I walked slowly towards Jie Yueling. "Have you thought it over?"

"I can tell you frankly that this deal is related to my struggle with the Coffin Gate. So, it cannot be lost."

"If you cooperate with us honestly to complete the task, I can guarantee that, at least until I, Li Po, am utterly destroyed and the last person of the Two Worlds Hall is killed in battle, I will protect your Jie family."

"Conversely, I will always be watching you, preventing you from accomplishing anything. If the Two Worlds Hall is defeated, your Jie family can join us in a lawsuit in the halls of King Yama."

I paused. "Don't say I'm forcing you. I, Li Po, am a bandit. When I don't want to reason, no one can reason with me."

I waved my hand, and Feng Ruoxing stepped forward to untie Jie Yueling, but didn't release her acupoints.

I watched as Feng Ruoxing squatted on the ground, using one hand to form a hand seal and press down on the edge of the towel, slowly pulling it from Jie Yueling's mouth.

By the time Feng Ruoxing held the towel in his hand, half of the white towel had been dyed black.

The ink-like darkness on the towel dissipated into wisps of black gas in the air upon contact with the air.

Feng Ruoxing said coldly, "Your body has been tainted with Yin energy. It won't be long before you die violently. At that time, you won't be able to save your father, and you'll lose your own life as well."

"Little girl, you have your concerns, but I can remind you that sometimes the more concerns you have, the faster people die."

Jie Yueling looked blankly at each of our faces before whispering, "Can you save my dad?"

I said in a deep voice, "You have to tell me what happened to you first."

Jie Yueling said slowly, "I don't know how to say it. Let me think."

Jie Yueling finally organized her thoughts:

"I know something about my dad's affairs. He was able to start his business because he came into contact with ghosts and gods."

"Back then, when my dad was working in a logging yard, he followed a local legend and entered a secret realm."

"I don't know what kind of agreement he reached with the ghosts and gods, or what he took from them."

"In short, from then on, he had good luck all the way. In just ten years, he went from a lumberjack with only a few dozen yuan to a boss with billions of assets."

"At that time, my dad was really successful in everything he did. Some people even said that he only had benefactors in his life and no villains. However, the friends around my dad died one by one in strange ways."

"Uncle Shen and my dad tried to avoid meeting each other. I used to ask Uncle Shen why he didn't meet my dad. Dad missed him very much."

"Uncle Shen said he was afraid of death."

"At that time, I didn't take these things to heart. Until one day…"

Jie Yueling seemed to recall something sad and stopped, choking with sobs.

Jie Yueling shouldn't be lying. After all, not everyone is so curious. It's normal for children to be carefree.

Jie Yueling calmed down and said:

"My dad often acted like he was going crazy and suddenly ran home to chant scriptures."

"It was probably two or three years ago! When my ex-boyfriend and I got engaged, he suddenly ran out, insisting on going home to chant scriptures."

"You don't know how embarrassing the scene was!"

"I chased him all the way home, but I heard him shouting frantically in the Buddhist hall: Why won't you let me go?"

"We made the agreement together back then. You died, and I lived, but I have been benevolent and righteous to your family. What else do you want?"

"Today is my daughter's engagement! Can't you even wait a moment?"

"I was so scared by his appearance at the time that I didn't dare to say a word standing at the door of the Buddhist hall."

"My dad was tired from shouting, so he sat in the room and began to chant scriptures."

"At that time, he was facing away from the door. I couldn't see his face, but I thought he looked so pitiful."

"My engagement was ruined, but I don't hate my dad!"

"But he felt very guilty and often sighed. Not long after that, strange things began to happen around me."

"My dad felt that it was because of him that so many strange things happened around me."

"Because what happened to me was similar to what happened to him: the people around him kept dying, but he was safe and sound."

"He was afraid those things would come looking for me!"

Jie Yueling stopped here and looked up at me.

I pondered, "You're talking about Jie Sanbao's problem now. What about your own problem? Don't tell me you don't know."

Jie Yueling said, "I can't really explain my own problem either."

"When I was a few years old, after my dad gave me that Nine-Leaf Emerald Tree, he brought me here."

"At that time, Uncle Shen should have arrived at the Ancient Well Temple first. Later, my dad didn't know what he had talked about with him, and he brought me along too."

"When we came, Dad and Uncle Shen went into the Ancient Well Temple first and told me to wait for him at the door."

"When I was sitting at the door of the temple waiting for him as my dad told me, I saw a well in the woods outside the temple."