I was about to counterattack when I heard Ye Yang say, "Look at Nie Xiaochun!"

Only then did I see that the resentment on Nie Xiaochun's body was rapidly dissipating, while her power was constantly surging.

Lin Lingxiao's hair was turning white at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before long, he looked completely white-haired.

At this moment, Lin Lingxiao also stopped playing the zither: "Brother Li, Brother Ye, I'll take my leave first. Don't tell Miss Xiaochun that I was here! And don't tell her that I used the zither music to dissolve the resentment in her body."

I asked, puzzled, "What are you doing?"

Lin Lingxiao said, "The story between me and Miss Xiaochun is a long one. I'll tell you the details slowly after your mission is over! Just keep this a secret for me!"

"Lingxiao, I'm deeply grateful!"

I nodded and said, "Although I don't know what happened between you and Xiaochun, I have to say that everything has to be resolved eventually. Dragging it on is not the way to solve the problem."

"After this matter is over, come to Liangjie Tang, and we'll talk slowly."

"If you need our help, Liangjie Tang will definitely do its best."

"Thank you!" Lin Lingxiao staggered to his feet. This time, Lin Lingxiao suffered a great loss of vitality, and it is unknown whether he can recover to his peak.

"Wait!" I called out to Lin Lingxiao, "You should go to Liangjie Tang first! Ask Yun Chang to help you recuperate. You've damaged your vitality, who will protect Xiaochun for you in the future?"

Lin Lingxiao hesitated for a long time before nodding: "Alright! Then I'll see you at Liangjie Tang."

Lin Lingxiao's figure disappeared into the night. I waited for him to go far away before releasing Nie Xiaochun. As expected, the latter didn't remember how she got outside the village.

I deliberately changed the subject and said, "After you swallowed that woman, what did you find out?"

Nie Xiaochun said, "That woman didn't even know her own name. She only remembered that she was a corpse that Bu Huangquan stole from the Yellow Springs Eye."

"After Bu Huangquan disappeared, no one paid attention to her, so she stayed in the village."

"Xue Shaoyuan came here entirely because of Bu Youming."

"Bu Youming became famous in the martial world with the Thirteen Absolute Hands, which shocked Xue Shaoyuan. Because he knew that the secrets of the Thirteen Absolute Hands could only appear in two places: the Guiguan Gate's library and the Guiguan Gate's ancestral land."

"Bu Youming must not have entered the library, so it is very likely that he went to the ancestral land!"

"In addition, Wang Hun used the *Bai Guan Pu* (Hundred Coffin Manual) when he debuted, which made Xue Shaoyuan even more suspicious that the ancestral land had been stolen from. However, due to the special nature of the Guiguan Gate's ancestral land, he couldn't go there to check the situation, so he could only verify his guess from other directions."

"Xue Shaoyuan first went to the Yellow Springs Eye and confirmed that there were no clues there before returning to the village. He didn't expect to meet that woman here."

"Xue Shaoyuan felt that Bu Huangquan and his son should come back, so he wanted that person to bring a message to the Guiguan Gate. Later, he suddenly changed his mind for some unknown reason."

"He left the map to the Guiguan Gate's ancestral land with that woman, and specifically told her that if someone came to her for the map one day, no matter who came, as long as they said that Xue Shaoyuan had asked them to come before his death, without any token, they could give the map to the other party."

"As a reward, Xue Shaoyuan built a stone coffin well here to keep that woman's body intact."

"That's roughly the situation."

After listening, I couldn't help but frown deeply: "What is Xue Shaoyuan doing?"

"If Xue Shaoyuan felt that there were traitors in the Guiguan Gate, I would believe it. But it's too hasty for him to give the map to a stranger like that, right?"

Lin Zhao said, "I think the Sect Leader seems to have been making arrangements a long time ago."

"The Sect Leader deliberately let me join the Coffin Sect and work with Tian Dan, and also sent another disciple of the Guiguan Gate to Wang Hun's side. It seems that he was dispersing the elite of the sect. I think that at that time, he was already preparing for an accident."

"The Sect Leader also made a second-hand preparation!"

"Every disciple of the Guiguan Gate knows the Sealing Coffin Technique, but very few people know how to use the Opening Coffin Technique."

"In the eyes of the Guiguan Gate, there is no need to release evil things after they are sealed, so sealing coffins and strengthening seals are compulsory courses for Guiguan Gate disciples. Only disciples who are being trained as successors to the Sect Leader will use the Opening Coffin Technique."

"Among the disciples of my generation, only I and the murdered Xu Xia know how to use the Opening Coffin Technique. If it weren't for the two of us, even if we forcibly opened the stone coffin well, we wouldn't be able to awaken the woman inside."

I nodded and said, "Looking at it this way, Xue Shaoyuan felt that the Guiguan Gate was no longer safe. Therefore, he left behind a preparation that only he knew about."

"We can understand Xue Shaoyuan's hint before his death, and others can probably understand it too, otherwise they wouldn't have come so quickly."

"I'm wondering, should we secretly rush to the Guiguan Gate's ancestral land next, or go there with great fanfare and treat the Guiguan Gate's ancestral land as the place for our final battle!"