I instantly locked onto the gatekeeper, but she said nonchalantly, "Do you know why no warlock in the world can ever leave the Misty Rain Pavilion?"

"Because the Misty Rain Pavilion has its own rules."

Cang Tianji exclaimed in surprise, "Creating another world!"

When it came to being unflappable, Cang Tianji was still a bit lacking compared to Ling, but he could still be considered a hero in his own right.

At least, this was the first time I had seen Cang Tianji so flustered.

I gently placed my hand on Cang Tianji's shoulder, "Don't panic, what's going on?"

Cang Tianji calmed himself down and said, "Someone has established laws here. The people inside the Misty Rain Pavilion may be emperors!"

After understanding Cang Tianji's words, I was also shocked.

Taoism has the saying of Dao (the Way), Fa (Law), Shu (Technique), and Qi (Instrument).

Dao is the rule, the highest level.

Fa is the law, the middle level.

Shu is the method, the lower level.

Qi is the tool, for assistance.

However, Gui Da once told me: the current way of techniques only has Dao and Shu, without the existence of Fa.

As for why this happened, there are no clear records, and the martial world is full of speculation.

The most credible theory comes from the Investiture of the Gods War.

The Investiture of the Gods War, in a sense, was a battle between Dao and Shu. The Twelve Golden Immortals of Chanjiao represented the Great Dao, Jiejiao represented Shu, and the Shang King, who called himself the King of Men, represented the law of the human world.

Jiejiao suffered a crushing defeat in the Investiture of the Gods War, not only did warlocks decline, but there was no longer a King of Men in the world, only the Son of Heaven.

Gui Da said at the time: these words are not just me talking nonsense, think about it carefully, why does the Confucian Classic of Rites only have the Rites of Zhou, and not the Rites of Shang?

It's not that Xia and Shang didn't have rituals, but that someone deliberately cut off the inheritance of the King of Men.

A true King of Men can establish his own rules outside the laws of Heaven, and warlocks can choose to use their secret techniques under the laws of Heaven or the laws of the King.

With the law of the King of Men gone, warlocks can only belong to the law of Heaven.

If, one day, you enter a place with its own rules, it means that there is a secret method of the King of Men in that place.

That place is likely to be the tomb of the King of Men.

It is also the last respect that Heaven gives to the King of Men.

Likewise, the tomb of the King of Men is also a forbidden area for warlocks.

The secret methods of today's warlocks all follow the laws of Heaven.

Anyone who enters the secret burial of the King of Men will surely die if they cannot adapt to the laws of the King of Men in a short period of time. Because, they cannot resist the rules of that world.

The gatekeeper laughed and said, "You have some knowledge!"

"Now, are you going to bet your heads with me or not?"

"If you don't bet, I'll just find someone to help you open the door."

Wang Butcher and Wang Xiaohuan stood up at the same time.

But I raised my hand slightly and said, "No need to rush, I'll bet with her!"

"Good..." The gatekeeper had just said the word "good" when I slowly said, "I think your head is not bad, chop it off and lend it to me!"

As the gatekeeper suddenly looked up, two streams of knife energy had already slashed out from my hand in a cross. The whistling knife energy was like a pair of scissors, cutting down fiercely along both sides of the gatekeeper's neck.

The gatekeeper's head immediately flew into the air, but her body was still sitting upright on the bed covered with dead grass.

I slowly walked towards the corpse, "Now that I have the head, you should open the door for me!"

The gatekeeper's head, which had fallen to the ground, spoke at this moment, "Pick up my head, walk forward, and you will see the gate of the Misty Rain Pavilion."

"Then, you can hang my head on the door."

I grabbed the gatekeeper's hair and walked down the mountain road with her head.

Wang Butcher said in a deep voice, "Li Po, be careful of a trap."

Cang Tianji pointed to the head in my hand and said, "Li Po, you've already won the bet."

"If Li Po really agreed to bet heads with her, he would be the one who lost."

Wang Xiaohuan whispered, "I don't understand, what's lost and won?"

Cang Tianji said, "Li Po is going to meet the Pavilion Master of the Misty Rain Pavilion as an equal. Treating kings and nobles as equals, bowing deeply to the emperor, is just the demeanor of the martial world. When the Wolf King meets the Emperor, they must sit on an equal footing."

The gatekeeper laughed and said, "Anyone can say nice things, you've only just entered a gate."

"If you really want to be on an equal footing, you have to get the Pavilion Master of the Misty Rain Pavilion to come out and greet you in person."

"Can you do it?"

This time, even Cang Tianji didn't know how to answer.

After I walked a few meters with the head, a square city built of bluestone, sandwiched between two cliffs, finally appeared in front of me.

The peaks on both sides of the Misty Rain Pavilion seemed to have been forcibly flattened by external forces, and walls were built along both sides. If there were no outlets on the left and right sides of the main gate, the Misty Rain Pavilion, which was constantly raining all year round, would have long become a small reservoir.

The gatekeeper said, "Now you can choose where to put my head. Two outlets, which one do you choose?"

The outlets of the Misty Rain Pavilion were as tall as a person, and there was a recess the size of a head above each outlet.

The gatekeeper wanted me to put her head into the recess.

Seeing that I didn't move, the gatekeeper continued, "If you put my head in, the water on that side will stop, and you can walk into the city along the secret passage where the water flows out."

"Everyone who comes to the Misty Rain Pavilion enters the city this way."

I said indifferently, "When it doesn't rain in the Misty Rain Pavilion, what are these two doors for?"