"Li's Qiu Zhuqing..."
Uncle Six's voice was deep, like the distant rumbling of thunder on the horizon, just enough to suppress Si Xirui's scream.
Qiu Zhuqing's ghost, kneeling in front of the memorial tablet, trembled all over and slowly raised her head. As she moved, a stream of bubbly blood gushed out and disappeared when it hit the ground.
"Si Cheng has sued you in the Underworld for killing his wife, your elder sister Qiu Zhuying. Do you plead guilty?"
Uncle Six's words not only surprised me but also made Qiu Zhuqing, who was kneeling on the ground, stare in shock.
"... How, how could it be Brother-in-law who sued me?!"
Qiu Zhuqing looked at Si Cheng, who had already stood up and was tightly gripping the armrests of the armchair. "It's impossible. He, he agreed to what I did. That's why I poisoned her!"
Si Cheng couldn't see or hear the ghosts. His constitution was special, and he didn't even have as much spiritual power as an ordinary person.
However, from the shocked and disgusted expressions on everyone's faces, he could roughly guess what Qiu Zhuqing's soul would say. His face turned ashen. He glanced at Si Jiangchen and then said to his clansmen, "Qiu Zhuqing, that venomous woman, has always been jealous of my wife. I never knew she would be so vicious as to poison my wife's daily food and medicine, which led to her death from the poison after giving birth to our young daughter... I was deceived for a long time. Even after I found out, I couldn't avenge my wife because Qiu Zhuqing was good at winning over our young daughter Xirui. If I punished Qiu Zhuqing, it would definitely hurt Xirui's feelings. So, I had no choice but to write a memorial to the Underworld, so that she wouldn't be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation after death and would pay the price for my wife's unjust death!"
"No!! Brother-in-law! You gave your tacit consent!!"
Qiu Zhuqing never expected that just three days after her death, when her body was not even cold yet, Si Cheng would shift all the blame onto her. What's more, the reason she didn't enter the Underworld but was detained in the Abyss of Obsession to suffer was actually Si Cheng's doing?!
"If you hadn't given me the aconite and told me it was a highly poisonous thing, how would I, an ordinary woman, have known about such a terrifying thing!"
Qiu Zhuqing wailed and pounced on Si Cheng. She still wanted to hug him as before and ask him why he was so heartless.
But before she could get close to Si Cheng, a faint light radiated from his body, bouncing her back and knocking her into the chair.
"So, it was Si Cheng who colluded with you to kill Ms. Qiu Zhuying?"
Uncle Six didn't listen to Si Cheng's long-winded defense at all. He just looked coldly at Qiu Zhuqing, who was lying on the ground miserably.
"Yes... Yes! I killed my sister because I wanted to be with Brother-in-law forever. I didn't want to be with that old and smelly Li Jiuming. I felt nauseous even when we were in the same room!"
Qiu Zhuqing still gritted her teeth when talking about her husband. "It was because he spent money to marry me that I became so unfortunate. How could an old man and a young woman live together? He deserved to die. He even wanted to divorce me... All that property is mine. It's what I deserve for sleeping with him all these years!"
She howled hysterically, and countless streams of blood and black mist spilled from her body.
Everyone attending the ceremony in the main hall had their spiritual eyes opened by Uncle Six and could see her almost turning into a fierce ghost.
"Clan leader... Do you have any more to say in your defense?"
Uncle Six looked at Si Cheng and said, "Qiu Zhuqing said that she killed her sister and her husband in order to marry you, and you were involved in all this."
"Nonsense, Uncle Six... Didn't you teach us this?!"
Si Cheng had already calmed down by now. "A newly dead ghost full of resentment. How can we believe what she says?!"
With that, following everyone's gazes, he accurately found Qiu Zhuqing's position and quickly took out a silver talisman and slapped it at Qiu Zhuqing's soul.
There was only an armchair between him and Qiu Zhuqing's soul. The talisman penetrated Qiu Zhuqing's black-mist-shrouded spiritual body like a burst of lightning.
"Ah!"
Qiu Zhuqing opened her mouth wide but didn't even let out a scream. The talisman exploded inside her spiritual body, shattering it into countless black, glittering fragments that were swept away by a whirlwind and disappeared without a trace.
Everyone was stunned by this scene. No one could believe that a dignified clan leader would do something more despicable than silencing a witness. Killing a soul... Even a mage with some skills would leave a glimmer of hope for the soul.
Although the Daoist laws always "kill but don't save" evil ghosts, most Taoists would still seal the evil ghosts in soul bottles and bury them deep underground.
"Si Cheng, you treated my mother like this too, right!"
Si Jiangchen lowered his eyes. I could feel his fingers gripping mine tighten.
"... You little brute..."
Just as Si Cheng was about to scold Si Jiangchen, a red figure suddenly pounced on him from behind. Si Cheng wasn't on guard and was knocked to the ground.
It turned out that Li Mingyue was screaming while pouncing on Si Cheng's head and face. "Uncle-in-law! You're so heartless! My mother was so good to you... How could you do this?!"
Si Cheng was pinned under Li Mingyue. Caught off guard, she scratched and clawed at his face, leaving several bloody marks. The corner of his mouth was also cut, and a lot of fresh blood flowed out.
"Crazy woman! Get off!"
At this moment, Si Cheng had no dignity as the clan leader at all. Even a lazy villager wouldn't roll around with a woman!
"What did you call me?"
Li Mingyue became even more crazy. She desperately tore at Si Cheng's hair. The two little ghosts on her shoulders weren't afraid of the protection of the talismans on Si Cheng's body and bit Si Cheng's body along with their mother.
"... This..."
Even Uncle Six was stunned by this scene. He stammered for a long time before looking at Si Jiangchen and asking, "He... This is..."
"Just as you can see, Uncle Six!"
There was a sneer on Si Jiangchen's lips. "Those two little ghosts are also his misdeeds!"
"Uh!!"
Uncle Six was a senior with high Daoist skills and great prestige in the collateral branch of the Si family. If he weren't from a collateral branch, he would definitely have the ability to be the clan leader. However, the Si family always valued bloodlines and the position of clan leader was always inherited by the eldest son and grandson. No matter how excellent other clan members were, they could only sigh about their bad luck in being born.
Now that Si Jiangchen had clearly handed over the position of the Si family's clan leader to Uncle Six, from then on, he would completely let go and no longer care about any affairs of the Si family.
So, this matter of Si Cheng was Uncle Six's first time exercising the power of the Si family's clan leader, and he had to handle it properly.
"Someone..."
Uncle Six had already started giving orders.
But I also felt something strange about Si Jiangchen...
"Why did you give up the position of the clan leader?"
I looked up and quietly asked him.
Si Jiangchen lowered his eyes slightly and looked at me. He said in a low voice, "How could a zombie have a child?!"