Lin Zhao asked in surprise, "If he's not a civil official, then what is he?"

"An Embroidered Uniform Guard!" I replied, "Shang Xingyan is an exceptional secret agent."

I said, "At first, I also thought Shang Xingyan was just a frustrated civil official. Later, Old Liu told me that Shang Xingyan was definitely not as simple as he seemed."

"If Shang Xingyan were just a civil official, even if he succumbed to a sorcerer like me, he wouldn't have been able to distinguish himself from the faction of civil officials in such a short time."

"Moreover, the more someone is good at flattery and opportunism, the less likely they are to easily join a certain power."

"Shang Xingyan not only did it, but he did it exceptionally well."

"The information Shang Xingyan has given me several times has been very accurate. This is not something a frustrated person can suddenly do!"

"Old Liu repeatedly reminded me not to easily trust Shang Xingyan. He suspected that Shang Xingyan had never been an undercover agent, but obtained information from other channels. That's why I haven't contacted him for a long time."

I said here and asked Lin Zhao, "That remark Shang Xingyan said to me in Shanglin Community, do you think he was really just complaining?"

"He was telling me his true identity."

"Shang Xingyan's first life was as an official in the Song Dynasty. His second reincarnation was in the late Ming Dynasty. How long is that gap?"

"What was he doing during that long period of time?"

"If, as he himself said, he was just someone who focused on his work and didn't understand the power struggles in the officialdom, he should have been sent to reincarnate long ago. Why wait hundreds of years?"

"The only thing he wanted to show me was that a subversive transformation had taken place in him!"

Lin Zhao said in disbelief, "You can determine that he's an Embroidered Uniform Guard just based on this? That's a bit... a bit too far-fetched, right?"

I shook my head and said, "After experiencing great ups and downs, people either completely collapse or are reborn from the ashes."

"Shang Xingyan happens to belong to the latter."

"Back then, the person who arranged for him to reincarnate might not have been an Embroidered Uniform Guard."

"In short, I believe that old thing."

"Ye Yang believes it too."

While I was talking to Lin Zhao, Ye Yang had already jumped down to the bottom of the rocks and split open the rock wall with his sword. Sure enough, there was a corpse with wide eyes hidden inside.

The corpse, dressed in old-fashioned yellow cloth clothes, had been arranged in a cross-legged position, with a short table like an offering table and a white porcelain wine bowl in front of it.

Butcher Wang gave Ye Yang a gesture, signaling him not to move rashly. She walked to the front of the offering table, picked up the wine bowl and sniffed it: "This bowl has contained blood."

"This is a ghost god blocking the way!"

"He's asking for sacrifices!"

*Gui Shen Lan Lu* (ghost god blocking the way) means that some ghost gods deliberately block people who accidentally enter a certain place, preventing them from coming out. They don't kill people, but they will ask people for things. People who are blocked, either get away with breaking their fortune or are trapped in a certain place forever.

The things that the ghost gods blocking the way demand may be treasures carried by someone or one of the people.

Just like this ghost god in the mountain wall, he has a bowl containing blood in front of him, which means that he is asking Ye Yang and the others for a bowl of blood.

Butcher Wang hesitated for a moment, then cut her finger and dripped blood into the bowl.

However, the blood drops she dripped into the bowl gathered into several spheres like mercury, and could not merge together at all.

"It's not my blood!" Butcher Wang threw the blood on the ground.

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "Teacher Xia, you try."

After Xia Mengying dripped blood into the bowl, a faint fragrance of ink floated out of the porcelain bowl.

Now, the three of Ye Yang were all stunned!

We had no idea that Pei Haohong, who was dozens of kilometers away, was extremely excited because of these three drops of blood.

Pei Haohong, who was in Shanglin Community, placed a square inkstone in front of him that looked like a ghost face.

At the same time as Xia Mengying dripped blood into the porcelain bowl, a fragrance of ink also floated out of the inkstone.

Pei Haohong rubbed his hands and said, "Found it, finally found it, blood with the fragrance of ink. I have finally found the reincarnation of the grandmaster."

"I didn't misjudge it back then, that girl is the reincarnation of a grandmaster. Great, great!"

The property manager, standing behind Pei Haohong with his hands tied, couldn't help but asked, "Master, since that woman has already entered Shanglin Community, why don't we just keep her here?"

Pei Haohong said, "It's not difficult to keep that girl. It's the people around her who are difficult to deal with. At that time, if the master hadn't had the Shanglin Memorial Archway to help, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to withstand a few of their moves."

"Besides, that little girl is just an unripe fruit, it's not time to pick her yet."

"When she enters the Kong family courtyard, that's when we'll pick the fruit!"

The property manager said in a low voice, "Master, I don't understand, why are you doing this?"

Pei Haohong sneered, "To make the Banxian Estate suffer the consequences!"

"Do you think, why were the Kong family members slaughtered overnight? It's because of the Banxian Estate."

"Do you think, why were the bodies of those people directly buried under the Kong family? It's still because of the Banxian Estate."

"The Banxian Estate back then..."

Pei Haohong's face suddenly changed when he said this: "Who are you?"