Chapter 96: Duel of Sorcery

"What are you? Just because you look exactly like me, you think you can claim that it is for my own good? You killed my fiancé. I will make sure you can never be reborn!"

With that, Bai Xiaoli bit open her fingertip and drew a few strokes on each sheet of spirit money, then began chanting an incantation.

At the sight of this, even the thousand-year-old evil spirit frowned for the first time.

"King Yama of the netherworld, pity my unborn spirit. Disciple's soul, guide me to the true path. Let aid come from all eight directions, and let the demonic way endure forever."

When Bai Xiaoli finished the spell, she flung the paper money into the sky. In the next instant, I saw endless black mist surging in from every direction. The mist formed one face after another, male and female alike; I even saw Xu Yingying's face in it.

The black mist circled around Bai Xiaoli, spinning up and down in the air with the yellow paper money. It was eerie beyond words.

"Benefactor, who do you want us to kill?" the faces asked as they hovered around Bai Xiaoli.

"Kill her!" Bai Xiaoli pointed at the woman across from her, the one who looked exactly like her.

The next second, those faces let out a chorus of shrill, uncanny cries and rushed straight at the thousand-year-old evil spirit without another word. The black mist streaming behind them left long trails in the air.

Seeing this, the thousand-year-old evil spirit simply stepped back a few paces. And when the faces were almost upon her, countless tiny fishlike bubbles rose from within her body. The faces struck the bubbles and were instantly frozen, trapped inside.

Dozens of black-mist faces were sealed in a dozen or so bubbles in an instant. The thousand-year-old evil spirit merely blew softly at them, and the bubbles shattered. The faces within let out miserable screams, then vanished without a trace.

Bai Xiaoli was stunned by the sight. She looked at the woman who was identical to her, unable to believe that this person had so easily broken the killing technique she had learned from Granny Wan.

"With skills like that, you want to stand up for someone else?"

Step by step, the thousand-year-old evil spirit walked up to Bai Xiaoli. Bai Xiaoli was already completely frozen in place.

I wanted Bai Xiaoli to run, but I could not make a sound. My body was trapped inside the oil lamp, and I could not get out.

The thousand-year-old evil spirit had already reached Bai Xiaoli's side, standing only a single step away. Just as I thought she was about to make a move, she said calmly, "Bai Xiaoli, remember what I said: one woman does not marry two husbands. Your real fiancé is not Pi Yangxi. If you want to live, listen to me."

After speaking, the thousand-year-old evil spirit who looked exactly like Bai Xiaoli turned around and vanished into the night.

After hearing those words, both Bai Xiaoli and I were left stunned.

One woman does not marry two husbands. What did that mean?

Could it be that the Yellow River Goddess Chen Yetian spoke of had already agreed to Bai Xiaoli's marriage to Chen Zhiqiang? Or was Bai Xiaoli and this thousand-year-old evil spirit one and the same, and the evil spirit already had a husband, so Bai Xiaoli could not marry anyone else?

As expected, the marriage my grandfather had arranged for me was not as simple as entering a wealthy family as a son-in-law. Then I thought of what my older brother had said: be careful of Grandpa...

Grandpa, Grandpa, what on earth are you scheming? Why are you making your grandson suffer so much?

The thousand-year-old evil spirit had gone, yet I could not feel happy at all. There were two reasons. First, the words one woman does not marry two husbands had deeply stabbed at my nerves. Second, I increasingly felt that the marriage my grandfather had arranged for me was far from ordinary, and might even cost me my life.

"Yangxi, I harmed you. I harmed you." Another burst of heartbroken sobbing dragged me back from my thoughts. I saw that Bai Xiaoli did not know when she had knelt in front of me again. While crying, she burned paper money for me and said, "Brother Yangxi, I am useless. My skills are poor, and I could not help you take revenge. Rest in peace. I will study hard with Granny Wan, and if I do not kill that female ghost, I swear I will not give up."

Looking at Bai Xiaoli's utterly grief-stricken face, I did not know whether I should cry or laugh.

"Girl, stop crying. Your husband isn't dead yet, and you're crying as if you mean to cry him to death..." At last, Granny Wan's voice came drifting in from the doorway.