Jiang Chen stood with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing at the lake, seemingly waiting for the turbid waters to slowly settle and clear.

Jiang Chen said, "Although the lake water here is stagnant, it is calm and transparent. It will only take a moment for those underwater to have nowhere to hide. If you don't act, you can leave."

Ying Gou stared intently at the surface of the lake. After a long silence, he finally exhaled and said, "This subordinate dare not disobey the master."

Jiang Chen sneered and looked back at the lake.

But Feng Ruoxing and the others were long gone from the bottom of the water.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but frown slightly, "They have some ability, to actually escape under my nose."

Ying Gou took a few quick steps forward, "This subordinate will go into the water."

Ying Gou was a water-attribute zombie, invincible once he entered the water.

It was most appropriate for him to go into the water.

But Jiang Chen waved his hand, "No need, our two little friends have arrived. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to let them look for people? Follow me!"

Jiang Chen slowly walked into the distant woods, merging with the trees and blocking Ying Gou who was following him.

The two little friends Jiang Chen was talking about were me and Ye Yang, who had rushed to the demon realm.

I kept chasing until I stopped at the lake, "Where did they go? Doesn't the tracking charm show they're right here?"

Ye Yang looked around and said, "There's a demon tomb here. Did they escape into the demon tomb to avoid Jiang Chen's pursuit?"

"The demon tomb is underwater! Look over there!"

When I looked in the direction Ye Yang was pointing, I saw the Demon Binding Cord stuck in the cracks of the rocks at the bottom of the water.

I clearly knew that the Demon Binding Cord, floating in the water like seaweed, was a mark deliberately left for us, but I didn't dare stop to consider whether it was a trap.

Jiang Chen was chasing Nie Xiaochun.

Feng Ruoxing and the others had all disappeared.

Even if it was a trap someone had dug for me, I had to jump down and see if Feng Ruoxing was down there.

I jumped into the water and swam straight towards the Demon Binding Cord, grabbing it in my hand.

I had originally planned to pull the Demon Binding Cord out of the crevice, but I didn't expect that I would pull out a stone about the size of a washbasin from under the rope with just a tug.

The sediment under the stone rose up, stirring the water into chaos.

But in the muddy water, I saw a human face.

That person had originally been buried in the sand at the bottom of the water, and a stone was pressed against their face.

It wasn't until I pulled the stone up from the bottom of the water that the corpse revealed its true face.

Feng Ruoxing.

I almost cried out.

My body sank, and my hands quickly cleared away the sediment at the bottom of the water.

I knew that a person trapped underwater would have no chance of survival, but I still clung to a glimmer of hope.

Maybe, if I dragged Feng Ruoxing out of the water and onto the shore, she would come back to life.

When I was frantically pulling at the corpse underwater, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes, turned its hands upwards, grabbed my wrist, and dragged me into the water.

The place where the corpse was originally buried also turned into quicksand that was sinking into the ground.

The corpse was just dragging me down into the ground.

When I instinctively wanted to struggle, I heard Ye Yang's voice transmission, "Don't move! She's taking us into the demon tomb. Let's go down and see!"

I withdrew my strength, and Ye Yang grabbed my ankle.

The two of us, along with the corpse, sank into the bottom of the lake, one dragging the other.

The scene of me and Ye Yang disappearing underwater completely fell into Jiang Chen's eyes, "Demon tomb? When would a great demon take someone into their tomb willingly?"

The voice of the Nine-tailed Fox came over at this moment, with a bit of charm and a bit of mockery, "Of course, a great demon wouldn't invite people into their own tomb, but I can!"

Jiang Chen didn't expect that his own words would be answered, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the Nine-tailed Fox in the distance.

The Nine-tailed Fox's soul stood by the lake and said, "Jiang Chen, I don't care if you sincerely miss the Empress, wanting to kill her to erase your flaws, or if you want to cut off your inner demons! I will definitely let the Emperor and Empress return together and kill you with their own hands! That's what makes revenge interesting!"

Jiang Chen didn't speak, but Ying Gou sneered, "What a joke, not to mention the Empress's body isn't here, even if it is, no one can bring a ghost back to life in a physical body."

"Hahaha..." The Nine-tailed Fox laughed loudly, "It's a waste that one of you calls himself Jiang Chen, and the other calls himself Ying Gou."

"People from ancient myths, how can you be so ignorant!"

"Don't you know that there is still a kind of life force that surpasses the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and can reverse creation?" (sheng sheng zhi qi – force of creation)

"The reason why the many great demons of the Yin Yang Inn (Yin Yang Ke Zhan) chose this place as their tomb is because it has the force of creation."

"What if the Emperor and Empress are dead? There are plenty of great demon bones here. As long as their wills are still there, they can find a bone to attach to, and then supplement it with the force of creation, and they can return to the human world."

"Jiang Chen, Ying Gou, I don't believe you aren't afraid of the Emperor!"

"You can just wait to die!"