The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 206 - 203: It Turns Out to Be the Earth Evil Spirit; The Origin of Ginsengfruit

Chapter 206: Chapter 203: It Turns Out to Be the Earth Evil Spirit; The Origin of Ginsengfruit

The two bodies that had just died yesterday had now shriveled into something akin to dry branches, with only a thin layer of skin wrapping the bones, and all the flesh and blood had been sucked dry by something.

It must have been done by that Ghost that killed them!

But Qin Zhao had guarded the woodshed all night and didn’t feel that thing’s presence at all.

She had also placed a talisman on the main gate, so if any Ghost tried to break in, the talisman would activate and trap them in the yard.

Qin Zhao approached the door and waved her hand, making the talisman appear.

This talisman hadn’t been used at all, so how did that thing suck the bodies dry?

"How did the bodies turn into this?"

Chu Yan walked out of the woodshed, surprised to see the two mummified bodies.

Qin Zhao explained with a grave expression, "It must have sensed something unusual here, so it didn’t appear to harm people but still sucked the flesh and blood from the bodies."

"Ah! What, what’s going on?"

A scream erupted in the room.

Wang Shuangwei’s wife, seeing the mummified bodies from the window, turned pale with fright.

Hearing his wife’s scream, Wang Shuangwei and his parents also came to the window.

The Wang Family huddled together, shivering and not daring to leave the room.

"Was it that thing’s doing?"

Qin Zhao nodded, "It came here last night."

She crouched down beside the two mummified bodies, then flipped them over.

After a thorough check, Qin Zhao finally understood the reason.

"It seems to be an Earth Evil Spirit."

Chu Yan asked her puzzledly, "What’s an Earth Evil Spirit?"

"It’s a demon formed from a ghost’s cultivation, likes to move underground, often haunts graveyards and chaotic burial grounds, and feeds on the yin energy and Evil Energy from below to strengthen itself," Qin Zhao explained.

Then, she frowned.

"However, this is the first time I’ve seen one with such a taste for fresh blood."

Last night, she had smelled a strong stench of blood; places where the Earth Evil Spirits had been also carried this faint scent, proving it had consumed a lot of fresh blood, making its scent impossible to hide.

Turning over the dried corpses, their backs appeared even more shriveled with that nasty stench of blood still present, and the ground where the corpses lay also carried that odor.

Qin Zhao initially thought it was a stronger Ghost, but it turned out to be an Earth Evil Spirit.

The Earth Evil Spirit wasn’t as powerful as an evil ghost, but could hide within the earth instead of floating around, which made it difficult to capture and easy to escape.

Qin Zhao thought for a while, then went inside to find the Wang family.

"I need your help to lure it out."

Qin Zhao looked at Wang Shuangwei, whose face changed color.

"How do we lure it out?"

He felt uneasy and didn’t dare to leave the room.

"Tonight, you’ll go with me to the place where your grandfather fell. I will protect you in the dark. As soon as it shows up, I’ll capture it immediately and ensure it doesn’t hurt you."

Thinking of luring out a ghost in such places at night was enough to make one’s skin crawl.

Wang Shuangwei was reluctant to go, but seeing his family’s frightened eyes, if he didn’t resolve this demon quickly, it could kill them all!

"Okay! I’ll go with you!"

Tonight, heading to the Rice Field Locust Tree, Qin Zhao didn’t bring Chu Yan along.

Too many people might alert the Earth Evil Spirit. If it sensed something was wrong and ran off again, Qin Zhao would find it hard to capture.

As evening approached, close to midnight.

Wang Shuangwei held a flashlight and also brought an iron basin and paper specially meant for burning for the dead, arriving next to the locust tree where his grandfather had fallen.

"Grandfather, may you rest in peace."

He placed the iron basin on the ground and lit the paper with a lighter.

Howling cold winds rustled the leaves on the locust tree, casting menacing shadows on the ground.

Wang Shuangwei felt the surrounding temperature dropping, shivering from the cold.

Suddenly, a hideous ghostly face emerged from the burning brazier.

"Ah!"

Wang Shuangwei screamed and fell to the ground.

The ghostly image in the brazier grew larger, as if it was about to crawl out of the fire.

"Help!"

Wang Shuangwei screamed while scrambling back.

When he leaned against the locust tree, suddenly a hole burst open on its trunk! A black arm emerged, with sharp fingers that fiercely grasped his shoulder, and a cold yin energy penetrated his body.

As the yin energy entered his body, Wang Shuangwei’s eyes rolled back, his face turned pale, and he nearly fainted on the spot.

It was not until a shadow fell before him that Qin Zhao quickly approached and slapped a talisman on the ghost hand.

"Get out of here!"

She spoke coldly, and the ghost hand trembled, trying to retract into the locust tree.

Qin Zhao then grabbed its wrist, her spiritual power forming into thousands of golden threads, all wrapping around the ghost hand, forcibly dragging it out of the tree.

"Zi!"

The Earth Evil Spirit was instantly bound tightly by her golden threads of spiritual power, only able to hiss angrily at her.

Before her was a creature that seemed part demon, part ghost, about the size of a baby, pitch black, with eyes as large as copper bells. Its teeth resembled those of a shark, arranged in multiple rows, razor-sharp, and its body was enveloped in a dense blood-scented black and red mist.

"Zi, zi!"

It bared its teeth at Qin Zhao, exhaling a foul, black, and red mist.

The mist was poisonous; Wang Shuangwei, who was nearby, felt faint upon smelling just a bit of it.

But it was ineffective against Qin Zhao, who casually waved her hand and dispersed the bizarre mist.

Qin Zhao stared at the Earth Evil Spirit before her, originally intending to strike it down with a Thunder Bolt, but then she remembered something about the Ginsengfruit.

Earth Evil Spirits were rare creatures not naturally formed; could someone have cultivated it?

She withdrew her spell for Thunder Bolt, extended her fingertip to its brow.

Her divine sense invaded the creature’s mind, accessing its memories.

"Wa woo woo woo!"

The first memory was of its birth, when it was still a swaddled infant.

But in the next second, the child’s cries weakened.

Because soon after its birth, it was buried alive!

The person who buried him nurtured him every day with thick, fresh blood.

Gradually, a tree grew from the ground where he was buried, bearing fruit.

Every once in a while, when the tree bore fruit, people would come to pick them.

These fruits were the Ginsengfruits.

Qin Zhao sensed the Earth Evil Spirit’s emotions—anger, hatred, a desire to kill the person who buried him!

The person who buried him was a woman who ate the Ginsengfruits!

Initially, the woman was a young girl, but over time, despite consuming the Ginsengfruits, she aged, became uglier, yet did not die.

The old woman stood by the fruit tree, pondering for a long time until she seemed to understand the reason.

The soul under the tree had grown strong and mutated into a monster!

It did not want her to remain eternally youthful, immortal!

And when the day came when it grew powerful enough to burst forth from the soil, it would be her time to die!

The Earth Evil Spirit had been buried for hundreds of years, unseen by the sun, and had long forgotten the face of the person who hurt him. But that person had eaten the fruits grown from him, and through the scent, he could sense her presence.

Thus, he followed the scent to seek her out and kill the person who ate the fruits, to avenge himself!