Chapter 56
Chapter 56
The female ghost’s Life Exchange sorcery was broken, and her aura instantly became feeble, as if she were on the verge of death.
Huang Zuo, the Yellow Immortal, sneered as he stepped in front of her.
“You harmed my descendant; by all rights, I should scatter your soul and spirit.”
“But since the young master physician spoke up for you, I shall spare your life!”
“However, while you are exempt from the death penalty, you cannot escape punishment. This skin was never yours to begin with. You’d better take it off!”
Huang Zuo reached out and sliced a gash into the female ghost’s head. Then, grabbing the scalp, he yanked upward.
Amidst the female ghost’s heart-wrenching shrieks of agony, a bloody human skin was peeled away in its entirety.
Having lost her skin, the female ghost became a mangled mess of flesh and blood. At a speed visible to the naked eye, she rapidly shrank.
After a short while, she had turned into a dwarf less than a meter tall.
The dwarf wore a crimson Daoist robe, and her appearance was hideously terrifying.
This visage was the female ghost’s true form.
With her various sorceries broken one after another, the female ghost had become translucent, looking as if she might drift away with the wind at any moment. However, the venomous resentment on her face only grew thicker. She bared her teeth and roared loudly.
“Kill me! You’d better kill me!”
“Otherwise, sooner or later, I will come back for my revenge!”
None of the Immortal Spirits took the female ghost’s threat to heart. Chang Huaiyuan gave a faint smile and spoke.
“You have committed every evil imaginable and lost all conscience. We might let you go, but the ghost guards won’t!”
“Wait for your descent into the Endless Hell!”
Chang Huaiyuan paused, then cupped his hands toward Hua Jiunan. “Young master physician, there is nothing left to do here. Let us return.”
The female ghost stared in the direction the group was leaving, roaring hysterically.
“I will definitely have my revenge!”
“I will pull out your tendons, skin you alive, and grind your bones to ash!”
After resting for a while, the female ghost struggled to sit up, chanting as she formed a hand seal.
“Demons and monsters, heed my command: let flesh and bone pave the way, and let the specters march forth!”
The four flesh corpses of the Tian Family exploded with a loud bang.
The wandering ghosts in the Chaotic Graveyard crawled out of their mounds one after another, scrambling to grab the scraps of flesh and stuff them into their mouths.
Leading them was none other than the ghostly old woman who had once blocked the road to perform ghost opera.
The female ghost shouted and cursed, “You ignorant, stupid things! Stop eating!”
“Hurry and take me away from here!”
Swallowing the scraps of flesh in their mouths, the ghosts scrambled toward the female ghost. Some grabbed her legs while others hoisted her body.
In such a chaotic fashion, they carried the female ghost, chattering as they ran into the depths of the mountains.
The following afternoon, it wasn’t Chen Fu who came to pick up Hua Jiunan and the others to return to school, but Chief Zhou.
Chen Daji was startled by this. “Uncle Zhou, where’s my dad? Why didn’t he come?”
Chief Zhou patted Chen Daji on the shoulder. “Don’t worry, kid. Your dad is fine.”
“A large ancient tomb was unearthed beneath your family’s mine. They say it’s from the late Han Dynasty.”
“This is a major event that has alerted the provincial authorities. Experts will arrive in a few days.”
“Your dad needs to cooperate with the comrades from the county bureau, so he’s staying at our station for a couple of days.”
“He’ll be able to go home tomorrow.”
Only then did Chen Daji relax, muttering repeatedly, “That’s good, that’s good…”
After comforting Chen Daji, Chief Zhou turned to speak to Deaf Granny.
“Old Auntie, Chen Fu said he left a piece of Nine Orifices Jade with you last time.”
“That thing is a cultural relic. I need to take it back and hand it over to the experts.”
Deaf Granny agreed with a smile. “Xiao Jiu, go and get it for Comrade Xiao Zhou.”
“It’s in our side room, being suppressed under the Immortal Spirits’ spirit tablet.”
On the way back, Chen Daji couldn’t help but grumble, “A thing that was stuffed into a dead person’s backside counts as a cultural relic?”
“How filthy must that thing be!”
“Uncle Zhou, you’d better hand that thing over quickly. Don’t go carrying it on you!”
“It’s too disgusting!”
Chief Zhou burst into laughter. “Don’t you worry, kid. I’m not as reckless as your father!”
High school courses were intense.
On this day, the new beautiful teacher was giving a lecture.
She was teaching a poem by the Southern Song general and poet, Xin Qiji, titled “Green Jade Table · Lantern Festival.”
The poem was beautiful.
Especially the line: “I searched for her a thousand times in the crowd. Suddenly turning my head, I saw her there, where the lantern lights were dimming.”
Hua Jiunan, sitting in the front row, was listening intently when Xu Fangcao, sitting behind him, suddenly poked his back and stuffed a note into his hand.
The note was folded many times. On the outermost layer, a few large words were written in a crooked scrawl:
“Pass it all the way to the front, Chen Daji.”
Seeing those words, Hua Jiunan was instantly disappointed.
He had originally thought it was a love letter from Xu Fangcao…
Patiently opening it, he found Chen Daji’s terrible, crooked handwriting inside:
“I saw you naked in my dream. Suddenly turning my head, what a pity you were still wearing boxers.”
Hua Jiunan’s composure shattered instantly, and he let out a loud snort of laughter.
Under the teacher’s sharp gaze, Hua Jiunan silently refolded the note as it was and placed it on the teacher’s podium.
The beautiful teacher looked bewildered.
Hua Jiunan explained, “Teacher, this was passed from the back. They said to pass it all the way to the front.”
A moment later, the entire classroom was filled with the beautiful teacher’s roar:
“Chen Daji, you pervert!”
“Get out and stand in the hallway!!!”