Chapter 485: Chapter 474: Fierce Ghost
"Xiao Ran, come here," Chu Cheng said with a stern face.
"Don’t go," Ling Xiao put his hand out to shield Xiao Ran behind him, "Xiao Ran, go into the room, lock the door from the inside, and don’t open it no matter what."
"You dare!" Chu Cheng’s face twisted into a ferocious expression as he shouted harshly, "Xiao Ran, I am your dad, come here."
However, Xiao Ran retreated in fear, taking several steps back. Although he was young, he could distinctly tell right from wrong, and ultimately he heeded Ling Xiao’s words and dashed to the room behind them, then with a "click" he locked the door.
"Useless thing!" Song Jin, seeing the situation turning unfavorable for them, cursed viciously once again.
"Master Hui Guang, why don’t you exterminate this evil ghost quickly? Do you want us to all perish here?"
Hui Guang was already at the end of his strength, but he insisted that humans have human paths and ghosts have ghost paths; a ghost should not employ private punishment to harm people.
He crossed his legs, then began to mutter sutras under his breath. Although his voice was not loud, every sentence inflicted massive pain on Ye Qiu.
"Ah!" Ye Qiu covered her head, screaming in agony; her piercing screams also jarred people’s eardrums, making it feel like their heads would explode.
"Such a stubborn old bald donkey," Meng Huai also covered his head in pain. Those sutras penetrated into his brain without exception, and his ghost energy was fading. He hadn’t committed any evil, yet these sutras almost rendered him utterly annihilated; it was unimaginable how much pain Ye Qiu was enduring now.
"Master Hui Guang, I’m sorry," Ling Xiao leveraged his willpower to stand and walk towards Master Hui Guang.
"What are you trying to do?" Chu Cheng also got up, blocking his path.
At this moment, Song Jin, seeing Ye Qiu’s increasingly agonized expression and her fading form, walked towards her with a vicious grin, clutching the Buddha Beads.
"Die!" With a ferocious smile, Song Jin was about to place the Buddha Beads on Ye Qiu.
"Don’t hurt my Mom!" Ultimately, Xiao Ran did not listen to Ling Xiao; as soon as he heard Ye Qiu’s painful cries, he opened the door, and seeing Song Jin threatening his mom, he hurried over with urgent, scuffling steps.
"Get lost!" Song Jin viciously kicked Xiao Ran away.
Ling Xiao’s eyes were filled with rage as he gritted his teeth and said, "Stop that Monk from chanting sutras, Xiao Ran. If he stops, your mom will be fine."
"You dare!" Song Jin turned her head abruptly upon hearing his words, but her kick was poorly aimed and ended up sending Xiao Ran flying towards Master Hui Guang.
Hearing Ling Xiao’s words, Xiao Ran got up with a roll, and not knowing how to make Master Hui Guang stop, he simply used the most straightforward method—he pinched Master Hui Guang’s nose and then reached into his mouth while he was chanting.
This was a game Xiao Ran often played with Ye Qiu before she died. Whenever Ye Qiu pretended to sleep and wouldn’t wake up, this was what he did.
With his nose pinched and another little fist stuffed in his mouth, Master Hui Guang, who was mid-chant, was abruptly interrupted, spewing a mouthful of fresh blood from his heart and then fell to the ground with wide-open eyes, passing away in disbelief—succumbed to backlash.
With Master Hui Guang dead, Ye Qiu also stopped screaming. Although she was extremely weak, unexpectedly, she regained some consciousness.
"Xiao Ran." Looking at Xiao Ran’s confused and frightened eyes, Ye Qiu’s eyes welled with deep sorrow.
"It’s okay now, go to your room to sleep, lock the door, Mom’s okay now, be good." She could not control her Ghost Energy normally now, so she could only talk to Xiao Ran from a distance.
Fortunately, Xiao Ran was very obedient, "thump thump thump," he ran back to his room.
"Master Hui Guang!" Song Jin clenched the Buddha Beads and gnashed her teeth, her hands trembling uncontrollably.
It’s over, it’s really over! How could Master Hui Guang die so easily? Wasn’t he supposed to be very powerful?
"Song Jin, Chu Cheng, I wonder who will come to help you this time?" Ye Qiu approached step by step, darkly staring at them.
"We still have Buddha Beads." Song Jin held up the Buddha Beads and said, "Don’t come any closer, if you don’t want to die, stay away."
"Hehe, run? Where do you think you can escape to?" Over there, Meng Huai also successfully intercepted Chu Cheng, who was trying to flee.
Chu Cheng didn’t have Buddha Beads, only an amulet, but for how long could the amulet protect him? He knew once Master Hui Guang died, his end had come, so he took the opportunity to slip toward the door while Ye Qiu was intercepting Song Jin, only to find his path blocked by Meng Huai, who had been keeping an eye on him.
"I have no grudge nor grievance with you, why would you harm me?" Chu Cheng clenched his teeth, fear turning his face pale.
"You may have no grudge nor grievance with me, but I just can’t stand your actions, a man who can abandon even his wife and child, is truly despicable," Meng Huai spat at him.
"It was all Song Jin’s fault, she seduced me, when she got pregnant with my child, she threatened to ruin me if I didn’t comply, go after her, it was she who wanted Ye Qiu to vanish into smoke, she was the one who hit Xiao Ran, go!" Chu Cheng screamed in fear, betraying Song Jin without a second thought for their friendship.
Song Jin turned her head abruptly, unable to believe that Chu Cheng would say such things. Yes, she had pressured him with her pregnancy, but she never said a word about harming Ye Qiu. It was he who was greedy for the insurance money and harbored evil intentions. Now, he’s blaming her?
To think she had sought out Divine Women and Masters everywhere for their safety, only to be abandoned by him at the brink of death?
Ha ha ha ha... She should have seen it coming. How could someone who could kill his own wife without remorse be truly devoted to her?
She was wrong; she should never have set her eyes on a scumbag like him!
"Chu Cheng, make it clear, I had no idea when you planned to kill Ye Qiu, all it took was a few words from me to convince you that Ye Qiu was cheating on you; would you have been with me if you weren’t willing? Now you want to dump everything on me? It’s not that easy." Song Jin glared at him, "If we’re going to die, we’ll die together.
"You’re crazy, you’re crazy, woman; if you want to die, don’t drag me into it. Ye Qiu, a day of marriage brings a hundred days of grace, can you please let me go? I am Xiao Ran’s dad, he can’t be without a dad, if I die won’t he become an orphan? Can you bear to let him grow up in an orphanage just like you?" Chu Cheng tried to invoke forgiveness by invoking Xiao Ran, becoming more impassioned as he spoke.
"Without you, Xiao Ran still has me," Ling Xiao suddenly spoke up, cutting off Chu Cheng’s delusion.
"You again." Chu Cheng glowered at him darkly, but no longer dared to insinuate that Ling Xiao had an ambiguous relationship with Ye Qiu.
"Real dad? A real dad wouldn’t treat his own son like that. Chu Cheng, don’t you feel guilty saying that?" Song Jin looked at him with scorn.
"Shut up, isn’t all of this your doing? Go to hell, you go and die!" Chu Cheng’s eyes turned blood red as he glared at her, moving to strangle her.
"If we’re going to die, we’ll die together, Chu Cheng, I was blind to have ever fallen for you," said Song Jin, equally crazed.