"A fairy beast of unknown origin?"
Li Mu was surprised.
"How can a pigeon get in such a heavily guarded place like Meteor Island?"
As the head of the Punishment Department, although Li Mu had not lived on Meteor Island for a long time, he knew that on Meteor Island, not to mention cultivators, even immortal beasts and spiritual birds had to be identified and registered before they could enter.
Not to mention that this pigeon king was huge and had extraordinary combat strength.
Li Mu glanced at Ge Wuyou.
"This man is more interesting than I thought."
Just now, Li Mu deliberately showed one of the Four Unique Skills of the Sea Sect to tame animals, which was similar to Ge Wuyou's Xuanyin. All of a sudden, the supervisor of the spiritual bird breeding base inadvertently showed an abnormality.
This person was secretly raising a spirit bird and immortal beast of unknown origin, and he even deliberately said it in front of him. Was he trying to test something?
Li Mu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take it."
He chose this pigeon king.
Ge Wuyou had completely calmed down and said, "Okay, I'll get the official seal for Your Honor. It will be done soon."
A moment later, all the necessary procedures were completed.
Li Mu sat cross-legged on the head of the giant white pigeon, while He Yingxin and the other guards stood on its back. A cloud fluttered, and the pigeon soared into the sky and left the spiritual bird breeding base.
Ge Wuyou stood at the gate of the base and looked up at Li Mu and the others as they completely disappeared. His expression was complicated, and no one knew what he was thinking.
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On the heavily guarded Meteor Island, there were two places that could be said to be impregnable and airtight. Even a peak Immortal Master could not break through.
One was the Magic Sun Hall where the Great Immortal Master lived.
The other was the destination of Li Mu and the others — the Imperial Prison.
In the Imperial Prison, all the prisoners were extremely dangerous.
In addition to the rebels, there were also some rogue cultivators who rebelled against the Immortal Court and immortal experts who were arrested for various crimes.
As for the Heavenly Prison, it was located beneath Meteor Island.
Meteor Island was rumored to be an extraterrestrial star that fell in the ocean, and the exposed part above the water was just the tip of the iceberg. The part under the water was even larger, hundreds of times the size of Meteor Island.
The pigeon king landed at the entrance of the cliff of Iron Song Mountain.
Li Mu and the others dismounted from its back.
He suddenly thought that if his mount on Meteor Island were to always be this pigeon, wouldn't it be a little strange? Other people would ride on dragons, phoenixes, or lions, tigers, and cranes when they went out, but he had indeed 'stood the pigeon up'. Would he always be pigeons in the future and become the true King of Pigeons?
Pigeon.
Emmmm, this doesn't sound good.
"Wait for me here. Don't stand me up."
After saying that, Li Mu led He Yingxin to walk along the Line Cliff.
The Pigeon King stood on the spot and waited.
The Line Cliff was formed by two Golden Stone Mountains facing each other. It was as if a Great Theurgy had split a gap in the original mountain range with a saber. The gap was about one meter wide, and it extended all the way to the ground. Finally, it turned into a tunnel leading underground.
In the depths of the tunnel, a thousand meters underground, was the Imperial Prison.
The entire prison was excavated and constructed under Meteor Island, unable to see the light of day.
Along the way, the sentry posts were heavily guarded.
But Li Mu was, after all, a distinguished person. The Imperial Prison was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Punishment. Li Mu naturally had special privileges here.
"The Imperial Prison of the Ministry of Punishment is divided into 18 underground floors. The prisoners on each floor are different. They are divided according to their cultivation and the degree of their sins …" He Yingxin was a very qualified assistant. He kept introducing to Li Mu.
By then, he had already understood the purpose of Li Mu's visit to the Imperial Prison.
He was here to look for war slaves.
The prisoners imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, even if they were in the first underground level, were extremely terrifying existences with profound cultivation bases and outstanding combat strength. Therefore, the Immortal Court had a rule that they would select some prisoners who were willing to cooperate with them to serve the Immortal Court as war slaves during special times.
Sometimes, even rebels could be proposed to be made into war slaves.
If the war slaves performed well outside, they would be rewarded when they returned to the Imperial Prison, and there were precedents of them directly leaving the Imperial Prison and returning to the ground.
Of course, in the process, some precautions would be taken to prevent the prisoners from escaping.
Li Mu wanted to go to the Demon-subduing Pavilion to rescue the prisoners in person, but there were not many people he could trust around him. After all, the Ministry of Punishment was not like the Military Department, which could mobilize the army. In addition, there were some other special reasons. Therefore, Dongfang Yeren, the Grand Immortal Master, suggested that Li Mu go to the Imperial Prison to select some war slaves with strong cultivation, just in case.
The journey was unimpeded.
Soon, they arrived at the first underground floor of the Imperial Prison.
This level of the Heavenly Prison was like a small city. It was extremely spacious and had dozens of wide passageways that extended in all directions like a spider web. Both sides of the passageways were densely packed with cells, and there was a small city in the center. Apart from the guards, the prisoners could also move around freely. Apart from being unable to leave the Heavenly Prison, they were like free residents in other aspects.
"Most of the prisoners on this floor are in the Immortal General Realm, and there are no rebels among them. Most of them are former members of the Immortal Court. They were sent here because they made mistakes, but they still have a chance to get out."
He Yingxin said.
Li Mu understood what he meant as soon as he heard that.
Those on the first floor must be the losers in the internal conflicts of the Immortal Court. But they still had a certain influence and background in the outside world, so they were treated relatively well. Except for the fact that they could not get out, they had very few restrictions on their freedom. Maybe one day, when their factions rose again, they would have a chance to get out of the Imperial Prison.
It was difficult to recruit such people as Men of Sacrifice.
Except for the first floor, the first six floors were basically locked up with such people.
However, the lower the floor, the higher the cultivation of the prisoners.
On the sixth floor, the area was reduced. There were a total of 99 cells, which were locked up with the important ministers of the Immortal Court who had lost power in the Immortal King Realm and the Immortal Master Realm. They were not as free as the first few floors. They were all locked up in single cells, which were full of traps and tactical deployments.
Li Mu stayed on the sixth floor for a while and then went deeper.
"Further down from the 7th level to the 14th level are some ferocious and evil figures. All of them are wild and untamed bandits, thieves, devils, and independent cultivators of the Immortal Dimension whose hands are covered in blood. They roam freely through the Immortal Dimension, stir up a storm, and slaughter innumerable people. Even though they don't join forces with the rebels, they still go against the Immortal Court …"
He Yingxin said.
"Really?"
Li Mu laughed when he heard that.
"It's a good opportunity to see them."
Li Mu stopped in the twelfth floor of the prison.
There were eight wide streets in this area, which divided the whole area into the shape of the Eight Diagrams. In each Eight Diagrams, there were ten prisons, and in each prison was a ferocious person.
When the head of the Punishment Department arrived, the guards did not dare to neglect him and hurried to greet him.
"Greetings, Your Honor."
The guard of the twelfth floor was called Wu Yue. He was a high-level Immortal King with extraordinary cultivation. He came from an immortal sect called the Black Bull Sect in the Kuizhou Prefecture.
He was extremely powerful. It was said that he had the bloodline of the ancient Kui Ox in his body. He was born with infinite strength and several supernatural powers. But because he did not have any faction in the Immortal Court, he could only be a "head" of the prison for many years.
On normal days, Wu Yue rarely saw the high-level officials of the Immortal Court like the head of the Punishment Department. Today, when he heard Li Mu's arrival, he was also anxious and didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Your Excellency, you are here to collect the war slaves today. General Wu is familiar with this floor of the prison. Do you have any good candidates to recommend?" He Yingxin asked loudly.
Li Mu sat in the open space in the drill ground in the center of the Eight Diagrams area, waiting for the answer.
Wu Yue thought about it seriously and bowed again. "But I wonder what kind of candidates do you want? Are they obedient, or … "
Li Mu directly interrupted him and said, "The most ruthless and the strongest. It doesn't matter whether they are obedient or not."
After hearing that, Wu Yue pondered for a while and had an idea. He said to the deputy general beside him, "Le Tian, go and bring out the prisoner in cell No. 16."
The deputy general looked surprised. He glanced at Wu Yue, but still turned around to take the order.
Wu Yue ordered someone to bring the file of the prisoner in cell No. 16. He raised his hands high and presented it to Li Mu.
Li Mu took it and had a look.
"Zhao Ying, the bandit, is suspected to have come from the Northern Chaotic Territory. He is bloodthirsty and practices the Heaven's Fortune Creation Skill. Every time he goes to a place, he slaughters all the immortals and sects, regardless of men or women, old or young. He uses the blood of living creatures to practice martial arts. He is also lustful and violent. One day, he captured the Qinghua Sect, a female cultivator's sect in Lingtian Province, and raped and killed more than 6,300 female cultivators …"
The jade piece clearly recorded the many bloody massacres committed by this bandit called Zhao Ying after he came to the East Saint Continent.
After this person was captured by the Immortal Court, he was interrogated through torture and finally locked up in the Heavenly Prison for eternity. His only use was that one day, he would be used by the Immortal Court as a war slave to extract the last bit of value from him.
Clang! Clang!
The sound of the dark gold chain being dragged.
A skinny man, who looked about 25 or 26 years old, with the Dragon Sealing Seal in his body, was pushed up by the jailer to 20 meters away from Li Mu.
"Zhao Ying?"
Li Mu asked, looking him up and down.
"Who are you?" Zhao Ying asked with a contemptuous look.
His eyebrows were slender like blades, and his eyes were slanted and long. Most of the time, he squinted slightly, like a knife hidden in a scabbard. But even if he opened his eyes slightly, there was a flash of cold light.
"How dare you! How dare you not kneel in front of the Great Leader of the Punishment Mansion?"
Wu Yue shouted.
"Oh? The Great Leader of the Punishment Mansion of the Immortal Court? "
Zhao Ying's squinted eyes seemed to be swallowing poisonous fire in the darkness. He took a deep breath and sneered, "Let me guess, you are here to find a war slave, right? Haha, you chose me? "
Li Mu sat on the big chair and did not speak.
Zhao Ying laughed in disdain. "Such a young Grand Lord of the Punishment Manor, he only looks to be in his twenties. Hehehe, at most, he would only have an initial-stage Immortal King cultivation base. You want grandpa to be your war slave? Little fellow, do you think you are qualified?"
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