Lihua paused, then nodded and said:

"Damn it, died too late!"

...

Tan Wenbin walked over, squatted down, and looked at Brother Xiao Yuan's already reddened eyes.

Then, he picked up the thick stack of plans already drawn on the ground.

He didn't care if he interrupted Brother Xiao Yuan's thoughts, and said: "Brother Xiao Yuan?"

Li Zhiyuan didn't lift his head, continuing to draw as he replied, "Speak."

"The workload is a bit large, we might utilize the ghosts and the dead here."

Li Zhiyuan looked up at Tan Wenbin: "How to utilize them?"

"I've acknowledged a godfather here, he's the highest ranking great eunuch in this palace area, we could ask him to organize the ghosts to help..." Tan Wenbin took the opportunity to recount his contact with the great eunuch to Brother Xiao Yuan.

"Alright, go ahead, we must be quick."

"Sure, I'll go talk to my godfather now."

Tan Wenbin went to find the great eunuch, "godfather" now rolled easily off his tongue.

In crucial moments he can lend a hand, leave you gold and jewels, and he's nearly two thousand years older than you — what's wrong with calling him "godfather"? Definitely worth it.

Li Zhiyuan finished the drawings, and next, it transitioned to a stage of full ghost construction.

The incorporeal ghosts can't touch reality, but they can lead the way, point directions, and hold mechanisms for easier disassembly.

The eight corpse-driving teams, however, can be used as movers; they are dead, with form.

In any case, construction efficiency was very high.

Yet, Li Zhiyuan, having finished the drawings, still couldn't rest; the intricacies of the array required him to personally arrange.

Luckily, the original array was just damaged and altered, the basic framework remained, patching it up without aiming for long-term use could further shorten the project duration.

Lihua threw the child into the fist-sized pit on the stone gate steps, still having only one hand, she worked furiously and efficiently.

In this regard, she strongly resembled those mothers who must leave their children in the village and go out to work for their study and living expenses.

Xiong Shan initially wanted to join, but he was ordered by Li Zhiyuan to rest.

His part was needed later.

No alternative, using other cultivation techniques, as long as Xiong Shan had handed the scroll to the boy for flipping, at most another two flips, Li Zhiyuan would learn it, which could help relieve some of the pressure weaving straw corpse drivers.

Yet in talisman aspects, Li Zhiyuan inherently lacked understanding.

The rest of the team wishing to learn Chenzhou Talisman feared it could take years, considering it... it was indeed rapid progress in comprehension.

When Li Zhiyuan temporarily positioned the array flag as the array eye, the "Dragon Eye Locking Array" was finally completed.

This array would directly connect to the power of the lake's tides, no longer the singular eye, but dual eyes, not haunting, but dragon-like.

Li Zhiyuan even had to thank those from three families, through "Second and Third," they transported vast amounts of secreted corpse oil here, draining the storage.

Otherwise, simply crippling the old array would take a substantial amount of time.

But such gratitude was not suited to express, it would unsettle Xiong Shan and his spouse, even though they certainly wouldn't show it now.

After completion, Li Zhiyuan's vision was entirely red.

He was nearing the brink of absolute exhaustion, without wanting to be blind temporarily, he could only try not to use his brain now.

Next, was transporting those who couldn't be looked at directly, one by one, out of the Stone Gate, placing them in the array.

Everyone arrived in front of that palace, Run Sheng carried Li Zhiyuan on his back.

The eight local corpse-driving teams were already waiting nearby.

However, Li Zhiyuan planned to let the "foreigners" go first, allowing the locals, few, to relay in the middle, giving Xiong Shan an opportunity to breathe.

"Xiong Shan."

"Yes!"

Xiong Shan's tone already contained more reverence.

Dust returns to dust, dirt to soil, after coming down from On the River, the spirit no longer mattered, in facing the towering reality, one inevitably must bow.

Xiong Shan knelt to the ground, forming eight straw piles, immediately the first straw corpse-driving team appeared, heading inward.

Beside, Jie Shun'an was brought over, tied up.

Li Zhiyuan didn't kill him, he also wasn't afraid to die.

Because Li Zhiyuan had promised the Jie family ancestors, he would arrange a conclusion for him.

And that Jie family ancestor also told the boy, the Dragon King of Qin Family of those years was Qin Kan.

However, though Jie Shun'an couldn't see, he could perceive the orderly movements of the entire underground palace earlier.

This meant the boy truly had a way to resolve the accumulated curse problem.

His face displayed undisguised panic, with his mouth repeatedly shouting:

"Grandfather, I beg you, hurry up and die! Old fool, why are you still alive, hurry and die, die! Old bastard, why aren't you dead yet!"

His throat had long been shouted dry and hoarse by himself, gradually losing sound.

Li Zhiyuan glanced at Lin Shuyou standing beside Run Sheng, Lin Shuyou looked back at Brother Xiao Yuan.

Farther away, Tan Wenbin took out a bottle of water, walked to Jie Shun'an, fed him a few sips, and said:

"Here, wet your throat, continue shouting, keep the music going."

Jie Shun'an, as if possessed, shouted toward Li Zhiyuan's direction:

"Since Qin Family was coming, why didn't they come years ago!

Since childhood, I've heard Grandma tell stories of Dragon King Qin and our Old Heavenly Gate's four families jointly suppressing Evil; do you realize, since childhood, how revered Dragon King Qin was to me?

I once dreamed of growing up to join the Qin family, even just to be a slave below the gate!"

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