A young girl dressed in a light blue dress, though her complexion wasn't good, was searching for a way out with the cultivators.
"Fellow Daoist Qi, we've dragged you into this mess. If we hadn't insisted on gathering more medicinal herbs before leaving, we wouldn't have been spotted by the Zhu family."
A pale-faced cultivator said with deep remorse.
The woman referred to as Fellow Daoist Qi was none other than Qi Cheng's younger sister, Qi Lan.
Qi Lan looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was quite good-looking.
However, his body looked too thin.
Her big, dark eyes looked bright, lively, and full of spirit.
"Fellow Daoist, there's no need to blame yourself. The fact that the Zhu family came up the mountain to arrest people so directly shows that they had planned it all along. Whether we left or stayed at the time, we probably couldn't have escaped their clutches."
Although Qi Lan looks young and has low cultivation, she is quite courageous.
The group of people were trying to find a way to escape, but every time they got close to the cell door, they were bounced away by a strong force.
The eerie ghostly aura kept emanating from the innermost part, accompanied by various pitiful cries that terrified people.
"Let's work together and see if we can break through the barriers on these prison doors."
Since everyone wanted to leave, cooperation was the obvious choice at this point.
They worked together, and the force that had just touched the prison door was repelled by the binding power, and then rebounded onto them with double the force.
Qi Lan had the lowest cultivation level, but the force of the rebound made her unable to stand.
The other cultivators also vomited blood.
The binding force seemed to spread even more, and just as the group was at a loss, they heard a loud bang from outside.
A figure flew in from outside and crashed heavily to the ground, making a sound like bones breaking.
They recognized the man; he was one of the Zhu family members who had just arrested them.
The Zhu family members stared at the doorway with terrified expressions, their fear seemingly reaching its peak.
His trembling body moved backward with difficulty, like an insect.
"You, you, who are you? This is the Zhu family!"
His body was trembling violently, and he was stammering as he spoke.
"You dare to make a move here... and you even dare to break into the dungeon! The patriarch will not let you get away with this!"
"Hehe..." A magnetic and pleasant laugh came from the doorway.
This made Qi Lan and the others, who were initially panicked and at a loss, feel as if they had seen a new hope.
Then a tall and handsome figure slowly walked over.
He walked against the light, and his face seemed obscured in the dungeon.
However, his innate charisma makes him someone not to be underestimated.
Fuyue Daozun stared at the Zhu family member who was struggling to move backward, supporting himself with his hands on the ground.
"So what about the Zhu family patriarch?"
The voice, as clear and gentle as ice and jade, gave more people in the dungeon hope.
Fuyue Daozun's gaze slowly swept across the dungeon, finally settling on the dungeon where Qi Lan was located.
These cultivators were all recently captured, and they all had a faint medicinal fragrance on them; they were either alchemists or medical practitioners.
"Is there anyone among you named Qi Lan?"
He didn't know Qi Lan, so he could only use this straightforward method to find her.
Qi Lan was still waiting for Daoist Fuyue to kill the Zhu family when she was suddenly called out. She looked at Daoist Fuyue in shock.
She had never seen this person before.
"I, I am Qi Lan." But she felt that the person in front of her was probably not a bad person, and might be her brother's friend.
My brother said he would come back as soon as possible.
"Bang!" The ice elemental power in Fuyue Daozun's hand flew out and directly shattered the prison door.
"Come out."
Qi Lan felt increasingly excited. Had her brother returned?
"Senior, did my brother send you to find me?"
"Yes, Qi Cheng is also at the Zhu family's house. Come with me, I'll take you to him."
Fuyue Daozun stared at the prison cells in front of him, where men, women, and children were tortured beyond recognition.
Previously, he only knew that the Zhu family cultivated through the practice of "replenishing the body with nourishment," but now it seems that these practices are the most cruel compared to that.
Many of them were already skin and bones; what was being drained from them was not blood, but flesh and blood.
The flesh and blood were removed, but the person is still alive.
These people live like zombies, each of them exuding ghostly and corpse-like energy.
In the interconnected cells, a continuous stream of corpse energy was being drawn into a blood-red box above.
The blood-red box was about the size of a small watermelon, but it could hold a continuous stream of corpse energy.
The Zhu family needs so much corpse energy to refine from living people.
"Where is my brother?" Qi Lan asked excitedly as she emerged from the cell, ignoring her injuries.
The other cultivators also wanted to leave this awful place as soon as possible, but they were worried about Qi Lan going with the person in front of them alone.
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