Zhang Yuqiu spoke until her throat was dry, yet the two men acted as if she were transparent, utterly disregarding her frantic anxiety. As they dressed, they conversed about the Undying Bodies, completely ignoring the woman's nagging urgency.

"Who do you suppose is the master of these Undying Bodies?"

"I'd guess the Sea of the Dead, or perhaps the Spring of Immortality."

"No, neither of those possesses intent. Nothing without intent would command others to act."

"Then who do you think it is?"

"That question is likely profound; we'll have to go back to the Reflection Villa to investigate."

"Speaking of which, I saw your father at Reflection Villa last time. He personally returned the missing scythe to me."

"That wasn't my father, but his twin brother, Li Taiming. They look identical—just like Xiao Hao and me. He claimed it was because of my father that he disguised himself as he appears now. However, the truth of that statement still needs verification."

"I think if we want to trace the history of the Undead, we should start investigating your family line. To uncover the history of the Undying Bodies, we should focus on your strange uncle."

"Why?"

"Because he acts like a godfather, constantly persuading those who receive the Life-and-Death Contract to complete assassination missions, like myself and Li Bingyu."

"Li Bingyu is finished. It's remarkable you managed to escape the agony between life and death."

"Truthfully, I also desperately wanted to live. But after thinking about killing so many people, the prospect of sleepless nights awaiting me every evening made me unable to go through with it."

"I believe that old woman from Miao Village gave you some premonition. If she hadn't repeatedly demanded an end to her own life, perhaps you would have harbored different fantasies about the Undying Bodies."

"Yes, fantasizing about it being like heaven—living without restraint, doing whatever one desires, with time no longer being an elusive thing, because it would continue forever within oneself."

"There's no such thing as a free lunch. Endless life inevitably demands a heavy price, and the souls unjustly killed will not easily allow those who murdered them to live in peace."

As the two conversed, leaving Zhang Yuqiu aside, Xiaoyu glanced at his watch. "It's been four days since we left Peach Blossom Pool and arrived here, and I'm still standing before you in one piece. That proves her words are correct. Li Taiming seemed to vaguely mention this matter as well." This finally offered the beautiful woman beside them a chance to make her presence felt.

"However, it's clear he didn't want you to take this path. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken you to the prison. In his mind, you should have desperately fought those on death row to survive, eventually hoisting the blood-soaked scythe while laughing triumphantly over a mountain of corpses."

"Judging from that point," Zhang Yuqiu nodded in affirmation, "he is someone connected to the Undying Bodies. To find the people you're looking for, we might still need to enlist his power." Seeing the two men so absorbed in their conversation that they ignored the Man-Eating Nether-Worms slowly crawling toward them outside the door, Zhang Yuqiu finally found an opening—or more accurately, an excuse—to hurry these two young masters out of the dangerous hospital.

Xiaoyu and Xiaoshu exchanged a look. Xiaoyu asked, "Do you really think Wenshu has become an Undying Body, just as she claimed?"

Xiaoshu stroked her chin, then turned back to look at Zhang Yuqiu. "My intuition tells me she is trustworthy."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go, quickly!" Seeing the rustling Man-Eating Nether-Worms creeping in, Zhang Yuqiu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, grabbing the two men and pulling them toward the exit.