The palm of Cang Tianji’s hand, gripping the blind cane, tightened slightly. "Then how do you want to understand karma?"

Old Liu laughed, "Hanba, you’ve already got her. So, shouldn’t you pay us what you owe us? Of course, this isn't a transaction, but compensation for breaking the agreement."

Cang Tianji took a deep breath and took a brocade box from his subordinate. "Okay, this contains a map of the cursed land of the Demon Gods. As for the debts owed to Ye Yang and Li Po, I will have someone fulfill them when they return."

Old Liu said, "Commander Tianji is indeed a straightforward man. Take Hanba away!"

Just as Butcher Wang was about to remind Old Liu, the latter changed the subject. "However, I must remind you, Hanba is not complete. You’ll have to find the remaining part yourselves."

Cang Tianji was slightly stunned. "Check and see what's going on!"

Several guards immediately opened the coffin and carefully examined Hanba three times before saying, "Hanba is missing a hand. Her left hand was reattached later."

Old Liu smiled. "You all have good eyes! A few days ago, Jiang Junci came to ask us to return a complete corpse of Tian Dan. Unfortunately, there was a minor problem with Tian Dan’s hand at the time. I really had no hand to return, so in order not to affect the relationship between the two parties, I had to attach Hanba’s hand to Tian Dan."

Old Liu was clearly being perfunctory. When Jiang Junci came, Old Liu had taken precautions against him.

Old Liu was certain that he had seen Tian Dan at the time, but he felt that Tian Dan’s death was too easy. Just in case, he directly removed one of Hanba’s hands and attached it to Tian Dan’s corpse.

If Tian Dan was dead, no one would notice whether that hand belonged to the original owner.

If Tian Dan wasn’t dead, a zombie’s hand attached to her body would be enough to cause her to die a violent death. Even if she could escape this calamity, we could still use her hand to cast a curse and kill Tian Dan again.

Old Liu himself never expected that something he had done on a whim would help him eliminate a group of people a few days later.

Of course, Cang Tianji had always been unwilling to move Hanba because she had calculated that Hanba was stained with karma.

"Damn it!" Cang Tianji didn't know if he was cursing Old Liu or his subordinates.

One of Cang Tianji's guards said angrily, "You're playing dirty!"

"Oh? Where am I being unreasonable?" Old Liu spread his hands. "You snatched Hanba away before the agreed transaction time. Can you blame me for being unreasonable?"

"If the transaction time had arrived and I still couldn't get the complete Hanba, then that would be our Liangjie Hall violating the contract. But you didn't give me that opportunity!"

"You..." The man was so angry that he was trembling all over, but he couldn't say a word.

In fact, Old Liu's theory wasn't wrong.

A commodity can be considered a semi-finished product before it's time to be released. When the order time arrives, the merchant naturally can't deliver a semi-finished product.

If the buyer wants it earlier, they must first say something to the seller, and have the seller rush to finish it.

If the buyer forcibly takes the goods without saying a word, can he blame the seller for only letting him snatch a semi-finished product?

Cang Tianji gave a thumbs up. "Shifu Liu is indeed well-deserved. I, Cang Tianji, admit defeat. I will take care of the people at Coffin Gate, and I will also retrieve Hanba's hand myself. Farewell!"

"Wait!" Old Liu said with a smile, "Commander Tianji, would you like to make another deal?"

Cang Tianji said coldly, "What other bargaining chips do you have to trade with me?"

Old Liu said seriously, "What do you think about the whereabouts of Hou Qing's corpse?"

Cang Tianji's body shook slightly. "What else do you know?"

Old Liu waved his fan and said, "The return of the Emperor, the Eight Guards, and the Three Palaces are indispensable."

"The Eight Guards of Houtu. The left four guards are the battle guards, and the right four guards are the defense guards. The right four guards, Yellow Dragon, Qilin, Teng She, and Gou Chen, have appeared one after another. However, for some reason, except for Gou Chen, the other three guards have not returned. But the left four guards have not appeared."

"As far as I know, the left four guards are not living people, but four zombies. They correspond to the four great zombie progenitors, Jiang Chen, Hanba, Hou Qing, and Ying Gou. This is why Commander Tianji wants Hanba at all costs."

"The world of magic is surging, and the Emperor has not returned. If Commander Tianji does not want the Emperor to miss this opportunity to compete for hegemony, he must speed up, gather the Eight Guards, gather the Three Palaces, and welcome the Emperor."

Old Liu squinted and smiled. "Although the left four guards are not true zombie progenitors, they have the blood of the four great zombie kings, so they are not within the Heavenly Dao. Commander Tianji cannot calculate their location, so he can only rely on chance to find the left four guards."

When Cang Tianji came to me for a deal, I suspected the other party's purpose.

During the time I was rushing to Erlin Town, Old Liu and Zhao Ci had been investigating Cang Tianji's purpose, and Old Liu finally found clues about the Emperor in the Huangquan Secret Files.

Unfortunately, Old Liu only deduced that the Eight Guards of Houtu were guarding the Emperor's body, waiting for the Emperor's soul to return, but he didn't find out the identity of the Emperor.

However, Old Liu was certain that there must be a great connection between the return of the Emperor and the emergence of Tanlang. Even the existence of the Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren is in this period of time.