Chapter 1 I Want to Butcher a God

At that time, I didn't know that Zero had delayed her trip for a day because of my affairs. It was this very day that caused an uncontrollable change in a later business deal.

After I hung up the phone, I called Lao Liu over: "I want to butcher a god."

Lao Liu frowned and said, "If you can force the ghost-god out, Wang Tu and I are confident that we can butcher the god."

I said in a deep voice, "I need a day. Tomorrow night, I will be able to force the ghost-god out."

Lao Liu nodded and said, "I'll make a plan first. Please excuse me, Master."

After giving Lao Liu instructions, I hurried back to Liangjie Hall. The human bone clapper I got from the business in Weizi Alley would come in handy this time.

I also called Xie Sanbao: "I need a large bell, preferably an ancient bell used in a temple. I'll need it tomorrow night. Can you get one for me?"

"No problem!" Xie Sanbao agreed readily, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

While I was still planning how to butcher a god, changes were also taking place on Ye Yang's side.

Lin Zhao waited until Ye Yang and Feng Ruoxing had calmed down before saying, "Ye Yang, aren't we going to look for Li Po?"

"No need!" Ye Yang shook his head and said, "If Ben Gou (lit. Stupid Dog, nickname for Li Po) knows my purpose, he will adjust his plan."

"Ben Gou's quick wit is more terrifying than his planning. If you do a few more tasks with Ben Gou, you will find that although he is always breaking the situation, his thinking is always one step ahead of his opponents."

"His people are like his knives, able to find gaps in the opponent's complex moves and give the opponent a fatal blow."

"Ben Gou seems to be a brainless mad dog, but he has a fox hidden inside. Those who think Ben Gou is a reckless man will eventually die in their own illusions."

Ye Yang paused and said, "Ben Gou doesn't understand feng shui, but he understands formations. He can see the secret of the dual realms of life and death here."

Ye Yang stood up and said, "The Noble Mansion and Longwan Cemetery are separated by a national highway, but they are not divided into two chessboards by the Chu River and Han border, but are yin and yang extremes."

"The living and the dead, separated by a road, are not confronting each other, but can be exchanged. Once the formation here is activated, the land of life will become the land of death."

"In other words, the dead in Longwan Cemetery will be resurrected, and everyone in the Noble Mansion will die."

"Nan Yimu took me as the opportunity to turn the formation. But I still don't know what method the other party wants to use to turn the feng shui formation."

Feng Ruoxing worriedly said, "We are standing in this feng shui formation. Once the formation is activated..."

"We will die!" Ye Yang took a deep breath and said, "I wanted to force Ben Gou away first, and then get you out, because I was afraid that I would accidentally touch the formation. None of us can withstand the power of yin and yang exchange."

Feng Ruoxing was silent for a moment and said, "Otherwise, you wait in the gatehouse and don't move, and Lin Zhao and I will take action."

"I'm afraid that even if I wait, I will become a chess piece." The reason why Ye Yang was not confident in his feng shui secret techniques was that the Mu family was the orthodox heir to feng shui techniques, and what they learned was inherently superior to the Ye family. Moreover, they specialized in feng shui.

Ye Yang's cultivation was all in the sword in his hand. Feng shui techniques were only his auxiliary, and without a target, even the strongest swordsman could not defeat the enemy.

Lin Zhao, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said, "I think we should have a clue that we haven't touched."

Lin Zhao looked at Ye Yang and said, "Didn't Sister Feng say that the red fox you were tracking had its head cut off and then its body was taken away? Have you ever thought about why the other party wanted a headless fox?"

Lin Zhao analyzed, "The so-called 'Living Song' in the Noble Mansion is to prevent us from having any contact with the red fox, because they know that the red fox holds a crucial clue."

"The purpose of the gatehouse throwing out the 'Living Song' is to let Li Po directly attack anyone wearing red or yellow, without giving them a chance to speak."

"Originally, Li Po had already suspected the authenticity of the 'Living Song' and wanted to try to contact the other party. However, because the red fox had a little trick up its sleeve, he missed the clue that day. This is the process we saw."

Hearing this, Feng Ruoxing said, "Are you saying that there is something else we didn't see?"

"I'm saying something we saw but didn't think of." Lin Zhao said, "The day Li Po and I were guarding the gatehouse, a courier in a red vest came. That person first sent Li Po a head in a box, and then said that he wanted to exchange Li Po's head for his own."

"Actually, this is a very obvious hint."

"Immortals are good at predicting good and bad luck, especially for things that are about to happen in a short period of time. The red fox is very likely to have seen the ominous signs on its body, so it made preparations in advance."

Feng Ruoxing suddenly realized, "The red fox deliberately let the head roll on the ground in Feng Shui Residence. In fact, it was still reminding us that the key to the matter was the head. He deliberately didn't say the secret of that year, also to let us do our best to save him."

"So, the red fox used some special method to hide its soul in the Noble Mansion."