bayedsolid Chapter 428 Head-on Confrontation with the Red Wedding Dress
Chapter 428 Head-on Confrontation with the Red Wedding Dress
Mo Chengyue attached the array hook to the back of the Yuhua Sword, and the Yin-Yang True Essence flowed into the threshold array along the sword.
"I only use the blood oath to knock on the door, I don't send the person in."
"You think you can control it?"
If you can't control it, then retreat.
The Seventh Eye laughed out loud.
"Can I get a refund?"
Mo Chengyue also smiled.
"I even dared to return my wedding dress, so what kind of high-end item is this lamp of yours?"
Manager Hu glanced at him.
"Don't provoke her."
"She's already angry."
The red thread in the seventh eye's sleeve pierced into the black water, and the red lantern tassels at the four corners of the abandoned shipyard rose simultaneously, their flames spreading across the water's surface toward the threshold.
"Mo Chengyue, how is your use of her for testing your magic any different from the ship owner using her to light lamps?"
Manager Hu's face paled even more at those words.
Mo Chengyue didn't look at Manager Hu, but pushed the array plate forward to the edge of the talisman light.
"The difference is huge."
The seventh eye asked, "Where is it big?"
"I'll ask the family members first."
Manager Hu looked up.
Mo Chengyue said to her, "I'm not confident I can save her completely. What I can do is pry open the wick so that her remnant soul has a chance to leave the fake name post."
Shopkeeper Hu gripped the white paper lamp tightly.
"cost?"
"You should say your childhood name; the ship might remember it after you do."
Shopkeeper Hu asked, "Would she be in more danger?"
"She's already in the light, so she can't get much worse, but you'll be watched even more closely."
Shopkeeper Hu did not give a refund.
"Anything else?"
"If only regret remains in the wick, prying it open might cause it to dissipate."
Shopkeeper Hu looked at the fading face in the red light, tears welling up in his eyes, but they didn't fall.
"It would be better for her to be in less pain than to be hung on the boat."
The seventh eye's voice became shrill.
"You ask her what she does? What does she know about soul magic?"
Mo Chengyue raised his hand and activated the soul-protecting talisman on the east side of the array plate.
"She's a family member; she doesn't understand that she also has the right to sign."
Manager Hu was about to cry, but upon hearing this, he held back his tears.
"You're really annoying."
"Thank you, that's what they said on the ship too."
The red veil covering the seventh eye was lifted by the lamplight, but the face beneath was still shrouded in shadow, with only the water stains on her lips visible.
"Sister Hu, he's lying to you. He wants to use your sister's name to break the ship owner's post. After he breaks it, even if the remnant soul is shattered, it has nothing to do with him."
Manager Hu looked at Mo Chengyue.
"Is she right?"
Mo Chengyue replied, "Half right."
Manager Hu's hands began to tremble.
Which half?
"I really want to break the post."
"What about your other half?"
"Whether it breaks or not depends on how much she has left, not on how sweet my words are."
The Seventh Eye said softly, "Listen, he won't even say a kind word."
Shopkeeper Hu wiped his eyes with his sleeve and held the white paper lantern steady again.
Kind words cannot save a person.
Mo Chengyue aimed the array hook at the wet mark at the bottom of the red light.
"This sentence could be written at the entrance of the inn and displayed for a fee."
Manager Hu muttered under his breath, "Get out."
"Finish your work first, then get out."
Suddenly, the red light behind the Seventh Eyes lit up, and water and fire surged outwards along the ship's planks at the same time. The faces in the black water were illuminated by the fire, revealing painful outlines, and their lips opened and closed even more rapidly.
"It's no use her agreeing; once her childhood name is on the water, it belongs to the boat owner."
Mo Chengyue turned the Rain Flower Sword onto the threshold, the back of the sword holding the talisman ash, forming a thin gray line.
"That depends on who catches it first."
Shopkeeper Hu asked, "Shall we read it now?"
Mo Chengyue looked at the three characters "Hu Shuang'er" at the bottom of the lamp wick, and waited until the red thread was tightened to its tightest point before sending the Yin-Yang True Essence from the array hook into the back of the sword.
"Wait for the red name to show a crack."
Upon hearing this, the Seventh Eye immediately hung up.
Mo Chengyue smiled.
"It's too late."
When Manager Hu shone his white paper lantern forward, the light passed through the hole in the talisman and landed precisely in the narrow slit at the bottom of the wick, which was bound open by the red thread.
Mo Chengyue spoke: "Read it."
Shopkeeper Hu closed her eyes, then quickly opened them again. She didn't call out "sister" or "Shuang'er," but instead uttered the old name buried in the smoke of the stove.
"Ah Sui".
The remaining surface in the red light remained unmoved.
The seventh eye let out a short laugh.
"She can't hear."
Mo Chengyue pressed his fingertips against the end of the array hook, the red lines on his palm burning from the soul-protecting talisman.
"Read it again."
This time, Manager Hu's tears fell onto the lamp handle, turning into a white mist from the lamplight.
"Ah Sui, Ah Sui in front of the stove."
The three characters "Hu Shuang'er" in the black water began to sway, and red marks appeared on the fake name post, as if it had been knocked out of place by an unfamiliar old voice.
The Seventh Eye immediately raised its sleeve, and red lines shot towards the threshold from all directions.
"Shut up!"
Mo Chengyue thrust the Rain Flower Sword forward, and the talisman ash flew up along the back of the sword. Yin-Yang True Essence was sandwiched in the talisman ash and cut into the slit of the lamp wick.
"Manager Hu, don't stop."
Shopkeeper Hu's throat was hoarse, but he held the white paper lantern more and more steadily.
"Ah Sui, your mother says you're destined to have food, you'll never go hungry or cold, don't listen to the false names in the water."
The remaining surface in the red light moved slightly.
The movement was so light it was almost swallowed by the lamplight, but Mo Chengyue saw that the red name at the bottom of the lamp wick had loosened a corner.
The veil of the seventh eye was lifted by water and fire, and wet hair slid out from the veil, wrapped with red thread and spread outwards.
"You're asking for it!"
All the red lights inside the abandoned shipyard tilted simultaneously, their flames falling into the black water. Instead of extinguishing, the water surface burned into a dark red wave of fire that rushed towards the talisman array at the entrance.
The heatwave forced Manager Hu to retreat, and he bumped his back against the protective talisman on the doorpost, preventing him from falling into the old water stains.
"Mo Chengyue!"
Mo Chengyue's sleeve was burned open by the water and fire, and the red light of the blood-stained talisman on his palm was dragged towards the wick of the lamp. He immediately grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and pressed the soul-protecting talisman onto his skin.
"Don't call me, call her."
Manager Hu gritted his teeth and raised the lamp again.
"Ah Sui, don't recognize the boat name Hu Shuang'er. Go back to the kitchen, back to the woodpile, back to the place where I hid the red silk for you."
The red thread of the seventh eye wrapped around the Rain Flower Sword, and the blade emitted a soft hum as it was scalded by the red water.
"She can't go back!"
Mo Chengyue pressed the array hook down, and the Yin-Yang True Essence split into two streams, black and white, cutting through the edge of the false name stake along the gap in the lamp wick.
"Even if you can't go back, open the door first."
The Seventh Eye roared, "How dare you touch the ship owner's name!"
Mo Chengyue clenched his teeth, and the blood-stained red lines on his wrist climbed up his wrist bone, only to be burned back to his palm by the soul-protecting talisman time and time again.
"When you used my name to write the marriage certificate, you didn't even ask me if I dared to."
Manager Hu continued chanting, "Ah Sui, Ah Sui, Ah Sui."
With each recitation, the name Hu Shuang'er in the red lantern loosened slightly, and the tattered face in the lamplight was no longer dragged inward by the firelight; the marks on her lips slowly revealed their original paleness.
The Seventh Eye pressed his hand to his red veil, from which came two overlapping sounds: one like a girl crying, the other like wet wood laughing.
"Sister, if you keep reading it, it will shatter."
Manager Hu's voice was worn down by tears, but he didn't stop.
"Even if it's broken, I won't use it as a lamp for you."
Mo Chengyue looked up at her.
"That's a harsh statement."
Manager Hu ignored him.
"Ah Sui, if you hear this, don't turn around, don't recognize the boat, don't recognize the lamp, don't recognize the thing that sees you."
The seventh eye's red wedding dress covered the wrecked boat, and water and fire surged along the patterns of the dress, forcing the light of the threshold talisman to retreat repeatedly.
Mo Chengyue placed the last Tranquilizing Talisman in the center of the array plate.
"Seventh Eye, add more fire, and she'll be the first to leave the name."
The Seventh Eye's movements indeed stopped halfway.
"You're bluffing me."
Mo Chengyue's hand was scorched by the red marks, but he pushed the array hook a little further into the wick.
"You can gamble."
The seventh eye did not gamble.
She retracted part of her red thread, but the water and fire circled around Manager Hu's feet, trying to cut off the light path between the white paper lamp and the array plate.
Shopkeeper Hu immediately threw the Soul-Suppressing Coin at his feet. The coin rolled into the water and fire, making a scalding sound.
"Still want to turn off the lights?"
The Seventh Eye asked coldly, "Sister Hu, are you really willing to do this?"
Shopkeeper Hu stared at the remaining noodles in the red light.
"I can't bear to see her in pain."
The Seventh Eye asked again, "So, are you willing to let her go?"