Chapter 38 - The Path to Immortality Opens, Enter Reincarnation
Li Guanqi shook his head slightly and murmured, “Not necessarily.”
Maintaining the Soul-Binding Shackle, he continued, “Actually, I have a few questions.”
The delicate female ghost who had appeared at the ruined temple on the mountain was none other than Li Lanhua. The remains back there couldn’t have been hers, but they also bore traces of her aura. Something didn’t add up.
He crouched before the female ghost and said, “The corpse on the mountain isn’t yours. It should belong to that widow, Zhang Cuifen.”
The ghost beneath him immediately raised her head and glared fiercely at Li Guanqi. “Do not mention that vile woman in front of me again! That’s right! I killed them all! Li Daniu was the last one who deserved to die! Young man, if you try to stop me, don’t blame me for being ruthless!”
Li Guanqi let out a soft sigh. That afternoon, he had uncovered some hidden truths from two women. This case was one of Cloud Town’s biggest scandals, buried and forgotten over time. Only the recent string of murders had dredged it back up into the people’s minds.
At the heart of this tragedy was the female ghost before him.
Li Lanhua had lost her parents at a young age. Human traffickers abducted her, cut her tongue, and sold her to a brothel.
By turning thirty, she was deemed worthless and resold to Zhang Daniu of Cloud Town. She had long grown weary of worldly suffering and thought her hardship was finally over, allowing her to live out her remaining days in peace as a wife and mother.
But Zhang Daniu, lustful and unfaithful, soon took up with the town widow, Zhang Cuifen.
Li Lanhua, a hardworking and dutiful woman, disappeared mysteriously. Around the same time, rumors began spreading throughout the town—whispers that Li Lanhua had been shameless, spending too long in the brothel and seducing men all over town.