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Chapter 89 Comprehending Skills, Reaching the Subtle!

Two henchmen immediately stepped forward and tied the limp Hu San up tightly with hemp rope.

The city foxes and rats in the courtyard were all dumbfounded. They never expected that the two people who were just being affectionate and calling each other "brother" could turn on each other in the blink of an eye.

Qiao Le didn't take these good-for-nothings seriously at all. He glared at them and shouted sternly, "Officials are handling a case. Bystanders, get out of here!"

Upon hearing this, the gang of thugs felt as if they had been granted a pardon and scattered like birds and beasts.

A moment later, by the old well.

The mist at the wellhead had dissipated, and the female ghost retreated back into the well.

Qiao Le rushed back, threw the bound and gagged Hu San on the ground, and smiled at Ge Kun behind the altar, "Daoist, I've brought the man to you."

Ge Kun nodded, then walked up to Hu San and looked down at him.

Do you recognize this place?

Hu San's lips were tightly closed, and his whole body was trembling, but he didn't utter a sound.

Ge Kun sighed: "The wronged spirit has filed a complaint, the evidence is irrefutable. Do you think you can hide it? Let me ask you again, do you recognize Liu Cuilian?"

Upon hearing the name Liu Cuilian, Hu San felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His whole body trembled violently, his face drained of color, and he was filled with despair.

But he still gritted his teeth and refused to speak.

"Stubborn."

Seeing this, Ge Kun snorted coldly, raised his hand and made a hand seal, pointing towards the well opening in the distance.

In an instant, the cold air in the well surged, becoming more than ten times denser than before!
The white-clad female ghost reappeared, this time her face was much clearer, her face, swollen and pale from being soaked in water, was full of hatred as she stared intently at Hu San on the ground.

Upon seeing this face, Hu San's psychological defenses finally crumbled completely. His crotch felt hot, and a foul-smelling liquid instantly soaked his pants.

"I said, I said."

Ge Kun said calmly, "Tell me where you hid the rest of her body. If you tell me honestly, I might give you a quick death. Otherwise, the feeling of being devoured by a vengeful spirit is not pleasant."

With tears streaming down his face, Hu San recounted the entire incident in detail.

It turns out that Liu Cuilian was a wife he bought from a slave trader in the countryside half a year ago.

At first, it was exciting for a few days, but it didn't take long for him to show his true colors and resort to violence at the slightest provocation.

Liu Cuilian, a weak woman with no one to rely on, could only silently endure it.

Last night, Hu San got drunk outside. When he got home, fueled by alcohol, he beat Liu Cuilian severely. In a moment of carelessness, he accidentally beat her to death.

Once a person dies, their drunkenness mostly dissipates.

Hu San knew he had committed a terrible crime, and if he were discovered, his life would be over.

In a fit of terror, Hu San steeled his heart and, under the cover of night, dragged Liu Cuilian's body to the backyard, brutally dismembered it with a butcher's knife, then wrapped the head in a bundle and secretly threw it into the old well in the dead of night.

He thought that since it was the dead of winter, the head would sink to the bottom of the well unnoticed, but he never expected that the truth would come out in just one day.

"Master, spare my life! I really didn't mean it! I was really drunk!" Hu San cried and begged for mercy.

After listening, Ge Kun's expression remained cold and unmoved.

"Have you forgotten something very important?"

Hu San's crying stopped abruptly, and his face turned deathly pale.

"Was Liu Cuilian awake when you were dismembering her body?"

Hu San trembled violently.

It turns out that Liu Cuilian was only knocked unconscious by him, but did not actually die.

Just as Hu San was about to strike with the butcher's knife, she was awakened by excruciating pain. Opening her eyes, she saw the gleaming blade and began to cry out for mercy.

But Hu San didn't care about anything else at that moment. He went all in, and amidst the pitiful pleas, he dismembered the body piece by piece with his knife... After hearing this, even Qiao Le, an old constable who was used to seeing such scenes, couldn't help but gasp and then kicked Hu San hard on the ground.

"What a fucking bastard."

Ge Kun said no more, only to Qiao Le: "Master Qiao, please make another trip to his house and dig out the remaining bones."

"Nothing to say."

Qiao Le cupped his hands in greeting and immediately led his men away.

Not long after, a mutilated skeleton was pieced together and placed beside the well.

The moment the remains were all gathered together, the resentment emanating from the female ghost by the well dissipated at a visible speed.

Then she slowly bowed to Ge Kun.

Ge Kun nodded to her and then said a few words in ghost language.

Then he turned to look at Hu San, who was now slumped in a muddy mess, and said coldly, "Heaven's sins may be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins are unforgivable. Liu Cuilian will not spare you, and I cannot save you either. Even if this matter goes to the authorities, you will not escape death, so please continue on your way."

Having said that, Ge Kun pointed his fingers like a sword and pointed them at Hu San's forehead from a distance.

"what--!"

Hu San's eyes suddenly bulged out, and his pupils reflected a terrifying scene that no one else could see.

He screamed in agony, tears streaming down his face, and writhed and struggled frantically on the ground. A moment later, his body stiffened and he fell silent.

After doing all this, Liu Cuilian's resentment completely dissipated, revealing a face that, though swollen, still retained a delicate beauty.

She bowed deeply to Ge Kun once again.

Ge Kun smiled slightly: "There's no need for that. Although you have become a wronged ghost, you have never harmed any innocent people. This is a sign of kindness, so it is only right that I save you. Go on, I will see you off one last time."

After saying this, Ge Kun went to the altar, lit the paper horse, and began to recite a passage of scripture.

"By the Supreme Decree, your lonely souls are liberated, all ghosts and demons, all living beings are blessed. Those with heads are liberated, those without heads live, those killed by spears or swords, those who leap into water or hang themselves by ropes..."

The flickering firelight illuminated the gradually emerging smile of relief on Liu Cuicui's face.

Then her body began to become transparent, eventually turning into specks of light that dissipated in the night wind.

After the ritual to guide the departed souls to the afterlife, Ge Kun went to the well, made a hand seal, and whispered, "Rise!"

A human head, whitened from being submerged in water, slowly floated up from the well.

Ge Kun wrapped it in a white cloth and collected it along with the bones on the ground.

After doing all this, he turned his gaze to Chen Ye in the corner not far away, nodded slightly to him, then picked up the peach wood sword and drifted away with the corpse.

Gazing at his retreating figure, a hint of admiration flashed in Chen Ye's eyes.

Is this the demeanor of a truly exceptional person in this world?
Truly remarkable!

Back on the communal bed in the opera troupe, Chen Ye kept replaying everything that had happened that night in his mind.

It wasn't until much later that he extinguished these delusions and fell into a deep sleep.

In the days that followed, Chen Ye practiced his skills even more diligently.

Thanks to his professional talent, he made rapid progress.

Just six months later.

As Chen Ye perfectly completed another set of complex movements, a glimmer of light flashed before his eyes.

[The level of the minor character has been upgraded to LV4]

Your understanding of traditional opera has deepened, and you've mastered a new skill—the subtlety of nuance.

(End of this chapter)