The village chief shook his head. "You're wrong!"

"Those with the Greedy Wolf Star in their fate always have followers. Even if it's Lü Bu, brave but lacking in strategy, greedy and shortsighted, he still had the strategist Chen Gong by his side, and the Eight Generals under his command, including outstanding talents like Zhang Liao. Not to mention Guo Ziyi, whose seven sons and eight sons-in-law all held high positions."

The two people the village chief listed were both historical figures with the Greedy Wolf Star in their fate.

Of course, some say that Lü Bu had the Shattered Army Star in his fate, and Cao Cao had the Greedy Wolf Star. If it were Cao Cao, wouldn't he have countless concubines in his harem and generals standing in his tent?

The village chief continued, "We never expected that the secret art of living puppets would come from the hands of four of the eight ghost servants of the Greedy Wolf Star."

"At that time, we had already contacted the eight ghost servants, and it was too late to stop. We could only use the power of the whole village to fight against the four of the eight ghost servants of life and death: Bone Carver, Flesh Gouger, Blood Drainer, and Skin Peeler."

"Using the same secret art to fight against the originators of the secret art, you can imagine how fierce the final battle was. At that time, we captured three of the dead servants but Skin Peeler escaped."

"Originally, we wanted to set another trap to capture Skin Peeler, but he struck first. The inheritors of the Human Skin Tailor lineage were all skinned and put on display overnight. Bloody human skins hung all over half the village, it was a horrific sight!"

"That's why our village has always been missing one line of inheritors."

By this time, Jiu Ci was so shocked that she couldn't speak clearly. "Grandpa...you said...the legends we heard aren't like this..."

The village chief shook his head. "This secret is only known to the village chief and the elders. The village's many traps aren't to defend against external enemies, but to guard against Skin Peeler who escaped back then!"

Jiu Ci said with a pale face, "Are you saying that Li Po is not only not our enemy, but also our benefactor?"

"Enemy?" The village chief sneered. "If we have an enemy, it's the Coffin Gate. If it weren't for the Coffin Gate imprisoning us in the village and making us study living puppets, would we have such a tragedy?"

The village chief turned around. "Hall Master Li, this time..."

I waved my hand. "Whether it's the grievances between your Paper Figure Village and the Coffin Gate, or your own tragedy, it has nothing to do with me. I accepted Mo Caiwei's employment, and I'm here only to ask about the Mo family."

The village chief shook his head. "The task you accepted just happens to be related to the village's secrets! The Mo Family Village incident is also about the resurrection of the dead. Wouldn't you agree?"

I thought about it carefully, and the village chief was right. Two of the three fiends of the Mo family were actually resurrected dead people.

The village chief continued, "After Caiwei was brought back by the Cang Yu Sect, the Mo family also returned. When they came back, they also brought back this."

As he spoke, the village chief pulled out a wooden box from under the altar and handed the letter inside to me. "Secret art has flaws, hard to tell who's superior. Five years as the limit, exchange insights."

I couldn't help but gasp. "Are they saying that they are also creating living puppets? But their secret art also has flaws, so they are using five years as a deadline to exchange secret arts with you?"

"It's not just exchanging secret arts, it's exchanging lives." The village chief said, "The other party is forcing us to compete with them. If we can't come up with useful secret arts, they will kill people in the village."

"Although the Paper Figure Village has many traps, it can't stop the other party's secret arts. In recent years, three families of sorcerers have been exterminated in the village. However, we suppressed the news so as not to cause panic in the village."

The village chief said with some apology, "The way we suppressed the news was to inform the village that those sorcerers had been sent to the Mo Family Village, to the Heavenly Pass."

"The people in the village never returned. Their relatives and friends had nowhere to vent their hatred, so they naturally transferred this resentment to Caiwei. Caiwei has suffered so much grievance over the years, I regret it!"

Mo Caiwei's eyes were slightly red, and Jiu Ci also bit her lip and looked at Mo Caiwei. It seemed that she wanted to apologize, but she couldn't bring herself to say it.

My face darkened slightly. "Are there still sorcerers from your village stationed in Mo Family Village?"

"Yes!" The village chief said, "We keep sending outstanding sorcerers to Mo Family Village, but actually we're just sending them to their deaths. We can't research the secret art of living puppets, and we can't deal with the existence sealed in Mo Family Village, nor are we a match for the Cang Yu Sect, so we can only use human lives to exchange for the village's peace."

"With the sacrifice of those sorcerers, the ghost god sealed in Mo Family Village will use those sorcerers to test the secret art of reincarnation, so it naturally won't be born. We will also have time to find the inheritance of Skin Peeler. More importantly, the Cang Yu Sect knows that we are sending people to the Heavenly Pass, so they won't come to make trouble for us."

"Both the Paper Figure Village and the Cang Yu Sect know that doing this is like drinking poison to quench thirst. The village is forced to do so, but the Cang Yu Sect is happy to see it happen. They don't care how many people die in the Paper Figure Village, what they care about is whether that existence will deal with their sect."

The look in my eyes as I looked at the village chief couldn't help but become a little cold. "So what? What do you want to do?"