Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 366 Yin Shou
The brightly lit living room was spotless, and the cleaning had been done very carefully.

Hanging on the wall is a family photo of the three of them.

In the photo, a middle-aged man and his wife are smiling, while a young, innocent little girl is held between her parents, looking at the camera with a bewildered expression.

On the TV cabinet facing the sofa, there are two upright photo frames.

Inside are photos of women smiling in their wedding dresses when they were young.

This home is filled with a warm, happy, and fulfilling family atmosphere.

If nothing unexpected happens, they are indeed a happy family of three.

Ran Qing silently observed everything, looking at the middle-aged woman in front of her, waiting for her answer.

This home is clean, tidy, and incredibly cozy, but it lacks one crucial element... the sound of children.

The young girl is now nowhere to be found.

Ran Qing couldn't sense the presence of his half-sister, who was born to Ran Jianfei and a ghost.

On the sofa, the middle-aged woman's smile froze slightly, as if she hadn't expected Ran Qing to be so blunt.

It stared blankly at Ran Qing, remaining silent for three seconds.

The air quickly became stiff.

The smile on the woman's face gradually faded.

It no longer pretended to be a virtuous wife and loving mother, but stared straight at Ran Qing with a sinister and strange gaze.

His mouth was stretched open, but it wasn't a smile; it just looked ferocious.

"...Ran Qing, your father is dead, right?"

The woman's smile held a morbid excitement: "I can feel that woman named Luo Xuefang gradually disappearing from my body."

"I thought I would have to watch this adulterous couple cuddling for decades until Ran Jianfei died of old age and illness before I could be free."

"I didn't expect that guy to die so quickly..."

"Answer me, Ran Qing, when did your father die?"

The woman was excited and frenzied, and her voice became strange.

Previously, she spoke beautiful Mandarin with a pleasant tone.

But at this moment, she was speaking in a heavily accented local dialect.

Moreover, this local dialect contains many unusual pronunciations and intonations.

Even Ran Qing, a country girl from the countryside, couldn't quite understand the dialect she was speaking.

The ghost that was resurrected from the coffin of the Ghost King no longer disguised itself.

Ran Qing frowned as she watched the ghost's reaction. The few words it uttered contained a wealth of information.

It seems that after being resurrected, this body actually has two personalities?
One is the resurrected Luo Xuefang personality, and the other is the ghost personality.

This ghost was able to remain conscious, but was unable to control its body, and experienced everything about Luo Xuefang from the perspective of an observer.
According to it, it can only be freed after Ran Jianfei dies... In other words, after Ran Jianfei dies of old age and illness, this ghost can continue to exist in the mortal world.
Throughout history, there may be very few people like Ran Jianfei who made a living by selling ancient coins, but they certainly did exist.

Those evil spirits that were resurrected from the dead remained among the people after their deaths.

"...How long can you stay in the human world?" Ran Qing's gaze was icy.

The excited demon grinned and stared at Ran Qing, like a manic patient.

It's like a madman driven insane in prison.

It exclaimed excitedly, "Two hundred years, of course! At least two hundred years!"

"One hundred years of lifespan in the human realm, plus one hundred years in the underworld! We can live for at least two hundred years!"

"If you can steal someone else's lifespan, you can even extend your own lifespan!"

As he spoke, the evil spirit excitedly looked Ran Qing up and down and said, "Ran Qing, you are a spirit medium, right? Give your mother a page or two of your Book of Life and Death."

“Give it to your mother, and I’ll tell you where your sister is.” “Although I’m a ghost, she really is your sister! And this body is indeed a living person’s body!”

The demon laughed with unbridled excitement and madness, its voice wild and incoherent.

A complete bipolar disorder patient.

Ran Qing stared at her coldly and said, "...So that's how Master Shou came to be."

Grandpa Shou loved to cause trouble for those who traveled to the underworld, because it was the easiest thing to steal from them. As long as you got your hands on the "Underworld Life Book," you could just take it away.

Unexpectedly, the enemy most feared by the Yin-Yang people was actually the one originating from the Ghost King's Coffin.

Before Ran Jianfei, over the long course of thousands of years, there must have been more than one person who used the Ghost Luo Ancient Coin to resurrect their loved ones.

But as those people pass away, their resurrected relatives and friends will also shed their human skin and become real ghosts, wandering the world.

Ran Qing had not expected such an unexpected discovery.

This is a secret that even Aunt Liu doesn't know.

Staring at the evil spirit before her, Ran Qing said coldly, "Give me back my sister, and I might consider letting you live."

"Don't try to negotiate with me, and don't even think about threatening me. Since you've been watching from the sidelines for ten years, you should know what kind of temper I have."

"I'm the kind of person who would rather break than bend and never compromise."

Ran Qing's cold tone left no room for argument.

The smile on the demon's face also stiffened slightly.

At this moment, the evil spirit was clearly still in a state of excitement and frenzy.

Being trapped in a body, only able to watch helplessly and unable to do anything for ten years, is a pain that is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

The demon, now free, is in unimaginable madness.

But upon seeing Ran Qing's icy gaze, even the crazed demon's smile faltered, as if it sensed a threat.

It grinned and suddenly sat up straight, its tone softening considerably: "...Don't be so fierce, Ran Qing."

"Although you are a child from later generations, we actually come from the same source."

"Your lineage of Yin people's founder was our high priest in our time!"

"The Ghost King's Coffin was made by her!"

"When I was alive, I served the high priest for a period of time."

"We are actually in cahoots."

On the sofa, the demon grinned, trying to put on a friendly smile.

However, this smile, paired with her ferocious and deranged expression, only appeared ugly and creepy.

Ran Qing looked at her coldly, showing no reaction to the bombshell information thrown out by the evil spirit.

He simply observed the demon's expression and tone of voice calmly and made a rough judgment.

—This demon possesses reason!

Although it also possesses the ferocious and brutal nature of a demon, its eyes flash with an uncontrollable ferocity.

But it can communicate, knows fear, and is rational.

Indeed, it matches all the characteristics of Grandpa Shou.

However, it's not surprising. Even evil spirits that stay near the Ghost Luo Ancient Coin can possess reason. It's perfectly normal for these ancient evil spirits, which were resurrected by buying their lives with the Ghost Luo Ancient Coin, to have reason as well.

Seeing Ran Qing's silence, the evil spirit grinned and raised three fingers.

He said slowly, "Three pages of the Book of Death... Give me three pages, and I'll return your sister to you."

(End of this chapter)