RAD Chapter 64

It turned out tha this female ghost in red dress was the same person that Luo Xiao and Ye Lan had guessed before–Zhang Meng, their former junior high school classmate.

“Xiao Xiao, do you know her?” Mr. Huo on the side noticed the expression on his face and immediately understood, connecting it to his previous divination.

“En, she was in the same junior high school as me before.” Luo Xiao nodded and said, “But later I heard that she died.”

“Oh? Is that so.” Mr. Huo pondered for a moment, “When we get back, you can tell me in detail about what you know regarding her.”

Luo Xiao nodded in response, but before he could say anything else, the arriving Zhang Meng could no longer restrain herself.

She looked tenderly at the violently shaking red bead in the air, her eyes filled with unmistakable love. But then she abruptly turned her head and glared at the people gathered around her with a vicious expression, her hoarse voice roaring, “You hypocritical scoundrels, how dare you treat my son this way! I’ll tear you all to pieces!”

As soon as she finished speaking, a cold wind began to swirl around Zhang Meng, causing her long hair to fly wildly, yet her dress remained unnaturally still.

“Be careful!” Suddenly, Old Man Yu shouted. At the same, he hurled dozens of icy blades towards Zhang Meng. “Everyone, watch out for her hair.”

True to his words, the black hair on Zhang Meng’s head instantly transformed into sharp swords, directly attacking the people around her. Because Luo Xiao was standing in the back, just behind his masters and the others, he was within the protection range.

It allowed him to focus on observing the battlefield situation. After all, he didn’t have to pay attention and defend.

Upon closer inspection, Luo Xiao noticed that the positions of Old Man Yu and the others formed a Eight Immortals Subduing Demon Formation, with people of different elemental attributes occupying each position. Based on the eight trigrams, people of different attributes would need to stand in each position. Because thia was a formation that required a big amount of spiritual power to sustain, Luo Xiao saw that some positions had more than one person, likely to compensate for any possibilities if someone’s spiritual power was insufficient.

Zhang Meng’s hair, which initially seemed like mere shoulder-length strands, had now grown to over ten meters long. These hairs seemed to have a consciousness of their own, attacking viciously and making it difficult for the group to defend themselves, let alone launch a direct attack against Zhang Meng.

“Hahaha, you’re so powerful, aren’t you? You’ve actually trapped my child inside this ghost bead!” Zhang Meng smiled seductively, her eyes filled with blatant disdain. “While I’m not using my full strength yet, you’d better quickly release my son, or else!”

Old Man Yu straightforwardly rolled his eyes. “Bullshit, do you really think I’ll yield to you? Dream on!”

“Good, very good!” Zhang Meng narrowed her eyes and let out a bloody smile. “Since you’re so ungrateful, then I’ll satisfy you all by sending you to your deaths!”

The already formidable black hair became even more violent in its movements, and the angles of attack became increasingly tricky. At the same time, her floor-length red dress began to slowly lower, quickly reaching the ground.

Noticing this change, Luo Xiao channeled his spiritual power into his eyes to observe the dress more closely. What he saw after staring at it for a while caused him to draw a sharp breath. This dress…

“Master, master!” Luo Xiao tugged at the tense and focused Mr. Huo on the battle and then said, “Look at the dress she’s wearing.”

Hearing this, Mr. Huo immediately examined the dress more closely. After understanding the situation, his eyes widened in shock. “This, this…”

“Old Huo, what’s wrong?” Old Man Ouyang who was standing nearby noticed the unusual reaction of the master and disciple and quietly asked.

Mr. Huo composed himself and spoke in a low voice, “The red dress on that female ghost seems to be made of congealed blood. If you look closely, you can see the blood slowly flowing within it.”

“What?” Old Man Ouyang immediately furrowed his brow. “Does that mean the blood of those girls who were sucked…”

“Hmm, it should be like this.” Mr. Huo nodded solemnly. Who would have thought that the blood of those girls was being used in this way?

Luo Xiao had been closely watching ever since he noticed something strange about that dress. During this unblinking stare, he soon discovered another problem: the speed at which the blood was flowing seemed to have increased? And the direction of the flow had also changed. It was no longer circulating but instead flowing downwards. Could it be? Not good!

Luo Xiao immediately realized that the blood flowing downwards was rapidly heading towards the crowd in the direction of the formation, in the form of hair-thin strands. He couldn’t help but cry out loudly: “Be careful of your feet, the red dress she’s wearing is made of congealed blood, and it’s flowing down towards your feet!”

“What?” The crowd was startled, and sure enough, that was the case! They quickly joined hands and formed a protective barrier to prevent the blood from spilling out.

The Zhang Meng whose plan had been exposed by Luo Xiao’s words glared at him viciously with her scarlet eyes. “Good, very good! Boy, I’ll remember you!”

Upon seeing this, Mr. Huo stepped forward to block Zhang Meng’s line of sight. Hmph, this was this old man’s precious disciple, he wouldn’t let some female ghost bully him!

After being blocked, Zhang Meng no longer glared, but instead lifted her blood-red nailed right hand and tapped her crimson lips, murmuring softly, “Originally, I wanted you to die without suffering. But since you don’t appreciate it, don’t blame me!”

With that, the red dress on her body immediately shot out numerous blood blades. Imbued with a heavy aura of evil, they attacked the crowd. The original defense was not very secure. Now with these blood blades, they were completely trapped.

“Master, what do we do?” Luo Xiao asked with a furrowed brow, controlling his spirit coin to form a protective shield around himself.

Mr. Huo was completely focused on the incoming blood blades and the black-haired woman. For a moment, he couldn’t think of a good solution. He could only shake his head helplessly at Luo Xiao.

Given the situation, it seemed that their chances of trapping this female ghost were not very high! What should they do?

Just as the crowd was struggling to hold on, Old Man Ouyang suddenly seemed to have discovered something, his eyes brightening. He quickly whispered a few words to Mr. Huo and then looked up and exchanged a glance with Old Man Yu and Old Man Lin, who both nodded in understanding, before retreating.

Although Luo Xiao didn’t know what they had said, seeing the slightly relaxed expression on his master’s face, he knew that no matter what, the passive situation could at least be somewhat alleviated.

Sure enough, reinforcements immediately arrived at Old Man Yu’s and the others’ positions, and his master and the other four men formed a four-pole binding formation near Zhang Meng. With the combined effect of this formation and the Eight Immortals Subduing Demon Formation, Zhang Meng’s attacks began to slow down.

Seizing the opportunity of her slowed movements, Old Man Ouyang took something out of his pocket and flew straight at her dress. Upon contact with her dress, a white smoke appeared before the crowd, accompanied by a scream.

Just before the white smoke disappeared, Mr. Huo quickly threw the bowl he was holding. Zhang Meng’s distorted figure twisted and contorted with a ferocious expression. Although very reluctant, she was quickly sucked into the bowl. At the same time, this bowl, just like that bead, no, even more violently, was shaking back and forth, occasionally letting out a heart-wrenching howl.

“Phew, it’s finally settled.” Old Man Yu let out a deep sigh of relief. “Damn, I didn’t expect this female ghost to be so powerful. Say, Ouyang, what did you just throw over there just now?”

Old Man Ouyang didn’t say anything and directly took something out of his clothes. Old Man Yu carefully looked at it and asked in surprise, “Isn’t this the seed of the Rebirth Flower from your sect?”

“Yes, that’s right.” After putting the seed away, Old Man Ouyang explained, “While observing just now, I happened to sense a faint trace of life soul qi. As you all know, this female ghost’s identity is the Blood Maiden, who should not have the breath of life soul qi. So where did this trace of life soul qi come from?”

“Could it be?” Old Man Yu seemed to have realized something.

“Exactly as you’ve guessed.” Ouyang nodded. “Remember those few victims whose souls I couldn’t find? I speculate that they were used for a living sacrifice, and their souls were forcibly extracted from their bodies and infused into that dress, in order to enhance the female ghost’s strength.”

“The Rebirth Flower seeds from our sect have the ability to guide souls to the afterlife, so I decided to give it a try and threw them over. Sure enough, the results were as expected!”

Old Man Ouyang tone then changed, “But even though we’ve temporarily confined this female ghost, how do we completely destroy her?”

“You’re right, with this female ghost’s strength, this bowl can only hold her for a month at most, and that’s a conservative estimate.” Mr. Huo was also deeply worried.

Just as they were at a loss, Old Man Lin suddenly clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Ah, just because we don’t have a way doesn’t mean others don’t! Have you all forgotten? We can go ask that person for help!”

“That person, you mean?” Old Man Yu immediately understood, but then frowned, “But you know full well that person’s temper. He won’t easily agree to help us!”

Old Man Lin shrugged helplessly, “I know that too, but what choice do we have? After all, that person’s strength is unquestionable. And among those few, he’s the most likely one we can convince, isn’t he?”

“…That’s true.” Old Man Yu carefully considered it and had to agree.

So Luo Xiao saw the three old masters turning their hopeful eyes towards his master.

“Hmph!” Mr. Huo let out a cold snort and strode away. Luo Xiao could only follow with a mix of puzzlement and gossip.

The remaining group, except for the Old Man Yu and the other two old masters, were all thoroughly confused. They didn’t understand who “that person” was. As for the three old masters, they exchanged a glance and smiled in relief: See, he didn’t outright refuse!