The Ghost Insists on Giving Me a Beautiful and Powerful Wife! - Chapter 37.2

The pitch-black environment was devoid of light, but Yu Ruoyin didn’t dare slow down, afraid of being caught by the female ghost.

She immediately got up even when she occasionally tripped. Her knees and elbows were scraped and bloody, but she didn’t dare stop, nor could she.

It didn’t matter if she fell and got hurt; it was the coffin on her back that made it hard to breathe.

However, Yu Ruoyin still had no intention of setting the coffin down. She was a little worried that the person inside the coffin might feel uncomfortable from her falling. It should… it should be fine. She had lined the coffin with a blanket and a quilt.

Yu Ruoyin felt a little reassured, clutching the rope tied to the coffin, making sure Jiang Huaining wouldn’t fall off her back.

“Huuu, Huuuu—”

A blast of cold wind blew through, bringing a few white lanterns to her front.

The faint white light restored Yu Ruoyin’s vision. She saw densely packed white bones piled together, with unscraped flesh and blood still on the bones.

Crunch—

Yu Ruoyin stepped on an arm bone, her sole landing perfectly on a joint, hard enough to snap the bone and separate the forearm from the upper arm. Yu Ruoyin only felt a burning sensation on the sole of her foot. She trembled nervously: “I, I’m sorry.”

She felt that this behavior was disrespectful to the deceased and quickly apologized.

However, a skeleton without a lingering soul could certainly not forgive her. She could only repeat ‘I’m sorry,’ using this method to reduce the guilt in her heart.

Suddenly, an extremely faint and low voice sounded: “Save, save me!”

Yu Ruoyin looked toward the source of the sound and realized that there was actually a woman beneath the pile of white bones; only her head was visible outside.

She looked very young, perhaps only in her early twenties.

Everything below her neck was pressed under the pile of bones. Her hands were already somewhat deformed. Several bones were stuck into her face, piercing her skin. The glaring wounds made Yu Ruoyin’s face sting in sympathy.

Yu Ruoyin touched her face and breathed extremely cautiously.

“Save me… save me…” The woman’s voice was hoarse and weak, perhaps from a long period of suffering.

Yu Ruoyin felt sorry for her; they were both in a pathetic state.

Yu Ruoyin glanced behind her. ‘Nan He’ hadn’t followed.

She quickly approached and helped the woman clear the bones from her body: “You’ll be alright, wait… Ah!”

Yu Ruoyin wanted to dig the woman out of the pile of bones, but as soon as she pushed away a small pile of bones, her ankle was suddenly grabbed by a hand.

The one who grabbed her was the woman, using the shriveled hand that had been pressed down.

She suddenly yanked Yu Ruoyin.

Yu Ruoyin was pulled down into a sitting position, and the coffin on her back also stood upright on the ground.

She immediately rushed to grab the rope, and the woman pulled her over with force, pressing her lips against Yu Ruoyin’s calf, sucking greedily: “You smell so good. Your blood must be even more fragrant. I died here, but my soul is trapped in my body, and my corpse was made into an earth-bound sacrifice for the formation. I can only stay here. Since you’re so kind, why don’t you help me? Take my place here to suffer, and I will become you, turn into you, hehe…”

So, she wasn’t a living person. She was a corpse.

She was also a part of this barrier, a living sacrifice for the formation.

Yu Ruoyin regretted it.

She shouldn’t have been soft-hearted at a time like this. Someone as weak as her didn’t have the right to save others and could be bitten by the very person she tried to save at any moment.

She lacked the ability for self-preservation and couldn’t take the risk.

The female corpse was also a pitiful person, but Yu Ruoyin didn’t want to die yet.

The female corpse was still pulling her. Yu Ruoyin felt herself getting closer and closer to the ghost. The woman was about to bite her calf. Yu Ruoyin desperately kicked her other foot towards the female corpse’s face. The female corpse didn’t dodge, opening her mouth and biting down hard. Yu Ruoyin’s shoe was bitten through, but the female corpse’s teeth were repelled by a force as they touched her skin.

The female corpse paused: “Your spiritual energy is so strong.”

She licked the corner of her lips, her gaze becoming even more ravenous.

Yu Ruoyin pulled her foot back. Half of her shoe was bitten off, and there was a clear tooth mark on her instep.

The coffin resting against her back suddenly vibrated slightly. Yu Ruoyin fearfully reached back to touch it: “Don’t wake up, don’t wake up, I beg you.”

The female corpse was still clutching her other ankle, and her scrutinizing gaze fell upon the coffin: “What treasure is that?”

She pulled Yu Ruoyin closer to her, and with a forceful hook of her fingernail, she cut the rope.

The coffin left her back, and her spine could no longer feel the coldness of the century-old black wood. She anxiously scrambled towards the coffin.

The female corpse’s fingernails suddenly extended, piercing through Yu Ruoyin’s trouser leg, sinking into her skin, and pulling hard.

Yu Ruoyin’s entire body crashed in her direction, tumbling into the pile of bones.

Although she had Jiang Huaining’s power, those bones were not a demon spirit, nor the power of a ghost, but physical harm.

She was like a bowling ball smashing into the pile of bones. The pile of bones was hit, and she herself suffered various degrees of scrapes. Several sharp bones even pierced into her flesh, especially the one in her abdomen, which went in particularly deep. Yu Ruoyin curled up in a ball from the pain.

The female corpse smelled the rich scent of blood, and her interest in the coffin waned.

She crawled on the ground, slowly moving towards Yu Ruoyin: “What exactly are you? You smell so incredibly good. You couldn’t actually be my substitute, could you?”

The pain occupied her nerves, but Yu Ruoyin still heard the female corpse clearly: “You… what do you mean?”

The female corpse maintained a grotesque posture, licking the blood that flowed onto the ground from Yu Ruoyin as she casually replied: “What do I mean? Hehe… I was lying when I said I wanted to become you. I can’t get out at all. No matter how many people I eat, how many people I kill, I can’t get out. I’m a living sacrifice. If the formation isn’t broken, I’ll be here forever. If the formation is broken, I’ll dissipate.”

“Then why do you still want to eat me?”

“So stupid. I lied to you just to eat you, so that you would be eaten willingly.” The female corpse pointed to the pile of bones: “You’re actually pretty quick to react. Some people in there didn’t realize they were deceived until I bit their necks off. Why are you people so stupid? You have no real ability, yet you possess extremely strong compassion. I tell them I want to escape this place, and they actually believe it. A few elderly ones even said that since they were old and were going to die anyway, if they could save me on my way to reincarnation before they died, they’d have a companion on the road to the Underworld. Hahaha, the Underworld! How could I let their souls survive to reincarnate!”

“You ate their souls?”

“Of course.” The female corpse’s sinister laughter was ear-piercing: “Why can you all live well, but I have to die having tasted every agony? Reincarnate! Don’t dream about it!”

The female corpse stared intensely at Yu Ruoyin, her eyes like a predator looking at prey, ready to pounce and bite through her throat at any moment.

Chilling despair drove out the fear. Yu Ruoyin’s gaze suddenly became much colder: “You exploited their kindness.”

“Kindness…” The female corpse seemed to hear a joke. She crawled up to Yu Ruoyin, looked down at her, who was weak yet filled with anger: “You’re angry because others were deceived. You’re truly ridiculous.”

Yu Ruoyin slightly tensed her body. As the female corpse got closer and closer, she suddenly sprang up and slammed her forehead into the female corpse.

She knocked the female corpse away and stumbled towards the coffin: “I will make you suffer more than death, I promise!”

The path under her feet was extremely unstable, with scattered bones everywhere and shredded, uneaten flesh.

The owners of these bones had all heard the same lie.

Yu Ruoyin now felt that self-interest was a virtue.

It wasn’t that kindness was bad, but that it was too easy to hurt oneself.

Those kind people were likely the original residents of Wannan Garden. They not only became surrounded beasts but also had their lives taken away by the most vicious lie. Yu Ruoyin couldn’t imagine how heartbroken those elderly people, who wanted their final moments of life to bloom, must have been when they realized they were deceived and their souls were swallowed.

Perhaps… far more remorseful than she was just now.

Yu Ruoyin spoke a fierce threat, but she was caught before she could reach the coffin.

“Running? Where do you think you can run to?” The female corpse’s eerie voice echoed in her ear. Yu Ruoyin could smell the pungent blood in her mouth.

She no longer felt any pity for her; she only felt that a thousand deaths wouldn’t be enough.

Anger suppressed the fear, making Yu Ruoyin resolute.

She didn’t hesitate to take out all the Ghost Borrowing Talismans and stick them on her chest.

She thought that the closer the distance, the greater the power of the Ghost Borrowing Talismans would be.

She abruptly slammed the back of her head backward, increasing the distance between them, allowing her to turn around and grab the female corpse’s arm.

Among the four Ghost Borrowing Talismans, one had a two-section chain design, and it was having some effect after all.

The ghost energy from the female corpse was flowing into her.

The female corpse also noticed that something was wrong. She violently shook off Yu Ruoyin.

Yu Ruoyin was forcefully thrown against the coffin. The coffin was knocked down, lying horizontally on the ground. A gust of wind blew, lifting the red cloth covering the coffin, and pushing open a small gap in the coffin lid.

The partial ghostification of her body had made her much tougher. Hitting the coffin only caused a dull pain.

Seeing the gap in the coffin, Yu Ruoyin hurriedly tried to close it.

Just as her hand touched the coffin lid, Zhuang Huaishu’s instructions rang in her ears.

The hand that was meant to close the coffin instead pushed it open. Yu Ruoyin pushed the coffin lid open enough, kicked off her shoes, jumped inside, and closed the coffin lid.

The coffin was large. She hugged her knees and curled up into a small ball, crouching at Jiang Huaining’s feet.

It was very dark inside the coffin. Only near Jiang Huaining’s head, where Lu Qingzhen had opened a small hole, did faint light penetrate, just enough to illuminate Jiang Huaining’s face.

She must not have seen Jiang Huaining for a long time, otherwise why would she want to cry the moment she saw her?

Yu Ruoyin didn’t dare get too close to Jiang Huaining, afraid her blood and dirt would soil her.

But even if she didn’t move closer, the smell of blood would drive away the fragrance of Jiang Huaining inside the coffin.

The fragrance became fainter and fainter, and the smell of blood grew stronger, making Yu Ruoyin feel utterly useless.

The bone in her abdomen still hadn’t been pulled out, and because she was curled up, it had a tendency to sink even deeper. Yu Ruoyin endured the pain and didn’t cry out. She wanted to keep quiet, hoping that Jiang Huaining could continue to rest peacefully.

She still disturbed the unconscious person. The person wrapped in the quilt subtly trembled.

Yu Ruoyin reached out, quickly wiping her hands on a relatively clean part of her clothes, before reaching out to press the quilt: “I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry. I can fix this, I definitely can. Don’t wake up, please.”

Yu Ruoyin wasn’t stupid. She knew that a state of unconsciousness that even Jiang Huaining’s power couldn’t resist meant that waking up would certainly come at a price.

She had been injured once before; there couldn’t be a second time.

Yu Ruoyin didn’t want to see Jiang Huaining bleed, and even less did she want to see her spit blood. That hurt more than her own injuries.

“I can do it, I can…”

Yu Ruoyin lacked confidence, but she just didn’t want Jiang Huaining to wake up. She could have been resting in the Four Spirits Shop; it was her willfulness that brought her out.

She was the bad one.

The retribution should be hers, not Jiang Huaining’s.

Yu Ruoyin climbed up a bit. She propped her arms on both sides of Jiang Huaining’s shoulders and looked out through the small opening. The effect of the Ghost Borrowing Talismans in the yin energy-rich black wood coffin seemed to be doubled. The female corpse’s ghost energy was still continuously flowing in. The female corpse also sensed the difference in the black wood coffin and didn’t rashly approach.

She had time, she…

Yu Ruoyin shrank back, looking at the quilt stained red with her blood: “I’m sorry, I will get you a clean quilt, I promise.”

Yu Ruoyin frantically rummaged through the things in her Red Jade Pouch, looking for medicine and gauze to bandage Jiang Huaining.

She pulled out the Moonflower Paper and the Cloud Qin Sand mixed with Lu Qingzhen’s blood.

This was her last resort.

She took out her phone, turned on the flashlight, and illuminated the surroundings.

Clutching the horsehair brush tightly, she dipped it in Lu Qingzhen’s Cloud Qin Sand and began to write on the Moonflower Paper.

With just one stroke, the paper’s color dimmed.

Yu Ruoyin froze. She suddenly remembered that because she had partially ghostified due to absorbing ghost energy from the Ghost Borrowing Talismans, she couldn’t draw talismans.

Just as Zhuang Huaishu had said, whether drawing spirit, yin, or shamanic talismans, the most important material was the brush.

General shamanic-talismans drawers would not draw talismans while ghostified. If forced to, they would use their brush to suppress the ghost energy or draw objects that collect yin energy, and then draw the talisman.

Spirit-talismans drawers would choose to contract with the most powerful demon spirit for a brush; yin-talismans drawers would choose a contracted ghost, and shamanic-talismans drawers had to find one by chance.

Though described as “by chance,” shamanic-talismans drawing was a bloodline inheritance, and their family was never short of good brushes.

Therefore, Wuxiang Pavilion didn’t sell brushes, as a brush was not a consumable item.

Yu Ruoyin became a shamanic-talismans drawer without an inheritance, and her brush’s spiritual energy was insufficient to suppress her ghostified body.

Even if she took off the Ghost Borrowing Talismans now, the ghostification would take time to disappear.

She…

She could only resort to desperate measures.

Her teeth met her tongue tip again. Corpses were also extremely yin objects, and tongue-tip blood would still be useful.

If she found the right moment, she could escape. First, get out of here.

Before Yu Ruoyin could bite, a strange sound suddenly rang out in the coffin, like… the sound of a bone breaking.

Yu Ruoyin lifted her phone and shone it toward Jiang Huaining’s head. She suddenly noticed her left hand resting outside the quilt. Her middle and ring fingers were broken off at some point. Golden and red blood flowed onto the quilt, and the two broken digits lay on her abdomen.

“How could this happen…” Yu Ruoyin was stunned. She frantically rummaged through the things in her Red Jade Pouch, looking for medicine and gauze to bandage Jiang Huaining.

Just as she moved closer, the two broken fingers suddenly flew into her palm. The skin quickly peeled off into fine threads, revealing two bone segments joined together. They rapidly transformed, the joints and connections disappearing, and soon becoming as smooth and complete as a piece of white jade bamboo. The peeled skin turned into fuzz finer than silk, wrapped together, and hung from one end of the bone.

A complete outer appearance slowly formed. It was a brush…

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