Chapter 149

The man with the surname Xie on the main platform began to wave the command flag in his hand.

Wisps of black qi rose continuously from below, gathering into the black vortex above, making it even larger and thicker.

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that the man with the surname Xie was not casting a spell; he was just providing guidance.

The curse cloud above his head had no essential relationship with him.

Perhaps it was because the curse power on the people around him was all extracted and gathered upward, so they temporarily became less "impossible to look at directly."

At least, when Li Zhuiyuan took the initiative to turn his head, and his line of sight was about to encompass a person sitting on his side, no strong warning sign arose in his heart, and his eyelids no longer twitched.

Although it was still very dangerous, Li Zhuiyuan still continued to turn his head and looked at this person.

For the first time, he saw this person clearly.

A black long robe, nearly forty years old, even if the face was as pale as snow, it still couldn't hide the firm lines on his face.

Clearly a person who had been dead for a long time, yet still exuded an aura of righteousness.

Very incongruous, yet truly existing.

Because this person, several hundred years ago, had shouted slogans and come here with a heart full of passion, suppressed the general, and eliminated a catastrophe.

Such a person, even if dead, could still make people feel respect.

At this moment, his eyelids were lowered, and his hands were forming a seal.

He,

was casting a curse.

Li Zhuiyuan moved his line of sight away and looked at the others generously.

The people present were mainly based on four colors of clothing, and these four colors represented the four families of the Old Heaven Gate.

They were the essence of the four families of the Old Heaven Gate of that generation; otherwise, they couldn't have been selected to fight side-by-side with the Long Wang.

Xiong Shan and the others had once inquired about the stories of that year, and through Lihua's mouth, Li Zhuiyuan also roughly knew the context of the events of that year.

It was only known that after that battle, that "big figure," the Long Wang of the Qin family, had disappeared from the jianghu since then.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that the Long Wang of the Qin family was Qin Kan, because Qin Kan also happened to be a person of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the genealogies of other families, that was undoubtedly Qin Kan.

Just like the Yin family genealogy, when talking about the glorious deeds of the ancestors, there was no need to think or doubt at all; just turn directly to the first page of the genealogy, and it was absolutely Yin Changsheng.

But the Qin family was different; they had produced too many Dragon Kings, and even if the Yuan Dynasty's reign was short, it was not guaranteed that the Qin family didn't produce more than one generation of Dragon Kings during the Yuan Dynasty.

Whether the Long Wang of the Qin family disappeared after the event because he was seriously injured in this battle and couldn't come out again, or because he was tired of the jianghu and decided to retire, or perhaps the next generation of the family was about to come out and he could take a rest, this was unknown.

But when the Long Wang took action, he also brought the four families of the Old Heaven Gate along, and when sealing the general, he also let the Niu Daojie use their own blood relatives as sacrifices to complete the seal on the general.

It was enough to see how difficult the general of that year was to deal with.

Sometimes, it's not that you can't beat them, but that some evil spirits are truly difficult to kill.

In short, that battle was very tragic; just count the number of people sitting here, and you will know that the backbone of the four major corpse-driving families at that time almost all folded here.

Now, everyone present was doing exactly the same thing.

They were all forming seals, all casting curses.

Those wisps of curse power were gathered upward through this method.

At first, Li Zhuiyuan suspected whether that man with the surname Xie had turned them into puppets.

But Li Zhuiyuan quickly denied this speculation of his own.

If the man with the surname Xie had such great ability, would he need to hide here?

He would have long since taken the initiative to find the door and seek revenge on those three families himself.

Therefore, they were not puppets, at least not controlled by the man with the surname Xie.

Next, Li Zhuiyuan began to observe them to see if they possessed self-awareness.

The environment here was very similar to the Cat-Faced Old Lady he had seen before.

The Cat-Faced Old Lady had also once borrowed the paper people, tables, chairs, pots, and bowls on the first floor of the great-grandfather's house to hold a birthday banquet.

It's just that, at the very least, the other party was a general who had once caused the Long Wang to take action personally to suppress him. Comparing him to a corpse demon in the countryside that hadn't taken shape for long was truly too insulting to the general.

Here, it was actually the general's "miasma." Here, he borrowed the resentment of himself, the buried, and the war dead to create a special environment that belonged to him.

The maids and eunuchs seen on the road, those Yuan soldiers, those knights, and various virtual images were actually the general's minions, because they all existed by attaching themselves to the general.

But it didn't mean that all minions were under absolute control.

Just like Xiao Huang Ying from the old home, Xiao Yingying who is now working as a helper at the great-grandfather's house, she is actually the minion of the one under the peach tree, but Xiao Huang Ying's style of conduct is completely autonomous.

So, do these people here who are forming seals and casting curses have autonomy?

It was just that Li Zhuiyuan was in the banquet hall now and didn't know that Zhuangzhuang, who was shouting as a Long Wang outside, had already cleared the relationship with the eunuch through bribery.

If he had known, then he could have determined that the minions here, these "people" here, actually all retained a portion of self-awareness and were not puppets controlled by the general.

Li Zhuiyuan could only analyze from the general's state. A general about to step into the end of extinction, at this time, putting on a shadow play by himself, didn't seem to have much meaning.

Immediately after, Li Zhuiyuan took advantage of the man with the surname Xie on the main platform turning to face the other side, pushed away the straw person beside him, and took the initiative to wave at the person sitting next to him. Although the other party continued to cast the curse, the pupils under the eyelids actually glanced at him.

He had self-awareness.

Li Zhuiyuan pushed the straw person away again and looked around.

In the circle around him, everyone continued to cast the curse while also taking a slight look at him.

They all had self-awareness!

Li Zhuiyuan held the straw person again, shock revealed in his eyes. They knew what they were doing!

These ancestors of the four families of the Old Heaven Gate of that year, especially those who died in battle to suppress the general, under the premise of clear self-awareness...

were casting a curse...

on their own contemporary clansmen or descendants.

They had once fought side-by-side here. When the Niu Daojie made the decision to complete the seal on the general at the cost of sacrificing the family's future, they made a joint vow: the family watches over each other, sharing life and death.

This was a guarantee for the Niu Daojie, not to let the family that paid the greatest sacrifice decline completely in the future.

But how much binding force does an ancestor's vow have on descendants?

The effect of a vow mainly depends on the person.

The facts were indeed so. After that battle of the Niu Daojie, the Yu clan moved to Peach Blossom Village, guarding the general's tomb for generations.

The Ming and Qing dynasties should have been the golden age for the development of corpse drivers, but they were forcibly suppressed by the other three families.

According to the statement of the man with the surname Xie, the matter of the three families gathering in Peach Blossom Village to seal the general again at the end of the Qing Dynasty should have other hidden secrets.

I'm afraid it was that the three families were aiming to wipe out the household.

First, the Niu Daojie occupied the general's tomb, suspecting that the Xie family had obtained benefits because of it; second, the Niu Daojie truly had family unique skills that made the other three families covet, such as the curse technique at this time.

In any case, in that battle at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Niu Daojie had few descendants since then, almost cutting off the lineage.

And those three families who participated in that battle and returned all kept silent about the events of that time.

The ancestors of the three families here, after knowing the things done by the descendants of later generations, made a choice and also took actual actions.

Since the ancestors' vows cannot constrain the descendants of later generations, then use a curse.

The debt of the Xie family, they will repay; this family portal, they will clean up themselves!

Li Zhuiyuan felt that this scene was very absurd, and in the absurdity, it also revealed a sense of sorrow.

Accustomed to the atmosphere of deceit between the dead and the living, accustomed to calculating, planning, and utilizing human weaknesses in everything, suddenly facing this purity, he suddenly felt a strong sense of discomfort.

Facing a large group of people who were too clean, he suddenly felt that he was a bit dirty.

Li Zhuiyuan looked up again at the black vortex above. It had gathered a lot, but very little flowed out.

Because the vast majority of the curse power was intercepted and could not be dispersed.

Perhaps the ones that flowed out were the corpse-driving teams that went to those three families regularly to pick one descendant of the three families at random.

This degree of loss could indeed make the three families feel fear and discomfort, but it was far from reaching the point of shaking the foundation.

And it could be seen that the three families were also constantly exploring the laws here and had already launched targeted actions.

From a professional point of view, the reason why the curse power was intercepted was nothing more than one thing: the general had not yet completely perished.

Whether the general took action to stop it was not important, because as long as he still existed, this place still belonged to his miasma, and the curse power could not escape the environment here, at most leaking out a trace.

And now, too much had truly accumulated.

When Li Zhuiyuan looked at this black vortex, he could feel a sense of shock.

Once such a huge and thick curse power lost its restraint and completely erupted, the unlucky ones would not just be those three families.

Even if those three families were beheaded three times from top to bottom, they couldn't bear so much.

It was more likely that the curse power would backfire on the casters. These righteous people who had sacrificed themselves to suppress evil spirits in those years, under the action of the curse resentment, would extinguish all self and turn into terrible evil spirits stepping into madness.

They would rush out, start a massacre, and brew an even more terrible disaster.

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but look at the man with the surname Xie on the main platform who was still waving the command flag vigorously.

He had no opinion on the man with the surname Xie wanting revenge.

But could your work not be so rough?

If he were to do it, he would decide the timing of the action based on the specific time of the general's extinction, so as to master the heat well.

Even if he couldn't wait to take revenge and didn't want to wait any longer, he would also study a method to better transport the curse power out, rather than accumulating it here completely, blowing it bigger and bigger like blowing a balloon.

In short, the youth would ensure that those three families died almost completely, leaving only a little bit of miscellaneous fish to live a miserable life worse than death under the aftermath of the curse technique for him to appreciate and enjoy when he was free and bored in the future.

Li Zhuiyuan stared at the eye sockets of the man with the surname Xie.

These, are they things you can't do, or are they not what you want at all?

He was blind, but Li Zhuiyuan didn't believe he didn't know how big a mine he had buried, and today, it was actually continuing.

Could it be that what you want is complete destruction?

What is to be destroyed is not only those three families, but also this peace that the ancestors protected with sacrifice.

Do you think that is stupid, that is foolish, that is not worth it, and you just want to use a catastrophe to overturn everything?

Li Zhuiyuan felt that this should be the true thought of the man with the surname Xie, and it could also explain the look in the general's eyes when he looked at him.

Li Zhuiyuan looked around at the people who were still forming seals again, so the general should also feel very ridiculous and helpless.

He had once wanted to leave this triple-heaven suppression and bring down a disaster that belonged exclusively to him, but he was suppressed.

And the person who suppressed him back then was now preparing to create a new natural disaster no less than him.

When the new natural disaster happens depends on when he perishes.

He himself... actually became the preventer of this catastrophe.

Li Zhuiyuan's left hand began to tap lightly on the table, and his right hand shook a wine glass that didn't exist in reality.

In the youth's mind, he began to quickly sort out the context of the whole thing.

His fourth wave should be to solve this disaster.

From the current point of view, although the general is about to perish, he still exists after all, so it also meets the time when the fourth wave should have arrived.

And Xiong Shan, he actually misunderstood the intention of this wave of his from the beginning.

He thought the river water let him come to seal the general, and he almost succeeded, but the problem is, with the general's current state, bearing an additional seal would probably accelerate his extinction directly.

Then, the powder keg here would be ignited and explode directly.

Even, perhaps his near success last time was also the general's intentional release of water.

Because it is very obvious that the general can see the real him through the straw person made by Xiong Shan.

Even, he recognized his inheritance identity.

The Chenzhou talisman disguise that Xiong Shan is good at is like a decoration in the general's eyes.

The general is about to die, but part of his power and knowledge still remain.

Standing from the general's perspective, he might not go to push it, but it seems he doesn't mind this mine exploding either.

Purely as a grand firework for his own funeral.

He cherished and recognized the Long Wang and righteous people who once suppressed him, but this does not mean that he, a big evil thing, has been influenced to care about the world's common people.

At this time, the man with the surname Xie stopped waving the command flag, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Below, everyone also stopped forming seals and casting curses.

Gradually, the curse power vortex that had gathered in the air and grown a circle larger began to disperse, falling back onto everyone below.

They began to become impossible to look at directly again, and even more impossible to look at directly than before.

Li Zhuiyuan sat up straight, and his visual blind zone appeared in a large area again.

The man with the surname Xie disappeared.

Li Zhuiyuan also took the opportunity to end the yin-walking.

On the main platform, he saw the man with the surname Xie standing in front of Yin Meng, telling Yin Meng something.

Yin Meng's previous yin-walking ended quickly, so she didn't see what the man with the surname Xie had done before.

Of course, Li Zhuiyuan suspected that even if Yin Meng saw it, she probably wouldn't know what had happened specifically.

The man with the surname Xie first told a story about the family's suffering. Li Zhuiyuan had good hearing and heard the conversation throughout, learning from it that his name was Xie Shun'an, a name that was easy to understand.

Finally, Xie Shun'an asked Yin Meng: "Tell me, should I take revenge on them?"

Yin Meng didn't answer, just looked at him vigilantly.

The man with the surname Xie smiled again. It seemed he didn't intend to get any answer, just seeing that guests had come this time, he wanted to chat a few words.

This was a guest invited by the general, and he had no right to dispose of them, otherwise it would anger the general, because theoretically speaking, he was also just one of the general's guests.

But very quickly, he wouldn't be.

Xie Shun'an picked up the general's armor and left with a loud laugh. His behavior and actions seemed very exaggerated, but combined with what he was doing, it seemed low-key instead.

Li Zhuiyuan sat in his original seat properly. He didn't understand before and was confused about why it was impossible to look at directly. Now he understood; looking at them was equivalent to an ordinary person staring at a powder keg about to be ignited. If you get close, you might be burned and turned into ashes.

The banquet ended.

The corpse-driving teams outside re-entered the venue and began to pick up guests to leave.

At this moment, he should worry about his own departure.

If a local corpse-driving team really came to pick him up, would he be sent to their nest after sitting on the bamboo pole?

Imagining himself standing among a large group of people who couldn't be looked at directly, this picture was truly a bit unsolvable.

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan saw a eunuch walk in front of him and point at him.

Hmm? Not sending the guests behind away first?

Immediately after, Li Zhuiyuan heard the footsteps of Tan Wenbin and Runsheng.

They were behind him, squatting down.

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes and turned around, first put the straw person on, and then held onto Runsheng's clothes.

Beside him, he also heard the footsteps of Xiong Shan and Lihua, as well as the child's soft murmurs.

It seemed a bit too smooth, smooth as if this eunuch had been stuffed with a red envelope.

So, it is indeed like this; all the minions here retain a relatively large degree of self-awareness.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, our plan arrangement..."

On the way down the mountain, a eunuch or maid stood every certain distance.

When marching to a corner, Runsheng took out two sticks of incense, lit them, and stuck them on the ground.

The maids and eunuchs nearby immediately ran over, squatted down, and began to inhale.

According to Tan Wenbin's plan, Li Zhuiyuan took the opportunity to leave the team quickly and jumped into a pit at the corner. Actually, this was one side of a cliff, and there happened to be a groove.

Just as Li Zhuiyuan landed, he heard the sound of something falling from above. He immediately turned around, reached out, and caught a swaddled baby.

This pair of parents, their courage is truly great; the child is really thrown away just like that.

However, Li Zhuiyuan also knew that it was because Xiong Shan and Tan Wenbin had reached an agreement, because their side still had two people who needed to be picked up.

Li Zhuiyuan sat in this groove holding the child like this.

After waiting for a while, another person slid down from above, and it was Lin Shu You.

"Brother Xiaoyuan!"

Seeing Li Zhuiyuan, Lin Shu You could be said to be crying with joy. He was about to walk up to tell about the tension and anxiety during this period of time, but a swaddled baby was thrown over. Lin Shu You could only reach out to catch it first.

Li Zhuiyuan: "You take the child."

Lin Shu You nodded: "Understood."

"Where is Mengmeng?" "I don't know. When I was arranged to get on the bamboo pole, I saw that the one carrying it was Brother Bin, and then Brother Bin told me to jump down here. He said they still had to continue to pick up guests."

Li Zhuiyuan frowned slightly, which meant that Yin Meng was responsible for being picked up by Xiong Shan and his wife?

But the problem is, why didn't Yin Meng come down with Lin Shu You?

He didn't think it was Xiong Shan deliberately not cooperating, because the other party's son was still in his hands.

Next was the long waiting time.

Li Zhuiyuan took out paper and pen from his bag, writing and drawing while pondering the method to solve that mine, while listening to the narration from Lin Shu You.

The general train of thought was basically the same as what he guessed.

Yin Meng suddenly learned yin-walking.

But it wasn't what he thought, that she was too bored on the train or when watching Brother Hu and the three of them.

It was because of that script, Lin Shu You and Yin Meng played the role of a quarreling couple, and when they were casting a fishing hook in front of Brother Hu and the three of them, they were too fully engaged.

The quarrel was fake, that's true, but the content of the quarrel was all true.

Mengmeng was hurt.

No errors in the first release, content is at a glance!

Along the way, as long as she was free after changing shifts with Lin Shu You, she would desperately try to practice yin-walking.

Stimulated by a strong sense of shame, she actually succeeded in practicing it.

You must know that Yin Meng had been evaluated by Grandma Liu as "naturally dull."

This was enough to show how great the stimulation Yin Meng received this time was.

As for Brother Hu and the three of them, although they were causal lines created by Li Zhuiyuan, after coming here, they also truly connected to the water flow.

Bai Chi Town Shazi Village, they naturally couldn't find it, but after asking around many times, they found a place with a similar sound and went there to search. As a result, these three idiots took the wrong road, not only failing to find the place with the similar sound but also getting lost in the mountains.

Lin Shu You and Yin Meng naturally followed them all the way. Seeing that the three of them were lost, they naturally wouldn't interfere, but were happy to see it happen. This way, they could just continue to kill time.

After those three were tired and started to sleep on the ground in the mountains, planning to find the way out after dawn, Lin Shu You was responsible for monitoring, and Yin Meng rested first.

Yin Meng couldn't sleep and began to practice yin-walking. Once she practiced, she succeeded.

After she succeeded, the first thing she saw was a corpse-driving team passing by in the distance.

The other party was attracted by the "gaze"...

Then, they were all connected.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that the place where Brother Hu and the others were should not be far from the old houses of those three families, or it happened to be on the only way for the corpse drivers to go to those three families to hook people.

However, those three were implicated by Yin Meng. They were sleeping well, but were mistaken for being together and picked into the team.

But these three guys, bullying, extortion, molestation, humiliation, robbery, they had done all kinds of rotten things. Such human scum, being sent to stay in a ghost nest, is called returning to their place.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that facing the existence whose feet did not touch the ground, resistance was very difficult. Even he had to avoid and hide, but he was curious about one thing:

"Did you perform the spirit-descending?"

When asking this question, Li Zhuiyuan actually already knew the answer.

Lin Shu You: "Tried, but couldn't get up."

Sure enough, such huge curse power, the Bai He Master Master Tongzi also dared not look directly at it. If this thing was truly pierced, I'm afraid it would directly eliminate his divine position, and even as a ghost, he wouldn't be able to be one.

But always doing this won't work either. The boy comes down when he encounters something easy to solve, and simply doesn't come when he sees the situation is not good.

Everyone is fighting desperately, why is it that you are the one picking and choosing there?

Li Zhuiyuan opened a page of the notebook and paused: It seems that a forced summoning should be designed for the boy.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, this child is truly well-behaved, doesn't cry or make a fuss, so cute."

Lin Shu You teased the child, and the child took the initiative to reach out, laughing sweetly while grabbing Lin Shu You's finger.

"Then you hurry up and have one."

"Hehe, my grandfather actually wants me to get married and have children early."

Li Zhuiyuan looked up and closed his eyes.

That thing, how should it be handled?

It cannot be discharged, and it cannot be transferred. Once it leaks to the outside, it is a disaster.

But even if it erupts inside here, those ancestors of the Old Heaven Gate will also suffer backlash, turn into monsters, rush out, and trigger an even more terrible natural disaster.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his eyes again, lowered his head, picked up the pen, and began to write down various choices and influences.

With his brain speed, he actually didn't need to do this, but he needed to weigh.

After some checking, Li Zhuiyuan selected the best solution at the moment, but the problem-solving idea under this optimal state made even himself want to laugh.

But gradually, the youth's expression began to become serious.

It seems, it really can, because at least, it counts as a method!

At this time, Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Xiong Shan and his wife all slid down from above.

Still didn't see Yin Meng.

Li Zhuiyuan asked: "Where is Mengmeng?"

Tan Wenbin: "Damn it, Mengmeng is a distinguished guest. There is a big eunuch specifically responsible for picking her up to the residence. The eunuch I bribed is not as high-ranking as him."

"Do you know where she was arranged to go?"

"Entered the palace."

Lihua hugged the child from Lin Shu You's hands and kissed the child on the forehead.

Xiong Shan opened his mouth and said: "Since your subordinate is regarded as a distinguished guest by the general, then there should be no life danger. At most, she will be a guest for a few more days and will be arranged to be released."

Li Zhuiyuan understood Xiong Shan's meaning and asked:

"Are you leaving?"

Xiong Shan nodded: "Otherwise?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "The things here are a bit different from what you originally expected. I saw some things in the banquet hall and can tell you."

Xiong Shan showed a look of struggle.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Why, don't even want to listen?"

Xiong Shan: "I'm afraid that after listening, I won't be able to leave. I have a feeling that you seem to really want me to stay."

Li Zhuiyuan said frankly: "I want to solve the things here, so I need manpower."

Lihua: "This has nothing to do with us anymore. After leaving here, he will go to light the lamp, and then our couple's remaining life will only be raising our son and taking revenge for second brother and third brother."

Xiong Shan: "Yes, that's right, I have already decided on this matter. Little brother, I advise you to meddle less in other people's business. You must know that every drink and every peck has its own destiny. It's not that you need to manage everything you encounter. Some things, if they should happen, they will happen."

After speaking, Xiong Shan and Lihua took the child and prepared to climb up.

The maids and eunuchs had all returned to the palace. At this time, the banquet hall had been cleared. They only needed to go in again and jump down from that waterfall to return to the lake surface.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at their backs and said: "Every drink and every peck has its own destiny. Aren't you curious about how second brother and third brother died?"

Xiong Shan stopped abruptly and turned to look at Li Zhuiyuan: "What do you mean by this?"

Lihua was more direct, questioning: "Do you know how second brother and third brother were captured?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "I don't know."

Xiong Shan reached out and pointed at Li Zhuiyuan: "Little brother, you shouldn't bring up second brother and third brother in front of me."

Runsheng and Lin Shu You stood up immediately.

Tan Wenbin pushed Xiong Shan's hand away and asked: "Three favors, can't they exchange for an attitude of speaking properly?"

Xiong Shan took a deep breath, withdrew his finger, and clenched his fist.

Li Zhuiyuan was not angry, nor did he feel offended, because he wanted to let the other party stay and fight for this matter.

However, what he said next was not deliberately deceiving them, but his own true guess in his heart.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Xiong Shan, since you are walking the jianghu, then I will ask you one thing: can you admit defeat and exit the jianghu by lighting the lamp a second time?"

Xiong Shan: "This is of course. This is a rule known to everyone in the jianghu."

Li Zhuiyuan: "The jianghu turns out to be so easy to talk to? When encountering a small wave, you wade through it. Seeing a big wave coming, even if it is right in front of your eyes, even if you are already in the wave, as long as you quickly light the lamp a second time, all dangers will disappear into nothingness?"

Xiong Shan was silent.

He came from a wild background, and many things were realized by himself. He didn't know about this, but what the youth said was indeed reasonable. The river water has never been affectionate.

Li Zhuiyuan: "If everyone played like this, wouldn't it be chaotic? Although everyone only has one chance to walk the jianghu in their life, wouldn't everyone be able to pick and choose?"

Just like that Bai He Master Master Tongzi.

Even he himself couldn't stand the boy's behavior of picking and choosing, and was preparing to take action to solve it. Would the Heavenly Dao let it go?

Lihua pulled her husband's arm, signaling her husband to speak.

Xiong Shan comforted his wife, looked at Li Zhuiyuan, and his tone softened: "Are you sure about what you said?"

"Not sure. That's why I asked you, how did second brother and third brother die?"

"How would I know."

"If it were truly as you said, just letting second brother and third brother be responsible for keeping an eye on them, then would they really be so easily overturned?"

"This is also what I don't understand. I don't believe those two families could so easily take down second brother and third brother, and it was taking them both down."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I feel the same way."

From the contact with Lihua, Li Zhuiyuan could feel the quality of Xiong Shan's team. Although Lihua brought a child, she was almost impeccable in disguise, layout, and reaction.

Then second brother and third brother would probably only be more excellent than Lihua.

Xiong Shan: "You mean, because I want to light the lamp and admit defeat, the river water began to sanction me? But when second brother and third brother were captured, I was here, trying to seal the general. I almost succeeded!"

"So, can you listen to me finish telling you what I discovered here?"

"You speak." Xiong Shan sat down, "I'll listen."

Seeing this, Lihua could only follow and sit down holding the child.

Li Zhuiyuan told the truth about the matter he had sorted out.

The people present, the more they listened, the more intense the shock on their faces became.

Tan Wenbin: "The ancestors of the Old Heaven Gate could actually reach such a point."

Runsheng: "Heroes."

Xiong Shan's face suddenly became very ugly, and he said in disbelief: "In other words, if I had successfully sealed the general, I would have triggered this catastrophe in advance?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "When I sat there holding the straw person, the general saw through my disguise, so your near success last time was probably intentional by the general."

Xiong Shan's breathing became rapid, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "I, misunderstood the meaning of the river water?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "And that's not all."

Xiong Shan's body began to tremble. This grassroots hero felt truly afraid this time.

Only those who have lit the lamp and experienced it on the river understand the fear of being dominated and guided by the river water.

"I not only almost messed things up, but also thought about withdrawing and leaving immediately..."

How generous the benefits of walking the jianghu are, Xiong Shan knows very well, otherwise he wouldn't have risked danger to bring his son along.

But since the river water can be so generous in giving, the punishment it gives you when you defy its will will also be even more terrible.

Li Zhuiyuan continued to add: "If this catastrophe finally erupts because of your withdrawal, who do you think it will be blamed on in the end?"

"I... I..."

The scene described by the youth was too terrible. If that natural disaster had to be counted on his head in the end, it could no longer be described as terrible.

Li Zhuiyuan slowed down his tone and said: "To be safe, let this wave pass before lighting the lamp."

After Li Zhuiyuan finished speaking, he lowered his head.

According to his past habits, after saying that sentence, he should look at the child now, because he knew clearly that the child was the soft spot of this couple.

Reasonably utilizing all conditions to achieve his goal was something he felt was completely normal.

But this time, he didn't want to do that.

Probably because the time he had been away from A Li was not long enough.

Or, he deliberately wanted to use this detail to let A Li feel that his illness had recovered another layer when he told A Li about the experience of this wave afterwards.

But Li Zhuiyuan didn't look, others would look.

Runsheng and Lin Shu You immediately looked at the child.

Tan Wenbin didn't look at first, but seeing that these two guys had already looked, he had to look reluctantly.

No way, everyone felt strange about bringing a child to walk the river. They knew they were doing it to accumulate merit for the child, but if the merit wasn't accumulated and it turned into a deduction in the end, then the child...

Lihua cried while holding the child, but she quickly wiped away her tears, her gaze firm, and nodded to her husband.

Xiong Shan looked at Li Zhuiyuan and said: "Thank you."

"You're welcome. I'm also doing it to achieve my goal, wanting you to help fight for your lives. If either of you couple dies in the subsequent actions, it's also very normal."

Xiong Shan immediately said: "It doesn't matter if we die, I just hope you can help us take the child..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't like children."

Tan Wenbin stood up and smoothed things over, saying: "Right, it's not necessarily that you have to die. You two live well. None of us here are married yet, who has the energy to bring a drag-along to live."

Lihua smiled.

Xiong Shan stroked his wife's hair and said: "I have a request."

Tan Wenbin raised three fingers: "Three favors, three favors!"

Xiong Shan showed a look of embarrassment: "No, what I want to say is, if I survive this time, I hope to go to Nantong, find the Li family of Nantong corpse-salvagers, and visit to thank you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Allowed."

Inside the palace, which was full of ruins, there were not many intact buildings left.

Xie Shun'an walked among them and came to the front of the former main hall.

Here was the center of this underground palace in the past, the place where the general's coffin was buried.

Now, the palace had completely disappeared, and only a giant pit remained in place.

Inside the giant pit, there was a black coffin.

Even in this palace that looked like ruins at the moment, this coffin was truly ordinary to the point of being out of place.

Xie Shun'an placed the general's armor in his hand to the side, then grabbed the edge of the giant pit with both hands, lay down, and shouted into it:

"Great-grandfather, I have come to visit you again."

"Creak..."

The coffin lid slid open slowly, revealing the true appearance inside the coffin.

The corpse in the coffin was wearing a yellow Daoist robe that was as clean as new, and the burial objects beside it were a set of corpse-driving ritual instruments.

It's just that the Daoist's face was completely covered by hair.

"Great-grandfather, open your eyes and look at me..."

The hair on the Daoist's face gradually scattered, revealing the general's face that was as thin as a monkey's.

Here was where the general's true body was.

Back then, that Xie family member used blood relatives as sacrifices, turned into a life-and-death seal, and then the Long Wang of the Qin family held this seal and took action to suppress him completely.

Since then, he and that Xie family member had been one body and one soul until now.

Xie Shun'an smiled and said:

"Great-grandfather, the general has long been tired. Don't continue to hold on hard. Letting the general perish early is also your long-cherished wish back then.

Besides,

can't you also be liberated early yourself?"

(End of chapter)