Chapter 160: The Mad Liu Meiyun — [Five Animal Frolics] Skill Ascends to Transcendent!

Ghosts and monsters—do they truly exist, or are they things conjured out of thin air by the human mind?

Ghosts and monsters are formless to begin with.

Suppose one's mind goes deranged, and a ghost keeps tormenting them from within.

Nightmares come one after another.

Does that also count as proof that ghosts exist?

Liu Meiyun felt she was falling ill.

For the past few days she had been mulling over thoughts of this sort.

Gods, ghosts—she could no longer tell them apart.

She was a murderer who killed without blinking.

So many people had died at her hands; Chen Xi was merely the last one—so why… why could she not fall asleep, tossing and turning over Chen Xi's death?

She kept dreaming of Chen Xi.

As if souls truly existed in this world.

And Chen Xi… his lingering spirit would not disperse.

The moment she closed her eyes, Chen Xi's deathly pale face appeared before Liu Meiyun; the moment she opened them, there was nothing at all.

She no longer dared to close her eyes.

Yet under exhaustion, she could not help but fall asleep.

But within an instant she was jolted awake in fright.

Chen Xi's pallid face pressed against hers.

"Meiyun-jie, I died such a horrible death…"

"Meiyun-jie, did you see my head? It seems you stuffed it into a plastic bag, but I found it—could you help me put it back on?"

Chen Xi held his head in his hands, pressing it toward Liu Meiyun's face again and again, begging her to help him reattach it.

Liu Meiyun was so terrified she fled in panic.

Yet Chen Xi could always appear at her side.

"Meiyun-jie, don't you like me anymore?"

"Meiyun-jie, have you forgotten the joy we shared in bed?"

"Meiyun-jie, look at me…"

Liu Meiyun truly could not bear it any longer; her hands and feet trembled uncontrollably as she took Chen Xi's head and tried to reattach it for him—but in an instant, Chen Xi rotted into a lump of mud.

Just as Liu Meiyun had handled it back then.

"Ah!!!"

A shrill scream tore through the prison night.

It drew the attention of the staff.

A guard arrived at the room where Liu Meiyun was being held.

Only to find Liu Meiyun hugging her knees to her chest.

Gazing about in terror.

Upon seeing the guard, she crawled toward him without a care for anything else.

She clutched tightly at the guard's trouser leg.

Her voice carried a hysteria bordering on madness.

"Save me, don't leave me alone here, don't leave me alone here!"

The guard was startled.

A chill ran down his spine.

He instantly felt the prison seemed to have grown several degrees colder.

But the strong mental fortitude forged by his profession kept him from showing any sign of unease; instead, he calmly soothed Liu Meiyun's emotions.

"Steady! Steady!"

"I'm right here, don't be afraid!"

"What happened? Take your time and tell me!"

Liu Meiyun suddenly froze.

Her body trembling, she stared at the guard.

Her voice suddenly fell to a hush.

Though there was clearly no one else around.

She began glancing this way and that, looking left and right.

She let out a string of chuckles:

"Hehe, it's gone. Hehe! It's gone!"

The guard's legs went a little weak.

He knit his brows and bellowed in a fierce yet hollow voice:

"Stop playing tricks! What on earth happened—out with it!"

"If you won't talk, I'm leaving!"

Hearing the guard say he was leaving, Liu Meiyun was terrified.

She hurriedly gazed at him with a pleading look and blurted out anxiously:

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

"There is something unclean—it, it's clinging to me."

The prison guard said disdainfully, "If you're trying to act like a lunatic to escape the sanction of the law, then let me tell you, your plan has fallen through!"

Liu Meiyun suddenly lost control.

She shouted at the top of her lungs, "Why won't you believe me, why won't you believe me!"

She frantically grabbed at her own hair, even clawing her scalp until deep bloody gouges appeared, pulling out countless strands.

The prison guard hurriedly stepped forward to stop her.

"Stop!"

He restrained Liu Meiyun, wanting her emotions to settle down, but Liu Meiyun simply could not stabilize!

The prison guard truly had no way to handle it.

After binding Liu Meiyun's hands and feet,

the prison guard immediately contacted his superior.

After reporting the situation to the superior,

following the superior's orders, he led Liu Meiyun out of the cell.

Liu Meiyun was taken to a special room.

The room was filled with surveillance cameras, and there was nothing inside that any prisoner could use to commit suicide; even the walls were soft, stuffed with thick sponge.

And a dedicated person accompanied Liu Meiyun.

After changing environments, and with someone accompanying her, Liu Meiyun's mental state gradually stabilized.

Shortly after, a professional psychiatrist rushed to the scene.

He performed a simple diagnosis on Liu Meiyun.

After the diagnosis results came out,

they shocked everyone.

The doctor's diagnosis was that Liu Meiyun had developed a severe delusional disorder and fantasy disorder; these symptoms generally only appear after an extremely strong stimulus, or a lifelong inescapable shadow.

Liu Meiyun had already reached a severe degree.

But before being detained, it had been this very psychiatrist who had cooperated with the police to interrogate Liu Meiyun.

At that time, Liu Meiyun had not shown any tendency toward delusion.

There were two possibilities with a higher probability.

First, Liu Meiyun has a rare dual-personality schizophrenia and delusional disorder, so her symptoms were not detected back then;

Second, Liu Meiyun's illness formed in just the last few days, which indicates that in an extremely short time, her mind suffered an enormous stimulus.

Both of these possibilities are very unlikely.

But other possibilities are even more unlikely.

Under the examination of professional equipment, and the trained eye of the psychiatrist, Liu Meiyun had absolutely no chance of successfully lying and deceiving.

In the end, Liu Meiyun's supervision was strengthened.

After all, her former status and position were very high; a living her could bring more information.

Only after she was completely useless would the sentence be carried out.

……

【Congratulations to the host, the Five Animal Frolics skill has advanced to Transcendental】

【Proficiency is full】

【Five Animal Frolics Transcendental: Aura of Righteousness】

The system's prompt sounded in his mind,

and at the same time, a stream of information flooded into Song Mo's mind.

——【Through continuous cultivation of the Five Animal Frolics, you have successfully broken through to the highest realm, and have nurtured a vast, righteous Qi within your limbs and bones】

——【With your Aura of Righteousness, when external evils invade, the righteous Qi will step out first to resist; you will be immune to the invasion of cold Qi and yin Qi】

Song Mo, who was practicing martial arts at the Lianwuchang, stopped his movements and let out a long breath.

That single breath was extremely long; the misted white air was just like the morning fog in the mountains, and the degree of condensation was like white frost.

One breath exhaled, seemingly carrying away the cold Qi from within his body.

His whole body felt warm and comfortable.

Song Mo possessed the skill 【Ancient Chinese Medicine Proficient】.

He knew that in traditional Chinese medicine, the concept of "external evil" is very broad — things like catching cold, or being infected by microorganisms, all fall under the category of "external evil."

The meaning of being untroubled by external evils,

was probably that his own resistance had been greatly enhanced?

Perhaps there were other wonderful uses as well.

But in any case, they were all benefits.

(End of this chapter)