Myriad Heavens: Who Let Him Into the Horror Movie?-Chapter 29 : Schemes and Bones

Chapter 29: Schemes and Bones
Siu Lan let out a scream that no longer sounded human and collapsed straight to the ground.
Fatty hurriedly dropped the hammer, picked up the two cross-shaped effigies from the floor, and—just as Li Zhen had instructed—wrapped the red cords back around the effigies before pressing the sigils firmly onto them again.
Two foul, black streams of air burst out from Siu Lan’s body, roaring as they flew back into the effigies.
“Stop messing around. I let you out to help, not to kill people…”
The effigies in Fatty’s hands trembled continuously.
He looked utterly terrified, afraid those two things might come out and cause trouble again.
Not daring to keep them close, Fatty threw them into the corner of the room and anxiously ran to where Siu Lan lay unconscious.
“She’ll be fine, right?”
Sweat poured down his forehead as he knelt beside her, checking her condition. After confirming that both her breathing and pulse were steady, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
He looked toward her belly and murmured, “Sigh… I had no other choice. So many lives were at stake… I could only do this.”
“If you’re born safely, I’ll be your godfather. I’ll treat you well.”
He placed Master Danyang’s pendant back around Siu Lan’s neck.
Without delay, Fatty immediately called emergency services.
Siu Lan had been due to give birth soon; after all this torment, if she didn’t get to the hospital in time, something disastrous might happen.
As for Cheung Kam-Keung, he was in good health—only stunned by the electric shock—so he should be fine.
……
Master Danyang, holding the peachwood sword, suddenly stopped his strikes after several heavy chops.
His heart trembled.
A sudden, ominous premonition surged within him—disaster was approaching.
He didn’t need to think long to know the source of this dread.
He had set up his altar here to exorcise the spirit, and success required Cheung Kam-Keung to destroy the stove in his home.
Master Danyang had previously examined that house—the stove’s position was the core where all the yin energy of the house gathered. Once destroyed, it would break the house’s extreme-yin formation and drive the evil spirit out of Siu Lan’s body.
But why had the stove not yet been broken?
He had warned Cheung Kam-Keung repeatedly and carefully…
A cold gust swept through, making his back chill.
This was a sealed room; there should not have been any natural wind.
Sensing that terrifying, hateful presence and the surge of yin energy, Master Danyang instantly knew—the evil spirit had come.
His expression grew even graver.
The stove hadn’t been destroyed yet, and now he had to face the spirit’s direct retaliation.
The situation was dire.
Just as he prepared to strike back using the Eight Trigrams Array, he suddenly heard the sound of heavy objects falling one after another.
The stove—had finally been broken!
Overjoyed, Master Danyang raised his peachwood sword high and slashed fiercely toward one side of the trigram.
With a loud bang, a puff of white smoke burst out from where the blade struck.
A shrill scream followed, and blood splattered onto the ground.
“Heaven willed my birth—you cannot stop me…” The ghastly voice echoed through the room.
Master Danyang said nothing and raised his sword again.
“Heavenly spirit, earth spirit—reveal thy power, Eight Trigrams awaken…”
He brought the sword down on another point of the trigram.
Another scream rang out.
Then, gradually, the cries faded, weakening until they vanished entirely, as though the evil spirit had been slain.
Was it over?
Master Danyang wiped the sweat from his brow, shifting the sword to his left hand while his right fingers pinched into a seal. His expression remained tense.
“Could it truly be Heaven’s will that this evil spirit reincarnate? Otherwise, why hasn’t it been destroyed even under such conditions?”
This ghost wasn’t nearly as fierce as he had imagined.
Yet even after having Cheung Kam-Keung smash the stove and channeling the power of the Eight Trigrams Array to purge the spirit’s malevolence and yin energy, it still hadn’t been completely eliminated. That astonished Master Danyang deeply.
He even began to suspect that this spirit truly bore Heaven’s mandate.
“Fortunately, it went to the lower floors of the building. Otherwise, this would be troublesome.”
……
Li Zhen had just watched a silent play.
In a dark, wicked sacrificial ritual, a little girl was tortured, then brutally beaten to death beside a wooden stake in utter fear and despair.
If this was real, then the evil spirit haunting the building originated from that sacrifice.
“You want me to pity you?”
Li Zhen’s gaze remained fixed on the girl’s corpse.
Suddenly, a piercing scream echoed.
The illusory scene vanished.
Even the thick mist enveloping the place dispersed in an instant.
The many wooden stakes embedded into the platform floor were now fully revealed before Li Zhen’s eyes.
Master Danyang had succeeded?
“Looks like you’ve lost.”
Feeling more composed, Li Zhen stood up and scanned the area, quickly spotting a small skeleton chained beneath one of the stakes.
Time to finish this…
Li Zhen approached the remains and took out the sigil that Master Danyang had told him to place upon the skeleton’s navel.
The bones were small—just the right size for that girl.
A thick iron chain bound its neck tightly to the stake behind it, and the two hollow sockets of the skull seemed to stare directly at Li Zhen.
Even though it was only a skeleton, he could feel its silent pleading.
“I pity her—not you.”
“You’re not her. From the moment you were born, she was already gone. What you’re doing now only makes me despise you more.”
The skeleton trembled, letting out a series of sharp clacking sounds, as if refuting him.
Li Zhen shook his head. “You’re just a murderous ghost, burdened with so much blood sin. What makes you think you deserve rebirth?”
“You claim Heaven willed it—but it seems Heaven isn’t on your side.”
He pressed the sigil onto the skeleton’s navel.
The bones immediately disintegrated, scattering messily beside the stake.
Main mission—completed?
Li Zhen silently watched the bones for a while.
After some time, he looked up, glancing around, and sneered. “Did you really think you were the smartest one here, that you could toy with everyone like puppets?”
The raging yin wind stopped.
Only the faint crackle of torches remained.
No response came to Li Zhen’s words.
“You showed me those illusions to make me pity you—wasn’t that just to mislead me? Are these really your remains?”
Still, no reply.
Li Zhen drew the palm-leaf whip from his sleeve.
“You think I can’t find you? You’re this weakened already…”
A red shadow flickered at the edge of his vision—the weakened malicious spirit still made his back go cold.
He turned.
Upon the water’s surface stood a little girl in red, her hair tangled, her face covered with wounds, looking heartbreakingly pitiful.
Thinking of what she had suffered, who wouldn’t feel sympathy for such a child?