Chapter 18: Blocking the Road
Perhaps Yun Jiao’s sudden words had provoked the ghost. A moment ago she had been trying to clamber down the tree for a dramatic, terrifying entrance. After freezing briefly, she suddenly flew into a rage. She yanked her trapped foot free, and in that instant her appearance transformed.
Her once merely pale face began rotting away, revealing bloody flesh and stark white bone. The white garments on her body darkened, spreading into blood red like ink dropped into water. Her flat belly split from top to bottom, intestines spilling out in grotesque coils that dangled from the branches. The sight was horrific.
“G–g–gh–ghost!” The old man was petrified, legs trembling uncontrollably. Yet instinctively he fumbled in his pockets for talisman paper—forgetting entirely that today they’d come out just to buy grain and he’d brought none. He searched in vain. What rotten luck! Why did he always encounter female ghosts the moment he stepped outside? And wasn’t this one… strangely familiar?
“Suniang!” Yun Jiao immediately called her name. This ghost was none other than the one who had haunted the Li family. She hadn’t expected her to recover so quickly.
Maybe Bai Yu’s shivering amused the ghost. She cracked her half-rotted lips into a ghastly smile. “I told you, I would come back for revenge.”
“Why don’t you just go reincarnate? Why cling to us like this?” the old man stammered, shivering as he retorted.
“Shut up!” The ghost glared, her expression twisting even more hideously. Rage boiled on her face. “If not for you meddling, I would have dealt with those beasts already. Since you dared interfere, be ready to pay the price. Die!”
She raised her hand. Black mist coiled from her fingers as long, blade-like nails shot out, and she lunged toward them.
We’re going to die, going to die…