"You don't remember...?"
"Five years ago, that night..."
"You pushed me into the well and drowned me..."
Liao Xiu'er stared at Liao Xiong grimly, bone-deep hatred spilling from her pair of pale eyes.
If not for him,
she would surely have been married by now, perhaps even with children.
But this beast had forcibly pushed her into a well and drowned her!
He had even pushed her brother into the well and drowned him too!
Their branch of the family had effectively been cut off completely!
"It was you..."
"It really was you—!"
"You... you... don't come any closer!"
"I didn't want to do it either! You forced me! If you had given yourself to me, I wouldn't have pushed you into the well!"
"It was all your own fault!"
Liao Xiong collapsed to the ground in terror, crawling backward as he screamed in breakdown.
His heart was utterly filled with fear.
Liao Xiu'er had actually become a ghost!!
Now she had come for him!
"You beast!"
Liao Chengping, dressed in a Ghost Messenger's uniform, rushed out from the side with a grim face, viciously lashing Liao Xiong with the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain in his hand!
The talisman hanging around Liao Xiong's neck flashed.
But a glimmer of divine power flickered across the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain, and the talisman immediately shattered.
The talisman that had kept the siblings from taking revenge for five years was utterly unable to withstand a single blow from the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain!
"Liao Chengping!!"
"You became a ghost too!!"
Liao Xiong screamed in terror and was so frightened that he pissed himself.
He had never expected it.
The brother and sister whom he had pushed into the well all those years ago had both become vicious ghosts and now sought revenge!
And the talisman the Daoist priest had given him had actually shattered!!
"Brother—!"
Liao Xiu'er grabbed Liao Chengping, preventing the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain from striking Liao Xiong.
"Hm?"
Liao Chengping looked at his sister in confusion.
This beast had killed them. Even slicing him into a thousand pieces would not quell their hatred!
"The Venerable God's order was only for us to seize his soul and bring it back."
"Before the Venerable God gives an order, we cannot use private punishment."
Liao Xiu'er took a deep breath and shook her head.
Though she hated Liao Xiong to the marrow and wanted to use the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain to whip him straight away, torturing him viciously,
she had heard some storybooks while alive.
She knew that no superior liked subordinates acting on their own initiative.
Now that she and her brother worked under the Venerable God, they had to obey the Venerable God's rules.
And she believed—
the Venerable God would surely give this beast the punishment he deserved!
"My sister is right."
Liao Chengping nodded.
Then his sinister gaze fell upon Liao Xiong, who had pissed himself and was looking at him in abject terror—
the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain in his hand immediately extended, straightening like an illusory black python and instantly binding Liao Xiong's body.
Then—
he tugged the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain in his hand.
Liao Xiong's soul was immediately dragged out, bound by the Soul-Binding Chain!
"I... I became a ghost too?"
Liao Xiong stared in terror at his own body on the ground, now devoid of breath.
"Go."
Liao Xiu'er's white dress instantly transformed into a Ghost Messenger's uniform as she headed toward Four Seas Village.
The Soul-Binding Chain stretched three zhang behind them, dragging Liao Xiong's ghost along.
The quiet town remained deathly still.
Liao Xiong's terrified screams earlier had surely been heard by the nearby townsfolk.
Yet no one dared come out to investigate.
Nor did anyone dare make the slightest sound.
Quite a few townsfolk were even pale-faced and trembling.
They had just heard the word "ghost"!
Had someone encountered a ghost?
Please, don't let it come to our house!
The nearby townsfolk prayed.
Outside the Land God Temple.
Li Youming, who had been asleep, suddenly sensed a chill in the air and immediately jolted awake.
"Where is this sinister aura coming from?"
He was rather startled.
This was the Land God Temple, beneath Lord Zhangyue's gaze!
Could some sinister ghostly creature really dare come here?
He pushed open his door.
A great deal of Qi within him circulated and flowed into his eyes.
At once, he saw—
two ghosts dressed in constable uniforms kneeling respectfully before the Land God Temple. One of them held an iron chain, its end binding another ghost.
The bound ghost's face was full of terror.
"Liao Chengping, Liao Xiu'er?"
"Liao Xiong?"
He spoke in surprise.
Hadn't the siblings Liao Chengping and Liao Xiu'er fallen into a well and died five years ago?
Back then, the matter had caused a huge uproar throughout the Four Villages.
There had even been rumors that Liao Xiong had done it.
But with no evidence at all, the matter had eventually been dropped.
What was going on now?
The dead Liao Chengping and Liao Xiu'er had become ghosts?
And they had captured Liao Xiong's ghost?
Could it be that Liao Chengping and Liao Xiu'er truly had been pushed into the well and drowned by Liao Xiong?
"Uncle Youming."
"You can see us?"
Liao Xiu'er asked in surprise.
The Four Villages were not far apart, and her mother was from Li Family Village, so she often came there as well.
"I am Lord Zhangyue's Temple Keeper. I walk the Mortal Realm on Lord Zhangyue's behalf, so naturally I can see you."
"You are dressed in constable uniforms and kneeling before Lord Zhangyue's temple. Could it be that you received Lord Zhangyue's blessing?"
A glint flashed through Li Youming's eyes as he made a guess.
"So the Venerable God is Lord Zhangyue!"
"Uncle Youming has become the Venerable God's Temple Keeper!"
Liao Xiu'er suddenly understood and hurriedly said:
"Uncle Youming, we received Lord Zhangyue's blessing and will henceforth serve under Lord Zhangyue as Ghost Messengers."
Ghost Messengers!
Li Youming nodded, saying with gratification:
"You siblings suffered misfortune, but being able to serve as Ghost Messengers under Lord Zhangyue after death is also your Creation."
After all, he had watched the two siblings grow up.
Even their maternal grandfather had been his cousin within five degrees of kinship, though he had long since passed away.
After saying that,
he immediately returned to his room and asked no further questions.
He was Lord Zhangyue's Temple Keeper, walking the Mortal Realm for Lord Zhangyue and managing the affairs of the Mortal Realm on his behalf.
But the Liao siblings had already become Ghost Messengers, so what they did no longer belonged to the Mortal Realm!
Matters outside the Mortal Realm
were naturally matters he should avoid.
Having lived for over fifty years, he understood this much.
Within the Divine Domain.
Li Yue looked at the Ghost Messengers, the sibling pair Liao Xiu'er and Liao Chengping, kneeling outside the Land God Temple, as well as Liao Xiong's captured ghost.
A trace of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Though Liao Xiu'er had been only sixteen before her death, she knew when to advance and when to retreat, and was exceedingly clever.
She could be cultivated with special attention in the future.
He lightly waved his hand.
At once—
the Divine Domain, which had expanded to a radius of ten zhang, immediately transformed into an imposing Underworld court.
Pillars stood throughout the hall, while pitch-black mist surrounded it on all sides, gloomy yet carrying a majestic authority that inspired fear.
Dressed in the Land God Vestments and wearing the Land God Crown, he sat at the head of the court.
Before him stood a table holding the Land God Seal and the Land God Register.
"Bring Liao Xiong inside."
He spoke indifferently.
His voice traveled beyond the Land God Temple. In an instant, Liao Xiu'er and Liao Chengping felt their vision blur, and they had already appeared within the Divine Domain, now transformed into an Underworld court.
Liao Xiong, bound by the Illusion Soul-Binding Chain, came in with them as well.
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