At that critical moment, someone suddenly covered my eyes, forcibly cutting off my line of sight. My heartbeat gradually calmed down.

When my heartbeat returned to normal, Ye Yang released his hand, "Don't look back, Wang the Butcher is dealing with the eyes."

"Alright!" Wang the Butcher's voice came from my ear, and I saw the eyeball with the eyelid in Wang the Butcher's hand.

Wang the Butcher said, "This is the earth ape's eyeball. Without Tu Men (Butcher's Sect) taking action, no one in the art world can remove the earth ape's eyeball without damaging its spirituality."

Wasn't what Wang the Butcher was holding in his hand the eye that had just been reflected in my blade?

Wang the Butcher put the eye back in its place while speaking.

I asked doubtfully, "Why did the Wang family ancestor embed this eyeball in the wall?"

"To open the door!" Ye Yang said, "This eyeball is the key to opening the door. You're standing right at the edge of the door."

I looked down at my feet, but didn't notice anything unusual.

To be precise, I had been careful all the way, looking carefully at the surrounding scenery with every step, especially under my feet.

The eyeball on the wall had opened its eyes just as I was looking down. That was how I fell for it.

Ye Yang poked the ground with his sword, and the blade immediately sank about three inches into the soil, "That eyeball jammed the mechanism, otherwise, you would have been dead long ago."

When Ye Yang pulled back his sword, I also glanced down into the hole in the ground.

When I looked up at Ye Yang, he nodded slightly, and I quickly walked towards the depths of the secret passage. Not far from us, another prison cell appeared.

Inside that prison cell, a skeleton that was only half complete was chained up. Judging from the bones, the creature should have been about the size of a donkey when it was alive, but the skull looked somewhat similar to a wolf.

The demon beast had been cut off from the hip bone down with a knife.

Ye Yang raised his head and said, "His legs are over there."

When I looked in the direction Ye Yang was looking, I saw a leg bone with all the flesh shaved off, placed on either side of the door frame.

Judging from the length of the bones, they should belong to the demon beast inside the door.

"Two doors," I said, narrowing my eyes, "Let's take a look further inside."

As Ye Yang and I walked forward side by side, I quickly transmitted my voice, "Do you think this is really a prison cell?"

Ye Yang responded, "I can't figure it out either. Everything we've seen along the way clearly points to a prison cell. But this arrangement, how does it look like it's deliberately letting people in?"

I transmitted my voice, "It's not deliberately letting people in, but deliberately testing those who enter. If they don't meet the other party's requirements, it could be a dead end."

"With one thought, become a Buddha; with one thought, become a demon!"

"There's a deeper meaning in this sentence."

"How many trials do you think the Tu Men (Butcher's Sect) grandmaster passed?"

Ye Yang was silent for a moment, "I don't understand what you mean."

"You'll understand in a moment!" Just as I was speaking, a third prison cell appeared beside the secret passage.

Inside that prison cell, a corpse wearing a long robe and mandarin jacket sat upright. From the outside, it looked no different from a human, but when Feng Ruoxing used his sword to lift the hem of the robe, a piece of tailbone was revealed below.

Feng Ruoxing looked the corpse up and down for a long time, "What part of him was removed?"

I used my knife to push the corpse's melon-shaped hat upwards, revealing a skull with a missing skullcap, "His brain was dug out."

"This isn't a demon beast, it's a person! This corpse is fake, the tailbone can't be connected to the corpse." Wang the Butcher walked over and said, "The ancestor still violated the oath: he laid his hands on humans."

When I looked at Wang the Butcher, the latter said, "Tu Men (Butcher's Sect) ancestral teachings: Only butcher demons, not humans."

"This sentence means: The descendants of the Tu Men (Butcher's Sect) cannot kill people like slaughtering livestock, especially not like butchering demons, dismembering human limbs or organs."

Wang the Butcher pointed to the knife marks on the corpse's skullcap and said, "This is the Wang family's unique technique, the ancestor still did it this way. The ancestor really took a path of becoming a demon."

I narrowed my eyes, "I don't understand what you mean."

Wang the Butcher said with a wry smile, "Little brother, you're so smart, you must be able to guess what I mean. You just have to force me to say it myself."

"Sect rules cannot be violated, ancestral teachings cannot be violated. Once violated, future generations will be punished. The Wang family's male descendants have declined for generations, and in my generation, I am the only woman left to support the Wang family's facade. This is the Wang family's retribution for violating ancestral teachings."

"Let's go! I really want to see. What made the Wang family ancestors violate the ancestral teachings."

As Wang the Butcher walked towards the third door, I heard someone behind me shout, "Don't go! Don't go forward!"

I turned to look at Ye Yang, who was expressionless. Feng Ruoxing was also following Wang the Butcher quickly forward. Could it be that I was the only one who heard that person's voice?

As I stepped forward again, Wang the Butcher suddenly stopped, "Did you hear someone speaking?"

"I heard someone telling me not to go forward."