Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Underground
In response to the Right Elder's evaluation, Yun Miao deliberately looked the Right Elder up and down, left and right, focusing on the top of his head where his hairline had receded, and then snorted in disdain.
She didn't say a word, but her sarcasm was instantly evident.
The Right Elder's face darkened instantly. "What's that look in your eyes? What's wrong with me being a little bald? Only superficial cultivators would be so concerned with appearance, eating anti-aging pills like they were their daily bread. It's simply ridiculous! In the world of cultivation, the strong prey on the weak. Only great strength is real; everything else is false!"
Yun Miao still didn't say anything, just stared at his bald head and snorted disdainfully again.
"How dare you, a mere prisoner, challenge me like this?"
A murderous look flashed in the eyes of the Right Elder, and he immediately raised his hand to teach the young girl in green a lesson, but was blocked by the Poison Lady.
Poison Lady smiled and advised Elder You to calm down, saying there was no need to get angry with a prisoner. She listed Yun Miao's previous fearlessness of death, saying that Yun Miao was now seeking death. If Elder You killed Yun Miao in anger, it would be fulfilling her wish.
Elder You also knew that although there were many hypocrites in the righteous path, there were also many lunatics who were not afraid of death. He took another look at the girl in green.
"I didn't expect you to have such integrity at such a young age. Oh, unfortunately, I won't let you succeed."
He waved at Poison Lady and the others, signaling them to follow him. The leader was still waiting, so they shouldn't waste any more time here.
Yun Miao was escorted into the Demon Cult's Temple. Although it was daytime, countless candles were still burning on the walls inside the hall. The flames flickered, casting mottled shadows on the black iron terracotta warriors standing on both sides of the wall.
Poison Lady stepped forward to report the operation to the leader, Yan Hai. Xiao Hei, who had been quietly curled up in Yun Miao's arms, quietly raised his paw and pressed it on her arm, signaling her to look at the black iron terracotta warriors.
Because Yan Hai is in the Mahayana stage and has a strong spiritual sense, Xiao Hei did not use his spiritual sense to communicate directly with Yun Miao, so as to avoid being discovered by Yan Hai.
Yun Miao glanced in that direction. She knew that those black iron terracotta warriors that looked like dead objects were actually puppets.
The Demon Cult's most famous point was Elder Zuo's skill in skinning and removing the tendons of other cultivators to create puppets for his own control. He could even create puppets at the same level as himself, making him a ruthless character that other cultivators shuddered at the mere mention of him.
"Do they look good? Over a thousand years ago, I got a lot of good materials from your Xuantian Sect, which is why I was able to make so many useful puppets."
Elder Zuo, who was sitting to the lower left of the leader, was secretly angry because of the loss of several powerful puppets in this operation. He looked at the girl in front of him with his cloudy old eyes, and his tone was full of undisguised malice.
"Look carefully, there are quite a few of your senior brothers and sisters here."
Yun Miao tightened her grip on Xiao Hei slightly, and Xiao Hei raised his head and rubbed her face.
Elder Zuo noticed her movements and felt a twisted sense of relief. Even though their Demon Sect had lost, did that mean the Xuantian Sect had won? Of course not. Those Xuantian Sect disciples who had refused to surrender were still made into puppets by him after their deaths, allowing him to control them at will!
"By the way, do you know why your Elder Ge Yan is lame? It's because I personally pulled out her tendons. She didn't even make a sound at the time, and I thought she wasn't in pain. I didn't expect she still remembers it and even developed a mental disorder!"
Elder Zuo raised his hand and pointed at the black iron puppet standing in the corner, sneering and indicating that the tendon was inside the puppet.
"Even if she has a senior brother who is the King of Pills, what does it matter? The pills can heal her leg, but they can't heal her heart. She will live in the nightmare of that day for the rest of her life. Her leg will never heal until the demon in her heart is eradicated."
Yun Miao was so angry that her breathing was tinged with rage. She stared at the health bar above Elder Zuo's head. For the first time, she really wanted to kill a red-named monster.
Xiao Hei straightened his upper body and raised his paws to hug Yun Miao's upper body as if hugging her, rubbing his furry head against her neck. He tried to calm Yun Miao down and not to act rashly. If Yun Miao attacked at this moment, she would definitely suffer.
Yun Miao felt the warm body temperature and furry itchy feeling that did not belong to her. She paused, then silently hugged Xiao Hei and turned her head away from looking at Elder Zuo.
Elder Zuo's eyes flashed with displeasure. He raised his hand like an eagle's claw, and the next moment, the little black wolf in Yun Miao's arms was sucked into his palm. With a slight force, his hand snapped, and the little black wolf's neck was easily broken.
It all happened so quickly that by the time Yun Miao realized what was happening, the furry little black creature in her arms had become a corpse, tossed casually at her feet by Elder Zuo like trash. His unfocused black eyes still stared at her quietly, as if warning her.
Yun Miao's pupils constricted. She knew Xiao Hei had the ability to dodge, but he didn't.
Yan Hai, who was sitting at the head of the group, glanced at Elder Zuo and was about to say something, but at that moment, the demonic energy on the island suddenly rioted and swarmed in the same direction, forming a huge vortex.
Yan Hai turned his head and looked in that direction. The entire island was within the range of his spiritual awareness, so he quickly discovered that the place where the strange phenomenon occurred was Yan Wuguang's residence.
It turns out that Yan Wuguang was not deliberately angry with him, but had really made a breakthrough?
"It seems my son has gained a lot of insights this time."
The Right Elder and others immediately smiled and flattered him, praising the young master's outstanding talent and saying that he was a great help to Yan Hai. They also praised Yan Hai for his good teaching method, which enabled the young master to become so promising at such a young age.
Yan Hai hummed calmly, his emotions unremarkable. He waved at the Poison Lady.
"Since my son is going into seclusion first, let's talk about the birthday after he goes into seclusion. Take this little girl away for interrogation. Be careful and don't let her die."
The demonic energy here is dense and there is no spiritual energy. For spiritual practitioners, it is no less than a live fish falling into highly concentrated salt water. If a spiritual practitioner stays here for a long time, he will either give up resistance, abandon his cultivation and transform into a demonic cultivator, or die in pain.
Yan Hai neither wanted Yun Miao to become a demon cultivator nor did he want her to die. It would be most beneficial for the Demon Cult if she continued to live as the direct disciple of the Xuantian Sect's leader.
Poison Lady responded respectfully, raised her hand and released a cloud of poisonous smoke, which melted the black wolf's corpse at Yun Miao's feet. Then she and several other demon cultivators took Yun Miao away.
They had thought Yun Miao would cause a scene after the little black wolf died, so they were ready to forcibly escort her away. However, the arrogant girl on the boat just turned around and left with them, expressionless, without any intention of resisting.
After leaving the temple, the demon cultivator who disliked Yun Miao the most immediately sneered: "You were so arrogant before, but now you finally know how to be afraid? You really won't cry until you see the coffin."
However, Yun Miao didn't even look at him, and followed him with an expressionless face. The demon cultivator found it boring and rolled his eyes and fell silent.
Soon, Yun Miao was brought to the depths of the Demon Cult's prison, which was also a water dungeon. In the middle of the black and poisonous pool was a tiny platform. People couldn't even lie flat on it and could only sit cross-legged.
Yun Miao was chained to the platform, unable to move. Instead of interrogating her, Poison Lady flicked her sleeves, and countless jade scorpions fell onto the platform, densely crawling all over Yun Miao's body, constantly biting her flesh.
Yun Miao could see that her health bar was decreasing, but she still looked at Poison Lady with an expressionless face. She knew that Poison Lady would not let her die.
The two of them stared at each other for a long while before Poison Lady frowned, "Don't you feel any pain at all? How can you endure it?"
She immediately fed Yun Miao another poison pill. This pill would not kill people, but it would make people feel unbearable pain and itching all over the body, making life worse than death.
However, after a while, the dense swarm of jade scorpions had already gnawed Yun Yunmiao into a bloody man, with white bones even exposed in his hands, elbows and other places, but the painful expression and wailing that Poison Lady wanted to see still did not appear.
Poison Lady was not a fool, so she quickly guessed that something was wrong with Yun Miao.
"You don't feel pain?"
Yun Miao still didn't say anything. She was so angry that she had no interest in arguing with these red-named monsters. She just wanted to vent her anger in the most direct way.
Seeing this, Poison Lady frowned, immediately put away the jade scorpion, took out a rejuvenation pill and fed it to Yun Miao to heal her injuries, then took out a palm-sized colorful spider and placed it on Yun Miao's shoulder.
The cold poisonous spider crawled to Yun Miao's neck, bringing a strange touch that was completely different from Xiao Hei. Yun Miao felt a little nauseous, but she couldn't move now, so she could only repeat to herself in her heart that this was all a game, the spider was fake, fake.
The spider bit Yun Miao's neck, and her health bar dropped again, followed by her body starting to grow taller.
Poison Lady conjured up a mirror and placed it in front of Yun Miao. Yun Miao looked up and saw that her body was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon she grew from a teenager into a young adult.
At this moment, her game image completely overlaps with her real-life college student. It looks like she is wearing ancient costume in real life.
Poison Lady temporarily stopped the poisonous spider and kindly explained to Yun Miao, "This is a life-stealing spider. As the name suggests, it can steal the lifespan of cultivators. It only takes a few moments to suck away all of your lifespan."
"Of course, I won't let you die, but you're so young, you probably don't want to see yourself old and gray-haired, right?"
"By then, you won't be able to use your spiritual sense or power. You'll be like an old mortal woman, hunched over and stumbling. Every day you'll feel a little older and a little weaker than the day before. The cruelty of time is far more terrifying than an instant death. Are you...really not afraid at all?"
Yun Miao still didn't say anything. The originally confident expression on Poison Lady's face turned ugly. She immediately urged the Life-stealing Spider to continue absorbing Yun Miao's lifespan, letting Yun Miao feel the horror of aging.
However, at this moment, a demon cultivator suddenly rushed into the water prison and reported to Poison Lady with a grim expression that the prison was suspected to be invaded by foreign enemies!
"What?"
Poison Lady was shocked. She didn't bother to continue interrogating Yun Miao. She raised her hand and quickly took away the longevity spider. She subconsciously wanted to go out and capture the enemy.
But she had only taken two steps when she realized she couldn't leave. She immediately glared at the demon cultivator, "Why are you telling me this? Go report this to the guardians and have them bring someone to arrest me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she slapped the demon cultivator out of the water prison with one palm, then closed the heavy prison door, locking her and Yun Miao together in this damp water prison.
Then Poison Lady looked at Yun Miao and muttered to herself, "Did the Xuantian Sect come looking for us? No... That's impossible. This island is so hidden, and there are so many formations set up. There's no way the Xuantian Sect can find us."
Even if Xuantian Sect had a secret method that could use Yun Miao to locate the location of the island, based on the distance, it would be impossible for them to arrive so quickly.
Thinking of this, Poison Lady breathed a sigh of relief, but she did not completely relax her vigilance. Instead, she quietly leaned against the corner of the water prison.
The prison door is made of obscure stone, which can block the detection of spiritual consciousness, so her spiritual consciousness cannot see the situation outside the prison door. She can only use her magic power to stare at the prison door vigilantly. Once the person who opens the prison door is not her own, she will take action immediately.
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The demon cultivators who helped in the escort were not qualified to enter the deepest part of the demon cult prison. The last section of the journey was escorted by Poison Lady alone, and these demon cultivators had nothing to worry about, so they immediately walked out arm in arm, talking and laughing.
"Let's go, let's go have a drink."
"I've been feeling really pent up these past few days. I'm going to have a good drink today!"
"Don't go home until you're drunk!"
Just as they were about to walk out of the prison, a white shadow appeared out of thin air behind one of them like a ghost. She quickly raised her sword, and with a flash of sword light, scorching red flames gushed out, and the heads of the three people in front flew up and down.
Only one demon cultivator caught a glimpse of the white shadow and subconsciously dodged, thus saving his life. However, a bloody mark was left on his chest, and the blood quickly dyed his clothes red.
He was so frightened that his breath was choked and he stepped back repeatedly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
While shouting, he fled towards the depths of the prison, trying to find Poison Lady for help.
The female cultivator in white wanted to give chase, but the prison guards who heard the noise rushed in quickly and surrounded her. She had no choice but to fight her way out of the prison.
This person was none other than Yun Miao in disguise. She knew that Xiao Hei hoped she would be patient and wait for the rescue from Xuantian Sect. Her real body was indeed trying to be patient. As for the disguised person... what did the trouble caused by Xiao Hong have to do with her, Yun Miao?
"Who dares to run wild in my Demon Sect?"
More than a dozen Yuanying-stage puppets flew out of the temple and attacked Yun Miao.
Although these puppets were no match for her, she had no intention of killing them. Instead, she turned around and fled in another direction.
The guards of the Demon Cult kept coming, and the number of pursuers behind her increased. However, she still had no intention of facing the enemy head-on. She just kept fleeing in the Demon Cult, and from time to time she crushed the pills into powder and threw them around.
During the three days that Yun Miao was captured, he had been controlling the vest to secretly make preparations in the secret realm. Xinyi collected a lot of good things in the ancient pill recipes, including many famous poison pills from ancient times.
There are many rare treasures in the Yun family's treasury, plus many mid-level and high-level spiritual plants planted in her secret realm. By piecing them together, she has made a lot of poisonous pills that are deadly and effective, which are coming in handy at this moment.
The guards who came into contact with the poison powder either died instantly or fell to the ground wailing in pain.
Someone used the wind to blow the poison powder back to Yun Miao, trying to retaliate in kind. However, Yun Miao's poison resistance of more than a thousand points was not for show. She was not hurt at all. Instead, the guards who attacked her were hit and fell to the ground in pain.
Inside the Demon Cult's temple, Yan Hai sat motionless. As the leader of the Demon Cult, if he took action against this clown in the Spiritual Transformation Stage, he would be lowering his status. Besides, if he had to personally handle such a trivial matter, wouldn't all his subordinates become useless?
He just said coldly: "This person is somewhat similar to the white-robed female cultivator that Poison Lady mentioned before."
The Right Elder immediately said, "White hair, white clothes, red sword... I can't be wrong, it must be her. But why did she suddenly appear in my Demon Sect? Could this female cultivator in white also be from the Xuantian Sect?"
But he quickly rejected this speculation: "No, that's not right. Chang Lao'er's disciple is still in our hands. If she is from Xuantian Sect, she should find a way to inform Xuantian Sect of our location and seek reinforcements. She can't act so rashly."
"Could it be that there really is a traitor within our Demonic Cult? She received information from the traitor and learned of Poison Lady's plan, so she took this opportunity to follow Poison Lady and the others to the island. But what does she want to do here?"
Elder Zuo said impatiently, "Whatever she does, she's just a Spiritual Transformation cultivator and dares to trespass into the Demon Sect. We should just arrest her. This will save us the trouble of searching for her everywhere."
Elder Zuo also relied on his status to not show up directly, but waved his hand again, and three puppets in the God Transformation Stage flew out of the temple and joined the battlefield. They attacked the female cultivator in white from three sides, leaving her no chance to escape.
The remaining guards stopped chasing, thinking that the female cultivator in white was doomed to die this time. However, they saw her suddenly give a provocative sneer, and then her figure disappeared out of thin air.
The guards were startled, quickly gripping their weapons and looking around in panic, fearing that the white-robed female cultivator would attack again. Elder Zuo also stopped his puppet and looked around hesitantly.
The right elder looked at the leader Yan Hai with an expression of surprise and doubt. He said that with his spiritual sense at the Nascent Soul stage, he could not see clearly how the female cultivator in white escaped. He wondered if the leader could see what method the female cultivator in white used to escape, and where she was now?
Yan Hai frowned: "I don't know either."
"The leader doesn't know?"
The Right Elder screamed, then realized he was too excited and quickly added, "No wonder this person dared to trespass into our Demon Sect. It seems she's quite capable. Judging from her previous attitude towards our Demon Sect... she's afraid of death and has bad intentions."
"I don't know if she's still on the island. We must not let her escape. Otherwise, once she announces our location to the world, even without the organization behind her taking action, the Xuantian Sect alone will be enough to cause trouble!"
Elder Zuo told him not to worry. No matter how powerful the white-robed female cultivator was, she was only at the Spiritual Transformation stage. Even if she possessed some powerful magical weapon or high-level teleportation talisman, it would be nothing more than a piece of waste paper under the island's numerous formations. How could she truly vanish into thin air right under the leader's nose? It was all just a trick.
She must have sneaked up here with Poison Lady and the others. The way to get on the island is different from the way to leave. If she leaves along the same path as she did when she got on the island, she will definitely trigger the formation and be trapped in place.
Now that the formation has not been punished, it means that she must still be hiding somewhere on the island.
Yan Hai thought so too, but the feeling of being provoked in person by an ant still made him look ugly. He gave orders in a cold voice, asking the left elder and the right elder to take people to search the entire island immediately, even if they had to turn the entire island upside down to find the person.
He wanted to see who was so bold as to come to his demonic sect to cause trouble, and which organization was so audacious as to dare to openly challenge him!
The Left Elder and the Right Elder had always been in a competitive relationship. Upon hearing this, they immediately responded and quickly left the temple, wanting to be the first to find the invader and please the leader.
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Yun Miao, wearing a vest, was indeed still on the island, but she was not on the island, but under the island.
Before, she used the Five Elements Escape Technique to quickly escape underground to avoid the puppet's attack. She secretly planned in her heart that as long as the strong men of the Demon Cult attacked her, she would immediately hide underground, and then emerge from another place to continue to make trouble in the Demon Cult.
With the Five Elements Escape Technique and the transmission of the power of cause and effect, although she cannot kill Yan Hai and other powerful demon sect members, the demon sect members cannot do anything to her!
She named this the Groundhog Plan, and secretly vowed to turn the Demon Cult upside down today.
However, plans couldn't keep up with changes, and she fled deep underground on the island, hiding very well. Her original intention was to avoid the spiritual sense of Yan Hai, a powerful Mahayana cultivator, but she unexpectedly discovered something very familiar: a dark stone wall.
Yun Miao paused in her upward movement, and she used her spiritual sense to probe downwards, wanting to see how much area below her was covered by the dark stone. However, her spiritual sense "saw" something deeper underground.
Yun Miao paused and touched the dark stone wall below her again and again with suspicion. She was very sure that this was the dark stone. With the existence of this thing, her spiritual sense should be blocked, just like the vision of the naked eye is blocked by the wall. It is impossible to see the specific situation below.
A flash of inspiration struck her mind, and she realized that her consciousness must have been deceived by something, perhaps some strange trick. Whoever set up this trick certainly didn't want others to discover the obscure stone wall here.
So cautious... Could it be that the Demon Cult is hiding some big secret down here?
Yun Miao's eyes lit up, and she immediately used the Five Elements Escape Technique to pass through the dark stone wall and escape deeper into the underground. She wanted to find out what this secret was. If this was the lifeline of some evil cult... hehe, then the evil cult would be in big trouble!
After passing through the dark stone, she landed in a wide corridor, which was also made of dark stone bricks. The walls on both sides were covered with colorful murals. The paintings showed clouds and mist, a fairy palace standing in the clouds, and gods coming on cranes.
In the corner, boys and girls held copper lotus lanterns, with a pale, cold light burning in the lotus.
Because the Five Elements Escape Technique consumed a great deal of spiritual energy and could not be used for long periods of time, Yun Miao temporarily transformed back into human form. She quickly walked to the nearest corner to investigate, confirming that the boys and girls were dead. Their interiors were filled with milky white mermaid oil, exactly like the boy and girl-shaped lamps she had seen in the secret realm before.
A strange feeling welled up in Yun Miao's heart. Could it be that the Demon Cult also hid an ancient relic beneath its grounds? Could the person who built this place also be an ancient madman who hoped that his lover would become an immortal, or that he himself would become an immortal?
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