I had to keep Shi Yu stalled until he couldn't hold on any longer.

I drew Zi Ye and slammed it down on the table, looking at Shi Yu with a half-smile. He couldn't help but laugh and say, "So, you want to resort to the blade already? Aren't you a bit impatient!"

I said, "I drew my blade to tell you that from now on, I won't let you out of my sight. The spirit talisman on me can cut off your connection with the outside world."

"If you're confident in killing me, you can definitely contact your companions outside. If you don't have that confidence, we'll just sit here and wait for the result."

Shi Yu's expression changed slightly. His greatest advantage was being able to connect with the outside world. Now that I had cut off their contact, it was equivalent to reversing the advantage between us.

I could wait for Ye Yang to come and reinforce me, but he might not dare to gamble on Ye Yang being forced to submit.

Victory or defeat depended on who could hold their breath longer.

If I had known at that time that Ye Yang had drunk the secret medicine and forgotten the original events, I would never have done this. Because Ye Yang had played his biggest trump card as a useless card.

He no longer had anything to make Shi Yu afraid.

Time passed second by second, and Shi Yu and I stared at each other in silence, our gazes calm to the point of being waveless, even motionless.

The calmer we were, the heavier the air in the room became.

Lin Sihan finally couldn't stand the high pressure and couldn't help but shout, "I beg you two, stop arguing. What time is it? You're still bickering here?"

"You haven't even seen the benefits yet? You're already fighting, is it worth it?"

"How about this? You shake hands and make peace first, and when the benefits come out, you can rely on your abilities to fight - whoever grabs it gets it."

Shi Yu smiled, "That's a good suggestion, young man, are you interested?"

I sneered and raised my right hand, "You're not afraid of being robbed clean, why would I be afraid? Let's do it this way!"

"Good! That's the spirit! When the benefits come out, we'll have a fair duel. No one can act in advance, and no one can interfere! Otherwise, may we be punished by the heavens!" Shi Yu raised his hand and struck three palms with me, establishing a Shudao (Way of Arts) contract.

We had reached a balance of interests, but we both made a mistake, which was treating Lin Sihan as the other party's person.

At that time, we both thought that Lin Sihan was brought in by the other party, and neither of us thought that Lin Sihan was the real third party.

In fact, this matter, when seriously considered, was still the result of Shi Yu's oversight. He knew that Zhang Chengye was the head of the Executioner family and had been hiding the inheritance from Zhang Qiang. Therefore, he ignored Zhang Qiang's existence and didn't know that he had attracted a third-party force on the internet that was enough to fight against the Life Borrowers.

While Shi Yu and I reached an agreement and were also guarding against each other, something finally changed on Ye Yang's side.

After sitting in place for a while, Ye Yang called Lao Liu, "Tell Nie Xiaochun to notify Hei Bai Wuchang (Black and White Impermanence) as quickly as possible, saying that I killed a ghost official. Someone is looking for trouble with me, hurry!"

After Ye Yang hung up the phone, he took out his inspector's token and poured his Zhenqi (true energy) into it. The inspector's token immediately emitted a wailing sound like ghosts crying.

The underworld inspector's token can contact the underworld, but it can't directly contact the superior ghost god of the Life Borrower, only the nearby ghost official. Ye Yang's activation of the inspector's token was equivalent to exposing his position.

This was already the second time Ye Yang had exposed his position.

In just a moment, the wails of ghosts outside the door surged like a tide.

Ye Yang glanced sideways, and countless ghost officials had already surrounded the house. A black-clothed ghost officer pushed the door open and sized Ye Yang up and down, "Murdering a ghost official, plotting to harm the prison warden of the Punishment Division, you have a lot of nerve! Now the evidence is conclusive, all crimes are punished together, you should be executed. Men, take him down!"

Ye Yang raised the inspector's token, "You should recognize this, right?"

The ghost official sneered, "A mere Life Borrower dares to wave a token at me? Let me add another charge, contempt of the underworld. Take him down!"

The saying goes: "It's easy to see King Yama, but hard to deal with the little devils." This applies to both the underworld and the mortal world.

The world knows the Ten Kings of Hell, the Ten Great Yin Marshals, and the Four Great Judges. The gods of the underworld manage the underworld, but they can't do everything themselves. Therefore, the underworld, like the mortal world, has a large number of officials and ghost messengers.

In a sense, the lower-ranking ghost officials and ghost messengers are the real managers of the underworld.

The consequences of offending ghost officials and ghost messengers may be more serious than facing the gods of the underworld directly.

Although the Life Borrowers are ordered by the underworld, they are only outside the system of the underworld. In addition to exchanging for life in the underworld, they must also make a living on their own. Otherwise, even if the Life Borrower borrows a life, they will starve to death. Compared with ghost messengers, they are indeed inferior, and it is reasonable for ghost officials not to take Ye Yang seriously.

Ye Yang put his hands behind his back and said, "If you want to catch me, you can. But if you catch me, the Ghost Cutting Platform of the Punishment Division will inevitably have your head on it."