Cai Wenyan knew he was done for! He simply resorted to a torrent of abuse!

To submit in humiliation and hand over the Life-Stealing Coins wouldn't get him past this pass.

To refuse to hand them over would thoroughly offend Du Song. It was only because Du Song hadn't reacted immediately that he hadn't acted. Once he realized he only needed to capture, not kill, Cai Wenyan to seize the Life-Stealing Coins, Cai Wenyan was still doomed.

Cai Wenyan understood clearly that only by thoroughly enraging Du Song, rendering him incapable of thought, would he have a chance to escape.

Du Song, exposed and repeatedly humiliated in front of so many people by a subordinate who usually obeyed his every word, his old face turned red and white in patches, his teeth gnashing, completely forgetting that capturing Cai Wenyan was the shortcut to solving the problem.

I saw everything but said nothing.

Because I, too, was waiting for Cai Wenyan to create a chance for me to turn the tables.

While Cai Wenyan verbally abused Du Song, his feet were moving outwards. After taking two steps, he suddenly pointed at Wen Yiliao: "And you, Wen Yiliao."

"A dignified Xuanmen (Mystic School) successor, with a bright future ahead of you, yet you willingly became Zhu Zining's lickspittle, ruining your reputation."

"Even more ridiculous, you weren't content with being deceived once, you had to eagerly offer yourself up for another round. Are you even a man?"

"Shut up!" Du Song roared, "How dare you insult the Holy Maiden? Who gave you the courage?"

"What if I do?" Cai Wenyan turned abruptly. "Who here doesn't want to curse that white lotus? You...and you..."

Cai Wenyan pointed at a Reincarnation Division disciple, taking a few steps towards him. The disciple's face turned ashen with fright, and he hid to one side. "Don't talk nonsense...I..."

Before the disciple could finish, Cai Wenyan suddenly exerted force, using the Eight-Step Cicada Catching technique, heading straight for the nearest pass: "I'm leaving, you can all wait to die!"

"Chase him!" Only now did Du Song realize he'd been played by Cai Wenyan, and he roared in exasperation, "Chase him, capture Cai Wenyan alive. I'll personally tear out his tongue."

Before the Reincarnation Division disciples could react, the Life-Ruling Ghost God said slowly, "Anyone who moves, dies!"

Du Song stamped his foot in frustration: "Your Excellency, you haven't seen..."

The Life-Ruling Ghost God raised a hand to stop Du Song: "I'll say it one last time, as gambling chips, you should have the awareness of gambling chips. Letting you speak just now was merely a little amusement for me. Don't mistake my amusement for benevolence."

"I'm not bored enough to arbitrate a dispute between gambling chips."

Du Song was flushed with humiliation but dared not speak again.

The Life-Ruling Ghost God looked at me: "Li Po, you wouldn't mind a dice falling off the table, would you?"

I said calmly, "The result is determined by where it lands; that's the rule of the gambling table. Cai Wenyan escaping is my responsibility."

The Life-Ruling Ghost God was comparing Cai Wenyan to a die that had jumped out of the bowl.

In the past, when playing dice games, three dice were thrown into a bowl to determine the size of the score. Sometimes, the dice would easily jump out of the bowl.

To avoid someone deliberately throwing the dice out, gamblers wouldn't allow the other person to throw again. Either the result was determined by where the die landed, or they simply forfeited.

Responding to him according to the rules of the gambling table was a calculated move on my part.

Among everyone present, the greatest threat to me was Du Song.

Since Cai Wenyan had stolen his fate, why shouldn't I risk my own life and gamble with them, using Cai Wenyan to kill Du Song?

I had already figured out Du Song's nature; he was someone who would rather drag others down with him than cooperate with them to survive when the chips were down.

In that case, I had to seize every opportunity to kill him.

The Life-Ruling Ghost God gave a thumbs-up: "Not bad!"

The Life-Ruling Ghost God's expression clearly showed that he had seen through my intentions, but he didn't seem to want to expose me. Instead, he said with a smile, "Later, I'll catch him again, and we'll just use him as a gambling chip. Anyway, he can steal fates, so we might as well play with him a few more times."

In the short time it took for us to exchange a few words, Cai Wenyan had already disappeared without a trace. Du Song behind me suddenly screamed and fell to his knees. When I turned to look, one of Du Song's legs had been completely broken from the knee, his toes pointing upwards in front of him.

Cai Wenyan was already in danger.

The leg that Du Song had broken should have been broken on Cai Wenyan's body.

Could those three Life-Stealing Coins also have the effect of a substitute puppet?

While I was still frowning, the Life-Ruling Ghost God suddenly erupted with killing intent: "You're concealing heavenly secrets, letting people cut off my retreat?"

Was the Life-Ruling Ghost God talking to Cang Tianji?

In an instant, I understood the key point:

Cang Tianji was definitely not an ordinary person to have become a leader. Before the appearance of the Life-Ruling Ghost God, she hadn't shown the timid appearance she had later.

She had been creating the illusion that she didn't dare to speak lightly about the mandate of heaven in order to confuse him and conceal the heavenly secrets of Ye Yang and Feng Ruohang sneaking into the depths of Qingyan Village.

If I wasn't mistaken, the Life-Ruling Ghost God had already arranged for someone in the village to intercept Ye Yang and Feng Ruohang. Cang Tianji was using the numbers to make the other party think that Ye Yang and the others had already died in battle, thus creating an opportunity for Ye Yang to strike directly at the heart of the matter.

Well done, Cang Tianji!

She could actually hide the heavenly numbers!