The red ghost saw them retching, and her anger rose to another level. Her face twisted in maliciousness. She opened her mouth, which extended to half of her face that was mauled, and imitated taking a bite, grinning eerily.
The boys, who saw that, quivered in fear and went into shock. It was as though their souls were sucked out from their bodies. But before the ghost went near them, Fu Rong threw the talismans on her. The red ghost shouted in agonizing pain and made her way toward Fu Rong to avenge her pain.
Fu Rong identified it as a ghost of 100 years with good cultivation. But it was easy for her to overpower it with her strength. She began to draw talismans with blood to lock the ghost and started speaking to her.
The ghost in red was from the military era and belonged to a courtesan family. She fell in love with an officer, who gifted her to his boss for a promotion. She was ruined, and her family was killed when they sought justice for her. She was shunned by society and cast aside as a jinx. She was starved and ill-treated. This hurt her and made her cold. She planned her revenge by killing both of the men who ruined her innocence, but she was a woman without power.
She was captured by the officer when she showed up for revenge. She was tortured by him and his lackeys, defiled, and humiliated. They disfigured her and felt accomplished by her pain. She felt like dying was better than living in that torture cell.
Instead of her taking revenge, she was killed in a gruesome way. They cut open her stomach and threw her into an open graveyard for criminals while she was still alive, where dogs surrounded her, biting her flesh and tearing her into pieces.
She died in pain and resentment, seeing her flesh eaten by dogs with her own eyes, regretting her love for a man who betrayed her and left her to die. After that, she hunted them down as a ghost, but the resentment she carried turned her into an evil spirit, and she hurt innocent people.
Seeing Fu Rong speaking with the ghost, the young masters' eyes widened in shock. Was this the time for peace-making? If they didn't know Fu Rong's abilities or the rotten corpse opposite, they would have thought they were here for fun.
"Are you going to surrender and reincarnate, or shall I scatter your soul? Let them be," Fu Rong's patience thinned as she asked the ghost in an authoritative tone.
"Why should I let them? They took my belongings, and they deserve to die. All men in this world must die. This is unfair. Why must I die while others live happily? Why must I be sacrificed for others to rise in their lives? I was torn to shreds by dogs, and they are still intact. I want to tear them apart and make them feel the pain I felt as the dogs ripped my flesh bit by bit. I want them to know how it feels to see their flesh eaten while they are still alive and unable to save themselves," the red ghost shouted as her resentment grew, and her maniacal desire formed a grudge field.
Fu Rong saw the grudge field growing thicker, and if it continued, she would need to expend more energy to get rid of this ghost. Her health had not yet recovered to its original form since her luck had not been restored from Bai Yan.
Fu Rong immediately moved and threw talismans she had prepared on the ghost, trapping it in the center of the array. She then drew signs in the air with her blood, recited mantras, and took out her ghost-collecting gourd to absorb the yin energy from the ghost and scatter its soul, ending its resentment.
Due to the excess energy she used in the exorcism, she turned pale. She swayed to the side but quickly composed herself and turned to look at the three kids she had brought with her. The scene she saw immediately made her frown.
The three friends were hugging each other with closed eyes in the corner of the room, crying from fear and trembling from the moment the ghost lady mentioned their flesh being eaten while they were alive. They were frightened to the point of being traumatized.
Fu Rong called them three times. Seeing them not moving, she directly kicked them to wake them. "Here... Keep these talismans. You are tainted with yin energy now. Though this ghost is destroyed, this yin marking will attract other ghosts. Make sure to wear these talismans and don't go to places you shouldn't. Also, don't leave your house after dark in case anything follows you," she gave instructions and received the remaining 15 million into her account.
"Master Fu, how much are these ghost-warding talismans? I want 10 of them," Qi Hai, who was the first to come out of his shock, begged her shamelessly. Zhu Ximing and Zhao Lei, who were watching him fawning over her, sheepishly joined him and surrounded Fu Rong with their requests.
Fu Rong raised her eyebrows and told them the price. "Each talisman is 5000 yuan. I only have 10 with me. After you send the advance, I will send you the rest by post." She took out the talismans, and they were emptied from her hand even before she had fully taken them from her bag.
She immediately received 150,000 yuan in full. As expected of rich kids. She smiled after seeing the notification.
"Master Fu, I will personally come and get the talismans. I'm afraid they might get lost in transport," Zhao Lei couldn't contain his excitement at the prospect of getting these talismans.
Fu Rong asked him to meet at the same coffee shop the next afternoon and left the place.