Cang Tianji's voice sank. "Only when a person is free from the control of fate, ghosts and gods, and the world, and no longer enters reincarnation, can he be considered to have truly erased his traces in the world."

"The Destiny Plate in Qingyan Village is, in fact, fate. After we shattered fate, we encountered the Land of Ghosts and Gods, which is the second step in breaking free from fate: seizing life from the hands of ghosts and gods."

Cang Tianji said, "I forcibly deduced the past just now and saw that after the Eight Great Thieves stole the secret treasures, they broke their own fates. However, they also left the secret treasures outside the snow mountain."

"If we follow the order in which the secret treasures are arranged and move forward, it should be a process of breaking fate."

I said in a deep voice, "I understand. The Eight Great Thieves stole the Demon God's secret treasures, but they have never escaped the Demon God's pursuit. They need someone to go up the mountain to slay the god."

"However, since the secret treasures were stolen, the Demon God has never allowed anyone to climb the mountain. Any living person who goes up the mountain will surely die. Only those who have broken their fate can approach the Demon God."

"Therefore, the Eight Great Thieves left four secret treasures halfway, in order to allow people to break their fate and kill the Demon God."

My voice paused. "Perhaps Ye Family Ancestor, Ye Qianyang, was also a fate-breaker."

"If I'm not mistaken, when Ye Qianyang went up the mountain, the Eight Great Thieves knew that he had no intention of slaying the demon, so they deliberately let him go up the mountain to use him to avoid the Demon God's pursuit."

"They also guessed that Ye Qianyang's descendants would definitely come back to slay the god, so they deliberately left the fate-breaking secret treasures, leading us step by step to break our fate in order to approach the Demon God."

Feng Ruoxing nodded. "From what we can see now, that is indeed the case. People in the Thief Sect are all about profit. They can leave the secret treasures behind only if it benefits them."

"I suspect that Bai Shou Zhang (Hundred-Handed Zhang) that we saw is also one of the Eight Great Thieves. The villagers in Qingyan Village are not descendants of Chen Qingyan, but like Zhang Bufan, they were adopted by the Eight Great Thieves. It's just that Chen Qingyan gave them the identity of his sons, not his disciples."

Having said that, Feng Ruoxing suddenly said, "That's not right! Didn't you take a detour? We should be about fifty *li* away from the next treasure location. How could we encounter the second trap of the Eight Great Thieves?"

I took a deep breath and said, "Actually, I've always had a suspicion, but I've never wanted to admit it."

"Now, I have to admit that there is a traitor in Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall)!"

"What?" Feng Ruoxing's face changed drastically. "Who?"

Feng Ruoxing was filled with pain and horror. She didn't believe, and didn't want to believe, that there would be a traitor among the brothers and sisters of Liangjie Tang with whom she had spent so much time.

Ye Yang also subconsciously said, "You wouldn't be mistaken, would you?"

I shook my head. "If possible, I would also hope that I'm mistaken."

"Lao Liu made arrangements for us to enter Burial God Snow Mountain in a roundabout way, actually to allow us to come into contact with the four secret treasures. But he has never been willing to tell me why he made such arrangements. It's because he was guarding against the people around him."

"Lao Liu calculated that after we came out of Qingyan Village, we would definitely change direction, so he deliberately drew the wrong location to allow us to enter the next treasure location without interference."

"If we had followed Lao Liu's original route, we should have already stepped into the encirclement of the Reincarnation Department."

Feng Ruoxing bit her lip tightly and squeezed out a word between her teeth, "Who?"

"Zhao Ci!" I said helplessly, "In the entire Liangjie Tang, the only people that Lao Liu would be so wary of are Zhao Ci and Hei Ye Xiao (Black Night Owl)."

"Hei Ye Xiao has no reason to betray Liangjie Tang. Zhao Ci has a sufficient reason, and that is Zhao Yuezhu!"

I said in a deep voice, "Zhao Yuezhu is a Yellow Spring stowaway and also a target that the Reincarnation Department must kill. Last time, Lao Liu used Cang Tianji to help Zhao Yuezhu avoid a crisis, but that didn't completely reassure Zhao Ci."

"Zhao Ci doesn't say it on the surface, but he must be secretly worried about Zhao Yuezhu."

"If we had never confronted the Reincarnation Department, it would have been fine. But now that we are facing the Reincarnation Department head-on, it is equivalent to personally shattering the last bit of luck in Zhao Ci's heart."

"With Zhao Ci's character, he wouldn't believe that our Liangjie Tang could escape the pursuit of the Reincarnation Department."

"In order to protect Zhao Yuezhu, he would inevitably choose to trade with the Reincarnation Department and betray Liangjie Tang."

I stopped here, and my mood was also indescribable.

Zhao Ci had always been reclusive in Liangjie Tang. Furthermore, Zhao Yuezhu and those of us addressed each other as brothers and sisters, so his seniority was naturally one generation higher than ours, and it was inconvenient for him to mingle with us. In terms of feelings, he was indeed not as close to us younger ones.

However, Zhao Ci sat in a wheelchair, smiling, watching us bickering and joking, adding a sense of home to Liangjie Tang.

It was like a kind old father enjoying the happiness brought to him by his children. Of course, this kind of fatherly love only belonged to Zhao Yuezhu. Between us, it was only a kind of uncle-nephew relationship.

Feng Ruoxing hesitated for a long time before asking in a low voice, "What are you going to do?"