Han Liangzhe looked at me with a half-smile and said, "According to Hall Master Li's consistent style, there's a 70% chance he'll compromise for Ye Yang's sake. Of course, you could also say we're cooperating to break the situation."

"However, I've never liked cooperating with people. I only like having everything in my own hands."

"Wouldn't it be better if you surrendered and then we joined forces to leave this place?"

My face immediately darkened. Han Liangzhe said, "I can give you some time to consider."

"Five minutes!"

Han Liangzhe was talking to me, but the knife in his hand never left the flagpole!

I didn't move, but my eyes and ears were constantly trying to detect the movements of the Samsara Division. Most of the Samsara Division's forces were concentrated near me, but the remaining five or six people didn't come over.

They went to find Ye Yang!

I wonder if Ye Yang will be okay?

While I was still worried about Ye Yang, the Samsara Division's forces had quietly approached the courtyard where Ye Yang was hiding.

The two leading men pushed the door open. One of them suddenly swept his long knife horizontally in front of him, striking sideways, the blade extending out of the door.

The man's strike was to test whether anyone was at the door. He didn't know that his knife actually brushed past Feng Ruoxing's nose. However, Feng Ruoxing, hiding at the door, didn't move, so he ignored the assassin hiding there.

After withdrawing his knife, the man and his companion immediately separated to the left and right, making way for the people behind them.

But before he could steady himself, Feng Ruoxing covered his mouth from behind, and in the next second, Feng Ruoxing's short blade slowly slid across the man's throat.

At the moment when the blood gushed out of the man's throat, blood also spurted out from the other side of the door.

Feng Ruoxing was slightly stunned when she saw the blood spurting from the side of the door.

She was sure that there was no one else ambushing the Samsara Division near her, so how could that person have been killed with a single strike to the throat?

Before Feng Ruoxing could recover from her shock, she heard four muffled sounds coming from outside the courtyard. She quickly turned around and glanced outside the door.

The four experts of the Samsara Division were all plastered against the wall in an instant, the blood behind them having dyed half of the earthen wall red.

Those four people were not weak in cultivation, but in the blink of an eye, they had been slammed into the wall alive, not only dying on the spot, but even having their corpses stuck in the wall, unable to fall down.

Shocked, Feng Ruoxing turned around and rushed back into the room, her gaze passing over Ye Yang and landing on a cotton quilt.

That cotton quilt had been placed on the heated kang since we came in. Although the position of the quilt hadn't changed, it was slightly raised, looking as if someone was curled up under the quilt, hiding next to Ye Yang.

The phenomenon of ghosts crawling into quilts usually occurs around the beginning of winter. Lonely, wandering ghosts who lack clothes and warmth will crawl into people's quilts because they are too cold. Some ghosts can even crawl into people's arms for warmth.

Therefore, in the Northeast, when winter comes, as long as no one is sleeping, the cotton quilts are folded up to avoid attracting wild ghosts.

Of course, wild ghosts don't crawl into quilts to harm people, but just to keep warm. Over time, they can find a way to make people see them.

When the owner of the house inadvertently catches a glimpse of a figure on the kang from the corner of their eye, it means that a ghost has climbed onto the kang. At that time, burning a cotton coat and some paper money can send the ghost away.

Feng Ruoxing didn't believe that it was a wild ghost crawling onto the kang to keep warm. She immediately stepped forward, used the tip of her knife to lift a corner of the quilt, and slowly lifted it up.

Feng Ruoxing thought she would see a person's face poking out from under the quilt, but she didn't expect that a patch of phosphorescence would scatter out from under the cotton quilt.

Was the ghost that infiltrated the house killed?

Feng Ruoxing then realized that the person who had been helping us in the dark had also entered Shuangji Town.

He had struck outside, killing four disciples of the Samsara Division, and taking advantage of Feng Ruoxing's departure, he had stepped into the house and killed the ghost, protecting Ye Yang.

Ordinary ghosts could not have crossed Feng Ruoxing and sneaked into the house. The person killed was probably Pu Yi.

Feng Ruoxing put the short blade back into its sheath, and with her left hand, she used her sword to cut open Ye Yang's clothes, the blade heading straight for the black snake's neck on Ye Yang's chest.

The edge of the Dragon Bone sword cut through Ye Yang's skin, sinking down less than half an inch, and then the black snake on his chest, as if its neck was really being pressed by the knife, suddenly broke free from Ye Yang's chest and raised its head.

Feng Ruoxing's empty right hand formed a claw, arriving like lightning, pinching the black snake's neck, and forcibly pulling him off of Ye Yang's body.

Ye Yang suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, "Stupid dog, did you make a move?"

"I don't know yet!" Feng Ruoxing crushed the black snake with her fingers: "We're going to find Cang Tianji. Hopefully, she can understand Li Po's hint!"

Feng Ruoxing shook off the phosphorescence on her hand: "How are your injuries? Can you still fight?"

Ye Yang flew out of the room, leaping and said, "It seemed like someone was using the power of ghosts and gods to heal me just now, but I didn't see who it was? The person helping us in the dark is a ghost god."

"When did we have any contact with ghost gods?"