"Wang Qiu gave a wry smile and said, 'I'm already like this, what's the point of lying to you?'

I pressed, 'Living people can't enter Da Meng Xiang (Great Dream Village). How did you get in back then?'

Wang Qiu shook his head, 'Back then, living people could enter Da Meng Xiang. People even came specifically to find Wang Qing Lao Zu (Forget Love Ancestor) to help them forget their love. Da Meng Xiang gathered many术士 (Shu Shi – Taoist practitioners).'

I frowned, 'Are you saying that Ying Gou's corpse energy hadn't leaked back then?'

'That's right!' Wang Qiu said, 'It was Lü Peng and the others who opened the Ming Hai (Nether Sea), causing Ying Gou's corpse energy to leak and turn this place into a forbidden zone. We couldn't get out after that.'

I pressed, 'Back then, were you always with Lü Peng and the others? Was there someone named Yi Lü in your group?'

'That's a ghost!' Wang Qiu said, 'If it hadn't been for Yi Lü leading us step by step into the Ming Hai, the corpse energy wouldn't have leaked, and we wouldn't have become like this, neither human nor ghost.'

I simply squatted down. 'Tell me in detail about the process of entering the Ming Hai back then.'

Wang Qiu recounted the events of that time, and the entire process was exactly the same as what we had just experienced.

The entire team had six people.

Xiao Hong was hanged on a tree.

One person was thrown into the waterway to sacrifice to the river.

One person was stuffed under the Duan Long Zha (severed dragon gate) to open the tomb.

Another was thrown into the Ming Hai ferry to act as fuel.

However, the last two people didn't even touch Ying Gou's coffin. The Ming He (Nether River) ferry triggered a secret burial under the water halfway, and Ying Gou's corpse energy leaked.

I asked again, 'How did you and Lü Peng separate later?'

Wang Qiu said, 'We parted ways after we came out of the tomb. I didn't trust him, and he didn't trust me either. Plus, he had Yi Lü by his side, so we each sought our own way out.'

'After that, we each used the ghost artifacts we brought out from the Ming Hai to occupy a village, and we didn't interact with each other.'

'I originally thought that I would just stay in the village like this, neither dead nor alive. Not long after, Zhu Zi Ning suddenly appeared in the village, and she arranged a few things for me.'

'The first thing was to never let Qu Mo see Wang Qing Lao Zu.'

'The second thing was to have me excavate the Tong Yang Mu (penetrating yang wood) in the secret burial and build another Ming He ferry.'

'Not long after Zhu Zi Ning left, Qu Mo came. I knew that Qu Mo wasn't so easy to deceive, so I simply diverted the water from the Ming Hai to the outside, preventing Qu Mo from entering Da Meng Xiang.'

'Qu Mo tried to enter Da Meng Xiang at that time, but he only reached the first village before returning without success.'

'I can be considered to have completed Zhu Zi Ning's first request.'

'I tried for a long time for the second request, but I couldn't mine enough Tong Yang Mu.'

I said in a deep voice, 'Where is Wang Qing Lao Zu?'

Wang Qiu held his head and said, 'I vaguely remember that she is in the fourth secret realm. But I can't remember where she is.'

The truth was right in front of me, but I couldn't get the result. The veins on my forehead couldn't help but bulge: 'Haven't you looked for Wang Qing Lao Zu?'

'I have!' Wang Qiu said, 'It seems like everyone in Da Meng Xiang has seen Wang Qing Lao Zu, but no one can remember who she is? We searched everyone in the fourth village and searched every corner, but we just couldn't find her whereabouts.'

Just as I was about to get angry and beat someone, Lao Liu said, 'Lord, calm down, let me think of a way.'

Lao Liu looked at Bu Youming and said, 'Mr. Bu, have you found the whereabouts of your Bu family ancestor?'

Bu Youming nodded, 'I have. The ancestor's tomb is not far from here. If you want to see it, I can take you there.'

'Then I'll have to trouble Mr. Bu!' Lao Liu said politely to Bu Youming, and then followed him towards the edge of the village.

There was indeed a lonely tomb standing there. The area of the tomb was not large, but it was very clean, and there was not even a single weed on the entire tomb.

Bu Youming pointed to a few stones in front of the tomb and said, 'This is the marker of our Di Xiansheng Bu family, proving that the ancestors of the Bu family are buried inside.'

Lao Liu walked around the tomb and said, 'Mr. Bu, I have a request.'

Bu Youming's face suddenly darkened, 'You want to dig up the tomb of the ancestor?'

Lao Liu said with a smile, 'Mr. Bu, don't be angry.'

'I believe you also see that Da Meng Xiang is the Nine-Man Prison.'

'Now, we can be sure that one of the rings is the Corpse King Ying Gou. Then, could the other ring be the ancestor of the Bu family?'

'In addition, who is the person that Bu Ting used as the third ring?'

'Why did he set up a Nine-Man Prison here?'

'The results of all the mysteries can only be obtained by opening Bu Ting's tomb.'

Seeing that Bu Youming was not speaking, Xiang Kai quickly pulled him aside. I vaguely heard Xiang Kai saying, 'Lao Bu, what the old man said makes sense!'

'Your ancestors are already dead, dig him up, I don't think he will mind.'

'Don't glare at me. If not, next time you see my Xiang family's grave, I'll let you dig out my ancestors, okay?'

I subconsciously glanced at Xia Xiaotian.