Xiang Kai continued, "When we arrived in Miaojiang, we didn't meet up with you. We secretly infiltrated Houqing's secret burial. That's because we suspected that Houqing had betrayed the Emperor."

Hei Yexiao's expression instantly turned extremely ugly. If Old Liu hadn't stopped him in time, Hei Yexiao would have easily exploded on the spot.

Xiang Kai quickly explained, "Our suspicion that Houqing had betrayed us was actually based on his premature awakening."

"Moreover, Hei Yexiao's subsequent construction of the Misty Rain Pavilion and marriage to Feng Luoluo didn't seem like he was waiting for the Emperor's return."

"So, we entered Houqing's tomb one step ahead of you."

Xiang Kai said, "As a result, we saw the letter left by Bu Ting, the ancestor of the Bu family."

"He did tamper with the Misty Rain Pavilion, but the reason he secretly modified the Misty Rain Pavilion was because he suspected Houqing was rebelling."

"However, Bu Ting didn't mention obtaining any substantial evidence, and he didn't dare to rashly use the Zhuni Judgment on Houqing."

Xiang Kai paused here for a moment and said, "I wanted to talk to Hei Yexiao face-to-face at the time, but then I was afraid of alarming the enemy, so I retreated from Houqing's secret burial and rushed to Dameng Township."

"Because Bu Ting's letter mentioned that his next step would be to go to Dameng Township to find Yinggou."

According to the timeline, Xiang Kai and the others should have come to Dameng Township after leaving Miaojiang. They were half a month earlier than us.

I asked curiously, "As far as I know, only the dead and those with a half-ghost body can enter Dameng Township. How did you get in?"

Xiang Kai said, "We took the secret passage left by Bu Ting. It leads directly to the Fourth Village."

"Bu Ting was the founder of the four villages in Dameng Township."

"He built the Fengshen Platform and the Nine-Man Prison here, trapping himself, Yinggou, and one other person in Dameng Township."

"He has been waiting for the descendants of the Bu family to come and open the Nine-Man Prison."

"This time, if Bu Youming hadn't come, I wouldn't have been able to reach the Fourth Village."

As Xiang Kai spoke, he led us to the center of the Fourth Village. "This place can be called the Fourth Secret Realm. The stairs in front of us are the entrance to the Fourth Secret Realm."

I looked at the stairs leading deep underground and said, "The corpse energy here is very strong!"

Xiang Kai said, "Indeed, I once went down to explore the secret realm below, but I couldn't withstand the invasion of corpse energy and retreated before I even walked a hundred meters."

"I estimate that the only people who can walk down from here are probably the Right Four Guardian Zombies."

Hei Yexiao held his hand above the entrance, "Yes, according to the concentration of corpse energy, that's indeed the case."

"If I hadn't come, someone would have had to release Yinggou first so that he could go down and open the secret realm."

"This is one link in the Nine-Man Prison, what about the other link?"

The minimum number of people imprisoned in the "Nine-Man Prison" is three. These three people form a cycle of watching each other.

As long as these three people cannot reach a consensus, this triangular relationship will never be broken, and no one can break the "Nine-Man Prison" from the inside.

Xiang Kai said, "That's exactly what I wanted to say. Come with me!"

Xiang Kai led us towards the house in the middle of the Fourth Secret Realm. "When we arrived here, we immediately captured the village chief of the Fourth Village and took control of the Fourth Village."

"The village chief here is named Wang Qiu. That person should be a tomb robber, but he doesn't seem to remember anything."

"However, he has been requisitioning the dead from the villages below to excavate a special kind of wood near the Fourth Secret Realm."

"He himself said that the purpose of wanting that kind of wood was to build a boat to cross the Underworld Sea and open Yinggou's secret burial."

I asked back, "Have you been to Yinggou's secret burial?"

"We haven't!" Bu Youming said, "The ancestor's notes record, 'Do not approach the Underworld Sea without seeing the Underworld River Ferry, otherwise, you will be invaded by Yinggou's corpse energy and become an Undying Corpse.'"

Ye Yang and I can enter and exit the Underworld Sea because we both maintain a half-ghost body and will not easily become zombies.

Xiang Kai and the others have strong cultivation, but after all, they are mortals. Corpse poison harms mortals even more than it harms corpses.

For example, even if Ye Yang and I inhale corpse poison, we can retreat calmly before the poison takes effect. Once Xiang Kai and the others are infected with corpse poison, their strength will be greatly reduced.

If they are forced to fight someone, and the corpse poison seeps into their internal organs, even if they escape, they may end up with damaged internal organs.

Xiang Kai said, "We used Wang Qiu's name to order people from the secret realms below to requisition five hundred Undying Corpses to continue excavating that kind of wood."

I couldn't help but look at Xiang Kai, "You mean, you are requisitioning Undying Corpses, not buying corpses from outside?"

Xiang Kai also asked back, "I wanted to ask you just now, what do you mean by saying that I bought dead people from outside?"

I told Xiang Kai and the others everything that happened after I met Old Zuo.

Xiang Kai and Bu Youming were also stunned. After a while, Xiang Kai said, "Someone falsely conveyed our meaning!"

"That Wang Qiu didn't tell us the truth. Let's go, let's find him."