Old Liu planted a nail, but no one knew from whose foot it would emerge first.

Everyone was advancing towards their target according to the original plan. I said on the way, "Feng Ruoxing, do you think the Hundred-Hand Zhang in our dream is one of the Eight Great Thieves, or a ghost disguised?"

Feng Ruoxing pondered, "I'm more inclined to think he's one of the Eight Great Thieves."

"The Eight Great Thieves' goal is to get us close to the demon god after we break our fate. That dream should be some kind of hint they left behind..."

Feng Ruoxing paused slightly, "Since Hundred-Hand Zhang has already given us a hint, why not make it a clear indication?"

Cang Tianji said, "Warlocks can most easily see the heavenly secrets, but they are also the most difficult to grasp. Once Hundred-Hand Zhang leaves you with a clear indication, the result is easily tampered with by ghosts and gods. A hint is a more correct approach."

"Clay figure!" I recalled the clay figure in the temple, "The next ghost god is different from the fate-controlling ghost god in Qingyan Village. He cannot directly control other people's fate, but can only extract people's lifespans and place them elsewhere."

"This method is like a wizard's curse, but it's different. He uses other things to control people's life and death."

"What Hundred-Hand Zhang did back then should be the same as the ghost god. He extracted Zhang Bufan's lifespan in advance and placed it on the clay figure."

"Zhang Bufan has no fate, so the ghost god naturally can't control his life and death."

As I was speaking, I suddenly felt a chill on my neck, as if someone was holding a knife to my throat.

I subconsciously reached out and touched my neck, and found a hand full of blood.

"Back to the Mountain God Temple!" I turned around and ran back.

I didn't have time to explain, but Feng Ruoxing and Ye Yang could see that someone had tampered with my clay sculpture.

I gave up the clay figure at the time, also out of necessity.

Although the clay figure had taken shape, the surface clay wasn't dry. If I wanted to take the clay figure away, I would inevitably have to touch its body. At that time, no one could predict what would happen.

Moreover, I am now competing with ghosts and gods. Guarding the clay figure would trap me in the Mountain God Temple, waiting for the other party to attack. Being passively beaten, no matter how I defend, it's hard to avoid making mistakes.

That's why I left the Mountain God Temple without hesitation at the time.

But I didn't expect that someone would touch my clay sculpture as soon as I left.

While I was still leaping and rising, I saw from a distance that the disciples of the Reincarnation Division had surrounded the Mountain God Temple. Someone was holding a long knife, standing behind the clay sculpture, aiming the blade at the clay sculpture's neck as if preparing to behead it.

I was too far away from the opponent to stop them in time.

Ye Yang's voice came from afar, "Whoever moves the clay figure, I will destroy their nine generations of relatives!"

Standing in the open space, Han Liangzhe sneered and waved his hand. The Reincarnation Division disciple raised his knife and beheaded the clay figure representing me with one stroke.

I only felt a chill in my heart, and stood there rooted to the spot.

In the next moment, Ye Yang stood behind me and covered my neck with his hand. I could clearly feel Ye Yang's hand shaking.

I didn't know if I was beheaded.

I've heard a legend about executioners, which says that the last prisoner beheaded by a famous executioner was his own son.

Before beheading the prisoner, the man asked the supervisor: after he beheaded the prisoner with one stroke, please allow him to collect the body immediately.

Considering that the other party had been beheading prisoners for the government all his life, the supervisor agreed to his request.

The executioner swung his ghost-head knife the moment the fire sign fell. Everyone saw the ghost-head knife sweep across the prisoner's neck, but the head didn't fall to the ground.

The executioner threw away the ghost-head knife and rushed forward to cover the prisoner's neck with his hand, and asked his apprentice to take a piece of white cloth from the side and wrap it around the prisoner's neck several times, until the white cloth was knotted tightly, and the prisoner's blood seeped out of the white cloth.

The executioner took the prisoner's body back home, but his apprentice informed the supervisor, saying that the executioner's knife did not cut the prisoner's neck, but used a trick to make people think that the knife had cut through the neck.

Later, he deliberately covered the prisoner's neck with his hand, and wrapped the prisoner's wound with a white cloth, just to prevent others from seeing that there was no wound on the prisoner's neck. As for the blood on the white cloth, it was all a trick played by the executioner.

The supervisor thought more and more that what the informer said was right.

He immediately sent someone to arrest the executioner, but unexpectedly, the bailiffs found nothing at the executioner's home.

The apprentice who informed again said: the executioner will definitely not abscond with people during the day, he will definitely come out at night. As long as you ambush at the gate of the city, you will definitely be able to stop him.

The supervisor thought it made sense, so he set up an ambush again.

Sure enough, the executioner was stopped at the gate of the city just after midnight. The supervisor ignored the executioner's bitter pleas and forcibly removed the white cloth from the prisoner's neck. The prisoner's head fell to the ground on the spot.

The executioner held the head and cried bitterly, and also explained the reason.

Among the executioner's secret methods, there is a way to "reconnect the severed head". To reconnect the severed head, first, the prisoner's head must not fall to the ground, second, you must not mention to anyone that you have used the secret method, and third, you must arrive at a deserted place before midnight.

His apprentice went to inform because he was resentful that he had not taught him the secret method of "reconnecting the severed head."

After the executioner finished speaking, he sternly asked his apprentice: "You know this secret method, why didn't I teach it to you?"