Now, only Lin Zhao was left following behind me.

Lin Zhao said as she walked, "Are you thinking of leaving me behind too?"

"Stay here!" I said in a deep voice, "Beyond this point should be the core of the secret burial. Hua Wuxin has a strange habit of not accepting female bodies. He would never choose a woman as the target for his soul transfer."

Lin Zhao stopped in her tracks. "You're trying to trick me!"

"If it's really as you say, you should bring us all in. Then the target..."

Lin Zhao couldn't continue.

I smiled faintly, "You girls seem carefree and like you don't care about anything, but you're all more sentimental than anyone else. If either I or Ye Yang were to die, would you be able to kill me, or would you be able to kill Ye Yang?"

"You wouldn't be able to do it, and you wouldn't be able to stand seeing us brothers kill each other. When you're in a dilemma, you won't be able to make a ruthless decision, and we'll all die in the secret burial."

"Some things have to be done by someone!"

Lin Zhao called out from behind, "Can you bring yourself to kill Ye Yang?"

I paused for a moment before saying, "That dog has too many secrets. Maybe he won't be possessed by Hua Wuxin?"

As soon as I finished speaking, I quickened my pace and headed straight for the last marker left by Ye Yang.

From the outside, that place was just a crack in the mountain, but the marker Ye Yang left stopped at the edge of the crevice.

After squeezing through the crack sideways, I saw Ye Yang standing on a platform protruding from the mountainside.

Below the platform were spaces divided by earthen walls. This was indeed a prison.

Ye Yang stood motionless at the edge of the platform. I walked up behind him and said, "You led me here to tell me what?"

The reason I didn't let Wang Tu Fu and the others in was because I understood the secret message Ye Yang left for me: "Come alone!"

Ye Yang wanted to see me alone in the secret burial!

This wasn't like Ye Yang's style.

We people from Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall) all have secrets, yet we have no secrets.

Because as long as I ask, anyone will tell the other the secrets hidden in their heart.

Did Ye Yang not let me bring Wang Tu Fu and the others down here because it was his own intention, or because he had already become Hua Wuxin?

Ye Yang said in a low voice, "This is the secret burial left by Jiu Guan Daoren (Nine Coffin Taoist)!"

"The Wu script on the stone pillars outside is both the incantation to open the underground secret burial and a message he left for himself."

"No one but Jiu Guan Daoren himself can open this secret burial."

After I came down from the snow mountain, I also had Lao Liu inquire about the past of Jiu Guan Daoren.

Lao Liu only gave me eight words: "Xiuwei Tongxuan, Xuejiu Tianren (Cultivation Profound, Knowledge of Heaven and Man)."

Jiu Guan Daoren's cultivation was needless to say, but more importantly, Jiu Guan Daoren's knowledge was extremely broad.

Once Jiu Guan Daoren became interested in something, he wanted to be the best in the world. Jiu Guan Daoren traveled the world, and he probably couldn't even count how many times he was the best.

The second-generation disciples of the Coffin Gate no longer had such amazing talents, precisely because his ten great disciples each only inherited one of his unique skills, which led to the later eight veins of the coffin.

I stood behind Ye Yang and said, "You asked me to come here alone to tell me what?"

Ye Yang said, "Jiu Guan Daoren buried an unparalleled puppet down here! As a backup plan for his failed reincarnation, that puppet, should I take it?"

I frowned, "What do you mean?"

Ye Yang explained, "The reason why Jiu Guan Daoren was able to dominate the art world and create the Coffin Gate was actually closely related to his physique."

"The biggest reason why he wanted to be reincarnated but didn't choose to be reborn was because he wanted to take away his special physique."

"However, Jiu Guan Daoren also understood that the reincarnation secret technique was not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao and the Yin Division. He himself was not fully confident in successfully reincarnating. Therefore, before reincarnating, he collected materials to create a puppet for himself to inhabit."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and said, "What materials are you talking about?"

"Guishen Gu (Ghost God Bones)!" Ye Yang said, "Humans have two hundred and six bones, so he killed two hundred and six ghost gods. He extracted the most powerful bone from each ghost god and pieced together a perfect skeleton."

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "The Bai Zhou (Daytime) and Zi Ye (Midnight) on your body are actually the materials left over from when he killed ghost gods and pieced together bones."

"Jiu Guan Daoren only created the black and white double blades on a whim."

Ye Yang ignored my shock and continued, "More than two hundred ghost gods are just bones. That doesn't even include the ghost gods consumed by the muscles, facial features, internal organs, and skin."

"According to Jiu Guan Daoren, after his reincarnation failed, he should have come over and transferred his soul into that puppet."

"However, Jiu Guan Daoren has never been to this secret burial!"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean by asking if I should take that puppet?"

Ye Yang said, "If I transfer my soul to that puppet, maybe I can break the curse on my body."

I was immediately dumbfounded!