"Junior Brother, Junior Sister!" Xue Jinpeng sighed. "I know, the Xue family has let you down. My father's suicide was also to give you an explanation."

"My father was in his prime. How could he have been terminally ill?"

"But for the Guiguan Men's (Coffin Sect) long-cherished wish, he could only use death to say sorry to you!"

"Junior Brother, Junior Sister, let me tell you the truth!"

"Right now, the saddest person isn't you, but me."

"My father, for the sake of revitalizing Guiguan Men, took the blame upon himself and died. Was it a selfless act? Actually, no. In his will, he told me not to build a tombstone for him, but to pour his ashes into the gutter, leaving a stench for ten thousand years."

"Back then, he didn't dare let anyone know his plan, because at that time, Guiguan Men was too weak. Once people discovered that we had started the plan to seal the fierce things, the art world would swarm in to seize our secret techniques."

"He could only lead the Yellow Springs Twin Lotus into the sect. The first people he let down were those disciples who died in battle. Those people were all loyal disciples of Guiguan Men. They were sucked dry by the fierce Yellow Springs creatures in order to protect the sect, but my father could only watch them die."

"The second people he let down were you two siblings. You respected him like a father and protected me like a brother, but we could only betray you."

"My father said that he deserved to die ten thousand times over, and he didn't ask for your forgiveness, but only hoped that you could, for the sake of the Guiguan Men disciples, do your best to revitalize the sect!"

"And I..."

"Enough!" Lin Zhao suddenly roared, "I don't want to hear you speak anymore. I just feel disgusted!"

Xue Jinpeng said helplessly, "Alright! I'll negotiate the rest with Hall Master Li! Hall Master Li, have you considered it?"

I clenched the fist hanging by my side slightly: "Aren't you afraid that I'll uproot Guiguan Men after I get out?"

"You won't do that!" Xue Jinpeng said, "With Lin Zhao and Lin Xian here, you won't attack Guiguan Men!"

"They will not hesitate to kill the traitors of Guiguan Men! But, the people who are alive now have not only not betrayed Guiguan Men, but are even maintaining the sect with their lives!"

"With their loyalty, and with the affection between Lin Zhao and them, Lin Zhao won't let you slaughter the sect."

I gritted my teeth: The Xue family and his son had grasped us too accurately.

In the current situation, Xue Jinpeng could only threaten me, but I couldn't threaten Xue Jinpeng.

If I didn't agree to his conditions, I could only watch the Yellow Springs Twin Lotus in Lin Zhao's body flare up, and I wouldn't even have a chance to avenge her!

I kept looking at Ye Yang, asking: Is there any way to open the stone door?

Ye Yang just shook his head slightly. Nie Xiaochun whispered, "Perhaps, we can use the Tongyang carriage to send Lin Zhao to the underworld and let the ghosts and gods of the underworld find a way."

Xue Jinpeng seemed to have heard Nie Xiaochun's words, and said from behind the stone door: "Hall Master Li, please take a look to your left."

When I turned my head, the earthen coffin-shaped mound collapsed with a bang, and Zuo Laotou's corpse appeared in the cracked coffin.

Beside the corpse was a neatly placed note. I said expressionlessly, "Xiaochun, read it!"

Nie Xiaochun read: "Hall Master Li, Zuo seeks redemption with his death, hoping that grudges will be settled. Zuo feels guilty, but he is not ashamed of the sect. If the Hall Master finds it difficult to calm his anger, he can kill Zuo's three clans to vent his anger. Zuo has no complaints!"

"Damn it!" I was so angry that the veins on my forehead bulged: "Do you think I don't dare to kill your three clans?"

Kill his three clans?

Zuo Laotou's family members were just ordinary people without cultivation, who had never even set foot in the martial world. He knew that I wouldn't kill ordinary people to vent my anger, but he deliberately did so, simply to make me angry!

Lao Liu shook his head helplessly and said, "My lord, calm down! In fact, it may not be a bad thing for us to help Guiguan Men!"

Lao Liu was giving me a way out, but Xue Jinpeng took the opportunity to say, "Hall Master Li, Master's words are correct!"

"My father's arrangement was not for the Xue family to reach the top of the art world, nor was it for Guiguan Men to dominate the martial world. Rather, it was for the disciples of Guiguan Men to face the Heavenly Tribulation in a dignified manner!"

"To be precise, Guiguan Men is going to the battlefield to die for honor!"

"Back then, Guiguan lineage was excluded from the Liangjie Shan (Two World Mountain) battle. The past sect leaders of Guiguan Men felt that they could not hold their heads up. We understand the thoughts of the coffin sect's main line, he didn't want Guiguan Men to make unnecessary sacrifices!"

"However, we cannot accept this result."

"Our Guiguan Men has plenty of iron-willed and passionate men, we are not afraid of having our bones disappear and our souls scattered."

"However, the coffin main line doesn't even give us a chance to die in battle."

"As coffin sect inheritors, how can we bear it?"

Xue Jinpeng paused and said, "This time, our experiment was successful. I will lead the disciples of Guiguan Men to Liangjie Shan. I can guarantee to you that, except for the disciples under the age of sixteen who are left behind as seeds, no one from Guiguan Men will leave Liangjie Shan alive."

"And I, Xue Jinpeng, can swear to the heavens that if I do not have my soul scattered at Liangjie Shan, I will never stop attacking. May heaven and earth bear witness to this oath!"

As soon as Xue Jinpeng's oath was made, I felt the power of the Heavenly Dao descending in the dark.

Xue Jinpeng's oath had come true!

But I stood there dumbfounded.

How should I treat Xue Jinpeng?