Chapter 324: Li Miaozhen Enters the Capital
# 324. Li Miaozhen Enters the Capital
Master and servant, human and ghost, parted the tall grass, searching for a while before finding a corpse in the knee-high thicket.
The body was dressed in a black, tight-fitting outfit, decapitated, with a rolled steel blade still gripped in one hand. The wound on the neck, wide enough to fit a bowl, had dried and blackened—indicating he had been dead for at least two hours, if not longer.
“This must be the result of some jianghu grudge, the resentful energy still hangs strong. We should bury him to prevent his body from rotting away under the open sky. In seven days, he may transform into a malevolent spirit,” Susu suggested. As a "Mei" demon, she sensed a thick aura of resentment.
Such intense resentment could easily turn the deceased into a vengeful ghost in seven days. Of course, such spirits couldn't exist for long—they would vanish within a few hours to several days. However, this mountain path wasn’t deserted. If travellers passed by before the spirit dissipated, they might be attacked—falling gravely ill or even dying.
Susu believed it was best to prevent such a situation from happening.
“With resentment this deep, something significant must have happened to him in life, leaving him unwilling to let go. I’ll try summoning his soul to find out what it was,” Li Miaozhen pondered aloud.
“No way, no way, Master, do you really think of yourself as a heroine?”
Susu hopped on the spot, saying, “You’re the Holy Maiden of the Heaven Sect. In the future, you're supposed to transcend emotions. Matters of life and death, love and hate—these are but passing clouds to you. You must act with detached justice, untouched by feelings or emotion.