Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "You knew who the Snow Mountain Demon God was all along, didn't you?"

"I was just guessing!" I swept away the snow in front of the corpse and discovered a line of writing scratched into the ground with a finger: *Pin Dao* (This humble Taoist) Ye Qianyang, goes by the Daoist name Nine Coffin Master.

Feng Ruoxing and I exchanged shocked glances with Ye Yang.

Ye Yang himself was also utterly astonished.

It took Feng Ruoxing a good while before he stammered, "You… you’re the… Nine… Nine Coffin Master? The founder of the Coffin Sect?"

Legend had it that the founder of the Coffin Sect was this mysterious Nine Coffin Master.

The Nine Coffin Master, who could converse with ghosts and gods and treat Yama with courtesy, had single-handedly established the Coffin Sect, which shook the entire sorcery world. The Nine Coffin Master and his Coffin Sect had long become an immortal legend in the world of sorcery.

Among the disciples of the Coffin Sect throughout the ages, the only one who could compare with the Nine Coffin Master was the third-generation Sect Leader, the Scattered Coffin Immortal. Even the two current Coffin Masters, who had become deities in the underworld, were slightly inferior.

I never imagined that the Nine Coffin Master was actually Ye Qianyang.

It took Feng Ruoxing a long time to recover his senses: "This snow mountain, could it be the place where the Nine Coffin Master underwent immortal transformation and ascended to heaven?"

I shook my head and said, "This isn't where he ascended, but where he was buried."

"The Nine Coffin Master was, in the end, a sorcerer. Sorcerers cannot ride the wind or ascend to the Immortal Realm, so there's no such thing as dissolving the body to ascend."

"If my guess is correct, this should be where the Nine Coffin Master broke his fate and reincarnated."

I analyzed, "Cang Tianji said long ago that our journey here is actually a process of breaking fate."

"The Heavenly Fate Plate and the God-Slaying Platform were both treasures stolen from the temple by the Eight Great Thieves. They should be what the Nine Coffin Master used to break his fate back then."

"With the Nine Coffin Master's cultivation, he didn't actually need to break his fate. I think he must have been unwilling to simply fade away, or perhaps there was some unresolved matter that he wanted to carry his memories into reincarnation for."

"To become the next Ye Qianyang."

Feng Ruoxing said in a low voice, "Is that possible?"

I shook my head and said, "After several great tribulations in the world of sorcery, many secret methods have been lost. Who knows if there were reincarnation techniques in the past?"

As I swept the snow from the ground, I said, "The Nine Coffin Master must have encountered some kind of problem during reincarnation, causing him to fall short. In the end, he became an incomplete Ye Qianyang."

I swept a few more times and finally revealed another fragment of writing: On such and such day of such and such month, Ye Qianyang reincarnated here, but unexpectedly was harmed by a traitor and failed to attain a divine body, this hatred is hard to appease…

This inscription faced the direction of the Nine Coffin Master, while the previous inscription faced the direction of the temple gate.

It seemed that this was a record left by the second-generation reincarnated Ye Qianyang, facing his past body.

I said in a deep voice, "According to reason, Ye Qianyang wouldn't need to leave these things behind. He deliberately left these words, probably because he thought it possible that one day he would return here. Was he afraid he would forget something?"

Feng Ruoxing said, "You mean Ye Qianyang lost a part of his memory during reincarnation?"

"That's right!" I said in a deep voice. "Since the Nine Coffin Master, have you heard of anyone dominating the world using the Nine Coffin Master's secret methods?"

"If the Nine Coffin Master had reincarnated with all his memories, then another identical Ye Qianyang would have appeared in the world."

"The martial world hasn't seen the reappearance of the Nine Coffin Master, which means he no longer has the secret methods of that time."

I added, "Of course, it's also possible that he was deliberately hiding from someone, and cultivated other techniques to conceal his identity. But that possibility is too low."

Re-cultivation meant starting everything from scratch. A person who reincarnated with memories must have something they couldn't let go of, and they needed to return to their peak state in the shortest possible time.

There were too many variables in re-cultivation, which simply didn't conform to the logic of reincarnation.

I swept a few more times, but found no more inscriptions.

I took a deep breath and said, "I understand now. It turns out that the nine temples here weren't built to protect Ye Qianyang, but to prevent his reincarnation."

"The design of these nine temples is simple and unadorned, looking like they were built by ancient barbaric shamans. At that time, temples didn't have architectural styles; only tallness, grandeur, solemnity, and sturdiness were needed to meet the requirements of reverence for the gods."

"The people who built the temples deliberately erased the architectural style, in order to make it impossible to tell when the temples were built."

"Only in this way would the legends gradually be changed, and Ye Qianyang, who died on the snow mountain, would become the Snow Mountain Demon God."

"Even if someone was curious about the origins of the temples and gradually investigated, it would be difficult to reach the summit of the snow mountain through the first eight temples."

"Even if they came up, the Ye Qianyangs of past generations would be waiting for them here."

"The people who built the temples were preparing to erase Ye Qianyang's traces!"

I murmured, "The traitor of the Coffin Sect? Who betrayed the Coffin Sect? And who insisted on trapping Ye Qianyang to death?"

"Why didn't Ye Qianyang leave complete inscriptions?"

"Could it be that the things Ye Qianyang left behind are actually on his own body?" As I looked at Ye Qianyang's corpse, Ye Yang also said, "That's possible!"