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Huo Yanran, her belly swollen with pregnancy, took the initiative to work. She washed clothes, cooked, and cleaned the house. At first, the brothers did not trust her and refused to let her near the kitchen. Huo Yanran spent another two months earning their trust. Once the brothers had completely lowered their guard, she mixed rat poison into the food and died together with them.

After the other villagers learned what had happened, they were too guilty to call the police. They secretly buried the two brothers, then handed Huo Yanran's body back to the traffickers and told them to dispose of it. They refused to let Huo Yanran be buried in the village cemetery, afraid she would turn into a vengeful ghost and return for revenge. They even told the traffickers to bury her far away.

The traffickers buried her body on a desolate mountain. After Huo Yanran died, her obsession remained. What she hated most was that she had failed to kill the traffickers and take revenge on the entire village before her death. So she became a vengeful ghost after dying, determined to kill them even if it meant her soul would be destroyed.

"I can help you get revenge." Darkness once again swallowed the surroundings. Feng Yang sighed softly and skillfully took out paper and a pen. "Make those traffickers face legal punishment. Let everyone know their crimes. I'll help you dispel your obsession, and you can be reincarnated. There's no need to ruin all your future lives over such disgusting people."

"Impossible!" the vengeful ghost howled. "I want them to die. I want them to suffer until they die. I want to devour their ghost souls. I want them to be utterly destroyed."

She had already devoured the ghost souls of those two brothers, along with the resentful souls of other nearby victims. That was why she had enough strength to transform into a vengeful ghost.

Hearing the vengeful ghost's howl, Feng Yang secretly relaxed a little. A newly born vengeful ghost with blood on its hands could not be reasoned with, because it had already tasted blood. The fact that Huo Yanran could still "speak" was enough to prove that the three traffickers were not dead yet.

"Wouldn't death be too easy for them? Even if their souls were destroyed, they wouldn't feel pain anymore. If I were you, I'd let them live first. Let them spend the rest of their lives in fear, providing you with energy. Once they die, you can devour their ghost souls and take your revenge." Feng Yang spoke deliberately. As he talked, he quietly activated the Vengeful Ghost Talisman, trying to calm Huo Yanran down.

"What do you mean?" The ghostly wails around them suddenly stopped. Huo Yanran's figure, hidden within the ghostly aura, faintly emerged as she asked in confusion.

"Have you ever read ghost stories? What frightens people most is not death itself, but the process of slowly walking toward death." Feng Yang put it simply. Since Huo Yanran could create a vengeful ghost illusion, they might as well use it to draw all the traffickers and everyone she wanted revenge on into the illusion, making them experience the despair of impending death again and again. During that process, the terrified lambs would generate the purest fear, dread, darkness, and other negative emotions. Those emotions could nourish a vengeful ghost's soul power.

After those lambs died, the vengeful ghost could devour their souls and grow stronger. The Heavenly Dao punished vengeful ghosts for killing people, but it did not care if they devoured ghosts. Feng Yang's method was to exploit a loophole in the Heavenly Dao. In his previous life, he had spent many years exploring such methods with vengeful ghosts. There were many similar techniques.

"The illusion itself has no lethal power. Use the vengeful ghost illusion to plant mental suggestions in those traffickers and other evil people, making them encounter everything you consider most terrifying in their dreams. Having nightmares does not violate the Heavenly Dao. Of course, it isn't against the law either."

Feng Yang said calmly, "We aren't killing anyone. We're only making them have nightmares. With the vengeful ghost illusion as a foundation, all the terrified negative emotions they produce in their dreams will be absorbed by the illusion. You can absorb that energy to nourish your soul body. Of course, once your obsession is gone, you can also choose reincarnation. If you're lucky, you might even be reincarnated into your own family and become your parents' daughter again."

Huo Yanran said nothing, but the dense ghostly aura around her churned continuously. Clearly, Feng Yang's words had moved her.

"Is what you said possible?" Huo Yanran asked hesitantly after a long while.

Feng Yang chuckled softly, his eyes gentle as he looked at the increasingly distinct vengeful ghost before him. "Why wouldn't it be? The country has already allowed a second child. As long as your parents agree, it can absolutely be done."

To persuade Huo Yanran, Feng Yang continued, "After this is resolved, I can take your remains to see your parents. You can persuade them yourself."

"I mean, can I really be reincarnated into my own family? You haven't died before, so how can you guarantee that I'll be precisely reincarnated as my parents' second child instead of randomly being born into some other family?"

Huo Yanran did not know that Feng Yang had not only died once, but had also been reborn! The difficulty of that was far greater than precise reincarnation!

However, there was no need for Feng Yang to explain such things to Huo Yanran. He merely explained patiently, "There won't be a problem with this process. All we need is an array, your parents' blood and hair, and your cooperation."

To win Huo Yanran's trust, Feng Yang explained every step of the array in detail. Huo Yanran was half-convinced, half-doubtful. What she hated most in this life were the traffickers and the two brothers who had bought her, who had ruined her entire life. Then there were the villagers who had watched coldly and kicked her while she was down. They had forced Huo Yanran into such despair that she had no choice but to commit suicide by dying together with them. Even after death, her obsession had remained, and she had become a vengeful ghost to seek revenge.

The reason Feng Yang had suggested that Huo Yanran be reincarnated as her biological mother's second child was to awaken her hopes for the next life. Being a ghost was like being human. Once someone had hope, they might not choose to perish with the bad people at the cost of their soul being destroyed.

Sure enough, Huo Yanran's attitude softened. But in the next moment, her obsession with killing those people for revenge gained the upper hand.

"No!" A sinister wind suddenly rose around them, and the vengeful ghost howled again. "I want them to die! I want every one of them to pay the price."

Those evil people had harmed her so terribly. Why should they be allowed to live? So what if their souls were dragged into a vengeful ghost illusion? To outsiders, they would merely seem to be sleeping and having nightmares. That punishment was far too light.

"I want to kill them! Kill them and take revenge!"

As she spoke, the vengeful ghost transformed into a mass of baleful energy and charged at the traffickers trapped within the barrier.

Feng Yang frowned, sensing trouble. His right hand instinctively swept toward the vengeful ghost, and a mass of soul power glowing with golden merit light slammed into her body. The vengeful ghost let out a miserable howl and flew backward. The baleful energy around her instantly dispersed, and she turned back into Huo Yanran, collapsed on the ground.