Chapter 1691
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Chu Chen and the remaining twenty or so people were led away by a white-robed guard.
They were led away from the plaza and deeper into the main hall.
As they went deeper and deeper, Chu Chen discovered that the stone hall was extremely spacious. There seemed to be some kind of spatial restriction inside, causing the interior to be much larger than what it looked like from the outside.
After passing through layers upon layers of halls, buildings, and pagodas, they entered the deepest part of the stone hall. Chu Chen and his group were directly thrown into a prison cell.
This prison cell was actually made of several feet thick rune mystical steel. The prison cell's bars were as thick as a person's arm.
Perhaps even a Heavenly River Realm expert wouldn't be able to escape from such a prison cell, not to mention the crystal shackles that sealed their spiritual power.
Chu Chen couldn't help but sigh. The Nine Heavens Formation Breaking Team had spent a lot of effort to trap these miners!
Such a high cost investment also meant that there would be high returns.
This immortal crystal ancient mountain definitely hid a huge treasure!
Chu Chen looked around. The prison cell was extremely spacious, with a radius of a thousand feet. There were also many old prisoners here.
The white-robed guards of the Nine Heavens Formation Breaking Team stuffed the twenty or so newcomers into the prison cell and ignored them.
Those old prisoners seemed to be listless. They huddled in a corner and didn't seem to be angry at all.
Although the new prisoners were uneasy, they all wanted to communicate with each other to ease the hesitation of being trapped.
After the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, they confirmed that no one from the Nine Heavens was standing guard outside the prison cell. The restless new prisoners finally began to whisper to each other.
"Senior Martial Brother, how did you get caught?"
A man in a purple-black Daoist robe asked Chu Chen softly. Chu Chen ignored him.
He seemed to have a good temper. He wasn't angry at being ignored. He turned around and asked another man in a blue-green Daoist robe.
They all wore Daoist robes and seemed to belong to the same Daoist sect. Therefore, they were much less wary of each other.
"Senior Brother, don't say anymore. I've been wronged."
The blue-robed cultivator scowled miserably. "When I was hiding from a King Beast, I used a Qi Division Technique to borrow the physical body of a cultivator who'd been dead for a long time. That's how I managed to escape."
He was so angry that his face darkened. "In the end, I was discovered by those bastards from the Nine Heavens Formation Breaking Team. They insisted that I was an evil cultivator who controlled corpses!"
The blue-robed man gnashed his teeth. "My One Qi Sect is a famous Righteous Sect. We condense the soul, spirit energy, will, and everything else together to refine Yuan Qi that contains boundless mysteries. This is a righteous secret art of the Righteous Path. How could it be used by the Demonic Path to control corpses?! ............
. "" So you were also forcefully captured by them! "
The purple-robed cultivator who asked the question let out a long sigh. "I was dual cultivating with a Junior Martial Sister in the forest, and they immediately accused me of being a great demon who molested female cultivators. In the end, my Junior Martial Sister explained for me. They also said that my Junior Martial Sister didn't abide by the virtue of a woman, and after being possessed by the demon, she also turned into a demoness. Then, she was also captured and brought here.
The blue-robed cultivator couldn't help but shake his head. "How is this Nine Heavens a righteous sect? They're even more evil than the evil cultivators."
As the two of them spoke, the surrounding cultivators, regardless of whether they were righteous or evil, all nodded in agreement.
"It's not just the two of you. Most of us who were captured can't be considered evil cultivators. At most, we're half righteous and half evil. I think the Nine Heavens Immortal Crystal Ancient Mountain is in dire need of manpower. In order to replenish their manpower, they found a random crime and forcefully captured us."
An old man in dark green robes who looked to be in his fifties spoke in a low voice.
"That's right. Something must have happened in the Immortal Crystal Ancient Mountain. Perhaps a large number of people have died, or perhaps there's some other reason that requires a large number of people to enter."
An aloof young girl in black robes exuding an evil aura spoke softly.
The new prisoners finally broke their silence and began to discuss the matter.
"What happened in the Immortal Crystal Ancient Mountain? What is the Nine Heavens Formation Breaking Group trying to do? "
"Only the heavens know!"
"They claim to be suppressing the evil cultivators, but they're secretly capturing righteous cultivators to do manual labor. The Nine Heavens Formation Breaking Group has gone insane!"
The more they spoke, the angrier they became.
"What righteous and evil cultivators? Most people in this small immortal world live in constant peril. They're all struggling on the line between life and death. There's no such thing as righteous or evil!"
"That's right. At a time like this, with so many king-level ancient beasts pressuring everyone, all cultivators should be working together to overcome this crisis! The Nine Heavens aren't human! "
The eyes of the new prisoners were bloodshot. Anger and spiritual energy surged from their bodies.
But at this moment, the crystal shackles on their wrists lit up and quickly suppressed their rampaging spiritual energy.
The prisoners could only look at each other.
Since they were already trapped here, even if they were all seething with anger, what was the use?
No matter how angry they were, they could only feel dejected when they saw the crystal shackles on their wrists.
They knew very well what it meant to be angry without strength.
The crystal shackles' ability to seal spiritual energy was too perverse. Moreover, they were in a cell made of runic arcane steel. It was better for them to behave themselves and survive first.
After calming down, the prisoners began to discuss again.
"By the way, where is this place? We rode on the white tiger through the thick fog for several days and nights, but we still can't tell where we are! "
The blue-robed cultivator asked in a low voice. Everyone was at a loss.
"You don't know where this place is?"
The green-robed old man glanced around and saw that most of the people were suspicious. He nodded and said, "It's useless even if you know, because you can't get out of here. In fact, you just need to know that this is the Ancient Mountain of Fairy Crystals that is widely known in the Small Celestial Realm.
"What? This is the ancient crystal mountain?"
Some of the prisoners knew that this was the ancient crystal mountain, but most of them knew nothing about it.
The eyes of the truly ignorant cultivators lit up when they heard about the ancient crystal mountain.
The legend of the ancient crystal mountain had been around for a long time. Many people knew that the legendary ancient mine was almost entirely made of the purest immortal crystals. It could be said that it contained endless treasures.
They just didn't expect that the place they were being held captive to be the legendary place!
There were too many legends about the Immortal Crystal Mountain, but almost none of the cultivators in the Minor Immortal Realm could tell where it was.
Occasionally, someone would trigger the teleportation formation in some ancient ruins and come here. It was said that they saw the ancient crystal mountain from afar, but couldn't get close. In the end, they were teleported out without knowing what was going on.
As a result, the legends about the ancient mountain became more and more ridiculous and confusing.
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