251: Chapter 251 The Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost Before She Turned Evil

Deep in the bowels of the earth, there was a vast underground karst cave.

Inside this cave stood a blood-red altar, built high from piles of bones.

Resting atop that altar was a piece of blood-colored jade.

Inside the jade lay a petite female ghost, curled up with her knees hugged to her chest.

Were it not for the monstrous baleful energy and resentment surrounding it, no one who saw that petite Soul curled up inside the jade would ever mistake it for a millennium-old vengeful ghost!

According to the trajectory of fate, the Child of Destiny, Lin Yu, should have entered this villa together with Jiang Ling.

Afterwards, once the One-Eyed Female Ghost appeared, Lin Yu and Jiang Ling would face the brutal onslaught of the One-Eyed Female Ghost together.

In the end, Lin Yu would be no match for the One-Eyed Female Ghost and would nearly die, but his blood would awaken the millennium female ghost sleeping inside the jade, who had absorbed the resentment of hundreds of thousands or even millions of soldiers from the battlefield. Merely the slight aura she emitted would drive back the One-Eyed Female Ghost, allowing Lin Yu and Jiang Ling to narrowly escape.

By the Middle Stage, the Mysterious Mechanism Master would defect, and Lin Yu would have already grown strong.

The Mysterious Mechanism Master would awaken the millennium female ghost, intending to borrow her power to kill Lin Yu, but would instead be killed by the millennium female ghost himself.

This would all be because of that single drop of blood.

Afterwards, this millennium female ghost lying in the jade would develop a relationship with the Child of Destiny, Lin Yu, similar to that of Dantai Qingyue and Chen Yuan.

She would become the backer behind the Child of Destiny, Lin Yu!

Of course, those were things that were supposed to happen a long time later, according to the trajectory of fate.

But now, because of his appearance, he had intervened, causing a massive shift in the trajectory of fate.

Not only did Lin Yu fail to get to know Zhou Lingyun, but he even developed a huge conflict with Jiang Ling.

Even the backer—the millennium female ghost whose personality Lin Yu could never figure out—was about to be swindled by him because she had not yet turned evil!

Boom—

Qin Ge's body shuddered, and monstrous flames burned the filthy, mud-like baleful energy and resentment, turning them into green smoke.

Even the altar began to collapse under the raging flames.

Clatter—

The bright red jade fell from the altar to the ground, cracking.

The petite figure curled inside the jade rapidly transformed into a human form right before Qin Ge's eyes.

She was curled up into a ball, looking incredibly tiny.

She wore a patched, coarse cloth gown, and one could see her long, black, curved eyelashes fluttering slightly over her closed, beautiful eyes.

Drip—

Qin Ge squeezed a drop of bright red blood from his fingertip and let it fall onto the millennium female ghost's forehead.

The millennium female ghost absorbed the blood.

Those slightly trembling eyelids finally opened slowly.

The millennium female ghost's eyes were filled with confusion as she looked at the strangely dressed Qin Ge. Her voice trembled with terror, "No, don't take me away. I don't want to go to the brothel, I don't want to marry Young Master Wang, and I certainly cannot marry my younger brother. That would bring a lightning strike from the heavens!"

Uh—

Qin Ge was momentarily stunned.

It seemed that by Awakening this millennium female ghost prematurely, she had not yet sensed the changes in the world.

Her memories were still stuck on the scene before her death?

This millennium female ghost before him had been born in a chaotic era, a time when women were treated like blades of grass.

Since she was small, she had been ordered around by her family and treated like a slave.

She rose earlier than the chickens and slept later than the dogs, until her father fell into gambling debt and the people from the gambling den dragged away the pigs in the pigsty; only then did she get to sleep in a room of her own.

The suffering she endured was only just beginning.

When this female ghost grew up and became increasingly beautiful, her father wanted to sell her to a brothel to pay off his gambling debts, her mother wanted to marry her off to a wicked, good-for-nothing Young Master, and even her younger brother wanted to make her his own.

When all three sides pressed her at once, she slammed her head against a pig trough and died.

Her body was thrown into a local mine pit, where it absorbed the resentment of an entire battlefield buried beneath the mine, turning into a ghostly creature that was immortal and indestructible!

What made her different from other Ghostly creatures was that before this female ghost had even awakened her Divine Sense, she had been imprisoned in the altar by an evil cultivator.

That evil cultivator had never paid attention to this female ghost again, likely having been killed by an enemy or someone from the Righteous Path.

It wasn't until over twenty years ago that the Mysterious Mechanism Master discovered her existence and used the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect of Sakura and the Celestial Master Sect to once again provide the immense energy of ghostly Qi for this female ghost to grow.

It was precisely this action by the Mysterious Mechanism Master that prevented this millennium female ghost from completely succumbing to ultimate evil, thanks to the aura of the Celestial Master Sect.

"You... why aren't you saying anything?"

The millennium female ghost, whose memories were still stuck in her life before death, looked at the strangely dressed Qin Ge in terror and asked in a very soft voice.

"What is your name?"

Qin Ge looked at the millennium female ghost before him and asked calmly.

The background of this female ghost was considered additional information from the intelligence post.

After all, according to the trajectory of fate for Lin Yu, in the end, he never unraveled the inner knot of this millennium female ghost, and he didn't even know this female ghost's name when she was alive!

"My name is... my name is Xiaoyue..."

Xiaoyue held her forehead with her delicate hands, a look of pain appearing on her face.

Fragments of memory kept surfacing in her mind.

She looked at Qin Ge and said somewhat blankly, "I... I think I'm dead. Are... are you a ghost messenger sent to take me away?"

"No." Qin Ge shook his head and casually spouted nonsense, "Do you feel the connection in the depths of your Soul, the one that exists between you and me in the mysterious void?"

Xiaoyue nodded blankly, "I... I feel it."

"That is proof that you owe me money! The title deed to this place belongs to me. You have slept here for so many years, absorbing ghostly Qi for so long—not to mention anything else, just the cost of the ghostly Qi you've absorbed is an astronomical sum!"

Qin Ge stared at the millennium ghost who was curled up with her knees hugged to her chest, a playful smile on his lips as he said, "Until you have paid off your debt, you have no way to undergo Reincarnation!"

Xiaoyue bit her pale lips and lowered her small head in shame, "But... I don't have any money."

When she was alive, she had been suffocated by exorbitant taxes and levies.

Now, she didn't even know how many years she had been dead.

To ask her to pay all the money at once.

How could she possibly afford that?!

"No rush, you can pay it back slowly. What can you do?"

Qin Ge looked at the pitiful and lovely Xiaoyue before him and couldn't help but chuckle.

"I can do laundry and cooking, I can mend clothes, I can farm, I can cut pig feed, and I can feed the pigs."

When mentioning feeding pigs, a glimmer of light appeared in Xiaoyue's timid, large eyes, "When I helped Auntie Wang at the east end of the village feed her pigs, Auntie Wang would give me one copper coin. One copper coin could buy two steamed buns!"

Seeing the light of hope ignite in Xiaoyue's eyes, Qin Ge resisted the urge to set up a pig farm for her, waved his hand, and said, "We'll talk about that later. Come inside first."

He took out a piece of archaic jade, took Xiaoyue into it, and then returned to the villa.

By this time, the sky was already brightening.

Just as he appeared in the villa's living room, he saw Qiao Yingzi outside the door of the master bedroom on the second floor.

Qin Ge glanced at her indifferently and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Mr. Qin?"

Qiao Yingzi vaulted down the stairs, moved lightly to Qin Ge's side, and reported, "According to our sources, Lin Yu has already appeared in Qingyuan City and is pestering An Ya."