"It's you again, you bad auntie! Are you here to bully my mom again?"
Dumpling jolted awake from his slumber, this time preemptively questioning before Qing Li could freeze him unconscious.
Qing Li's head flew down, her cool, Yin energy-infused hair falling onto my abdomen, "It's clearly your shameless mother who seduced my man, and that's how you, this abomination, were born."
"Shut up, my mom did no such thing, mom was deceived by dad," Little Dumpling angrily interjected.
I was drenched in cold sweat, unable to help but hold my stomach, covering the little rascal's mouth as he spoke nonsense from within me, "Don't talk about dad like that, he didn't deceive us, sleep tight, leave everything to mom."
"But… Mom… This woman… she…" Little Dumpling had encountered Qing Li's attacks multiple times and had lost trust in Yu Longting.
I stroked my belly a few times to comfort the emotionally wounded Little Dumpling, then grabbed Qing Li's hair, yanked her head and threw it out, "Harmony between Yin and Yang, as the sun rises in the east, I now inscribe a talisman, banishing all misfortune, and utter the Samadhi True Fire."
The fire charm from my pocket flew out fiercely, its blaze as fervent as magma, furiously enveloping the woman's dark hair.
The books I read in the Scripture Pavilion weren't for naught, and I was no longer passive like the first time I faced the Forbidden Woman's Technique.
"Su Wan, you've gotten stronger!" Qing Li exclaimed in a low voice, her hair swiftly engulfed by the red flames, turning into nothingness.
I touched my chin, watching Qing Li's head scream in panic as it fled, and felt a tinge of admiration, "Your hair grows pretty fast, Yu Longting just burned you bald, and it's grown back already…"
"None of your business, my hair is inexhaustible!!" Qing Li screamed, amidst the red flames, her face melting away like a candle under the heat, "You, a waste of space, how could you… become so strong…"
"… Qing Li, the first time you used your hair trick, I was helpless, the second time, still the hair… You really think I'm a good-for-nothing." I watched coldly, "Too bad, even as a good-for-nothing, wiping the floor with you, a bigger good-for-nothing, is still easy."
Qing Li's head had melted away, leaving only a pile of rotten flesh on the ground. It wasn't merely cooked, but rather appeared as if it had been corroded by strong acid, yet it could still make a sound, "You think you can kill me? This isn't my head..."
"If it's not your head, it must be someone else's, isn't it? You can't leave the attic, forever trapped in one place." I actually thought Qing Li was quite pitiful, but I couldn't find it in me to sympathize with this madwoman because of her repeated assassination attempts.
Tangtang is so cute; it's hard to imagine that she's the daughter of this woman…
I wonder what the child's father is like!
"Yuanyuan, the sun's shining on your butt, time to get up and exercise with me." Xiao Li ran in. Just as she opened the door, she started gagging at the entrance, "Ugh~ what's that terrible smell in your room? Don't tell me you've murdered someone and hidden the body, I'm going…"
"I just got back, even if I had killed someone, the body wouldn't smell this bad so quickly." I crouched on the floor, inspecting the pile of rotten flesh, feeling as if it had decayed for a long time, still showing signs of maggots' eggs despite being scorched by the intense fire.
It was as though someone's grave had been dug up, their decapitated head turned into a puppet, and made into a Flying Head Barbarian to harass me.
A Flying Head Barbarian is a part of a deceased body that has become a spirit.
It becomes extremely powerful, filled with resentment.
It sustains its life by devouring living creatures.
Xiao Li gagged for a while, then noticed the large patch of rotten flesh in my room and bent down curiously, "What is this thing? Is this the source of the smell in your room??"