"Jun Jixue!" I blurted out Jun Jixue’s name instinctively. In my opinion, he was the only one who could trigger the great formation.

"Him?" Ye Yang looked at me and said, "Why would Jun Jixue trigger the formation?"

I said, "Although Jun Jixue was used as a pawn by Jiang Junci, do you think he's the kind of person who gives up easily?"

"Jun Jixue has never admitted defeat in front of Jiang Junci. He hasn't admitted defeat in front of the Ancestor either."

"Jun Jixue will get his victory back, and his method is to enter Erlin Town before us. He triggered the earth's energy, broke open Hat Mountain, and took the Nine Graves Gully first. Jun Jixue is mocking us and issuing a challenge."

I said in a deep voice, "The conditions the Ancestor offered at the time were: to have Jun Jixue help us break through the Ghost God Forbidden Ground."

"Jun Jixue is telling us: I can break through the forbidden ground on my own."

"So, he took the first step and deliberately left clues to tell us: Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall) is nothing more than this."

"Jun Jixue understands our style of doing things. He deliberately left a clue for us to chase him into Erlin Town."

Lin Zhao couldn't help but say, "You're making Jun Jixue sound too amazing, right? Besides, can Jun Jixue really make you follow him with such simple tricks?"

I laughed, "If I hadn't seen Jun Jixue in action, I wouldn't have given him such an evaluation."

"Jun Jixue's saber has a kind of imperial aura that dominates the world. In other words, his saber has evolved from hegemonic to kingly."

"Although the kingly way seems to leave room, unlike the hegemonic way that leaves opponents with no way to go, forcibly suppressing them."

"However, the room the kingly way gives you is under his control, completely defeating the opponent physically and mentally, even making him work for you. It's like Zhuge Liang capturing Meng Huo seven times, which can be said to be using the kingly way to practice hegemony."

"Jun Jixue's method is actually turning a conspiracy into a blatant scheme, clearly letting you see his purpose, and you still have to follow him. This is the power of imperial art."

The real emperors don't avoid conspiracies, but they put them on the table, making them visible but unsolvable.

The eternal blatant scheme, the "Edict of Benevolent Administration," made the world see Han Wudi's conspiracy to withdraw fiefdoms and destroy the vassal states. However, what if you can see through the emperor's mind? You still have to submit obediently.

I once asked my master: What is the strongest secret art in the world?

My master told me: The art of the emperor. The heroes of the ages are all within the emperor's grasp, and no one can escape the emperor's palm.

The art of the emperor, although not part of the art path, is the number one art in the world.

If Jun Jixue is really cultivating the art of the emperor and has brought it into the martial world, I'm afraid a bloodbath will be set off in this world before long.

There is a reason why Jun Jixue can rank first among the younger generation in the art world.

Lin Zhao said, "Are we really going to follow Jun Jixue?"

"Unless we don't enter Erlin Town, we have to take the same path as him." I sat up and said, "When my injuries heal, I'll go and meet that Jun Jixue."

I know that Erlin Town is a must, but I'm not crazy enough to drill into the Ghost God Forbidden Ground before my arm is healed.

Besides, since Jun Jixue has entered, let him take the first step. I have to compete with him in patience.

Although the injuries on my body are not light, my body has been nourished by the power of the Ghost God, and my hands are almost free to move in six or seven days. Moreover, I have been wandering around Hat Mountain for these seven days.

And finally, I found out where the entrance to Erlin Town is!

Ye Yang guessed right. There is indeed a hot spring underground in Hat Mountain. Every night after midnight, the spring water will flow to a fixed location in Nine Graves Gully, which is close to the foot of Hat Mountain.

Someone used to build a well there, but later filled it in. However, if you dig down from there, you can still see traces of the well.

Although I didn't go into the well, I can still estimate the situation below.

Every midnight, the hot spring water gushing out from the ground should be able to open a gate-like thing. The gate pushed open by the water is the only way to Erlin Town. If I want to go to Erlin Town, I can only go through the water.

However, at that time, the temperature of the well water can boil eggs. Even if a martial arts master jumps in, he can't escape the fate of being boiled into meat soup.

The reason why the nine corpses in Nine Graves Gully can become the key to Erlin Town is because the corpses happen to be stuck at the node where the hot spring water comes out.

If you use secret techniques to trigger Yin (the negative energy) and resentment, you can drastically reduce the temperature of the hot spring, and people can go down.

Our initial judgment of Nine Graves Gully was wrong, which is why we took such a big detour.

If Ye Yang's feng shui formation hadn't broken open Hat Mountain and allowed me to see the underground hot spring, I really wouldn't have thought that the role of the blood fiend yin spirit was not to tear space, but merely to lower the temperature.

However, seeing is seeing.

Those nine corpses are useless!

What can drastically reduce the temperature is the Yin energy on the wronged souls, not the nine corpses. The wronged souls are all shattered, where can I find Yin souls to cool down the hot spring?

How did Jun Jixue get in?

Could it be that he has thick skin and can withstand boiling?