flstandardbreds Chapter 116: Collecting the souls of a group of wealthy old men and women
Chapter 116: Collecting the souls of a group of wealthy old men and women
"It turns out that you are not the only ghost queen. Why do I feel that you are afraid of me coming here and want to kill me to silence me?" Nan Xuanwei was not afraid at all and faced the ghost queen in red with her arms folded.
"You are just a mortal, why are you so arrogant! I admit that I can't beat you, but if the four of us attack together, are you sure we can leave the underworld?"
"We won't know if it works until we try it. Are you going to attack together or in a round-robin format?"
This woman is crazy. The four ghost princesses dared not move. Black and White Impermanence didn't want them to fight. They couldn't afford to bear the consequences no matter who got into trouble.
Although the Red-Clothed Ghost Fairy wished she could skin Nan Xuanwei alive and grind her into ashes, she did not dare to make a big deal out of it. If the Lord got to know about it, they would be the ones to be reduced to ashes.
"Tell me, what are you doing here again?"
"Looking for someone in this den of evil. The one who came here a year ago is called Meng Fangshi."
This ghost den belongs to the Yellow-Clothed Ghost Lady. It collects some souls to practice martial arts. Meng Fang was blessed in her previous life, so her soul is included in every practice. This martial arts method is very cruel and requires repeated roasting of the soul to refine the essence, so Meng Fang is particularly painful.
"I don't have the soul you are looking for." The ghost girl in yellow didn't want to let Meng Fang's soul go.
"I will help you find this person's soul, but you have to promise me one thing: you are not allowed to come to the underworld again." The red-clothed ghost girl negotiated with Nan Xuanwei.
"I can't promise you that. The human world and the ghosts in the underworld are inextricably linked. If someone comes to us to seek justice or redress for a deceased relative, we have to come here to investigate."
She spoke as if she had great abilities. The Red-Clothed Ghost Lady thought of taking the opportunity to go to the human world and destroy Nan Xuanwei's physical body. After careful observation, she found that both Nan Xuanwei's soul and body had come to the underworld. She wanted to extract her luck, but found that there seemed to be a protective film around her, and the so-called luck could not be touched at all.
The more inexplicable things about her, the more panicked the Red Ghost Lady became, and the stronger her desire to kill her became!
"Let's join forces and turn her into ashes!" suggested the blue-clothed ghost girl.
"Everyone, even though she is an ordinary human, her background is definitely not simple. If the soul she is looking for is really here, you'd better release that soul!" This time it was the Black and White Impermanence who spoke.
After receiving a hint from her companion, the Yellow-clothed Ghost Princess opened the ghost den. Just as she led Nan Xuanwei in, a Rakshasa floated over and said, "By order of His Majesty, let everyone gather at Wangchuan. His Majesty seems to have figured out the location of that person."
The red-robed ghost girl pretended to be calm and said, "You go first, we'll call the yellow-robed ghost girl and she'll be there soon."
After sending the Rakshasa away, the Red-Clothed Ghost Lady asked her companions to watch outside as it went in to find Nan Xuanwei, and forced the Yellow-Clothed Ghost Lady to quickly release Meng Fang's soul. If they were too late to attend the summons from His Majesty, it would be easy to be exposed, and then all of them would be punished. Once they were punished by His Majesty, it would be unforgettable for the rest of their lives.
"We can definitely kill her if we join forces!" The Yellow-Clothed Ghost Lady didn't want to let Nan Xuanwei go just like that.
"I promise to help you capture the soul of that old lady. Next time we go to the human world to deal with this woman, the next time we meet will be the day she dies!"
After persuading for a long time, the Yellow-Clothed Ghost Fairy finally agreed to release Meng Fang's soul. Nan Xuanwei saw that the Yellow-Clothed Ghost Fairy had imprisoned many souls of those who had died of natural causes and were blessed with great fortune in their previous lives. Nan Xuanwei took out the soul bottle that she had robbed from the Red-Clothed Ghost Fairy last time and took all those souls away.
"I will kill you!" The face of the Yellow-Clothed Ghost Queen was ferocious. It took her hundreds of years to collect these souls, but today they were all wiped out by Nan Xuanwei. She was so angry that her hair stood up and she looked very scary.
"Let's take these souls to the Ten Kings of Hell to seek justice. I'll also ask them face to face whether it is a new rule of the underworld to detain souls who have done good deeds without permission. If the Ten Kings of Hell don't care, then I'll go find the King of Hell and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!"
"Now that the souls have been taken away by you, what else do you want? Do you really want to fight us to the death?" The red-clothed ghost girl just wanted to get rid of her quickly.
"It seems that I will have to come to the underworld more often in the future. Maybe I will get some unexpected gains!"
The Red-Clothed Ghost Lady told her to leave quickly, as this place was not far from Wangchuan. If the Lord sensed her presence, all her previous efforts would be in vain, and endless punishment would be waiting for them.
There must be something fishy about this ghost girl in red. Nan Xuanwei originally wanted to make a big fuss here, but Grandma Baili asked her to go back first. Many of the souls received today were about to disperse, and she had to refine the second-grade soul-gathering pill as soon as possible, because those souls could not last too long.
When they were about to arrive at the Meng family, Grandma Baili told Nan Xuanwei that among those souls there was Xiao Shiyu's great-grandfather, many ancestors of the wealthy families in the capital, and the grandfather of the third senior brother.
Nan Xuanwei seriously suspected that she had recruited all the old men and women from the wealthy families in the capital.
Seeing her come back, the Xiao family gathered around to ask how things were going: "I brought the old lady of the Meng family back, but her soul is about to dissipate. I found a container to keep her first. I have to go back to make medicine to nourish her soul for a while before I can let her reunite with her family and send her to reincarnate."
Xiao Qinian patted Meng Yunchi on the shoulder and said, "It's good that he was rescued. Let your grandfather rest well. Weiwei will definitely let the old couple meet. You should also persuade your grandfather to think more positively. The dead cannot be resurrected. The living have to look forward."
Nan Xuanwei tugged at Xiao Shiyu's sleeve and pulled him aside: "This time I rescued not only the old lady of the Meng family, but also your great grandfather and my third senior brother's grandfather. They were captured by bad guys...bad ghosts. It was as painful as walking on the edge of a knife every day to temper their souls and increase their ghost power."
Her description was already very tactful; just hearing about the tempering of the soul was painful.
"Who is so wicked as to capture the ancestors of several of our families to practice martial arts? Weiwei, do you have a way to catch that ghost? I want revenge!" Veins bulged on Xiao Qinian's forehead, and he was completely different from the relaxed and calm look he had just now.
"We must seek an explanation for this matter. The most important thing now is to consolidate their souls, otherwise they will dissipate. I will discuss this with my second and third senior brothers. We can't just let this go."
Leaving two mind-concentrating pills for Meng Yunchi, Nan Xuanwei asked Xiao Shiyu to take her back to the pharmacy to make sure that the souls could last for a week in the cloud map. Nan Xuanwei asked Xiao Qi to help her pick up the most basic mind-nourishing pill among the second-grade pills.
He spent a whole day refining the elixir and didn't even have time to eat. Only the last furnace showed signs of being a successful elixir.
"Have you eaten today?" Xiao Shiyu had been staring at Nan Xuanwei for the whole day. Not to mention eating, she hadn't even touched her favorite milk tea.