Gu Zhisang’s question made ‘Guiying Ghost’ pause and her eyes dodged:
“What kind of black energy, Master? I don’t know what it is. Ghosts are always prone to being contaminated by dirty things. I forgot where I got it.”
Seeing that it was unwilling to tell the truth, Gu Zhisang didn’t bother to waste any more words. The power she poured into the ‘Guiying Ghost’ suddenly tightened, almost squeezing out the female ghost’s soul.
A cloud of gray mist was seen rolling and struggling against the ground, and bursts of sharp roars came from it.
In the beginning, the ‘Guiying Ghost’ could still pretend to be stupid, and kept begging for mercy, saying that she didn’t know.
But as the pressure on the soul increases, she is afraid that if it gets worse, its entire soul will explode and be wiped out!
The ‘Guiying Ghost’ was frightened, her eyes were red and bulging, as she screamed: “I was wrong, Master! I will say it! I will say it all!”
As soon as Gu Zhisang’s tight strength relaxed, the female ghost who had survived the disaster shivered and no longer dared to play any tricks.
It finally figured out that this cold-faced female Rakshasa was simply more terrifying and cruel than a sinister evil spirit, and she was not a good person!
The ‘Guiying Ghost’ shrank her head and whispered: “Actually, I’m not sure what this thing is. I think it should be resentment, jealousy, anger, etc… these are the condensed negative emotions of human beings.”
According to its self-report, it was from the last dynasty of the Xia Kingdom.
At that time, her family was a small and wealthy landowner, and she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy businessman who had been friends with the family since childhood.
She knew who her future husband would be since he was a child. In addition, her family tradition was relatively old-fashioned, and at that time, it was still believed that girls should not be exposed to the public. Therefore, she has been studying female celebrities at home since she was more than ten years old. Only female teachers come to teach her. She read some classics and did not go to any new school outside.
When she was fifteen years old, her family decided to hold a wedding. As a result, her childhood sweetheart fiancé had to study abroad.
The two families had a huge quarrel over this matter.
Hearing this, she was depressed all day long. They were about to get married, so she took the initiative to propose that if the young man wanted to go overseas to see the world, she would wait for him until he returned from studying abroad before holding the wedding.
And this became the decision that “Guiying Ghost” regretted most in her life.
Three years later, she and her childhood sweetheart met at the dock.
While waiting, she worked as a female worker every day and fantasized about the future days of being married to her future husband and raising children.
However, three years later, her childhood sweetheart didn’t return on time, and his reply letter was unclear, making her feel uneasy.
After a delay of more than half a year, her childhood sweetheart finally returned home after studying abroad. He was wearing a straight Western suit and speaking new and cute foreign words. She thought she had finally seen the moonlight when the clouds cleared, but she did not expect the first thing her childhood sweetheart would discuss after coming back was to break off the engagement!
He said that he always regarded it as, if she was just a sister to him and didn’t have feelings for her.
He also said that when he was studying abroad, he met and fell in love with a new-stylish woman who studied abroad. She could read foreign poetry collections, understood romance, cared about national affairs, and was more enthusiastic and cheerful…
They had known each other overseas for a long time and recognized each other as each other’s soul mates.
So when he came back this time, he came to break off his family’s engagement.
This was tantamount to a disaster for the ‘Guiying Ghost’ who had been looking forward to her wedding for several years.
The pain of breaking off the engagement was not that deep. What made her find it unacceptable was that the sweetheart who grew up with her compared her to another person and reduced her to nothing.
Its tradition, conservatism, introverted gentleness, braided hair, embroidered shoes on its feet, and even her dialect with a local accent, were as if all her original sins.
The Guiying Ghost was furious and kept repeating that he was unfaithful and unfilial. The Guiying Ghost’s father kept saying that once the engagement was broken off, she, a twenty-year-old girl, would become the joke of the entire town. Her mother kept shedding tears…
Unable to bear the blow and pain, the girl committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. Because of the resentment in her heart, she turned into a ghost who sought revenge.
She knew that if she killed someone, she would be punished when she went to the underworld, so she has been hiding in the human world for more than a hundred years.
And her favorite hiding place was next to an emotionally unhappy woman.
Perhaps because of her empathy, she can feel the pain, unwillingness, and anger in the hearts of those women, and often guides their emotions, making them do things that they will regret when they lose control of their rationality.
She swallowed up a lot of life in them during this period.
Perhaps after absorbing too much of this kind of power containing negative emotions, the ‘Guiying Ghost’ gradually found that her body had more power that did not belong to her.
Gloomy, sticky, and pitch black…
As it devoured more and more of these twisted energies, the black energy accumulated in her soul became thicker and thicker. It could not digest or expel it, and it was not sure what it was.
But the ‘Guiying Ghost’ doesn’t think this was a bad thing.
It was precisely with these evil powers that it discovers that it was originally just a small, lonely ghost with no one to worship her, but her power has become more and more powerful.
She even can enter human dreams and influence the content of dreams.
Then, she can directly create nightmares.
Until she entered Zhao Heng’s body and was captured by Gu Zhisang.
The ‘Guiying Ghost’ glanced at Gu Zhisang timidly and said, “Master, this is all I could remember. I dare not deceive you.”
Gu Zhisang said calmly: “You’d better not lie to me. If I find out that you still have different intentions, I won’t ask again next time.”
“I will search for your soul directly.”
Gui Yinggui: “!!!”
“This little one don’t dare!”
This woman even knew how to search for souls, she must be a badass mystic master!
Gu Zhisang said ‘mmm’ and asked, “What’s your name?”
The ‘Guiying Ghost’ was stunned for a moment, and thought as expected, “My name is… my name is Huilan, Zhou Huilan! But you can give me a name.”
Ghost slaves were the lowest level in the Yin-Yang contract.
The mystic master was the master, and the ghost was the slave.
After the contract was reached, the ghost slaves cannot disobey the master’s orders, and the master can crush their souls at any time and make them disappear.
This kind of contract technique was classified as evil and was not allowed in orthodox Taoism.
In addition to the mystic master forcibly entering into a contract, there was another way for the ghost slave to voluntarily hand over her name and be contracted voluntarily.
The ‘Guiying Ghost’ thought that Gu Zhisang wanted to accept her as a ghost slave by asking it for its real name.
It was just that she had been hiding in the human world for more than a hundred years. When she was asked about her name at first, she almost forgot her name when it was alive, and then thought about it for a long time.
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