Before them stood a cloaked figure in black, short in stature, only half the height of an average person.
He looked around before turning around and leading the two inside.
Before long, we arrived at the artificial hill in the garden.
The man extended a wooden stick from the lattice; it looked very familiar.
Now, Lin Qianqian and Yun Ze could confirm that the short person in the black cloak was the ghost they had seen before.
Because their arms are all the same, like matchsticks, they are very distinctive.
The stick struck one side of the artificial hill with a long tap and two short taps, and a burst of runic light flashed. The artificial hill then rumbled and split open, revealing a downward-facing opening in the ground.
The two continued walking, their steps stiff and heavy.
After walking for a long time, we arrived at a spacious underground hall. On the left side of the hall were seven or eight prison cells.
In the first iron cell, there was a huge tiger.
The tiger ignored the people who came in and just kept banging on the cell door.
But the prison door remained unmoved; instead, it was nearly electrocuted by the lightning talisman pasted on the door.
The cell in the back was quiet, with a young man in a red and black monk's robe lying on the floor.
The young man was pale and motionless; he must have been unconscious.
Lin Qianqian was unfamiliar with the Immortal Abyss Realm and didn't know which sect it belonged to, but Yun Ze recognized it as the attire of a disciple of the Weapon Sect in the Immortal Abyss Realm.
Beyond that was a water dungeon, where a little mermaid with a human body and a fish tail was peering at them from the cell door.
No, they're not called mermaids here, they're called merfolk.
The room next to the water dungeon was empty, and in the cell further ahead, there was a dark red tree bound with iron chains.
As soon as someone entered the hall, the tree branches began to tremble, and gradually the upper part of the tree began to change.
It soon turned into a half-human, half-tree creature; it turned out to be a tree spirit.
On the right side of the hall, there were several cages of various sizes, almost all of them empty, except for one cage containing a small red fox.
It lay quietly in the cage licking its wounds, and you could see that it had more than one tail under its body.
At this moment, the little devil in Lin Qianqian's heart was rubbing his hands together in anticipation: Damn human traffickers, this den, I'll wipe it all out today!
The two were taken to an empty cell. The cell was not large, and a stone that emitted a faint light was embedded in the wall near the door.
The ghost clan seemed very confident in the late spring cold snap, showing no fear of being exposed.
Upon entering the hall, he took off his cloak, revealing his cartoonish body—truly a member of the demon race!
After removing his cloak, the ghost clan member turned his attention back to the soul jade on Lin Qianqian's chest.
It sensed it carefully and, sure enough, it was a top-grade Soul Jade.
Great! Its injury can be treated.
It stretched out its wooden stick arm, reaching towards Lin Qianqian, its target being the Soul Jade.
Just then, footsteps echoed in the tunnel, and someone else entered the cell.
One of them should be a "person", completely wrapped in a gray robe, with a black semi-transparent veil covering the head and face, leaving only the eyes visible.
Those eyes were beautiful, but the look in them at that moment was cynical and misanthropic, which seriously ruined their beauty.
The other one wasn't wearing any cloak or robe, or rather, he wasn't wearing anything at all.
But that appearance reminded Lin Qianqian of Squidward from an animated film she watched when she was a child.
The only difference is the color; this one is a darker shade, a dark green.
Wow! This human trafficking organization has traffickers of all races; they're really full of talent.
The first to speak was the gray-robed woman, whose clear voice said, "Old ghost, what are you doing? The sea tribe has been cracking down hard these past few days. How dare you go out and arrest people at this critical juncture?"
When the ghost heard others criticizing it, its head, which had been staring at the Soul Jade, rotated 180 degrees backward.
An old, hoarse voice rang out: "Do I need your permission to arrest someone?"
He uttered just one sentence, and his eyes glowed brightly red.
The gray-robed man was furious at the sight of the old ghost, and black mist involuntarily surged from his body, but he held back as he thought of something.
"Alright, since we've captured these two, let's lock them up for now. The sea creatures have deployed a large number of patrols, they're definitely looking for this little merman. We need to find a way to get her away, otherwise we'll be exposed sooner or later!"
Upon hearing this, Squidward, who had been silent the whole time, showed a strange expression on his face, as if he was suppressing something.
Then it said, "Because she's the little princess of the Merfolk royal family! Of course, the sea tribe won't let her go after capturing her, hahaha..."
He laughed hysterically as he spoke, his body twitching as he laughed, and his octopus-like legs thrashed at the ground from below.
"What did you say?"
This time, not only was the old ghost taken aback, but even the gray-robed woman was unsettled.
"Heartless Zhang, are you trying to kill us? The customer only wanted an ordinary little mermaid, why did you capture the mermaid princess?"
The gray-robed woman was so angry she almost ground her teeth to powder. If the two people in front of her weren't of a higher cultivation level than her, she would have skinned them alive.
Neither of them is quiet; they're always looking for trouble.
"What's there to be afraid of! Isn't our organization very powerful? She's just a mermaid princess."
Blackhearted Zhang's answer was very perfunctory.
Old Ghost got angry too and was about to fight the octopus monster in front of him, but he held back because of his injuries.
"You must have a grudge against the Merfolk!" This wasn't a question, but a statement of certainty.
The octopus monster snorted, neither denying nor admitting it.
"In that case, you can deal with this little mermaid yourselves. Anyway, I didn't capture her. I need to take my things and leave the market to find a place to hide for a while."
After saying that, he ignored the two of them, approached Lin Qianqian, and a ghostly claw materialized at the end of the wooden stick, reaching for her chest to snatch her soul jade.
"How dare they lay a hand on Qianqian? This is outrageous!" Yunze, standing to the side, couldn't care less about pretense.
He flashed forward and swung his sword at the old ghost, his immense spiritual power and aura making the three people opposite him gasp for breath.
The sword energy flashed, and before the old ghost could react, he was cleaved in two, and the possessing ghost body was crushed to pieces by the sword energy.
The demon clan, whose strength had reached the peak of the demon general level, was instantly killed in one move!
Lin Qianqian, who was behind her, stopped pretending and lashed out with her whip at the gray-robed woman.
Unexpectedly, the gray-robed woman was quite powerful, also at the Nascent Soul stage, and her cultivation level was even slightly higher than Lin Qianqian's.
She swung out a piece of iron chain that gleamed with black smoke, which became entangled with Lin Qianqian's whip.
After Yunze finished off the old ghost with a single sword strike, he turned his sword and unleashed another sword aura at the octopus monster.
But the octopus extended two tentacles, a sticky mass, which was flung out and stuck to Yunze's flying sword, "Void Time".
The thing looked so strange and disgusting that Yunze frowned and immediately activated "Void Time" to cleave it in two.
The octopus monster then spat out a mouthful of ink, which had a foul, fishy smell.
The smell was like a stinky sock that had been sitting for ten days falling into a pile of rotten durians, and then being doused with a bucket of swill.
Xun wanted to cover his nose, and Yunze's "illusory time" also paused strangely for a moment!
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