55. Hua Qiyang’s End
Now that the Ghost Essence Crystal was in Gong Yiling’s hands, the power supporting her opponent had almost completely vanished.
“Feng Lili’s” body flickered, and this time, the red glow and black mist around her gradually dissipated.
And the black shadow that had been beside Feng Liqu took this opportunity to return to “Feng Lili’s” body, and she fell silent.
Soon, when Feng Lili opened her eyes again, the fierce glint was gone.
“Phew—”
She let out a long sigh.
She moved her body, which seemed to have been still for a long time, then looked up at Gong Yiling and Gong Musheng. “Thank you.”
“So it really is…?”
“It’s about what you guessed.” Feng Lili had been by their side as a soul, so she knew their thoughts.
“In short, I was possessed by that bitch Hua Qiyang.”
Hearing this, Gong Musheng couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re so weak.” Feng Lili’s veins immediately popped on her forehead. “Gong Musheng, don’t think that just because you helped me, I’ve forgotten what you did to me.”
“Oh?” Gong Musheng crossed her arms and glanced at her. “What, are you going to settle the score with me?”
“What else?”
“Then give me the money.” Gong Musheng held out her hand, not at all pretentious. “You don’t think the things I threw were free, do you?”
Feng Lili’s eye twitched.
This woman was always up to no good when she said that. And all those things she threw… it must have cost a fortune.
“How much?”
“About a few years of free labor from you should cover it.”
Feng Lili’s head was about to explode.
She scratched her long hair in frustration and looked at Gong Yiling.
“The Ghost Essence Crystal, is it yours now?”
“Yes.” Gong Yiling looked at the thing in her hand and nodded. “It should be.”
“I see…” Feng Lili stroked her chin, her thoughts unreadable.
“Um, actually, I have a question for Senior Feng.”
Feng Lili paused, then said, “Go ahead, ask.”
“It’s about Hua Qiyang.” Gong Yiling asked, “After Senior Hua made a promise with you, why did she still take over your body?”
Feng Lili was silent for a moment, then sighed. “You want to know what happened after I returned here, what made that bitch Hua Qiyang take over my body, right?”
“Mmm.”
Feng Lili didn’t answer immediately, but after a while, she said, “It was all my fault.”
“What do you mean?”
Feng Lili glanced at the others, then turned and said, “Follow me.”
She didn’t take them anywhere else, but back to the village.
Or rather, the village in the illusion.
—Although the Ghost Essence Crystal was now in Gong Yiling’s possession, the illusion hadn’t dissipated. She didn’t know why.
At this moment, in the illusion, the old father was at the point in time after he had forced his daughter to her death.
The guard’s report only made him nod coldly. In front of others, he feigned some sadness.
One face in public, another in private.
This person, Gong Yiling didn’t think he could ever repent.
“Do you think now that he doesn’t look like someone who can repent?” Feng Lili glanced at their expressions, as if she knew what they were thinking.
“…Mmm.”
“But at that time, I was deceived by them.” Feng Lili sighed. “I thought they had truly repented, so I went and asked Hua Qiyang to temporarily stop the technique.”
“After that, Qiyang explained everything to the villagers and hoped they would accept outsiders, or try to leave this mountain crevice.”
“Qiyang’s only intention was to end the sin, so that no one would die tragically because of it again.”
“However, she overlooked what these twisted people had become after a long cycle of reincarnation.”
That day, Hua Qiyang, completely off guard, was ambushed and assassinated by several villagers.
Although they were just villagers, don’t forget, they all possessed spiritual energy. This Hundred Ghosts Ridge gave them the ability to attack any cultivator. It wasn’t difficult to deal with the unprepared Hua Qiyang.
Not only did they not thank her for giving them a chance to start anew, but they hated this “demoness” even more, thinking she was the cause of all this, that she was the one who trapped them in this cycle.
So, their subsequent assassination seemed logical.
“Although Qiyang had the protection of the ghost essence, she wasn’t immortal. After they killed her, they also threw her into the Hundred Ghosts Ridge. I only found out the next day.”
Feng Lili smiled. “Of course, they originally wanted to kill me too.”
“But a group of flies and rats are naturally no match for me. And just as I was about to kill them, I was tricked by Qiyang’s resentful soul and the Ghost Essence Crystal.”
So that was it…
Hearing this, Gong Yiling felt a bit wistful.
Although her contact with Hua Qiyang was only in the illusion, she knew that this girl was a kind person with a big heart.
She didn’t care what others thought of her, or what price she would pay for her actions.
She just didn’t want to see innocent people die in front of her. That was all.
But such a woman, in the end, had such a fate…
Thinking of this, Gong Yiling asked,
“Senior Feng, this illusion, why hasn’t it been dispelled?”
“Although this illusion was created by the Ghost Essence Crystal, it is filled with Hua Qiyang’s own ghost essence and nascent soul.”
“This ghost essence was a gift from the Ghost Essence Crystal. You can choose to take it back. This way, these people will be freed from the long cycle and live their own lives.”
“Of course.”
Feng Lili’s eyes flickered. “You can also choose to ignore all this and let them continue to play house here. Although they are cultivators, if they don’t absorb spiritual energy or eat for several years, they will also die.”
“So, little girl, since the Ghost Essence Crystal is now yours, their lives are in your hands.”
“Life or death, you decide.”
