of them. For example, the corpse-resurrection technique I just mentioned and the water-generating fog technique are the simplest ones. Are you not interested in them? If you are interested, I can tell you slowly."
Tan Xuan snorted at Luo Qingsu with disdain and said coldly: "Put away your tricks, I am not interested in these."
"Why?" Luo Qingsu was puzzled. "Don't you cultivators love to search for strange and secret techniques? You should learn those that will help you reach a higher level."
"No need." Tan Xuan waved his hand, interrupting Luo Qingsu's temptation output, "I can't even learn one tenth or one twelfth of what my master taught me, so how can I have the time to learn those unorthodox methods? Do you think the things you remember are more powerful than what my master taught me? What a joke!"
"Well……"
Luo Qingsu was a little confused. She didn't expect that the life-saving condition she had saved until the end would not be appreciated by others at all. She had completely miscalculated. She looked at Tan Xuan's eyes carefully again, trying to find greed in them, but she was disappointed again. There was no emotion in Tan Xuan's eyes when he looked at her, let alone greed, and no desire was reflected in them.
Tan Xuan seemed to see through her thoughts and sneered again, "Don't waste your efforts. Your revenge has already been taken, your obsession has already disappeared, and you shouldn't have existed in this world. The old monk was kind and wanted to convert you, but the world played tricks on you and you killed so many innocent people. I guess he also lost a lot of his Taoism because of you. Forget it, let me help him settle this cause and effect today."
As he spoke, Tan Xuan stood up from the ground, walked to the front of the female ghost, and said condescendingly: "I promise to give you a quick death. I won't let you suffer for too long. You died of drowning. Your yin orifice is between your heart and lungs. As long as I hit you with all my strength, you will be completely reduced to ashes. Now, do you have anything else to say to the world?"
"The last sentence?" Luo Qingsu asked Tan Xuan.
"Yes." Tan Xuan nodded, "I can allow you to think about the last sentence for a moment."
"Okay, let me think about it." Luo Qingsu slowly stood up, looked at the foggy surroundings reluctantly, then turned to Tan Xuan, a strange smile appeared on his face, and tore off the black robe on his body.
"What are you going to do?" Tan Xuan turned his head away.
"What do I want? I want you to accompany me..."
Luo Qingsu suddenly reached out and hugged Tan Xuan, his face instantly becoming extremely ferocious, and he shouted loudly: "I have nothing to say to this world, I just want you to die, I can't live, and I can't let you live..."
"asshole!"
Tan Xuan didn't expect that there would be an emergency at this time. He was surprised and extremely angry. He slid his right foot back, bent his left leg and stretched his right leg. He clenched his fists and hit Luo Qingsu's temple with his double peaks, making Luo Qingsu lean back. Then he changed his fists into palms and stabbed Luo Qingsu's chest with a knife. Without clothes blocking his sight, Tan Xuan's attack was accurate and ruthless, and he really killed him with one blow.
"ah……"
Luo Qingsu let out a scream, and her figure suddenly dimmed. Then her body began to break into pieces and slowly fell off. In a blink of an eye, it turned into dust and completely disappeared from this world. The originally thick fog also continued to dissipate with her disappearance.
"she……"
Jiang Yingyue was shocked by Luo Qingsu's actions just now. Everything happened too suddenly and she found it difficult to accept it for a while.
Tan Xuan walked up to Jiang Yingyue and hugged her tightly, and comforted her softly: "It's okay, her soul has been scattered, and she will never bother you again..."
As he was speaking, Tan Xuan felt a chill in his chest. He immediately became alert and turned his head to look. He saw a dazzling light shining through the thick fog that had not yet dissipated. Then he felt the ground under his feet shaking and heard the roar of a heavy truck engine.
"not good!"
Tan Xuan pulled Jiang Yingyue down the river bank. As soon as they stood firm, they heard a loud noise behind them. Looking back, they saw a heavy truck crashing through the guardrail on the side of the road and rushing towards them. The driver in the cab had a ferocious look on his face, and a grinning face was pasted on the windshield.