When my gaze lingered on Du Song's face, he glared back at me, as if I were about to call his name and he would lash out to kill me.

The person I should choose was Du Song. Killing him would eliminate the biggest hidden danger by my side.

However, my intuition told me that I shouldn't choose him! Instead, I should choose Cai Wenyan, who wasn't in the crowd.

After only a moment's hesitation, I said, "I choose Cai Wenyan. That person... you haven't killed him already, have you?"

"Clever!" The Master of Fate laughed, "You've chosen the person I have the most trouble dealing with. I've chased all the people from the Reincarnation Department in here, but I still haven't found that Cai Wenyan. That means, besides carrying something to protect his life, he's also particularly cunning."

"You've indeed chosen a good gambling chip, but you'll still lose. If you want to find him, come with me!"

As the Master of Fate slowly walked towards the village, I couldn't help but frown.

Was Cai Wenyan really as cunning as the Master of Fate said, or was he preparing to go to the village to find Ye Yang?

If it was the former, it would be fine, but if it was the latter, it would be troublesome. What should I do if he bet Feng Ruoxing's life against me?

At that time, I didn't know that Ye Yang and the others were no longer in the village.

After hearing that echo, Feng Ruoxing originally didn't plan to pay attention to the ghost that was trying to scare them with echoes, but he didn't expect to hear a voice in his ear, "Come here!"

Feng Ruoxing was slightly shocked and turned to look at Ye Yang, only to find that he was also looking in the direction of the voice.

Ye Yang gently raised a hand, gesturing for Feng Ruoxing to be quiet, but then another soft call came to his ear: "Come here!"

"Let's go!" Ye Yang followed the direction of the voice and darted away, and in the blink of an eye, he silently landed outside the courtyard.

Feng Ruoxing and Ye Yang were like two night owls traveling through the night, silently skimming over walls and eaves, step by step descending towards the end of the village, until they both stopped when they reached the last courtyard.

Before Ye Yang even entered the courtyard, he saw the oddity of that courtyard. The entire Qingyan Village was built with adobe walls, but that courtyard was built with bluestone.

Moreover, each piece of bluestone was polished into a square shape, looking like specially fired square bricks.

When Ye Yang crossed the bluestone wall, which was two feet higher than the other courtyards, he deliberately tapped it with his sword and discovered that those stones were all tomb bricks.

The courtyard was empty, with not a single house, not even a blade of grass growing.

When Ye Yang landed in the courtyard, he felt a chill under his feet. That feeling was like stepping into ice water in the dead of winter, a coldness that went from the soles of his feet to the marrow of his bones.

Yin energy!

Feng Ruoxing reached out and pressed his hand on the ground: "The yin energy here is very heavy! The ground is frozen solid. Are those tomb bricks outside used to block the yin energy?"

Ye Yang nodded slightly: "Someone used the courtyard as a tomb, using tomb bricks to block the yin energy to prevent it from entering the village. What are the people of Qingyan Village doing?"

As soon as Ye Yang finished speaking, he heard another voice: "Come here!"

This time, the voice came from the center of the courtyard.

Ye Yang carefully took a few steps forward and gently swept the ground with his foot, revealing an iron ring.

Ye Yang quickly swept again, and a double iron door embedded in the ground appeared. The iron ring he had swept out at the beginning was one of the door rings.

Ye Yang frowned when his gaze fell on the beast's mouth holding the door ring.

In ancient times, the beast heads on doors were called pushou, used to open and close the door and knock on it.

In later times, most of the pushou used were Jiaotu, one of the nine sons of the dragon, with fierce beasts glaring, baring their teeth and holding rings, showing majesty and also having the meaning of warding off evil spirits.

In the early period, the pushou shapes were not uniform, with Buddha hands, Zhu Que, double phoenixes, sheep heads, dog heads, tiger heads, lion heads, and so on, mainly due to the evolution of humanity.

The initial function of the pushou was for sacrifice, which is often referred to as the door sacrifice.

As for whether the door sacrifice was sacrificing livestock to the door, Ye Yang had not verified it, but he was sure of one thing, that the pushou would never use human heads.

The pushou on that door happened to be two lifelike, yet hideous, human heads made of brass.

If the size of the human heads was not slightly smaller, Ye Yang would even think that someone had chopped off the human heads, and before the expressions of pain and fear had disappeared, poured brass on them and cast them into two human head pushou.

Feng Ruoxing squatted down and gently touched the human heads, and blood flowed from the eyes of the two human heads.

Feng Ruoxing quickly withdrew his hand, and the two door rings actually knocked themselves. After knocking several times on each side, the door opened with a sound, revealing a straight, well-like cave leading downwards.

Feng Ruoxing looked at Ye Yang: "Shall we go down?"

Ye Yang pondered for a moment: "We must go down!"

"The pushou just now should be a secret lock opened with bloodline, human blood is the key. Someone made arrangements on the door lock in advance, so that everyone can open the secret lock."

"Since the other party has invited us in, how can we not go?"