I was amazed to see that the peach wood flags had such powerful abilities, completely binding the ghost and preventing it from coming out.
Grandpa remained unfazed, casually picked up several peach branches and fiercely threw them towards the ghost. The moment they flew into the Bagua formation, the branches instantly turned into several two-meter-long spears, stabbing towards the ghost.
I was even more astonished, with my mouth gaping wide open. Grandpa's abilities had completely exceeded my imagination. The peach branches in his hand could instantly transform into spears, as if performing magic.
The ghost in the Bagua formation clearly was not much inferior to grandpa. After avoiding several spears, it was then pierced in the shoulder by a spear as it trembled from touching the peach branch flag.
The piercing screams instantly entered my ears, sounding like a brainwashing voice that made me quickly cover my ears, with a buzzing noise in my ears.
It seemed that grandpa did not hear a thing, his brows furrowed as he grabbed the peach branches and continued to throw them inside.
The ghost's speed clearly wasn't as fast as before. By the time four spears pierced its body, it was already lying on the ground trembling nonstop.
Grandpa narrowed his eyes, and I was also somewhat surprised. The calamity was supposed to be extremely dangerous, but grandpa had almost finished off the ghost in no time. This didn't seem like a calamity at all.
It seemed that he also realized this, looking at me with a hint of confusion.
Under our four-eyed contact, I saw a hint of confusion on grandpa's face, but he licked his lips and didn't say anything.
"Grandpa, it's almost done for, hurry and kill it!" I shouted loudly.
Grandpa nodded, grabbing the peach branches again to throw in, but just as he raised his hand, a clear, pleasant voice came from behind: "Uncle Yin, don't hurt it."
I abruptly turned my head to see that the ghost's mother, Zhao Xiaocui, had appeared in her true form at some point, standing before us.
"Xiaocui, I can't let it live!" grandpa shouted.
With tears in her eyes, Zhao Xiaocui looked at the hideous ghost and said softly, "Uncle Yin, no matter what it is, it came out of my womb. It's my child. How could a mother watch her own child be killed?"
Grandpa's brow furrowed as he looked at Zhao Xiaocui and asked, "But if I don't kill it today, it will be me who dies."
Wiping away her tears, Zhao Xiaocui said, "But I can't just stand by and watch my child die in front of me."
Hearing this, I jumped up, "Are you trying to let my grandpa die here?"
Suddenly, Zhao Xiaocui hesitated, no longer speaking, gazing affectionately at the ghost in the Bagua formation.
I sneered, about to speak, but she suddenly said, "Yin, back then, you used nine peach wood branches to nail me inside the grave. My heart had already died at that time, and I tried everything to break out of the grave and kill you myself, but I couldn't escape from your binding."
As she said this, a cold glint flashed in her eyes, "Fortunately, someone removed those nine peach woods binding me a few days ago, allowing me to successfully give birth to my child."
After speaking, she looked at me and said in a low voice, "Mingyang, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would still be in endless cycles of pain."
"What do you want to do?" I instinctively became nervous and watched Zhao Xiaocui vigilantly.
A sly smile appeared on her lips. "I can't watch my child be killed by you. You want to kill my son, so I'll kill you!"
"Do you dare!" Grandpa burst out, turning to look at her with a menacing look, "You have only just died, and I'm inclined to let you off because of the pity I felt for you in your lifetime. If you dare to stop me, don't blame me for sending you to your doom!"
"Uncle Yin, do you really think I can't deal with you?" Zhao Xiaocui smiled eerily, took a step back, and coldly said, "I have already consumed those nine pieces of peach wood. You can't kill me with your current abilities!"
"What?" Grandpa was extremely surprised, his eyes wide open.
I couldn't help but gasp as well, realizing that I had thought that the underlying cause of the gossip formation was Grandpa's misfortune. I had been puzzled before, but now I finally understood that the cause of Grandfather's misfortune was this seemingly fragile woman, Zhao Xiaocui.
But I still couldn't understand. As a spirit who had just died, even after consuming the nine pieces of peach wood, she was never going to be a match for Grandpa. Yet, Grandpa showed a level of vigilance that I had never seen before.
Zhao Xiaocui looked very arrogant. "Back then, you trapped me, but fortunately, a man saw through your methods. When he removed the peach wood, he also revealed the secrets of the peach wood!"
When she mentioned the man, my heart instinctively skipped a beat, and I quickly asked, "Was it a young man in a black short-sleeved shirt?"
"How did you know?" Zhao Xiaocui sounded suspicious.
I didn't say another word. Indeed, it was that young man. What did he want to do? It seemed that his presence was involved in every experience I had.
Grandpa's face turned waxen, and he fiercely threw the peach twigs in his hand into the gossip formation. The ghost figure had no strength to resist anymore and was pierced by several long spears, letting out a deafening roar.
Zhao Xiaocui screamed "child," and her jet-black hair suddenly danced without wind. Her pale face looked extremely terrifying in the moonlight. With both hands forcibly stretched out, her long nails emitted a chilling light and pointed directly at Grandpa, shouting in a cold voice, "I respected you as an elder, but I didn't expect you to treat me like this. Today, I will make you experience the same feeling of losing everything!"
As soon as I heard this, cold sweat poured down, and before I could react, my body was like it was being restrained by a powerful force, flying rapidly towards Zhao Xiaocui.
"Ah!" A sharp pain in my arm forced me to let out a scream.
Looking down, I saw that Zhao Xiaocui's sharp nails had already pierced into my arm, and blood was seeping through, dripping onto the ground from my clothes.
"Let him go!" Grandpa shouted, picking up two peach twigs and throwing them towards her.
But Zhao Xiaocui sneered repeatedly, knocking the flying peach twigs to the ground, at the same time causing Grandpa to fall over. She said coldly, "Do you think I'm inside the gossip formation? Your peach twigs have no effect on me!"
"Grandpa, go back quickly, I'll hold her!" I shouted, restraining the intense pain, turning around, and tightly hugging Zhao Xiaocui.
A putrid stench emanated from her neck, causing a surge of nausea that completely engulfed the pain in my body.
"You think you can trap me? You don't have that ability!" Zhao Xiaocui said coldly and lifted her sharp claw, reaching for my head.