"The Rebirth Bell can ferry living souls. And this one in my hand can even revive the dead. Do you know that?" The bell jingled softly in Yu Chu's hand, emitting a clear sound that was both pleasant and eerie.
The Rebirth Bell that can revive the dead...
Zhaozhao watched the bell in Yu Chu's hand and suddenly remembered the words on the bell's inscription - "The dead body... shall live..."
"Who do you want to revive? Your parents?" Zhaozhao calmly asked Yu Chu, while her other hand was hidden behind her back and the Soul Severing Sword slowly materialized in her hand.
Yu Chu squinted her eyes when she saw the Soul Severing Sword in Zhaozhao's hand. She walked out from the shadows and slowly sat on a cabinet nearby, swinging the bell in her hand as she smiled lightly and said, "You're right. That's great."
Without the shadows obstructing her view, Zhaozhao finally saw Yu Chu's appearance clearly at this moment. She was shocked and widened her eyes.
"You..."
There were two ghosts floating behind Yu Chu. One was He Chu, whose trace Zhaozhao couldn't find in the Underworld. And the other should be He Chu's husband, who was Yu Chu's father.
She, Yu Chu, was the one who cast the curse and raised the souls! And the souls she raised were her own parents?!
Zhaozhao was right about the shadow that day. Yu Chu really didn't have arms.
In her sleeves, what was hanging wasn't a human arm, but a rattan!
Zhaozhao was extremely familiar with this rattan.
Perhaps the surprise in Zhaozhao's eyes was too obvious. Yu Chu noticed it. The rattan moved and she supported her chin as she lazily said, "How is it? Familiar? It's your thing. Oh right, you should have seen that little sapling. This is similar to that, except that it listens to me more."
Intuition told Zhaozhao that she had to take action now. She couldn't waste any more time talking to Yu Chu, or things would easily go wrong. She had to capture Yu Chu first.
Thinking of this, Zhaozhao's spiritual energy burst out in her hand and the Soul Severing Sword immediately attacked, aiming straight at Yu Chu.
However, the two ghosts behind Yu Chu were constantly paying attention to Zhaozhao. The moment the Soul Severing Sword got close to Yu Chu, they exploded with powerful strength and forced the Soul Severing Sword away.
"Hahaha..." Yu Chu laughed happily when she saw this situation. "A child with mom and dad is the happiest. How could they let you hurt me?"
The next moment, Yu Chu's eyes darkened and the rattan on her left arm attacked Zhaozhao.
Zhaozhao dodged to the side, but she didn't expect Yu Chu's target to not be her from the beginning. Instead, they gathered above Zhaozhao's head and formed a rattan cage, trapping Zhaozhao inside.
No one was more familiar than Zhaozhao with what the rattan was afraid of. A flame was condensed between her fingers, which was the divine fire of the Chongming.
"Zhaozhao? Are you in there?!"
However, just as Zhaozhao wanted to burn the rattan, Song Yao's voice came from outside the door.
After Song Yao finished showering, she noticed something was wrong after seeing the information on her phone. She then sensed that the formation in Yu Chu's room was destroyed. She found that Zhaozhao was missing and worried that she would go wrong. She immediately searched everywhere in the Chen family and chased to this place.
"Little sister, there's something I have to remind you. Your cheap cousin, Song Yao, is from the Song family. You know that the Song family is related to the owner of this divine fire, right?"
There was a smug smile on Yu Chu's face. "If I let her in, how are you going to explain the fire in your hand to her? Song Yao is carrying a real-time transmission communication device. As long as she sees you, the entire Mystic World will know in a short while."
She said this to try and threaten Zhaozhao into submission. Zhaozhao was caught in a dilemma.
It was because her cousin was really carrying what she said. It was on her forehead, which was the seal that Uncle Song placed on her the last time.
"Don't move. I actually don't want to do anything. I just want to tell you a story and bring you to a place. If you're obedient, nothing will happen."
The high heels made a clicking sound on the ground, overlapping with Song Yao's anxious shouts outside the door. Yu Chu took a step closer to Zhaozhao and extended her right hand. A fragment that emitted spiritual light flew out of her hand.
The fragment circled around Zhaozhao. Zhaozhao watched it and her heart started to beat uncontrollably. Her body suddenly became very hot.
It came again, that feeling of losing control.
"Ah—!" A huge amount of strength rushed into Zhaozhao's body. Zhaozhao started to show the features of a demon and there was a tearing pain from the depths of her heart.
The strength that belonged to Zhaozhao in her body, as well as the strength of the Heavenly Completion Stone and the half of the heart from Su Yuan, were colliding with each other. Zhaozhao curled up on the ground in pain.
"Don't worry. This is your thing. Similar to that little sapling, my rattan was also cultivated using something from your body. I'm just returning it to you now. Why are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Yu Chu made a confused look and squatted down. She got close to Zhaozhao's ear and whispered, "Do you know that there are many, many more of such little saplings. There are so many that I can't even count them."
Song Yao outside the door probably guessed something. She sent a message to the Mystic World and was currently trying to break the door open constantly.
Yu Chu looked at the sky. It was about time.
"Alright, alright. It doesn't hurt anymore. Sister will bring you to a good place. You won't feel the pain soon." She comforted Zhaozhao with words that she used to coax a child and even touched Zhaozhao's hair lovingly.
The next moment, she disappeared with Zhaozhao.
Zhaozhao was in a daze from the collision of the three forces in her body. She tightened her grip on the dragon scale around her neck with a trace of consciousness.
The dragon scale lit up in her hand. Zhaozhao silently said in her heart, "Dragon scale, dragon scale, you'll tell Su Yuan, right? Tell him..."
And at this moment, thousands of miles away, Su Yuan suddenly felt his heart constrict. He bent down in pain, covering his heart as his face turned pale.
"Boss! What's wrong with you?!" Gu Qing immediately went forward to ask when he saw this situation.
Su Yuan's eyelids twitched and his eyes were cold enough to kill.
Zhaozhao was in trouble.
And at the same time, Song Yao finally opened the door. There was no one inside.
The veins on Song Yao's forehead were bulging and an overwhelming anger engulfed her.
Once again, she let Zhaozhao go wrong in front of her again!
Song Yao tried her best to calm herself down. She smelled a trace of ghostly aura in the air. Her eyes lit up. She took out a mechanical butterfly and chased after it.
And at this moment, in the Mystic World, Chen Jin's body disappeared without a trace.
When Zhaozhao woke up again, she was wearing a strange red dress. Her body was covered in silver bells and she was tied to a high platform. There was a continuous flame burning below. And what was binding her was the rattan that she was extremely familiar with.
These rattans were constantly supplying spiritual energy to Zhaozhao's body. This spiritual energy was a treasure to ordinary people or demons, but to Zhaozhao at this moment, it made her extremely painful.
It was incompatible with the other two strange forces in her body. A mouthful of blood spurted out from Zhaozhao's mouth. She was constantly trying to balance the three forces.
Yu Chu was sitting not far away. When she saw that Zhaozhao woke up, she threw the bell in her hand and slowly said, "You're awake?"
Hearing her words, a pile of people with strange outfits below the high platform knelt down and shouted, "May the Holy Maiden Be in Peace."
Zhaozhao watched Chen Jin's body beside Yu Chu. She tried her best to buy time and deliberately asked, "Chen Jin died to save you. Aren't you even a little bit regretful?"