Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 337 The Passage of Ghosts
Ran Jianfei asked in a daze, which stunned the three people present.

Mo Li and Long Zongshu both looked at Ran Qing in surprise, seemingly wanting to understand the situation.

At this moment, Ran Jianfei's eyes were blank and his expression was dazed.

This dazed and confused state is exactly like that of a child with congenital brain malformation.

He stared blankly at the three people beside the coffin, not recognizing Ran Qing and the others.

Even the words they utter sound silly and foolish.

Ran Qing, who was a practitioner of Yin-Yang arts, was also stunned for a moment, his brain racing to recall the relevant content in "Witchcraft and Ghostly Arts".

However, no matter how hard he tried to recall, he couldn't find any mention in the "Witchcraft and Spiritual Arts" that the soul-resurrection ritual would turn one into an idiot.

After being resurrected, one will indeed be weak for a period of time, but there are several ways to replenish the body.

But it didn't mention that he would become an idiot after returning to life...

Ran Qing hesitated for a moment, then said, "You don't recognize us?"

Ran Jianfei, inside the coffin, shook his head blankly: "I don't know him."

It seems that the selfish and self-serving Ran Jianfei is truly gone.

The person sitting here right now is just a simple-minded, honest fool.

Mo Li reacted faster than Ran Qing, and she quickly asked, "Then do you remember who you are?"

Faced with this question, Ran Jianfei, inside the coffin, shook his head blankly: "I don't remember... Who am I?"

"So how did you get here... do you remember?"

"……Can not remember."

Do you remember where you live?

"Can not remember……"

Mo Li asked several questions in one breath, but Ran Jianfei, who looked completely dazed, couldn't remember any of them.

After being resurrected, he not only became mentally impaired, but also lost his memory.

This bizarre situation left the three of them looking at each other in bewilderment.

Ran Qing suddenly narrowed his eyes, recalling another possibility recorded in the "Witchcraft and Spiritual Arts": "His soul may be missing..."

The return to life will not cause amnesia or make one stupid.

However, there is one situation that can cause a person to become mentally impaired.

That is the absence of the soul.

Some unfortunate living people have a part of their soul stolen by evil spirits. Losing this part of their soul will not kill them, but they will become stupid and dull.

Ran Qing's Mountain Ghost Soul-Stealing Technique was clearly successful; in theory, it should have been able to retrieve all of Ran Jianfei's soul.

If the soul is incomplete after being resurrected, it can only mean one thing: Ran Jianfei, who was trapped in the ghost's body, was missing from the very beginning.

A portion of Ran Jianfei's soul remains in other places.

...But where will it stay?

When Ran Jianfei entered the ghost city, his soul must have been intact.

However, after being captured by the female ghost, a part of his soul was missing.

Ran Qing's mind raced as she frowned and looked around, trying to find clues.

But a strange, eerie wind suddenly blew in from the depths of darkness.

The three people who were discussing the matter were startled at the same time and looked up into the darkness.

A blood-red, ghostly figure drifted coldly into the darkness.

That pale, purplish face, the shocking bruises on her neck from hanging, the blood-red wedding dress on her body...

Ran Qing's expression changed slightly: "They arrived so quickly?!"

According to his calculations, it would take at least another ten minutes for the female ghost to return to the earthen fortress and the yin house.

The speed was far beyond his imagination.

Moreover, this time the female ghost drifted in alone, without Ran Jianfei carrying her.

Similarly, it is no longer affected or hindered by Ran Jianfei.

A chilling malice washed over them like a tidal wave, leaving the three people directly affected feeling icy cold. The female ghost's goal was simple: to kill these three living people.

Even if Ran Qing, one of them, was its son when it was alive.

But when its cold eyes swept over Ran Qing, there was not a trace of warmth or lingering affection.

Mo Li screamed in fright, "Ran Qing!"

The scene of the female ghost rushing towards us was too terrifying and horrifying.

Moreover, that cold and sinister aura was something they had never seen before, far more ferocious than any ghost they had ever encountered before.

Mo Li anxiously reminded her, fearing that Ran Qing might lose her composure at this crucial moment because of her mother.

But at this moment, Ran Qing had already coldly raised the memorial tablets of the past masters of the Yin-Yang walkers.

The female ghost arrived too quickly and too fiercely, giving him no time to prepare.

Ran Jianfei's unexpected transformation into a mentally challenged person also caused Ran Qing's plan to join forces with his son to find the female ghost's weakness to fail.

At this moment, he was facing a terrifying female ghost who was even more ferocious than Li Hongye.

The only thing we can do is to bring out the ancestral tablets of our past masters.

The somber wooden plaque was respectfully held up in front of Ran Qing, pointed at the female ghost in front of him.

Ran Qing took a deep breath, his expression one of struggle, and gritted his teeth as he hissed, "Unworthy disciple Ran Qing..."

Boom!
A terrifying war drumbeat echoed, instantly silencing Ran Qing's words.

The masters of the Yin-Yang pilgrimage tradition have never been summoned.

Because, following the terrifying drumbeats, came the piercing sound of a suona horn, a sound that sent chills down Ran Qing's spine and was all too familiar.

The sound of the suona came from afar, seemingly shattering the eerie darkness.

At this moment, even the fierce, eerie wind in front of them stopped, and the female ghost froze dozens of meters away, like a horror movie that had been paused.

The sounds of suona horns, drums, and gongs...

A terrifying, ear-piercing death melody echoed far and wide.

A thin white mist suddenly appeared above the open space.

Ran Qing and the other two turned around in horror, only to see the group of pale, ghostly figures they had encountered on the minibus on their way here appear behind them.

A series of pale, ghostly figures, dragging long, thin bodies, surrounded something terrifying and sinister, and slowly approached.

However, this time, Ran Qing and the other two were stiff and dared not move.

Because they could clearly sense that the purpose of this group of pale, ghostly figures was not them!

Earlier on the minibus, I vaguely sensed that these pale, ghostly figures were looking for something.

But this time when they met again, the pale, ghostly figures drifted in eerily and sinisterly.

Their target was undisguised: the blood-red ghostly figure frozen in mid-air.

"Ran...Ran Qing..."

Mo Li murmured in terror, as if he were squeezing it out of his throat.

Her trembling hand grasped Ran Qing and pointed to the center of the pale, ghostly figure.

Following the direction Mo Li pointed, Ran Qing saw a strangely transparent figure being dragged by cold chains amidst the pale, ghostly shadows.

Ran Jianfei, almost invisible and transparent, floated aimlessly among the pale, ghostly figures.

His neck was being dragged by a cold chain, like dragging a dead dog or a prisoner.

The ghostly figures dragged the dazed and confused Ran Jianfei toward the blood-red ghostly figure ahead.

At that moment, Ran Qing suddenly understood where Ran Jianfei's missing soul was.

They were actually dragged away by these pale, ghostly figures!

And these pale, ghostly figures even came to drag away the ghost that Ran Qing's mother had become after her death...

Have they already come once?

But last time they only towed away a portion of Ran Jianfei's body?

But why would these things target their own kind of evil spirits and vengeful ghosts?

(End of this chapter)