His hands were chained to the stone wall behind him by two dark gold chains, the chains were inlaid with runes that sealed his cultivation, but his back remained perfectly straight.
His misty eyes were half closed, as if he was not in a cold and damp dungeon, but rather in a quiet Daoist temple, showing no signs of being imprisoned.
Hearing approaching footsteps, the figure slowly opened his eyes, his glazed gaze fixed on the gray-robed figure at the end of the dungeon passage.
A glimmer of wariness briefly flashed across his aged eyes, but it was quickly replaced by understanding and relief. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing a tired yet determined smile.
His husky voice contained a hint of teasing: “I know you won’t leave me.”
David stood in front of the iron fence, his purple eyes fixed on Xuan Zhenzi’s face which was covered in scars but remained calm. He was silent for a moment, then raised his hand and waved it slowly.
The iron fence bent, broke, and disintegrated before him like rotten wood, turning into fragments that scattered in all directions without making a sound.
He stepped into the cell, primordial chaos flowing across his palm, landing precisely on the dark gold chain on Xuanzhenzi’s wrist.
The sealing runes on the chains shook violently and flickered for a few moments before melting, shattering, and falling off bit by bit, like snow meeting fire, losing all function.
Xuanzhenzi moved his wrist, which had been locked for several days, and his bones made crisp cracking sounds. He exhaled a stale breath and patted the straw and dust from his robe.
Then he waved his hand casually: “It’s just a minor injury, not serious. But there is something I need to tell you immediately.”
“The last few days I spent here were not in vain.”
His expression changed from relaxed to serious, and a sharp glint appeared in his misty eyes, clearly indicating that he had detected important information.
“The city lord surnamed Qiao from the city lord’s mansion comes to the dungeon to interrogate me once every three days. Outwardly, he interrogates me about ‘spiritual vein theft,’ but in fact, he tries to find out my secret with every question.”
He came again two days ago, but he was accompanied by a mysterious masked guest.
Even though most of my cultivation was locked, I was still able to use some basic Daoist divine sense techniques, and I overheard some of their conversations.
Xuanzhenzi lowered his voice and said, word by word, in a tone filled with seriousness, “The mysterious guest is someone from the Haotian God Clan.”
They were discussing a deal; The Haotian Clan secretly obtained some important materials at high prices, something about nuclear conversion, but I don’t really understand.
However, that doesn’t sound like a good thing at all; it was all very mysterious, and they said that if it was done, more than half of the cultivators on Twenty-second Heaven would die.
David’s purple eyes suddenly narrowed, and the air around him seemed to cool slightly for a moment, with a cold killing intent radiating from his eyes.
It seemed that the Haotian God Clan planned to carry out a nuclear explosion on the 22nd Heaven and then collect the energy.
Even though resources were scarce on Twenty-second Heaven, everyone there was cultivator. They could obtain Earth Ash World technology and develop nuclear energy, which would be a hundred times faster than ordinary people.
However, once implemented, the Twenty-second Heaven would be plunged into darkness, and many cultivators would die.
In this way, the Haotian God Clan no longer needs the lower realm’s resource domain.
If the Haotian Divine Clan built a nuclear energy collection system within the Twenty-second Heaven, then the Earth of Ashes would lose its value completely.
At that time, there would only be one fate awaiting the people of the Land of Ashes: to be silenced, exterminated, or completely eliminated as an unnecessary burden.
Is there anything else?
David asked in a deep voice, his tone containing an almost imperceptible urgency. He needed more information to deal with this crisis.
Xuanzhenzi shook his head, looking regretful: “They quickly realized that someone was spying on us. The mysterious guest’s divine sense was extremely sharp, and I almost exposed my own whereabouts.”
Luckily, a guard came to deliver food at that moment, interrupting their conversation.
However, just these few words are enough to describe the seriousness of the problem.
David was silent for a moment, his purple eyes sparkling with deep contemplation.
He knew he had to do two things immediately:
First, make sure Hao Ling maintains a stable situation within the Haotian God Clan and prevent the other party from realizing too quickly that the nuclear energy collection system in the lower realm has undergone changes.
Second, he needed to obtain the Xuan Tian Soul Severing Jade as soon as possible to remove the soul restrictions on Hao Ling, so that he could truly break free from the control of the Hao Tian Divine Clan and thus obtain more core intelligence. Both of these tasks required time, and that was what he really needed right now.
“Walk.”
David snapped out of his thoughts, raised his hand, and a gray-purple chaotic force enveloped Xuan Zhenzi’s body, slowly helping him up. His tone was firm, “Leave here first; this place isn’t safe to stay in any longer.”
Instead of retracing his footsteps within the dungeon, he raised his hand upwards, and the chaotic force swirled through the thick layer of rocks and stone slabs above the dungeon, silently creating a passage about ten feet in diameter.
The two of them shot into the sky from the passage, disappearing into the night sky above the city lord’s mansion like two streaks of light merging in the darkness, vanishing in an instant into the vast night outside Qing Shuang City.
FAQ Novel
Q: Who is the main character trying to rescue?
A: The text implies a rescue is underway for Xuanzhenzi.
Q: What is the setting of this chapter?
A: The chapter takes place in the city of Qing Shuang, specifically within the heavily guarded city lord’s mansion.
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