Jiang Junci wanted to speak, but Wang the Butcher flicked a finger at his acupoints from behind, freezing him in place.

A Yao Duo didn't see Wang the Butcher's actions and mistakenly thought Jiang Junci was unwilling to help. Tears welled up in her eyes as she said, "Jiang Junci, I promise you, is it okay if I lead the Miao Jiang gu masters to reinforce Liangjie Mountain?"

"Our gu masters can be the vanguard!"

I laughed, "A Yao Duo, you're too naive."

"Do you think gu masters are really useful to us?"

"Gu worms are fine for dealing with the living, but for dealing with souls, I only need a witch. What use are gu masters?"

A Yao Duo was completely devastated.

When you think you hold the biggest trump card, but the person you're gambling with tells you: Your trump card is worthless in my eyes, and you don't even have a chance to bet.

That kind of despair is impossible to understand without experiencing it firsthand.

Hua Chao Yu roared, "Kill him! A Yao Duo, kill him!"

"If you don't kill him, our gu master lineage will really have no chance to rise again."

As A Yao Duo tremblingly raised her hand, a small hand curled into a pointing finger suddenly stretched out from the pocket of my shirt and flicked the head of the Golden Silkworm Gu, sending it flying two meters away.

The Golden Silkworm Gu, lying on the ground, appeared to be drunk, its body arched upwards and motionless.

Suddenly, I struck out with my blade, aiming at Hua Han. Caught completely off guard, Hua Han's head was severed by the force of the blade.

Even as Hua Han's head was still spinning in the air, my second strike was already aimed at the space between Hua Han’s eyebrows, splitting her skull in two.

This time, a burst of green fire flashed from the splattered blood. Hua Chao Yu, some distance away, cried out miserably and fell to the ground, clutching her head.

As I sheathed my blade, I coldly surveyed the terrified Miao Jiang gu masters: "Take off all your clothes."

A Yao Duo exclaimed in shock, "Li Po, what are you doing?"

Ling said, "Hua Han was possessed by the Nine-Tailed Fox. Although Li Po's strike injured the Nine-Tailed Fox, it didn't kill it. It's now gone into someone else's body."

"The person possessed by the Nine-Tailed Fox will have fox fur on their body."

Last night, something suddenly occurred to me—could the soul of the Nine-Tailed Fox be unkillable?

According to the *Investiture of the Gods*, the Nine-Tailed Fox died under Lu Ya's flying knife. Afterwards, the legend of Tamamo-no-Mae appeared in the East.

Eastern legends say that Tamamo-no-Mae was besieged and killed by an army of 500,000, along with thousands of monks, mages, and onmyoji. Her body transformed into the Sessho-seki (Killing Stone), and any creature that approached it would die mysteriously.

Even the strongest onmyoji in the East could do nothing about the Killing Stone.

Later, when Wang Hun's master, Bei Lang, personally led Chinese sorcerers across the ocean to retrieve the Ninety-Five Sacred Treasures lost by the Way of术, Xie Ban Gui once descended in his true form to the East and killed the remnant soul of Tamamo-no-Mae. (See *Ghost Coffin* for details.)

From this perspective, the soul of the Nine-Tailed Fox is almost indestructible, and even a fragmented soul can still be reborn in some way.

Therefore, I was wondering if the attitude of the Miao Jiang gu masters was being influenced by the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Old Liu also agreed with my view.

In his opinion, the Nine-Tailed Fox's undying soul may be Nuwa's compensation to the Nine-Tailed Fox.

The Nine-Tailed Fox was ordered by Nuwa to bring disaster to the Shang Dynasty. When the Shang Dynasty fell, all the disciples of the Jie Sect were deified. The Nine-Tailed Fox not only didn't receive a divine position but was also executed, which was unfair to her.

If we were to consider only the number of people killed, which of the Jie Sect disciples who resisted the Zhou army didn't kill more people than the Nine-Tailed Fox?

Killing the Nine-Tailed Fox was only to prevent Nuwa from bearing the blame for plotting against the human king.

Therefore, Lu Ya beheaded the Nine-Tailed Fox, but he didn't destroy her soul.

It was tantamount to indirectly giving her a way out.

Ling repeatedly examined the process of us killing the Nine-Tailed Fox and also felt that it was too easy.

Especially when the soul of the Nine-Tailed Fox collapsed, the phosphorus fire that swept out didn't seem to have completely landed.

If the phosphorus fire didn't extinguish, it meant that the soul hadn't dispersed.

If the Nine-Tailed Fox wasn't dead, then Jiang Junci would definitely reject A Yao Duo today.

Whether Jiang Junci was acting out of genuine feelings or was being controlled by the Nine-Tailed Fox, he had to leave A Yao Duo.

Only in this way would our Liangjie Hall engage in a major conflict with the Miao Jiang.

Facts proved that everything was developing in the direction we had calculated.

After we fell out with the Miao Jiang gu masters, Ye Yang and I constantly attacked and slaughtered gu masters in order to test who the Nine-Tailed Fox was on.

Although the Nine-Tailed Fox was cunning, she wasn't someone who dared to die. Therefore, she would definitely reveal her true colors.

After we attacked, the most nervous people were A Yao Duo and Hua Chao Yu.

The person who had been quietly retreating, however, was Hua Han.

Therefore, I finally locked my target on Hua Han.

Without Zhu Zi Ning's protection, the Nine-Tailed Fox was indeed found by me.

At this moment, Hua Chao Yu also sat up from the ground and shouted with bloodshot eyes, "Take off your clothes, take off all your clothes! The Nine-Tailed Fox killed my granddaughter, I want her to pay with blood!"

As Hua Chao Yu roared sternly, streaks of blood appeared on her face, looking like countless earthworms wriggling back and forth under her skin.

Hua Chao Yu was about to risk everything!