"Crack, crack..."
The stone coffin's lid shifted little by little, opening a gap.
Resentful energy surged skyward. Then a withered hand covered in blood reached out, and a woman's sinister laughter rang out alongside a child's wailing. Even on this river teeming with monsters, the sounds made many people's scalps prickle.
A woman crawled out of the stone coffin, her swollen abdomen constantly writhing. Her wedding dress had long since been stained blackish-red with blood and was filthy beyond measure.
A hideous, vacant smile hung on her face as she cried out shrilly.
"My child! My child, where is my child..."
Yet that child was plainly inside her belly, crying and fussing nonstop...
Compared with legendary Weird Objects such as water monkeys, river gods, and the River Earl's son, this woman was clearly more like a ghost.
She had a tragic past. The young couple had happily conceived a child, only for her to be abducted, dressed in a wedding dress, have the placenta cut out of her belly, and be sent off as a sacrifice to the River God.
After that, she had eaten many drowned children, yet could never have a child of her own again.
This female ghost was purer, and more dangerous, hovering on the verge of madness almost constantly. No wonder the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage had used a stone coffin to suppress her.
"Damn it, a Quasi-Ghost King no weaker than the Blood Corpse!"
Zou Lianshan's eyelids twitched violently.
At that moment, he finally lifted the great mountain, wrapped it in yin qi, and pinned Lady River Earl beneath it. Yet water began seeping profusely from the cracks and soil, and the mountain actually started crumbling bit by bit. The Mountain-Moving Ghost inside him was howling too, clearly no match for her.
With another Quasi-Ghost King