CHAPTER 727: CHAPTER 711: EVIL GETS ITS DUE, BREAKING INTO THE UNDERWORLD

Meng Chang’s face was full of evil spirit, and following behind, Lady Meng and Meng Chendao cried and chased after him.

"Stop right there! Xiangxiang is gone; do you also intend to commit murder and end up in prison? Are you trying to drive us, mother and son, to death?" Lady Meng shouted fiercely while coughing violently, even coughing up blood due to the excessive strain.

"Father." Meng Chendao and Meng Chenxiang screamed in fear.

Qin Liuxi also stopped Meng Chang by pinching his arm, which caused Meng Chang’s arm to feel sore instantly, and the woodcutting axe fell into Qin Liuxi’s hands.

"Give me back the axe, I want to kill that beast," Meng Chang’s eyes were bloodshot.

Qin Liuxi said, "Chenxiang has already returned; could he possibly escape Da Feng’s laws? The dead are gone, the living are like this, a daughter is already gone, do you really want to sacrifice yourself too, causing your wife and son worry and leaving your family in ruin? You might as well look back."

Meng Chang turned around and saw the anxious eyes of his wife and son; the robust man instantly collapsed, squatting on the ground, burying his face in his hands and starting to sob painfully.

Lady Meng and the others walked over, and the family hugged and cried together once again.

After a long while, their emotions finally calmed down.

It was then that Qin Liuxi spoke, "Since Chenxiang’s soul has returned, you will also be able to truly bring her home soon."

Upon hearing this, Meng Chang and his family looked towards their young daughter, tears welling up again; they all understood what this meant.

Qin Liuxi continued, "Now that the crying is over, let’s discuss serious matters. Who else has been to this house? The feng shui here has been tampered with."

Meng Chang was shocked, "Master, what do you mean?"

Indeed, from what Qin Liuxi had shown and by sending Chenxiang back home, Meng Chang and his family instinctively addressed Qin Liuxi as ’Master’.

Now hearing her saying the feng shui at home had been tampered with, they were immediately frightened.

Qin Liuxi walked to the suspicious spots she had noticed earlier, moved aside some inconspicuous and unnecessary stones or wall sections, and used a stick to dig out hidden objects.

Lady Meng exclaimed in shock; what were those things? Dead cats, dead birds, and some yellow talismans.

"How could these things be here?" Meng Chang’s face turned ashen.

Even as an outsider, he knew that these dead things brought misfortune and were buried in his house, which was obviously a bad sign.

"Master, what will these things cause to my family’s feng shui?"

"Naturally, it brings bad luck upon your house. At best, it causes misfortune and financial loss, illnesses afflict the body, and at worst, loss of life," Qin Liuxi unfolded the yellow talisman, which were just some dirty talismans for summoning pettiness, along with some cat and bird carcasses which would naturally bring bad luck.

It’s also because these items weren’t buried too long or in the precise optimal positions that the entire family wasn’t tormented.

But even so, it had already formed a bad aura of financial loss and persistent illness.

The faces of Meng Chang and his family changed.

Meng Chendao darkly said, "It was Scholar Zeng, half a year ago when he came to our house to deliver books, I saw him standing on this stone position, and he had a small parcel in his hand then."

"This damned beast must be feeling guilty and afraid that we will discover something wrong, which is why he wants our entire family to suffer misfortune, making it impossible for us to find Xiangxiang. He is truly worse than a beast; my son even considered him as a benefactor, believing he was deeply affectionate and righteous, but he turned out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing." Meng Chang gnashed his teeth and said, "Over this past year, since Xiangxiang disappeared, our family has been plagued with bad luck, our business has faltered, we have lost money, and my wife has been ill for a whole year without improvement. We thought it was merely bad luck because Xiangxiang was gone, but it turns out, this evildoer was at work."

Seeing his father trying to restrain himself, fearful that he would grab the axe to kill Scholar Zeng, Meng Chendao said, "Master, what should we do for revenge?"

"To kill a person is to pay with one’s life," Qin Liuxi said. "But it shouldn’t be you who take justice into your own hands. I heard from Chenxiang that Scholar Zeng didn’t only harm her, there were others too. You should report it to the officials, the authorities will open a case. After all, this is murder, and not just of one person; he won’t survive, so why sully your own hands?"

But Meng Chang felt uneasy inside, unable to personally execute the murderer of his daughter, his emotions were complex.

But in Da Feng, there is the law, and murder is treated as murder.

"Chenxiang, do you know where the crime took place?" Qin Liuxi looked at Chenxiang. "Would you dare to lead the way?"

Meng Chenxiang, recalling her own suffering, was initially reluctant, but seeing her father’s bloodshot eyes, she nodded.

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A major incident occurred in Sanyang Village, shocking the entire region of ten miles and eight villages.

A year ago, the Meng family’s daughter was found, but what was found was a body that had already decayed, located in the mountains behind the residence where Scholar Zeng taught.

Besides the Meng family’s daughter, there were also two young girls’ bodies discovered, both having suffered severe abuse, and the murderer was none other than the genteel yet beast-hearted Scholar Zeng. When asked for evidence, it naturally came from the personal belongings of the young girls left in his residence.

This news completely shook Sanyang Village. Meng Chang and the families of the other two girls beat Scholar Zeng to within an inch of his life. Had the constables not intervened, they might have killed him.

Some speculators recalled Lady Zeng who had been lingering on her sick bed from postpartum complications half a year ago, and who had suddenly passed away from acute distress after losing her daughter. They suspected Lady Zeng had discovered the truth and was killed by her husband, so they reported it, and the County Magistrate ordered an exhumation. The forensic examination revealed severe poisoning in Lady Zeng’s stomach.

Thus, with several lives implicated, Scholar Zeng was sentenced to be executed immediately. The Zeng Family was smeared, and Mrs. Zeng, facing extreme public outrage, did not dare to leave her house for days. Eventually, when people broke in, they found her having strangled herself, with a horrified expression and bulging eyes. The villagers all whispered that it was the vindictive souls seeking retribution.

The sentenced Scholar Zeng also died in prison before his execution. According to the inmates, Scholar Zeng suddenly went mad in the middle of the night, first kneeling and begging for mercy, then gruesomely tearing off his own genitals and choking to death on them, terrifying the other inmates.

The fate of the Zeng mother and son was rumored to be the revenge of the vindictive souls of Meng Chenxiang and the others, leading to the discovery of the bodies and exposing Scholar Zeng’s true nature, but these were stories for another time.

Meng Chang and the others brought Meng Chenxiang’s body back home, purchased a small coffin for the burial, and burned countless clothes and money offerings, weeping as they sent her off.

Truthfully, having just gotten their daughter back, Meng Chang and his family naturally did not want her to leave, Meng Chenxiang felt the same. But Qin Liuxi mentioned that humans and ghosts should follow different paths, and the longer she stayed in the mortal world, the weaker her soul body would become, and they would be surrounded by yin energy, harmful to both parties.

Meng Chenxiang then bid farewell to her parents and brother, reluctantly following Qin Liuxi as they left.

Qin Liuxi did not summon a Ghost Messenger to escort Meng Chenxiang; instead, he personally intended to lead her through the Ghost Gate to the Yellow Spring.

She also had business to attend to in the Underworld.

Meng Chenxiang: "?"

Are all Heavenly Masters as formidable as you, just storming into the Underworld?

Meng Chenxiang personally witnessed the Gate Guard Ghost General’s terrified expression upon seeing Qin Liuxi, appearing as though he was rushing to report the news, and suddenly felt like saying something.

Well, it seems like they aren’t exactly welcoming you here!