Li Yulan was right. Even the great shamans who devoted themselves to serving the gods would not dare to bargain with the ancient gods, let alone offer to repay them later. Moreover, I was just an accidental successor to the shamanic arts.

But what could I possibly offer as a sacrifice in this underground palace?

Besides the corpse of the jailer, there were only two incomplete souls and one living person left.

Li Yulan laughed loudly, "Li, what are you going to sacrifice? Yourself? You really should consider sacrificing yourself. At least, your soul won't be scattered!"

"Don't worry, after you die, I will immediately sever your three souls, so you die without pain, and die beyond death."

I suddenly stood up and rushed towards the stone pillar where Li Yulan's human soul was hanging. I retrieved the Soul-Chasing Rope and threw Li Yulan's human soul into the sky.

As the human soul ascended, I immediately knelt on the ground, "I am willing to sacrifice a human soul and nine Ghost Cauldrons to the great god."

"You're using my human soul as a sacrifice!" Before Li Yulan's scream faded, a gap opened in the sky. The human soul, flying in the air, was like a butterfly being sucked away by the wind. Despite struggling desperately, it was helplessly blown into the rift.

With the human soul gone, the divine power dissipated.

I turned around and used the Soul-Chasing Rope to tie up the bewildered Li Yulan, before collapsing to the ground myself.

From the appearance of the black-armored jailer, I had acted three times in a row. Each time seemed easy, but in reality, it had exhausted all my internal energy, physical strength, and even mental power.

If I had to act again, I probably wouldn't even have the strength to hold a knife!

While I was lying on the ground recovering my strength, Li Yulan shrieked, "Li, even if you capture me, you won't be able to get out. Without my help, you'll just be trapped here to death! Let me go, and I can..."

"Shut your mouth!" I interrupted her before she could finish, "I'm going to sleep!"

I really did fall asleep as soon as I said it. I don't know how long I slept, but when I woke up, the first thing I saw was Li Yulan sobbing.

I got up and first went to look at the black-armored jailer's spear. That was a good thing.

Unfortunately, after the black-armored jailer was beheaded, he somehow turned to ashes. His black armor and the spear in his hand had become coal ash-like black foam.

It seemed that the ancient shaman god didn't want shamanic artifacts to remain in the human world, so he destroyed the two treasures.

After thinking for a long time, I found a waterproof bag from my backpack and packed up the powder that the shamanic artifacts had turned into. This stuff should be quite useful.

When I finished packing and went to pull Li Yulan, she pleaded, "Mr. Li, without me, you really can't get out. Can you please let me go? I promise I can take you out!"

I grabbed the Soul-Chasing Rope and dragged Li Yulan out, "The Ghost Cauldrons are gone, the prison is empty. At most, the water outside is a little deep. What else can it do to me?"

Li Yulan said again, "I have a secret technique left by a great feng shui master here. I can give it to you."

I said without looking back, "That thing is useless to me. Besides, as long as I find your body, won't I be able to find the secret manual? You're asking me with my own things? That's a bit unreasonable!"

Li Yulan couldn't help but curse, "Robber!"

"You're right!" I didn't have much reaction to the words "robber" or "bandit." The ones who taught me were nine notorious bandits. What kind of benevolence and morality could they teach me?

Moreover, it was already a common practice for sorcerers to rob ghosts. Besides tomb raiding and coffin opening, whether sorcerers were catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, or slaying demons and eliminating monsters, they would definitely take away good things along the way. Otherwise, what would the sorcerers eat and drink? Did I still need to be polite to a ghost I had captured?

I walked around the dungeon door twice and found Li Yulan's body. Without any politeness, I took the feng shui secret manual. I wasn't interested in practicing feng shui, but this thing could be sold for a lot of money. Only a fool wouldn't want it!

After I dragged Li Yulan out of the water, she knew that her end was near, and said quietly, "Mr. Li, do you know how they forced me back then, and why I killed the people of Fish Basket Village?"

I casually said, "It's nothing more than using your child to force you to do things. What else could it be?"

Li Yulan was already dead. She desperately wanted to enter the Dragon Palace, just like Wang Laogui, to bury herself there and allow her descendants to be ennobled.

If I wasn't mistaken, her original spouse shouldn't have been from the Wang family. She had other children besides the Wang family's descendants. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so ruthless in killing people.

Li Yulan cried, "Back then, I was just passing by here with my father when they killed my father and took me by force, just because I was a descendant of corpse捞ers. My husband found this place, but they tricked him away. I was locked up by them for days. The Wang family beat me, violated me, and even threatened to use my blood to curse my child to death."

I looked at Li Yulan and said, "As far as I know, corpse捞ers don't have women, right?"

Many professions in the sorcerer world have gender requirements. Some things men can do, but women can't get close to; some things women can do, but men can only watch. Once you get it wrong, you're gambling with your life.

Was Li Yulan trying to deceive me?