Villainous Malevolent Ghost (10)
In this memory, one can only see the white, gleaming dagger, unable to discern who wielded it——
However, from Bai Yu’s shocked and pained eyes in the memory, one can perceive Bai Yu’s extremely sorrowful mood at that time.
No wonder this dagger is called a great ominous object, because it killed Bai Yu, who was known as the ancestor of metaphysics, isn’t it indeed a great ominous object?
What is ridiculous is that this dagger is still regarded as Bai Yu’s relic and enshrined in the tunnel, unaware that such a greatly ominous instrument would most attract evil, and it is estimated that the twin vine was attracted by this dagger. Because the twin vine has not yet grown strong, it remains dormant underground, not daring to cause human fatalities, only confusing humans and absorbing part of their essence.
Logically speaking, although the twin vine is strong, it is not strong enough to make Bai Yu unable to resist, but since the twin vine is parasitic on the dagger that killed Bai Yu, it naturally carries an aura that restrains Bai Yu, making it extremely difficult for Bai Yu to deal with it.
Song Xuyi sorted out all the causes and effects and unconsciously looked towards Bai Yu, who was holding the dagger.
Bai Yu had obviously also received this memory, but her face did not look as pale as Song Xuyi had expected; she stood stiffly in place, seemingly thinking about something.
Song Xuyi frowned, as certain chaotic images once again floated in her mind. However, before she had time to read them, Bai Yu suddenly turned around and looked at Song Xuyi, her deep black eyes squinting as she made a strange gesture with the dagger…
Song Xuyi only felt a subtle ‘bang’ sound in her chest, as if something suddenly broke, and the images that were about to form in her mind immediately vanished into thin air.
Did Bai Yu not want her to perceive her memory?
Song Xuyi widened her eyes and looked at Bai Yu, but Bai Yu lowered her head.
At that moment, Bai Yu gave Song Xuyi a subtle feeling of discord, as if the Bai Yu in front of her had become another person: strong yet unfamiliar.
Shortly after Bai Yu picked up the dagger, the entire cave erupted with a huge alarm sound, and countless rushing footsteps headed in this direction——
Bai Yu lowered her head and placed the dagger back into the secret door, walked to the side of the little girl, and placed her hand on the little girl’s head…
Seeing Bai Yu’s actions and the little girl’s gradually improving complexion, Song Xuyi, without knowing why, unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief: fortunately, it was still that Bai Yu!
Before the first staff member ran over, Bai Yu withdrew the barrier.
The little girl fell into Song Xuyi’s arms. Bai Yu turned her head and glanced at Song Xuyi, then concealed her figure. Only the shattered vines on the ground and the charred marks proved what had happened here…
The staff looked at the scene’s appearance and hurriedly dialed a phone number. Not long after, several people wearing celestial master clothing strode quickly over, their eyes widening at the sight of the scattered vines on the ground.
The amusement park staff took Song Xuyi and the little girl to the lounge.
Song Xuyi thought for a moment and dialed the legal affairs department of the Song Corporation.
As expected, it was not beyond Song Xuyi’s anticipation. Even though it was clear to any discerning person that Song Xuyi could not have caused such a big commotion, the amusement park clearly wanted to downplay the incident and place all the blame on Song Xuyi, firmly stating that it was Song Xuyi’s improper play that led to this incident in the amusement park. They implied that if Song Xuyi admitted to all this, since the amusement park was in its opening stage, they would not make visitors bear the loss of the destroyed haunted house…
If it were any other time, Song Xuyi might not have made a big fuss and would probably have gone along with what the amusement park suggested. However, this time, if she admitted it, Song Xuyi suspected that the amusement park would resume operations after the renovation and might even breed more demons. Therefore, Song Xuyi resolutely refused to admit to any improper play.
Song Xuyi was not skilled in verbal disputes, so she sought the help of the Song Corporation’s legal affairs. The Song Corporation is also a large-scale enterprise with branches all over the country. Upon hearing Song Xuyi’s request, the legal affairs team from the nearby city branch of the Song Corporation immediately rushed over…
Seeing the reasoned argument from the legal affairs team, the person in charge of the amusement park then realized they had hit a snag.
Song Xuyi made up a lie, saying that the reason she intervened in this matter was only because the talisman she carried sensed that this dagger was a great ominous object.
After Song Xuyi expressed that she did not want to pursue the amusement park’s fault and only wanted to know the origin of the dagger and have the amusement park stop exhibiting it, the person in charge, half-believing and half-doubting, went to investigate the dagger’s origin.
Upon checking, the person in charge was greatly startled. He had originally thought that Song Xuyi’s words were meant to deliberately induce him, given that the Song Corporation recently seemed to have intentions of moving into the entertainment industry, possibly aiming at exploiting the nearby city’s market.
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This dagger was something the person in charge had spent a large sum of money on this time, because after the haunted house renovation, the original suppression formation treasure likely could not suppress the ghosts, so he spent big money to buy the rumored relic of Bai Yu, the Immortal Master.
Previously, the person in charge only checked the dagger’s authenticity, but what he found this time shocked him into a cold sweat: this dagger had changed owners countless times before, and each owner did not meet a good end…
Businessmen are somewhat superstitious, and after discovering this matter, the person in charge no longer dared to place the dagger in the tunnel.
Knowing that the person in charge finally understood the seriousness, Song Xuyi sent a message to the legal affairs team to secretly monitor the direction of the dagger, then took a taxi directly back to the hotel.
Because Bai Yu had previously killed the twin vine, without the vine’s interference, Xia Tian and the others all exited the haunted house at the scheduled time and received their gifts. Song Xuyi did not want to disturb the others’ interest because of herself, so she found an excuse, saying only that the Song family’s company in the nearby city had some issues she needed to rush to, allowing the remaining people to enjoy themselves.
The others did not suspect anything.
By the time Song Xuyi returned to the hotel, it was already nine in the evening. After a whole day of battling wits and courage with the amusement park people, Song Xuyi originally thought she would feel tired. However, after returning to the hotel, Song Xuyi found she was not sleepy at all: the memory of Bai Yu being stabbed by the dagger kept revolving in her mind. Song Xuyi wanted to comfort Bai Yu but did not know what to say.
Song Xuyi understood the reason Bai Yu cut off her perception of her memory: after all, if it were herself, she would also not want someone prying into her memory.
But Song Xuyi couldn’t swallow the injustice in her heart: how could someone bear to kill Bai Yu?
How did Bai Yu ultimately die? And why did she suddenly become the guardian deity of the Bai family?
A faint guess passed through Song Xuyi’s heart, but this kind of guess was really too outrageous and cruel for her to believe.
After thinking it over, Song Xuyi once again opened her phone.
Even though a thousand years have passed, the murderer from that time might have already turned to ash, but since the event occurred, it must have left traces. Perhaps she could glimpse some trace from the related people and events.
In fact, many people are also researching the famous metaphysics grandmaster in history, searching for Bai Yu’s life story.
Because Bai Yu’s body was not seen after her death, there are many opinions about her cause of death. Besides the publicly accepted and officially announced statement that Bai Yu died at the hands of evil spirits, there are actually many rumors among the folk: some, like what Huang Feng said, claim Bai Yu married into the imperial family; some say Bai Yu grew tired of disputes and retired from the martial world; others say Bai Yu received an imperial command and then traveled the world searching for the elixir of immortality…
Who would bear to kill such a noble person, wholeheartedly for the people? And who concealed the matter of Bai Yu being killed?
Song Xuyi actually thinks the most likely suspects were the metaphysics families of that time, after all, Bai Yu brought metaphysics into every household, which most likely harmed the interests of these families.
However, after Song Xuyi carefully searched, the national situation at that time was actually not like this: the density of evil spirits was so large that even the metaphysics families were weary of coping, with severe casualties. After Bai Yu invented metaphysics suitable for common people, some disciples of these families who were not highly talented also had a way to learn metaphysics, and extraordinarily talented disciples also reduced losses, so the families’ grievances against Bai Yu were not significant…
Song Xuyi thought of that dagger and checked again on Bai Yu’s younger brother.
Because of Bai Yu’s outstanding status, unlike during her childhood when she suffered neglect, Bai Yu’s younger brother, Bai Qi, grew up pampered by their mother. He did not follow the path of metaphysics, preferring poetry and literature, and had a good relationship with his sister. After Bai Yu’s death, it was rumored that Bai Qi was so heartbroken that he went completely mad and died young, with the position of family head soon falling to someone else.
It seems the younger brother also did not have the possibility of killing Bai Yu…
Song Xuyi continuously searched for information and didn’t even know when she fell asleep.
The night grew deep, and the light from Song Xuyi’s phone gradually extinguished. The city’s neon lights, through the undrawn curtains, reflected on Song Xuyi’s peacefully sleeping face.
A figure slowly appeared in front of Song Xuyi’s bed, squinting at Song Xuyi’s tender white cheek.
The extinguished phone light lit up again, and all of Song Xuyi’s search records appeared in front of Bai Yu—
The system, seeing the woman in front of it slowly flipping through the chat records, fearfully curled into a ball: the woman’s expression was cold, her entire aura violent, with a hint of scarlet in her eyes. Where was the guardian deity’s glow? She was clearly an evil ghost!
The system shivered: it should have realized earlier, this woman has always been a villain, and there was no reason for this world to be different. She was indeed the evil ghost from the plot summary!
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However, the system did not dare to make a sound: it had a kind of intuition that once it told Xuyi about this matter, this evil ghost would immediately obliterate it!
And Bai Yu, upon seeing the records Song Xuyi searched about Bai Qi, pressed her lips together:
Bai Yu had already remembered all her memories.
At sixteen years old, Bai Yu’s life reached a watershed.
Before she was sixteen, Bai Yu was an extraordinarily talented celestial master, cherished by her family and held in high regard by her father. Perhaps Bai Yu initially researched metaphysics to protect her mother and younger brother, but later she developed a greater sense of mission: she wanted to protect all the common people.
Bai Yu never thought she would become a thorn in the eyes of the imperial power and her father.
Actually, some descriptions by later generations are not wrong. At that time, the emperor indeed wholeheartedly wanted Bai Yu to enter the palace, but it was not only because of Bai Yu’s appearance. More importantly, it was due to Bai Yu’s influence, as she held a higher status in the hearts of the common people than the emperor, which posed a great threat to the imperial power.
And after witnessing Bai Yu’s talent, her father was determined to make the Bai family an existence above other metaphysics families and even the imperial power. When Bai Yu decided to bring metaphysics to every household, it also meant shattering her father’s dream.
Even though a thousand years have passed, Bai Yu still dares not review those memories of quarrels and struggles, and the way her father looked at her with eyes like those of an enemy.
But Bai Yu never thought her father would collaborate with the emperor to scheme against her.
The emperor promised that once Bai Yu entered the palace, he would use the imperial power to elevate the Bai family above all families. So, her father released an evil spirit that had been sealed for a thousand years, planning to let the evil spirit and Bai Yu suffer mutual harm. He then intended to take the opportunity to abolish the severely injured Bai Yu’s skills and send her into the palace.
Bai Yu’s father is the person most familiar with Bai Yu in the world and the only one who knows how to abolish Bai Yu’s skills. Bai Yu’s strong talent is not only because she was born with yin-yang eyes but also because she has two hearts—one condensing her life soul and the other carrying her skills, continuously producing spiritual power.
Her father wanted to abolish the heart that carried Bai Yu’s skills.
He did not know, however, that the evil spirit he released this time was stronger than all others, wicked and vicious, with the ability to devour everyone in the world. To protect all living beings, Bai Yu self-destructed her cultivation, barely managing to completely kill the evil spirit.
Bai Yu did not know how to explain to her family that her self-destructed cultivation had made her a cripple, fearing their heartache. She tried to manage her appearance to look less haggard, even thinking of comforting words for her family: at worst, she would start cultivation anew. Even though she no longer had a heart naturally providing spiritual power, she remembered all the spells and believed she could one day return to her peak…
She did not expect that upon her return, what greeted her was her father’s stab through her heart.
As her vitality drained away little by little, she watched the sinister smile on her father’s face gradually disappear, finally turning into fear: she knew what her father feared—those who die at the hands of close family members are destined to become evil ghosts, and with her abilities, she would become an evil ghost unmatched by anyone in the world.
But as if remembering something, her father’s eyes brightened, and he cast a spell—
Bai Yu’s soul was locked beneath the Bai family’s grounds.
The dagger remained stuck in her heart, and she was slowly drained of blood. Forty-nine soul-suppressing nails were hammered beside the coffin, her fortune gradually drained away, and her soul remained awake, constantly enduring the pain of a stab through the heart. Her suffering became the blessing of the Bai family’s ‘guardian evil ghost,’ providing the family with continuous fortune.
Thereafter, the Bai family added a ritual: the so-called ritual involved using spells to bind another layer on Bai Yu’s soul, preventing her from leaving the Bai family.
The Bai family, in order to lock her away, added layer upon layer of shackles. After noticing her slumber, they added a layer of ‘guardian deity’ shackles to try to erode her mind. Her father believed he understood her, yet he still underestimated her: he did not realize that her achievements were not reliant on talent, but rather on steadfast will. Her heart was always filled with continuous hatred toward the Bai family, never fading.
If nothing unexpected occurred, she would have continued being suppressed and in pain until she finally dissipated.
But one day, her brother, who did not love metaphysics and was devoted to poetry and books, and thus not given much importance, found her coffin while crying and pulled out the dagger from her heart.
She did not know how that cowardly brother managed it, but she fell into a deep sleep, no longer feeling that bone-piercing pain. Even so, she still sensed the deaths of her mother and brother not long after.
In her slumber, she slowly accumulated strength and hatred. Five years ago, she struggled to try to break free from the binds. When the Bai family no longer had the ‘resist evil ghost’ blessing protection, all their filth was exposed to the world, and the Bai family began to decline.
But the chains that had bound her for a thousand years were not so easy to break free from, and she once again fell into slumber, with her soul even suffering damage and losing memory.
Later, Xuyi came, wearing the curse stone she had bestowed, containing her blood.
It must be said that Xuyi was a gift from heaven to her, because due to the symbiotic relationship, she only needed a bit of Xuyi’s yang energy to awaken. If others intruded when she awoke, they would likely be subconsciously drained of all their blood by her.
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In a daze, she reached a symbiotic relationship with Xuyi, thinking herself still the composed and self-restrained celestial master, her heart moved, yet she retreated, even concerned with ridiculous moral ethics…
But, she had long ago been drained of blood, her heart pierced—
She is not a celestial master; she has always… been an evil ghost!
In Bai Yu’s eyes, a red light lingered, making her look even more enchanting. She slowly leaned down, sleeping behind Song Xuyi, and in an embracing posture, she held Song Xuyi’s body, sighing with satisfaction—
An evil ghost’s nature is cruel, with overwhelming hatred, born to destroy the world,
Yet in the world, there is someone who pleases the heart, like a sweet spring in the desert, or warm sun in winter.
What should be done?
—Deceive her, entangle her, entice her, bind her, possess her.
And then, always love her.
LP: Re-translated on September 21, 2024