As expected, they were all dead disciples of the Xuan Tianyun Palace.
Li Mu's heart was filled with a huge fog.
His previous guess was probably correct.
But the problem was, what kind of power could quietly replace a colossus like the XuanTianyun Palace without the slightest notice? Not even a hundred years had passed without any news being leaked. This was just too frightening.
At least, Li Mu himself definitely could not do it.
This was not something that could be done just by relying on one person's strength.
After a round of inspection, it could be confirmed that on the first floor of this huge space, there were a total of one hundred steel door cells, and the people imprisoned were all disciples of the Xuan Tianyun Palace. Their status and strength were all different when they were alive, and they were all dead, leaving only skeletons and some belongings that could barely identify them.
In other words, at least six hundred Xuan Tianyun Palace disciples with profound cultivation had died in this first floor cell.
And judging from the corpses, they should have starved to death, there were no wounds on their bodies.
Li Mu rubbed his temples.
He had come to find Shen Xiaoyue, not to explore, nor to dig up some old secrets of the pugilistic world. Thus, although he was shocked by the changes in the Xuantian Cloud Palace, he did not have much desire to find out.
But he still had to continue searching here.
Since the Xuan Tianyun Palace had been replaced, then the person who captured Shen Xiaoyue was definitely not from the Xuan Tianyun Palace.
But the Mercy Flower Palace might not be lying.
Because everything that happened in the Xuan Tianyun Palace, the outside world did not know, and the Mercy Flower Palace did not know either. So in their channels, the things that the forces that replaced the Xuan Tianyun Palace did were treated as the Xuan Tianyun Palace's doing.
In other words, there was a high probability that Shen Xiaoyue was indeed captured and brought to the Xuan Tianyun Palace.
But where was she?
"Master, come look, there seems to be something alive here."
Shen Jia who had climbed to the second floor of the mountain suddenly shouted.
Li Mu's body moved, and he instantly arrived beside Shen Jia.
"There's movement inside." Shen Jia pointed at the steel door numbered C78, his expression a little shocked.
Li Mu used the token key in his hand to try, but he could not open the special steel lock on the door, so he simply threw away the key, grabbed the steel lock with both hands, and forcefully rubbed it, turning the lock made of fine steel into steel chips.
After giving Shen Jia a warning look, Li Mu slowly opened the steel door.
A very strange smell came to Li Mu's face. The red smoke turned into a devil's face and pounced on him from behind the door. Li Mu opened his mouth and blew. A stream of Qi in his Dantian directly blew away the strange red smoke, and the illusion disappeared.
Behind the door was a passageway about two meters deep.
The two of them entered and walked to the end. There was a stone room about thirty square meters in size.
Half of the stone chamber was a pool of blood. A strange red liquid was bubbling in the pool. The red smoke from before seemed to have been derived from this pool of blood.
On the stone wall above the blood pool, there was a pulley with two iron chains hanging from it. They hung down all the way into the blood pool, while the other end was fixed to a capstan next to the blood pool.
Shen Jia went over and turned the capstan.
The rusty iron chain made a strange creaking sound.
Whoosh.
The iron chain was lifted from the blood pool.
The blood water was separated, and something was pulled out from under the water.
It was a large ceramic jar. It was one meter tall and half a meter wide. It was tied with a metal chain, and there was an iron lid over the jar's mouth. The sounds of the so-called living people that Shen Jia heard earlier came from this jar.
Li Mu was really curious to the extreme.
What he saw in the Xuantian Cloud Palace today was simply more and more strange and incredible.
He could sense that there was indeed some movement within the jar.
Not only was there movement, but there was also a very faint trace of vitality.
Li Mu raised his hand and chopped out a Knife Qi, cutting the iron chain. A stream of Qi in the air pulled the big jar over and fell on the ground of the stone chamber, making a clanking sound of gold and iron and splashing a cluster of sparks. It turned out that this seemingly ceramic jar was clearly made of some special metal, which was extremely hard.
Moreover, when carefully observed at a close distance, one would find that the surface of the jar was full of fine and dense small holes, from which bright red liquid flowed out. It must have flowed in when it was soaked in the blood pool.
Shen Jia walked over and opened the lid.
He suddenly screamed as if he had seen something terrible, and his face changed.
Li Mu's face also changed.
Because the jar turned out to contain a person.
No, to be precise, it was a human swine.
A human swine whose arms and legs were cut off and planted in the jar like vegetables.
A terrible feeling of shuddering instantly spread all over Li Mu's body.
He had traveled across the universe in his previous life and seen a lot of miserable scenes, but compared with the bloody, gloomy and horrible scene in front of him, it was still far inferior. The human swine in front of him had been soaked in the blood pool for a long time. His face was already blurred and unrecognizable, but he still had a little vitality. He was motionless, as if a gust of wind could blow him to death.
"This person must have been a great master when he was alive. His strength was extremely strong, no lower than the Ninth Realm. That's why he hasn't died in this state. But if he still has a mind, he must want to be an ordinary person and die immediately to free himself from this abnormal and horrible torture."
Li Mu sighed inwardly.
This kind of torture was really terrible.
But he didn't know whether the layout of this cell was purely for the purpose of torturing this person or for other purposes.
Li Mu tried to communicate with this human swine, but he failed.
This person's spirit had completely collapsed. His consciousness had collapsed, and he didn't even have the intelligence of an ordinary animal.
Only a necklace was worn around his neck. It was unknown what material it was made of, but it was not rusty at all. It was faintly glowing with silver light. In the middle was a safety buckle, engraved with two words "Qingping". Maybe it was his name?
In the stone cell, there was no other discovery.
Li Mu thought for a moment, raised his hand, and released a jet of Broadsword Qi to free this human swine.
But something more incredible had just unfolded in front of Li Mu and Shen Jia.
When they walked out of the cell, they checked the other 79 cells with steel doors on the Third Layer.
After a round, they were shocked to find that every cell had a similar layout. But in some cells, the blood pool had dried up, and there were either skeletons or rotten corpses in the big jars. But in most of the cells, the blood pool was boiling. The human swine still had a breath, but just like the human swine named "Qingping", his spiritual world had completely collapsed. Like a newborn baby, he couldn't communicate at all. So Li Mu helped them out one by one.
What shocked Li Mu most was that in the entire Third Layer, there were more than 80 human swines in total. They were all martial arts masters no lower than the Ninth Realm when they were alive, but they all ended up in such a miserable state. Who on earth could torture so many martial arts masters at the same time?
Even the Xuantian Cloud Palace, in its heyday, would not have so many Ninth Realm masters, and it was impossible to torture so many Ninth Realm masters at the same time … The power behind this was extremely terrifying.
Li Mu only felt that his scalp was numb.
"This is definitely not torture, but a specially built cell to achieve a certain purpose. So, what is the purpose of making so many human swines and the liquid in the pool?"
There was a kind of anger in Li Mu's heart, which was accumulating, boiling, and burning.
No matter what the purpose was, no matter what the purpose was, it was unacceptable to use such a terrible, cruel and abnormal means to persecute so many martial arts masters, even if these people were heinous villains.
"Master … Is this, is this hell?"
Shen Jia's voice was trembling.
Although he was calm and had the wisdom and intelligence that his peers did not have, he was only a twelve-year-old boy after all. He had never seen such a scene, and his body was trembling.
Li Mu said, "Don't think too much. Silently recite the mental cultivation method of Divine Way Suppression, concentrate your essence and qi, and channel the Qi."
Shen Jia did as he was told, and his face gradually became better.
But what he saw today would undoubtedly leave a deep impression in his mind, and it was easy to form a martial arts heart demon in the future, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.
The two went up the stairs and came to the cell on the B layer.
Different from the C layer, there were only 11 cells on this layer.
Li Mu opened the first cell on this layer, which was much larger than the cell on the C layer, five or six times larger, and the blood pool in it was also larger. There were three pulleys on the top of the cell, and a total of six iron chains hung down into the blood pool.
Shen Jia turned the capstan on the edge of the pool in fear.
Six iron chains rose at the same time.
This time, it was not a big pot that was pulled out of the blood pool.
But a huge iron fence cage with a length, width, and height of three meters.
Blood poured down like a waterfall.
A man could be seen hanging in the middle of the cage. His feet did not touch the ground, and his hands did not touch the top. His whole body was pulled by the iron chains and fixed in the middle of the iron fence cage. His shoulder blades, shoulder blades, hand bones, foot bones, thigh bones, calf bones, and even skull were hooked by iron hooks through the flesh and blood, straightening his limbs, and hanging in the air.
This man was extremely burly, far taller than ordinary people, and his skeleton was also strangely magnificent. He was still alive, and his breath of life was not weak, equivalent to a warrior in the Fifth Realm.
Li Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he tried to communicate with him.
But in next to no time, he noticed that this person's eyes had been pierced blind, his tongue had been cut off, and his ears had been pierced deaf. His five senses had been completely crippled, and he'd become a complete cripple. Most importantly, his spiritual world was already in complete chaos. Compared to the human swine in the Bing layer's prison, he was only slightly better, but he was no different from a madman.
"This man was an expert in the Tenth Realm when he was alive."
Li Mu came to such a conclusion after observing his body and qi.
It was shocking enough that the 80 experts in the Ninth Realm in the C layer were human swine. But now there was an expert in the Tenth Realm who was tortured like a specimen in the B layer, which was simply appalling.
There were a total of 11 cells on this layer.
If Li Mu's guess was right, the people imprisoned and tortured in the other 10 cells were also experts in the Tenth Realm … In the whole Northern Wilderness Region, how many experts in the Tenth Realm were there whose whereabouts were publicly recorded in the past 100 years?
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