Young Master, come and possess me! - Chapter 46

 

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Young Master, Come and Possess Me!   

Chapter 46: Black Mist

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"Turns out you are lucky enough to come back safely?!"

Concubine Wei bit her nails as she angrily paced back and forth inside her room.

Yet when the three-year-old Li Hai Dian saw his mother's terrifying expression, he began to cry.

"Why is Dian'er crying?" Concubine Wei snatched the child back from the maid's hand then slapped her hard on the face, "Go to the door and kneel there as your punishment!"

Ping'er felt that she so despaired by her wrongful accusations, and before she could defend herself, another hard slap landed on her face again.

"Hurry up and get moving!"

Ping'er cried mournfully, as she ran to the door and knelt down there obediently. This made the frightened Li Hai Dian cry even louder.

"Dian'er, be a good boy, Ping’er is the one who is wrong. Mother taught her a lesson already so if you can't stand her in the future, you can just hit her for it."

"I can hit Ping’er?" Li Hai Dian looked at her with his innocent wide eyes.

"Of course," Concubine Wei showed a loving mother's smile to her son, "You are the second young master of the Li family, you can hit any servant who does not make you happy."

"Then I'm going to hit Ping’er now."

"Go ahead." Concubine Wei let him down to the ground.

Li Hai Dian ran to Ping'er with a toddler’s gait, then landed his little fist on Ping'er repeatedly.

Although Ping'er didn’t feel pain at the soft rain of his little fists, she couldn’t help but feel sadness at the thought that the little master will continue treating her like this in the future. She sobbed even harder.

"A young boy like you also knows how to teach the servants a lesson now?"

Concubine Cao, the only lady of the manor who was currently childless, walked over and glared at Li Hai Dian with her vicious gaze.

"Sister, how did you find enough free time to come and visit this younger sister?" Concubine Wei broke out her fake sweet smile behind her contempt once more.

"I heard that Hai Jiao had returned safely?"

Concubine Cao just went to the embroidery workshop to pick up some embroidery threads and returned here. She didn't expect to hear the "inauspicious news" just as soon as she entered the hall.

"Yes." Concubine Wei curled her lips, her warm tones was very different from the voice inside her heart, "He’d been missing for so many days. The heavens have eyes, don't they? They had returned him back to the household safely."

"Have you seen him? Did he look alright?" Concubine Cao's response also held a contemptuous sneer as she asked those questions.

"He looked as if he'd been severely traumatized by the incident. He even came back skinnier."

"Oh?"

"He had also accepted the employment of a bodyguard too."

"What?" Bodyguard?

"I heard that the bodyguard rescued him, so even if Madam had doubts, she couldn't go against her son's request to employ his bodyguard."

Why did Li Hai Jiao suddenly accept a bodyguard?

Could it be that he was already beginning to take precautions?

Seeing that Concubine Cao seemed to be thinking about something, Concubine Wei stepped forward and asked in a low voice,

"Sister, do you know if something had happened?"

"I, how could I know if something had happened?"

The guilty Concubine Cao responded in a higher pitched tone that trembled a little.

"Sister, don't get excited, I was just really curious as to why." Concubine Wei smiled, "Sister must be depressed because of Hai Mo's death. If your spirits are still low, why don’t this little sister accompany you for a walk now?"

"There’s no need for you to do so."

It was only a daughter who didn’t incite any pain nor emotions in her that had died so she did not need comfort. Furthermore, who didn't understand that there was no sincerity in Concubine Wei's offer for comfort?

"I'm going back now." Concubine Cao passed by Li Hai Dian, who was still playing with his maid. Suddenly, the corner of her mouth turned upwards with creepy malice.

It's your turn next!

Concubine Cao returned to her own courtyard. She sent away her own maids, then closed the doors and windows tightly.

"Come out now!" she yelled into the air.

A mass of black mist condensed from all directions as it flew towards the center, forming a vague human shape.

"Why is Li Hai Jiao alive again?" Concubine Cao shouted angrily.

If it wasn't for the fact that she couldn't catch the black mist with her bare hands, she would have definitely grabbed it's shoulder and shook it hard, then kicked violently at it’s shins to relieve that all-consuming anger after the black mist had done such a poor job.

"..." Black mist didn't speak. He paused as if it was still thinking.

"You told me ten days ago that he was dead, and lo and behold he came back just fine! Then you told me once more that he was dead seven days ago, but now he is back again?!" Concubine Cao yelled as if she was charging against a hell bent bull, "I even used my daughter's life to exchange for all this and yet you couldn't do your only job well?!"

Half a month ago, Concubine Cao obtained the pattern of the dark magic spell used to summon a demon from the warlock.

Under the dark and gloomy night, in a remote backyard, she had placed her twelve-year-old daughter, Li Hai Mo, who was bound and covered by a cloth, in the center of the open space.

She followed the instructions in that book and cut a long laceration along her daughter's arm. She then used a bowl to collect her blood and drew a formation with it. As a result, the demon that was summoned out was this black mist.

The black mist was born by the force of people's anger, resentment, hatred, jealousy, greed, fear and other negative emotions it could consume to make itself even more powerful.

When people needed his service, they had to prepare a virgin to summon him out. His act of swallowing the soul of this virgin was the mark it needed to seal this contract, and the contract can only be completed by fulfilling the summoner’s desires.

"Kill Li Hai Jiao!" Concubine Cao had doled out her request then.

Black mist agreed to her request, and when it came to sealing the contract between them, he had proceeded forward to devour Li Hai Mo's soul.

That poor girl no longer had the chance to be reincarnated into her next life.

Concubine Cao not only wanted Li Hai Jiao's life, she also wanted to torture Madam Li, whom she hated the most. As a result, she ordered Black Mist to take Li Hai Jiao's body to a faraway place, so that Madam Li would be tortured with worry when her son disappeared. When she had heard the rumors of Li Hai Jiao's death, the news robbed her of her will to live and made her unconscious in one fell swoop.

Killing Madam Li with one knife was too easy a torture for her destruction. She wanted her to suffer multiple torments, like she did to her back then when she was left with a broken heart that made her want to die.

She originally had a son, but her child was still growing in her womb before Madam Li had plotted to make her fall and abort her baby.

When she knew that her unborn child was a boy, she made a vow since that day that Madam Li and her son would die a horrible death in the future!

Who knew that Li Hai Jiao had actually died and came back to life.

Or could the "magic" she had used be fake?

"There is something different about him." Although the black mist was still vague in shape, he had an audibly distinct deep and dull voice. "That maid beside him is not an ordinary person either."

Even Li Hai Jiao himself was weird.

When they were embroiled in the middle of a scuffle at the Hai Ya hall, Li Hai Jiao had even attempted to blow him up then.

Lucky for him, he has no physical entity, so although his ability had been lessened because of this incident, it was still not a big problem for him.

He was quite sure that Li Hai Jiao was a mortal man in the beginning, but why did he seem to have this strange demon power all of a sudden?

Furthermore that peculiar demon power seems to have come only after that girl appeared.

After that, he even saw Li Hai Jiao flying mid-air with that girl in his arms.

He suspected that the girl must have gave Li Hai Jiao some sort of special ability to fly in the air and escape from their deaths.

Due to his many failures, he had tried to quietly follow behind them, looking for opportunities to find out more details about their peculiarity. Yet when he reached that ice cave, he just suddenly couldn't get into that place.

The ice cave was definitely enchanted by a spell that could only be placed by a monster with a high level of demon power.

He originally suspected that the girl was the monster. After all, they had the ability to enter and leave freely, yet he couldn’t help but feel that she was simply not that capable a being. After all, if the monster was so powerful, he would have been wiped out by now.

In the middle of his investigation, a bear demon suddenly came and seemed to know the girl. He had even ended up fighting with them.

He saw with his own eyes that the bear demon had beat them down the valley and hurled a stone towards them.

He took that opportune moment to cast a curse poison on the stone and Li Hai Jiao was definitely hit by it too. Even if he didn't die then and there, the curse poison would kill him at the end of three days too.

Yet he still came back completely fine.

He speculated that if he really wanted to kill Li Hai Jiao, he definitely had to get rid of that maid first.

"Maid?" Concubine Cao had an instant realization, "That unremarkable girl? No wonder Li Hai Jiao sent away all the other maids, leaving that ugly maid by his side. Turns out that that maid is his shield!"

"I’d underestimated the enemy before this so this time I would take it more seriously when I finally take away his life."

Two cold shimmering lights emitted within the core of Black Mist at the end of those words.

He had failed many times, and this time, he will not repeat the same mistakes again!

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