Chapter 17 When the Resentment Arose

It was then that I saw Nie Xiaochun's eyes had turned blood red, a clear sign of a ghost turning into a vengeful spirit.

If I struck now and shattered the woman's soul, Nie Xiaochun would see me as her target, attacking me without hesitation.

I urgently asked, "What's going on?"

Lin Zhao anxiously said, "Tell me first, what's happening in the village?"

I briefly explained how Xue Shaoyuan had placed guardian ghosts in every household. Lin Zhao's face immediately turned pale. "Thousand Soul Coffin! Someone has activated the Thousand Soul Coffin. People from the Coffin Sect must have arrived. They don't want us to get the secret, so they're activating the Thousand Soul Coffin to slaughter the village."

At that moment, I didn't have time to ask Lin Zhao what the Thousand Soul Coffin was.

Later, I learned that the Thousand Soul Coffin was a formation that used numerous ghosts to trap a ghost deity.

The Thousand Soul Coffin also had another characteristic: when necessary, it could release the ghosts to reinforce the trapped entity.

Xue Shaoyuan had set up the Thousand Soul Coffin to trap the woman. However, he hadn't summoned enough ghosts, so he used a modified method, incorporating both ghosts and humans into the Thousand Soul Coffin's range.

In other words, everyone in the village, living or dead, was part of the Thousand Soul Coffin.

If someone reversed the Thousand Soul Coffin formation from the outside, the village's guardian ghosts would immediately kill all the living, and then use the resentment of the newly dead to reinforce the trapped woman.

The villagers were killed innocently, so their resentment was unimaginable.

The woman had turned into a vengeful spirit in just a short period of time.

Nie Xiaochun, being closest to her, was also affected by the resentment and was approaching a vengeful ghost herself.

I urgently asked, "How can we save Xiaochun?"

Lin Zhao said, "We can only seal Xiaochun in a coffin and take her away from this village first. We'll deal with the rest after we've settled Xiaochun down!"

"You take Xiaochun first." As I spoke, I gripped the hilt of my knife.

Taking Nie Xiaochun away meant releasing the woman, which was equivalent to giving up the secret of the Coffin Sect's ancestral land.

I was sure that as soon as we left, the Coffin Sect disciples hiding nearby would come out and take the woman away.

We couldn't get the secret of the ancestral land, and the Coffin Sect's traitors wouldn't get it either!

I had to kill that woman before I left.

Just as I was about to strike at her soul, a zither melody suddenly rang out in the village.

The zither music was like a violent storm, spreading in all directions from a point not far from us. The wails of the ghosts in the village became even more shrill.

In a matter of seconds, the first ghostly scream rose into the sky near us—the sound of a ghost being shattered by the zither music. Immediately afterwards, beams of green light erupted continuously in the village.

The zither player was suppressing the entire ghost village with his own strength.

At the same time, someone roared, "Lin Lingxiao, this is none of your business. You'd better not interfere!"

Lin Lingxiao played the zither without saying a word. The mournful melody pressed down on the village like a volley of arrows. The ghosts' cries in the village grew weaker and weaker, and the person who had warned Lin Lingxiao fell silent.

Just then, Nie Xiaochun suddenly grabbed the woman's soul and swallowed it in one gulp.

The resentment on Nie Xiaochun's body surged into the sky.

"Damn it!" I immediately shook out the Soul-Chasing Rope and wrapped it around Nie Xiaochun.

Lin Zhao circled behind Ye Yang. "Give me your clothes, quick!"

Ye Yang hadn't figured out what was happening before Lin Zhao pulled off his shirt.

Taking advantage of the moment when Nie Xiaochun suddenly turned her head to glare at me, Lin Zhao put Ye Yang's clothes on Nie Xiaochun and then pulled out several ropes to tie the clothes on Nie Xiaochun tightly.

Was Lin Zhao using Ye Yang's clothes as a coffin?

Lin Zhao shouted while hurriedly tying up Nie Xiaochun, "Li Po, take off your pants!"

"What?" I subconsciously asked, "Can't you use clothes?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Lin Zhao pounced on me and tried to pull off my pants. I instinctively tugged at them, but Ye Yang came at me with a sword from the side and snapped my belt in two.

"You..." I had just shouted "You" when Ye Yang shifted his position, his right arm passed under my armpit, went around my chest, and pinned me in the air. Lin Zhao unceremoniously pulled off my pants.

By the time Ye Yang put me down, Lin Zhao had tied up Nie Xiaochun. "Quick, carry her away!"

"Don't carry her alone, two people carry her. The coffin is made of your clothes, if the Qi is wrong, the coffin will easily burst open."

Ye Yang and I, one in a shirt and the other in shorts, carried Nie Xiaochun and ran wildly out of the village. Lin Lingxiao's zither music became even more intense at this time, as if he intended to hold off the pursuers single-handedly.

When I looked back, the green fires that had erupted in the village had turned into raging flames, covering half of the village. The usually gentle Lin Lingxiao was now on a killing spree.

The three of us didn't stop until we had run to a deserted place.

I glared at Lin Zhao. "Tell me, what do we do now?"

Lin Zhao cautiously moved away. "Wait for Lin Lingxiao to come!"

"Lin Lingxiao's zither music should be able to resolve the resentment in Nie Xiaochun's body. We can only release Xiaochun after he comes."