115 Shrivelled up.

Song Yan stared at the guest house that was lit up, from the second floor she could hear someone humming a song that was particularly trendy these days and sneered, this man was surely a good match with that mother and daughter. The two of them were just as heartless as him, he was the one who drew those talismans that might have suffocated a seven-year old to death but he didn't seem to have the slightest bit of guilt instead from the looks of it he seems to be having quite fun here.

" Cheh" she clicked her tongue as she walked towards the main door of the guest house, she could of course deal with this man by jumping through the window of his room but that would only alert him. When she reached the front door, she wasn't surprised to find an array that blocked anyone unidentified from entering, heh, at least this man knew how many wrongs he have done.

She raised her hand and bit her thumb before drawing an array with her blood on the door to counter the one that has been drawn by the man and his master, the door frizzled and hissed as soon as she was done drawing the array. Smoke started to waft off the surface of the door before the array broke into pieces. Once the array broke, it was easy for Song Yan to enter the guest room, and the second she stepped in, her brows furrowed, this place was no longer the same as before ——when her mother was still alive, there were little traces of her in every room but now, those little traces were gone.

Chu Lian must have spent a fortune to renovate not only the main building but also the guest house, she must have wanted to wipe all the traces of her mother from this house as she wiped her mother's existence from this world. A ruthless glint flickered in her eyes, she came here only to teach Song Lan a lesson but now she will deal with Chu Liam as well, of course, what she wanted to do the most was to barge into their rooms and end this thing once and for all but she couldn't do that yet she needed to find out where they have hidden her mother's body before she could take any action against them.

Before that those women can't die.

She took out a talisman from her space ring and drew an array that she wouldn't have drawn ever in her life before heading up the stairs. The stairs were old and though they were old, they still creaked —— Xu Qing, the disciple of the old master was working on another assignment that was given to him by his master when he heard the stairs creak as if someone was coming up.

A bit surprised he put down the knife that he was holding in his hands and stood up. The little dog who was huddled in the corner let out a whimper as it tried to drag its bloody body away from the man who was trying to kill it—— black magic, worked most effortlessly when it involved the blood of an innocent being whether human or not.

Xu Qing still haven't learned everything which was why his master asked him to bring little puppies from the streets and use them in his training. At first, he was a bit spooked out but as things started to slowly progress, Xu Qing became used to it, after all, he was already training as a dark master, what was there to fear about?

He opened the door to his room and walked out of the top of the stairs, nothing and no one was coming up. So what was that creaking noise? Was it a mouse? A frown built up on his face, showing how upset he was and why wouldn't he? He was trying to work here and that was why he asked that Chu woman to give him a nice and quiet place to work, how will he work quietly if mice were running around here and there?

Looks like he has to give that Chu woman a good lecture tomorrow morning, he was not her guest, he was basically her partner in crime if not for him and his master, with her fate alone she was supposed to sleep on the streets and eat out of trash can. Not sleep on the softest bed and eat the finest delicacies from around the world yet she was treating him like this—— letting him stay in a guest house that wasn't even properly cleaned. What a disgrace!

He harrumphed before walking back into his room if he was paying attention he would have seen the figure that walked by but in arrogance and pride, he couldn't see it.

Shutting the door behind him, he walked back into his room and when he saw that the dog, he was using to draw blood for drawing his talismans dragged himself out of the magical array, his mood turned even more sour as he strode over and picked up the puppy by his neck. " You little thing, where do you think you are running off to? Do you think that you can escape?"

He snapped as he plopped the puppy back on the array that he has drawn and started drawing his talismans, there was no need for him to pay attention to the whimpers of the little puppy but as he got busier and busier with drawing the talisman, he started to feel a bit dizzy.

Like he was getting anaemic, frowning he rubbed the space between his eyebrows and then tried to focus on the talismans once again. His master will be coming tomorrow, he has to finish these before tomorrow—— but then his fingers started trembling and his vision distorted.

Stumped he looked up and was just thinking of whether he should call the servants of the main house to whip something for him when he felt something was off—- he looked around and the puppy he had picked up was nowhere to be found! Surprised he tried to stand up but then his feet stumbled and he nearly fell off. Woah, he shook his head and tried to stand up once again but he couldn't——- stunned he looked down at his and what he saw nearly passed out.

Why? Why were his legs shrivelling up like a corpse?

A scream broke through the silence of the night and Song Yan who was standing outside tittered. "A bit slow aren't you?"

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