Zang Tianji smiled triumphantly at me, then turned to the water ghost god: "Have you thought about it yet?"

The water ghost god hesitated and said, "I... I'll think about it again..."

"No need!" With a cold shout, Ling activated the dharma seal in her hand. The red light on the chessboard soared several feet, and the entire secret realm seemed to be covered by Ling's chessboard, as if this chessboard was the master of the secret realm.

Ling gently moved her finger, and a vortex appeared on the water. The water ghost god's scream followed: "I'm willing..."

"No need!" As Ling closed her five fingers slightly, the ghost god's scream stopped abruptly. A chess piece flashing with spiritual light leaped out of the water and landed in Ling's palm.

"The quality is not bad." Ling played with the chess piece with satisfaction and said, "Blue Robber, now it's your turn to choose."

I looked at the chess piece in Ling's hand in shock: Did she subdue a ghost god so casually?

However, I was quickly relieved.

The secret of Ling's subduing the ghost god was not in herself, but in her chessboard.

Setting up the chessboard in advance and using several ghost god chess pieces of the same level to besiege an opponent, if she still couldn't take down the opponent easily, that would be strange.

Moreover, Ling has always fought with wisdom rather than brute force. If she had to fight hard against every ghost god, when would she be able to collect a set of three hundred and sixty-one ghost god chess pieces?

Blue Robber had already learned his lesson: "I am willing to serve... serve the master."

"Very good!" Ling said, "I'll give you ten breaths to open the nearby secret realm node and transform yourself into a chess piece. After ten breaths, you will bear the consequences."

"Your subordinate understands!" Not long after Blue Robber turned and left, a loud noise came from the northwest corner of the secret realm. The accumulated water in the secret realm poured towards the northwest direction like a river bursting its banks, with a deafening roar.

Before long, I saw a huge black hole appearing out of thin air in the direction where the accumulated water was pouring. The water was flowing from there to other places.

"Let's go!" Ling clapped her hands gently. More than a dozen ghost gods emerged from the water, carefully dismantling the earthen platform we were standing on, carrying half of the earthen platform on their shoulders like sedan bearers, and swimming towards the black hole.

Soon after, I saw Blue Robber kneeling on the other side of the black hole. He said in a low voice, "Master, this subordinate doesn't know how to transform into a chess piece, so I can only wait for you here."

Ling said indifferently, "You are very smart. I hope you don't get confused at the most critical moment."

"What's that ahead?"

After I came out of the secret realm, I discovered that the rushing water flow was divided into several streams after leaving the scope of the secret realm, flowing in different directions due to the terrain.

Further away was a closed stone gate.

A tomb gate!

My first feeling was that I had come to the front of a large tomb.

Could this be the burial place of an emperor?

Ling looked at the large tomb from a distance and asked Blue Robber, "Tell me! What is the real purpose of you coming to Yin Yang Inn?"

Blue Robber knelt on the ground and said in a low voice, "This subordinate dare not say!"

"Our true purpose involves too much. Someone warned us that once we fail, we can only die, not speak."

Ling smiled and said, "People are threatened because they have things they care about."

"What else do you fear losing besides your life now?"

"I'm afraid you don't even want this life now, do you?"

"After you were resurrected, you should be tormented by pain all the time. Are you willing to live like this?"

Blue Robber tore open his clothes, revealing his chest, and pointed to the wound on his body that ran diagonally from his left shoulder to his right abdomen: "Back then, I was split in half by a master of the inn with one knife."

"Although I have come back to life, the severe pain from this wound torments me all the time."

"Death is the greatest relief for me."

Blue Robber said, "Although the eight great robbers have a bad reputation, we are as close as family to each other."

"For the sake of our brothers and sisters, we can do things against our conscience, and we can also sacrifice our lives."

"Although I, Blue Robber, have fallen to this point, my brothers and sisters are still alive."

"For them, I can only die, not speak."

I looked at Blue Robber and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will go out and kill the people of the eight great robbers?"

Blue Robber smiled and said, "No, you will definitely not kill Yueying."

"You are people that Yueying let in. Yueying set up those three fire bricks to point you in the right direction, and at the same time, she is telling me that you are our own people."

"Yueying rarely trusts others. People who can be trusted by her will not attack her."

Blue Robber touched the ground with his forehead and said, "This kowtow is my apology."

"You are Yueying's friends, but not my brothers. Just now in the Water God Secret Realm, I almost sacrificed you in order to protect Yueying."

"If there is another time, I will still choose this way."

"I brought you here to protect Yueying. Don't try to explore Yin Yang Inn anymore. The terror brought by the secrets here is beyond your imagination."