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Chapter 257 The Girl's Ghost

Noticing Shi Xiaxia's unfriendly gaze, the village chief immediately took two steps back and asked in a trembling voice, "Master... Master, what's wrong? Is... is there a problem?"

"You're not telling the truth!" Shi Xiaxia said seriously.

"this......"

The village chief stammered, trying to hide the truth: "That's really all, Master! I'm telling the truth!"

"Then let me ask you!"

Shi Xiaxia turned her head and looked at the ravine, saying each word carefully, "Why are there so many baby girls and little girls in this ravine?"

"what?!"

The village chief screamed in surprise and was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a thud.

He was covered in cold sweat, trembling as he looked at Shi Xiaxia, his gaze not daring to move towards the ravine.

The village chief shook so violently that the gourd in his pocket accidentally fell out and rolled around on the ground a few times.

He hurriedly picked up the gourd and handed it to Shi Xiaxia, shouting in a panic, "Master! Master! Quickly use this gourd to collect them!"

The Taoist priest said this gourd is specifically for capturing wandering spirits! Quickly, capture them!

The village chief's expression was so guilty and frightened that even if she didn't say anything, Shi Xiaxia understood the reason to some extent.

This village was extremely patriarchal. In an era when people couldn't even get enough to eat, girls were naturally seen as a burden and a financial loss.

In order to save more food, villagers would simply throw newborn girls, girls they had raised for a short time, or sick girls into this ditch and leave them to fend for themselves.

As more and more people abandoned their children, the ditch gradually became filled with the ghosts of girls.

but......

Shi Xiaxia looked up and saw that the entire ditch was filled with remnants of souls and yin energy; she couldn't see a single complete one.

Is it because of that gourd?

Shi Xiaxia turned around, took the gourd from the village chief's hand, opened it and looked inside, only to find that it contained some yin energy and fragments of remnant souls.

No.

Shi Xiaxia put the gourd aside, took a step forward, and her clothes and hair were blown by the yin energy of the ditch.

She quickly made hand seals in front of her while chanting incantations.

As the hand seal was completed, Shi Xiaxia slowly opened her eyes, which were instantly enveloped in a strange light—this was the Heavenly Eye that could perceive Yin and Yang.

In an instant, the whole world seemed to have changed.

The yin energy that was originally surging in the ditch transformed into black incantations, which spread outwards from the ditch like silk threads, tightly binding the entire village.

curse......

These female infant ghosts, at the cost of their souls being scattered, cursed the entire village, making it impossible for them to ever give birth to a girl again!

Shi Xiaxia felt wave after wave of chills in her heart.

How many girls died here to create such a powerful curse?!

Shi Xiaxia helplessly withdrew her hand.

"Master...Master!"

When the village chief saw that Shi Xiaxia stopped moving after a while, he became very anxious and hurriedly called out to her, fearing that Shi Xiaxia would not deal with the matter of the ditch for them.

"fine,"

Shi Xiaxia took a deep breath, suppressing her turbulent emotions, and said to the village chief, "This gourd is indeed a treasure. We just need to use the gourd to collect all these things!"

"Really?!" Upon hearing that the problem could be solved, the village chief burst into tears of joy.

“Yes.” Shi Xiaxia replied and then ignored the village chief.

She held the gourd steadily with one hand, muttering incantations.

As the incantation was uttered, the runes on the surface of the gourd began to flash.

It trembled slightly, and a powerful suction force surged out from the gourd's mouth, engulfing everything around it.

The yin energy in the ditch was the first to react. The originally surging, dark yin energy was as if it were being pulled by an invisible hand, rushing madly towards the mouth of the gourd.

While absorbing the remnant soul of the baby girl, a significant amount of yin energy overflowed and rushed towards the village chief.

After he was tainted by the yin energy, he heard the sharp cries of the baby girls.

"what--"

The village chief screamed in fright and scrambled to Shi Xiaxia's side, crying, "Master! Help! Get out of here! It wasn't me who caused this! No! Don't come looking for me!"

After all the yin energy in the ditch was absorbed, Shi Xiaxia put away the gourd.

He then stepped aside, looked at the village chief who was weeping uncontrollably, and said, "Village chief, it's all over now."

"Really...really?" The village chief peeked out with one eye and carefully examined the ditch in front of him.

Although he couldn't see any changes, he felt that something was missing from the ditch.

"The yin energy and remnant souls have been collected. You will no longer hear the baby crying when you pass by here again."

"That's great!"

The village chief quickly stood up, patted the mud off his clothes, and said, "Master is truly amazing! He can solve all the problems with just one move!"

Shi Xiaxia glanced at the village chief but didn't say anything.

Thinking that Shi Xiaxia was dissatisfied with his words and hadn't seen sincerity, the village chief quickly said, "It's getting late. If you're so kind as to ask, Master, why don't you come to my house for a simple meal..."

"no need."

Shi Xiaxia refused the village chief's offer, then flipped her hand and put the gourd away before saying to the village chief, "I'll put the gourd away for now. I'll be staying at a hotel in town later. If the old Taoist comes looking for the gourd, tell him to come to town to find me."

"Grandmaster!"

The village chief remembered that Xiaxia had said this gourd was good, and he was afraid that she would run away with it, then he would have no way to explain it to the old Taoist priest.

He then said with a smile, "Master, there's no need to rush! That old Taoist priest will be here tomorrow. Master can stay for another day without any problem!"

“If I wanted to steal it, I could leave right now, and there would be nothing you could do about it.” Shi Xiaxia glanced at the village chief, exposing his little scheme.

The village chief's expression froze, and he could only manage a forced smile: "The master is right, the master is right."

He can't afford to offend either of them!

In the end, the village chief could only watch helplessly as Shi Xiaxia left.

After leaving the village, Shi Xiaxia looked back at the place where Xie Yun was born, which was still shrouded in a gloomy aura.

She only used the gourd to collect the remnants of the soul and the yin energy in the ditch; she did not break the curse.

If the probability of a girl being born were to recover, who knows how many more girls would perish in that ditch.

It's fine as it is now...