Chapter 578: Chapter 570: Master Tai Cheng Falls into a Huge Pit Again
Master Tai Cheng was truly startled. The Jade Plate he crafted, although a lower-level magical artifact, was usually enough to deal with common evil spirits, but now it was cracked and was slowly losing its spiritual energy. This female ghost harbored such intense resentful energy that she could destroy his magical artifact and injure people so severely.
What he did not know was that the only reason Dai Rong could cause the Jade Plate to crack was due to a sliver of telekinetic force that Qin Liuxi had implanted in her.
It served Cheng Wenyan right to get his comeuppance. Uncle Changchuan had procured for him this protective magical artifact, yet out of anger for being asked to destroy items in his room, he forgot to take it with him.
As he returned to his bedroom, Dai Rong, who had been constantly absorbing the resentful energy from the beauty bottle, saw her chance. Her soul power surged, and at the first opportunity, she transformed her yin energy into a sharp blade and peeled off his face.
Dai Rong had a very simple thought: a scholar must enter officialdom without blemish or disability. If she destroyed his face, even if he ranked fifth in the scholar examinations, his disfigurement would preclude him from holding office.
Her resolution was strong, and as today was the day the scholars paraded in the street and Cheng Wenyan was formally dressed, he wasn’t wearing any amulets. He was caught off guard for a moment, which allowed Dai Rong to take action.
After Dai Rong peeled off his facial skin, she also peeled a patch of skin over his heart on his chest.
To peel skin was already an act of extreme evil, let alone while Dai Rong was doing it, her own resentful and spiteful energy also fell on the wound. This caused Cheng Wenyan’s body to be eroded by the intense hateful resentful energy, turning his wound black and necrotic, emitting yin energy.
It was at this moment that Uncle Changchuan arrived. He immediately pressed the Jade Plate onto Dai Rong’s body. The Evil Extermination Spell inherently in the Jade Plate ruthlessly attacked her, and the slice of telekinetic force belonging to Qin Liuxi naturally sensed the danger and instinctively defended itself.
Thus, although the Jade Plate dealt a blow that weakened Dai Rong’s soul body and caused it to become insubstantial, it was also counterattacked because of that telekinetic power. This led to the appearance of a crack in the plate, causing Master Tai Cheng to suffer a backlash.
Dai Rong seized the opportunity to catch her breath and, despite the risk of her soul scattering, forcefully possessed Cheng Wenyan’s body, intent on dragging him down with her.
Seeing that he had arrived a step too late, Uncle Changchuan silently cursed and quickly sent for Master Tai Cheng, all the while desperately throwing all sorts of talismans left behind by Daoist Xu Gong onto his son.
But with each talisman he threw, Cheng Wenyan let out pitiful and miserable screams. Dai Rong stubbornly bore the soul-shattering pain and was not expelled.
Uncle Changchuan didn’t dare make another move and simply used the Jade Plate to suppress Dai Rong, who had possessed Cheng Wenyan, and waited for Master Tai Cheng’s arrival. He also noticed the changes in the Jade Plate.
"How could this happen?" Uncle Changchuan looked at the now-diminished Jade Plate with a startled and fearful expression, exclaiming, "Temple Master, please act quickly! This object is almost unable to suppress her."
It wasn’t that it was almost unable to suppress her but that it was about to dissolve.
Master Tai Cheng saw that the Jade Plate was enveloped in yin energy, corroding its spirituality, and Cheng Wenyan’s physical body was already occupied by the Evil Ghost. Although her soul was greatly damaged by the magical artifact, she persisted and did not leave. Rather than leaving, she kept burning her own soul.
"Not good!" Master Tai Cheng, realizing Dai Rong’s intentions, was shocked and sternly scolded, "Sin Barrier, cease from harming him, leave the body now, and I shall spare you from death."
Having both souls in one body was a gamble. Cheng Wenyan was vile, but Dai Rong, having been refined by the Ghost Drum, held even stronger resentful energy. Not only she was fueled by intense hate and obsession, but she also devoured several souls, making her even more wicked. She quickly suppressed Cheng Wenyan and gained the upper hand.
Now her soul, under the Jade Plate’s suppression, grew weaker, but her hatred increasingly intensified. The more the Jade Plate repressed her, the faster its rune energy, which already had cracks, dissipated. Once the Jade Plate’s effectiveness was lost completely, her soul would no longer be restrained and would rapidly burn, dragging Cheng Wenyan towards a soul scattering.
When the soul is no more, the physical body is useless; this is the extreme’s reversal.
This female ghost possesses a truly malignant scheme.
Dai Rong coldly cackled, remaining silent, resisting the Jade Plate.
Master Tai Cheng was furious, and with the Copper Coin Sword at hand, he cast an evil-suppressing talisman, reciting a spell to expel malevolent spirits: "Under the Tianfeng Sect, the Demon Suppressing Immortal is invoked, to crush demons and vanquish evil, with hawks and hounds leading the way...I command swiftly by the decree of the Northern Emperor!"
He thrust the sword towards Cheng Wenyan’s spiritual platform, frightening Uncle Changchuan into thinking he was about to kill his son. Instinctively he grabbed at his sleeve, exclaiming anxiously, "Temple master, this is the physical body of my son, please do no harm."
Master Tai Cheng, his ritual suddenly interrupted, experienced a backlash, spewing out a mouthful of old blood, which coincidentally landed on the Copper Coin Sword.
Cursed with an ill-fated bastard, it is no wonder your son has committed such grave sins—it’s entirely due to having an unreliable and hindering fool of a father like you. No one else is to blame for his death!
Better you die alone, why implicate and trouble me?
A little paper figurine in the corner witnessed the entire scene, nearly laughing with joy instead of pretending to be dead.
With a father who digs such pitfalls for his child, if not him, then who deserves to be cast into hell?
Dai Rong was pleased as well, intensifying the confrontation with the Jade Plate.
Master Tai Cheng shouted, "Stand aside, don’t obstruct my exorcism, or you shall not blame me if your son perishes."
Uncle Changchuan shrank to one side, glancing worriedly at his son. It was instinctive, for any parent who sees their child threatened with a sword would naturally exhibit protective instincts.
This time Master Tai Cheng did not recite the Disembodiment Curse, but rather pinched a mantra with one hand while drawing talismans in the void with his sword, chanting the Evil Exorcism Spell: "Mighty commands resound, the sun rises from the east, I bestow upon you the Spirit Talisman, sweeping away all misfortune...I command!"
Golden light struck Cheng Wenyan’s body, and Dai Rong let out a ghastly wail, her voice filled with hatred and resentful energy, so piercing that the guards holding her limbs bled from their ears and instinctively let go.
Dai Rong suddenly flung the Jade Plate away, her soul body flickering in and out of visibility, along with Cheng Wenyan’s pained and weakened soul.
"Sin Barrier." Master Tai Cheng took the Eight Diagrams Talisman Mirror hanging from his waist and shone it towards Dai Rong, another one of his magical artifacts.
The blinding golden light was too much for Dai Rong’s already burning soul to bear, and as she nearly fell out of Cheng Wenyan’s body, she roared in unwilling rage: "I offer my soul as a sacrifice to curse Cheng Wenyan to never die a peaceful death, and to fall into the path of animals in the cycle of reincarnation."
Bang.
The golden light flourished, and Dai Rong’s shattered soul fell out of Cheng Wenyan’s body, igniting and quickly disintegrating into ashes.
However, the little paper figurine hidden in the corner had already quietly left, taking a wisp of the residual soul when Dai Rong’s soul fell out.
Cheng Wenyan collapsed to the ground, his breath faint as a thread.
"Wenyuan," Uncle Changchuan rushed forward.
Master Tai Cheng looked in the direction where Dai Rong had vanished, his expression growing dark. He had not anticipated Dai Rong’s hatred to be so profound, willing to scatter her soul just to see Cheng Wenyan dead. This person...
Master Tai Cheng narrowed his eyes and cursed angrily; this person had borne intense murderous karma. Just how many had he killed?
Around the corner of Changchuan Marquis Mansion, Qin Liuxi stood, catching the little paper figurine that drifted down, looking at the fragmented residual soul on it, and sighed.