"The Weird Mother was far stronger than we had guessed. I knew I was no match for her and was forced to do this. I believe Ye Han won't blame me. After all, we had an agreement from the start: he would lend me his power, and I would resolve the Eerie."
The three looked at the Lie-Calling Insect. It remained motionless.
"What do you think of Ye Han?" Wang Buwu asked.
Li Qingxian fell silent for a long while before saying, "We're all brothers in the Night Guard. We've faced life and death together. There are things I want to say, but can't."
The two Daoists nodded lightly, approval in their eyes.
Wang Buwu pointed at Li Qingxian's left wrist and asked, "Why is the Heaven-and-Earth Ring in your possession?"
Li Qingxian smiled. "You can ask your good friend Ye Han about that. I'm not at liberty to answer."
They spoke for a long time before Wang Buwu left with the two Daoists.
Once they were outside, the Daoist holding the Sound Bowl said, "His account was so clear that we only need to let the others hear it. It will surely awaken some of their memories, allowing their accounts to corroborate one another. But... they all seem to have complaints about Ye Han. If they remember more of what Ye Han..."
Wang Buwu said expressionlessly, "The Black Lantern Bureau exists to resolve the Eerie. As long as something helps us do that, we should do it. Let's question them a second time."
The three questioned Han Anbo, Yu Ping, Zeng Youqian, and Deng He again, playing Li Qingxian's account for them.
Prompted by Li Qingxian's words, the four remembered more of their experiences and recounted them.
After questioning all four, Wang Buwu and the two Daoists stopped at