21 It was you who took me there

" Gah!" Song Yan spat a mouthful of dark blood as she crawled out of the pit, she could feel her energy daring by every second as she tried to stay conscious. She raised the hand that was clutching the straw doll and winced. Her fingertips were dark black as if something have charred them, but Song Yan knew it was because she tried to forcefully break the grudge field. Something warm and fishy rose in her throat as Song Yan coughed out another mouthful of blood, " damn, this is not going to work." She wiped the blood that was trickling down from the corner of her lips as summoned, Fang Yanli.

The temperature of the surrounding dipped low as Fang Yanli appeared, she peered down at Song Yan and clicked her tongue as she flew down and leaned her forehead against Song Yan's. After a few minutes she pulled back and gave a summarising report, " your internal organs are alright but your Qi is unstable, the yin energy has caused a few fluctuations it seems and your life energy is a mess, the grudge field sucked most of your life force out of you and I am telling you if not for me and the other spirits trapped in the spirit ring, you would have died."

Song Yan picked herself up from the ground, her head pounding as if she was once again by a car the size of a monster truck. " Well, Thank you?"

Fang Yanli bristled at her unrepentant tone as she plunged in the air until she was face to face with Song Yan and then she snapped, " What do you mean thanks? Do you have any idea how long it took for us to suck that much yin energy? One or two spirits were going to ascend to the next level in their cultivation but then you had them vomit everything out? The entire spirit ring is in chaos, spirits are lying around asking to be killed, treat us a bit better will you?"

Song Yan laughed at her scolding, she knew that Fang Yanli was only spouting so much nonsense because she was worried about her. She raised the straw doll in front of Fang Yanli and grinned. " But we broke the grudge field."

" Bah! You are still thinking about this doll? Can't you see that it almost left a life-threatening curse on you?" Fang Yanli was so angry that she wanted to whack Song Yan and go back in the ring but she somehow managed to calm herself, she still had some sense. She knew that breaking this grudge field was very important for Song Yan thus, she didn't say anything more as her dark eyes shifted to the straw doll she was holding in her hand, to the general population this straw doll might seem ordinary but Fang Yanli and Song Yan could see black mists covering the entire the doll. " the soul is..is still trapped inside?"

Song Yan nodded solemnly, as she placed the doll inside the spirit ring, " The grudge is too deep, if I let her spirit out, the first thing she will do is to hunt Chu Lian, and you know that killing of innocents is condemned by the heaven. She will not be able to ascend to the netherworld."

Fang Yanli frowned. " what do you mean innocent? She has committed so much evil already!"

Song Yan chuckled as she took out an invisibility talisman and stuck it in her body, " do you think Chu Lian would dirty her hands by killing someone? She won't, so technically she is innocent as long as her hands are free of blood but that can't be said for my mum if I let her out."

The Fu Residence.

A room full of people was anxiously waiting in the living room, Fu Yu Shen who couldn't reach Fu Rong was pacing anxiously in the room.

" What the hell is going on? Madman Song didn't Miss Fu go with you? Then how come she was suddenly taken away?" The old butler who was anxiously trying the second master number to find out if he found out anything but Fu Yu Sheng who have just taken the flight to their country after finding out that his sister was kidnapped had to switch off his phone, even though Fu Yu Sheng was a powerful figure, his connections weren't so wide that he would be able to find out what happened to his sister while he was in another country. Though he contacted the police commissioner to take care of this matter, it was as if Fu Rong vanished in thin air, there were simply no traces of her existence much less when and where she was taken away.

" Butler Fan, what's the matter with you?" Fu Yu Shen who dialled Fu Rong's number innumerable times couldn't help but snap. " What does this have to do with sister Lan? It's Rong, she just can't sit still at home what's the point in heading out to those dodgy bars?"

" but-"

" No, buts Butler Fan, this is solely Rong's fault!"

Song Lan who was sitting on the sofa timely let out a whimper as she cried out, " No, it's fine Shen, it's my fault. I am the older one here, I should have stopped Rong from going to that dodgy bar, It was me who-"

" what are you crying about?" Fu Rong who walked into the house threw her jacket over the clothing rack and raised an imperious brow at Song Lan, " Sister Lan, why are you saying that it was a dodgy bar wasn't it the bar you picked saying it was your friend's bar?"

Song Lan has already lost her soul when she watched Fu Rong returning home safe and sound, at first she thought that she was hallucinating. She has after all spent so much money and even had the old master draw a trace extinction talisman so that the police won't be able to find Fu Rong until the two thugs took care of her, so how could she believe that Fu Rong who was supposed to die tonight was standing in front of her? And that too alive!