"Resentment?!"
"That's right."
Lu Chen immediately understood. "No wonder the area around the Chang family looked so bizarre!"
He promptly told King Yama every detail of the red mist he had seen around the Chang family that afternoon.
After hearing him out, King Yama's tone grew increasingly grave. "That's right. What you saw were not vicious ghosts, but resentful spirits formed from condensed resentment.
"Though they lack the fierce, baleful physical forms of vicious ghosts, they are even more troublesome. Touch them, and they corrode you; they disturb the mind.
"They are even harder to deal with than evil ghosts."
After a brief pause, he continued, "It can now be confirmed that the local City God has not colluded with Spirit Cypress Immortal.
"On the contrary, they have been suffering in silence as well. Ever since Spirit Cypress Immortal set his sights on the Moon Goddess's incarnation, he laid down this Severing Yin Grand Formation.
"Within a radius of ten li, any living creature that dies is trapped within the formation and cannot be reincarnated.
"Even the underworld clerks under the local City God cannot set foot inside the formation. They can only watch helplessly as the souls of the dead scatter into nothingness."
"Over the past few months, a vast sea of resentment has accumulated within those ten li, eventually turning into the red mist you saw."
Lu Chen frowned. "But even if deaths occurred in that area over the past few months, there couldn't possibly have been that many people dying. Why is the resentment so heavy?"
"Foolish boy, do you think living creatures refers only to mortals? Aren't snakes, insects, rats, and ants living creatures too?
"Count them all, and there may be millions of living beings within those ten li!
"They were all forcibly trapped where