I interrupted Chen Shuyu, "Are those two sentences all you know about the River Beyond Rivers?"

Chen Shuyu said, "It's more than that."

"Legend has it that Qinghe Town was once where the Northeast Shamans sent water ghosts!"

"It is said that many years ago, Qinghe Town was called Qinghe City. At that time, the war in Liaodong was in full swing, and the Ming army and the Eight Banners fought a great battle in Qinghe City. Many Ming soldiers were driven into the river by the Eight Banner soldiers and drowned."

"After that, there were constant wails in the river, and water ghosts deliberately came up to take revenge, causing heavy losses to the Eight Banner soldiers for a time. The commander at the time had to invite shamans to suppress the evil."

"According to legend, the shaman who suppressed the evil took away countless wronged souls overnight. A river channel was also missing near Qinghe City. No one knows where that river channel went?"

"Before the fall of the Manchus, shamans had always performed rituals in Qinghe Town to deliver the souls of the dead. Therefore, the legend of that river became more and more mysterious, and more and more terrifying."

"It wasn't until after the Manchus were overthrown that the shamans disappeared, and the legend of that river gradually subsided!"

I nodded and said, "Let's not talk about that river for now, continue with the Huang family's affairs."

Chen Shuyu continued:

"Those people stayed for about a month! Then they started telling the villagers from house to house, 'Don't go out tonight, Old Man Huang's funeral is tonight.'"

"This confused everyone."

"When Old Man Huang asked someone to write his eulogy, he was still very healthy. It hasn't even been two months, and he's gone."

"Besides, the Huang family has a death, but there's no sign of mourning. They're just quietly holding a funeral? It doesn't look like someone has died at home!"

"However, the people in Qinghe Town were all frightened by those people, and no one dared to ask more questions. When night came, every household closed their doors."

"That night, Old Man Huang was silently buried."

"No one in Qinghe Town knew where the Huang family's old *baozi* (leopard; here, a nickname) was taken, and they never saw those people carrying the coffin return."

"Zuan Shan Bao has already told you what happened after that, which is that the Huang family had a degenerate son."

Hearing this, I couldn't help frowning, "If we calculate according to the terrain, can Qinghe Town be connected to Yunlin Mountain?"

"No!" Chen Shuyu said, "Yunlin Mountain is nearly a day's journey away from Qinghe Town. The distance is too far. Moreover, the source of the Qinghe River is not from Yunlin Mountain."

"The main purpose of tracking Old Man Huang's tomb is to find out whether he broke through the Ninth Mountain of Yunlin Mountain back then."

"If he did, it means that there must be a way to enter and exit the Ninth Mountain in his tomb. We can also find Wei Xuesong's Earth Soul before the Thieves' Gate and complete the mission."

I gently tapped the dashboard and said, "You said, why did the people who carried the coffin for the Huang family soak their feet in chicken blood? Did they soak one foot in chicken blood, or did both feet have to be stained with blood?"

"Whose idea was it to soak feet in chicken blood? Was it Old Man Huang, or did he hire another expert?"

I said in a deep voice, "If we calculate according to time, Old *Baozi* Huang passed away when the Thieves' Gate was at its peak. At that time, he played such a trick of sending him off in the middle of the night right under the noses of the Thieves' Gate, didn't the Thieves' Gate notice anything at all?"

Chen Shuyu shook her head and said, "Perhaps only by opening the Huang family's tomb can we know the truth. However..."

Chen Shuyu said, "After Old Man Huang was buried, a small sect in the Kong Men (Buddhist School) also disappeared. That sect was called Cai Jin Tang (Stepping on Gold Hall)."

I had indeed heard of Cai Jin Tang.

"All the thieves in the Kong Men practice their hand skills, but Cai Jin Tang steals things with their feet!"

"This doesn't mean that the people of Cai Jin Tang can put their feet into other people's pockets and clip out their wallets. Rather, they can use the soles of their feet to suck things up."

"Legend has it that the people of Cai Jin Tang start practicing by stepping on iron balls after entering the sect. Only when they step on their soles until they sink into a pit can they be considered to have completed the first step."

"The second step is to be able to walk freely while sucking things with the soles of their feet."

"When they steal things, they first put the target on the ground, and then step on it in the chaos. At that time, even if the owner searches their whole body, they won't be able to find the things they're sucking on the soles of their feet."

"Because the people of Cai Jin Tang have been practicing their footwork, their lower body is much more stable than normal people. Even if they are hit in the leg by something, their body will not easily be crooked."

Were the people who carried the coffin for Old *Baozi* Huang from Cai Jin Tang?

I hesitated and said, "Do you have any other clues?"

"These clues are too few! If all our previous calculations can be established, the people of the Thieves' Gate must have also looked for Old *Baozi*'s tomb. Those who are good at finding tombs can't find the disappeared river, how can we find Cao He (Grass River)?"

"We don't have time to wander around in this place!"

"If there were no pursuers behind us, I could investigate the location of Cao He little by little. But, there's such a Grim Reaper chasing behind us!"

"When it comes to *zi shi* (11 PM - 1 AM), she will have to come out to claim lives again. Now we only have four or five hours left. Can we find a place that the Thieves' Gate couldn't find in a few years in a few hours?"