I said unhurriedly, "Then why did Sun Qing want to kill you? You should know that, right?"

Chang Jiuzhen said, "He doesn't want people to know the secret of the *Ren Pi Jing* (Human Skin Sutra). Cultivating the *Ren Pi Jing* takes time. Before that, he doesn't want anyone to know that he obtained the *Ren Pi Jing*."

"Understood!" I stood up and said, "Three days later, I'll bring you Sun Qing's head. Shouldn't you return my knife to me?"

Chang Jiuzhen chuckled, "Just leave your knife here! I'll give it back to you when you return."

Zhao Yuezhu immediately flared up, "You're being unreasonable. Li Po came to help you out of the goodness of his heart, and you're seizing his knife?"

Chang Jiuzhen said with a matter-of-fact tone, "Are there people in the Jianghu who get up early for nothing? I don't know what he wants, but I know he must have another purpose. Keeping something of his is good for all of us."

"You..." Zhao Yuezhu still wanted to argue, but I stopped her, "It's fine, it's just a knife. What's the harm in letting him hold it for a few days?"

I pulled Zhao Yuezhu and walked out. Zhao Yuezhu tugged at me, "That's your knife! You're just giving it away..."

When I reached the doorway, my wrist suddenly tightened and I threw Zhao Yuezhu out, "Qin Xin, watch her!"

Qin Xin flashed out and caught Zhao Yuezhu in mid-air, but I turned back and cast the Soul-Chasing Chain, the chain shooting straight between the walls of the secret chamber, and the door of the secret chamber slammed shut.

The last thing I heard was Zhao Yuezhu's cry, "Li Po!"

The moment my Soul-Chasing Chain pierced the wall, the lights in the room went out abruptly, and a black mist with a fishy smell filled the entire secret chamber in the blink of an eye.

Outside, Zhao Yuezhu was already kneeling on the ground, crying, "Qin Xin, I'm the one who implicated Li Po. If I were a master, he wouldn't have to worry about me."

Qin Xin held the blood umbrella behind Zhao Yuezhu, "Believe in Li Po!"

I could hear their conversation clearly, but I couldn't see what was happening in the room. The only thing I could be sure of was that I had found the right place.

This is where the human skin really came from.

The black gas floating in the air now should be what's supporting the human skin to kill people everywhere.

Surrounded by the black mist in the middle of the secret chamber, I felt like someone was wandering around me, and countless thoughts arose in my mind. I clearly felt someone reaching out to me in the darkness, their sharp fingers slowly approaching my eyelids.

As the other person's palm approached, the images in my mind became clearer and clearer. I didn't even know if the figure in front of me was an illusion created in my mind, or if I could already see the other person.

When the disheveled old man stretched his fingers towards my eyeballs, two black holes without eyeballs were revealed beneath a head of white hair.

I gently vibrated the Soul-Chasing Chain, and the other person said grimly, "Don't move, if you move, the person outside will die."

"Hold on for a while, just a little while. Once my fingers pierce your eye sockets, you'll be just like me. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt!"

I squinted slightly, staring at the other person's fingers inching closer. Outside the secret chamber, the sound of the xiao flute suddenly erupted - Qin Xin was fighting someone!

At that time, I couldn't see what was happening outside, but I could hear the urgency in the sound of the xiao. Qin Xin couldn't stop the other person's attack?

When Qin Xin said "Believe in Li Po," several figures appeared on the steps outside the secret chamber.

As Qin Xin turned to face them, five faces without eyeballs were staring back at Qin Xin. The moment their eyes met, the five figures simultaneously blocked the stairs and pounced towards the door of the secret chamber.

As Qin Xin pulled down on the handle of the umbrella, she pulled out a long xiao flute from the umbrella and pressed it to her lips, playing *Guan Shan Yue* (Moon over the Border Pass).

Vast clouds and seas rose with the sound, and the bright moon over Tianguan moved with the xiao. In the blink of an eye, the door of the secret chamber disappeared into the depths of the clouds and seas, and the moon over the border pass led the five ghostly figures to attack elsewhere.

Qin Xin is skilled in the pipa and zither, but I couldn't have her running around with a zither on her back, so I had to settle for second best and have Ye Yang hide a dongxiao flute inside the umbrella handle when he made the blood umbrella for her.

Although Qin Xin's *Guan Shan Yue* blocked the ghosts rushing down the stairs, she didn't expect a human skin like a curtain to hang down from the door of the secret chamber.

The moment the human skin's feet touched the ground, it swelled up as if it were being inflated. In just a few seconds, it was eye-to-eye with Zhao Yuezhu.

Qin Xin had already seen the human skin out of the corner of her eye, but she was using the sound of the xiao to resist the external enemies and couldn't rescue Zhao Yuezhu at all.

Qin Xin's xiao music faltered, and the artistic conception of the clouds and seas of Guanshan was instantly broken. The five figures simultaneously revealed their true forms in the clouds and mist. Five pale faces, five pairs of eyes without pupils, retreated side by side towards Qin Xin.

Qin Xin's xiao music became even more chaotic, and just as the five figures were approaching Qin Xin, a grim sneer came from behind her, "Turn around!"

Qin Xin's body trembled suddenly - someone was behind her?

Qin Xin remembered that she was facing away from Zhao Yuezhu, and there was less than half a foot between them. Was it a human skin speaking, or Zhao Yuezhu's human skin?