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These were all her relatives who had grown up with her since childhood. She had privately asked a few of them if they thought everything they had done was wrong.

The result was alienation from everyone.

They thought she was jealous and trying to sow discord.

They've been brainwashed so much that all they can think about is achieving immortality and they can't listen to anything else.

Wei Nian knew she couldn't persuade him, so she could only try to stop this final murder.

As for her outcome...

Wei Nian turned and left, walking quickly toward the stone chamber.

Li Qiuping searched the area but didn't see a single person. He returned to the railing and looked down, hoping to find another entrance that could lead to other places.

Just as he bent down to look down, he faintly heard a sound.

It sounded like singing, yet also like chanting, but it was too soft for him to distinguish.

He followed the sound and eventually saw a staircase behind a wall.

He took a piece of coal from his pocket, marked it on the door, drew his sword, held it in his hand, and slowly walked downstairs.

Wei Nian opened the stone chamber door and waved to Fan Liuer and Si Qing inside, "Come out quickly, I'll take you away now."

Fan Liuer and Siqing immediately got up and followed her.

Wei Nian led the two through the passage, making several turns until they reached the other side of the main hall.

Wei Nian stopped and led Fan Liuer to hide behind a statue, whispering, "They will leave the main hall soon. Once they leave, we will go up."

Fan Liuer hid behind Wei Nian. She couldn't see the scene in the main hall, but she could hear the eerie chanting inside, and her heartbeat quickened with the sound.

As Li Qiuping descended the stairs, the chanting grew clearer and clearer.

At the end of the path, there was a stone wall in front of you, and an entrance on the right. The sound came from the entrance.

It's very close, right behind this stone wall.

He slowly walked to the stone wall, moving towards the entrance little by little along the wall. He didn't know which brick he stepped on, but the stone wall behind him suddenly made a sound.

The chanting in the main hall immediately stopped.

Li Qiuping sensed something was wrong and turned to run upstairs, but the stone wall behind him suddenly collapsed. The speed was so fast that before he could run two steps, the stone wall separating the main hall disappeared, exposing him to everyone in the main hall.

Wei Nian, who was hiding behind the main hall, was startled when he saw this scene and hurriedly asked Fan Liuer.

Do you know that person?

Fan Liuer stuck her head out to look and saw Li Qiuping standing in front of the stairs across the street.

"Li Qiuping!" she whispered.

"Is this your husband?" Wei Nian asked softly.

Fan Liuer didn't have time to answer her. Li Qiuping was discovered, and everyone in the hall rushed towards him.

One person can fight against more than twenty people. Even if a peerless master came, it would be difficult for him to escape.

Fan Liuer's heart clenched with anxiety. She gripped Wei Nian's arm and cried out, "Will they kill him?"

Wei Nian wasn't sure either. Although they had killed many people, it was all purposeful killing. Apart from those ninety-seven women, they hadn't killed anyone else.

But this person interrupted the ritual, a ritual that had been in preparation for over a decade and that everyone had been looking forward to.

"Perhaps."

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Qiuping started fighting with the people in the main hall.

He couldn't escape; these people were more agile than him, leaping over his head and blocking his path.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.

On the mountain, Li Chenbi kept counting the time. After a quarter of an hour had passed, he immediately said, "Tie another rope. I want to go down."

He told Li Qiuping to go down and, no matter what the situation was, to come back and report within 15 minutes.

Two quarters of an hour had passed, and Li Qiuping had not appeared; something must have happened.

"Sir, let me go," Feng Ji said.

He was concerned about Siqing and wanted to go down and see for himself.

Li Chenbi glanced at him and said, "Pull up that rope and come down with me."

Then he turned to the others and said, "Go and call Qi Weiming here. Tell him we're going down. Tell him to find some more ropes and take his men down with him."

After explaining all this, he took the secured rope, tied it to his body along with his crutch, walked to the edge, and jumped off.

A short while later, Feng Ji pulled up Li Qiuping's rope, tied it up, and then jumped down as well.

Inside the main hall, Li Qiuping was no match for them and was subdued after a dozen or so moves.

The two men brought him before their master.

The master looked at Li Qiuping coldly, his eyes filled with murderous intent. "I didn't want to commit any more killings, but you've interfered with my important matters. So you can only blame your bad luck."

After saying that, he gestured to one of them, "Kill him, and the ritual will continue."

The man snatched the sword from Li Qiuping's hand and raised it.

Fan Liuer was extremely anxious when she saw this. She thought that if Li Qiuping appeared here, then Li Chenbi would definitely come over immediately.

She couldn't watch Li Qiuping be killed; she had to buy some time.

Thinking of this, she no longer cared about being discovered, and pulled out the hairpin from her head and threw it into the main hall.

Wei Nian hadn't expected her to do this. Her eyes widened as she turned to look at her. "Are you out of your mind?"

"I'm sorry, I can't watch him die." Fan Liuer said as she pulled Siqing to her feet, preparing to run away.

The hairpin caught the attention of the people in the main hall, and someone immediately came to check it.

Wei Nian had no choice but to get up and follow Fan Liuer as they ran towards the passage.

Footsteps and exclamations soon came from behind, "Senior Brother? Those two!"

Upon hearing this, the master inside the main hall immediately looked up at the alchemy furnace.

One of the disciples understood his meaning and jumped onto the alchemy furnace.

Before the stove was lit, the two plainly dressed dolls lying inside were exposed.

"Master, there are dolls inside!"

The master's expression grew increasingly cold. He turned to look at the back of the main hall and shouted sternly, "Bring them back!"

The rest of the people in the main hall immediately gave chase.

Fan Liuer was usually lazy and didn't like to move around. She was out of breath after running only a few steps.

Wei Nian quickly caught up with her, grabbed her with one hand and Si Qing with the other, and ran forward with the two of them.

The footsteps behind him grew closer and closer. Even with Wei Nian's exceptional lightness skills, he couldn't withstand the presence of two burdens.

Feeling uncertain, she said as she ran, "I have a feeling we're doomed this time."

"No...no, my husband will...he will come to save us."

Wei Nian: "Your husband will probably die even faster than us!"

Fan Liuer: "That's not...not...not him."

Upon hearing this, Wei Nian roared, "Then why did you risk your life to save him?!"

After shouting those words, before Fan Liuer could reply, his hand tightened, and Si Qing's scream rang in his ears.

She was caught by the people who caught up from behind.

Wei Nian was forced to stop by this tug.

In no time at all, they were surrounded.

The junior brothers and sisters who used to follow her around calling her "senior brother" when they were young now exuded murderous intent, their gazes fixed on her as if they wanted to tear her apart.

"Senior Brother, you really have ill intentions."