Chapter 1 Ye Yang's Cold Flame

Ye Yang raised the Cold Flame again, but this time, the sword emitted not a sword-light, but the unique Wu power of the Wu Sect's incantations.

Wu incantations and evil weapons complemented each other, and the mere contained and unreleased aura of evil was enough to chill one to the bone.

The old woman, even now, didn't know why she was being killed.

Normally, Ye Yang might not have been so ruthless and taken a life. But the old woman had directly called out "Ye Yang's" name and mentioned "Paper Doll Village."

That one sentence made Ye Yang instinctively feel that he would be in danger in Paper Doll Village, and he lost the patience to deal with the old woman.

The old woman was stunned at this point: "You... you..."

Butcher Wang sneered: "Old woman, don't be so shameless. Offending Ye Yang won't do you any good."

The old woman finally composed herself: "What do you want? I won't deal with you beasts..."

"One Sword to Slaughter the Soul, Nine Clans Eradicated!" Ye Yang's long sword suddenly pointed at the corpse on the ground, and Wu power, capable of entangling with bloodlines, surged out from the blade of the Cold Flame, burrowing into the body through the corpse's facial features.

The old woman's ghost instantly trembled uncontrollably, and she lost her previous arrogance: "Stop, stop... I beg you to stop."

"Kneel!" Butcher Wang shouted sharply, and the old woman's ghost immediately knelt on the ground: "I beg you to be merciful, be merciful..."

Ye Yang retracted his long sword: "Take her, go inside, and put her on the oil lamp."

Butcher Wang grabbed the old woman's neck and kneaded it like dough as he walked into the house. By the time she reached the table, the old woman's soul had been kneaded into the size of a ping-pong ball.

Butcher Wang drew his boning knife, skewered the soul on the tip, and held it over the oil lamp like roasting meat, igniting the flame.

Sorcerers have all sorts of ways to interrogate ghosts, and burning ghosts with oil lamps is one of them.

Butcher Wang said coldly, "I'll give you a chance to shout, but every time you shout, I'll kill one person until you can speak properly."

The old woman trembled, "What do you want to ask? I'll tell you everything!"

Ye Yang said, "Who are you? Why are you in Mo Village?"

"I am a sorcerer from Paper Doll Village..." The old woman's statement was exactly the same as what Village Chief Jiu Ming had said, but Ye Yang's expression darkened: "Tell me about the Mo family village, don't leave anything out."

Butcher Wang glanced at Ye Yang and asked again, "Tell us about the layout of Mo Village first."

The old woman quickly replied, "When the old Mo family arrived here, the village had already been laid out according to the 'Thick Earth Suppresses Evil' formation. It was probably the work of the Cang Yu Sect."

"The tree at the village entrance should have been left behind specifically by the Cang Yu Sect. Only by standing on top of the tree can you see where dead people will appear in the village. Moving the lights is the only way to allow the dead to rest in peace."

Butcher Wang glanced at Ye Yang and asked again, "Are you saying that the villagers themselves don't know that they're already dead?"

"That's right!" The old woman said, "In this village, there are often dead people who move about freely. They can live in the village like normal people and have no idea that they are already dead. Until one day, they suddenly fall to the ground and die, only then do they die in the eyes of the villagers."

The old woman paused and said, "The dead person who lived the longest even lived in the village for five years. In order not to let the dead disturb the village and allow the villagers to continue living without realizing it, we secretly went to the tree to see where there were dead people."

"To cover our tracks, we always pretended to be Mo Huangquan."

Butcher Wang muttered to himself, "No wonder the villagers all said there was someone on the tree, so you were the ones acting like ghosts."

Butcher Wang asked again, "What's the deal with the white cloth in the village?"

"That's a secret art of Paper Doll Village!" The old woman said, "No one in Paper Doll Village except the Human Skin Tailor lineage knows what it is. Before the other three lineages dismember a corpse, they will first cover the dead person with white cloth."

"No matter how we dismember the dead, we will not lift the white cloth from the dead person's face. Even when the Human Bone Carpenter needs a skull, he covers the dead person's face with cloth and cuts down from the back of the head to remove the skull."

"The people of Paper Doll Village all believe that if the dead cannot see our faces, they will not incur the karma of reincarnation."

"Over time, white cloth has become a secret art in Paper Doll Village, and we have all begun to put effort into white cloth. My family has a way to control corpses after covering them with white cloth."

"So that's how it is!" Butcher Wang nodded: "The secret of covering corpses with white cloth has been solved. What about the whole village chief's family being killed?"

"The village chief's family has been dead for more than ten days," the old woman said. "After I discovered that the village chief's family had died, I had been trying to deal with the three dead people. I had just finished arranging things when you came. You just happened to run into it."

Butcher Wang thought for a moment and asked again, "Why did you want to get us out of here?"