Chapter 167 The Place Where the Concubines Lived

Since Zang Tianji had already predicted the time of the rainstorm, I didn't have time to waste with these ghosts.

If I wanted to know what happened back then, I had to be ruthless.

After I blasted more than a dozen corpses to pieces in a row, someone finally spoke, "Great Wizard, please hold on! Let's talk!"

I looked at the person who spoke. Judging by where he was sitting, his status among these people shouldn't be low.

That person sighed and said, "We've been sitting here for who knows how many years. Many of us have already gone mad. Great Wizard, please be merciful and spare us this time?"

"We really don't know where Arena is!"

"If even one of us knew where Arena was, we wouldn't be sitting here."

I asked, "Where was Arena intercepted by the wizard back then, and what method did she use to convince him to let her pass?"

The man said, "Arena was stopped at Baishui Village."

"As for how she convinced the Great Wizard, I really don't know. None of us sitting here were qualified to get close to the Holy Maiden."

"The Holy Maiden and several Great Wizards entered Baishui Village together and had secret talks there for a whole day. In the end, the Holy Maiden came out of Baishui Village by herself and ordered us to continue on our way. That's roughly the story."

I said in a deep voice, "Has the Yan Yu Lou Master been to Baishui Village?"

"Yes!" the man said. "After the Yan Yu Lou Master killed everyone here, the first place he went was Baishui Village."

"He brought back all the Great Wizards who participated in the negotiations and tortured them to death one by one."

As he said this, the man suddenly seemed to remember something, "If you want to know what the Holy Maiden discussed with the Great Wizards, you can go to Lei Tao. He's Arena's younger brother, and he entered Baishui Village with her at the time."

After the Pinglang Si uprising was suppressed in the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty's Jiajing era, some leaders of the Miao people adopted Han surnames. After that, more and more people adopted Han surnames, until today, Han surnames have become popular in the Miao region.

Even among the Miao wizards, half have Han surnames and half have Miao surnames.

The man saw that I didn't say anything and thought that I didn't believe him, so he quickly said, "Lei Tao is a distinguished guest of Yan Yu Lou, and he should be watching the ceremony at the Wedding Hall. As long as you go there, you can find him."

I suddenly looked up and said, "Where did the servants in Yan Yu Lou who were responsible for receiving you all go?"

"They were all released by the Yan Yu Lou Master," the man said. "There are no living people in Yan Yu Lou except for the master. All the people who serve the master here are ghost maids."

"Those maids are divided into three types: black, white, and red. We originally had more than a hundred black-clothed maids here. After the Yan Yu Lou Master slaughtered the city, he also killed many maids. After he woke up, he released the maids who hadn't died."

I nodded and said, "Badger, put out the lights first."

While Wang Xiaohuan went to put out the lights, I communicated with the Yan Yu Lou Master again, "Can you find all the maids of Yan Yu Lou?"

The Yan Yu Lou Master said, "They don't know anything. There's no need to find them."

I retorted, "Don't you think that clues are often found in the places you overlook? If you bring them back, maybe I can find other clues."

"No!" the Yan Yu Lou Master refused flatly, "When this king released them, I said that I wouldn't look for them again. Do you want me to break my promise?"

I said calmly, "Even if you don't look for them, they will still come back. I'll make a bet with you. Not only will your maids return, but they will also bring outsiders with them."

The Yan Yu Lou Master sneered, "This entire city is covered by this king's divine sense. Without this king's permission, who can enter?"

I said, "Are you sure you can control the entire Yan Yu Lou?"

"Don't you know that the people who can deceive you are often the ones you trust the most?"

The Yan Yu Lou Master said sternly, "Are you saying that Bu Ting deceived me?"

"I'm just guessing!" I responded. "I need to go to the place where your maids lived back then to take a look."

The Yan Yu Lou Master said in a deep voice, "Just follow the water!"

As soon as the Yan Yu Lou Master finished speaking, I heard the sound of a mechanism being activated in the distance. When I turned my head, I saw a gap nearly a meter wide open in the wall in the distance, and the water on the ground instantly flowed towards it.

When I arrived near the gap, I saw rows of coffins soaking in the water.

The Yan Yu Lou Master said coldly, "This king has a total of two hundred and eighty black-clothed maids. They are all here. You better be able to find a reason to convince me, otherwise, this king will make you apologize to them right now."

I ignored the Yan Yu Lou Master and jumped directly into the underground secret chamber that he had opened. I grabbed a coffin with my fingers like hooks and lifted the coffin lid into the distance.

The female corpse in the coffin also floated to the opening of the coffin with the water at this time.

My left hand sank down and pressed directly on the female corpse's abdomen, and the female corpse was then pressed into the water by me.

The Yan Yu Lou Master said coldly, "Now, what do you have to say!"

"I haven't examined the body yet, have I?" As I spoke, I reached for the curved blade.

But the Yan Yu Lou Master shouted sternly at this time, "No!"