Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 961 The Silhouette of a Prisoner

Su Xianqing is dead.

His story is only mentioned briefly in the Sujia County Annals and in a few words in three other county annals.

Wu Xian had no idea what had happened to him that would lead him to commit such a heinous crime.

Perhaps his story ended long before his mind was twisted by evil forces.

"Phew, this guy is really tough to kill..."

Su Xianqing possesses powerful abilities and should have been the second boss in this blessed land, after Magistrate Meng Longtu.

However, because Xiao Gong had risked his life hundreds of years ago to wipe out all the evil spirits controlled by Su Xianqing, Wu Xian was only facing a puppet that was barely clinging to life and waiting to be killed.

Thinking of this, Wu Xian silently thanked Xiao Gong.

"call……"

Wu Xiansong breathed a sigh of relief, took off his official hat, and looked at the prisoner woman hanging on the ceiling.

He knew that some things were not yet over.

Splash, thud...

The color of the ceiling gradually returned to normal, and the chains on the prisoner fell off one by one. The evil aura around her was rapidly dissipating, and her appearance was gradually returning to normal.

Eventually, even her prison clothes began to disappear.

In a blur of light and shadow, she transformed into a beautiful bride dressed in a bright red dragon and phoenix wedding gown, with a phoenix crown and beaded curtain swaying slightly on her head. Her body was half-real and half-ethereal, and she was clearly a beautiful bride with bright eyes, white teeth, and a dignified demeanor.

Looking at her, Wu Xian was slightly lost in thought.

In this blessed land, Wu Xian came closest to death when he was severely injured and surrounded by evil spirits inside the Gate of Death. But what terrified him most was when, during his first playthrough in the blessed land, he encountered a prisoner girl crawling towards him and pouting her black, foul-smelling lips...

"If you had looked like this back then, I probably wouldn't have been traumatized..."

Su Qishi stretched out her slender white hand, took one end of the white silk, and handed it to Wu Xian.

She didn't speak, but Wu Xian understood her meaning, just as she had said in her cell when she committed suicide.

"On the day my name is cleared, I am willing to serve you like a dog or a horse!"

Wu Xian grasped the white silk ribbon, opened the ordination certificate to examine it, and discovered that as long as the white silk ribbon was wrapped around the treasure, it could perform a final enhancement on that individual treasure.

At this moment, the only treasure Wu Xian possessed that had been enhanced to its limit was the Burning Dream Blade, which had been strengthened by the Sacred Flame Token of Benevolent Words. Therefore, Wu Xian had no other choice but to extinguish the flames on the Burning Dream Blade and quickly wrap the dagger in white silk.

call!
Flames instantly ignited on the white silk, and Su Qishi on the other end also caught fire.

She was like a spark, igniting more things: the white silk hanging from the ceiling, the constables from all directions, the citizens of Xuanling County at the door, Su Xianqing's corpse...

Everything that didn't belong on the first floor burst into flames, leaving only Su Xianqing's upside-down head, still dripping blood onto the ground.

Countless flames, like a red ribbon, burrowed into the end of the Burning Dream Dagger. As the flames surged in, Wu Xian also saw several fragmented silhouettes of the imprisoned woman's experiences.

……

First video clip:
When Su Qi was born, she was a chubby, pretty baby. She was held in her mother's arms when a twisted ghostly figure tried to scratch her face with sharp claws, but it vanished in the midst of her cries.

The second scene.

When Su Qi was a child, she was like a finely crafted porcelain doll. When wandering Taoist priests came to the city to perform Taoist arts on the street, she would grab her father's sleeve and stand by to watch expectantly.

However, the Taoist priest's Taoist arts kept going wrong, and he couldn't perform a single one successfully. In the end, he ran away with a red face amidst the audience's curses, and Su Qi's chubby face was filled with disappointment.

The third scene. Su Qi is about to get married. Her husband is a young master from a prominent family in Xuanling County. She is traveling to Xuanling in her wedding carriage and rests in a town along the way.

As night fell, the town was filled with mournful cries. Su Qi secretly went out to investigate and found a person lying dead in front of her. Her companions were shouting that there was a ghost, but she could not see anything and was not attacked.

It was as if all evil spirits and demons were avoiding her.

But she was already terrified by the tragic scene around her. While fleeing in panic, she encountered a group of people dressed in strange clothes. The leader of these people was none other than Shen Longhu.

The people seemed to be trapped in a maze, constantly going around in circles. However, after Su Qi joined the group, the maze mysteriously disappeared, and she led the people out of their predicament.

Then she and her companions encountered many strange things.

The last scene.

This is Su Qishi, her head covered by a red veil, sitting blankly in the prison cart, seemingly having forgotten her previous experiences in the small town.

……

call!
All the flames seeped into the Burning Dream Dagger.

Wu Xian opened his eyes.

In Su Qishi's memory, he only saw four scenes, and these four scenes appeared in the form of silhouettes.

But these four scenarios alone are enough for Wu Xian to understand a lot of things.

Wu Xian had many things he couldn't understand in this blessed land, and most of the doubts lay with the imprisoned woman.

First, evil spirits like Lord Xiao and the Eight-Faced Constable were special in their previous lives, so their power is for a reason.

But how could Su Qishi, an ordinary woman, have such a significant power gap with other evil spirits after her death?
Is it because of resentment?

So many people died in Xuanling County, who wouldn't harbor some resentment?
Second, why was Su Qi the only survivor of the murder in the small town?
Su Xianqing's Dao heart collapsed. He had killed so many people, so why was his obviously problematic wife spared?

Because of love? Don't be ridiculous.

Third, Meng Longtu planted so many chains that controlled ghosts on the imprisoned woman in order to control Su Qishi, but her behavior in the blessed land did not seem to be controlled by Meng Longtu.

Finally, what right does a female ghost have to perform the final enhancement on a precious treasure?

Based on the above doubts, Wu Xian had several relatively dark speculations about the imprisoned woman, but after watching these scenes, he understood everything.

Su Qishi was special from birth.

She may be a favored child of the heavens, or she may be a blessing bestowed upon her by the world to deal with the threat of evil spirits. In any case, she has had the ability to disable evil spirits or magic around her since she was a child.

It is precisely because of this ability.

She was able to survive alone in the blessed land of the small town, even though Shen Longhu and the others had all been captured.

After Su Xianqing married her, the divination began to fail frequently, and he started to investigate the evil events that had occurred, which ultimately led to all the tragedies.

But evil spirits couldn't kill her, but humans could...

So she died.

Even after transforming into an evil spirit, it remains the most unique among all the evil spirits in the blessed land.

The story of the imprisoned woman came to an end. Wu Xian looked at the cursed dream dagger in his hand and saw a foot-long white cloth fluttering from the end of the dagger...

(End of this chapter)