"Be careful!" Butcher Wang was the first to see the human hand. He drew his knife, ready to strike, but I stopped him. "Wait!"

The hand extended from the crack bit by bit, followed by a disheveled face. When the person had pulled half their body out, I recognized them as a villager from Matou Village.

The villager pulled a slip of paper from the crack and carefully handed it to me. I opened it to find a message from Ye Yang: "The villagers can be trusted. Follow the message."

I passed the note to Butcher Wang, who frowned. "What are you playing at? Why didn't you say you had this planned beforehand?"

By this point, Butcher Wang had completely figured out Ye Yang's and my plan.

Ye Yang's initial display of trying to guide the ghosts to blow up the secret burial was just a smokescreen. He sent the Wuzhou-enhanced ghosts into the secret burial simply to scout the way.

The ghosts Ye Yang sent out himself naturally knew where they had gone.

A hundred ghosts were like Ye Yang's hundred eyes. He had already seen everything in the secret burial.

Otherwise, Ye Yang wouldn't have entered the secret burial according to our plan.

I laughed. "If I had said so earlier, my plan wouldn't have worked."

Lin Zhao also asked, "You've been with us the whole time. When did you and Ye Yang make this plan?"

"When he was setting up the formation. I was sleeping in the metal shack, and Ye Yang was outside setting up the formation. We were separated by a metal sheet, so it wasn't hard to communicate." As I spoke, I made a gesture for silence.

Soon, Shi Jianhao's voice came from outside. "Did you screw things up?"

I first heard the sound of someone kneeling, then heard Jia Yixiao say, "Commander, let me explain. I originally..."

Shi Jianhao said coldly after listening, "Drag him out and kill him!"

Jia Yixiao shouted, "Commander Jia, if you're going to kill me, at least let me die knowing why!"

Then it dawned on me that Shi Jianhao was the real Jia Yixiao. The person outside claiming to be Jia Yixiao was just his substitute. No wonder I couldn't see the demeanor of a commander in him.

Jia Yixiao said coldly, "This commander spent so long and went to such great lengths to lure Li Po in, but you ruined it with your cleverness. Tell me, shouldn't you die?"

The man said, "I was just trying to get a handle on Li Po!"

"Bullshit!" Jia Yixiao raged. "Li Po has a bottom line, but it's never with Jianghu people. You've seen the information I collected. Don't you know that Li Po never tolerates any nonsense from Jianghu people and will kill at the slightest disagreement?"

"You wanted him to feel guilty? He didn't kill you because he didn't want to get entangled here. You fool!"

"I wanted you to follow Li Po into the secret burial, even if it meant dying with him. What did you do?"

"Drag him out and kill him!"

The man's pleas quickly faded into silence after a scream.

After a long while, I heard someone say, "Commander, I don't understand. Why did you insist on having someone follow Li Po down there?"

Jia Yixiao said, "To make Li Po and Hua Wuxin injure each other severely."

"We've been dealing with Hua Wuxin in Beishui Town for two years, but not only have we failed to subdue him, but we've suffered repeated losses at his hands."

"Li Po's appearance is the perfect opportunity for us to deal with Hua Wuxin."

"For this opportunity, I even gave up the invitation in order to lure Li Po here, but that idiot ruined it."

The man said, "Commander, forgive me for speaking frankly, but I don't see anything special about Li Po. Does he have the ability to go down into the secret burial?"

Jia Yixiao said, "Currently, there are only three people who can be confirmed to be able to descend into the secret burial. Li Po and Ye Yang are two of them."

"The Five Directions Tomb once imprisoned the Greedy Wolf Star; in other words, this place was prepared for the Greedy Wolf Star. The true spirit in the tomb often makes exceptions for those with the Greedy Wolf Star's fate. It won't be hard for them to go down, but it might be difficult to come out."

"Hua Wuxin has been watching the Five Directions Tomb for so long. If someone can go down, he will definitely follow. There's no doubt about that."

The man said, "Commander, should we return to Beishui Town and try from the other side?"

"No! We can wait here!" Jia Yixiao said, "I suspect that Li Po deliberately trapped our men outside Shibu Dao in order to deal with Hua Wuxin." (Shibu Dao: Ten Steps Fall)

"Hua Wuxin's greatest skill is the Soul Shifting Technique. The more living people there are around Li Po, the more advantageous it is for Hua Wuxin. Conversely, the fewer living people there are, the easier it is for him to identify Hua Wuxin's host!"

"I predict that Li Po will go to pick up Ye Yang next, but along the way, he will continue to reduce the number of people with him."

"When he finally sees Ye Yang, he will only have one person left by his side. Hua Wuxin will definitely be that person."

"However, that person may also die by Li Po's hand."

The man exclaimed, "Would Li Po kill the people of Liangjie Tang (Two Worlds Hall) in order to catch Hua Wuxin?"