CHAPTER 50: CHAPTER 47: IF WE CANNOT GROW OLD TOGETHER IN THIS LIFE, LET’S GO TO HELL TOGETHER.

The female ghost was driven by Shen Dongdong, who led Su Xiaotong to the sacrificial altar at the mountain peak and handed her over to him.

When Qin Zhao returned, he saw Su Xiaotong had fainted from the erosion of ghost energy, and Shen Dongdong was dragging her to the key location of the array.

Alerted by the noise, Shen Dongdong’s eyes immediately turned wary and he fiercely clutched Su Xiaotong’s throat.

"I’ve already agreed to your terms and let those two people go. Why have you come back?"

"I had no choice," Qin Zhao said, "she is my agent."

"No, I can’t let her go again! My array must be activated successfully!"

"How about this: You tell me your wife’s date and time of birth, and I’ll help you summon her soul."

The soul summoning that Qin Zhao knew was much more advanced than this array. It didn’t require a human sacrifice to summon a soul that hadn’t yet reincarnated.

Shen Dongdong was silent, clearly contemplating the credibility of Qin Zhao’s words. Both being from the Mystical Sect, they knew well that one shouldn’t casually give out their birth data, as the other party could easily manipulate it.

After a long time, he summoned the female ghost back to stand guard next to Su Xiaotong.

Shen Dongdong glared at Qin Zhao with a fierce expression, "I’ll let you try. But if you dare to trick me, don’t blame me for being rude. I’ll kill her immediately!"

"I have no reason to deceive you."

Qin Zhao began a hand-sealing spell, using magic that Shen Dongdong didn’t recognize but felt apprehensive about. As the glow of the spell lit up around Qin Zhao, Shen Dongdong looked at her with a glint of expectation.

His hands, which hung at his sides, clenched into fists, expression filled with excitement.

Soon, the magic led a soul flying over from deep within the mountains, appearing in front of them.

"Donghong!!"

Shen Dongdong scrambled frantically over and thudded to his knees before her.

"Donghong, I’ve finally found you, wuwuwu."

He was sobbing uncontrollably, the middle-aged man with graying hair cried like a child.

Attempting to embrace his beloved, but his body passed right through her.

The woman’s soul was shocked for a moment before realizing what was happening.

Seeing the many corpses with pitiful deaths, Qu Donghong involuntarily stepped back, looking at Shen Dongdong in disbelief and gesturing with sign language, "You, you killed people?"

Shen Dongdong looked at her helplessly, knowing his wife was a very kind person; otherwise, she wouldn’t have taken him in and exhausted all her hard-earned money to cure his muteness.

He softly said to his lover, "I know I’ve done wrong. I’ll turn myself in to the police, okay? Please don’t be afraid. I’ll go to the police station tomorrow."

After summoning Qu Donghong’s soul, Qin Zhao quickly pulled Su Xiaotong to her side, dispelling the ghost energy from within her body and reviving her.

"Zhaozhao, I wuwuwu!"

Seeing Qin Zhao, Su Xiaotong clung to her like a lifeline and burst into tears.

"That’s enough, let’s head down the mountain now."

Qin Zhao took a deep look at Shen Dongdong and Qu Donghong, about to lead Su Xiaotong away when the wind suddenly picked up and the ghost gates opened wide, with two Netherworld Envoys arriving to escort the dead souls.

Qu Donghong should have gone to the underworld long ago, but her soul had been trapped at the special location of her death, and now that she was able to leave, it had attracted the Netherworld Envoys.

Unaware of who the envoys were, she hid fearfully behind her husband.

As the two Netherworld Envoys advanced, Shen Dongdong suddenly charged forward, crashing his head into the rock wall nearby.

Netherworld Envoys: "...."

Shen Dongdong’s soul drifted out of his body and said to the envoys, "Sorry, my wife is a bit timid and dares not walk the Huangquan Road. I will accompany her."

He had intended to confess to his crimes, but upon seeing the envoys appear, he changed his mind.

The envoys, seeing the bodies, spoke gravely, "With such bloodshed on your hands, I’m afraid you won’t enter the Reincarnation Path. The underworld will hold a trial and mete out the punishment due to you."

Qu Donghong knelt towards the envoys, opened her mouth and found that, as a ghost, she could now speak.

She spoke hurriedly, "My lord, he did it for me! Please don’t punish him!"

Shen Dongdong bowed his head, "I am willing to accept the punishment."

Even if he was to be punished, he did not regret his actions.

All those people—they deserved to die!

"No, don’t!"

Qu Donghong looked at him in agony. He had died for her; how could she bear the thought of him suffering after death!

Shen Dongdong gave her a resigned smile, "It’s okay, I have no regrets."

The Netherworld Envoy took their souls away, and after entering the underworld, they went their separate ways.

Shen Dongdong was sent to the Eighteen Layers of Hell to be punished, while Qu Donghong headed for the Reincarnation Path.

Along the path of reincarnation, Qu Donghong suddenly went mad, attacking the Netherworld Envoy and other souls on their way to reincarnation, causing severe disturbances.

As a result, the underworld authorities revoked her path to reincarnation and sentenced her to punishment in hell.

She had thought that if they could not grow old together in this life, then they would face hell together.

But within the eighteen layers of hell, with different sentences imposed, they still could not meet.

Once her punishment ended, she waited for him on the Three-Life Stone by the Wang River, waiting and enduring the endless years.

After Qin Zhao took Su Xiaotong down the mountain, she suddenly thought of someone.

She returned to the mountain and found Chu Yan unconscious.

It seemed that timing was everything, for just as she found him, she saw a venomous snake crawling on Chu Yan’s body, slipping inside his clothes—just one bite could be lethal.

Without a second thought, Qin Zhao flipped open Chu Yan’s clothes and grabbed the venomous snake.

Casually, she squeezed the snake to death and threw it aside.

Just as she was about to fix Chu Yan’s clothes, she looked up and saw that he had woken up.

Chu Yan had just come to and saw Qin Zhao lifting his clothes, with her other hand still on his abs. This baffled him for a long time, then his ears slowly turned red.

"Zhaozhao, how could you do this kind of thing to me here?"

"???"

"If you want to, I think it’s better to do it at home."

The corner of Qin Zhao’s mouth twitched as she explained, "There was a snake in your clothes just now, I was catching it."

She then looked toward the empty spot beside them.

The snake she had killed was gone?

Damn it! Do venomous snakes nowadays play dead and run away??

Chu Yan followed her gaze but didn’t see any venomous snake.

He looked at her with an "I see through everything" expression and said very indulgently, "Anyway, we’re husband and wife, you can do anything to me. If you really like it in places like this, I guess I can try."

"Shut up!"

Qin Zhao gritted her teeth and spat out the two words, storming off with a scowl on her face.

Damn it, even a snake was playing her for a fool!

Chu Yan tidied up his clothes and followed her, finally sensing that something was off.

"Did I encounter a mountain guard earlier? Did he ask you to come find me?"

That person must have been Shen Dongdong. Qin Zhao replied irritably, "Yes, I told you not to follow me earlier. You’re lucky this time; otherwise, you wouldn’t even know how you’d died."

It was indeed strange that Shen Dongdong didn’t kill him.

"What did you discover on the mountain?"

"Nothing."

"So you just wanted to take advantage of my unconsciousness to do that kind of thing to me?"

Qin Zhao turned her head and saw Chu Yan wearing an indescribable expression.

It really was because Qin Zhao’s actions were too strange just then. Anyone waking up to find a woman touching their abs would have their thoughts wander, so Chu Yan’s wild imagination wasn’t entirely to blame.

Qin Zhao was infuriated by him and spat out a harsh sentence, "I’ve already told you I was catching a snake. Believe it or not! Even if you were standing naked in front of me, I’d have no interest in you!

Tomorrow, I will prepare the divorce papers. Just sign them and stop yapping at me here!"