Meng Die was by no means a good person, even worse than most Jianghu people.

However, her wickedness was out in the open, telling you directly, I am a heretic, so don't expect any gentlemanly conduct when cooperating with me.

Cooperation is all about gambling with your life. There are no promises, and anyone can be sacrificed in business.

Meng Die stood deep within Dead Man's Gulch, took out a long, narrow leaf, put it to her lips, and gently blew. The sound of the leaf was like weeping, accompanied by the rushing water, like a female ghost in the River of the Underworld singing softly.

Ye Yang's eyes narrowed sharply: "Huangquan Luoye (Yellow Springs Fallen Leaf)! How could it be in her hands?"

I couldn't help but ask, "What is Huangquan Luoye?"

Ye Yang lowered his voice and said, "I have a vague impression that it seems to be something from the netherworld, but I can't remember. I only remember that Huangquan Luoye should not appear in the mortal realm."

I looked again at the leaf in Meng Die's hand.

I couldn't tell what kind of plant the leaf came from, but I instinctively felt that the crystal-clear, jade-like leaf was extraordinary.

If that fallen leaf really came from the Huangquan (Yellow Springs), which is difficult for ghosts and gods to enter, it would not be an exaggeration to call it a divine artifact.

As I stared at the fallen leaf, a wail came from the depths of Dead Man's Gulch.

The sound of the leaf echoed the wail in the distance. The two seemed to be entangled, confronting, and attracting each other.

After a long time, Meng Die put down the leaf and said, "Enter Dead Man's Gulch!"

A swordsman stepped out from the crowd, bowed slightly to Meng Die, and stood at the edge of the waterway with his sword. Four people from each of the four major families walked out, making up a total of eight people. Then, they jumped into the waterway of Dead Man's Gulch.

The eight people led the way, and a swordsman followed carefully behind. Before long, the nine figures disappeared from our sight.

At the same time, eight lights on both sides of the mountain wall went out. The figures in the cave became pitch black the moment the lights went out, looking like a pile of earth from a distance.

Meng Die said without changing her expression: "The previous people are not coming back. Next!"

Just as another swordsman stepped forward, I raised my hand and said, "Wait a moment."

As the swordsman looked at me in surprise, I said to Meng Die, "If you keep going like this, it won't help even if you fill it with people."

"Dead Man's Gulch doesn't let people out, but it doesn't stop people from entering. You can let as many people in as you want. If you want to unlock the secret of Dead Man's Gulch, you have to work from the inside out."

Xiao Yan's face changed when she heard me, "Miss, don't listen to him. He wants to trick you into Dead Man's Gulch. If we go in, he will run away. If you die, he can dissolve the engagement."

"Shut up!" Meng Die's face also darkened.

I looked at Xiao Yan with a smile that was not a smile: "Are you still a sorcerer?"

"There is no big difference between the dead and the living in the eyes of a sorcerer. If you can't marry a person, you can marry a ghost. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in your young lady. Otherwise, I could really make her mine in life and mine in death."

"You..." Xiao Yan's cheeks puffed up with anger, but Meng Die looked at me calmly and said, "Do you have any other guesses?"

I said, "Do you think that Niu Tianlu deliberately created the mine disaster just to cover up his killing of nine people in a row? I think he was using the coal mine to imitate Dead Man's Gulch."

"Dead Man's Gulch is like a mine closed off by ghosts and gods. You can dig up treasures deep inside, but it's also dangerous."

"Otherwise, Niu Tianlu wouldn't have targeted those miners. He took the bodies of those miners up the mountain in the end to use the miners' instincts to dig up Dead Man's Gulch."

"Nonsense!" Xiao Yan roared, "There is no basis for what you said. You just want to trick us into going in to die."

After Ye Yang and I looked at each other, we got up at the same time and flew towards the depths of Dead Man's Gulch, stepping on the water-borne coffins.

As I rushed towards Dead Man's Gulch, I heard Meng Die say, "Xiao Yan, do you think your judgment is correct?"

Xiao Yan said coldly, "Miss, don't worry, they will be back before they reach the middle."

With a few leaps, Ye Yang and I reached the middle of the waterway. While still in the air, we looked towards the tombs piled up like floating islands.

The moment my gaze shifted, a corpse also raised its head from behind a tomb. After grinning at me, it pointed to a coffin on the left side of the tomb and then leaned against the tomb again, motionless.

My next step was directly onto the tomb. Just as Ye Yang's and my toes touched the tomb, the tomb floating on the water suddenly cracked open beneath our feet. The severed tomb, along with the corpse, was swept into the water.

Ye Yang and I also used the force to leap into the air.

But where should we choose to land?

Should we choose the coffin pointed to by the corpse, or should we choose another direction?

"Nine enter the earth, eight become ghosts; seven ghosts lead the way, do not follow!"

If, according to this saying, I should go in the opposite direction of what the corpse pointed to, and we will encounter seven dead people in a row along the way, that would be in line with the so-called seven ghosts leading the way.

But can Niu Tianlu's mantra be trusted?

If it is trustworthy, why didn't he come out himself?

If it is not trustworthy, where did he get the mantra from?