Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 362 - 362 346 You've Been Deceived_1

362: Chapter 346 You’ve Been Deceived_1 362: Chapter 346 You’ve Been Deceived_1 Everyone’s face changed when they saw this scene, and those who were still holding the drinks in their hands quickly threw their cups away.

Gu Xiaosang breathed a sigh of relief at this turn of events, though she was not clear about what was going on, as long as Lu Chuan was not drinking the beverage, she felt assured.

Ye Hao frowned and glanced at Lu Chuan.

He hadn’t expected the beverage to contain such danger.

Xu Ziru hurriedly put the cup aside and said, “I never imagined there would be something so scary hidden inside, I almost drank it.”

Ye Hao coughed lightly and said, “Actually, I also noticed something amiss, and had no intention of drinking the beverage.

I just wanted to observe more, but Lu Chuan beat me to it.”

Shen Wansan’s face turned gloomy as he looked at Lu Chuan and said, “Don’t believe this guy’s words, there’s absolutely no Yin evil energy in my beverages, he’s here to cause trouble.

I’ll have someone arrest him right now!”

He then clapped his hands, and immediately a few bodyguards began walking over here.

Lu Chuan, with a smile, said, “Boss Shen, there’s no need to be stubborn, I’ve already figured out the ins and outs of the whole situation.

The Yin evil energy has the effect of consuming the life force of the living, and if I’m not wrong, you reported this dance for the purpose of resurrecting your wife, right?”

Shen Wansan’s complexion changed, and he became extremely eager, saying, “You’re talking nonsense!

Catch this troublemaker for me!”

The bodyguards were about to take action immediately.

But the next second, they felt a force restraining their feet, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not take half a step forward.

Lu Chuan, with an expression as calm as the gentle breeze and clear sky, smiled and said, “Boss Shen, there’s no need to be in such a hurry.

If I dared to step out and expose you, naturally, I am quite confident.”

“And I can prove that you indeed want to use the life force of everyone present to resurrect your wife.”

Then his gaze fell upon the rectangular crystal box below the Love Herb, walked over, took down the Love Herb, and directly opened the box.

Inside, a female body frozen in ice lay quietly, the already deceased wife of Shen Wansan.

This crystal box was actually an ice coffin.

All the spectators inhaled sharply upon seeing the body, and many girls were so frightened they immediately burrowed into their boyfriends’ arms.

“This is too terrible, I was wondering why there was such a huge box and what it was for, never expecting it to contain a body.”

“Shen Wansan is too perverse!

Although I know he loved his wife dearly, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

To think he’d use our lives to resurrect his wife, that’s just too cruel!”

“Damn, it’s a good thing this guy stepped forward to expose Shen Wansan’s scheme, or all of us here today would really have been duped.”

…

Seeing Lu Chuan opening the ice coffin, Shen Wansan showed a face full of agony and, gritting his teeth, said, “I was just paying my respects to my late wife, what gives you the right to say I want to use everyone’s lives to bring her back!”

Lu Chuan calmly said, “From the moment I boarded this ship, I noticed many unusual arrangements aboard.

I didn’t figure it out initially, until I discovered the Yin evil energy in the drinks you prepared, then it all made sense to me.”

“The reason the ship’s arrangements are so unusual is because you specially had the entire ship transformed into a Formation!”

“This Formation, combined with the Yin evil energy, can extract the life force from people and gather it at the core of the Formation.”

“And the location of your wife’s body is precisely at the core of this Formation.”

“Previously, I was puzzled about why a life grid test was required for attending a dance, and now I understand, only people with sufficiently strong life grids and fortunes can ensure a higher probability of successfully resurrecting the deceased when their life force is extracted.”

“As for the Love Herb, that’s the key to reviving your wife.

If I’m not mistaken, the Love Herb is at a stage where it can bear fruit, but it’s just lacking a bit, so you invited so many couples here, hoping to expedite the fruition of the Love Herb through their affection for each other.”

“The fruit borne by this more-than-four-hundred-year-old Spiritual Medicine contains an extremely pure force, which is the perfect thing to aid recovery.”

“By that time, with the fruit of the Love Herb and the life force of several hundred people, your wife could be resurrected.

Am I right?”

Shen Wansan, seeing his plan being unraveled step by step, his face shifted from pain to gloom and then from gloom to a cold sneer.

He looked at Lu Chuan and let out an arrogant laugh, saying, “So what if it is!”

He glanced at everyone present and said, “I deeply loved my wife, she was so young, yet she was deprived of life.

Is it wrong for me to want to revive her?”

Lu Chuan looked at him and sighed, saying, “It’s not wrong to have such a thought, but you want to exchange your wife’s revival with the lives of hundreds of people, that is a grave mistake!”

Shen Wansan snorted coldly and said, “What of it!

If my wife can be brought back to life, even if it means sacrificing even more people, what does it matter!”

“Moreover, I can tell you all plainly, from the moment you boarded this ship, the outcome of this event was already determined.

Even if you see through it, you absolutely cannot change the course of this matter!”

Lu Chuan smiled and said, “That’s not necessarily true.”

“The reason for your confidence is because of that person behind the scenes giving you advice, right?”

Shen Wansan frowned and said, “What backstage manipulator?

I came up with all these things on my own!”

Lu Chuan said, “Although you are the wealthiest tycoon in Tiannan with vast resources at your disposal, you are nothing but a mortal, and it is absolutely impossible for you to know of a method that revives the dead by absorbing the life force of others.”

“I not only know that someone is behind you, providing strategies, but I also know that this someone guiding you is not human at all!”

Having said that, he immediately unleashed a force that struck Shen Wansan.

A trace of dark qi flashed in Shen Wansan’s eyes, and soon after, an evil aura surged upward, followed by a black fog emerging behind him, forming a terrifying and indistinct spectre in white.

“To think that you could see through me possessing him, it seems this young man is not simple!” The resentful spirit spoke with a woman’s voice.

The crowd screamed in fear at the sight of the resentful spirit, some shivering all over and others falling to the ground with a thud.

“There’s a ghost!

A haunting!”

“Oh my god, to actually see a ghost, can this really not be an illusion!”

“I want to go home, I’ll never attend any party again, wuu wuu wuu…”

Although everyone was scared, not a single person ran away, for the cruise ship had reached the middle of the river, leaving nowhere to escape.

Ye Hao frowned upon seeing the resentful spirit, but he did not show much surprise; after all, being in the Censorate Department, he had experienced many things incomprehensible to ordinary people over the years, including encounters with resentful spirits.

What annoyed him was that it was Lu Chuan who had detected the resentful spirit, while he hadn’t noticed anything abnormal throughout.

In his eyes, Lu Chuan didn’t even have the courage to compete with him and was inferior in every way.

The fact that he failed to detect the resentful spirit was a blow to his pride.

“After he obliterated the Yin Ghost Sect and took their treasures, there must have been means specifically against resentful spirits, which is why he noticed before I did—nothing surprising there.”

“Had he not been here today, the one to find the problem would definitely have been me!” Ye Hao thought to himself.

Shen Wansan didn’t expect Lu Chuan to have a way to make the resentful spirit possessing him reveal itself, but as things had reached this point, there was nothing left for him to conceal, and he said to Lu Chuan, “Even if you’ve seen through everything, what of it?

As long as she can help me resurrect my wife, what does it matter whether it’s a human or a ghost!”

Lu Chuan curled his lip and said, “Then I can tell you unmistakably that you have been deceived by her!”

Shen Wansan was taken aback and asked, “What do you mean?”

Lu Chuan said, “There is no way in this world to bring the dead back to life, but there are ways to reanimate a body through possession!”

“All that you have prepared seems to be for bringing your wife back to life, but in reality, it can only revive a body devoid of life force.

However, your wife’s soul has already entered the cycle of reincarnation and can never be brought back.”

“And all of this, reviving your wife’s body, will only be useful to one entity.”

“That is the resentful spirit that incited you to make all these preparations!”

“The formation on this cruise ship is not some kind of revival formation, but a true possession formation!”

“Once everything is ready, this resentful spirit will seize the opportunity to occupy your wife’s body, thus achieving possession and existing once again in this world.”

“Do you really think that your beloved wife will come back?

What you will get is merely a stranger!”

As Lu Chuan spoke, Shen Wansan was struck as if by thunder and looked incredulously toward the resentful spirit, “Is…

is what he’s saying true?”

The resentful spirit declared angrily, “Don’t listen to his nonsense.

All that we’ve prepared is for resurrecting your wife; there is no such thing as possessing a body through another’s corpse!”

“This boy has wrecked our plan, and we cannot let him live.

I will eliminate this nuisance so our plan can proceed smoothly!”

No sooner had the voice fallen than the resentful spirit burst into a dense qi of yin evil energy, enveloping the entire cruise ship.

Everyone felt a great heaviness in their chests, and breathing became much more difficult.

All were terrified and shivered uncontrollably, believing their end had come.

Against such a fearsome resentful spirit, they saw no chance of survival.

Watching the resentful spirit suddenly erupt, Lu Chuan snorted coldly and said, “So quick to lose your cool?

If what I said isn’t true, why such haste?”

“To think you’d dare gamble hundreds of lives to help your own possession, such audacity in this resentful spirit is truly extraordinary!”

His eyes gradually turned to dark gold.

The power of this resentful spirit was truly terrifying, beyond the capacity of ordinary people to contend with.

However, facing yin souls and resentful spirits, Lu Chuan, who possessed the Indestructible Golden Eye Pupil, had never once felt fear.

But just as he was about to activate his Indestructible Golden Eye Pupil to deal with the resentful spirit, Ye Hao suddenly jumped out, blocking him, and with a confident face looking up at the resentful spirit in the sky, he exclaimed, “Bold demon, I am the S-Class Soul Hunting Squad Captain of the Censorate Department, specialized in dealing with calamities like you.

Surrender willingly now, or do not blame me for showing no courtesy!”