The dilapidated black sedan sped into the night. Li Qinshuang looked at the village fading away behind her and sneered triumphantly.
So what if Yu Nian was powerful? Hadn't she escaped unscathed?
After laughing for a while, Li Qinshuang's swollen left cheek throbbed. Gritting her teeth in hatred, she vowed not only to kill the entire Yang family but also to use all her connections to suppress the Qingxin Temple. She would ruin Yu Nian's reputation and make him regret his actions!
Tang Ruo rubbed the red marks on her arms caused by the ropes and complained to the silent young Yang beside her, "Yang Qi, your family is so excessive! You didn't see how your father treated me!"
Yang Qi didn't hesitate for a moment. His eyes were filled with obsession as he said, "For you, I'm willing to sever all ties with the entire Yang family. Please don't leave me."
Tang Ruo nodded in satisfaction and patted Yang Qi's forehead hair as if stroking a puppy.
Her gaze fell on the box of Xiuyu jade on the passenger seat. She frowned in disgust and said, "Mom, this thing is so evil. Why did you bring it out?"
Li Qinshuang shook her head and said, "If Yu Nian breaks the curse on the Yang family, Yang Qi will wake up. If he finds out that you killed his second uncle, will he still be with you?"
Tang Ruo's face froze upon hearing this.
That's right. By now, she wasn't afraid of any karma! She loved Yang Qi, and this curse must not be broken!
After the car had been driving for about five or six minutes, Tang Ruo suddenly felt the urge to pee.
Li Qinshuang looked around. Seeing no sign of Yu Nian chasing after them, she relaxed. She pulled the car over to the side of the road and let Tang Ruo get out to relieve herself.
But it was too dark, and Tang Ruo didn't dare to go alone, so she asked Yang Qi to accompany her.
The two figures quickly disappeared into the night. Only then did Li Qinshuang have time to play with the Xiuyu jade box beside her.
The box was exquisitely carved. She had spent a fortune on it back then.
The yellow talisman paper was especially eye - catching. Li Qinshuang reached out and was about to tear it off.
But the moment her hand touched the talisman paper, Yu Nian's warning to everyone suddenly echoed in her mind: "If you want to live, don't open the box."
Li Qinshuang was stunned for a moment. She muttered "bad luck" and then tore it off without hesitation.
The yellow talisman paper fluttered to the ground, and the box in her hand suddenly popped open on its own!
The next second, Li Qinshuang's world turned scarlet...
It was dark and the road was slippery. Tang Ruo and Yang Qi took a full ten minutes to finish their business. By the time they returned to the road, it was already midnight. Tang Ruo wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but there was a strong smell of rust in the air, and a strange chill filled the air.
Li Qinshuang, who had been waiting in the car just now, was nowhere to be found. A broken yellow talisman was scattered on the passenger seat, the Xiuyu jade box had fallen to the ground, and the terrifying dolls were strewn all over the place.
"Strange. Where did my mom go?"
"Mom!"
Just as Tang Ruo called out twice, she turned her head and saw a blood - red thing crawling on the roof of the car. It was staring straight at her with a pair of gloomy eyes.
The moment their eyes met, the monster let out a few inarticulate roars from its throat and suddenly stood up.
Tang Ruo took one look at the monster and felt a shiver run down her spine. Her stomach churned.
This wasn't a monster at all! It was clearly a skinned person! Could this be the evil ghost driven by the curse?
"AAAAHHH! There's a ghost!!"
Without thinking, Yang Qi grabbed Tang Ruo and ran forward. But after running a few steps, Tang Ruo sprained her ankle because of her high heels and fell to the ground.
The next moment, the blood - red thing suddenly leaped in front of them and got up close and personal with Tang Ruo. The stench of decay hit her face.
Tang Ruo was stunned. She suddenly felt that the monster's eyes were extremely familiar. Taking a closer look, she realized it was Li Qinshuang!!
"Mom..." Tang Ruo stood there in a daze as if struck by lightning, forgetting to run.
In response to Tang Ruo's call, the bloody monster showed no reaction at all. Its eyes were filled with venom as it stared at Tang Ruo.
Tang Ruo's calf was tightly grasped by the monster. The place where the bloody hands touched her was unbearably itchy, as if thousands of tiny insects were crawling over it.
The next moment, the monster grinned, and its sticky, large hand came crashing down towards their heads with killing intent!
Tang Ruo closed her eyes tightly, as if she could already foresee her tragic death with her skull cracked open!
After a long time, all was silent.
Tang Ruo timidly opened her eyes and saw that the blood corpse had fallen to the ground, twitching continuously.
She looked up in disbelief and saw Yu Nian walking slowly from the end of the straight road. He was casually tossing a ball of talisman fire up and down with his left hand.
The moment she saw Yu Nian, she knew she was safe. She stopped running and lay limp on the ground, tears streaming down her face.
If they had listened to Yu Nian and stayed until dawn, would Li Qinshuang still be alive?
"Master, is there any way to save my mom?"
Yu Nian looked down at Li Qinshuang, who had turned into a blood corpse, and shook his head.
"Normally, Li Qinshuang shouldn't have died. But besides the curse, Li Qinshuang must have touched other evil and ominous things before, which disrupted the magnetic field in her body. That's why she was taken as a substitute by the evil ghost in the curse."
Hearing this, Tang Ruo remembered the many mysterious statues enshrined in her home. Her face turned as pale as a dead person's.
Yu Nian took Li Qinshuang's body and the dolls to the pond where the second Uncle Yang had drowned.
Old Yang was a bit confused. "Master, aren't we going to break the curse? Why are we at this sad place?"
Just thinking about his brother's tragic death, Old Yang couldn't help but sigh.
While lighting the incense, Yu Nian explained, "Second Uncle Yang is the key to breaking this evil spell. A person who dies a normal death will realize they are dead on the seventh day after their death. But Second Uncle Yang is different. He was killed by evil magic. Unless a celestial master drags him out of his memories, Second Uncle Yang will be trapped in a certain memory forever and will never be able to be reborn."
The Yang family members all stared with wide eyes in disbelief. "So Second Uncle Yang still doesn't know he's dead?"
Yu Nian nodded. After muttering a few incantations, he threw the three incense sticks into the water.
Just when everyone thought the upright incense sticks would go out, they were firmly stuck in the water, as stable as if they were in an incense burner.
At the same time, the originally calm water suddenly rippled. There seemed to be a huge object rolling under the water, constantly spitting out black air.
Yu Nian whispered a warning, "No matter what you see later, don't make a sound."
The next second, a pale - faced man slowly emerged from the water.
First came his hair, covered in mud, then his closed eyes, and finally his swollen and ulcerated face - it was the soul of Second Uncle Yang!
When Old Yang saw Second Uncle Yang, he was startled at first. But his longing for his family overcame his instinctive fear, and he couldn't help but shed tears.
Remembering Yu Nian's warning, afraid that his voice would delay Second Uncle Yang's path to reincarnation, he covered his mouth tightly.
Second Uncle Yang was unaware of the people around him. He bent deeply and waved his right hand vigorously, blow after blow, as if he were chopping something.