Chapter 312
Seventh Master and I had consulted a great many sources about the monster’s origins, but found nothing.
Seventh Master had intended to ask his colleagues whether any of them had heard of such a creature. But just as he was about to do so, we realized we could not describe what the monster looked like at all.
Even the Ninth Concubine, who had lived for more than a century, knew nothing of its origins.
How had I discovered the truth?
The answer lay in the sinister well Meng Yifan and Lin Jinhua found.
When we discovered it, iron chains wound around its opening and an Evil-Suppressing Talisman had been pasted on top. Something was clearly being suppressed inside.
To know what that something was, we first had to know what had once occupied the well.
At first, it had been an ordinary well. But after rumors accused the Seventh Concubine of adultery, Master Luo personally pushed her inside and drowned her. Her wronged spirit therefore entered the well.
Later, the Second Concubine beat Xiuzhu to death and threw her body into the same well. Xiuzhu’s wronged spirit entered it too.