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In the end, just like Zhang Hu, he used his hands to rip open his own chest with tears streaming down his face, digging out his heart. Seeing that Zhang Nan was still stubbornly refusing to open the door, he laughed helplessly, and said: "Just you wait, if you don't save me, there will be more deaths, none of them will be able to escape."

It was the same phrase as what Zhang Hu had said, Zhang Nan felt as if his head was about to explode. Why did they all unhesitantly take out their own hearts and force him to open the door?

Who was it? The fox demon?

"Wait, who are they, and who are they?" Seeing that Zhang Bao was about to leave, Zhang Nan anxiously shouted.

"You'll know sooner or later." Zhang Bao did not look back as he left while holding his heart. He staggered along as if he was going to die.

In this instant, Zhang Nan even doubted whether old Heavenly Master was speaking the truth. Why did he not let him go out? These past two days, it had been a nightmare, Zhang Bao and Hunter Zhang didn't even have a heart.

On the third day, just like the previous two, there was another knock on the door. This time, seven people stood outside.

"What are you doing? You want me to open the door again? " Zhang Nan frowned, this was the last day, yet there were so many people.

"Zhang Nan, save us. Their hearts have been dug out, if you don't save us, we will die." Zhang Huai Li looked at Zhang Nan and prayed.

"It's not that I don't want to save you, it's that old Heavenly Master did not allow me to open the door!" Zhang Nan frantically grabbed his hair and walked back and forth in the house, not knowing what to do.

"Save us, please!" Just like yesterday's Zhang Meng, Zhang Huali started kowtowing. Soon after, the other six people also knelt down.

"You guys can leave. I really can't open the door." Zhang Nan clenched his teeth and said fiercely.

"Are you really going to watch as our hearts get dug out?" As he spoke, Zhang Huaili's expression suddenly changed. A murderous look flashed across his eyes. He untied his shirt, and his hand began to feel around his chest, causing blood to flow out.

"Stop!" Just at that moment, Zhang Nan suddenly shouted to stop them, "I, I cannot watch you all die, I would rather die than let you all have seven lives."

As Zhang Nan said this, his tears uncontrollably rolled down, and he still remembered old Heavenly Master's words even after a long time. Open the door, and you will die.

If he didn't open the door, all seven of them would die. One life was worth it!

However, he did not expect that the moment he said those words, Zhang Huai Li and the others who were outside laughed weirdly. Their eyes narrowed into slits, and waited for Zhang Nan to open the door.

"Thank you, Zhang Nan. Thank you for saving us." Zhang Huaili was still kowtowing, but his eyes were glued to the wooden door.

Creak!

Zhang Nan opened the door and was about to speak when he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing towards him. The next thing he knew was that Zhang Huai Li and a few others were laughing weirdly, and with a twist of their bodies, he realized that the people outside were not human, but seven foxes.

"You've been tricked!" The leading fox said, and pounced towards Zhang Nan.

"This is bad!" Zhang Nan shouted and ran back, but there were seven foxes that pounced at him with their lives on the line, it was too late.

At this crucial moment, a thunderous voice suddenly came from outside.

"Evil creature, you still dare to commit murder?" Before he finished speaking, old Heavenly Master dropped from the sky and threw seven bronze coins towards the seven foxes.

Puff puff puff puff …

One by one, the foxes were hit in the head and fell to the ground, but the leader of the foxes jumped and dodged the Five Emperors Coin, his red eyes staring straight at old Heavenly Master, as though he had escaped the courtyard with unwillingness and anger.

"B-old Heavenly Master?" Zhang Nan anxiously walked to the front of old Heavenly Master, his mind was still blank. If not for old Heavenly Master rushing over, he might not be able to survive.

"What did I tell you? I told you not to open the door. " With a stern face, the old Heavenly Master waved his sleeve and the six dead foxes suddenly turned into dust and disappeared without a trace.

"old Heavenly Master, wh-what exactly happened in the past three days?" Zhang Nan felt his mind was in a mess.

"Come, come with me and you'll know." The old Heavenly Master did not speak further, he turned and left.

Zhang Nan followed closely behind, and arrived at the ancestral hall with old Heavenly Master. He saw that seven corpses were parked inside the ancestral hall along with the white cloth, and upon closer inspection, there were Zhang Meng and his group of five missing people, as well as two corpses that were Zhang Hu and Zhang Bao.

The cause of death for these seven people was exactly the same. Their mouths were torn to the ear, and there was a huge wound on their chests. As the white flesh fell out, it caused goosebumps to appear all over their bodies.

"How, how did this happen?" Zhang Nan frowned, he felt that his head was big.

"Didn't you say that you went to the city temple to take shelter from the rain the other day?" old Heavenly Master squinted at Zhang Nan!

"I went to the city temple." Zhang Nan's gaze averted a little but he was still unwilling to speak the truth.

"They were found in the city's god temple. Their hearts were taken away." old Heavenly Master seemed to have seen through Zhang Nan's thoughts, but he did not point it out.

Zhang Nan's head buzzed, he pointed to Zhang Hu and Zhang Bao, and said: "They were also found in the City God Temple?"

The old Heavenly Master nodded and agreed.

"How, how is this possible? Could it be that they later went to the City God Temple? " Zhang Nan lowered his head and thought out loud. Zhang Hu and Zhang Bao had dug out their hearts right in front of his door. How could they have been dug out by someone else?

Could it be that what he saw was not real? What had happened?

Zhang Nan felt as though his head was going to explode. He wanted to say what he had seen with his own eyes, but if he said these words, who would believe him? He was afraid that he would be found guilty of murder.

Everything had happened too strangely.

"What did you see these past three days?" old Heavenly Master squinted his eyes as he looked at Zhang Nan. Zhang Nan knew that he could no longer hide it, and could only tell her everything he had seen and heard.

"Oh evil origin, looks like this fox demon has its eyes on you. If it wasn't for it, I'm afraid even more people would have died, you should regret lying to me!" Hearing Zhang Nan's words, the old Heavenly Master said regretfully.

"Then what should we do? Have you found its hiding place? " Zhang Nan was slightly worried for Fox Fairy. Uncle Fu was a fox demon and if he really transformed from it, wouldn't Fox Fairy be in danger?

But how to tell if Uncle Fu was a human or a demon? Zhang Nan frantically grabbed onto his clothes, but couldn't do anything about it.

"I know my limits, but the deaths of these seven people have a great deal to do with you. Just stay here tonight and guard the spirit. It can be said that you will atone for your sins." After old Heavenly Master said this, he walked in front of each corpse and tied up a piece of yellow paper on each corpse's face. He then wrote a word on the yellow paper, and instructed Zhang Nan, "Remember, the yellow paper cannot be dropped, or else, something big really will happen in the village …"