He actually came here too. It seems that I didn't take up this job for nothing.

You could say that when enemies meet, their eyes turn red with anger. I'll fight him to the bitter end, damn it.

With these thoughts, I glared at He Shang. He Shang knew my character and didn't dare to push back. Immediately, he stepped on me to reach the rope. Cheng Xinghe's voice came from outside the hole: "Little brother, have you been eating too much recently? Why are you so heavy?"

I didn't even bother to reply. I picked up the flashlight and ran towards Jiang the Cripple.

You bastard, you've caused me so much trouble!

Suddenly, a pair of hands wrapped around my chest. "Do you want to die?"

"Let go of me!"

But Hui Baicang used his special skill again, grabbed me, and dragged me back.

I watched helplessly as the limping figure disappeared behind the undead skeleton, seething with anger. By the time I could move again, I had already been pulled outside.

Cheng Xinghe was sitting on the side, eating melon seeds and boredly arranging the melon seed shells into the shape of a heart. When he saw me wake up, he said with a smirk, "How does it feel to court death?"

Fuck you.

I almost found Jiang the Cripple!

I asked where Hui Baicang was. Cheng Xinghe waved his hand and said that Hui Baicang had almost died trying to save me just now and had gone back to rest. He also told me to have some humanity and not to overwork my subordinates.

I thought for a moment and still wanted to go look for Jiang the Cripple. Cheng Xinghe sighed and said, "Little brother, you're being unreasonable. You're new to this. Have you heard of a coffin demon?"

Among the legends, demons and ghosts are things that can captivate people's hearts, but I had never heard of a coffin demon before. I asked him what it meant.

He told me that it was a kind of spirit that parasitizes on coffins. Like a mirage, it can transform into what a person wants to see and lure them in. It is often used as a tomb guardian beast. Ancient people hated tomb raiders the most, and the coffin demon could make tomb raiders see the treasure they wanted the most. After luring them in, the tomb raiders would never come out alive.

He spoke with a sense of superiority and said, "Consultation fee on account. You mere mortals are too easy to be fooled. You can't see anything."

So, is it because I wanted to find Jiang the Cripple so much that I saw his illusion?

He Shang listened with wide eyes and asked me what the situation was down there.

I told He Shang that the feng shui formation here was indeed Yin Feng Shui, called "Eight Directions Suppressing Wealth".

This method is very cruel but also very effective.

The so-called "Eight Directions Suppressing Wealth" is to use the anger of ancient tombs to attract wealth, but you can't get something for nothing. You have to reach some kind of agreement with the suppressed tomb owner. Now it seems that the agreement is a sacrifice of a living person.

The scene I saw in the mural indicated that the tomb owner enjoyed human sacrifice when he was buried. Those undead skeletons were all sacrificial offerings to the tomb owner.

Only a fierce spirit that has killed countless people in its lifetime is qualified to enjoy human sacrifice.

The only person who has the power to decide the life and death of so many people is a general.

I took out my phone and looked it up. I actually found out that this place was an ancient battlefield. In one of the battles, there was a general named Wei Fengming. This general seemed to admire Bai Qi very much. After winning the battle here, he massacred countless prisoners of war.

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However, at this time, he had achieved so much that he was feared by the emperor due to his cruel means. He was secretly murdered, but after his death, his anger did not dissipate and caused a lot of trouble. At that time, the official in charge of yin and yang came up with the idea of sacrificing living people to him to appease his evil spirit, which was the content of the mural just now.

But this human sacrifice could not be achieved in one step. Every once in a while, a living person had to be sacrificed to prevent him from causing trouble. This could not continue for a long time, so later, a master set up a powerful feng shui formation in this place to suppress him.

A powerful feng shui formation - I immediately thought of Xiaoxiang. The people from the Temple of Heaven had said that Xiaoxiang was related to a powerful feng shui formation! And since I released Xiaoxiang, has that so-called feng shui formation stopped working now?

As I spoke, He Shang broke out in goosebumps and hurriedly asked me, "From what you're saying, everything here seems to be under control. Why is there trouble again?"

I asked He Shang, "Since you're in the industry, do you know about the rumors surrounding this building?"

He Shang thought for a moment and said he had heard through the grapevine that during development, they had dug up a large stone slab with thick chains etched with ancient characters. No one knew what it was for. Strangely, when the slab was unearthed, it was broken at the bottom, but they never found the other half.

"That's it," I said. "There must have been a feng shui master who knew about this and made a deal with the tomb owner. I'll wake you up and continue to offer you living sacrifices. You'll be buried under me, and in return, you'll bring me wealth. It seems the tomb owner agreed."

But later, something must have gone wrong, and the tomb owner was displeased, which is why the trouble continued. If the tomb owner's issue wasn't resolved, He Shang would only court disaster by developing here.

No wonder that black-bearded man told me this wasn't a bone I could chew on.

He Shang hugged his arms and said, "If that's the case, do we have to feed him living people? No way, that's illegal."

Yes, but I had just seen the malevolent qi. The tomb owner had been buried here for so long. How could he be easily appeased?

Just then, I remembered something Xiang Xiao had told me about grabbing the tail.

But this was a buried person, not a monster. Where could I find a tail to grab?

At that moment, a scream sounded from outside. We hurried out on the elevator and saw that a worker had fallen into the concrete while pouring it and died.

My heart sank. The worker who had fallen had intended to make He Shang and me his substitutes, but since we didn't die, he had found someone else!

At this rate, the general's appetite was growing. Now he wanted a living sacrifice every day? The longer this continued, the more malevolent qi he would accumulate, making him increasingly difficult to deal with.

Cheng Xinghe looked at me and said, "See how capable you are? You dared to get involved in this. Now you're in trouble, aren't you?"

He Shang immediately said, "Bei Dou, don't worry. I'll have the Zhengyi Sect come. You don't need to get involved in this anymore. It was my fault for being reckless. If I had known it was this difficult, I would never have dragged you into it."

I knew He Shang's intentions were good, wanting me to make a name for myself. How could I let him down? Besides, He Shang had already made a deal with the others. If I couldn't handle it, he would have to relinquish his position as the person in charge. If that happened, his reputation would be tarnished, and how could he continue in this industry?

I told He Shang not to worry and that I would figure something out.

Just then, a sneer sounded from across the way. It was Black Beard and his men, who were gloating. One of his followers cheerfully said, "They dared to mess with the General's Tomb. Now they know how powerful it is, don't they?"

Black Beard also said in a deep voice, "This place is a mess now. The more time you waste, the more people will be harmed. It's because you refused to let us handle this that the worker fell into the cement. You're in the industry. You know this damages your karma, right?"

"I don't think he cares about damaging his karma," another follower said. "He'll probably just be a beginner for the rest of his life, never able to rise in rank."

"Exactly. No one except our Zhengyi Sect can handle this."

As they spoke, more and more people gathered to watch the spectacle, obviously fellow industry insiders coming to see the show. They whispered among themselves, "He looks like he's just a Yellow Rank, but he dares to come and court death at the General's Tomb. He really is brave."

"You're putting it too nicely. I think he's just asking for trouble."

"The He family is really going downhill. They found such a fraud. He doesn't have any discernment. He'll squander his family's fortune sooner or later."

He Shang didn't argue with them like before because he knew that saving face was less important than saving lives.

Cheng Xinghe looked at me with concern, as if he was afraid I would do something stupid. But instead of bringing me down, their words only fueled my determination. I refused to believe that there was something they could do that I, Li Beidou, couldn't.

But this General's Tomb was indeed a hot potato. How was I going to solve it?

The knowledge my old man had taught me whirled around in my mind, and suddenly, I realized what Xiang Xiao had meant by "grabbing the tail."

So I immediately climbed up a relatively tall tree and looked around.