Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 194 Witch
The scarlet candlelight flickered in the pale lanterns, and the whole yard had long since become a bloody hell. The bride walked barefoot across the broken porcelain on the ground, and her gold-embroidered skirt left a winding ink mark in the blood.

She looked at the black blood oozing from the corners of the flute player's eyes and suddenly laughed. Her laughter was crisp but a little weird: "Brother A Ruo, you might as well play louder - after all, I'm not the one who's going to die."

Before he finished speaking, the dignitaries around him suddenly let out inhuman screams.

The bride was obviously not an ordinary person. She used the witchcraft she learned while studying abroad to spread the poison to everyone around him.

Countless tumors protruded from their luxurious robes, and faint green phosphorescence moved under their skin, eventually condensing into the forbidden runes of "The Whisper of the Worm".

One of the guests' nails suddenly grew three inches long and dug into his throat.

The entire auditorium seemed to have turned into hell on earth, with only the bride and A Ruo still confronting each other.

Suddenly, a strange force appeared in the auditorium, protecting some people and keeping them from being invaded by the poison.

Those people were servants who played the trumpets, served dishes, and did odd jobs. As for the officials and guests who came to the banquet, they still wailed in pain.

"Brother Dou...did you take action?" Tan Qi noticed this keenly.

Among those present, only the mysterious Dou Niwan could do this.

"My hands were cracking melon seeds. What did I do?" Shi Fei cracked melon seeds and rolled his eyes at Tan Qi, indicating that you should stop slandering and talking nonsense.

"..." Tan Qi was speechless for a moment, and could only helplessly look at the chaotic scene in front of him.

Just teasing you!
"Brother Dou, why didn't you save the others? Is it possible to save only these people?" Tan Qi couldn't help but ask again, his heart full of confusion.

"Those people don't deserve it." Shi Fei said while eating sunflower seeds, his eyes coldly sweeping over the officials and guests who were struggling in pain, without a trace of pity in his tone: "If they die, it may be better for the whole of Hunan."

"Why is that?" Tan Qi frowned. He felt that Shi Fei's words were a bit extreme and difficult to understand. "They are all pillars of the court and the backbone of the two lakes."

In his view, these people were crucial to the stability of both the imperial court and the local areas.

Shi Fei smiled and looked at him and said, "Do you think there is something wrong with the world?"

"Of course there are big problems!" Tan Qi said seriously: "The court has lost power and humiliated the country over the years. There are rebellions at home and powerful enemies outside. It can be said that the court is in a precarious situation!"

"So where do you think the problem lies?" Shi Fei asked.

"I think..." Tan Qi opened his mouth and fell silent.

He had too many questions and thoughts in his mind, but he didn't know where to start. The complicated political situation was tangled in his mind, making it difficult for him to sort out the clues.

"Don't you know what the problem is?" Shi Fei looked at him and said, "The root of all problems can be seen as problems in being human. Some people don't behave like human beings, which is the root of the problem." What does it mean to not behave like a human being?
Just as Tan Qi was about to ask, he suddenly heard a terrible scream. The voice seemed to come from an evil ghost in the abyss, full of endless resentment and pain, demanding his life, making him feel dizzy.

Only then did he suddenly remember that he was watching people fight, not discussing how to save the country!
Tan Qi hurriedly turned his gaze to the center of the field. The flute player was playing a strange tune, and countless tiny black scorpion shadows were swam in the air, pouncing towards the bride.

The bride used some unknown means to make the guests at the scene bear the damage caused by the flute player, and she felt fearless.

It was just that Brother Dou took action and protected some of the people. Tan Qi saw the tiny scorpion shadow appearing next to the bride and knew that the flute player's flute sound had finally affected the bride.

That's why the bride let out a devil-like scream to counter the piper's flute!
At this time, the flute player was not in good condition either. His hair turned white at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the years had instantly drained all his vitality.

Dark red blood kept flowing from his eyes, which slowly slid down his cheeks and dripped onto the bone flute in his hand, adding an even more terrifying color to the eerie flute sound.

The sound of the bone flute became even more eerie, not like a sound that a human could make, as if it was a curse from hell. The gloomy wind came from nowhere, accompanied by the dark sky, making people feel as if they were not in the human world, but in a different world full of evil and fear.

Seeing the flute player like this, the bride hummed a mysterious and obscure spell, and the shadows around her formed nine black tentacles. The scorpion shadows wandering in the void were crushed by the tentacles, but turned into black mist and reassembled when they touched it.

"The Scorpion God you worship." The bride used witchcraft and cast the "Wail of the Witch". Her voice became hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing against it: "It's just the Old One Igolonak! If it wasn't for tearing off the protection of the Jade Emperor's 'Immortal Soldiers', how could I look up to a country bumpkin like you?"

Then, her voice turned into reverberation: "And the power I use comes from the great crouching chaos!"

Amid the reverberating sounds, the bride Mi Fangfang's thoughts suddenly drifted to the rainy night that changed her destiny.

The six-year-old girl curled up in the corner of the ancestral hall, with the embroidery needle in her hand dripping with the blood of wild cats. The moment her father pushed the door open, the candlelight reflected the strange smile on the corner of her mouth. At that moment, she seemed to hear the whisper of Chaos, that was the first time that the crouching Chaos whispered in her ear.

Twelve years later, when she witnessed the bloody sacrifice in the Paris catacombs, she realized that she had been chosen. The tentacles of the Crawling Chaos wrapped around her neck, injecting the seeds of Chaos into her blood.

At that moment, she felt unprecedented power and ecstasy, as if the whole world was shaking under her feet.

At this moment, she stood in the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion of Tanzhou, feeling the boiling power of chaos in her body. The wailing guests on the ground were nothing but ants in her eyes, and even A Ruo was just a stepping stone to her peak of power. She glanced at the struggling figures with contempt, and a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"How can you mortals understand the glory of becoming a Chaos Walker?" She whispered in a low voice, with a hint of madness in her voice, "Only by becoming strong can you have everything!"

After returning to China, Mi Fangfang set her sights on the Governor of Huguang. She knew that if she controlled the Governor of Huguang, she would be able to control the power of the entire two lakes region.

So, she contacted Jiang Chenghan, the son of the Governor of Huguang, and used her beauty and witchcraft to control Jiang Chenghan. She planned to use witchcraft to control Jiang Chenghan and use this as a springboard to spread power and strength throughout the two lakes region, creating greater chaos and pleasing Fu Xing Hundun.

However, she never expected that she would be injured by the "immortal soldiers".

Those "immortal soldiers" wearing golden armor and with glowing blue eyes were actually the messengers of the Jade Emperor!
She was injured by the "immortal soldiers" and only then did she know the existence of the Jade Emperor Temple. There are several Old Ones in Europe, but what about the land of China?

(End of this chapter)