Chapter 333: The Raven Woman (Part 1)

This place was ten miles away from that village. Why would her resentment reach here?

Could it be… that she was after us?

Shui Miao’s mind raced as he focused his spiritual senses. Suddenly, he sensed the woman’s ghost just a few hundred meters ahead of the convoy.

“Quick! Honk the horn and stop the car!”

Shui Miao suddenly shouted, startling Lin Xue, who had been dozing off. She hastily pressed the horn and slammed on the brakes.

Chu Miaoyi, sitting in the front passenger seat, was also woken up.

The cars ahead, hearing the blaring horn, quickly pulled over.

The lead car was driven by Wang Yong and his team. After slamming on the brakes, Wang Yong was astonished to see a woman in white clothes with disheveled hair floating in midair just dozens of meters ahead of the car.

“She’s targeting someone in our car. There must be someone here whose birth chart matches hers,” Shui Miao muttered to himself before closing his eyes and sending a mental message to the ghost in white: “You shouldn’t have blocked my path.”

“Hu!”

The ghost felt Shui Miao’s mental voice and seemed startled, vanishing in an instant.

Shui Miao opened his eyes again and sensed her fleeing back to the village and hiding.

“Ring ring…”

Lin Xue’s phone rang.

It was a call from Wang Yong. After answering, Lin Xue turned to Shui Miao and said, “Shui Miao, your godfather Wang Yong says he just saw the ghost woman. He’s asking what we should do and whether we should keep going.”

“Tell him I understand. Continue driving. There’s a gas station not far ahead. We’ll spend the night there and won’t travel tonight,” Shui Miao sighed lightly. He hadn’t expected to encounter a vengeful female ghost in the middle of the night. Now they couldn’t move forward—they had to deal with this first. Otherwise, the ghost might kill many more people.

Chu Miaoyi turned to look at Shui Miao and, covering her mouth with her hand in fear, asked, “Shui Miao, was it because you knew there was a female ghost ahead that you made us stop?”

“Yes, but don’t be afraid. I’ll protect all of you,” Shui Miao nodded. He opened the car door and shouted loudly, “Wang Rong, the young ones, come over to my car.”

“Why? Why are you calling them over?” Chu Miaoyi knew Shui Miao wasn’t interested in women—he must have a reason.

Shui Miao got back into the car and moved to the side, “Because that ghost wants to kill someone. I suspect there’s a woman among us whose birth chart matches hers, so we must be cautious.”

“…”

Upon hearing this, Chu Miaoyi was so frightened she couldn’t speak for a moment.

Shui Miao closed his eyes again and focused his spiritual senses on the ghost.

Shui Miao’s spiritual awareness could sense things from great distances, though only vaguely. To sense specific details required much more effort, and sensing ghosts and spirits was even more difficult.

Now, Shui Miao could faintly sense where the ghost was hiding.

After Wang Rong and the others got into the car, the convoy resumed moving. The Hummer SUV had seven seats and was spacious enough. Everyone saw Shui Miao with his eyes closed and dared not speak.

But at that moment, Shui Miao sensed something strange happening…

At the village entrance, beneath the large locust tree filled with crows’ nests, the woman’s corpse was hanging. Her eyes were bulging, her tongue extended far out—it was a terrifying sight. Suddenly, many crows on the tree began pecking at the rope. Directly beneath the female corpse was a large round well. If the rope broke, the body would fall straight into the well.

However, the rope was thick nylon, extremely sturdy. There was no way the crows’ pecking could possibly cut it.

“Why are the crows pecking at the rope?”

Shui Miao was very puzzled.

He knew crows could be spiritually attuned, but he didn’t know the relationship between these crows and the woman.

“Could it be because of my presence?”

Shui Miao pondered and quickly focused his spiritual senses on the village’s environment.

Suddenly, he sensed the well beneath the large locust tree—it contained water with extremely heavy yin energy.

“Wait a second…”

Shui Miao suddenly realized—the woman had hanged herself, choosing to die beneath the locust tree, directly above the well. These were all her own arrangements. Her heavy resentment indicated she must have suffered great injustice while alive. Judging from her disheveled clothes, she might have been raped, leading her to take her own life.

Her ghost had come here to kill people on the road shortly after her death, proving she was no ordinary ghost—she likely had some knowledge of mysticism.

In other words, the crows trying to peck through the rope must have been her own doing. The ghost had asked the crows for help, hoping to cut the rope and let the body soak in the well water. With more yin energy nourishing it, her ghost would grow stronger and more powerful, eventually becoming an extremely terrifying vengeful spirit! And her attempt to kill people on the road must have been because she had coincidentally discovered someone whose birth chart matched hers.

Putting it all together, Shui Miao quickly understood the ghost’s intentions.

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The female ghost had hidden in a house for a while. Perhaps realizing the crows couldn’t cut the rope, she possessed an old woman. The possessed old woman took a sickle and a small stool, walked out, placed the stool beneath the well, stood on it, and cut the rope. Then she hurried back with the stool and sickle, got back into bed, and continued sleeping.

How terrifying the female ghost was!

She could possess others without anyone noticing!

Although Shui Miao had cultivated Daoism deeply, thinking about how many people were possessed by ghosts, made to wander aimlessly, and do things they didn’t even remember—later believing it was sleepwalking—sent a chill down his spine.

Sensing this, Shui Miao felt only curiosity, not the slightest desire to catch the ghost.

On the contrary, he even hoped the female ghost would kill those who had wronged her sooner rather than later.

Soon, the convoy arrived at the gas station.

Nearby were some civilian houses converted into guesthouses.

Everyone parked and got out of the cars.

After sensing the ghost’s actions, Shui Miao told everyone to stay inside the cars and not go out.

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The round well beneath the large locust tree was huge, nearly 1.8 meters in diameter, with a sturdy wooden board placed in the center.

The female corpse floated in the well water.

Gradually, under the influence of yin energy, the corpse became whiter, its belly swelling as if it had swallowed a lot of well water. Within just over an hour, the corpse’s surface began growing white, mold-like fuzz. At this moment, crows landed on her body, hopping to her mouth.

The crows stuck their heads into the corpse’s mouth, poking around…

“What’s hidden in her mouth?”

Shui Miao tried to sense it but couldn’t detect anything. He only sensed a unique spiritual energy within the corpse’s mouth.

After poking around for a while, the crows jumped onto the corpse’s forehead. Three crows worked together—two of them used their beaks to pry open the corpse’s eyelids, while the third somehow obtained some blood, dripping it drop by drop into the corpse’s eyes. Once both eyes had been infused with blood, the corpse’s body began turning black, darker and darker…

After more than ten minutes, the corpse suddenly opened its bloodshot eyes and climbed out of the well, step by step heading toward her house…

Inside her home, she was completely alone.

Her house was a low wooden hut. Beneath the hut was a hole. Slowly, she crawled inside, lying down. With a loud “Clang!” she pulled up a black wooden board lid.

“That… that is…”

Shui Miao carefully sensed the black wooden board lid and discovered it was actually the lid of a coffin!

“What exactly is she trying to do?”

Shui Miao grew increasingly curious. This mysterious female corpse—what exactly was she planning to do?