"Knowing how to break the eerie curse, yet not wanting to. Is it because he can't, or because he won't?" Li Qingxian asked.
"I suspect both. Breaking the eerie curse is probably difficult to begin with, and rather than leave and become an ordinary elder, he'd prefer to remain mayor here," Mr. Fu said.
"I want to find a way to break the eerie curse. Help me find a path. Find one, and you live. Fail, and you'll wish you were dead," Li Qingxian said.
Mr. Fu pulled a miserable face. "I really can't do it."
"Other than the mayor, does anyone know how to break the eerie curse?" Li Qingxian asked.
"The Xue Family! The Xue Family must know! The major factions that entered town earliest probably know too. If you offer a high enough price, they may be willing to tell you. Some factions are also united with the mayor in appearance but divided at heart. The River Guard Army faction, for instance, and the Southern Kingdoms faction. Oh, right-the Eastern Ding Kingdom recently fell victim to a scheme by the Devil Sect. Somehow, they were caught in an eerie curse, and a huge new batch of people suddenly appeared."
"The Xue Family is here too?"
"The Xue Family is everywhere. The mayor only became mayor because the Xue Family supported him."
Li Qingxian asked, "Why wouldn't they want to break the eerie curse?"
"That, I don't know. Perhaps they don't want to, or perhaps they're slowly working to break it."
Li Qingxian shook his head. "Impossible. They're absolutely not working to break it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made such a mess of this place and left the people boiling with resentment. Anyone with half a brain knows that breaking an eerie curse requires uniting more people. Every