Old Liu smiled slightly and said, "Before you came out, did Brother Yu give you something? Why don't you take it out and have a look?"

Jiang Chuanbing suddenly came to his senses, took out a brocade pouch from his body, and when he opened the pouch, his face was ashen, and he slumped back into the chair with a blank stare.

After a long while, he muttered to himself, "Master, you are so ruthless! Not only do you treat me as a pawn, but you won't even let me die in peace."

"What did I do wrong?"

As Jiang Chuanbing spoke, black blood poured out of his mouth.

Jiang Chuanbing looked at Old Liu with empty eyes: "Liu Shiye, why did Master treat me like this?"

Old Liu said, "The pouch is empty."

"Because Brother Yu has nothing to say to you either."

"Jianghu schemes are like one game of chess after another. If you want to play chess well, you have to be good at using pawns."

"Any pawn can be sacrificed."

"Brother Yu still has to lurk in the Reincarnation Division, so he must give Zhu Zining an explanation."

"And you are his explanation."

Jiang Chuanbing grabbed the table with both hands, using the last bit of his strength to say, "Why am I the one being sacrificed?"

Old Liu responded, "In the battle of Cloud Hidden Village, your Dao heart was broken."

"If you could emerge from your chrysalis and become a butterfly, you might still have a chance to become a top strategist."

"Unfortunately, you treated me as your inner demon, desperately trying to win a game against me."

"So you got closer and closer to Zhu Ziyan, and even became attached to her. This growing attachment will turn you into Zhu Ziyan's puppet."

"Didn't you yourself marvel at the horror of the Nine-Headed Serpent Jade?"

"Brother Yu still has to continue to cooperate with Liangjie Tang. If you interfere, it is likely to cause our cooperation to collapse completely."

"Killing you can be considered a preventative measure!"

"So that's how it is!" Jiang Chuanbing spat out a mouthful of black blood and fell on the table, eyes wide open in death.

Nie Xiaochun, who was protecting Old Liu, couldn't help but ask, "Is what you said true?"

Old Liu sighed deeply and said, "It's cruel, isn't it?"

"The hearts of strategists are sometimes more poisonous than snakes. A poisonous plan can destroy a city or a country. If you can't be ruthless, how can you talk about strategizing for the world?"

Nie Xiaochun didn't know what she was thinking, and asked faintly, "If one day we need to be sacrificed to fulfill Li Po, would you do it?"

Old Liu laughed and said, "My lord will not allow me to do that!"

"The strategist's plan still depends on the lord's will. When a pawn really needs to be sacrificed, the lord must make the decision."

"Following such a lord, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat four dishes in my entire life."

"What a hardship for me!"

While Old Liu was still joking, a hearty laugh came from a distance: "Shiye, if we could eat four dishes, we wouldn't have come."

Old Liu turned his head and saw a burly warlock, carrying a blood-stained long hook, walking slowly in from the door.

The Life-Stealing Hook – Xiang Kai.

The man behind him, with a cold face and a ferocious snake head tattooed on his left hand, just nodded slightly to Old Liu as a greeting.

Old Liu knew that was Teng She – Bu Youming, the most difficult Earth Immortal to deal with, bar none.

The girl standing to Xiang Kai's left, wearing a black cloak and holding a long-handled scythe, was Death – Xia Xiaotian.

Old Liu cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, three Earth Immortals."

Xiang Kai said politely, "Shiye, you don't need to be so polite. Zero asked us to come and help Shiye on the condition that Liangjie Tang must help us unravel the Mad Family Curse. Is that okay?"

"Of course, there is no problem." Old Liu said, "Patriarch Feng is also a member of the Mad Family. Not for victory or defeat, but only for Patriarch Feng, we must also do our best."

Xiang Kai said straightforwardly: "Okay! We are going to Misty Rain Pavilion now."

"Please!" Old Liu said a "please", and Bu Youming took the lead to walk off the field.

Old Liu followed them for a distance before Chen Shuyu opened her mouth and said, "This doesn't seem to be the direction to Misty Rain Pavilion."

Xiang Kai explained, "The method to activate the Misty Rain Pavilion's restrictions is not inside the building, but outside. Bu Youming is taking us to activate the Misty Rain Pavilion's restrictions first."

"However, the three of us are not enough. At that time, we will have to ask for your help."

Chen Shuyu also knew that the methods of the Earth Immortals were unpredictable and surprising.

However, controlling the Misty Rain Pavilion from the outside always made people feel uneasy.

Chen Shuyu gave Old Liu a few winks, but the latter seemed not to see them at all, and instead chatted with Xiang Kai about the Mad Family.

Old Liu said, "I heard that several years ago, the two gentlemen once went deep into Miao territory to investigate the secrets of the Mad Family."

"At that time, you also unraveled the Mad Family Curse. Why did the curse erupt again?"

Xiang Kai said, "I am also wondering."

"Back then, we clearly killed the Great Witch of Miao territory, smashed the cursed object, and the members of the Mad Family all regained their sanity."

"Why did the curse erupt again this time?"

Old Liu pondered, "Who was the one who cursed the Mad Family back then? And why did he curse the members of the Mad Family?"

Xiang Kai pondered, "The wizard who cursed the Mad Family back then was called Lei Tao. When we found him, even his bones had rotted away. I don't know how many years he had been dead."

"As for why he cursed the Mad Family..."

Xiang Kai stopped here.