"Ugh..." I tried to make a sound, but my throat was tightly grasped. I stretched out my hands, struggling to break free.
Jun He never expected to be attacked. He grabbed my hands and instantly teleported his soul into my body. Together, we disappeared into the darkness.
A Yin was startled and was about to rush over, but it was already too late.
When those pale hands first appeared, I was terrified. But now, with Jun He in control of my body, I didn't feel scared anymore.
I knew very well that even if it came to the worst, Jun He would never let me die at someone else's hands.
In the blink of an eye, I was taken outside the Snow Village, to the bottom of a large snow - covered tree.
On this tree, besides the snow, there were all kinds of red cloth strips hanging from the crown, and the trunk was also tied with red ropes.
It looked like a sacred tree worshipped by the local people.
Below the tree, facing the south, there was a small temple built with bricks and tiles.
The temple was not big, only about the size of a shoebox. Inside, there were two clay figurines. It should be a Land God Temple.
Jun He didn't say a word. He just circled around the tree once. When he returned to the Land God Temple, a white mist rose in front of the temple. An old woman with white hair, leaning on a cane made of tree roots, walked out of the mist. She hunched over and stood in front of me.
Her face was full of wrinkles, and her eyelids were drooping. From afar, it seemed as if her eyes were never opened. She was wearing a shabby gray linen robe with patches, looking extremely poor.
She took two steps towards me with the cane and bowed to me.
Jun He glanced at the old woman but didn't take her seriously at all.
The old woman smiled at me, or rather, at Jun He.
"Your humble servant has come to see the Demon Lord. I've finally managed to invite you this time," the old woman said with a lisp, as she had few teeth left.
"Land Lady, are you threatening me?" Jun He controlled my body to take two steps forward. His eyes squinted slightly, emitting a cold light.
"I wouldn't dare. Since you've avoided me several times when I invited you, I had no choice but to resort to this," the Land Lady said, her wrinkled face showing helplessness.
I wondered what on earth she wanted the Demon Lord to do.
"Child, I'm very sorry for what happened in the Snow Village before. Only the Snow Spider can save your friend, but only the Demon Lord can save... your friend," she said.
I could tell she was talking to me, but my body was controlled by Jun He, so I couldn't communicate with her.
I didn't know if it was because of her lisp or for some other reason, but she deliberately paused after the word "your".
"Jun He, can you come out? What's going on? Don't you owe me an explanation?"
Jun He shrugged and took a step forward. Then he walked out of my body.
Suddenly, without his support, my body leaned forward. I almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Jun He gave me a hand, and I managed to keep my balance.
The Land Lady saw everything Jun He did.
"It seems I've invited the right person this time," she said.
I understood what she meant. She thought she had found Jun He's weakness.
It really was true that karma is a bitch.
Before, she had threatened me with Yan Lin. Now, it was her turn to taste the feeling of being threatened.
"Do you know the Snow Spider?" I tried to take a step forward, but Jun He pulled me back.
The Land Lady hunched her body and sighed deeply. This expression already proved that she not only knew the Snow Spider but also that this whole thing was related to her.
The Land Lady found a stone to sit on and told me the Snow Spider's story.
The Snow Spider's real name was Zhao A Xiang. She had been dead for nearly a hundred years. She was only twenty - three when she died. In that era, there was no such thing as free love. All marriages were arranged by parents and matchmakers.
Because A Xiang was very beautiful, there were many people coming to propose marriage from all around.
A Xiang's parents were kind - hearted people. They had been worshipping the Land God all year round. The Land God Temple under this tree was built by A Xiang's parents.
They loved their daughter very much and hoped she could marry a man who was well - off and would love and cherish her.
So they asked the Land Lady to help them find a good family with both virtue and talent.
The Land Lady really took this matter to heart. She would pay attention to anyone who passed by this tree.
Surprisingly, she did find a man. His name was Lin Sheng. He lived in a village next to A Xiang's. The young man was good in every aspect, except that his family was a bit poor.
But the Land Lady had calculated that if A Xiang voluntarily married into his family, she would bring good luck to Lin Sheng, and their life would get better and better.
A Xiang's parents absolutely trusted the Land Lady, so they arranged the marriage without asking for A Xiang's opinion.
By this time, A Xiang had already fallen in love with Chen Guang from her own village. They had made a promise that they would never marry anyone else.
When Lin Sheng came to propose marriage, A Xiang was extremely reluctant. She refused to marry him no matter what.
A Xiang's parents were hesitant at first. They thought that if it was a good family, it might be okay. But when they heard that the man she had fallen in love with was Chen Guang, they immediately refused.
A Xiang's parents were experienced people. Chen Guang's family was very wealthy. He was the eldest son of a well - known rich merchant in the town and would surely inherit the family business in the future.
Their family was just an ordinary rural family. They were not a good match.
The Land Lady also said that this Chen Guang was not a good person. If A Xiang married him, she would surely end up badly.
After hearing this, A Xiang's parents were determined not to let their daughter jump into the fire pit. Moreover, Lin Sheng didn't mind that A Xiang was not a virgin.
A Xiang's parents liked Lin Sheng even more and forced A Xiang to marry him.
Unexpectedly, A Xiang was deeply in love with Chen Guang. On the wedding day, she brutally killed the groom and ran back to the town in her wedding dress to find Chen Guang.
When Chen Guang heard that A Xiang had killed someone for him, he was too scared to see her. In order to avoid her, his whole family moved out of the town.
A Xiang fled all the way and finally found Chen Guang with great difficulty. She learned that he was already married with children and living a happy life. All the promises he had made to her before were just lies.
Chen Guang's wife even insulted A Xiang and hired a group of people to beat her half to death and abandon her in a snowy valley.
A Xiang was jealous of Chen Guang's wife, jealous that she could give birth to children for Chen Guang. She loved and hated Chen Guang at the same time. Filled with jealousy and hatred, she died in the snow.
In the wind and snow, A Xiang's body was eaten by Jun He's pet demon spider. By accident, it awakened A Xiang's sleeping soul and turned her into a half - ghost, half - demon crazy woman.
From then on, she specifically targeted jealous women and controlled them to do evil deeds to help her cultivate into a demon.
During this period, she killed more than a dozen people in Chen Guang's family, leaving no one alive.
However, this still didn't relieve her anger. She had been doing evil deeds everywhere for many years.
The Land Lady had tried to stop her, but it only intensified her revenge. She always thought that it was the Land Lady who had broken up her relationship with Chen Guang.
She chased the Land Lady to the Snow Village. During this period, more than twenty tourists had gone missing.
Others thought they had got lost in the snow - covered mountains, but in fact, they were already dead.
After finishing her story, the Land Lady tapped her cane on the ground gently. The snow on the old locust tree suddenly fell to the ground with a rustling sound.
I looked up, and the scene in front of me was simply jaw - dropping.