Chapter 571: Chapter 62: The Naturally Evil and Worthless Woman

Yan Yu and Li Minghu’s commotion in the north side of the Ghost Town was finally reported back to Yin Rou by the paper scouts.

This woman immediately covered her face with her sleeve and burst into tears, leaving Li Zhaojiang and the others utterly baffled.

Li Zhaojiang’s party of five, minus Li Minghu who had already rendezvoused, had arrived in the town to explore—they had entered from the east, and so they quickly encountered the papermen entrenched there, and had been brought to Ghost Mother’s residence.

Upon hearing the news, Yin Rou first wept, then flew into a rage and said to Li Zhaojiang,

“Your two companions, upon hearing my words, were so enraged that they wanted to settle accounts with the Ghost King, but little did they expect to fall into an ambush by evil spirits. Their chances of survival are slim. I cannot shirk responsibility for this. If it weren’t for my inability despite my intentions, I would certainly seek revenge for the two brave men and quench this great hatred with blood!”

Everyone exchanged glances in silence.

It wasn’t that Yin Rou’s words had any loophole, but everyone, upon considering the thought of Yan Yu falling into an ambush and perishing… instinctively felt it was impossible.

Only Li Zhaojiang, in his concern, became tense, thinking, Old Yan, you couldn’t really be gone, could you?

Don’t drag my older sister down with you! Of course, don’t die trying to save my sister either, or she’s likely to never forget you for the rest of her life. You and my sister both have to stay alive for me!

“Captain.” Xu Jin suddenly said through a telepathic message, “This woman is preemptively assuming that Captain Yan and Deputy Captain Li have perished, and she seriously suspects us for allowing her to use us to kill by proxy.”

“I know.” Li Zhaojiang frowned and responded, “But them falling into an ambush and their whereabouts being unknown should be true. Otherwise, once we meet up with them, this woman’s lies will fall apart on their own.”

“Even if we manage to search for Captain Yan and Deputy Captain Li’s tracks, we’d still have to head north.” Xu Jin suggested, “Since that’s the case, why not pretend to believe what she says, to avoid conflict here.”

“Hmm-hmm.” Li Zhaojiang thought it made sense and thus addressed the Ghost Mother,

“There’s no need to trouble yourself, madam. We’ll go and take our revenge for them. However, we’ll need you to explain in detail the information about the Ghost King and his minions.”

After sending off Li Zhaojiang and the others, Yin Rou wiped the tears off her face and began contemplating in secret.

The Netherworld had been sealed for a long time, but recently it had suddenly opened to the outside world. Not only had many new lost spirits and solitary ghosts appeared, but now even cultivators were gradually visiting, uncertain whether it was good or bad.

While these people were still communicable, she quickly ordered them to clash with Xue Ren, which would also facilitate her profiting from the chaos.

As she was calculating, her brow suddenly twitched slightly:

It was her subordinate papermen who had found two girls not far from the town and were guiding them here.

Yin Rou quickly arranged her expression and soon put on a sorrowful face again, rethinking her explanation.

Su Yunjin and Zhao Yuanzhen followed the paperman into the town, looking intently around them.

“Is this the spell of a Necromancer?” Su Yunjin asked secretly through telepathic communication.

“Hmm.” Zhao Yuanzhen narrowed her eyes and sneered, “Transforming paper into men, guiding spirits to inhabit them, it’s nothing but a second-rate trick from Ghost Cultivators. A true formidable Yin Ghost takes solid form, its soul serving as its body. Why would it need such a shoddy fake shell?”

Su Yunjin did not reply. She knew Sister Zhao’s temperament was such; she only respected Captain Yan Yu, was somewhat lenient towards her teammates, but held no regard for others; none of them were impressive in her eyes.

What she was truly worried about was the overwhelming number of papermen. Fighting them might be quite the hassle—though with the wide-reaching Southern Dipper Star River Secret Art in hand, she wasn’t too worried.

Arriving at the mansion, and after hearing Yin Rou’s full account, the two decided to first look for their captain.

“What Yin Rou said is false; she’s obviously inciting us to contend against the Ghost King,” Su Yunjin conveyed to Zhao Yuanzhen, “and the captain would not fail to see through it.”

Zhao Yuanzhen really hadn’t seen through the deception, but from her youth, her master taught her to always be wary when away from home, never fully trusting what others say. Therefore, she also had a rule of thumb: anyone I don’t take a liking to at first glance, without needing to discern, I treat as all harboring ill-intent and guard against them thoroughly.

She found Yin Rou extremely disagreeable: her seductive and glamorous appearance, disgusting! Her tone of voice, exasperating! And most infuriating was that in life she had actually been part of the Emei Sword Sect, the very sect I detest the most in my life!

If it weren’t for Yun Jin holding me back here and not being assured of protecting her life, I would definitely have confronted that bitch right there and then!

“Qing’an Team set off even earlier than us,” Su Yunjin continued, “We will follow their route, staying alert to avoid conflict with the Ghost King’s side and focusing on gathering information about the captain.”

“Good,” Zhao Yuanzhen had no objections.

Upon leaving Yin Rou’s “Paperman Workshop,” as they approached “Evil Ghost Street” occupied by Xue Ren, they suddenly heard a clamorous commotion up ahead, signalling a rather significant battle.

Su Yunjin and Zhao Yuanzhen hurried over and before they could reach the scene, they saw Li Zhaojiang and the others fighting a retreating battle, fleeing haphazardly in this direction.

“What happened?” Su Yunjin immediately sent a telepathic message.

“I was about to ask you the same,” the reply came from Jiang Hong, sounding quite agitated, “Your team’s Chen Lingyun, why is she acting as a commander in the Ghost King’s camp? And when we tried to communicate with her, she ignored us and even commanded the evil ghosts to attack us!”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated on Novlove.com