I raised my eyes to look at the Nine-tailed Fox: "That's my business, no need for you to worry about it. You just need to nod or shake your head."

The Nine-tailed Fox was silent for a moment, letting the cracks on the stone wall behind us grow larger and larger.

The Nine-tailed Fox didn't dare to recognize me as her master with her divine soul, so she could only keep consuming us like this.

She knew very well that both sides were afraid of facing Jiang Chen directly. Whoever couldn't hold on first would be controlled by the other.

She was also betting that I would give up this stalemate at the last moment.

This time, I wasn't betting my own life, but the entire Liangjie Tang.

The bigger the stake, the easier it is for one's psychological defenses to collapse.

The sound of Ying Gou bombarding the wall became more and more urgent. I could even feel the wall thinning inch by inch.

My hands behind my back also unconsciously reached for the hilt of my knife.

Just when both sides were at a deadlock, a fourth voice appeared in the tunnel: "Li Po, I was the one who saved you. I think we can cooperate in another way."

"Zhao Yue Zhu!" My eyes suddenly widened.

Zhao Yue Zhu had changed her appearance, but I could still recognize her.

Zhao Yue Zhu walked slowly to the middle of us and said, "I also want the breath of life, and I can cooperate with you to deal with Jiang Chen. However, we have to renegotiate the contract."

After a moment of hesitation, I said, "This isn't the place to talk. Let's find another place."

"Follow me!" Zhao Yue Zhu led the three of us through several turns in the tunnel before stopping in a mountain cave that was like a honeycomb, full of holes.

Zhao Yue Zhu said, "Snake Controller, this is your strength. Try to see if you can get the sleeping demon snakes here to resist Jiang Chen for a while!"

I glanced slightly into the cave and saw giant pythons coiled up, sleeping in the cave.

After taking out the Snake King's secret medicine from my backpack, I drew a magic circle on the ground with my twin blades, and then grabbed the secret medicine and threw it into the air.

A spicy smell immediately filled the cave.

I covered my nose and said, "The demon snakes here will riot soon, we have to get out of here quickly."

Zhao Yue Zhu said, "Follow me," and quickly burrowed into a cave.

I hesitated for a moment and followed.

The Snake King once told me that the most taboo thing when fighting snakes is to enter their nest.

The space where the pythons live is not small, but the passages in and out of the snake's nest are not large enough for ordinary people to turn around quickly inside.

Once you run head-on into a python, or get blocked by it in the snake path, no matter how agile a person is, they can't compare to a python, and there is only a dead end.

What exactly does Zhao Yue Zhu want to do by taking me into the snake's nest?

After crawling out a distance along the snake path, I realized that this snake's nest was an empty nest.

If there were demon snakes here, even if they had been sleeping for many years, they would need to breathe, and the nest would naturally be filled with demonic energy. I was already near the center of the demon snake's nest, but I still didn't feel the presence of demonic energy. No wonder Zhao Yue Zhu wanted to bring us here.

Soon, Zhao Yue Zhu jumped into an empty stone cave: "We can talk about the conditions now."

Ye Yang and I landed one after another. Zhao Yue Zhu said again, "Patriarch Ye, I know that Bei Yiye is proficient in the art of tombs. Traps and feng shui are not difficult for you. However, can you pick locks?"

Locks can be said to be the simplest, but also the most complex, mechanism in the art world.

Those who are good at using locks can lock heaven and earth and suppress gods and demons.

Those who are good at unlocking can communicate with yin and yang and travel between the two realms.

It would be wrong to say that Ye Yang couldn't unlock locks.

However, Ye Yang also said that there are one hundred and eight strange locks in the world, and he can only unlock seventy-two of them. The methods for unlocking the remaining thirty-six are in the Thief's Gate.

While Zhao Yue Zhu was speaking, she raised her hand and pushed it flat against the air in front of her.

While I was wondering, I saw Zhao Yue Zhu's palm disappear into my sight out of thin air.

I was about to remind Zhao Yue Zhu to withdraw her hand, but I immediately realized that Zhao Yue Zhu had put her hand into another space.

Zhao Yue Zhu also has such abilities?

That's right, if Zhao Yue Zhu didn't have the ability to travel through space, how could she freely enter and exit the Yin Yang Inn?

The Nine-tailed Fox whispered in my ear, "Li Po, the secret to Zhao Yue Zhu's ability to break through space is all in her Taoist robe. If you and Patriarch Ye join forces, you should be able to kill her. When the time comes, you can snatch the robe..."

"Shut up!" I shouted angrily and slapped her backhand. The Nine-tailed Fox was slapped away on the spot, covering her face and aggrieved, "Li Po, I'm doing this for your own good, how could you... how could you wrong me?"

This time, the Nine-tailed Fox didn't transmit her voice. She knew that when I shouted "shut up," Zhao Yue Zhu could guess what we were talking about.

Zhao Yue Zhu withdrew her hand and said unhurriedly, "I can pass through space, indeed because of the Taoist robe on my body. My name, Moon Shadow Thief, also comes from this."

"However, there is only one person in this world who can wear this Taoist robe, and you will have no use for it even if you take it."

Zhao Yue Zhu turned to look at Ye Yang: "Patriarch Ye, can you open a Qimen lock like me, without looking at the keyhole, just by feeling it?"