Feng Ruoxing was not in mortal danger, but his throat was temporarily unable to speak.

This infuriated me, but I forcibly suppressed the urge to storm Heishui Fortress.

This opponent gave me a sense of déjà vu.

The Reincarnation Department has a descendant of the nine-tailed demon fox, Yu Qingzhu.

Wu Xing's command has half a Qiankun Divine Calculator!

Who is the person behind this scheme?

I looked towards Heishui Fortress and said to myself, "No matter who my opponent is this time, I have to cross swords with him. Rest first, then enter Heishui Fortress tomorrow!"

I leaned against the rock again and slept for a few hours. At daybreak, I brazenly walked into Heishui Fortress.

The entire Heishui Fortress exuded a desolate silence everywhere, and it was this desolation that erased all traces of human activity.

It was as if no one had ever been here, as if no warlock had ever disturbed the tranquility of the ghosts and spirits.

I took a few steps forward and saw a warlock sitting in the grass. It was a subordinate of Bei Yan Yungui.

I tentatively took a step forward, and my toe touched a semi-transparent thread.

As I looked down at the thread, which was even thinner than a wandering soul's silk, the guard from the Bei Yan family opened his eyes, "Save me! You've triggered the Ghost Master's trap."

"Ghost Master said that once the thread is moved, you only have two minutes left. That's not enough time for you to ask about what happened last night. Unless, you can save me."

I immediately took a step back, "You'd better say everything you need to say within two minutes, and I'll do my best to save you during that time."

"If you're going to use this to threaten me, then I can only tell you, say it or don't."

The man said anxiously, "I'll talk, save me!"

I waved to Ye Yang, "You save him."

Ye Yang was the only one among us who knew about mechanisms. I could only let him do it.

As Ye Yang crouched down and gently stroked the thread, moving it through the grass, the man said, "Ghost Master said: You will definitely come in this morning. Because you want to cooperate with those two families. So, you must act when they need help the most."

"Ghost Master said: He will fulfill you. However, you can only save one group of people a day."

"Because, they used the Heaven Concealing Secret Technique when they made their move. Only at night will the clues appear."

"The two groups of people trapped in Heishui Fortress are in those two houses over there. But, only one clue can appear each night."

"If you can't save the people that night, the clue won't appear a second time, and you'll have lost."

The man kept looking at Ye Yang as he spoke.

Ye Yang had already cut down a patch of weeds with his dagger. The thread extending into the grass was wrapped around a wooden stake with a somewhat human shape.

The wooden stake must have been carved by Ghost Master on the spur of the moment. Except for the head, which had been smoothed somewhat, the other parts were just a few lines to distinguish the limbs.

I said in a deep voice, "If you don't speak again, I'll have him put the stake down."

The man quickly said, "Ghost Master said: He saw that you still have some conscience, so he's bestowing...no, giving you a chance to live."

"If you delay for two days and then chase after them, you will definitely die."

"You'd better not care about anything and just turn around and leave."

As I was frowning, a sound of a thread being pulled away from the wooden stake suddenly came from Ye Yang's hand.

Before I could even look at Ye Yang, I saw a bloody fishing line suddenly burst out from the back of the guard's neck, and the guard's head rolled to the ground.

I took a few steps forward and looked at the corpse, only then did I notice the needle holes at the severed neck.

It turned out that the guard's head had been cut off long ago. However, Ghost Master had sewn the guard's head back on before his blood had run dry.

Ye Yang pulled out the thread from the human-shaped wooden stake, and the fishing line used to sew the corpse's head also broke into two pieces, and the man's head fell off.

Ghost Master was telling me that all the dead people who had been following us along the way were his handiwork.

He not only knew puppetry, corpse control, and mechanical skills, but he was also superior to others.

Wang Xiaohuan looked at the corpse on the ground and said, "What is Ghost Master trying to do? Provoke us?"

I said in a deep voice, "They're after Ye Yang."

"Ye Yang mentioned to Jing Henyun that he was going to Xianyang River."

"Shi Fei Daoren should already know this news, but they don't know why Ye Yang is going to Xianyang River?"

"They're testing how determined we are to go to Xianyang River?"

Ghost Master clearly told us that they were going to set off two days in advance.

For masters of the art, let alone two days, even a few hours would be enough for them to calmly set up traps.

Two days of time, described as full of dangers, was not an exaggeration.

If we continued to set off, it would mean that we were determined to get the secret of Xianyang River.

I stared at Ye Yang for a while and said, "Ye Yang, could it be that the news that you are the reincarnation of Ye Qianyang has been leaked?"

Ye Yang's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch slightly.

The secret that Ye Yang was Ye Qianyang was only known by us and the higher-ups of the Coffin Gate.

However, there may be other forces lurking in the Coffin Gate.

If Yi Tian Qizhu was making a move this time, he was gambling with Ye Qianyang, the founder of the Coffin Gate.