The old Beishui Town had been burned to the ground by a great fire, and the warlocks who had left their heads in the life-gambling game had also been reduced to ashes.

The heads we see now all have modern hairstyles. They are either tourists from Beishui Town or Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren hunted down by Hua Wuxin.

Xiao Ying was right when she said Hua Wuxin was vicious.

I gently tapped the table and said, "Hua Wuxin, I know you're behind this wall. You should be able to sense my presence too. Can we talk?"

Hua Lianqing's voice came from the deepest part of the spiral of heads: "Are you really a disciple of Bu Si Jiang (Undying Corpse)?"

"Yes!" I said in a deep voice, "It's easy to live forever, but difficult to be undying."

Hua Lianqing replied, "Enemies in life, companions in death."

Hua Lianqing and I both fell silent.

The words I spoke were a prearranged code between Bu Si Jiang and Hua Wuxin, known only to their successors.

Only after performing the corresponding secret techniques and then matching the code could we confirm each other's identities.

After a long silence, I spoke first, "Are you Hua Lianqing, or Hua Wuxin?"

Hua Lianqing said quietly, "Hua Wuxin of the martial world, Hua Lianqing of Bu Si Jiang."

Hua Wuxin is a woman! This secret was known only to Bu Si Jiang.

I stood up and bowed deeply to the wall: "Li Po, successor of Bu Si Jiang, pays respects to Shimu (martial aunt)!"

As Wang Butcher and the others stared at me with wide eyes, a clear, cold laugh came from the direction of Hua Lianqing: "You call me Shimu? Bu Si Jiang has never acknowledged me, and even wanted to kill me, hasn't he?"

"Oh, right, is he doing well with that vixen from the Wang family?"

I said in a deep voice, "Shifu (martial father) has never betrayed the Shixun (martial teachings)."

I roughly explained how Bu Si Jiang taught me to make zombie meat, and how I saw a zombie in the Wang family compound, before saying, "Shifu has always kept his promise!"

"Hahahaha..." After a moment of silence, Hua Lianqing suddenly burst into wild laughter.

At first, her laughter was unrestrained and arrogant, but gradually it became tinged with sorrow, and in the end, I couldn't tell whether she was crying or laughing.

After Hua Lianqing stopped laughing, she said quietly, "What a promise-keeping Bu Si Jiang, a word is worth nine dings!"

"But I don't want his promise, a promise worth a thousand gold!"

"Do you know how many people his promise has harmed?"

"Speak!" Hua Lianqing said sharply when I didn't answer, "Are you mute? Didn't Bu Si Jiang tell you about his promise?"

I said in a low voice, "Shifu never said anything!"

The Nine Ghosts all have their own stories, but they never easily mentioned their past in front of me, and when they did, it was only in a few words.

In their words, it was the grudges of the previous generation. There was no need for me to bear their grudges. It was enough for them to tell me how to defend against certain things.

Hua Lianqing said in a deep voice, "If he doesn't tell you, then let me tell you!"

"The respective Shifu of Bu Si Jiang and I were also a pair of unfortunate lovers torn apart by their Shimen (sect). They placed the regret of not being able to become husband and wife on Bu Si Jiang and me, hoping that their successors could become a couple."

"Especially after Bu Si Jiang and I accidentally obtained the secret technique of 'eternal life,' our two Shifu were even more overjoyed."

"They hoped to see Bu Si Jiang and I become immortals living together forever because that was the wish they dreamed of fulfilling."

"But feelings are simply a means for heaven to play tricks on mortals. The more you hope to see a certain outcome, the more things will develop in the opposite direction."

"Not only did Bu Si Jiang not have any feelings for me, but on the contrary, he was somewhat annoyed. He refused to marry me no matter what, even if he was beaten black and blue by his Shifu, he wouldn't nod his head."

Hua Lianqing said with a miserable smile, "At that time, I was also asking myself, is Bu Si Jiang so disgusted with me? Why is that?"

"I fought with Bu Si Jiang for many years, and I asked him many times, but he never gave me an answer."

"Later, my Shibo (martial uncle), who was also Bu Si Jiang's Shifu, forced him with his death. Only then did he reluctantly make a strange promise: if I don't die, he won't marry another woman!"

"Our Shifu understood Bu Si Jiang's personality, and he didn't want to force his disciple to death either. So he agreed."

"Our Shifu all thought that time could change a person's views, and maybe after a long time, Bu Si Jiang would change his mind."

"But none of us expected that Bu Si Jiang would want to kill me. After his first sneak attack on me, his Shifu was so angered that he fell ill and eventually died with regret."

"On the day of my Shifu's funeral, my Shifu set up a trap to capture Bu Si Jiang alive to avenge his Shibo, but not only did Bu Si Jiang escape the encirclement, but he also scolded my Shifu. He said she was unchaste, he said she was insane, he said she killed his Shibo..."

"As a result, my Shifu also fell ill. When she was dying, she was still asking me if she had done something wrong? Did she kill his Shibo?"

"At that time, I had only one thought, which was to kill Bu Si Jiang to avenge my Shifu."

"That's the grievance between me and Bu Si Jiang."

Hua Wuxin stopped talking here, but I always felt that the grievance between her and Bu Si Jiang was not over. At least, this story of love and hate was not as simple as she said.