Translator: Cinder Translations
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"Wu Sheng, you are cultivating the corpse-raising secret technique, and the evidence is conclusive. Do you have anything else to say?" Leng Tianlu asked.
Song Wen replied, "I have nothing to say, but may I use a communication jade slip to inform a friend?"
Leng Tianlu scoffed.
"What? Want to find someone to plead for you? I advise you not to waste your effort; it won't help no matter who you call. The prohibition against cultivating demonic techniques is a rule set by our founding ancestor. No one in the sect is allowed to violate it."
Leng Tianlu looked like an iron-faced judge, with a fair and stern demeanor.
Song Wen took out the communication jade slip for Rong Jingyun.
He conveyed the signs of corpse energy and life energy merging from the human-snake hybrids, as well as the news of the hybrids being robbed.
"Take Wu Sheng back to the Law Enforcement Hall."
Two late-stage Qi Refining cultivators approached Song Wen, one on each side, preparing to capture him.
"No need; I can walk myself."
Song Wen's face was filled with pain, as if he was enduring tremendous physical suffering, struggling to stand up from the ground.
Leng Tianlu glanced at Song Wen coldly and said, "Move!"
Upon reaching the cave's entrance, Song Wen found that he could no longer fly using his sword. He crushed a flying talisman and followed Leng Tianlu slowly toward the Law Enforcement Hall.
Before long, Song Wen was taken deep into the Law Enforcement Hall and locked in a large cell for prisoners. He was also bound with a chain by Leng Tianlu, making it difficult to move.
"Wu Sheng, I just retrieved your file. You were originally a loose cultivator who joined the Beastmaster Sect four years ago. The corpse-raising secret technique you are cultivating must have been acquired before you joined the sect, right?"
"Tell me! Why did you go to such lengths to join the sect? Are you a spy sent by the demonic sect?"
Leng Tianlu's expression was cold as he interrogated fiercely.
Although Song Wen was bound, he showed no sign of fear and appeared unconcerned.
"Elder Leng, regarding the corpse-raising secret techniques, you have no authority to question it in your position. I am curious to know who reported me for privately refining and selling corpses."
Seeing that Song Wen, facing death, still dared to look down on him, Leng Tianlu became furious.
"Wu Sheng, you are forcing me to resort to torture."
He raised his hand, and dozens of cold, glimmering instruments of torture appeared before him.
Among them, Leng Tianlu pulled out a curved blade about a foot long.
"This knife is called the Soul-Cleaving Blade, the most precious one among these instruments. It is a top-quality spiritual weapon, containing a strand of Soul-Eating True Fire. This fire has the ability to harm the soul."
"One slash, and the pain to the flesh is secondary; the most despairing part is that the Soul-Eating True Fire will penetrate into the soul, burning it and causing unbearable suffering."
As he spoke, Leng Tianlu stabbed the Soul-Cleaving Blade into Song Wen's shoulder blade.
Song Wen's face contorted in agony, veins bulging on his forehead like squirming earthworms.
"Ah!"
Song Wen gritted his teeth, letting out a low, suppressed roar.
The burning sensation in his soul caused him immense pain.
Yet, it was still within his tolerance.
He had undergone soul cleaving multiple times to create death substitutes.
His endurance for soul pain was much higher than that of ordinary people.
"It seems you can endure quite well; you can withstand the pain of the spiritual fire burning your soul. Those Foundation Establishment cultivators who were injured by the Soul-Cleaving Blade in the past were in unbearable pain, crying out for mercy."
Leng Tianlu pulled out the Soul-Cleaving Blade, a bloodthirsty smile appearing on his face.
He lightly ran his fingers along the blade, collecting the crimson blood and bringing it to his mouth.
Leng Tianlu licked the blood from his fingers, his expression becoming somewhat twisted and frenzied.
"I like hard-headed people like you; it lets me torture you a little longer..."
Before Leng Tianlu could finish his sentence, his expression suddenly changed.
He felt a strong stabbing pain on his tongue, as if countless steel needles were piercing it.
"How could your blood be so toxic?!"
"Pah! Pah! Pah…"
Leng Tianlu spat several times, trying to expel the remaining toxic blood from his mouth.
At the same time, he hurriedly circulated his spiritual power to push the toxins out of his body.
The amount of poison he had swallowed wasn't much; after all, he was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, and this level of toxin couldn't harm him.
Before long, he expelled the toxins, but his tongue still felt like it was on fire, burning painfully.
Leng Tianlu's face darkened, and he gripped the knife, preparing to stab the Soul-Cleaving Blade into Song Wen once more.
"You will regret this," Song Wen said coldly.
"Hmph, a prisoner beneath my feet dares to threaten me," Leng Tianlu mocked.
As he spoke, he once again thrust the Soul-Cleaving Blade toward Song Wen.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, a loud shout rang out.
Rong Jingyun appeared in the prison cell.
She was followed by Zhou Siyi and two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Law Enforcement Hall.
Upon hearing the shout, Leng Tianlu turned to Rong Jingyun.
"Elder Rong, as an elder of the Alchemy Peak, why have you forcibly invaded my Law Enforcement Hall's prison?"
Rong Jingyun glanced at Song Wen, confirming that he was unharmed, before replying.
"Wu Sheng is an elder of my Alchemy Peak. You in the Law Enforcement Hall must have a reason for arresting him, right?"
Leng Tianlu retorted, "Hmph! Do we in the Law Enforcement Hall need to report to you, Rong Jingyun?"
With that, he cast a stern look at the two cultivators from the Law Enforcement Hall beside Rong Jingyun.
"What are you doing? Why did you allow outsiders to enter the prison?"
Faced with Leng Tianlu's questioning, the two Law Enforcement Hall cultivators shrank back a bit, and one of them said, "Elder Leng, Elder Rong has a summons jade slip. She is an elder of the Hall, and we didn't dare to stop her."
The elder of the Hall held a high position in the Beastmaster Sect, second only to the Golden Core stronghold. Apart from some forbidden areas of the sect, the elder of the Hall could enter and exit freely.
"An elder of the Hall!"
Leng Tianlu looked at Rong Jingyun with a hint of trepidation.
"Even if you are an elder of the Hall, you have no authority to interfere in the matters of the Law Enforcement Hall."
He pointed at Song Wen and continued, "Moreover, this person is a spy of the demonic path. Even if I were to execute him on the spot, you have no right to question it."
Upon hearing this, Rong Jingyun's gaze toward Song Wen turned somewhat doubtful.
Song Wen's display of corpse-raising talent indeed seemed a bit unfathomable.
"Does the Law Enforcement Hall have evidence of Wu Sheng colluding with the demonic path?"
This thought flashed through Rong Jingyun's mind.
Standing behind Rong Jingyun, Zhou Siyi didn't think as deeply as she did. After hearing Leng Tianlu's words, she felt indignant and retorted loudly.
"This is a crime of false accusation! What evidence do you have to prove that Brother Wu is a demonic spy?"
Leng Tianlu laughed.
"Evidence? He has a large amount of corpse energy remaining in his cave dwelling. He only joined the sect four years ago—if he's not a demonic spy, then what is he?!"
Zhou Siyi's face was filled with anger.
"Just because there is corpse energy in Brother Wu's cave, you claim he is a spy!"
"Then I also have corpse energy on me; does that mean I am also a demonic spy?"
As she spoke, she withdrew her spiritual power that was controlling the Haoqi Mirror.
In an instant, a dense aura of corpse energy surrounded her.
(End of the Chapter)
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