
The Bandit Group's first defeat made its chairman go to the underground forest. The place was so creepy, almost no one set foot in the forest.
“Senior, please help us. The enemy group hired someone dangerous. I think he is in the realm of Soul Birth or above.”
The bandit chief complained to one of the people who supported him. The old man was actually in the Neutral Group but since he was basically a bandit, he stood up and grinned.
“How dare you wake me!” he said while compressing Qinya to form a hand.
The one who managed to condense Qi and form a special object, should be at the Nascent Soul or Nascent Soul realm.
“Se...Senior A... I dare not.”
The old man furrowed his brows, he saw a sense of fear in the eyes of the Bandit Leader. “That's exactly what I want, fear... I need fear!” he said combined with the sound of laughter.
“What do you want, coward?” the old man asked as he snickered almost spewed out his laughter.
“Please our group!” the Bandit Leader.
“Tell!”
The bandit chief recounted all the events, he overestimated Ye Xuan's strength for the old man to help her. But instead of getting help, the old man laughed out loud.
“You lied!” he said while releasing a palm strike. His punch instantly destroyed most of the organs within the Bandit Chief. Her dantian was cut off one by one, Jing and Meinya spewed blood until her dantian was destroyed.
The torture process was extremely painful, the Bandit Chief was unable to endure it. He fainted without knowing his miserable condition.
“Ye Xuan, I look forward to your arrival!” said the Old Man with a terrible laugh.
On the other hand Ye Xuan felt her fur on her back standing, she looked towards the headquarters of the bandit group. “Maybe it's just my feeling, I'd better go hunt.”
Night had arrived, a small group of disciples trained their bodies and mental as per the instructions. Some people need to rest because their condition is not stable.
The first day passed easily, all still according to the plan. After the second day, Ye Xuan came out alone to hunt down some mutation trees. He immediately absorbed the dropped Cursed Stone.
On the third day, Ye Xuan was looking for a troll monster like before. Yet he did not find it, Ye Xuan chose to return to the group disciples headquarters.
His steps came to a halt after seeing a very suspicious tree, the trees grew crisscrossed so that the bottom looked dark. Dozens or possibly hundreds of trees formed an artificial cave.
“No harm in trying to enter.” Ye Xuan stepped still in the hope that something would come her way. Instead of luck being obtained, a sword quickly pointed at him.
The panicked Ye Xuan directly used Shadow Steps to dodge, her eyes staring intently at the source of the attack. Little lightning emerged from the tip of his pupils, Ye Xuan increased his focus to the highest point.
Before knowing who attacked him, another branch of the tree suddenly pulled out a sword. Ye Xuan was still activating Domain Qi, so she knew the direction of the attack. With a little effort Ye Xuan dodged the sword attack.
The sword attack did not stop, the sword that was originally one became 10, then became 20, and continued to grow over time. Ye Xuan who had already trained her sensitivity with the mutation tree was not that difficult, she maneuvered in midair as well as swung her sword stopping her opponent's sword.
After enduring for quite a while, Ye Xuan realized that the tree trunk was gradually diminishing. The tree that was originally over a hundred shrank into tens.
“Senior, I didn't come with bad intentions. Please listen to my explanation!” yue Xuan shouted for peace.
The sword stopped. An old man as well as a hunchbacked body came out from inside the cave. His blood-red eyes looked towards Ye Xuan with a sharp gaze.
“Young people, where are you from?”
“I'm from Tianlong Sect.”
“As usual, those Bajin*ans always throw out the geniuses.”
“Senior, it looks like you misunderstood. This prison was actually a paradise for cultivators. No one noticed it before I came.”
“Heaven? Your mind is too twisted young man. Don't you see the monsters running amok every night?”
Ye Xuan nodded. “Surely I saw it, even I went through the night massacring those monsters. Look at this.” Ye Xuan took out a Cursed Stone that had yet to be absorbed.
“Iya I killed some of them.”
The old man was the one who thought of the idea like Ye Xuan, he slaughtered a few monsters then took out his cursed stone. But when absorbing the cursed stone, his cultivation actually degenerated.
“You are too young to understand, quickly throw away that cursed stone!” said the Old Man warning Ye Xuan.
“It looks like you misunderstood senior.” Ye Xuan had precisely absorbed it right in front of the mysterious old man. That damned energy was instantly purified and entered into his body.
“You see, in the right way this stone can be a blessing for us cultivators.” Ye Xuan mentioned his thoughts.
“No way, how did you do it?”
“Dantian is not the only one who can cultivate heaven and earth energy. We can use all organs in the body to absorb heaven and earth energy.” Ye Xuan explained his theory of the true power of Qi.
The Old Man nodded like a disciple listening to his teacher's explanation. He was astonished after confirming that Ye Xuan did not have an intact Dantian, but his Qi was circulating well.
The Old Man was Feng Hu, the one who had once been a slaughtering cultivator of the bandits. He was the core disciple of the Tianlong Sect, back then Long Tianyun's father who became the sect leader. Thanks to the conspiracy of the Ancestral sect nutmeg, he ended up in a banishment.
After struggling with all his might to survive in the dungeon, Feng Hu managed to create a cave out of a tree. The heaven and earth energy in the dungeon was minimal, so its development was much slower than those on the surface. But his determination was too strong, he would continue to endure for the sake of seeing his beloved daughter in Long Kingdom.
“Princess, what is your daughter's name?” ask Ye Xuan.
“Feng Xia, she is my daughter.”
Feng Xia was the mother of the king of the current Long Kingdom. It's already 200 years old, but it still looks young. Rumor has it that the old woman was in the realm of Ascension, hence her appearance as if she was still in her 30s.
The reason why the Long Kingdom remained standing without interruption was because of Feng Xia's existence. No one dared to touch the Long Kingdom because Feng Xia was too strong, even the prince of Dragon War had not been convinced that he could defeat him.
“It looks like I've fallen far behind him.”
“No father is weaker than his son.” Ye Xuan tried to comfort Feng Hu who looked dejected.
It had been Feng Hu's 180 years in prison, he needed another 20 years to be completely free. His cultivation stopped at the 9th level of Soul Strengthening realm, he had no means to take on the heavenly tribulation. In order to break through to the realm of Nothingness, Feng Hu would have to accept the trials of the Heavenly Tribulation, otherwise he would forever remain in Soul Strengthening.
Ye Xuan was actually no way to help Feng Hu, but he did not wish to reveal the artificial world within his Dantian of the Universe.
“It's not easy, I can help you get out of this prison.”
“Do you not know that guard surnamed Yanluo is in the realm of Nothingness?” asked Feng Hu casually.
“I know, he's actually a good guy. According to my observation, he cannot decide a person's punishment based on his decision. Yanluo only followed what this Underground Prison had said.”
“What do you mean?” asked Feng Hu who still did not understand.
“This intricate array of formations was created specifically to imprison those who had a soul demon in their heart. Meaning we only need to get rid of the Demon Soul to break through the prison defenses, Yanluo will not interfere in this affair.”
Feng Hu furrowed his brows. “No way, the knot in my heart is already very complicated. It is impossible to decipher it at this time.” He wanted to convey that his grudges could not be reconciled, he would destroy the ancestors who trapped him.
Ye Xuan could only smile wryly, she had yet to find any other conditions to forcibly exit. The ceiling of the prison began to turn brown, Ye Xuan wanted to say goodbye to get out.
However before exiting Feng Hu stopped him. “There is someone who is after your life, that man is quite dangerous.”
Ye Xuan shook her head. “Not to worry, the law in this prison is absolute. There's no way he's killing me.”
“You still don't know, there's actually a way to kill people.”
Ye Xuan was startled and stared intently at Feng Hu. “Are you sure?”
“Yes, I've killed more than 50 people during my life in prison.”
Instead of being afraid that the enemy would kill him, Ye Xuan had instead gotten an answer about his uneasiness to break out of prison in addition to getting rid of the soul demons in the hearts of cultivators.