"If you refuse, you''d be better off dead.""If you deceive me, you''d be better off dead."

    "Even if you just try to appease me, you''d be better off dead."

    This was the full meaning of Jiang Wang''s expression.

    The snake-faced person in front of him looked pitiful, but Jiang Wang had no sympathy for her.

    After confirming that his message had been conveyed, he asked directly, "Why did you mistake me for the messenger?"

    In his opinion, the reason the snake-faced person had mistaken him was probably because the Ming Candle was still residing in the Tongtian Palace.

    Before leaving Maple Forest City, Miaoyu had mentioned that the Ming Candle was something she couldn''t find, indicating its importance to the White Bone Path.

    However, he still wanted to get confirmation from the snake-faced person and hopefully gain further insight into the Ming Candle.

    If she could, the snake-faced person would have loved to devour him, but she couldn''t.

    As Jiang Wang had said, she was from the White Bone Path and was well aware of the tortures worse than death. Death was eternal extinction, but at least one would no longer be conscious and wouldn''t have to feel anything.

    Especially for the White Bone Path, death was the only fairness in the world. Although she had developed an attachment to life due to the death of the Dog-Faced, when the unavoidable moment came, death was not entirely unacceptable.

    There were many ways to make someone beg for death, and she had tried many times herself. Using the human tendon used to hang the plague bell was one of those attempts.

    Of course, she was usually the one inflicting the pain, cold and composed, able to observe and discuss the observation of human nature or the so-called cruel beauty. But once she realized that she might also face such a situation, she couldn''t help but feel fear.

    Having experienced fear, she understood it even more.

    The snake-faced person fell silent for a while, but then grasped the snake letter sword and wrote on the ground, "The cultivator from Yuecheng said you are Zhang Linchuan."

    It''s worth mentioning that the writing was in the Zhuangguo script.

    The Zhuangguo script was derived from the Jingsu script commonly used in the Daoist countries, but it had its own characteristics.

    The Jingsu script was said to have evolved from the Daoist text and was the most prestigious script in the world (according to the people of Jingsu).

    The so-called Daoist text was the pattern of the Great Dao.

    But what worried Jiang Wang was the information conveyed by the snake-faced person.

    Could things in the world really be so coincidental?

    He had casually mentioned Zhang Linchuan, and it had reached the ears of the snake-faced person.

    The second question Jiang Wang had prepared— "Who is the messenger you mentioned?"—was no longer necessary.

    Zhang Linchuan was actually a high-ranking member of the White Bone Path!

    He recalled the past events. When he was investigating the White Bone Path in Tangshe Town, he had been separated from Zhang Linchuan twice, and both times he had encountered attacks from the White Bone Path. Considering what Miaoyu had said later, it was clear that both times were tests for him. And Zhang Linchuan, as the White Bone Messenger, had been watching from the sidelines the whole time!

    Now, Jiang Wang felt a chill down his spine. If Zhang Linchuan had had any malicious intent at the time, he would probably have died on the spot.

    He then thought about how long the White Bone Path had been preparing for the sacrifice in Maple Forest City.

    Figures like Zhang Linchuan and Miaoyu were just participants in such major events.

    Jiang Wang could fully imagine how thorough and meticulous the preparations of the White Bone Path had been.

    Yet, even with such thorough and meticulous preparations, and with such talented and outstanding individuals, the powerful and terrifying White Bone Path, which even provoked the intervention of the White Bone Respected God, was still outsmarted by Zhuang Chengqian, Du Ruhui, and Dong A!

    The White Bone Path was the enemy, but how were Dong A and the others not?

    "Who else is in the upper echelons of the White Bone Path now?" Jiang Wang thought for a moment and asked.

    This question didn''t trigger the blood oath.

    "The Holy Lord, the second elder Lu Yan, the White Bone Messenger Zhang Linchuan, and the Holy Maiden."

    "Dragon-Faced, Monkey-Faced, Rabbit-Faced."

    The snake-faced person wrote one by one, and finally pointed to herself, indicating that she was the last "high-ranking" member of the White Bone Path, but she would die soon, so she didn''t count as an existence.

    When Holy Maiden Miaoyu fought with the Chief Xuan of the Judicial Office of Qinghe County, her strength was at the Inner Palace Realm. Judging from the order in which the snake-faced person listed them, Lu Yan and Zhang Linchuan''s strength was at least at the Inner Palace Realm or higher.

    Among the twelve remaining Bone Faces, the Dragon-Faced was probably the strongest, and the Snake-Faced was the weakest.

    But because of the little bell that caused the plague, defeating the Snake-Faced was not an easy process.

    After operating for so many years, the White Bone Path must have some means unknown to others. None of these people should be underestimated.

    As for the Holy Lord...

    How could the White Bone Path still have a Holy Lord? There was no mention of them intervening in the battle of Maple Forest City.

    If it was the White Bone Respected God, wasn''t it repelled?

    Jiang Wang suddenly thought of the "White Bone Path Child" identity that Miaoyu had misunderstood him for.The real Bone Daoist... could it be the current "Holy Master" of the Bone Path? Especially since the one with the serpent bone face never mentioned the existence of the Bone Daoist, but he must exist.

    Miaoyu emphasized the word "awakening." Has that Bone Daoist completed the "awakening"?

    If he hasn''t "fully awakened," is there something else that needs to be done?

    If he has already "fully awakened," then what changes are needed to go from Daoist to Holy Master? Is it related to the Bone Path spreading the plague in Yang Nation?

    He needn''t ask the one with the serpent bone face these questions, for matters involving the existence of a "Holy Master" would certainly be the highest secret of the Bone Path, and he would surely get no answer.

    Asking her would be tantamount to killing her.

    "Did you come to Yang Nation to spread the plague?" Jiang Wang asked.

    "Yes," the one with the serpent bone face wrote.

    Jiang Wang thought for a moment and asked, "Where is Zhang Linchuan now?"

    The one with the serpent bone face did not move.

    Jiang Wang then knew that this question also had no answer, it could not be revealed.

    Hiding in some secret place?

    It was very likely the Bone Path''s lair.

    So, where could it be?

    Setting these questions aside for the moment, Jiang Wang looked at the small bell hanging in her hand and asked, "Is this little bell what you use to spread the plague?"

    The one with the serpent bone face bowed her head and wrote a "Yes."

    Because she bowed her head, Jiang Wang did not see the fleeting relief in her eyes. The hatred, however, never faded.

    Of course, Jiang Wang wouldn''t expect any good intentions from her.

    "I have nothing more to ask," he said.

    This was the issuance of a death notice.

    But the one with the serpent bone face was still writing.

    Dragging her painfully afflicted body, clenching her teeth, she wrote on the ground: "When the Bone Era comes, I will surely treat you well."

    Jiang Wang gently patted her shoulder, seized the Serpent Letter Sword in her hand, turned it around, and slowly stabbed it into her heart.

    "If, I mean if. If there really is such a thing as the Bone Era."

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    The Serpent Letter Sword reached its end.

    Jiang Wang''s voice rang in her ear: "Let me kill you once more."

    The one with the serpent bone face convulsed violently a few times, and then was still.

    The fear and hatred in her eyes were extinguished together.

    End of the chapter.