"At that time, we would have already been sent away," said Bo Pi.

"The messenger sent by the Yitian Chess Master gave us a cup of wine. The other three drank it, but I secretly poured mine away. Then, we were sealed in coffins and sent to a secret realm."

"At that time, the messenger said a lot of things near our coffins. I knew he was reshaping my memories. When we woke up, we would only remember what he said."

Bo Pi shuddered as he said this, "The Yitian Chess Master is too terrifying. It was from that moment that I began to fear him. I wanted to run away at the slightest disturbance."

Lao Liu looked at Chen Shuyu, who nodded slightly to him.

After leaving Yunyin Village, Chen Shuyu had been tracking the messenger, hoping to find clues about the Yitian Chess Master from him.

However, Chen Shuyu's findings were that the messenger was just an ordinary martial artist.

At that time, Lao Liu made a hypothesis—the messenger was just a tool temporarily used by the Yitian Chess Master to deliver messages. He just used secret techniques to control the messenger, had him deliver the orders he needed to convey, and then the messenger wouldn't remember anything anymore.

This way, even if someone caught the messenger and searched his soul, they wouldn't be able to find any clues about the Yitian Chess Master.

Bo Pi didn't know what Lao Liu was thinking and said to himself, "I don't know what the Yitian Chess Master wants to do to us? But I can't leave that forbidden area, so I can only live there in fear."

"Not long after that, the messenger sent a man named Zhi Nan to the forbidden area."

"They were using Zhi Nan to refine a ghost-god, but the methods they used were completely different from how they treated us. Zhi Nan became a ghost-god through obsession, while we were created using secret techniques."

Bo Pi's words gave Lao Liu an important piece of information. That was, when the Yitian Chess Master captured Zhi Nan, he was already refining the second generation of ghost-gods.

The Four Death Servants could be considered the first generation of ghost-gods refined by the Yitian Chess Master.

Bo Pi said, "I knew that once Zhi Nan cultivated into a ghost-god, the four of us would likely be devoured by him to become his nourishment. I couldn't just sit and wait for death."

"After thinking it over, I came up with a way to save myself, which was to subtly influence Zhi Nan and make him shift his attention to the living human puppets."

"If Zhi Nan can't unravel the final secret of the living human puppets, he will never be able to overcome his inner demons and become a high-level ghost-god."

"So that's how it is!" Lao Liu gently waved his fan and said, "No wonder I always felt that Zhi Nan's idea of creating living human puppets was a bit abrupt. It turned out to be influenced by you."

Lao Liu suddenly opened his eyes wide, "No! You still haven't escaped the Yitian Chess Master's schemes."

"The fact that you didn't drink the secret medicine and encountered Zhi Nan was all part of his plan."

"The person the Yitian Chess Master is scheming against isn't you, but Xie Bangui."

"The Mo Family Village and the Paper Doll Village have always been in contact with each other. Xie Bangui holds the secret technique of blood-soaked paper puppets in his hands, making him more likely to complete the living human puppets."

"The Yitian Chess Master is using you to send the results of his research to Xie Bangui."

"Living human puppets are harmful to the natural order. The Yitian Chess Master's two forbidden areas for creating living human puppets were both eliminated by the art practitioners, but he never gave up the idea of creating living human puppets. Instead, he transferred it to Xie Bangui."

"Xie Bangui acts in both righteous and evil ways. The Paper Doll Village provides services to people in exchange for corpses, which is a mutually willing transaction. Coupled with Xie Bangui's reputation, even if the art practitioners know they are creating living human puppets, they won't send troops to讨伐 (tǎo fá -suppress)."

"The Yitian Chess Master has such a grand scheme."

Chen Shuyu said, "As far as I know, after Li Po and Zi Wan'er took action in Paper Doll Village, Xie Bangui disbanded the Paper Doll Village and didn't touch living human puppets anymore!"

Lao Liu shook his head and said, "Perhaps he has already mastered the method of creating living human puppets, or perhaps he has determined that living human puppets are not suitable. That's why he disbanded the Paper Doll Village."

"Don't forget, among the people who went to Paper Doll Village with the Lord, there was also an unidentified Mo Caiwei."

Chen Shuyu exclaimed, "Then should we notify Xie Bangui?"

"No need!" Lao Liu shook his head and said, "The Breaking Army Ghost King is not an easy person to deal with, and his subordinates are full of talent. He can keep Mo Caiwei, so he naturally has his own ideas. We shouldn't disrupt his plans."

Lao Liu looked at Bo Pi again and said, "How much do you know about the Tiewa Temple?"

"I only know that the Four Evil Monks of the Tiewa Temple are the Four Living Servants of the Yitian Chess Master," Bo Pi said. "At that time, we were restricted to different areas within the Tiewa Temple and could hardly meet each other."

"Every time the Yitian Chess Master released us to perform tasks, he would have the messenger put us in a magical artifact used to imprison souls and take us out of the Taiqu Mountain. After I performed the task, he would use the magical artifact to take us back."

"I only know that there are three areas in the Tiewa Temple. The Four Living and Four Dead eight servants each occupy one area. The remaining forbidden area, even we have never entered."

Lao Liu said in a deep voice, "What's the matter with the *Human Skin Scripture*?"

I was able to encounter Bo Pi because of that *Human Skin Scripture*, and Lao Liu has always wanted to find out the secrets of the *Human Skin Scripture*!