The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 485 Backlash of Evil Deeds
Xi Yun had enjoyed a life of glory for half her life, but suddenly fell from grace. This huge fall twisted her mind. She hated everyone, hated her nominal husband for being cold and heartless, and hated the Rong family head for being so cruel that he abandoned his own daughter without a second thought. After raising her for so many years, he showed her no mercy and didn't even give her the status of a young lady.

She also hated Rong Huanxuan for being useless and incompetent. Others could reach the Foundation Establishment stage at a young age, but she had completely destroyed her Dao Foundation. All the effort she had put into her was wasted.

She also hated those sycophants in the Rong family who fawned over her, changed their tune with the wind, and kicked her when she was down. In the past, when they groveled before her, they would offer her the best things, just asking Xuan'er to draw a couple of effective peace charms. Now that Xuan'er was useless, they mocked and ridiculed her, and the head of the family didn't care.

"Useless, all of you are useless, despicable people!" Xi Yun shrieked and cursed, nervously clenching the flesh on the back of her hand until she was completely unaware of the bruising beneath her skin.

But beyond the overt humiliation, a deeper unease, like a persistent, insidious disease, gnawed at her heart day and night, just like the nightmare she had just experienced.

She dreamt of Ren Yao, that vile woman who had captured her husband's heart!

Ever since Xuan'er was crippled, she has always felt uneasy, as if countless sinister eyes were watching her from the shadows, full of malice, as if they were watching her tragic end.

Ren Yao began to appear frequently in her dreams. At first, he was calm, simply looking at her with his all-knowing eyes.

Calmness, in a way, is a silent declaration of war and mockery.

She was laughing at herself, having schemed her whole life, only to find it was all for naught.

Today's dream was grotesque; she saw Ren Yao seemingly emerging from the flames, reaching out his ghostly claws to drag her into the raging fire.

Why should she? It's not like she killed her!

Xi Yun kept cursing and swearing, sitting there in a daze until it was completely dark. The howling wind outside the window sounded like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, which made her even more agitated.

She got up and was surprised to find that the old woman had already left. The window was wide open, and a cold wind blew in, making her shiver. She hurriedly went to close the window.

Suddenly, her hand, which was touching the window frame, froze, and her pupils dilated.

Thick, impenetrable blood mist, accompanied by a chilling wind, surged in from all directions. The biting cold made Xi Yun stand frozen in place. She stared wide-eyed at countless twisted, mutilated ghostly figures that appeared and disappeared in the blood mist, emitting mournful and pitiful howls.

It got closer and closer, and became increasingly jarring.

Xi Yun trembled violently. She blinked and saw Ren Yao, the woman she hated to the core. She was here again.

She was dressed in white, with her hair loose, her face deathly pale, and her mouth full of blood, yet she gave her a chilling smile as she slowly drifted towards her along with the blood mist.

"No, don't come any closer!" Xi Yun struggled to withdraw her hand, staggered backward, and screamed angrily, "Get out, you vengeful ghost, you bitch, get out of here!"

"Look who I am!" Ren Yao came up to him.

Xi Yun fixed her gaze on Ren Yao, who had transformed into that half-grown child. She was a quiet child, a very simple and pure girl. When she smiled, she had two shallow dimples, and her eyes were extremely clear, so clear that they could reflect the ugliness of a person's heart.

"Why did you kill me!" The child stared at her intently. Suddenly, something gouged out his clear eyes, turning them into two bloody holes, empty and no longer able to reflect his twisted and hideous face.

Yes, she herself gouged out those clean and beautiful eyes and threw them in front of the wild dog that was waiting to pounce on them, and it carried them away.

The child gave her a creepy, eerie smile: "Hehe, I can't see anymore, it hurts so much, do you know what pain feels like?"

The cold, venomous voice intertwined with the eerie, sinister laughter, like a demonic chant.

"Shut up, shut up!" Xi Yun covered her ears and fell to the ground, but when she saw her two empty, bloody holes so close, she couldn't help but scream, "Get away!"

"My eyes are gone, you'll pay me back!" A demonic voice, mixed with a sinister laugh, pierced her eardrums. Xi Yun's eyes widened as she saw a slender, white skeletal claw lunging towards her eyes: "No, no, ah!"

The chilling ghost claws, like sharp blades, pierced her eyeballs, forcibly gouging them out. The excruciating pain caused her to tremble and struggle violently. She frantically tried to wave her hands to stop the ghost's movements, but her limbs felt as if they were being held down by ghost claws. The bone-chilling cold seeped into her veins, chilling her entire body.

Xi Yun clearly felt her eyeballs being gouged out of their sockets. The extreme terror and pain caused her screams to be choked back, and she couldn't make a sound.

She wanted to escape, she desperately wanted to escape, but her legs were held tightly and she couldn't move.

Suddenly, she felt something placed in her hand. With her remaining eye, she saw that it was the gouged-out eyeball, placed in her hand, and her hand was closing up.

"No, no!" Xi Yun watched in horror as her hands uncontrollably tightened and clenched, becoming increasingly forceful, right under her nose.

Paji.

"Aaaaaah!" Xi Yun screamed as the splattered eyeballs she had crushed landed on her face, and she screamed in despair.

This is a dream, a nightmare, wake up quickly!

Xi Yun twisted her body, trying to force herself to wake up. However, all she could see was that a dagger had been inserted into the hand that had crushed her eyeballs, and it was being stabbed into her other wrist.

"Heh heh." She tried to throw away the dagger, but it went deeper and deeper uncontrollably. She found the tendon and pulled it out. Blood gushed out and splattered all over her head and face.

Immediately afterwards, she reached for her ankle with the dagger in her hand.

It was exactly the same as when she ordered the two elders to torture and kill that child, except now it was herself who was being tortured and killed.

The pain became numb, but the despair surged over her like a monstrous wave, engulfing her.

So this is what that child felt back then!
She watched helplessly as she severed the tendons in her hands and feet, causing blood to flow like a river, which she then collected in a jar.

Immediately afterwards, she watched as the dagger stabbed towards her dantian.

Xi Yun's remaining eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets. She looked up at the ghostly child, who stood there calmly, looking at her with an innocent gaze, just like her mother had looked at her back then.

The blood mist transformed into a giant wave that swept over her, and the evil deeds she had committed mercilessly backfired on her.

Xi Yun felt suffocated and closed her eyes in despair: "No!"

She let out a scream that sounded inhuman, and suddenly opened her eyes to find herself still in the room, but with her eyes intact.

Xi Yun's cold sweat soaked her inner clothes, and her hair was also wet and stuck to her face, but she showed a relieved smile, as if she had survived a disaster.

It was just a nightmare after all!

However, her smile quickly froze on her lips, because she saw a man she could never have seen before, Rong Qingcang, her husband!

He was slowly wiping his hands with a handkerchief, then tossing it aside as if throwing away something filthy.

He looked at me coldly, a chilling and cruel smile curving his lips: "So that's how it is. Well then, this time it's for real!"

(End of this chapter)