Avoiding battle wasn't Ye Yang's style.

If Ye Yang was leading the ghost god in circles, did he have another purpose? I glanced at Feng Ruoxing, only to see that she was already surrounded by the mountain ghosts.

Feng Ruoxing raised a short sword in one hand, pointing it at the mountain ghosts around her, while the hand holding the other short sword hung down at her side. Judging from the position of her short sword, she was obviously wary of Chen Xiaobao, who was clutching at her clothes.

Where had Chen Xuelin gone?

I had been lying low at the foot of the cliff, wanting to see where Chen Xuelin was.

Had he suddenly disappeared because he realized the situation was bad and turned tail and ran?

That shouldn't be the case. The Chen family had been planning for so many years, betting on whether they could devour the ghost god.

People with a strong gambling spirit usually have two characteristics: one is that they will definitely keep a trump card, either to win back their losses or to bet on one last hand.

The other characteristic is that their mental fortitude is beyond ordinary. They won't easily give up until they see the final result.

The Chen family was betting so heavily! They definitely wouldn't retreat easily.

What was the Chen family's trump card?

As my mind raced, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind: the bronze bell!

The Chen family didn't have two bronze bells, but three.

The two bronze bells on the mountain and at the foot of the mountain were used to suppress the ghost god. Those two bells definitely couldn't be moved. Once the bronze bells moved, the ghost god would inevitably break free.

Then, my initial guess that "the Chen family was trying to move a bell" was only half right. The bell had indeed been moved, but not to the top of the mountain or the bottom of the sinkhole, but to another location.

I roughly estimated the positions of the three bells. The bell tower at the entrance of the alley was a later addition, but it just happened to be stuck in the middle of the other two bell towers.

In other words, if the bell tower at the entrance of the alley was the vertex, the three bell towers formed an isosceles triangle lying on its side, with the bell tower at the entrance of the alley being the apex. When that bronze bell rang, it should be able to drive the other two bells to resonate with each other!

The three fingers that the Chen family's patriarch had extended before his death should have been pointing to that bell. He meant that he didn't want the Chen family to move those three bells.

Was the old man Chen still alive?

No one had mentioned the old man Chen's life or death until now, but from Chen Xiaobei's words, the old guy should not be dead. Why hadn't he appeared all this time?

The old man Chen was watching the third bell!

The third bell was the key. The Chen family didn't have a foolproof plan to devour the ghost god. Once they failed, they would need something to save their lives. The third bell was what they would use to save themselves.

The old man Chen should be not far from here!

I quickly sketched out the route that Ye Yang and the others were taking in my mind.

Chen Xuelin was using a sawn-off compass to lead Ye Yang and the others here. Only three pieces of that compass had appeared; the other piece had been discarded.

If the remaining piece of the compass was placed at Ye Yang's current location, they should be heading back.

With Ye Yang's eyesight, he couldn't possibly be unaware if there was a bell tower hidden along the way. That meant Ye Yang hadn't passed the newly built third bell tower.

I quietly raised one hand and compared it to the position of the bell tower on the mountain.

What if they weren't heading back, but towards me?

With that thought in mind, I moved a few meters in the direction of the bell tower, climbed down from a protruding rock, and pressed my ear to the mountain wall to listen after climbing down a certain distance.

Finally, on my third stop, I heard someone speaking.

Chen Xuelin's voice came from inside the mountain wall where I had stopped: "Dad, what are you waiting for? Use the bronze bell to suppress the ghost god!"

An old, angry voice said, "Suppress what? If we suppress the ghost god now, can you beat that Li guy, or kill that Ye guy? If I suppress the ghost god, won't I be letting those two pick up the scraps?"

Chen Xuelin said, "Li Po doesn't know that Ye Yang is on the cliff above his head. He must have already left from Weizi Alley to find Ye Yang. It will take him at least three or four hours to go around and come back. If we suppress the ghost god and then join forces, we will definitely be able to kill Ye Yang. He even spat out his heart's blood, he must be at the end of his rope!"

The old man Chen scolded him angrily: "Take a look for yourself, is Ye Yang fighting the ghost god with all his might? He is dragging the ghost god, waiting for reinforcements. If he doesn't go all out, he won't expend much energy. Aren't we just courting death if we go out?"

"How many times have I told you, you can't accomplish great things with petty cleverness. You still have to rely on your own abilities to gain a foothold in the martial world. Neither of you listens. Look at your older brother, he couldn't even take one move from Li Po and was beaten to the point where his soul flew away and scattered. What are you going to use to fight him?"

The old man Chen said excitedly: "Don't forget, there is also a Feng Ruoxing on their side. Is Feng Ruoxing's skill worse than theirs? We can't even handle one Ye Yang, and you want to add a Feng Ruoxing?"

Chen Xuelin said sinisterly: "Isn't Xiaobao next to Feng Ruoxing? Feng Ruoxing is a woman after all, her heart won't be too hard. As long as we involve Xiaobao, we won't be afraid of not being able to control her. By then..."