Lin Zhao was dumbfounded. After a long while, he said, "I have another question! How would Shi Dakai know the incantation to open the ancestral home of the Guiguan Gate? That doesn't make sense, does it?"

I replied, "Currently, this is the only explanation I can think of."

"Otherwise, why would Xue Shaoyuan leave clues about Shi Dakai's defeat?"

I turned to look at Nie Xiaochun and said, "Xiaochun, let me ask you, is the final marked location on the map in Zidadai?"

Nie Xiaochun said, "There was no marking. It stopped at the location of entering Sichuan."

Lin Zhao scratched his head and said, "That shouldn't be! Even if the sect leader wanted to keep it a secret, he shouldn't have made the map so mysterious, right?"

I patted Lin Zhao's head and said, "Stop scratching, you'll go bald. Let's go! Let's go to Zidadai and take a look."

Zidadai was indeed as rumored, with rugged mountain roads and overgrown weeds. If we wanted to find clues here, we could only look for a local guide.

I followed a small path to its end, placed incense, candles, and yellow paper below the cliff, and summoned ghosts.

It was daytime now, so if I wanted to summon ghosts, I could only go to shady places like this beneath the cliff.

My yellow paper had only been lit for a short while when I saw blood seeping out of the ground.

Before long, the blood on the ground spread like a wellspring, but it avoided the area where we were standing, surrounding us.

In an instant, Yin winds rose around us, and countless ghostly figures emerged from both sides.

I couldn't help but curse inwardly, "What terrible luck!"

The place I had chosen must have been the site of fierce fighting between the Taiping Army and the local Tusi troops.

At least several hundred wronged souls were buried under this cliff.

I had indiscriminately summoned all the ghosts.

I glanced to the left and right. As expected, the two groups of ghosts stood distinctly apart, confronting each other.

On our left were hundreds of Taiping soldiers, and on the right were the local Tusi soldiers.

The numbers on both sides were vastly different, but their momentum was not weak at all.

I said helplessly, "I need a guide."

"At the same time, I also want to inquire about the situation of the Taiping Army back then! Who can help me? The reward, you can name it."

The Tusi soldier spoke for a long time, but I didn't understand what he was saying.

Lin Zhao helped me translate, "He said that he doesn't want to go the same way as the Taiping Army. Either choose their people or choose the Taiping Army."

I knew it would be like this!

I said in a deep voice, "I don't want to care about any conflicts you have! If you cooperate with me, naturally there will be benefits for you. If you don't cooperate, you will just watch others take the benefits. Choose for yourselves!"

A Taiping soldier stood up, "Sir, what do you want to inquire about? I can tell you anything I know."

I looked at him and said, "What do you want?"

That person looked at the Taiping soldiers behind him, "Sir, can you guide them to the underworld? Not everyone needs to go, just a portion is enough."

Soldier souls are one of the most ferocious ghosts, but also the easiest to be trapped.

Some armies lost their way, and had been looking for a way out when they were alive and couldn't leave after they died.

Some armies did not complete their missions before their death, so victory became their obsession, and they had to continue to stay and fight until their missions were completed.

I looked at him and said, "Why are you trapped?"

The man said, "We were ordered to break through, but we were never able to break through the valley ahead and were trapped here."

I looked at the valley in the distance and couldn't help but fall silent.

Breaking through the valley was their obsession.

Should I take them out now?

They won't be able to break through!

Unless, I can simulate the scene of that year, and lead them to attack the valley again, creating a chance for them to live, then I can erase their obsession and let them return to the underworld.

The Tusi soldiers who guarded the valley that year have long since passed away. Who will cooperate with us to guard the valley?

Should I summon the Tusi soldiers back then?

This is obviously not realistic!

Even if I could do it, I would completely offend the local aborigines, which would be equivalent to completely cutting off the possibility of finding Shi Dakai's secret burial.

However, if I don't eliminate their obsession, even if I summon the ghost messengers, I won't be able to take these soldier souls away.

I hesitated for a while and said, "I'm afraid that can't be done. Unless, you can let go of your obsession from that year."

The Taiping soldier shook his head and said, "Back then, if we could have broken through, even if it was just a team of people breaking through, we could have earned a chance for the brothers behind us."

"We..."

The Taiping soldier said, "Forget it, I won't say it anymore."

"Sir, just give us something to eat and use!"

I took a deep breath and said, "Xiaochun, contact Chen Shuyu and ask her to arrange for people to send white rice and clothes, the more the better. Don't forget to bring some wine."

"Okay!" While Nie Xiaochun was contacting Chen Shuyu, Lin Zhao said, "I talked to those Tusi soldiers. They said they were unwilling to go the same way as the Taiping Army no matter what."

I turned to look at the nearly hundred Tusi soldiers, "Tell them, either they give us something to lead the way, or I will make them disappear right now. Let them choose!"