“When the Yin soldier leader was still staring intently at the water, I quietly took a step back and used my inner force to transmit my voice to Zhao Zhuang and the others, ‘Tie the Ghost Cauldron to your bodies. When I say jump, follow me and jump off the boat together.’”

“Once we’re off the boat, it's a matter of life and death. If I’m not mistaken, the Ghost Cauldron can take us into a whirlpool, but that’s a gamble of life and death. Some of us will definitely not make it into the underground palace.”

“Prepare to fight for your lives, or wait to die!”

Although the seven sorcerers had long been prepared to die, they were still extremely nervous when life and death truly arrived.

I deliberately used my body to block the Yin soldier leader’s view: “The water ghosts below, are they lying in ambush?”

The Yin soldier leader sneered: “What can they do even if they’re lying in ambush? Just a bunch of unassigned wild ghosts. I don’t believe they can turn the world upside down.”

As if the water ghosts were deliberately trying to slap the Yin soldier leader in the face, several monstrous waves were stirred up between his words, rushing towards the warship from all directions.

In a moment, a silver-white water circle appeared around the warship.

In the next instant, the waves pushed up by the water ghosts surged violently on all sides of the warship, pressing down on the ship with a soaring momentum.

The Yin soldier leader panicked immediately: “Form ranks to meet the enemy, protect the warship!”

Two hundred Yin soldiers instantly leaped out of the water, raising their swords and spears in unison, rushing towards the water waves.

The moment the figures collided with the giant waves, they scattered like raindrops. Yin soldiers and water ghosts intertwined, falling into the water one after another. From the ship, the water was full of figures fighting in pairs.

Just as the Yin soldiers had gained the upper hand, countless black shadows swarmed towards the warship like a school of fish.

The Yin soldier leader’s expression changed drastically: “So many water ghosts? Why didn’t you say so earlier? Retreat…”

Before he could finish the word “retreat,” my blade was pressed against his neck: “You’d better not order a retreat, otherwise, something very serious will happen.”

The other party said sternly: “You dare threaten me? Don’t you want to live? Killing me is provoking the dignity of the underworld, you…”

Before he could finish speaking, I pushed the knife forward: “If you were a ghost general or ghost commander, you could use those words to scare people, but you’re just a ghost soldier without any rank. What are you talking about, the dignity of the underworld?”

The other party's face instantly turned extremely ugly.

Yin soldiers can indeed represent the dignity of the underworld, but only if the underworld knows that two hundred Yin soldiers are missing.

The underworld is full of proud and fierce generals accumulated over thousands of years. The number of Yin soldiers is calculated in the hundreds of millions. The troops under the command of the Ten Yama Kings alone are countless, let alone miscellaneous soldiers who can be summoned at will?

In the mortal world, commanding more than two hundred soldiers is already a considerable amount of power, but in the underworld, two hundred Yin soldiers might not even be considered a small team.

Even if I really killed this Yin soldier, by the time the underworld investigated me, I would have already gone to my ancestor to ask for help.

After suppressing the other party, my voice softened slightly: “If you keep fighting now, you still have a chance to explain to the underworld. As long as we win, you’ll have a hundred ways to ask for credit from above. Otherwise, how will you explain the casualties of the Yin soldiers?”

In the short time I was talking to the Yin soldier leader, casualties had already appeared among the Yin soldiers. The ghosts that had broken through the gaps in the military formation became even more ferocious, rushing straight towards the bow of the ship, taking advantage of the gaps in the military formation.

From my perspective, the black dragon formed by the ghost shadows was like a sharp arrow piercing through a red-topped circle. The tip of the sword pointed directly at the warship. The Yin wind roared, and the water waves were turbulent, but the chilling killing intent rode the wind and waves, directly attacking the warship.

The seven soul-summoning banners were torn apart by the chilling Yin wind, and fragments of paper flew like catkins. However, the seven sorcerers stood motionless at the bow of the ship.

I withdrew my blade: “What to do is your choice.”

The Yin soldier commander gritted his teeth and drew his saber: “Brothers, follow me and kill! If we, the Yin soldiers of the underworld, are driven back by a bunch of wild ghosts, how can we face anyone? Kill!”

The Yin soldier leader drew his saber from his waist and jumped into the water. The remaining Yin soldiers fought back desperately. The green phosphorescence was like blood blossoms exploding in the waves. Silver waves, green fire, saber light, and ghost shadows converged in the turbulent river water. The entire river surface fell into the shouts of gods and ghosts.

I watched the extremely chaotic battlefield and quickly walked towards the stern of the ship: “Smash it open for me!”

Although Zhao Zhuang didn’t know what I wanted to do, he still smashed open the deck according to my instructions. Under the broken deck appeared eight tables with memorial tablets placed upside down on them.

Zhao Zhuang was immediately stunned: “How could there be a cabin here? What’s underneath?”

Logically speaking, the position where I was standing should not have a cabin built. Even if there was one, it should be connected to the front cabin. Even someone like him who ran on the water couldn’t understand why the shipbuilders would build such a cabin here, and why they would put eight tables in the cabin, and then place the tablets face down on top of the tables.

“Stand back!” I reached out to stop the sorcerers beside me, pointed to the secret room with my right hand like a sword, pointed my fingertips inward, slowly picked upwards, and shouted violently, “Rise!”

The tablets instantly shook off the dust on their backs and stood upright in the hazy mist.