Among them, the one with the ugliest complexion was undoubtedly Su Yue. She tightly covered Nannan's eyes.
Just thinking about the fact that they had lived with such a terrifying female corpse for so long, Su Yue almost fainted.
Yu Nian also came to her senses. No wonder the ghost's spiritual body couldn't gather. It turned out that her body was in a complete mess when she died. This female ghost died in a very violent and tragic way. Buried in the wall for so many years, her resentment and ghostly power had reached a terrifying level.
Yu Nian pasted a transformation talisman on the bones. Soon, all the resentment on the corpse gathered in the center of the ceiling.
Two soft "pat" sounds were heard, and several drops of blood splashed down.
The female ghost was floating stiffly in mid - air. There was an obvious scar on her neck, and her bloody head was on the verge of falling. Her body was composed of countless pieces of rotten flesh, and black filth was constantly oozing out.
Yu Nian's gaze fell on her tattered red suspender dress. After a long silence, she asked, "Who killed you? And why did you harm others?"
The female ghost knew she couldn't defeat Yu Nian, so she didn't rush forward rashly.
She just let out a sneer. "I'm trapped in this house. There are only three living people in it. Who else should I haunt if not them? As for who killed me..."
The female ghost showed a terrifyingly strange smile. "It was my suitor."
"What?"
"Don't look at me being so ugly now. I was very beautiful when I was alive. That suitor was a psychopath. After I rejected him many times, he still kept stalking and harassing me. I changed more than a dozen places to live because of this and finally moved here. I just didn't expect that he still found me. He bribed my landlord and broke in while I was sleeping." The female ghost paused, looking like she was crying but not really crying. "Then, he stabbed me thirty - seven times, from my neck to my fingers, from my thighs to my ankles. Finally, he joined hands with the landlord and built my fragmented body into the wall. It's been about three years by now."
The female ghost's tone was very relaxed, but the resentment around her suddenly soared.
Everyone in the room fell silent, only feeling the chill spreading up their spines.
It turned out that in this world, the thing scarier than ghosts was the human heart.
Zhou Feiyu frowned tightly. "Didn't you ever think about taking revenge?"
The female ghost was silent for a moment. "That man had a car accident not long after he killed me. I didn't even have a chance to take revenge. As for the landlord... I'm permanently imprisoned in this house and can't find him at all."
Su Yue was in a daze for a long time. "What's the name of your landlord?"
"Nie Yuan."
Su Yue staggered. "Sure enough, it was him. When we first moved here, we saw the rental advertisement posted by Nie Yuan. In this city where every inch of land is precious, it was really not easy to rent such a cheap house. So we didn't hesitate. After paying the rent for two years, we didn't contact Nie Yuan much. We didn't expect..."
Su Yue finally realized that Nie Yuan had known there was a problem with this house for a long time. He was reluctant to sell it at a low price, so he rented it to their family of three.
Su Yue was both angry and anxious. "That bastard Nie Yuan!"
Yu Nian said calmly, "Can you find Nie Yuan's contact information?"
Su Yue was stunned for a moment and then nodded.
"Tell him that you have a friend who is willing to buy his house at a high price and invite him here."
...
Two days later, everyone saw Nie Yuan. He was a middle - aged man in his forties who had gained some weight.
He had triangular eyes and a downturned mouth, and his eyes were flickering with a cunning and strange fierce light.
When Su Yue saw Nie Yuan, she immediately thought of the corpse she had seen in the wall crack that day. Her face turned as pale as paper.
Nie Yuan was very observant. He squinted his eyes and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Kang Ning quietly protected Su Yue behind him.
"My wife hasn't been feeling well recently. Don't mind. Let's continue talking about the house." Kang Ning pointed to Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan. "These are two of my friends. They're getting married next month and they've taken a fancy to your house."
Nie Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan. He asked suspiciously, "Are you really willing to buy this house at such a high price?"
Yu Nian didn't answer his question but instead asked, "We're just quoting the normal housing price here. What's wrong? Do you think there's something inappropriate, Mr. Nie?"
Nie Yuan forced a smile. "Of course not..."
Yu Nian nodded with a smile. Her gaze glanced at the room on the west side and she casually said, "I heard that a little girl went missing in this area three years ago. Boss Nie, have you heard of this news?"
Nie Yuan's gaze suddenly turned sharp. He stared directly at Yu Nian's face, trying to see something from her expression.
But seeing Yu Nian drinking tea leisurely and seemingly just mentioning it casually, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said regretfully, "I've also heard about this. That girl was just in the prime of her life. Alas, it's really a pity."
Yu Nian took a deep look at Nie Yuan but didn't say anything.
With a soft "creak", the door of the west - side room slowly opened, and a mottled wall was directly facing Nie Yuan.
For a moment, Nie Yuan seemed to see a red mist.
A bloody woman was standing in the mist, smiling at him.
"Ah!!"
Nie Yuan suddenly jumped up from his seat. "There's a ghost!!"
Yu Nian indifferently withdrew her gaze and casually said, "Maybe the wind blew the door open."
Nie Yuan swallowed hard. When he looked into the room again, the woman had disappeared without a trace.
He didn't dare to stay any longer and just wanted to leave this unlucky house as soon as possible!
So he said, "It's been a pleasant conversation today. We'll contact each other by phone for the follow - up matters."
The moment Nie Yuan walked out of the door, the female ghost slowly emerged. She stared fixedly at Nie Yuan's back and shed two streams of blood - tears. "My enemy is right in front of me, but I can't do anything."
Yu Nian seemed to let out a very soft sigh. She reached out and pasted a talisman on the female ghost's body, and softly chanted.
"The Supreme issues an edict to free your lonely soul. All ghosts and demons, all sentient beings shall receive grace... Return your freedom!"
Zhou Feiyu beside her was stunned. In the incantation Yu Nian chanted, the first few sentences were the Incantation of Rebirth, which was used to exorcise evil ghosts, but the last sentence was added by Yu Nian herself.
Yu Nian was going to lift the female ghost's restriction and make her move freely.
Zhou Feiyu stared at Yu Nian without blinking, and admired her even more.
You should know that Taoists are not allowed to modify the content of talismans without permission, unless they are extremely powerful. Looking at the entire world of the metaphysical sect, there are only a handful of people who can achieve this.
The moment Yu Nian finished chanting the talisman, the black mist that had originally bound the female ghost gradually dissipated.
The female ghost was stunned. She slowly floated down from the air to the ground. She stared at her fingers that were slowly growing and looked a little dazed.
"Am I... free?"
Yu Nian nodded. "Yes. From this moment on, you don't have to stay in the cold wall crack anymore."
The female ghost's eyelashes fluttered twice, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.
She slowly bowed to Yu Nian. "I'm deeply grateful and don't know how to repay you."
Yu Nian didn't say a word. Suddenly, she bit her finger and gently tapped the center of the female ghost's forehead.
"You've just obtained a physical body. My blood can protect you from being scattered by the turbid qi of the outside world."
The female ghost was in a daze for a long time and then disappeared in the house.
Zhou Feiyu looked at Yu Nian and had a new understanding of her.
"You just let her go like this? Aren't you afraid that she'll harm others?"
Yu Nian turned to look out of the window. Her pitch - black eyes were deeper than the night.
"Rescuing the female ghost from her predicament is my task. Taking revenge is her obsession. I never interfere with others' karma."