Chapter 638: Do Not Advise Others to Do Good Without Experiencing Their Suffering
Chapter 638: Do Not Advise Others to Do Good Without Experiencing Their Suffering
After Wei Linchen left, Qin Ruan walked over to the little girl and bent down, gently stroking her head.
Due to her pregnancy, she couldn't bend for too long, so she just lightly touched the girl's hair with her palm before straightening her body.
Looking down at the girl, Qin Ruan's voice softened, "You have been dead for decades; you are not a real child anymore. There are some things you can choose to let go of and not wander down the wrong path again."
Provoking more misfortune would lead to her soul's annihilation.
The girl sitting on the ground suddenly raised her head, her blood-red eyes coldly fixed on Qin Ruan.
"I can't let go, I can never let go!" she said stubbornly, her expression paranoid and filled with hatred, as if she wanted to destroy all living creatures around her.
Qin Ruan pursed her lips, not knowing what to say.
Before, when she found out that these lost souls were being manipulated by the Huangju tree to harm others, she hesitated whether to let them scatter or send them to the underworld.
But now, she only had one thought in mind: to send all these pitiful lost souls to the underworld.
In the cycle of reincarnation, they would be judged by the Ten Yama Kings and sent to the Three Good Paths or the Three Evil Paths, depending on their actions. It was their fate.
There was a saying that went, "Do not advise others to do good without experiencing their suffering."
She could sympathize with these lost souls and give them a chance, but she had no right to judge their actions.
Qin Ruan murmured softly, "You will eventually let go."
She turned around and looked at the hundreds of lost souls lying on the ground.
These ghosts had lost their malevolent energy, their power greatly diminished, and their killing ability weakened significantly.
Pitiful and sad.
Who would know what they had to go through every day?
The hazy sky blurred Qin Ruan's eyes.
Before she arrived, these lost souls were lost and confused.
Over time, they could not escape their fate of turning into piles of white bones.
She was not their savior, nor was she the executioner harvesting their souls.
Qin Ruan came too late.
The only thing she could do now was to send them to the underworld for judgment by the Ten Yama Kings.
Qin Ruan closed her heavy eyelids, her crimson lips slightly parted, and she recited, "The Ten Yama Kings teach me to kill demons and gods, to learn divine techniques, to drive away evil, and that no god can resist and no demon dares to defy. The Ten Yama Kings are swift in carrying out their orders, punishing evil!"
In an instant, dense black mist surged into the forest, and the heavy sound of chains resounded from the darkness.
"Miss Qin."
The voice was as cold as ice, with a touch of deference.
Qin Ruan opened her eyes, her deep gaze focused on the underworld envoy standing before her.
This time, it wasn't the black-and-white envoys, but more than a dozen regular envoys.
The number of envoys coming up was unusually large, as if they knew that this trip would be challenging.
Qin Ruan frowned slightly, speaking slowly, "Take these lost souls to the underworld."
"Yes!"
The envoy standing in front of her perceived that Qin Ruan was in a bad mood and didn't disturb her further.
All the envoys began their busy work.
The Soul-Locking Chains bound one lost soul after another.
Qin Ruan turned back and looked at the little girl sitting on the ground, her blood-red eyes vacant, her gaze falling on the busy underworld envoys around her.
She looked pale and at a loss.
It was as if someone had given her an exquisite and precious doll, but she was covered in dirt and couldn't bring herself to touch it.
Qin Ruan felt a sense of emptiness in her heart and some suppressed emotions.
She spoke softly, "Go with them. I will avenge you, but as for the crimes you committed, the underworld will judge you."
The little girl, like a puppet with its strings cut, looked blankly at Qin Ruan, her eyes filled with blood mist. "For forty-six years, eight months, and three days, why didn't you appear earlier?"
With a hint of resentment and childish stubbornness, she seemed to blame Qin Ruan for not coming to save them sooner.
Qin Ruan stared at her expressionlessly, not saying a word.
Tears started to flow from the little girl's blood-red eyes, dropping to the ground one after another.
She cried without making any sound, full of sadness, grief, and despair.
Her tears were like a bursting flood, falling from her eye sockets.
Throughout, she did not make any loud cries.
The little girl was not the first victim, but she was the one most closely connected to the original Huangju tree.
The pain she endured when she was turned into a puppet was much greater than that of the other lost souls.
Suddenly, Qin Ruan felt like her past life wasn't that miserable after all.
In this world, many people lived much worse lives.
There were always people who suffered in corners unknown to others, enduring pain and hardships.
They had no chance to struggle; they could only wait for death to come.
A lonely death...
Qin Ruan didn't want to think about it any further; being pregnant made her sensitive and emotional.
She dismissed all the thoughts in her mind, narrowed her eyes, and looked deeply at the little girl before turning away.
Her back was resolute and arrogant, emanating a powerful and oppressive aura that people would long for.
Qin Ruan pierced through the black mist and saw Lin Hao, Wei Lincen, and the guards of the Hou family standing outside.
Wei Lincen was on the phone, and when he saw Qin Ruan emerge from the black mist, he said to the other end of the line, "You go back to the dormitory first, and I'll be back soon."
After finishing the call, he walked quickly toward Qin Ruan. "Is everything resolved?"
Qin Ruan's delicate face turned blue, and she said, "Not yet."
The sins committed by the Huangju tree were not so easily resolved.
The main body had already escaped, but she would find them eventually.
After all, this matter was deeply connected to Ling Feng and Lan An.
Wei Linchen also knew that the main body of the Huangju tree had escaped and guessed that Qin Ruan wouldn't give up so easily.
"I found out some information through my assistant about the six deceased students at the school and the origin of the Huangju tree," Wei Lincen said.
Qin Ruan looked at him and proposed, "Let's go to the artificial lake."
She had just dealt with hundreds of lost souls imprisoned by the Huangju tree and didn't see Cheng Xuelan's puppet.
She suspected that the girl might be hiding under the artificial lake.
The black water in the lake contained malevolent energy, so there might be evil spirits lurking there.
Wei Lincen didn't refuse the suggestion.
A group of people left the small
forest and headed to the artificial lake.
No one looked back at the thick black mist behind them.
Inside, hundreds of wronged souls were released, leaving behind a scene of destruction and debris.
It was a cruel massacre that had been imprisoned for over a hundred years.
The fog would eventually disperse, and dawn lay ahead.
Artificial lake at the Audri School
Qin Ruan, Wei Linchen, and Lin Hao rowed a boat to the center of the lake.
The closer they got to the center of the artificial lake, the colder the surrounding atmosphere became.
It was a bone-piercing chill that quickly seeped into their bodies.
Even through their clothes, they couldn't resist the intrusion of the cold.
Wei Linchen had his sleeves dirtied earlier, but now he rolled them up, unable to bear the chilling air.
However, as the chilling air penetrated their marrow, he put his sleeves back down.
Frowning, he complained, "With such heavy Yin energy, are you sure there's only one lost soul in the artificial lake?"
Qin Ruan's gaze was fixed on the center of the lake, her voice low, "No, there's more."
She had already seen six heads appearing on the surface of the lake, all belonging to short-haired males.
Their faces were pale, their hair wet, and their dark eyes were fixed intently on them.
The lake was filled with the stench of decay.
Lin Hao, who was rowing the boat, suddenly stopped.
Qin Ruan looked at him.
Lin Hao's eyes were fixed on the center of the lake where the six heads were, and his Adam's apple kept moving due to nervousness and fear.
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