I understood Lin Zhao's meaning. She was saying that Xue Li Hong must be using the resentment on the female corpse to forcibly open the passage to Erlin Town.

I had Mei Zi kill the matchmaker, which was equivalent to letting Mei Zi vent part of her resentment. Her baleful aura weakened. Could she still open the passage to Erlin Town?

I waved my hand and said, "Xue Li Hong is still inside Erlin Town. Grievances have origins, debts have debtors. The person these resentful ghosts hate the most is still Xue Li Hong. As long as he's there, the resentful ghosts can still tear open the passage."

While I was talking to Lin Zhao, the bride ghost Mei Zi had already stood up from the bushes, covered in phosphorescent flames.

The girl who had torn the matchmaker into pieces like a wolf a moment ago was now much quieter. She stood motionless by the roadside, facing us. I didn't know if she could see me.

I stared at Mei Zi for a long time before saying, "The reason I came to find you is to take you back and help me open the passage to Erlin Town. Are you willing to come back with me?"

Mei Zi just nodded silently. I continued, "Are you going to follow me, or should I help you bring your coffin back?"

Mei Zi said faintly, "You go to Hat Mountain. I'll find the others and look for you tomorrow night."

"Beneath Hat Mountain, I'll be waiting for you!" As I nodded, Mei Zi slowly disappeared from my sight.

My car was a write-off. I could only walk back to the hotel. Lin Zhao couldn't help but say softly on the way, "Li Po, isn't your deal with Mei Zi... isn't it too hasty?"

I replied, "Are you saying that there are a few things I haven't figured out before I made a deal with her, right?"

"Who dug Mei Zi out and sent her back to Zao Mu Village? And why was she sent back?"

"After Mei Zi returned to Zao Mu Village and took revenge by killing people, why didn't she touch the matchmaker?"

"Mei Zi is a resentful ghost. Resentful ghosts are most likely to kill indiscriminately, but she hasn't shown herself again for decades. She only appeared after we came to Zao Mu Village."

"These are all inexplicable doubts, am I right?"

Lin Zhao nodded, "Yes! You didn't ask about any of this and made a deal with Mei Zi. Aren't you afraid of being tricked?"

I said, "There's no need to ask about these things. We can roughly deduce them."

"After Xue Li Hong killed and buried the bodies, restarting the Nine Graves Gulch, he took his men into Erlin Town. The corpses in the Nine Graves Gulch had to be cleared away."

"We've already deduced that the nine female corpses relied on a vengeful aura to tear open the space leading to Erlin Town. So as long as Xue Li Hong is still in Erlin Town, they will definitely try to find him by any means."

"In that case, the passage to the forbidden land of ghosts and gods will never be closed, or rather, it will have to be opened every so often. Xue Li Hong doesn't want to see such a result, and the ghosts and gods in the forbidden land don't want such a thing to happen either. Therefore, their coffins must be sent away."

"The person who sent away the nine corpses back then was either Xue Li Hong himself or his fellow disciples. The other party sent the corpses back to their original places in order to dissolve part of the resentment on their bodies."

"Take Mei Zi as an example. Xue Li Hong did indeed do something like buying life with money back then. However, he didn't specify who to kill. The person who really killed Mei Zi was the villager of Zao Mu Village."

"If we're talking about hatred, Mei Zi might hate the villagers who killed her with their own hands even more. After the village is massacred, most of the resentment on her body will disappear, and she will become an unjustly dead soul that is easier to suppress."

"In this way, the other party can easily suppress Mei Zi. That's why the other party hasn't come out all this time. If it weren't for Ye Yang's Yin Attraction, Mei Zi still wouldn't have come out."

"Didn't you notice that when Mei Zi first came out, the resentment on her body wasn't as strong as it is now? At that time, she followed us and didn't even have the ability to attack. She only really turned into a resentful ghost when the matchmaker brought up the old story and told the truth about what happened back then."

"So, there's no need to ask about some things. It's enough to achieve the goal."

Lin Zhao lowered her head and said, "What you said is fine, but I always feel like something's wrong!"

I waved my hand and said, "Don't think so much. Besides, even if there's something fishy, so what? When soldiers come, we'll block them; when water comes, we'll dam it. Isn't that how the martial world is?"

"You..." Lin Zhao looked at my face and stopped talking.

Ye Yang stopped at this moment and said, "I want to go to Hat Mountain to take a look first."

"Alright!" I knew the location of Hat Mountain. It wasn't too far from us. Before dawn, we arrived at Hat Mountain. The rising sun just happened to be reflected on the top of the mountain.

The red sun held up on the top of the mountain and the sunlight flowing down from the mountain illuminated the entire hill into a poinsettia top. Who would have known how many people's blood had dyed this hat red back then?

After Ye Yang went up the mountain, he went straight to the top: "This place should be where the old master of that family was buried back then. What do you think that bandit Yizhenfeng saw in the coffin back then that scared him into burying the coffin?"