Great Green Mountain, Tang Yu!

The night wind howled as Fei Luo listened quietly to the Green Bird's tale, falling into a deep silence.

"Green Bird, what happened after that?"

Fei Luo's heart was a chaotic mix of emotions at this moment.

A twisted fate, truly a twisted fate.

"Young Master, afterwards..."

The Green Bird soared through the air, her voice, clear as a silver bell, ringing out once more.

It could be said that by the time the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable died, the resentment in her heart had materialized to an inconceivable degree.

Her life was not destined to end, yet she had walked into the abyss by her own hand.

With a shrill, piercing roar, the resentment of the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable transformed into a ghost—a fierce ghost born at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

For a fierce ghost, dealing with mortals was far too simple.

On a night of wind and rain, the fury in her heart reached its zenith.

When a Son of Heaven rages, a million corpses fall; when a commoner rages, blood spatters five paces.

Butcher Zhang was already dead; she knew he was the one worth loving, the one worth entrusting her life to, but she knew it was all too late.

That night, not even a chicken or dog was left alive on Great Green Mountain.

All the bandits were slaughtered by the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable, and the wretched women who had been captured were all terrified out of their wits.

That was not the end of it; the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable left the corpses of all the bandits exposed for forty-nine days. A thick, bloody stench drifted over Great Green Mountain, causing men to tremble and ghosts to despair.

The souls of those bandits were also devoured by her, every last one, with none spared.

Next, the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable began her revenge.

Azure Heaven Town fell into a state of panic.

Because the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable had been abducted by bandits, she had become a laughingstock; everyone knew what it meant to be taken by bandits.

If one were lucky, they might be a bandit's wife.

But bandits were bandits; the mere thought made one shudder.

Furthermore, after Butcher Zhang had flown into a rage and charged up Great Green Mountain with his butcher's knife, everyone mocked the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable even more, calling her a femme fatale who had not only failed to produce an heir since marrying into the Zhang family but had also caused Butcher Zhang's death.

The Azure Sky Ghost Venerable did not spare a single one of those who spread these rumors.

She began her slaughter.

She wandered through Azure Heaven Town every day, noting down anyone who gossiped, and would come to claim their lives at night.

Gradually, more than half the people in Azure Heaven Town were dead.

This matter alarmed the imperial court.

However, the court of that time was corrupt and decaying, beset by internal and external troubles; the several waves of investigators sent to look into the matter were all killed, which was extremely bizarre.

From then on, Azure Heaven Town became a place of great misfortune.

The theory that it was haunted gradually emerged.

People also realized that the affair between Butcher Zhang and the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable was a taboo.

It could not be spoken of!

And all of this fell into the eyes of Scholar Li.

At first, he did not take it seriously, but as the situation developed, he became extremely terrified.

He discovered that his friends would die suddenly after discussing the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable with him, which deeply rattled his nerves.

When everyone stopped speaking of it, as if they had forcibly forgotten the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable, no one else died.

At this, Scholar Li felt a sense of relief.

But would the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable let him go?

The answer was no.

That night, the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable began to appear at the Li Mansion.

Inside the Li Mansion, starting with the servants, they began to die suddenly, one by one.

This left Scholar Li living in constant, agonizing fear.

He invited exorcists, Taoist priests, and monks.

But every exorcist who came also died suddenly.

Finally, after slaughtering ninety percent of the Li Mansion's inhabitants, the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable appeared before him.

Scholar Li was stunned. His acting skills soared; he knelt and kowtowed like a pestle hitting a mortar, weeping and claiming he was a bastard, that he had been blinded by greed and stupidity back then.

At this moment, Scholar Li's wife was also dumbfounded.

She had never imagined her husband could be such a person.

Would the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable believe his ghost stories?

Impossible.

The corpses of Scholar Li's entire family appeared the next day, hung high above the gates of Azure Heaven Town.

This included the infant still in swaddling clothes.

The cruel Azure Sky Ghost Venerable vanished without a trace from that day on.

Her talent was terrifying; in a mere hundred years, she reached the Golden Core stage and became a Ghost Venerable.

At the same time, she gathered the remnant soul of her husband. She ruled over the five-county region, commanding all the ghosts and monsters within a five-hundred-mile radius, and she cultivated diligently solely to resurrect him.

Yet, the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable was a ghost with principles; she would occasionally restrain her subordinates, forbidding them from going too far.

In her daily life, she lived in seclusion, and even her several great ghost generals rarely caught a glimpse of her true face.

"Sigh." A faint sigh rippled through the night sky.

Silent, Fei Luo's heart was filled with complex emotions.

This Azure Sky Ghost Venerable, who walked the line between righteous and evil, was truly a tragic soul.

But all of this was of her own doing. Had she only taken revenge on the bandits and Scholar Li without committing further atrocities, Fei Luo might have considered sparing her life.

However, relying on her immense ghostly power, she slaughtered living beings wantonly and gathered countless ghosts; she deserved to die!

"Green Bird, accelerate."

"Yes, Young Master."

Suddenly, Fei Luo saw Azure Heaven Town within reach, and he looked toward Great Green Mountain.

That was the base of the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable.

Great Green Mountain had been desolate for a hundred years.

The reason was simple: it was rumored to be a place of great misfortune.

Deep within Great Green Mountain, a sprawling palace stood, which was the Ghost Mansion.

The Azure Sky Ghost Venerable's base of operations was located right here.

In the center of the main hall within the Ghost Mansion, a stunningly beautiful woman dressed in red was gently stroking a crystal ball in her arms, her eyes, clear as autumn water, radiating endless tenderness.

"Husband, wait a little longer. I am already at the Golden Core stage. Once I reach the Void Refinement and Dao Integration stage, I will become a Ghost Immortal. I will definitely find a way to resurrect you."

A haunting voice echoed through the hall. Her fingers, slender as scallions, were painted with red nail polish, appearing extremely eerie.

Suddenly, the crystal ball in the woman's arms seemed to tremble slightly, sensing something.

"Yu'er, why must you suffer so? We were fated to be apart. You have done so much over these years; is it really worth it? In truth, with your devotion, I could smile even in the afterlife."

A weak will emanated from the crystal ball, a voice as faint as a mosquito's hum echoing in the ears of the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable.

Tang Yu'er—that was the name of the Azure Sky Ghost Venerable when she was alive.

This name was known only to the remnant soul within the crystal ball.

Even the people of Azure Heaven Town today only knew the legend of the vengeful ghost, unaware of the person named Tang Yu'er.