My Lady Always Lacks Ambition-Chapter 1059 - 1029: Lighting Incense to Track, Killing for Soul Suppression

Chapter 1059: Chapter 1029: Lighting Incense to Track, Killing for Soul Suppression

On the way to the quarry, Wen Shi couldn’t help but ask Qin Liuxi what she meant by saying that the pitiable always have something to be despised.

Lu Xun also perked up his ears.

Qin Liuxi smiled faintly, "Six chastity arches, all these Chaste Ladies come from one village. Is it because of good feng shui? Or good upbringing? Second Young Master Wen, if you were born a woman, would you be willing at such a young age, even before marriage, to guard your deceased husband’s name for a lifetime, just for the title of Chaste Woman?"

Wen Shi was stunned, would he be willing?

Probably not.

Da Feng customs are open, supporting widows or dismissed women to remarry, unless truly devoted, many would prefer to seek new life.

Especially when young, given better days ahead, who would want to spend a lifetime in solitude?

"If you were willing, but your village refused to let you fall from the Chaste Woman title, what then?" Qin Liuxi added.

Wen Shi already understood, and said, "Did that old woman harm others?"

"To keep her son company underground, she starved the daughter-in-law guarding widowhood to death."

Wen Shi and Lu Xun gasped.

"That village doesn’t have just one widow but many so-called Chaste Women waiting to wither and die." Qin Liuxi looked at them, "Do you still think it’s a renowned Heroic Woman Village?"

Wen Shi swallowed, "So the old woman was really killed by an Evil Ghost?"

Qin Liuxi walked forward, her cool voice floating back, "Self-inflicted fate cannot be lived."

Lu Xun frowned, it seems this village is worth investigating carefully.

The group arrived at the edge of a Dry Lake in the quarry, the vast lake now dried up, with continuous snow leaving a sprawling snowy landscape, turning into a snow lake.

Wen Shi’s face turned pale, with the lake dry, it would be easier to search, but now it’s just a vast field of white; how to find those remains?

"How do we find it?" He looked at Qin Liuxi with a troubled expression.

Qin Liuxi crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows, "Use your sincerity."

Wen Shi: "..."

You’re definitely giving me a hard time, but I dare not refute.

Qin Liuxi glanced at the huge snowfield and said to Teng Zhao, "Give him a stick of Soul Summoning Incense."

Teng Zhao pulled out an incense box from the pack he carried, took out a stick of incense, and handed it over, "Hold it with both hands, light it with sincerity, the smoke will guide you."

Wen Shi looked dazed, it’s too mysterious!

"Can’t I use flint to light it?"

Teng Zhao with a stern face said, "What is sincerity? It’s your heartfelt purpose, you’re here sincerely for the other party."

Wen Shi held the incense with both hands, muttering under his breath, "I don’t know if you’re a brother or a sister, I apologize, I didn’t know it was your tombstone and took it away, that’s my sin. To make amends, I’ve come to collect your bones, please guide me."

Teng Zhao’s mouth twitched, wanting to say something, but Qin Liuxi pulled him back, shaking her head.

Wen Shi saw the Soul Summoning Incense with no reaction, feeling disheartened, looking at Qin Liuxi and the others, who had backed up a few steps, arms crossed, waiting.

So frustrating!

Wen Shi repeated again, with still no reaction, making people who followed look at each other, whispering doubts.

Lighting incense with sincerity, never heard of it, can it really work?

Could it be a big con?

Wen Shi saw the incense with no reaction, almost crying, he bit his lip, stepped into the snow lake, placed the incense on the ground, and kowtowed three times, silently apologizing in his heart.

Then, holding the incense again, closing his eyes, he thought of the tombstone, remembering what Qin Liuxi and the others said the tombstone’s owner might have encountered, feeling some sympathy and compassion, urging a strong desire to help the other be seen again.

Poof.

"It’s lit." His personal servant Shengzi yelled with excitement.

Everyone froze, the incense really could be lit without fire.

Wen Shi was surprised, he did it, instinctively looked at Qin Liuxi.

Qin Liuxi said, "Go ahead."

Wen Shi had an indescribable feeling, stood up, thinking, "I, Wen Shi, will definitely take you away, please guide me."

The smoke from the Soul Summoning Incense swayed, drifting toward the left-front.

Wen Shi saw this, and quickly walked in that direction, the incense burnt quickly, following the smoke, he stopped when it burned out, his heart pounding, stepping back.

"Dig here, carefully." He took a spade himself, started digging, cautiously.

First cleared the thick snow, revealing the muddy ground, then started digging, it was pond mud, very soft, didn’t dig deep before finding white bones.

Wen Shi jumped in shock, "Here."

Everyone gathered and started clearing the mud until the skeletal remains were fully exposed, very small, like only fourteen or fifteen years old.

Yet the bones were in an odd posture, with arms twisted back, legs bent together, most importantly, the skull was full of black mist, once exposed to daylight, the black mist began to seep out.

Qin Liuxi threw out a talisman dispersing the evil aura, squatted to look, "Judging by the bone age, it’s a fifteen-year-old girl, her limbs should’ve been tied and sunk in the lake."

"And this..." Wen Shi stared fearfully at the black needle-like object on the skull, a strange vicious energy rising within him.

Qin Liuxi said, "Sealing the seven apertures with Sealing Soul Needle, preventing the soul from departing, nor speaking to accuse."

This explained why she couldn’t follow the tombstone to the Wen Residence.

Wen Shi was enraged, "Who is so cruel, not just killing, even suppressing souls?"

"Everyone back away." Qin Liuxi drew the Exorcism Charm, forming a skill with hands, muttering, "Cleanse the filth, open the nine holes... liberate the ghostly soul, ascend to immortality."

The charm in her hand fell onto the bones, igniting without fire, then she removed the Yin Evil Needles sealing the apertures one by one, finally pulling out the last needle, a gust of cold wind roared up, swirling snow.

Everyone instinctively raised their hands to shield, then lowered them, exclaiming in surprise.

At some point, before them appeared a shadow, beautiful yet faint, clearly a fifteen-year-old girl yet wearing an outdated woman’s bun, filled with resentful energy.

"Fifty years, Qiao Xiaoling thanks the benefactor for freeing my oppressed soul, after I avenge, I’ll return to apologize to you." Qiao Xiaoling bowed to Qin Liuxi, turning to leave.

"Hold on." Qin Liuxi stopped her, "Merely killing him, the village arches still stand, there will be others like you dying unjustly for the Chaste Woman title, only revealing the truth to the blinded outsiders can prevent further deaths like those of you and other ’Chaste Women’."