I shook my head and said, "It's not what you think."

"If my second guess is correct, it means that the Xianyang River has already fallen. It has become a forbidden zone occupied by warlocks, ghosts, and even ghost gods."

"Jing Henyun needs us to open a passage to the Xianyang River."

"The so-called competition is not the goal; their goal is to bring the Bei Yan siblings to the Xianyang River."

I paused and said, "You haven't forgotten that I asked Shi Fei Daoren at the funeral home whether he had a secret affair with Jing Henyun, right?"

Feng Ruohang looked at me in horror and said, "You mean Shi Fei Daoren doesn't care about rebuilding the Liu Shan Men at all? He's just following Jing Henyun's instructions to bring the Bei Yan siblings into the Xianyang River?"

"That's what I mean!" I replied, "I don't know what method Jing Henyun used to convince Shi Fei Daoren, but everything he's doing now gives me that feeling."

I opened the map and said, "If we move forward eighty li today, we should reach our first stop, Blackwater Fort."

"Tonight, we'll know if my judgment is correct based on whether something happens there."

The further we went, the more open the terrain became. A small military fortress appeared in our sight.

Bei Yan Yungui, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. When I looked in the direction he was staring at, I vaguely saw a glint of cold light in the nearby bushes.

Ambush!

The thought had just flashed through my mind when the crossbow bolt in Bei Yan Yungui's hand shot into the bushes.

The white light formed by the arrow only flew half a foot before bursting into flames in the air. That was the result of the runes on the arrow encountering yin energy.

It was only about five in the afternoon, and although it was the time when yin and yang energies began to transform, it wasn't yet the time when ghosts could appear.

The runes on Bei Yan Yungui's arrow were ignited by yin energy just like that?

Wouldn't the military fortress, only an arrow's distance away, be equivalent to a ghost den?

As my mind raced, the raging fire formed by the runes on the arrow had already exploded on the ground. As the flames scurried across the ground, they transformed into a symbol that looked like an eye.

I clearly saw the fiery eyeball sweep across the faces of each of us.

By the time I went to reach for my weapon, the flames on the ground had completely extinguished, and there wasn't a trace to be found.

As my gaze deepened, Bei Yan Yungui put away his crossbow and walked towards the drawbridge over the moat.

Bei Yan Yungui and Xia Zhou's team walked across the drawbridge one after another.

As soon as the people from the Reincarnation Division stepped onto the bridge, it broke into two sections. As Zhu Xiaoyu retreated swiftly, a disciple who couldn't retreat in time fell straight into the water.

In the blink of an eye, the disciple stood up from the water, pointing at the surface and shouting like a madman, "There are dead people under the water, all dead people!"

Everyone looked at the turbid yellow river water together. The man raised his hand and pointed at his own team, "Him, him, and him, they all died in the water. Come down and see, their bodies are at the bottom of the water."

Zhu Xiaoyu sternly said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

The man suddenly smiled strangely, "I'm not talking nonsense. Weren't those three responsible for clearing the way when we walked over?"

"Have you all forgotten? After they walked into the weeds, they disappeared for a while."

"Later, you called them and they came out."

"Do you know whether you called out the dead or the living?"

"They're all at the bottom of the water. If you don't believe me, come down and see!"

I looked at Wang Xiaohuan, who nodded slightly.

When I came over, I was constantly talking to Feng Ruohang and the others through voice transmission, and I didn't pay attention to the movements of the Reincarnation Division.

The person responsible for observing the Reincarnation Division was Wang Xiaohuan.

Wang Xiaohuan transmitted his voice, "When those people reappeared, their trouser legs were covered in mud."

Zhu Xiaoyu's gaze swept back and forth between the water and the shore several times, then she suddenly pointed at the man in the water, "Kill him!"

A person following Zhu Xiaoyu raised his hand and shot a flying knife into the man's forehead. As the other party fell into the water and the blood bloomed on the surface, Zhu Xiaoyu called her men to fly over the moat.

When a few people had just steadied their feet, three sounds of bodies falling into the water came from behind them. When Zhu Xiaoyu turned around, four people covered in mud stood up in the river.

Except for the person whose forehead was pierced by a flying knife by Zhu Xiaoyu's guard, the three people whose names he had pointed out were all standing in the water.

The person with the flying knife still stuck in his forehead sneered, "I already said, those three are dead, why don't you believe it?"

Zhu Xiaoyu didn't even look at that person, but instead said to me, "Hall Master Li, I'll leave these four people to you. We'll meet again in Blackwater Fort."

Zhu Xiaoyu had known for a long time that she had been walking with three dead people all the way. She hadn't exposed it all along in order to leave this bomb for others.

The person Zhu Xiaoyu chose was me!

I looked at the other party with a half-smile and said, "When did I say that I was going to enter Blackwater Fort?"

Bei Yan Yungui sneered, "I didn't expect that the dignified Wolf King of the Liangjie Hall wouldn't even dare to enter a small military fortress. It seems he's just a person with an undeserved reputation!"

I said lightly, "Take a look at the top of your head before you speak!"