At this moment, many people noticed something amiss.

This existence at the Sect Leader level is not participating in the war but is attacking the Fang Family to get several Two-Phase Realm prisoners?

This is too bizarre!

What is his goal?

And the Fang Family, risking annihilation, stays silent, even more bizarre!

The Fang Family must also have a big secret.

Could it be that the secret of the Fang Family will affect the entire battlefield?

...

...

In the mine.

A group of small blacksmiths and a gigantic Manor Master were sitting together.

They were watching while replenishing the Manor Master's embers, occasionally slashing themselves a few times.

The prison was also in war mode.

Making those prisoners eat frantically, replenishing their strength, occasionally slashing them to split into sub-bodies, and replenish the mountain mine.

The scene with the Fang Family left the group of blacksmiths puzzled.

"This interactive movie clearly has branched paths! Are we supposed to deduce and solve the mystery?"

Jiucai Rong pondered.

Interactive movie-type games are often used for decryption, influencing the story's development.

Like "Detroit: Become Human" is a representative of interactive movie games.

In other words, we are assuming the identities of Gao or the Primordial Sect Leader to rescue people; their decisions will influence the ending.

"Firstly, there's the issue of the corridor, have you noticed?" Someone said.

"Yes, who hasn't seen the post about Nightly Frenzied Cultivation Sixth Body?" Someone retorted.

"I haven't seen it." The Food God raised his hand.

Shao Chaikun said, "I'll state the conclusion, Gao is a living being! This Primordial Sect Leader may be an ancient living prisoner who has lived for over a hundred thousand years! Rather than what we initially thought... a Ghost!"

The Food God was shocked.

Shao Chaikun recounted the post's content.

According to the world's setting, the essence of Ghost is a Soul Bubble!

Only the soul remains; how could the body still be alive and vibrant?

How could there still be a connection between the soul and the corpse?

There's only one possibility.

Only if Gao is a living being could the soul and body be connected!

Then, why is this ancient prisoner a living being?

According to their speculation:

This is the highest prison on Xinyi Continent!

Here, the most ferocious prisoners, past and present, are suppressed.

Some are dead, like the Ghost People, some ancient cultivators.... but mixed among them are some powerful living people!

Because only living beings can form a mine!

Of course, the array of the corridor's walls made it impossible to distinguish between living and dead.

Not only to prevent the Ghosts from attacking living travelers but also to hide these living prisoners.

So you can't discern the aura of these living prisoners!

After all.

If Ghosts could form mineral veins, Nine-State's veins wouldn't be so scarce.

They deduced the reasonable answer:

Here, living people caught over the years are imprisoned, recent felons, ancient war criminals, turning into mineral veins to endure constant torture, eternally! The Court's penal code has always hinted at: dismemberment, flaying, brain extraction...

Above.

Is the hidden information they uncovered.

So, the answer is now obvious.

The Primordial Sect Leader is a living being, her disciple Xu Huan, and others are dead.

Not reaching the One Heart Realm, it's impossible to live so long; this is all distant history now.

A living being, living here with a group of dead ones.

Therefore, the Primordial Sect Leader, this living being, wants to save her disciples who turned into Ghosts, showing deep affection.

"Then, another problem arises."

Immortal Aunt said: "The Fang Family is unwilling to hand over Xu Huan and others, preferring to risk annihilation. Why? They are just some prehistoric Ghosts."

The group was perplexed.

Jiucai Rong said: "There's only one possibility, handing over Xu Huan and others would immediately ruin their reputation, expose some disgraceful deeds they did, or perhaps Xu Huan and others would lead to their annihilation?"

The group listened, finding it reasonable.

"But how would releasing Xu Huan lead to their annihilation?"

Jiucai Rong said: "Even their Sect Leader cannot destroy the Fang Family, because normally, if a Sect Leader came alone to Xinyi State City, it would be suicide."

"Now is a special wartime period, with rebels teaming up to restrain them, and only by having a temporary brain could they dare to barge in. How could a Saint Child like Xu Huan annihilate the Fang Family?"

Immortal Aunt's brows moved:

"Ghosts, the ability to destroy the Fang Family has only one possibility, awakening! Is there a possibility that releasing Xu Huan will awaken into a Ghost King, and fear of this terrifying existence lingers over them, so they dare not release?"

The group listened.

Finding this guess very possible.

Facing annihilation, they hold firm.

Only by releasing Xu Huan would he immediately awaken, and only a Ghost King would make them dare not release him.

Jiucai Rong touched his nose: "Speaking of Xu Huan, there was a problem from the beginning! A hundred years ago, how did Xu Huan awaken? Shouldn't Xu Huan's obsession in life be peace in the world?"

This is a grand wish.

So, at that time, Xu Huan could not have awakened.

Yet, he awakened back then, why?

This is clearly impossible!

The group discussed this and hit another clue dead-end.

After all, their information is too scarce now, mostly deduced from small details from a distance.

"Is it possible that Xu Huan's awakening obsession is not world peace?" someone suddenly said.

"Makes sense, awakening doesn't lie," another person reacted.

Daojiu frowned, "Let's refute first; the Fang Family doesn't dare to let him go because once they release Xu Huan, Xu Huan will awaken. So... conversely, Xu Huan's real obsession is to escape from the Fang Family or escape from this prison?"

This refuted result instantly jolted everyone.

However.

A ghost's obsession in life can't change!

How can his obsession one moment be world peace, and the next moment be fleeing the hallway?

"The only ones who can change their obsession are... the living."

Immortal Aunt was covered in goosebumps, "Do you think there's a possibility that a hundred years ago, Xu Huan was actually a living person?"

"The Fang Family, exploiting the advantage of prison inspection, is raising the offspring of old humans, secretly raising young old humans in prison, letting them cultivate, grow, and when they grow up... dig mines!"

"They're privately cultivating the veins!"

Everyone's hair stood on end as they reasoned along this line of thought.

Xu Huan, born into a false world, believed himself to be a prehistoric human... living in this prehistoric era within the hallway.

Back then, his dream was indeed world peace.

This was correct.

But one day, he discovered that everything around him was fake.

He awakened!

This wasn't a ghost's "awakening," it's a living person realizing they're in a world that's a historical exhibit.

His worldview shattered.

So, a hundred years ago, he wanted to escape this city but was killed.

His dying obsession was: to escape this city.

Everyone exchanged glances.

It fits!

This reasoning is flawless, every detail aligns perfectly.

Why does the Fang Family gritted their teeth?

Because what they're doing is too vicious!

Using the advantage of the prison and the large array indifferent to distinguishing the living from the dead, exploiting loopholes, secretly raising "mine slaves," like pigs, fattening them up before slaughter!

This prison wasn't built to incarcerate innocent children...

Only monstrous crimes would warrant such punishment, constant dismemberment, brain-mining, enduring this eternal tribulation comparable to the infinite hell torture!

And what about them?

Throwing children into prison, treating them like livestock, raising them for mining punishment? It's too miserable! A person shouldn't be raised from birth to dig brains, dig mines!

So, they dare not release Xu Huan, because letting him go would expose their secret raising of mine slaves.

Releasing Xu Huan from the city would lead to his awakening.

And a Ghost King targeting the Fang Family means certain annihilation!

Everyone discussing reached this point, feeling their breath quicken!

Their clues are few; in fact, they barely have any clues.

The main clue is that the Fang Family, no matter what, wouldn't release Xu Huan; thus the reasoning...

Just a group chattering away, supplementing each other, analyzed out a terrifying truth?

They reorganized the whole process and found no logical issues.

Suddenly, Jiucai Rong said, "Another me, Ember Jiucai Rong, during exploring Scaly Gate city, didn't he record content of an awakened prisoner being executed?"

Everyone paused, then reacted, hastily pulling out a slip of paper.

This documented what Jiucai Rong saw at the market.

It was said to be punishing Xu Huan's accomplice, an awakened ghost.

A blade and axe wielder slowly stood up, removing the plaque, raising the butcher's knife: "Do you have any last words?"

The scholar shouted:

"You're all living in a lie! This world from the start is a scam! We're not wrong, we're not wrong."

"We are not the livestock you raise! We are not the mine you raised."

He roared, veins bulging, as if summoning the energy to wake the entire world:

"Old humans are humans too."

He wept bitterly, letting out a piercing wail, as if trying to express all his anger and fear in this way,

"I! We, are living humans too!!"

...

The ones below roared with laughter, looking at this disposed ghost.

"You have no idea that you are already dead."

"Ridiculous, you died long before history, hundreds of thousands of years ago, yet you remain oblivious."

"You are merely a letter you left behind, spanning hundreds of thousands of years."

...

Everyone exchanged a glance, feeling icy cold, like falling into an ice pit, their heartbeat pounding fiercely, that fearful cry echoing in their minds.

In the eyes of passersby, the prisoner's words were correct.

This ghost cannot realize they've died, a deficiency in logical cognition, forcibly believing themselves alive.

But listen to this now, it's a shout from a genuinely living person.

They are born meat pigs, raised in the beast pen, they were born to live in the destined hell on earth,

These "awakened" meat pigs, beheaded in the market, begged for help from passersby, but the passersby thought the "awakened" should be killed, coldly watching him being executed.

"They, back then, were living humans," Immortal Aunt murmured.

The Fang Family...

Killing openly!

They're toying with all travelers!

They treated living people from the old era as ancient ghosts, beheading them before everyone.

At this moment, the blacksmiths felt a chill run down their spine, shocked by the cold truth behind this.

Someone suddenly remembered a phrase people often say on Earth.

Date time sometimes, people's hearts can be scarier than ghosts.

Because they will turn living people into ghosts.

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