A drumbeat echoed, and the faces of the Reincarnation Department disciples grew even paler.

According to ancient execution customs, the three death-urging drumbeats were each shorter than the last. After the third beat, heads would roll.

A one in forty chance wasn’t easy to come by, but nobody wanted to be the chosen one.

Cang Tianji's fingers were still moving rapidly. Some people were already impatient. "Have you figured it out yet? Hurry up!"

Han Liangzhe roared, "Stand properly and shut your mouths!"

"Kill!" As I uttered a cold shout, Ye Yang's long sword instantly sealed the throat of the Reincarnation Department disciple who had questioned Cang Tianji. The man's eyes were still wide open as he died. He couldn't believe that we would kill members of the Reincarnation Department so readily, without any hesitation.

Han Liangzhe wanted to speak, but swallowed the words at the last moment.

A Reincarnation Department disciple angrily said, "You are so overbearing..."

Before he could finish, Ye Yang pierced him with a single sword.

I stepped forward and coldly asked, "Who else wants to speak? Step forward and say it!"

The Reincarnation Department disciples all looked at Han Liangzhe, but he stood there motionless. He didn't speak, and no one dared to say anything else.

I said in a deep voice, "Since none of you will speak, then I will say a few words."

"I kill to save people. None of you want to die, so someone has to figure out the secrets of the ghost and god's scheme. Anyone who disturbs the diviner's calculations is taking the lives of others."

"I am also one of the forty. I will not risk my own life to silence others."

"Anyone who dares to disturb the diviner's calculations again, I will kill."

As I spoke, my eyes revealed a murderous intent, sweeping over everyone's faces. Those who met my gaze either avoided it or lowered their heads, not daring to look at me.

As I looked towards Cang Tianji, the second knock came. This time, the knocking was more urgent, as if an emissary from the netherworld was rushing towards the courtyard.

Only when a foot was already on the doorstep did it suddenly stop, silently waiting at the door for the third drumbeat to sound, waiting for someone to die.

Everyone knew that this kind of horror, of being spied on from outside the door, was just an illusion born of fear, but no one could suppress that fear.

Cang Tianji slightly opened his eyes and pointed to a Reincarnation Department expert. "The first to die is him! Death by shattered skull!"

Han Liangzhe beckoned, "Come here, I'll help you find a way..."

The man that Cang Tianji pointed to was one of the few in the room who didn't have the aura of death about him. Judging by his cultivation, his status was not as high as Han Liangzhe's, but it wouldn't be too far off.

Before Han Liangzhe could finish speaking, the man suddenly raged, "You're talking nonsense!"

"If my head is shattered, what secret technique can you use to revive me?"

"Don't think I don't know what you're planning. You just want to use our lives to pave the way for yourself, right? You want us to die one by one, so you can figure out the flaws of the ghosts and gods. You want to use me as cannon fodder? Screw you!"

In fact, that man was only half right. There was indeed someone on our side who had such thoughts.

However, the one harboring such thoughts was me, not Han Liangzhe.

Han Liangzhe's face instantly turned ashen, but the man shouted, "I don't believe it. I don't believe we can't defeat a ghost and god."

The man waved his hand and shouted, "Those who want to live, follow me!" He was the first to rush towards the door.

Just as several experts who had been moved by his words were about to act, they heard Cang Tianji say, "Look at his shadow!"

The Reincarnation Department expert was running wildly at the door, but the shadow he cast on the wall left his head behind, and only a headless black shadow ran out.

The disciples who originally wanted to break through the door with him were so frightened that they didn't dare to move.

However, the man took a step and rushed to the door, slamming both fists against it. The wooden door, shattered by the gang qi (internal energy), carried a whistling sound and flew several meters away. The Reincarnation Department expert also confronted the corpse outside the door.

Separated by a person, I could only see half of the corpse's body.

After being hit twice, the dead body blocking the door was covered in arrows and shattered pieces of wood. At first glance, it was covered in wounds. Other than being able to stand in place, it would probably be difficult to even move.

The man at the door seemed to have gone crazy. He stood there and laughed wildly, "I've smashed the door, I'd like to see how you knock now? See how you call for death!"

Before the man's laughter faded, the real drum sound suddenly rang out in Shuangji Town. The drumbeat grew from light to heavy, becoming more and more urgent, and even more soul-stirring.

The drumbeat stopped abruptly when it reached its peak.

The Reincarnation Department expert standing at the door also let out a strange cry and punched the corpse blocking the door.

I heard a loud bang, and the man's head exploded on the spot. Two headless corpses fell to the ground at the same time.

The man must have been terrified, and with a punch, he shattered the corpse's head, but his own head also exploded at that moment.

I suddenly turned my head to look at the shadow on the wall.

The black shadow in the shape of a human head was still on the wall, hanging there as if it were a public display of a severed head.