Yu Nian hooked her finger, and the fierce red rope just now obediently lay back in her palm.
Yu Nian grabbed the red rope tightly and quickly climbed up the well. In just a few breaths, she brought the female ghost out of the well.
The female ghost's previous arrogance disappeared. Her body, formed by malevolent energy, hunched into a ball, and her hair hung down broken like tattered cotton wool.
Yu Nian stared at the female ghost for a while. There were still some unclear questions in her mind, so she decided to bluff her.
She took out a small gourd from her pocket. This gourd was different from the one that had contained the black dog blood before. There were complex scriptures carved on the gourd, and there seemed to be a whole world inside the narrow opening.
Yu Nian looked down at the female ghost expressionlessly.
"You've committed many evils and harmed living souls. Now I'll give you two choices. One is for me to capture you and suppress you under a pagoda until all your malevolent energy dissipates. The other is for me to summon the ghost messengers right now to take you back to the underworld for judgment of your evil deeds."
The female ghost trembled violently and suddenly knelt on the ground. A white mist flashed by, and the female ghost transformed into her pre - death appearance. Big teardrops hung on her delicate little face: "Master, please spare my life. I didn't want to harm others either. It's just that I was unlucky. I was a poor soul when I was alive, and I'm still a poor ghost after death! Everything I did was for self - protection! It was all Gu Yue who forced me!"
Yu Nian slightly raised her eyebrows: "Gu Yue?"
"He's the owner of this ancient tomb!"
Feng Chengyuan frowned and asked, "What's your relationship with that old ghost?"
The female ghost lowered her head slightly and said pitifully, "To answer the master's question, I was Gu Yue's concubine."
The talisman fire flickered. The female ghost was like a docile rabbit, with slightly red eyes and tearful eyes.
Jiang Jin stared at the female ghost for a while. Suddenly, he thought that her curled - up appearance was a bit like Yu Qinghe's.
Thinking of Yu Qinghe, Jiang Jin felt gloomy again. The joy of surviving a near - death experience completely disappeared.
He did like Yu Qinghe. Even though Yu Qinghe had betrayed him many times, there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart. Maybe Qinghe had some hard - to - tell difficulties.
Judging from the female ghost's appearance, she was only in her twenties when she was buried alive. She had a graceful figure and a beautiful face. Who would have thought that after death, she would turn into such a terrifying appearance and be trapped in this ancient tomb for thousands of years without being able to reincarnate.
If that was really the case, then this female ghost was really pitiful.
Thinking of this, Jiang Jin suddenly said, "Master, don't act yet. Maybe we should first listen to what really happened..."
Yu Nian's hand that was holding the gourd paused. She stared at Jiang Jin with a half - smile: "You want to listen to what she has to say?"
Feeling everyone's eyes on him, Jiang Jin hesitated and stammered, "Anyway, this female ghost can't move now. It might be a good deed to find out clearly about that old ghost, right..."
Yu Nian smiled and actually took back her hand.
She was just bluffing the female ghost. Just based on the innocent people she had killed, it could be determined that the female ghost was by no means a kind person.
This female ghost had co - existed with the old ghost in the ancient tomb for more than two thousand years. She was extremely calculating. If not intimidated, she would never tell the truth.
Jiang Jin gratefully glanced at Yu Nian. He walked in front of the female ghost and tried to suppress his overflowing sympathy, asking, "Tell us. What kind of hardships do you have?"
The female ghost slowly raised her head and shed two lines of clear tears. She told her experience like a dream.
According to the female ghost, her original name was Bai Siyan. Her mother died in childbirth when she was born. Bai Siyan had lived on the streets with her father, performing shows to make a living.
When Bai Siyan was sixteen, there was a severe drought in the whole county. There was no harvest, and many people starved to death. Helplessly, the villagers fled to other places to avoid the famine.
Her father took the half - grown Bai Siyan and drifted around. They begged for food like beggars all day long. But there were too many famine - fleeing people that year, and they couldn't fill their stomachs at all.
When the father and daughter passed by the capital, they were so hungry that they couldn't walk anymore.
Helplessly, Bai Siyan's father came up with a way. He sold his daughter in exchange for some silver and food.
Her father didn't want to push his daughter into a fire pit. In that era, if he could send his daughter to a wealthy family as a maid, she might still be able to survive.
If the father and daughter continued to beg, they might both starve to death.
Bai Siyan was very beautiful when she was alive. She and her father had only been kneeling on the street for a short time when they were bought by a young gentleman. The gentleman also said that if Bai Siyan went with him, she would have enough to eat and wear in the future.
The gentleman was handsome and from a good family. The desperate father and daughter didn't hesitate much and agreed.
But unexpectedly, someone else wanted to take Bai Siyan as a concubine. At a banquet, the young gentleman gave Bai Siyan as a gift to the famous general Gu Yue to be his concubine.
Gu Yue was almost fifty years old at that time. He could be Bai Siyan's father.
But Bai Siyan had no right to refuse. She could only pray that Gu Yue would be an easy - to - get - along - with husband.
But when Bai Siyan entered the Gu Mansion, she was completely dumbfounded. Although Gu Yue was old, he still lusted after beauty. There were many concubines in the mansion.
After Gu Yue's novelty for Bai Siyan wore off, he left her neglected in the mansion.
Not long after, the young gentleman who had given Bai Siyan to Gu Yue suddenly changed sides and impeached Gu Yue in the court.
From then on, Gu Yue bore a grudge against the young gentleman and took out all his anger on Bai Siyan. He beat and scolded her every day.
Bai Siyan was in deep trouble all day long and felt that life was worse than death.
Two years later, Gu Yue died. Bai Siyan thought she would regain her freedom. But unexpectedly, that old thief Gu Yue was so vicious that he actually made all the family members of the Gu Mansion be buried with him.
After drinking a bowl of poisoned wine, Bai Siyan reluctantly became a fierce ghost and was trapped in the ancient tomb by the tomb - guarding beast.
That old ghost Gu Yue didn't let her go even after his death. He actually wanted to devour her soul to increase his ghostly power.
Helplessly, Bai Siyan could only hide in the dry well. She learned from the old ghost and devoured living souls to strengthen herself. Just like this, the two evil ghosts had been at a stalemate for more than two thousand years...
Speaking of this, the female ghost shed two lines of blood - tears: "I admit that I've harmed people, but I had no choice. Kind Taoist priest, please save me!"
Jiang Jin was extremely sad after hearing this. He completely forgot how the female ghost had tortured them before. After wiping away a tear, he said to the female ghost,
"Don't worry. We will definitely save you out!"
Yu Nian glanced at Jiang Jin and then smiled thoughtfully: "Do you really believe what she said?"
Jiang Jin was stunned and looked at the female ghost.
The female ghost's face, as innocent as a little white flower, was full of grievances. She looked at Jiang Jin pitifully.
Jiang Jin suddenly frowned: "Why not?"
He suddenly remembered what Qinghe had said before, that Yu Nian was extremely cold - blooded and had no mercy even on her own father and had dealt a heavy blow to him.
Jiang Jin wanted to complain about Yu Nian but was afraid that Feng Chengyuan would hear it, so he just mumbled vaguely, "You're quite heartless."