[Well, if she doesn't want to cover up, he won't insist. But it's true her look is striking among them. Xie Lian actually fits in pretty well, for once.]

I am guessing the spirits came for revenge, so they tried something to appease them... and then villagers got resentful of their own deaths, so they tried revenge on the foxes, who then came back for more blood... that's usually how this goes. If only this had been exorcised from the start.