"That's right, just as you said, I'm a bastard. I bought coffins in bulk from my aunt for less than half the price, and then sold them for ten or twenty times the price. If they didn't buy them, I wouldn't let their bodies be carried out. If the corpses didn't have resentment, I would help them generate resentment. If the corpses weren't causing trouble, I would help them cause trouble. In short, I did whatever made money, never asking if the money I earned was black-hearted.

"It wasn't the first time I had done anything to beautiful female corpses, it was just that this time I was unlucky and got caught. Zhao Jianjun wasn't manslaughter, I deliberately pushed him down and killed him. That old geezer was too annoying, always nagging. So what if he was my uncle? I want to do what I want to do, not even my own father can control me, let alone an uncle. He should have died a long time ago.

"And those things in the coffin-lifting team, I deserve to die, but are they innocent? Didn't they know that the money I gave them was dirty money? Didn't they know that the corpse disturbances were controlled by me using corpse-raising techniques (qi shi shu)?

"They knew, they all knew very well, but when the money was handed to them, not a single one of them refused. Everyone's face was beaming like a flower.

"They took so many benefits from me, what's wrong with them blocking disasters for me at critical moments? There's no such thing as a free lunch.

"How do you think I put the scapegoats on them? I put the scapegoats in the money. If they didn't take the money, they wouldn't die, but they all took it. They knew where the money came from, but they still took it. Tell me, don't they deserve to die?

"And those few fake coffin carriers I brought, why were they willing to go with me to deceive you? Because they were also afraid. They didn't know that the female ghost's soul had been scattered, they were afraid of being haunted by the female ghost. You can never imagine what those crazy things did to that girl when she was alive. The woman died with her eyes open, resolutely refusing to leave the house, all thanks to them.

"I deserve to die, but I'm not the only one who deserves to die."

Seeing that I already knew everything, Zhao Tian no longer concealed anything, but reminded me again that I had promised to protect him, and promised that he would not suffer permanent harm. Therefore, no matter what he had done, I had to save him.

Moreover, Zhao Tian also knew that I had the ability to remember everything I saw, and knew that I had memorized all the contents of the *Corpse Sutra* (*Shi Jing*). Even if I returned the book to him now, I would still owe him karma.

I really didn't want to owe such a person karma, but that was just reluctance, not inability, let alone fear. The reason I still wanted to save his life, the reason I didn't let him die in the hands of these ghosts, was because I had a better way to deal with him.

Death is not the most terrifying punishment. Some states of living are actually more terrifying than death.

I looked at Zhao Tian with a smile and said, "That's right, I really can't kill you, and I won't hurt you. In order to prevent these wronged souls from harassing you, I will also find you a very powerful bodyguard to protect you seriously all the time. Even if you want to die, he won't let you die."

Zhao Tian snorted and said, "I want to die myself? How could someone like me want to die? I'm living well, why should I die?"

"Okay, you said that yourself, don't regret it. Even if you regret it, it's useless." I looked at Zhao Tian calmly, took out my phone and dialed a number.

"Brother Hei? Didn't you say last time that you wanted me to find you a suitable candidate to help you raise dogs near the cemetery? I found one. Bring him over now. It's really hard to find a young man who is so suitable in all aspects. You have to protect him well and let him help you raise dogs for a few more years."

The person on the other end of the phone agreed, asked for the address, and said he would come over immediately, and told me to keep a close eye on Zhao Tian. He hadn't found a suitable dog-raising partner for many years.

I hung up the phone and waved my hand at the ghostly aura in the room, and said, "Alright, you're all dead anyway, and you can't say you were all completely wronged. You did a lot of things you shouldn't have done when you were alive. Zhao Tian will be taken care of. You all go now. If you keep hiding here, you will become a scourge to the village in the future. It will be too late when the villagers find Taoists to subdue you."

The coffin lifters in the room were still willing to listen to advice and did not stay stubbornly. They had tortured Zhao Tian enough, knew that Zhao Tian would receive his due punishment, and stopped causing trouble, turning into starlight and disappearing into the ground.

I tore off the light-blocking talismans from the doors and windows, opened the door, and pushed open the window. The dazzling sunlight shone in, and I subconsciously shielded my eyes with my hand.

Because everything that needed to be dealt with had been dealt with, and all that was left was to wait for Brother Hei to take over Zhao Tian, I was very relaxed.

Zhao Tian probably saw that I was very relaxed, so he picked up a brick from the ground, blessed it with a spell, and slammed it towards the back of my head.

I didn't turn around, just put my hands behind my back and casually flicked the abacus beads. A wisp of sharp wind passed by and shattered Zhao Tian's brick.

"You don't need to have any more crooked thoughts, you can't beat me." I told Zhao Tian very seriously.

"Ah..." Zhao Tian shouted in despair, "I don't want to, I don't want to go feed the dogs, I don't want to be bitten by dogs, I don't want to guard the mass graveyard, I don't want to..."

Zhao Tian was also in the business of dealing with the dead, so of course he knew who Brother Hei was, and of course he knew what it meant to help Brother Hei feed the dogs.

The place where Brother Hei raises dogs is north of Hua City. It is said that two hundred years ago, there used to be a village there. Because the ancestral graves were tampered with, all the people in the village died. From the old lady in her nineties to the newborn baby less than three days old, more than five hundred people in the whole village died cleanly overnight, and the land began to be filled with resentment.

In order to prevent the resentment in the village from escaping, a family took on the responsibility of guarding the village. Their ancestors tamed black dogs and patrolled around the village day and night with black dogs, not only preventing the wronged souls from coming out, but also preventing living people who might stray in.

Everyone knows that black dogs ward off evil spirits. The fiercer the black dog, the more it wards off evil spirits. Black dogs that have bitten people ward off evil spirits even more, and black dogs that often bite people are naturally the combat dogs among the evil-warding dogs. Therefore, Brother Hei, who guards the village, needs to have his black dogs bite people often. Black dogs that have not bitten people for a long time lose their wildness and cannot guard the evil spirits of that village.

But who wants to be bitten by black dogs every day? Black dogs wander around in the mass graveyard every day, and they haven't even been vaccinated. What if they get rabies? Therefore, Brother Hei can only find some people with deep sins from the past, on the one hand to let the black dogs get exercise, and on the other hand to give these people a chance to atone for their sins.