The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 30: Resentment Aggregate

Liu Ning's soul escaped, and the deep red light spot stood there, as if in a daze because of losing its prey.

While the crimson light was in a daze, Wu Changze used the vision brought by the Soul-Cleansing Flag to activate his ability on the crimson light.

The fist-sized dot of light began to expand in his field of vision.

From the size of a fist, to the size of a head, and then to the size of a person...

Finally, a ten-meter-tall red ball of flesh appeared in the black and white world.

The meat ball beat like a heart, and every time it beat, it caused grey cracks to appear around it. The black and white space created by the Soul-Cleansing Flag seemed like it could shatter at any time.

The bloody ball of flesh sensed his gaze and turned its body slightly, as if it was looking at him.

Boom!
Amid the sound of heavy heartbeats, the huge ball of flesh began to fill the sky and the earth. It seemed as if the world was left with only the huge ball of flesh and the ant-like Wu Chang.

Wu Chang raised his eyebrows and murmured: He will resist again.

He waved the Soul-Cleansing Flag, and with the help of the flag and his will, he broke the illusion of the meat ball.

The illusion that filled the sky and earth was shattered, and the ball of flesh returned to its ten-meter size.

After the illusion was shattered, he thought that the meatball would now honestly show its previous life images like other resentful spirits, but the meatball did not react at all afterwards.

What is this stuff.

Wu Chang frowned and looked at the strange blood-red flesh ball. Could it be that he was seeing things? Wasn't this thing resentment?

Just as he was wondering, countless faces appeared on the surface of the bloody ball. They looked at Wu Chang with their empty eyes and murmured in unison:
"Help……"

"Free me..."

"Please help me..."

This time he saw clearly that every face in the meat ball was a light red resentment, but countless light red resentments condensed together and turned into this strange appearance.

The mixed resentments made it impossible for him to distinguish a single resentment.

In the copy plane where peace reigns every year, the resentment of people after death can give rise to monsters. I wonder if it is the special world rules of the copy plane that cause the resentment to undergo such strange changes.

In addition to being surprised, a question arose in his mind.

How do we redeem such a collective resentment? Is there a bloody will? Will there be any rewards?

Seeing that Wu Chang did not give any response, the bloody ball went crazy.

Countless faces screamed at him: "Give it back to me!"

Along with screams of resentment, all the lights in Huaigu Village went out and the world fell into complete darkness.

The black and white world created by the Soul-Cleansing Flag collapsed, and Wu Chang withdrew from the special vision.

As soon as his consciousness returned to the room on the top of the mountain, he immediately went to the window and looked towards the village entrance.

I found that there was nothing there, and there was no bloody ball of flesh or resentment.

That bloody meat ball, is it the evil spirit that the villagers are talking about?
The evil spirit’s final “give it back to me” meant that someone in the village had stolen its things?

While Wu Chang was thinking, Liu Shan and others had already relit the oil lamp.

Just as people were about to ask Wu Chang what happened, they heard a faint cough coming from the ground.

The villagers looked down and saw that the fear on Liu Ning's face gradually eased, his purple lips slightly opened, and a burst of black air came out, and his deathly pale face showed signs of life again.

"Alive! Xiao Ning is really alive!"

"Did you see that? When the hero was saving people just now, all the lights in the village went out. Could it be that he snatched the soul from the underworld?"

"It's just a matter of going to the underworld to snatch a soul. I heard that on the way into the mountain, the hero killed the soul-stealing bull head of the underworld."

"I just said that if the hero takes action, it will definitely work."

"Master, are you still accepting disciples?"

Just as Chi Yuan said, the villagers are the most simple and the most realistic.

Seeing that Wu Chang could really bring back souls and revive the dead, his attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees and he looked like a die-hard supporter.

For ordinary people, life and death and wealth are always the two most tempting things. Seeing that Wu Chang was still young, the quick-witted villagers were already thinking about the competitiveness of their female relatives and how to establish some relationship with this great hero Wu.

Liu Ning, the prettiest girl in the village, has become bald due to her own actions. Without their biggest competitor, they may still have a chance.

Wu Chang's back was being stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes, causing him to shiver.

The villagers' eager eyes, as if they wanted to eat him alive, the pressure from their sight was no less than the illusion of a bloody meat ball with resentful power over the world.

If Liu Shan hadn't stopped us, there would probably have been a blind date meeting tonight.

Liu Shan drove the villagers away on the grounds that Wu Chang had been traveling all the way and had not had time to rest when he performed the exorcism right after entering the village, and that he was tired and needed to rest.

It was getting late, so Liu Shan arranged a place for Wu Chang to stay on the mountain. He took Wu Chang to the room and saw that there was no one else around, so he couldn't help asking:

"Master Wu, what on earth happened just now?"

Wu Chang was not planning to tell Liu Shan about the red ball's evil thoughts. Before the situation became clear, what he had to do was to watch more, listen more, and talk less.

Although the victim-blaming theory is not acceptable, the incident happened in Huaigu Village and was targeted by such a strange monster.

If someone said that the village was pure and innocent and there was no problem at all, he would be the first one not to believe it.

He said calmly:

"As I said before, Miss Ning was attacked by an evil spirit just now, causing her soul to leave her body. When the soul leaves the body, the body will naturally become temporarily dead. If we bring the soul back to the body before the soul leaves, she will naturally wake up."

Liu Shan hesitated for a moment and asked:
"In the past, when evil spirits possessed people, at most they would suffer a serious illness, and it was rare for it to get to the extent it is today. Is it because the evil spirit specifically targeted Xiao Ning, or is it really about to break free from its suppression?"

"I know too little about evil spirits, so it's hard for me to judge. Now that I have some time, can the village chief tell me what the origin of this evil spirit is?"

Liu Shan sighed, took a jar of wine, poured a bowl for himself and Wu Chang, and said quietly:

"The evil spirit first appeared five years ago..."

As Liu Shan described, the past of Huaigu Village slowly unfolded.

Everything started out peacefully and beautifully.

Relying on its geographical advantages, Huaigu Village has become the richest village in Baili Huaishan.

The village is self-sufficient and can sell mountain products to traveling merchants from time to time, so it can be said that there is no worry about food and clothing.

But starting five years ago, Baili Huaishan changed.

Hunters and herbalists who went into the mountains frequently disappeared. Either they were nowhere to be found alive or their bodies appeared in strange ways far away from where they disappeared.

Rumors of mountain monsters began to spread not only among the locals but also among travelers and merchants passing by.

At first people thought they had encountered wild beasts or bandits, but as time went on, people discovered that there was indeed a monster in the mountains.

Many monsters that existed only in stories to scare children began to actually appear in the mountains and forests.

Huaigu Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, which serves as a barrier to block most monsters. However, the strong breath of living people has attracted a more difficult monster.

It is invisible and cannot be seen by humans like other monsters.

It will only transform into a black shadow in the dead of night, come to the beds of children and the elderly in the village, absorb their vitality, and inject evil spirits into them.

Those who are possessed by evil spirits will become weak and sickly within a short period of time, and in serious cases, they will become stupid and foolish.

Older children can get over it if they hold on, but if a newborn is possessed by evil spirits, most of them will die.

The more people are possessed by evil spirits, the stronger the evil power becomes, and it gradually becomes difficult to suppress.

At this moment, a sorcerer happened to pass by. The sorcerer had limited abilities and was unable to subdue the evil spirit, but he used the secret techniques of his master to design a method for everyone to suppress the evil spirit.

This method requires the help of favorable time, location and harmony among people. It is performed once a year and is called the method of eliminating evil spirits.

In order to make it sound auspicious, they transformed the evil spirit into the old year and called it the Chu Sui Festival.

After hearing this, Wu Chang had a general understanding of the world view of the copy. In the real world where he lived, there was also a usage of transforming the evil spirit into the year, so it was not difficult to understand.

"So the effect of the New Year's Elimination Formation set up by the Taoist priest has weakened, making it unable to suppress the evil spirits?"

Liu Shan smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "It's not the problem of the New Year's sacrifice, but our greed and desire to solve the problem once and for all have brought disaster upon us."

(End of this chapter)