Then, I subconsciously looked up at the sky: "Who is manipulating the Eight Great Thieves?"

Feng Ruoxing was also horrified, "This is simply divine!"

"According to Lao Liu, the Huangquan Secret Files should come from the underworld. The Eight Great Thieves couldn't have entered the underworld as living beings to steal treasures. Then, their gathering after the God Temple might have been to prepare for cultivating into ghosts and gods."

"The Eight Heroes of the Thieves' Gate have become the Eight Ghosts of the Thieves' Gate!"

I took a deep breath and said, "That's not the scariest part. According to the timeline, they first stole from the Snow Mountain God Temple, cultivated into ghosts and gods, and then went to the underworld to steal the Huangquan Secret Files."

"However, they accurately predicted hundreds of years ago that we would come to the Burial God Snow Mountain, and that I would obtain the Huangquan Secret Files."

"This isn't something the Thieves' Gate is capable of. The person behind the Eight Great Thieves is probably comparable to a god!"

"Just now, I even felt like I was being controlled by a god. Isn't that terrifying?"

Feng Ruoxing's expression also became serious, "I'll contact my master and see who exactly the Eight Great Thieves are. You continue to study Chen Qingyan's letter."

"Okay!" With a bit of seriousness, I continued reading.

Chen Qingyan wrote on the second piece of paper:

I know that after you see this letter, you will definitely be shocked, and you will be extremely curious about the identity of our benefactor.

Do not speculate about the benefactor's identity.

The benefactor has asked us to leave you a way out. If you have obtained the Huangquan Secret Files, you will surely obtain the clues I left behind according to the benefactor's arrangement. The journey to the God Temple is now a third complete.

If there is a greater karma between us, you will naturally come to find me.

We took action to steal from the heavens for the sake of Tanlang!

Chen Qingyan's letter stopped there.

I couldn't help but gasp.

Someone from more than three hundred years ago arranged things for more than three hundred years later. Is that something you can do?

I couldn't help but look at Cang Tianji, only to see that the knuckles of her fingers looked as if they had been cut by a knife, with three cracks opening up, and blood flowing freely.

Cang Tianji trembled, "The pinnacle of man and god!"

Confused, I casually asked, "What do you mean?"

"He... *噗—*" Cang Tianji spat out a mouthful of blood after saying just one word.

Shocked, I acted quickly to seal Cang Tianji's acupoints, suppressing her internal injuries. Ye Yang pressed against Cang Tianji's back, continuously channeling true qi into her body.

Cang Tianji took a breath and said, "Don't save me! The other party is a *ming shi* (fate master), his karma is connected to me. If you save me, you will be tainted with the karma of the Eight Great Thieves, and you will never be able to get out."

"Stop talking nonsense!" I forcibly interrupted Cang Tianji and stuffed a pill into her mouth, "Eat it quickly. If you don't eat it, I'll choke you and force it down."

The secret medicine jointly refined by Yun Chang and Hei Ye Xiao already exceeded the efficacy of the sect's elixirs. Although it couldn't bring the dead back to life, it was more than enough to suppress internal injuries. After a while, Cang Tianji spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood, and her complexion improved a lot.

Cang Tianji stared straight into my eyes, "Why save me? Aren't you the most afraid of trouble?"

"We met by chance, and have faced life and death together." I smiled, "If those eight words aren't enough, I can only say that I owe you for promising to protect Ye Yang and let him leave first in Qingyan Village."

"Is it really that simple?" Cang Tianji wasn't asking me, but murmuring to herself.

I laughed, "Why make the martial world so complicated?"

"I admit that the martial world is full of treachery and deception, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that nine out of ten people are ghosts. But sometimes, martial artists do things more simply than anyone thinks."

Cang Tianji said in a low voice, "Is this what it means to be a *jianghu* (martial world) hero?"

"Haha..." I laughed, "I'm not a hero. Demons, ghosts, and monsters, *Tian Gang Di Sha* (Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends) might be more suitable for me."

Cang Tianji looked at me with a puzzled expression, "You're clearly not someone from the evil path, and you have a bottom line in your actions. Why do you keep belittling yourself?"

Cang Tianji had really stumped me. In fact, my character had always been influenced by my master—he was somewhat resistant to the word "chivalry," but he still couldn't change his habit of acting chivalrously.

My attitude towards chivalry is the same as his.

Cang Tianji said in a low voice, "There's something I've never told you. The reason why Qu Mo went into seclusion from the *jianghu* (martial world) back then was because he had a love-hate entanglement with the Holy Maiden of the Reincarnation Division."

"Qu Mo's disappearance is very likely to be at the Yin-Yang Inn. The experts of the Reincarnation Division's Guardian Three Halls are also searching for the Yin-Yang Inn."

I said urgently, "Where is my master?"

Cang Tianji shook her head, "The Guardian Three Halls have been searching for Qu Mo for three years, but they haven't found Qu Mo's whereabouts, nor have they found the Yin-Yang Inn. Ling has also been tracking the Yin-Yang Inn recently. I believe it won't be long before Ling finds news of the inn."

"Moreover, the Reincarnation Division's purpose in looking for you this time may be partly to try to find Qu Mo through you."

Hearing this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief: It's a good thing my master hasn't encountered the Reincarnation Division, otherwise, he might really be outnumbered.

I said in a deep voice, "What's the story of the emotional entanglement between the Reincarnation Division's Holy Maiden and my master?"