Chapter 248: How Can The Ominous Star Have Merit Power?!
The thing worshipped on the shrine seemed to sense Nan Yuanman’s gaze. A cracking sound came from beneath it, as if it had turned its head to meet Nan Yuanman’s eyes, seemingly mocking her.
Look, even if your talent is good and your strength is powerful, so what?
Isn’t there no way to save all living beings?
You’re just trash.
Nan Yuanman got angry at the content she had imagined in her mind. Her small face tightened, and she strode over with her short legs, kicking over the shrine with one foot.
The thing worshipped on the shrine rolled onto the ground with a clatter and came to rest at Nan Yuanman’s feet.
Nan Yuanman lifted her little foot, preparing to stomp it into pieces.
At the same time, in the villa’s living room, Zhou Wenxuan, who had been lying unconscious on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes.
He propped himself up with one hand and slowly sat up, removing the sleep talisman stuck to his forehead: “…Truly trash. A sleep talisman with not much spiritual power was enough to make you pass out.”
“However…” Zhou Wenxuan gazed toward the direction of the swimming pool and slowly raised his hand. Twisted red threads emerged from his palm, intertwining together.
The red threads gradually formed the shape of a small person, then slowly split off a thread that pierced through the small person’s heart.
“Heaven has not been unkind to me, giving me a chance to test the Ominous Star’s strength…”
In that case, Zhou Baiyu, this chess piece, was worth being trash after all.
Swimming pool basement.
Nan Yuanman, utterly unaware, stomped and shattered the thing wrapped in red cloth. A sharp, angry howl seemed to echo in her ears.
But soon, that sound disappeared.
Nan Yuanman listened carefully. Hearing no more of that sound, she cautiously avoided touching it directly with her hands. Instead, she took out purification talismans, dirt removal talismans, yin removal talismans, thunder fire talismans, and so on, throwing them all onto the red cloth at once.
Just then, a surge of powerful yin energy burst out from the red cloth.
The yin energy collided with the talismans, erupting in a powerful shockwave. Nan Yuanman stumbled, retreating several steps backward. She instinctively closed her eyes and shielded the calico cat in her arms with her hands.
In the instant she closed her eyes, a tiny red worm invisible to the human eye bounced toward Nan Yuanman’s ear using the shockwave!
Xiao Hong shot out from the small shoulder bag, opened the coffin lid, and was about to swallow the little bug.
But in the next second, the little bug turned into dense red silk threads that wrapped around the small coffin entirely, as if to devour it whole.
Nan Yuanman struggled to open her eyes and saw Xiao Hong in peril. Her heart panicked: “Xiao Hong!”
Without thinking, she pulled out attack talismans from her small shoulder bag and smashed them all toward the red silk threads.
When the talismans hit the threads, they burst into raging flames.
Even so, they refused to let go of Xiao Hong, determined to take it with them even if burned.
This made Nan Yuanman hesitate to attack.
Anxious, she took out Xiao Cao and Zhuang Zhuang and threw them out: “Quick! Go help Xiao Hong!”
Without a word, Xiao Cao and Zhuang Zhuang charged at the red silk threads, severing the ones binding Xiao Hong.
But these red silk threads were like living things, growing too fast— one cut, two more grew back. They couldn’t be fully severed in a short time.
Worse, they went mad, determined to take Xiao Hong away.
Nan Yuanman forced herself to calm down. She remembered Grandpa saying that any lack of calm in battle would lead to painful lessons. Holding back tears, she settled the calico cat safely, then quickly pulled out the peach wood sword and rushed over, gritting her teeth to cut the threads.
While slashing the threads, she reached out to grab Xiao Hong, using all her strength to pull her out: “Bastard! Don’t you dare take my Xiao Hong!”
The red silk threads refused to release Xiao Hong, striving to devour her, while splitting off some threads to harass and attack Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman stubbornly refused to let go. While blocking the red silk threads’ harassment, she struggled to pull Xiao Hong outward.
But her strength was too small to overcome the red silk threads. Soon, half of Xiao Hong was swallowed.
Nan Yuanman was thoroughly frantic. Veins bulged on her forehead, and the merit in her spiritual platform turned into streams of light, flowing rapidly through her meridians.
“Let… go… of… my… Xiao Hong!!” Nan Yuanman roared, her small face flushed red. She suddenly felt her body filled with power and yanked Xiao Hong out with force.
The peach wood sword in her hand was covered in a layer of golden light. With a swipe, it swiftly severed the red silk threads.
This time, the red silk threads sizzled like encountering sulfuric acid, quickly melting and dissipating.
“Bang—!”
In the living room, the small person drawn with red threads in Zhou Wenxuan’s palm suddenly exploded, blasting his palm into a bloody mess.
“Urgh!” Zhou Wenxuan grunted, his face instantly turning deathly pale. Clutching his hand as he knelt on the ground, disbelief filled his eyes: “Merit power?”
How could an Ominous Star have merit power on her?
How could an Ominous Star possibly retain merit power?!
You must know, those who become Ominous Stars are people who committed unforgivable sins in their past lives, evil ghosts who clawed their way up from the eighteenth layer of hell! The yin debt they carry would take ten lifetimes to repay!
Any merit on them would be used to repay the yin debt! They couldn’t retain it at all!
But… Nan Yuanman actually had merit power?!
What exactly was going on? Could Master’s divination have been wrong? Was Nan Yuanman not the Ominous Star from the divination who would ruin all their major plans?!
Zhou Wenxuan’s face was full of shock and doubt.
Where exactly had things gone wrong?
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Nan Yuanman clutched Xiao Hong, panting heavily. Her small face was flushed red, her forehead covered in cold sweat. It took a long while before she recovered.
Her hands were still trembling from exerting too much force, tightly gripping the hard-won Xiao Hong.
Once Nan Yuanman recovered, she hurriedly checked Xiao Hong’s condition. Seeing that the half of the coffin lid that had been swallowed was now pitch black, her eyes welled up with tears, and she burst into sobs: “Wahhh! Xiao Hong, Xiao Hong, you’ve become ugly!”
Feng Jingcheng, who had just knocked out the burly man and run in with a bruised and swollen face looking for Nan Yuanman, panicked at her crying: “Yuanman! What’s wrong, Yuanman?!”
Xie Shuyao, who had just knocked out Zhou Baiyu, was also stunned and rushed over to hug her: “What’s wrong, Yuanman baby? Why are you crying? Did Sister scare you by being too fierce? Sorry, sorry, don’t cry, don’t cry.”
“Wahhh… Sixth Brother, Xiao Hong, Xiao Hong it wahhh…” Nan Yuanman cried miserably, tears and snot streaming out. Trembling, she held up the small coffin in her hands for the approaching Feng Jingcheng to see.
Feng Jingcheng looked closely. The originally entirely red small coffin was now half black, looking… like… the paint had chipped off?
Feng Jingcheng hurriedly comforted her: “It’s just a bit of chipped paint, no big deal. When we get back, Brother will help you repaint it.”
Nan Yuanman tearfully asked: “Really? It’s really just chipped paint?”
“Really!” Feng Jingcheng said: “Sixth Brother swears to you.”
Nan Yuanman barely stopped crying. Even while crying, she hadn’t forgotten the main task. Sniffling, she took out a talisman and embedded it into the wall.
Invisible ripples to ordinary people spread out, breaking the red barrier on the wall that had blocked the cat and dog souls.
“Meow—!”
“Woof woof woof!!”
Accompanied by sharp cat and dog cries, the cat and dog souls burst out from the wall, charging straight toward Zhou Baiyu lying on the ground!
“W-we should go save the other kitties and doggies.” Nan Yuanman sniffled, holding Feng Jingcheng’s hand as they headed to the other rooms.
As for Zhou Baiyu.
Let him experience the pain of being tortured to death.
