Tu Chaoyang had made up her mind today to cause trouble for them.
She stubbornly believed that the debts of the previous life should be repaid in this life.
She indulged in her own world, thinking that everyone had let her down.
In fact, Princess Wenqu and the monk were the most innocent at that time.
If the monk hadn't appeared, Princess Wenqu would have married the man she loved and lived a happy life.
If it hadn't been for her joking probe, the monk wouldn't have had to be sent to the enemy country as a hostage.
But Tu Chaoyang was also innocent and tragic.
Her whole family was loyal, yet her father and brother died miserably.
In that era when gender discrimination prevailed all over the world, as a woman, she pacified the country and safeguarded the nation, but ended up dying a tragic death.
They were all just a part of the numerous tragedies in the feudal era.
The culprit had already died and received due punishment.
Tu Chaoyang had devoured the souls of all her enemies and was doomed to never be reincarnated.
Actually, that should have been enough.
But she still couldn't let go of her resentment. She pointed her hatred at the common people she had once protected and those who had helped her.
In fact, the old emperor at that time never intended to let her leave the dungeon alive.
Even if she had handed over her military power, it would have been the same.
For the old emperor and his ministers, it was a disgrace that a woman became a general and a marquis.
They wanted to erase this disgrace and hide all the history about her.
As the eldest princess and the favorite daughter of the old emperor, Princess Wenqu had initially opposed the arranged marriage but later compromised.
She knelt in the Golden Hall for three days and three nights, just to plead for Tu Chaoyang's life, hoping that the old emperor would spare her.
One of the pre - conditions for the monk to marry the princess was also to spare Tu Chaoyang.
On the day of their wedding, Tu Chaoyang was allowed to enter the princess's mansion without any obstruction. It was Princess Wenqu who had made it convenient, hoping that the monk and the female general could finish their unfinished conversation.
But at that time, the monk's words were like mockery, abandonment, and betrayal to the female general.
She didn't have the time to think about the deeper meaning behind those words. She only felt that the love she had abandoned everything for had also betrayed her.
She was a bit of a love - struck fool.
In her spiritual world, she was in control.
The once green and vibrant small courtyard suddenly became filled with a cold wind. It was pitch - black, and the sun and moon lost their light.
Her long black hair fluttered in the wind, and tears of blood flowed from her eyes. Tu Chaoyang looked extremely terrifying now.
Zhang Zicheng frowned, knowing that today's matter wouldn't end well.
Niannian was quick - witted. She pinched a magic formula and summoned a golden light for protection. Her small face turned slightly pale.
After all, Tu Chaoyang was an old ghost of a thousand years, not an easy opponent to defeat.
Tu Chaoyang hardly needed to do anything. Just by standing there, the evil and yin qi she emitted caused them bone - scraping pain.
"Niannian, use this!"
Zhang Zicheng gave Tu Chaoyang a helpless look.
He raised his hand and threw what he had been holding towards Niannian.
It was the Buddhist relic left by the monk.
After so many years of companionship, it had already been intertwined with Tu Chaoyang's soul.
It was the best thing to deal with her.
Niannian leaped into the air and caught the relic.
The round, golden Buddhist relic lay in her palm, constantly emitting heat.
The light of merit contained in it became even more dazzling against the backdrop of the yin qi released by Tu Chaoyang.
Niannian clenched her small fist and hesitated a bit.
She sensed that the relic was related to her second senior brother. If this relic was destroyed, her second senior brother would surely be affected.
"Baby, don't worry. Your second brother can handle it. Hurry up and get rid of her! This ghost can't be left alive!"
Zhang Zicheng saw the hesitation in the little girl and persuaded her in a relaxed tone.
The Buddhist relic was indeed refined from one of his souls. If it was destroyed, that soul would never return to his body.
He would be a person with a permanently incomplete soul for all eternity.
But it was a last - ditch effort.
Facing a thousand - year - old evil ghost, even if they, the senior brother and junior sister, were very powerful, they were no match for her together.
To survive, this soul had to be sacrificed.
"Okay! I will definitely destroy her!"
Niannian puffed out her cheeks. Her eyes were wide open, looking a bit like a puffer fish.
Humph!
Although the evil ghost sister was a bit beautiful, if she wanted to hurt her senior brother, no matter how beautiful she was, it wouldn't do.
The malice emitted by Tu Chaoyang was too strong. Although Niannian couldn't figure out the complex past and present between them, her intuition told her that today's situation was a fight to the death.
In the ghost's spiritual world, her small satchel was gone.
She couldn't take out talismans at any time. Niannian simply gritted her teeth, opened her mouth, and bit her tongue hard.
The pain made tears well up in her eyes immediately.
Her big, watery eyes were filled with mist, looking so pitiful.
She wanted to cry out loud and run to her second senior brother for a hug and comfort.
But she knew this wasn't the time.
"Sniff... sniff..."
The little girl sobbed twice.
Enduring the pain, she stuck a finger into her mouth and got some blood from her tongue.
While crying from the pain, she waved her finger in the air.
Wherever her finger passed, a pale - golden mark would appear.
The lines were connected together, forming a simple and mysterious symbol.
After the last stroke was completed, the talisman drawn with the blood of her tongue and her own soul energy was ten thousand times more effective than the ones drawn on paper usually.
It was just that this character...
It was still as ugly as ever.
Niannian wiped away her tears again, pouted, and placed the Buddhist relic on her palm.
She waved her small hand, and the faintly visible symbol in the void covered the relic.
Crooked characters immediately appeared on the relic.
The remaining Buddhist dharma inside suddenly burst out.
The relic trembled continuously, making a buzzing sound.
"I admire the Dragon Sword, the chapter of the Five Blessings. It commands the divine officials and the Thirty - Five Generals. It will surely behead all evils and destroy all demons..."
As the incantation was recited, all the boundless Buddhist dharma and merit in the Buddhist relic were released.
The runes on it seemed to come to life, floating up from the relic.
The runes kept splitting and multiplying, connecting into a line and turning into a rope. It flew towards Tu Chaoyang from all directions.
Tu Chaoyang's eyes were blood - red, filled with hatred. She lost her mind and flapped around like a mad dog, floating towards Zhang Zicheng regardless of everything.
The runes covered by the Buddhist light would immediately dissipate when they touched her, but they could also wear down her soul.
The golden light left one wound after another on her soul, burning it.
"Ah!! I'm going to kill you all!!"