Chapter 235 Clues on the Dead Body
Sky Prison.
This is the dirtiest and most desperate place in the entire capital.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of the sky prison, a disgusting smell mixed with blood, rottenness and dampness and mold hit him in the face, making Ah Jiu almost vomit.
On both sides of the dim corridor were gloomy cells, from which came the suppressed groans and heavy breathing of the prisoners, like a ghost cave.
"Sir...sir."
The jailer in charge of guarding the sky prison came crawling over, his face full of flattery and fear.
"Where is Yun Wende's body?" Chu Xuanyi asked expressionlessly.
"In... in the innermost dungeon. It has not been moved since your order." The jailer bent his body and dared not breathe.
"lead the way."
"Yes, yes."
Led by the jailer, the two men passed through numerous iron doors and arrived at the deepest part of the prison.
The light here is dimmer, the air is more damp and colder, and the ground beneath your feet is covered with stone slabs that have been soaked in sewage for years, making them sticky and slippery to step on.
"Sir, this is... right here." The jailer pointed to a cell in the corner and said in a trembling voice.
Chu Xuanyi waved his hand, signaling him to leave.
With a sharp friction sound of "creak", the heavy iron door was opened.
Yun Wende's body lay quietly in the cold sewage, having already turned white and swollen, beyond recognition.
Ajiu suppressed the churning in his stomach and followed Chu Xuanyi in.
Chu Xuanyi didn't show any disgust. He squatted down and began to carefully examine Yun Wende's body.
Jiu stood aside and watched nervously, even his breathing subconsciously slowing down.
Time passes by little by little.
Inside the cell, the only sound was the disgusting sound of water when Chu Xuanyi turned over the corpse.
After a long time, Chu Xuanyi slowly stood up and shook his head solemnly.
"How is it, sir?" Ajiu asked anxiously.
"Aside from that ineffective Gu worm tattoo, there's nothing else." Chu Xuanyi said in a deep voice, "There's no interlayer, no hidden markings, nothing on him that could point to a clue."
Jiu's heart instantly sank.
Could it be that... the only clue is broken just like that?
She walked to the corpse unwillingly, squatted down like Chu Xuanyi, and stared at the corpse that had begun to rot.
She tried to see something from above, but all she saw was a swollen, disgusting mass of flesh.
Despair, sadness, powerlessness...
All kinds of negative emotions flooded into my heart again like a tide.
The invisible "Dragon Soul Bond" between her and Xiao Yu seemed to be affected by her emotions at this moment and began to vibrate slightly.
“Hmm…”
Ah Jiu only felt a sharp pain in her heart, and then a familiar, gentle power surged out from the depths of her soul and slowly flowed into her eyes.
That is... the Ziwei Dragon Qi belonging to Xiao Yu.
Although there is only a trace, it is the most original existence.
The moment this trace of dragon energy merged with the power of her original divine pupil, Jiu's eyes suddenly blurred.
The whole world changed in her eyes in an instant.
The cold and damp cell disappeared, and the unrecognizable corpse also disappeared.
Instead, there is a bizarre world composed of countless black, white and gray lines.
And above the gray outline representing Yun Wende's body, there were several black threads thinner than hair, one end of which was connected to the body, and the other end extended into the unknown, deep void.
"Ajiu, what's wrong with you?"
Chu Xuanyi's voice pulled her back from her shock. He noticed that Ah Jiu's face was pale and his eyes had become a little empty, and his heart tightened.
"Sir..." Ajiu's voice trembled slightly, "I... I seem to have seen something... different."
"What is it?" Chu Xuanyi asked immediately.
“Lines…” Jiu blinked, trying hard to see the vague lines clearly. “I saw several black lines connected to his body, leading to… somewhere I don’t know.”
Chu Xuanyi's pupils suddenly shrank when he heard this.
The divine eyes that can break through delusion.
He understood instantly.
It was the prince's dragon energy source, which not only did not repel Ajiu's soul, but instead acted like a catalyst, causing the power of her divine pupil to undergo some unknown evolution.
What she saw was most likely a soul connection between Yun Wende and the person behind him, established through some secret method that transcended the boundaries of life and death.
"Ajiu, listen to me." Chu Xuanyi suppressed his excitement. "Focus all your energy on looking at those threads and see which one is the thickest and most solid."
Jiu took a deep breath and looked intently again according to his instructions.
Among those black lines, there is indeed one that is slightly thicker than the others and its color is darker.
"The third one from the left," she whispered.
"Okay." Chu Xuanyi's voice was a little inducing. "Now, try to trace your consciousness along that line... back to the past. Don't be afraid, I will protect you here."
Ajiu nodded.
She closed her eyes and then opened them suddenly, a faint golden light flashed in her clear eyes.
She focused all her attention on the thickest black line.
The next moment, a powerful and cold suction force suddenly came from the black line.
Ajiu felt as if his soul was being pulled out of his body alive, and his head felt like it was being pierced by countless needles at the same time, causing him excruciating pain.
“Uh…”
She groaned in pain and her body swayed.
"Keep your mind focused and don't let it affect you." Chu Xuanyi's voice sounded in her ears in time.
Ajiu gritted his teeth and let the suction pull his consciousness, flying rapidly along the dark thread towards the unknown void.
She didn't know how long it had been, but just when she was about to give up, her eyes suddenly lit up.
A series of blurry yet incredibly real images flashed through her mind like a kaleidoscope.
It was a solitary mountain, and the entire mountain was shrouded in a strange, never-dissipating blood-red mist.
The scene zoomed in and she saw the top of the mountain.
On the top of the mountain stands a huge rock with an extremely strange shape, which looks like a crescent moon hanging in the sky.
And under the crescent-shaped rock, there is a piece of land soaked in blood mist and without any grass.
Yet, in the center of this dead land, a crystal-clear plant stubbornly grew, with a faintly glowing fruit dangling from its branches. The fruit emanated a faint golden light.
Ambergris.
The name flashed through Ajiu's mind instantly.
“Plop.”
When the last image disappeared, Jiu could no longer hold on and his body softened as he fell forward.
Chu Xuanyi was quick to support her.
"I saw it..." Jiu leaned on his arm and gasped heavily. His face was as pale as a piece of paper, but he could not hide the excitement and excitement in his eyes.
"My lord...I saw the ambergris fruit."
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