I explained, "Back then, hundreds of people were flayed, buried alive, and their souls were suppressed using secret methods. We must avenge this blood debt."

"When wronged souls seek revenge, they believe in an eye for an eye. Since their skin was peeled off, they will naturally retaliate by peeling skin."

"However, after those ghosts escaped, there were no more recorded cases of skinning. It's highly likely that those wronged souls failed to avenge their skinning."

I paused and said, "Sixty years later, the skinning cases happened again. This time, the number of victims was smaller than the first time. Chronologically, it also happened on the same day."

"Therefore, I suspect that the wronged souls waited for a reincarnation cycle to avenge themselves on the original murderers."

"Now, another sixty years have passed, and the skinning cases have reappeared. Moreover, the White Tiger Formation from back then has been set up in the same place."

"So, I suspect that the wronged souls from back then have returned, and they want to take their second skinning revenge."

Zhao Yuezhu widened her eyes, "According to you, didn't they already take revenge once? Why do they need to take revenge again?"

I shook my head, "The reason why vengeful ghosts are terrifying is because their resentment is hard to dissipate. If the resentment doesn't dissipate, they will kill endlessly. Don't mention waiting sixty years in one place, they could even wait six hundred years."

"But…" Zhao Yuezhu hesitated for a long time before saying, "But, the murderers are people! Sun Qing can't possibly be a ghost, right?"

"Also, why didn't those wronged souls return to White Tiger Gully the first time they took revenge? Instead, they chose to cross a province."

"And also! According to you, the murderers and victims back then shouldn't have been just one or two people. Can reincarnation really gather everyone together? That's not logical!"

I also nodded, "That's why I said this is just my guess. I wonder how Ye Yang is doing?"

While I was dealing with White Tiger Gully, Ye Yang was digging up graves in Sun Qing's hometown, specifically the grave of Sun Qing's grandfather.

However, the one doing the digging wasn't Ye Yang, but a reluctant Nie Xiaochun.

Nie Xiaochun held a shovel, dug a shovelful of dirt, and then glared at Ye Yang with a look of disgust. All she got in return was an encouraging look from Ye Yang.

Ye Yang made it very clear that if his hand wasn't injured, he would never let Nie Xiaochun dig dirt, but his hand was injured, so what could he do?

After Nie Xiaochun dug out a fat worm, she finally broke down, "The thirty-first worm! Why do I have to suffer this!"

Ye Yang smiled and said, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can collect the worms and take them back to throw in Stupid Dog's bowl."

"Quick, two more shovelfuls and you'll see the coffin."

"If you weren't good-looking, I would have buried you in the grave with a shovel," Nie Xiaochun gritted her teeth and started digging again.

Ye Yang still gave her an encouraging look.

Nie Xiaochun continued to dig down nearly three meters deep before the shovel hit the coffin lid, making a metallic scraping sound.

"Stand back!" Ye Yang stepped forward and looked at the coffin in the grave pit. dafengxiaoshuo.com

Here, coffins aren't buried too deep. Most of the time, the coffin lid is level with the grave pit, or at most a foot or so underground.

According to local customs, if the coffin is buried too deep, it's inconvenient for the ghosts to come and go. In order to bring the ancestors home for the New Year, the coffin can't be buried more than three feet deep.

Therefore, it's not uncommon for heavy rain to wash out coffins or for wild dogs to dig them up.

The Sun family's coffin was buried a zhang deep, and the outside of the coffin was wrapped in iron. This was clearly to suppress the ghost in the coffin.

When Ye Yang walked to the edge of the grave pit, a gust of Yin wind suddenly swirled up from inside.

The whistling Yin wind was like an invisible ghostly hand, sweeping away the last bit of dirt from the front to the back of the coffin lid, revealing eight large characters written on the coffin: "Do not touch karma, depart quickly."

Nie Xiaochun held a paper umbrella behind Ye Yang, "What does that mean?"

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "The dead person in the coffin is waiting for a living person who has karmic ties with them. Opening the coffin is the same as disturbing their karma."

Nie Xiaochun whispered, "Then are we still moving the coffin?"

"The coffin must be moved." Ye Yang pointed the long sword at the coffin lid from a distance. The sword trembled slightly, and the flexible sword energy tapped on the coffin a few times, like the sound of fists knocking on wood.

As soon as Ye Yang stopped the sword energy, several knocking sounds immediately came from inside the coffin.

According to the rules of the Jianghu, knocking on the coffin twice from the outside and inside is clearly a question and answer.

The sound Ye Yang made meant: Which friend is this?

The response from the coffin was: We keep to ourselves.

Ye Yang sneered and pointed the tip of his sword at the pile of dirt at his feet. Several pebbles, propelled by sword energy, all hit the side of the coffin, and a sound like a lock core turning came from inside the coffin.

The coffin lid, which had been tightly sealed, suddenly pried open on one side, and a black gas with a fishy stench emanated from the gap in the coffin.

When Ye Yang stabbed the sword tip into the dirt pile for the second time, Nie Xiaochun exclaimed, "There's a mechanism in the coffin?"

After the Greedy Wolf Coffin deal, Nie Xiaochun asked Ye Yang: Was he a descendant of Bei Yiye? Ye Yang only said that they had some relationship.

Bei Yiye was good at using mechanisms, and Ye Yang was also proficient in secret mechanism techniques. Just now, he used sword energy to knock on the coffin a few times and found a way to open the mechanism.