socalfunplaces Chapter 673 The Furnace
Chapter 673 The Furnace
"break!"
With a cold shout, the long blade, infused with a murderous aura, shot towards the wall like an arrow.
"Boom!"
The rotten wooden wall was pierced by the blade like paper, leaving a big hole.
A stronger, more ancient, cold breath and a strong smell of incense ash hit my face.
Dust fluttered and scattered, and Xiao Jin took a closer look.
It turned out that behind the wall was an extremely narrow, completely sealed chamber. In the center of the chamber, a dark red, thin-skinned coffin, also covered with strange runes, was placed!
The lid of the coffin was half open. There was no corpse inside, only a set of neatly folded phoenix crown and bridal bridal gown that looked as bright as new.
It looks different from the one indoors, and it’s obviously made with care.
In addition, the surrounding ground was littered with the same bird and animal remains as in the yard. The inner walls of the coffin were also covered in twisted runes!
The last piece of the puzzle of truth fell to the ground with a loud bang.
A girl from a poor family was sold to the Qin family by her greedy parents.
The young master of the Qin family who died young needed "good luck", but in fact it was an evil magic of arranging a ghost marriage with a living person, trying to "nurture" his long-dissipated soul, and even delusionally hoping to "resurrect" his soul by borrowing a corpse.
She was forcibly abducted and imprisoned in this attic "bridal chamber" that never sees the sun.
Her cries and struggles were met with the cold binding and beatings of the maids, and the harsh ridicule and greedy calculations of the Qin family.
The biological parents accepted the money and not only watched coldly, but may even help persuade their daughter, considering her "money-losing commodity" to finally have "value".
Those so-called relatives were full of malice, waiting to see her make a fool of herself, and even hoping that she would "marry him" as soon as possible so that they could share the benefits.
Finally, in despair and extreme fear, she was dressed alive in the red wedding dress, stuffed into the thin-skinned coffin, and carried into the gloomy ancestral hall.
Died in agony under the dual torture of being buried alive and subjected to sorcery rituals!
The overwhelming resentment and unwillingness, mixed with the catalysis of evil magic, turned her into the most terrifying ghost in this ancient house!
She hated it! She hated the cannibalistic Qin family, her greedy parents, her indifferent servants, her malicious relatives, and she also hated this twisted world!
She sacrificed herself and used her overwhelming resentment to imprison the entire Qin Mansion and all the living and dead souls involved in it in this space, turning them into a copy of this ghost marriage where they would never be reincarnated!
Xiao Jin had some guesses.
Perhaps the people in the Qin Mansion were unwilling to be taken away by the ghost bride, and had thought of many ways to watch over her or even get rid of her.
The newly excavated coffin, the magic circle carved on the ground, and the carefully made new wedding dress can all prove this.
"So that's how it is..." Xiao Jin's cold voice rang out in the silent secret room, carrying a hint of chilling insight into the truth.
She drew back her long knife, pointing the blade at the empty coffin and the bright wedding dress.
"I received your hatred."
"But being trapped here, with no chance of rebirth, is this the outcome you want?"
"Or..." She raised the tip of the knife slightly and pointed it outside the attic, in the direction of the heavily sealed ancestral hall. Her voice was like tempered ice.
"You want to tear this cage apart with your own hands? Let those scum who dragged you into hell experience what real hell is like?"
In fact, for so many years, it was not just the people in the Qin Mansion who were trapped, but also the ghost bride.
The ghost bride was tortured and stuffed into a wooden coffin during her wedding. She had to repeat the scene of her wedding over and over again, which was also the time when her yin energy was at its strongest.
The people in the Qin Mansion were naturally unwilling, but because of the ghost bride, they had no intention of ruining the wedding.
Because if they do that, they will be punished more severely.
In the secret room of the attic, the yin energy was boiling.
Xiao Jin's cold voice was like ice water thrown into boiling oil, stirring up invisible ripples in the dead silence.
The blood-red phoenix coronet and robe inside the empty coffin fluttered without a breeze, and its sleeves actually fluttered slightly! It was as if an invisible body inside was trembling violently at her words.
The solidified dark brown stains on the walls of the secret room squirmed like living things, emitting even more biting malice.
A trace of struggle that had been suppressed for too long and almost wiped out by endless hatred suddenly began to stir!
Seeing this scene, Xiao Jin's eyes moved slightly, and then she suddenly turned her head to look at the ground.
"Boom!"
A loud bang erupted from below, and the rotten floor shook violently! Two figures burst through the dust and resentment, instantly appearing at the entrance of the secret room.
Chu Yuan's red robe was stained with dirt, his fists were clenched, and sticky black liquid was dripping between his fingers. It was obvious that he had also experienced a fierce fight downstairs.
His eyes opened wide, and he saw at a glance the strange empty coffin, the brightly colored wedding dress, and the stains crawling on the wall.
Chu Yuan's thick brows furrowed, his fierce aura growing even stronger. "Damn it! Is this the lair of the ghost bride?"
Zhan Wenchen followed closely behind, his gold-rimmed glasses covered with a layer of dust, but his gaze behind the lenses was as sharp as ever.
He quickly scanned the scene in the secret room, his gaze lingering for a moment on the pile of bird and beast skeletons and the runes on the inner wall of the coffin, and then looked at the wedding dress that was moving without wind.
The speech was rapid but clear: "Human sacrifices, sorcery to refine souls... resentment was deliberately guided, bound, and transformed...
The core of this dungeon is not a simple revenge of evil spirits, but a carefully designed furnace of resentment!
Completing the wedding and concluding the "good marriage" ceremony means completely activating the furnace. All of us, including the ghost bride's final consciousness, will become nourishment and sacrifice for this evil spell, and we will never be able to escape rebirth!
He looked at Xiao Jin fiercely: "Destroy it! We must completely destroy this furnace!"
Xiao Jin pointed her long sword at the empty coffin, the tip of the blade humming, echoing the vibrations of the wedding dress. The cold light in her eyes was like a spark igniting a prairie fire: "That's exactly what I meant."
"Destroy? Haha! Great! That feels good!" Chu Yuan grinned, revealing a row of sharp white teeth, and clenched his fists until they crackled. "I hate being manipulated the most. What should I do?"
The three of them met eyes, without saying a word, and then looked at the coffin together.
The goal has never been so clear - to find help, of course!
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In the West Garden wing, a deeper poison was brewing in the dead silence.
Wang Yuqing huddled in the corner of her "wedding room" which looked like a mourning hall, hugging her knees, her body still shaking violently and uncontrollably.
The short scream of her boyfriend Lu Yiming when he was dragged away, the torn "囍" character on the door panel, the glaring fresh bloodstains on the ground... Every frame was like a red-hot iron, repeatedly burning her nerves.
Wang Yuqing's tears had long since dried up, leaving only empty eyes and the uncontrollable, bellows-like hoarse sound in her throat.