Half a Brick
Chapter 75 Wedding Gown Skill
"Stone Dungeon Village?"
Wasn't Stone Dungeon Village Ding Kan's hometown? According to Ding Kan, Qin Tianming killed Rakshasa Girl in Stone Dungeon Village. This little ghost said she was born in Stone Dungeon Village, and her name was Rakshasa Mei. "Could it be..."
"That's right, I am the child of the Rakshasa Girl who died in Stone Dungeon Village. My mother was an evil spirit to begin with, do you think I could have lived? I was born a ghost. Living people turn into ghouls after death, but not all ghosts are transformed from humans."
I blinked, a little slow to process.
"Excuse me, is it possible for ghosts to have children?"
I've been in the funeral business for five years, and I've seen all sorts of strange things, but I've encountered corpse births; I've never heard of a ghost birth.
Rakshasa Mei smiled sadly, "Ordinary ghosts naturally cannot give birth to ghost babies, but female ghosts who practice the Bridal Gown Skill can, and my mother cultivated the Bridal Gown Skill before she died."
That made sense. I knew about the Bridal Gown Skill. It was not only powerful but also required very little practice time. For some talented great ghosts, they could master it in just a few hours. Overnight, their power could increase several times or even dozens of times.
However, this skill had a fatal weakness: all female ghosts who had practiced the Bridal Gown Skill had to remain chaste. Once they lost their virginity, they would not only become pregnant with a ghost baby, but all their cultivation would also be transferred to the man who had relations with them.
"Are you saying that your mother had you because she had relations with your father, and her power dissipated, so she died, instead of being killed by Qin Tianming?"
"Why do you think Qin Tianming was able to kill my mother? If my mother's power hadn't been transferred, do you think a mere Qin Tianming could have killed her?"
"I understand."
I nodded, more or less sorting out the situation.
Rakshasa Girl's original strength should have been about the same as Qin Tianming's. Qin Tianming was well-prepared and had many helpers, so Rakshasa Girl could only flee. When the two arrived at Stone Dungeon Village, Rakshasa Girl used the special terrain of Stone Dungeon Village to hide. While Qin Tianming focused on publicity and showmanship, she not only secretly recovered her strength but also cultivated the Bridal Gown Skill.
Rakshasa Girl, who had mastered the Bridal Gown Skill, increased her combat power exponentially and began to beat Qin Tianming.
So, Qin Tianming became the one hiding, and Rakshasa Girl began to hunt Qin Tianming frantically. In the process, Rakshasa Girl killed everyone in Ding Kan's village with cruel methods.
Qin Tianming was a smart man and quickly guessed that the reason for Rakshasa Girl's surge in strength was that she had cultivated the Bridal Gown Skill. So, he directly attacked her weakness and sent a man to have relations with Rakshasa Girl. After Rakshasa Girl's power dissipated, he successfully killed her.
"Is your enemy the man who had relations with your mother? Are you planning to have me help you kill him?" I said my guess.
I thought my guess was completely reasonable. If that man hadn't appeared, if Rakshasa Girl hadn't lost her virginity, she wouldn't have lost to Qin Tianming, and she wouldn't have died. Rakshasa Girl should have held that man responsible for killing her mother.
As a result, Rakshasa Mei rolled her eyes at me and asked if I had a problem with my brain.
"Huh?"
"What 'huh'? I am Rakshasa Girl's daughter, what is that man who had relations with Rakshasa Girl to me? Do I need to spell it out? As a human, do you have so little common sense?
That man did absorb my mother's power and indirectly killed my mother, but what does that have to do with me?
When I was born, my mother had already been dead for three years. An evil ghost who has been dead for three years hasn't taken care of me for a single day. Why should I avenge her?"
"Uh?" I was really stumped by Rakshasa Mei.
Also, is ghost pregnancy so bizarre? The fetus can be born three years after the mother's death. That's really impossible in the human world.
But thinking about it again, what she said seemed to make sense. Rakshasa Mei really had no feelings for her father. She had never even met her father. But she had also never met her mother, and she had no feelings for her mother either.
A father with no feelings and a mother with no feelings, what kind of grievances did they have, who killed whom, what does it have to do with Rakshasa Mei?
"Then who is your enemy? It's not Qin Tianming, is it? Qin Tianming is already dead. You don't need me to help you kill him."
"If your brain doesn't work well, just listen quietly. Don't make wild guesses, okay? Haven't you noticed that you haven't guessed right once?"
Have I not guessed right once? It's not that exaggerated, is it? But I really haven't guessed much right.
Maybe it's because my way of thinking is too normal. A normal person like me can't understand the bizarre thought processes of a little ghost.
"Okay, continue talking. I won't interrupt."
Rakshasa Mei continued to tell her story.
Why did Rakshasa Girl suddenly start practicing the Bridal Gown Skill in Stone Dungeon Village? Did she find the secret manual of the Bridal Gown Skill in Stone Dungeon Village? Of course not. The Bridal Gown Skill manual had always been in Rakshasa Girl's hands; she just hadn't practiced it.
Rakshasa Girl knew that although this skill was powerful, it would make her ghost life lose a lot of fun. She didn't want to practice it.
She was a man-eating Rakshasa Girl, not a chaste nun. She wanted to have fun as a ghost. If she couldn't do anything, she might as well just dissipate, so Rakshasa Girl only let her female disciples practice the Bridal Gown Skill.
The several female disciples were ignorant and ill-informed. How could they know the drawbacks of the Bridal Gown Skill? They didn't even know that they were practicing the Bridal Gown Skill. They were even very grateful that they had found a good master who could teach them such an efficient and fast-paced awesome skill.
To prevent her disciples' power from being absorbed by men, Rakshasa Girl was extremely strict with her female disciples, always keeping them by her side and not allowing them to contact men. Neither men nor male ghosts were allowed, so all the disciples were virgins.
Back then, when Rakshasa Girl was chased to Stone Dungeon Village by Qin Tianming, she also brought those four female disciples with her. These four female disciples were Rakshasa Girl's important bargaining chips to turn the tables.
"Huh? Relying on a few female disciples to turn the tables? How can they turn the tables? If those female disciples could beat Qin Tianming, they would have done it already. They wouldn't have had to run all the way. Could it be that they couldn't beat him before, but suddenly they could in Stone Dungeon Village?" I asked another stupid question.
Rakshasa Mei glared at me and said, "I'll say it again, if your brain doesn't work well, don't interrupt. Just listen to me. Are you not in a hurry to hear Ding Kan's story again? I can't tell you Ding Kan's story until I finish telling my own."