Qin Yang let the speculation run through his mind, but he did not speak it aloud.
After all, it was only his speculation. Even if it was the most reasonable explanation so far.
Yet its foundation was that the Lord of the Manor and the others had only dealt with seven Dao Officials back then, while the remaining three had been left untouched because there had not been time.
Even Baldy Qin himself could not remember. That lapse of memory might have been deliberately concealed by someone, or it might have been lost when Baldy Qin suffered his calamity back then.
When even the foundation itself could not be confirmed, the possibilities deduced from it were naturally even less reliable.
Of course, none of that was important.
Qin Yang did not say anything mainly because he feared Baldy Qin's mentality would explode.
Yet now that he was a genuine Dead Spirit, aside from reincarnation, there was no other way for him to return to the world of the living.
His physical body had never been native to the world of the living in the first place.
To sneak across through the Five Great Rivers, according to Qin Yang's deductions, one's physical body had to be native in order to be sent back through the Burial River.
Given the Dog World's dogshit nature, a physical body condensed here counted as locally born, locally raised, and locally registered. It was already part of the World of the Dead. Why would the World of the Dead be willing to let someone go?
As for his Black Jade Divine Gate, even though Qin Yang had left behind a loophole and had not sealed off the path completely, this was not a gap just anyone could squeeze through.
For the time being, Qin Yang had