"Listening to you would only get me killed faster, wouldn't it?" I could only say that in my mind.

Butcher Wang called me over and rattled off a bunch of things, something about "striking east and attacking west," "feigning capture to release," and "keeping your distance." It all sounded like he was teaching me how to pick up girls, not how to deal with zombies.

Take that "striking east and attacking west" thing, for example.

Butcher Wang meant: You lunge with both hands, grabbing straight for her chest. When she screams and covers herself, you pounce and hug her, pinning her hands. Then you slide your hands down her waist... Where might you grab then? Hehehe...

Butcher Wang was grinning like an old lecher back then.

Cold sweat trickled down my forehead: Is this even human?

Butcher Wang didn't seem to care about my feelings. "Did you get it?"

"Ah!" I nodded subconsciously and was dragged by Feng Ruoxing to the entrance of a tunnel.

Later, I found out that it should have been the basement of Villa No. 3, where the Ghost Gate of Noble's Court was located. "Go down here, Lin Zhao will tell you where to go. Go on!"

Now, I had no choice but to go down!

At that time, I took a few steps forward with a sense of righteousness, but then felt something was wrong. I turned back and looked pitifully at the group of people. "Ye Yang, I'm going down! I'm really going down!"

Ye Yang didn't even look at me, but turned sideways and waved his hand dismissively. "Go, go, go..."

What kind of brother is this?

Annoyed, I strode into the secret passage, never expecting that a thousand-pound gate would fall the moment I entered.

I instinctively turned back and knocked on the gate twice. "Open the door!"

I faintly heard Ye Yang say, "Hopefully, that drought demon isn't male!"

"What the—!" Before I could explode, my feet suddenly slipped, and I slid down into the depths of the earth. When I stopped, I saw a coffin more than a meter tall in the tomb.

When I looked up at the coffin tied to the stone platform by iron chains, the black and white pearls embedded in the head of the coffin simultaneously emitted a heart-pounding light.

In that instant, I felt like I was gazing into the eyes of gods and demons. My fighting spirit erupted, and the twin blades on my back popped out of their scabbards a few inches.

Just as I was about to grab the hilts, Lin Zhao's voice came from my pocket. "Li Po, do you see that coffin? Don't release your killing intent at it, or the coffin will automatically retaliate. Back away!"

A sound transmission talisman?

Butcher Wang had put a sound transmission talisman on me earlier!

As I carefully restrained my killing intent, the coffin seemed like a beast startled from its sleep. Finding no danger nearby, it fell back to sleep.

I had just released the hilts and didn't know what to do!

Lin Zhao's cheerful voice came again. "Li Po, this is a gift from Ye Yang!"

"That coffin comes from the Coffin Gate. The two pearls on top are the key to sealing the coffin. The original life and death energy in those two pearls has been almost completely exhausted."

"Originally, the drought demon should have awakened ten years ago, but the Mu family used the Taiji Formation to reseal it! The formation was reversed, mainly to cooperate with the ghost god to severely injure the drought demon."

"Actually, Mu Wenmin doesn't know that subduing the drought demon doesn't require so much trouble. Just find a disciple of the Coffin Gate, and they can reseal her. It's very simple."

I suddenly understood.

I had been wondering how Mu Yue had the ability to seal the drought demon. It turned out that the one who really made the move was the Coffin Gate.

Looking at it this way, Mu Yue didn't buy the coffin from the Coffin Gate back then, but stole this secret coffin by some means.

Lin Zhao continued to shout, "Do you see those two pearls? They are both Flood Dragon inner cores, and there is still some Flood Dragon blood left inside. Place your hands on them and circulate your energy for one cycle, and your twin blades will undergo unexpected changes."

"Ye Yang had already seen this coffin. He deliberately used some of the power of heaven and earth to suppress the coffin before the spiritual energy surge. That's how he was injured."

I later learned that although the fire fox had set a trap for Ye Yang in Villa No. 3, the fire fox didn't understand the art of earth, wood, and feng shui, and missed the greatest secret of the feng shui formation.

When Ye Yang rushed down, he directly opened the secret chamber here.

Lin Zhao said, "Li Po, walk over slowly and tap the dot on the 'longevity' character on the coffin with one finger. The two pearls will fall. Catch them in your hands, and circulate your energy with your back against the coffin. You'll get twice the result with half the effort!"

"You can't refuse the gift Ye Yang gave you!"

I turned to look at the gate of the tomb passage. "What kind of brothers are these! They planned this together."

No matter what, I had to keep the gift Ye Yang gave me.

As I circulated my true energy while holding the two pearls, I suddenly felt a stream of alternating hot and cold air surge out of the coffin.

The drought demon's death energy?

How did I draw out her aura as well?

Before I could figure out what was going on, three streams of spiritual energy collided in my meridians. In that instant, the muscles in my arms tightened uncontrollably.

The true energy overflowing from my body tore my clothes to shreds. When I looked down, the blood vessels in my arms were bulging, and blue patterns covered both arms.

Not good! My meridians are about to rupture!