Inside a long, narrow valley three hundred and fifty kilometers to the southwest of the capital city … Cai!
An enormous group of caves had been dug out on the mountain. Together with the metal buildings that were built against the mountain and covered by dozens of defense rune arrays, they were emitting silver brilliance under the sunlight, giving people a suffocating feeling of coldness.
It was the White Silver Fortress, the heavy prison of the highest level in the Xing Yao Federation!
The prisoners who had been caged in the place were the most ferocious evil Cultivators. Some of them were mentally deranged, some were consumed by their selfish desires, and eventually committed crimes that violated the rules of the Cultivators. Everybody's hands were stained with the blood of at least a hundred innocent people.
However, a month ago, the prisoners who had been caged in the place had all been transferred to other prisons. The impregnable White Silver Fortress had been reinforced again. An entire legion that was made of Crystal Suit had been stationed nearby, with three Yuanying as the guardians. It had become the 'prison' where the members of the Patriots Partnership were caged!
At this moment, in an empty space at the center of the White Silver Fortress, hundreds of 'patriots' who had been shackled and planted barriers were on the lookout. They gathered in groups of two or three and talked about the recent situation in a low voice while basking in the sunlight that they had not seen for a long time.
The members of the Patriots Partnership were asked to gather for the lookout not for humanitarian reasons but for more practical purposes.
After more than a month of capture and interrogation, the peripheral members of the Patriots Partnership who had been kept in the dark all collapsed. They confessed everything without any hesitation.
However, the central members, who planned and implemented the explosion in the square of the Federation and the assassination of the Speaker, were stubborn to the end. They would not give in no matter how hard they were interrogated. Even if they did, there was no telling whether or not they were keeping anything to themselves.
Therefore, Guo Chunfeng had specially arranged for the diehards to be on the lookout with other 'patriots', hoping that some sparks could be raised among them and valuable information could be collected from them.
The entire square was surrounded by surveillance rune arrays. Every word of every prisoner, and even every blink of their eyes, would be recorded clearly.
In a corner of the square, Lu Zui was sitting cross-legged like an old monk in meditation. His face was haggard, and his eyes were hollow.
His head was tied tightly with a specially made iron ring, on which twelve 'Soul Stealers' pierced deeply into his brain and suppressed his powerful Yuanying level soul.
He was originally an admin-type cultivator and used his brain. His body was not strong and his brain was firmly locked. He was like an ordinary old man with one foot in the grave.
Together with the shackles that weighed hundreds of kilograms and could be connected to high-voltage electric arcs at any time, the schemer who almost dragged the three worlds into the vortex of war was like a fish in a pot. He had no room to struggle at all.
However …
Before, Guo Chunfeng had hoped that the other 'patriots' could approach Lu Zui more often and report to him what happened after they were captured. He even hoped that Lu Zui would give them some instructions.
Then, Guo Chunfeng would be able to analyze more information from the instructions.
However, Lu Zui seemed to have seen through Guo Chunfeng's purpose. He seemed to be surrounded by a cold barrier. None of the 'patriots' could approach him within ten meters. They barely even looked at him.
He seemed to have been forgotten by the whole world and posed no threat at all.
Having no other choice, Guo Chunfeng could only order his subordinates to pay more attention to the other patriots.
As he expected, a few diehards and the peripheral members began to quarrel.
The diehards berated the peripheral members for not being resolute enough and forgetting their responsibility to slay evil and save the Federation. They had 'defected' so quickly!
The peripheral members, on the other hand, berated the diehards for being a bunch of lunatics. Not only did they assassinate the Speaker, they even killed tens of thousands of their compatriots through explosions, which led to the failure in the end. They even dragged them into the mess and turned them into shameful traitors!
While they were arguing, Guo Chunfeng indeed collected a lot of useful information!
The hundreds of Secret Sword Agents who were responsible for surveillance stared at the eyes and lips of every 'patriot' attentively, but they gradually forgot about Lu Zui in the corner.
Lu Zui watched the quarrel among the 'patriots' not far away indifferently. There was not the slightest expression on his face. Had it not been for the occasional blinking of his bright gray eyes, he would have looked like a statue.
However, right when the two groups of patriots were arguing more and more angrily and were about to break into a fight, and when all the monitors focused their attention on them, Lu Zui moved his fingers softly, and a tiny jade chip appeared in his hand.
Nobody knew how the jade chip ended up in Lu Zui's hands in the White Silver Fortress, which was so heavily guarded that even an ant could not crawl in without permission!
It was an ancient jade chip in a plain style. Its shortcoming was that its storage capacity was too small, and it could only store text information or short videos. Its advantage was that it did not require a crystal processor. As long as it was close to the center of the eyebrow, the mystic rays would be able to read the information inside.
Lu Zui yawned. As if he were not interested in the quarrel before him at all, he lay down against the wall and crouched with his face facing the wall.
The moment he turned his face, brilliance that was as sharp, clear, and transparent as a thousand-year-old icicle pierced out of his indifferent and old eyes!
He stuck the jade chip to his forehead and pinched the activation rune array at the end softly. A mystic ray immediately darted out of the jade chip and pierced into his pineal gland, forming a 3D image deep inside his brain!
It was exactly 'Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao'!
"Brother Lu, if you see this, it means one thing. I am already dead, our plan has failed, and the Patriots Partnership has completely collapsed."
In the picture, Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao was wearing the uniform of the Union Army, but he was holding his hat and touching the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblem at the center of the hat nonstop.
His eyelids were bouncing nonstop, as if invisible needles were stabbing his fingers brutally on the emblem.
After a moment of silence, Zhou Hengdao continued. "Our personal lives, and even the survival of the Patriots Partnership, are not important. What matters is our Federation, the supreme civilization of mankind!
"Brother Lu, it is exactly because of such a belief that the two of us walked together. That's why we did not hesitate to … step on all the boundaries, betray the duty on our shoulders, and even kill our innocent compatriots to frame the heroes of the Federation!
"We stepped on everything that could be stepped on and betrayed everything that could be betrayed. But in the end, we still ended up like this!
"Why did it end up like this? Is there a one percent chance that we were wrong from the very beginning?
"Of course, our purpose was not wrong, but could our approach have been terribly wrong? If we had taken a different path in the beginning, a righteous one, would we have had a better ending?
"What about right now? Is it too late to turn back now?
"I don't think I understand the question.
"I was not a smart man in the first place. I was just an old-fashioned soldier and a bad-tempered veteran. I knew nothing but fighting and killing.
"However, as a simple-minded man with more brawn than brains, I came up with a hilarious, immature idea!
"Brother Lu, in terms of computational ability and deduction ability, you are a hundred times better than me. It's up to you to decide whether or not the idea is feasible and how it should be implemented!
"In any case … I have fulfilled my responsibility as a member of the Union Army.
"I really hope that I can witness the moment when the Federation rises above the sea of stars in person. I really hope …"
Lu Zui listened to Zhou Hengdao's comments in silence and analyzed Zhou Hengdao's' hilarious idea '.
A moment later, he burst into laughter.
At first, he chuckled in a low voice. Then, he shrugged his shoulders and laughed out loud. In the end, he could not hold it in any longer and was waving his arms and legs crazily on the ground while laughing!
Lu Zui's anomaly soon attracted the attention of all the monitors.
"Not good. Lu Zui's reaction is not right. What is he doing?"
"He has something in his hands! A jade chip! What's going on? Who gave the jade chip to him? "
"Hurry. Control Lu Zui now!"
Inside the monitoring center, Guo Chunfeng was sweating hard in anxiety.
Earsplitting alarms echoed in the sky of the White Silver Fortress. Guo Chunfeng led a large batch of Secret Sword Agents into the small square in person!
However, before he broke in, Lu Zui was already laughing so hard that he was cramping!
Along with his crazy laughter, intense spiritual energy spurted out of his body and shattered all the barriers like a torrent!
Waves of spiritual energy condensed into invisible cocoons around him. The ripples congregated behind him, forming two pairs of colorful, enormous wings. He seemed to have been reborn as a butterfly after breaking out of the cocoon!
Lu Zui was laughing so hard that he was crying, but his eyes were glittering. They were as dazzling as the sun and as deep as a black hole that could swallow everything. The two completely opposite feelings melted into one, but there was no sense of contradiction at all! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The 'Soul Stealer' that had been deeply stabbed into his brain were forced out one after another! In less than twenty seconds, all twelve Soul Stealer Nails were forced out. Even the iron rings that tied his head were shattered and fell to the ground in clinking noises!
"This is —"
Guo Chunfeng and the three battle Yuanying experts who had arrived after hearing the news were greatly shocked. They knew very well what the magnificent aura around Lu Zui meant!
"A breakthrough … Lu Zui has made a breakthrough under such circumstances. He has advanced from the middle level of the Yuanying Stage to the high level of the Yuanying Stage!"
"How is it possible?"
"His body has been sealed by barriers, and his soul has been completely suppressed by the twelve 'Soul Stealer Nails'. How could he have made a breakthrough without the help of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures? How is it possible? "
"His belief — his belief has become even stronger, firmer, and purer. When he looked at us casually, I felt that he was crushing our belief! What — what is going on exactly? "
"What is inside the jade chip exactly? What is it? "
The three battle Yuanying experts and Guo Chunfeng, the 'strongest Jin Dan', surrounded Lu Zui tightly, as if they were faced with a great enemy, not even daring to breathe heavily.
Although Lu Zui was only an admin-type Cultivator no matter how many breakthroughs he had made, he was on par with the battle-type Core Formation Stage Cultivators in a real battle.
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