"I'll take your place in the bridal chamber!" I didn't dare tell Zhao Yuezhu that she couldn't carry the person in the room on her back. If I scared her now, it would be difficult to deal with what came after.

The first thing I saw when I burst into the room was a woman sitting on the edge of the heated brick bed (kang), wearing a large red dress and a red veil.

Beneath the hem of her skirt, a pair of small feet in red cloth shoes were visible, her toes pointing towards the ground.

I walked up to the woman and stopped in front of her. "Before leaving the house, isn't there supposed to be a going-away drink? Where's the wine?"

"There's no wine! Only a person!" A voice came from under the woman's veil, "The little tune you sang was quite pleasant. Could you sing it for me again?"

I said calmly, "If you get in the car with me, I'll naturally sing it for you."

The woman chuckled sadly, "Why are men always like this, only knowing how to take from women, but never willing to give?"

I still said calmly, "I'm not here to discuss men and women with you, just to take you away."

The woman gently raised a finger and pointed to her feet, "If you can carry me out, I'll go with you."

I walked up to the woman, squatted down, and gently lifted her skirt. I saw two coffin nails, each over a foot long, hammered into her ankles.

The bones in the woman's feet had already been shattered by the nails. No wonder her toes were pointing towards the ground.

I looked up and said, "How many nails are in your body?"

"Five!" The woman's voice was extremely calm.

When I looked up, I saw a delicate face through the gap in the veil. The other person's face was clearly that of a person in a painting, pure and ethereal as water.

I stood up and looked behind her. Beneath her shoulders and in the center of her neck, each was nailed with a long nail connected to an iron chain. The other end of the iron chain was hammered into three pieces of iron, each a foot square.

The three pieces of iron were embedded in the heated brick bed in a triangular pattern, tightly restraining the girl's body.

"Five Hearts Soul炼 (lian) Nails!" My eyes couldn't help but narrow sharply.

The Five Hearts Soul Lian Nails are magical artifacts in the world of術 (shu) that lie between good and evil.

They are considered good because Soul Lian Nails mostly come from the hands of orthodox famous sects, specially used to deal with evil spirits that are difficult to eliminate.術 (shu) practitioners nail the evil spirit in a certain place, using endless years to consume the baleful aura on her body, until the other party disappears completely.

They are considered evil because the Soul Lian Nails will forever fix the pain of the steel nails entering the body on the ghost, until the other party is completely destroyed. This time may be decades, or even hundreds of years.

Compared to the methods of demons and heretics, it is not much better.

I slowly drew out my twin blades from my waist, the tips of the blades pointing downwards to the ground. Then, I pulled out the Nine-Ring Life-Slaying Blade from my back, held the blade in both hands, took three steps back, and faced the woman sitting on the edge of the heated brick bed.

This time, it was the woman who spoke first, "Do you really want to take me away?"

I responded, "The Five Hearts Soul Lian Nails have been in your body for a long time. Some places have already fused with your bones. It will hurt a bit when I strike. Please bear with it."

The woman smiled, "I've been in pain for countless years, would I care about a little more pain? But..."

The woman changed her tone and said, "Before you save me, can you tell me three questions first? Who are you? What are you going to do? Why are you doing it?"

I was stunned for a moment: Why are this woman's questions almost the same as what the driver said during the escape room?

Who am I? She shouldn't be asking for my name, right? Am I a術 (shu) practitioner?

What am I going to do? To save the woman in front of me, I can be sure of that!

Why am I doing it? For this business. That's my reason.

But I didn't answer her questions, "Are you ready?"

The woman straightened her body slightly. My Nine-Ring Life-Slaying Blade also began to tremble slightly. The sound of the nine rings on the blade was like the sound of drums, vibrating between each beat. Daylight and midnight resonated in unison.

As the three sounds of the blade roared together, the Life-Slaying Blade in my hand suddenly rushed forward, the tip of the blade pointing directly at the other party's throat.

The violent wind from the blade lifted half of the blood-red veil, and the tip of the Life-Slaying Blade stopped close to the other party's throat.

Under the impact of the blade energy, the Soul Lian Nail nailed to the woman's neck ejected in the opposite direction and shot straight out of the window.

Daylight and Midnight also flew up at the same time the Life-Slaying Blade stopped, one on the left and one on the right, passing over the other party's shoulders and slashing down against the other party's back. The heads of the two long nails were instantly split by the blade.

At the same time, I released the handle of the Life-Slaying Blade, and formed claws with both hands, drawing in the air, "Collect!"

The two long nails pierced through the other party's wedding dress, carrying two lines of blood and shooting towards my hands. I grabbed the Soul Lian Nails with my left and right hands and threw them on the ground, "Are you okay?"

The woman covered the wounds on her body with both hands and nodded slightly.

I walked up to the other party again, squatted down, and used a knife to cut off the long nails on the other party's feet, gently pinched one end of the long nails, and pulled the nails out.

When I went to touch the second nail, the top of my head suddenly felt a chill—the woman put her hand on my head.

The woman said quietly, "You shouldn't have broken the nails on my hands first. If my hands can't be raised high, you won't die. Now that I'm holding your head, do you still have a chance to live?"

I smiled slightly, pinched the second long nail, and slowly pulled the nail out of my body.