The Anarchic Consort c1-1376

by Warring Young Seven

  Upon doing that, Baili Jia Jue frowned slightly. He then took off his gloves and tossed them aside, all the while maintaining an elegant demeanor.

  It was as though he was not killing hostile ghosts, but had instead touched something dirty, thus needing to clean his hands.

  Not only Wang Ling, even Old Lady Wang, who was no longer a living person, began to shudder violently. She was filled with fear for the man in front of them!

  The fact that they were so powerful came as a shock to her. His methods were even more ruthless than her, to kill as he pleased, as though anyone or any ghost was just a plaything to him.

  "Are, are you an exorcist?" This was the only answer that Old Lady Wang could think of.

  But she felt like that was not the case, because the air that this man exuded was nothing like the holiness of a young master, instead, he radiated an ancient form of evil along with his elegance.

  The evil sensation made her legs weak, all she wanted to do was kneel down and worship him!

  Of course, Helian Wei Wei knew that His Highness could deal with any evil spirits if he went into action, but in order to completely destroy the source of the infection, she must first find those missing girls first!

  Although up until now, Helian Wei Wei still did not know what methods Old Lady Wang had used to create an aura of resentment that could infect evil spirits.

  The one thing she was certain was that it must be related to the missing girls.

  She must find them quickly.

  That was because a large number of hostile ghosts would be coming soon. Once Old Lady Wang has control over them, the officers outside would most likely be possessed!

  Helian Wei Wei's eyes were tensed while her expression turned cold. "Old Lady Wang, now is the time to tell me your choice. Hand those girls over, otherwise, my next cut will not be so gentle."

  "Why, why do you all treat us like this?!" Old Lady Wang knew that she could not defeat them with her son being held hostage by them. She shouted hysterically, "Why don't you go and get yourselves involved with those big cases, why must you care about us?! Even if you want to arrest someone, just arrest me, what does this have to do with my son?! He's going to be a top scholar in the future!"

  Helian Wei Wei glanced at Old Lady Wang and said indifferently, "He will not become a top scholar."

  "What did you say?!" Old Lady Wang's eyes suddenly turned fierce!

  Helian Wei Wei patted Wang Ling's face with the dagger. "There are countless more people like him in the War Dragon Dynasty, and they are more talented, hardworking and determined compared to him, so why should he be the top scholar?"

  "You are just the same as those girls, all you do is be mean to my son and talk bad about him! He is filial and studies hard. Why can't he be the top scholar? It's because you think we're poor, and you all despise the poor and favor the rich. You know no shame, so you trample on us like that! All of you should go to hell!" Old Lady Wang really wanted to strangle the person before her to death!

  Helian Wei Wei sneered. "During the drought, those people at the border were much poorer than you, they couldn't even eat, yet they never complained like you. Since you have so much free time, you might as well think about how to improve yourselves. First of all, if you want others to think highly of you, you have to be worthy. Ever since he was little, he has never even earned a single penny by himself, everything was inseparable from you, his mother, yet he was so proud of himself. Both of you are so funny, you always turn your nose up at others and discriminate the girls, yet you expect them to marry your son. If the girls reject you, you grumble that they despise the poor and favor the rich. Even if that's the case, you should first live your own life well, then only blame others. Even if your son becomes a top scholar, he won't be a good official. Don't even talk about having a mother like you, with his selfish and narrow-minded personality, if something bad happens, he would never find fault with himself. Plus, his jealousy is so strong that it's terrifying, sooner or later there will be problems."

  "How dare you say that about my son! Sooner or later there will be problems? Jealousy so strong that it's terrifying? My son is the kindest and most righteous person in the world, you're just jealous of my son!" The more Old Lady Wang spoke, the more agitated she got. She had even taken a step forward.

  Helian Wei Wei looked at the fluttering curtain on the bed mantle behind Old Lady Wang and her eyes flashed, but her tone was still very calm. "It doesn't matter if one is poor or rich, the most important thing is how a parent teaches their child. Old Lady Wang, you always tell Wang Ling about how this girl is b*tchy, how that boy only uses money to oppress people, and that will easily affect Wang Ling who stays by your side. Children are just like their parents, because what they say and do have an impact on them. Did you say your son is kind and righteous? A truly kind and righteous person would not let his mother kill others. Old Lady Wang, if I'm not mistaken, you should have died a long time ago, before winter. You are nothing more than a corpse now."

  "You!" This is the second time that Old Lady Wang was shocked by the things that happened today. "How did you know?" When she heard about Zhang Ling'er and second Young Master Zhang, she caught a cold that night. Soon after, Old Lady Zhang came knocking on her door to ridicule her, saying that her Ah Ling had nothing, and yet he kept pestering and clinging onto Ling'er, looking like a toad. She said that they should have some foresight to cancel the engagement as soon as possible, so to save face for both families. Everyone in the alley knew about the scandal concerning the Wang family, thus her illness became even more serious. Within two days, she started coughing up blood and her soul left her body. At this moment, a man clad in a white robe entered. She had never seen such a gentle young master, and when he asked her if she wanted to give those who looked down on them the lessons they deserved, of course she wanted to. She wanted to do so even in her dreams!

  Not only did she want those villains punished, she wanted to see her son marry and have children!

  The young master did not ask her for anything in return, and instead he just taught her how to commit the crime...

  Chapter 702 - You Must Pay For Your Mistakes

  Initially, she was worried that killing would be detrimental toward her son.

  But after listening to that Young Master's words, she knew that this was an absolutely perfect plan. Not only could she get someone else to do her dirty work, she could even destroy the Zhang family altogether!

  She had no reason to refuse. Of course she was willing to do anything!

  Moreover, the helpful Young Master also helped her to extend her life, so she could continue acting like a living person even though she was dead. She spent more than ten days observing the hours at which Zhang Yu and the girls met. During this period, her body kept changing, but nobody was aware of it except for Ah Ling.

  Yet the person in front of her could guess that she was dead!?

  In comparison to Old Lady Wang's shock, Helian Wei Wei was as languid and calm as ever. "Old Lady Wang, do you really think that you are no different from the living? Your fingers have grown longer and turned black, not to mention the livor mortis on your face. These are symptoms that only appear after a person dies. You do not even feel the most basic of temperatures because you are a corpse, and you've been wearing the same clothes that you wore before you died."

  The more Old Lady Wang listened, the wider her eyes grew!

  Helian Wei Wei continued indifferently, "It has been almost forty or fifty days since the end of autumn till now. Wang Ling is your son, it's impossible for him not to know how dangerous you are and the things that you think about, yet he did not stop you. Or rather, he did not put much effort into stopping you because in his heart, he wanted those people dead as well."

  At this point, Wang Ling no longer put up his facade of being simple-minded and decorous. He shouted, "All of them should go to hell, what a shameless couple. Zhang Yu relies on his family's power and might, Zhang Ling'er is a cheap wh*re, and t
hose girls who have nothing except dollar signs in their eyes, these people simply do not deserve to live in this world!"

  "If that's the case, why do you dare to kill Zhang Ling'er, but not Zhang Yu?" Helian Wei Wei laughed sarcastically. "It's clear that you're still afraid of him. Someone else stole your fiancee, yet you were too scared to do anything, and instead all you do is rely on your mother to do everything for you. If you really are a true man, live up to it and let everyone see it! Look at yourself. You only know how to bully the weak. Are you going to kill every girl who looks down on you and refuses to marry you? You say that other people do not deserve to live in this world, but what about you? Such an irresponsible and lazy piece of trash like you seem to be living well, so why can't others do the same?"

  Everything that Wang Ling had said was shot down by Helian Wei Wei. His face was a shade of green, yet there was nothing he could say to disagree.

  The word trash was like a slap straight to his face, piercing through all his pride.

  Wang Ling clenched his fists and spat his words out one by one. "If I had been born in the Zhang family, I would have become a top scholar since long time ago. I would not even be like this now!"

  Perhaps Old Lady Wang was shocked by the facts that Helian Wei Wei stated, or perhaps her son's response was not what she had anticipated. After all, her son had always disapproved of her doing such things, and he had even tried to stop her. However, she did not expect that the aura of resentment within her son's heart was even stronger than hers. He...did not even want her as his mother.

  Old Lady Wang's hands fell limp. She never thought that her own son would think like this.

  Helian Wei Wei's smile grew colder. "People like you, even if you were to change your background, you would only be a second Zhang Yu. Your mother did so much, and for who? But you, you're just an ingrate."

  Listening to the things Helian Wei Wei said, Wang Ling's face turned red. He could see that his mother was obviously upset, and hurriedly explained, "Mother, that's not what I meant…"

  Old Lady Wang shook her head, tears sliding down her cheeks. "Son, I don't blame you. You were right, if you had been born into the Zhang family, you wouldn't be what you are today. I'm sorry, I don't have the money to build connections and relationsh.i.p.s for you, I..."

  Old Lady Wang's voice cracked. She covered her face with one hand as her shoulders shook.

  "Old Lady Wang, when will you stop making excuses for your son's worthlessness?" Helian Wei Wei looked at her indifferently. "In fact, you know better than anyone why your son turned out like this, you also know that the things he does everyday is useless. He would be better off looking for a teaching position. Yet the people around him were already looking down on him, so you think that if you also gave up on him, he will definitely be extremely miserable. Which was why you kept deceiving yourself and others until now."

  Old Lady Wang did not say anything but cried harder.

  Helian Wei Wei's tone did not change. "You want to take revenge on everyone, you can do whatever you want to Zhang Ling'er and Zhang Yu. However, you wanted to kill those other girls just because they refused to marry your son. Old Lady Wang, you do not have a daughter. If someone treated your daughter like this, would you be fine with it? Stop thinking that only your children are children, and other people's children are nothing. In this world, no one owes you anything."

  Helian Wei Wei's last words made Old Lady Wang break down, and the ferocity on her face vanished. She begged, "I can tell you everything, but can you let my son live? He didn't do anything, and even if he did think about it, those were just thoughts, he never hurt anyone. I was the one who sowed the seeds of evil, so I'm the one who should go to hell."

  "Alright." The look in Helian Wei Wei's eyes remained unchanged. "But you will not be forgiven for your sins, and we will do all that should be done!"

  Indeed, if it was not for the Zhang family who was constantly bullying others with their family's status and power, if it were not for the offensive things that Old Lady Zhang had said back then, the tragedy would not have developed to this stage.

  But this was not an excuse to kill innocent people.

  Someone has to pay for the deaths of those young girls.

  Old Lady Wang nodded, holding back her tears. "I know it's all because of me, I'm sorry to the girls. All of them are children living on the same street. I don't know what came over me, that I could be so cruel."

  Old Lady Wang cried even louder, her voice full of guilt and remorse. "They are in a secret passage behind me. Liu'er is the only one still alive, the others are already…" She sobbed. "I've done wrong, I truly have made a mistake."

  Helian Wei Wei listened to Old Lady Wang, and after letting Wang Ling go, she strode over and reached her hand out. When she pulled the curtain away, it revealed three corpses dangling before her eyes.

  Yan Liu'er was sitting in the middle of the group of corpses, and she was wearing a wedding gown. The color of the wedding gown was the same color as the blood flowing out of a human, which would make anyone very uncomfortable just by looking at it. Helian Wei Wei's instinct told her that there was more to this wedding gown than meets the eye...

  Chapter 703 - Wei Wei Discerns Who Was the Hostile Ghost

  "What's with this wedding gown?" Helian Wei Wei turned to ask Old Lady Wang.

  Old Lady Wang replied with guilt written all over her face, "Seeing that Liu'er wasn't a bad choice, I wanted her to marry Ah Ling, but she did not agree to it. I was the one who forced her to wear the wedding gown."

  "That wasn't what I was asking about." Helian Wei Wei looked at the wedding gown on Yan Liu'er and slightly darkened her eyes, "I was wondering how did this gown came about? There's something wrong with it."

  Astonishment flashed across Old Lady Wang's eyes. She gave a bitter laugh, "This is no ordinary gown. It was sewn by me. I listened to the young master's suggestion, bought some white cloth and dyed it red with the blood of the maidens. The young master said that as long as both parties put on their wedding outfit and complete the wedding ceremony, the girl will fall in love with the man forever, never to leave him."

  Hearing what she has said, Helian Wei Wei halted her movements and looked Baili Jia Jue in the eye.

  This was the real place where the aura of resentment gathered.

  Those girls did not die in peace at all, their souls and resentment were all trapped in this wedding gown.

  Which was why it was affecting the passing dead souls nearby.

  When dead souls come too close to this area, it would be infected.

  However, there were no immediate effects since there wasn't any direct contact. The aura of resentment would only develop after a few days and those infected souls would further infect other dead souls.

  No wonder the King of Hell wanted the whole underworld on lockdown. With the origin of the infection yet to be traced, vast numbers of dead souls were being infected each day.

  The source must be destroyed in order to quell the aura of resentment!

  The worst thing right now was that Yan Liu'er had the wedding gown on.

  Helian Wei Wei was not sure if the Yan Liu'er right now was still her original self.

  It was very likely that the aura of resentment on the wedding gown had spread into Yan Liu'er's body.

  Then again it was not necessarily so...

  She did not know if Yan Liu'er was under spirit possession, because there was also another person wearing a wedding outfit!

  Helian Wei Wei turned around to look at Wang Ling!

  Her thoughts had always been clear and concise, even during times like this.

  Marriage is a thing for two.

  Since Yan Liu'er was wearing a bride's wedding gown, Wang Ling would definitely be wearing the groom's attire!

  One of them was definitely corrupted by the aura of resentment.

  Evil spirits, especially after a few ghosts were devoured until they congealed into an evil spirit, were normally more cunning th
an humans.

  They would not stay in the wedding outfit obediently, just waiting for her to burn them.

  When she realized the outfit was not right, the evil spirit definitely would have already attached itself to a person's body.

  Actually, it would be quite easy to get rid of the aura of resentment. By just burning the wedding outfits and killing both Yan Liu'er and Wang Ling, it could be cleansed completely.

  However, Yan Liu'er was innocent.

  In the circ.u.mstances of not knowing if she was possessed, Helian Wei Wei did not have the right to decide the fate of a kind-hearted girl.

  Moreover, she would not have the heart to take action.

  Which was why she had to be certain about whose body was being possessed by the evil spirit from the wedding outfit.

  Was it Wang Ling… or Yan Liu'er?

  Helian Wei Wei's eyes skimmed over the bodies of the two people in detail.

  Next, she started trying to wake Yan Liu'er up.

  Helian Wei Wei's method was never gentle.

  Especially in this type of emergency situation, she was much more unrestrained.

  Upon grabbing the cold water on the table, she splashed it onto Yan Liu'er.

  Not only can Helian Wei Wei save time by doing that, but she could also check if Yan Liu'er was possessed.

  Because even though a person was in deep slumber, the receptors in their skin would remain alert.

  If she did not wake up after being splashed with cold water, it would be a 100% chance that there was a problem.

  But even if she woke up, it did not mean that she would be completely clear of suspicion, because it might be an act.

  Helian Wei Wei narrowed her eyes, not wanting to miss any expression on Yan Liu'er's face.

  Yan Liu'er first g.r.o.a.n.e.d, then she opened her eyes. The moment she saw Old Lady Wang, she was obviously terrified as she quickly retreated backward saying, "Get away from me! Get away from me!"

  Old Lady Wang opened her mouth, with tears on her face, she said, "Liu'er, I let you down."