(The site's backend had been unstable lately. Sometimes I couldn't get in or log on. Now I had to go to an internet café and upload several days' worth at once... It was so hot, and there was no air conditioning. Writing felt like roasting a fish...)
Tang Changsheng scoffed. "You're frightening yourself. That curse is ancient. How could it still have any power today?"
The Heaven and Earth Cataclysm had happened so long ago. Spiritual Qi had dissipated, and the Dao Arts no longer manifested.
Tang Changsheng might have looked formidable as he traded spells with others, but before the Cataclysm, someone at his level would have been no more than a novice at the General's Temple—one who had only just kindled his Heavenly Heart and was still cultivating the Second Layer of the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Heart Method...
And the General's Temple had been only an unremarkable member of the world's many powerful sects. Who knew how many cultivation sects had been a hundred times stronger?
In short, even if that so-called curse had survived, so many years and the Heaven and Earth Cataclysm had passed. It had probably dissipated long ago.
He had made himself clear enough: Alina's lingering Grievance Aura had turned her into a Vicious Ghost, and that was what had caused all this!
Tang Changsheng believed Holy Salt or Genetic Modification must have played a part as well. But these factors had probably come together by sheer accident to produce this result.
Ever since studying the case of that streetwalker, Tang Changsheng had formed a preliminary judgment about the matter.
But Arabella had been frightened again and again. Worried for Quintina's safety, she was so tense that her thoughts had grown a little muddled, leaving her to imagine all sorts of things.
What Tang