Chapter 24: The Patriarch Descends
“It’s vengeful infants!” Bai Yu gasped, blurting out in shock. She had actually summoned vengeful infants as well. If the Cave of Resentful Women held hundreds or even thousands of wronged, murdered women, then the number of newborn baby girls who died unjustly was beyond counting.
But vengeful infants weren’t ordinary baby spirits. They had no souls, no consciousness, no true form. They were born purely from the very first and last wisp of hatred of babies who died the moment they were born. Their only instinct was to devour living beings. Bai Yu had never imagined Su Niang could even summon them.
With their appearance, cracks split open across the ground, the entire pond began to collapse, and the water drained away. Even the previously quieted ghosts stirred at the infants’ wails — their ghostly miasma flared back to life.
Bai Yu’s legs went weak. He turned to Yun Jiao, trembling.
“W-what… do we do?”
Yun Jiao’s eyes darkened. She took a deep breath, then shouted —
“Run!”
She slapped a talisman onto the pillar beside her and bolted toward the exit at lightning speed.
“…”