Just as Li Mu had expected.
Each of the other ten cells on the B level had a martial arts expert in the Tenth Realm locked up. Although Li Mu did not know any of them, it did not prevent him from knowing that each of them was once a legendary figure in the entire Northern Wilderness Domain. But now, they were all living a life worse than death. They were mentally deranged, deaf, blind, and unable to speak. One of them still had his senses. When he sensed Li Mu's arrival, he frantically struggled with all his might and made a strange sound in his throat. Li Mu finally vaguely understood that he was saying, "Kill me."
Obviously, under such horrible torture, he had lost the courage to continue living.
Li Mu was not a saint. In this world, such a serious injury could not be healed. So, without hesitation, he directly helped the man to free himself.
When he came out of the B layer, Li Mu couldn't describe his feelings.
Shen Jia, who was beside him, couldn't estimate the strength of those prisoners, but he could vaguely guess that his inner shock was simply indescribable.
The two came to the A layer.
There were only three cells in the A layer.
Li Mu didn't want to guess what kind of powerful figures were in the three cells.
He looked at the pale-faced Shen Jia and thought for a moment. He stopped and said, "I will now teach you another inner force mantra. Remember it well and start cultivating it now. It will help you get rid of your inner demons."
He taught Shen Jia the simplified version of the Xiantian Skill that he had taught Hua Xiangrong and Qing Feng and Ming Yue.
The Suppression of the Heavenly Law was just an internal cultivation method of the Tiandao Sect. Li Mu's cultivation was profound, so it seemed to have a miraculous effect. But for ordinary martial arts practitioners, it would take decades of hard practice to make progress. What Shen Jia saw today was too stimulating. The Suppression of the Heavenly Law could no longer suppress the flaws of his mind, so Li Mu taught him the simplified version of the Xiantian Skill.
That was also Li Mu's recognition of Shen Jia as a disciple.
Although this world might be different from the Ziwei Star Zone, Li Mu had come here once, so he also hoped to leave his mark.
Shen Jia was extremely talented. After Li Mu taught him a few times, he could already start to practice alone.
As he walked, he ran the cultivation method.
Li Mu came to the door of A3.
"Eh? The door is not locked. "
The steel door was covered with fine steel rivets. It was thicker and sturdier than the prison door on the third floor of Level B, C, and D, but it was not locked.
Li Mu gave it a gentle push.
Creak.
The steel door opened inwards.
The air behind the door was quite fresh, unlike a prison cell that never saw the light of day.
Li Mu walked in and walked through the three-meter-long door. Then, he saw a large stone chamber. There was a stone window in the depths, through which sunlight shone in and a warm aura spread out. The floor and walls were quite clean and tidy. There were stone tables, stone chairs, and other decorations. It was completely different from the gloomy, horrible, and bloody scenes in other cells.
An old man dressed in a white robe was sitting cross-legged on a futon against the light.
His body was strangely thin, and he had snow-white hair, beard, and eyebrows. He was already very old, and he gave off a kind of otherworldly aura that had been soaked in the vicissitudes of time. His eyes were slightly closed, but one could hear his heart beating strongly, and his blood and energy surging like a vast ocean.
From this old man, Li Mu sensed a dangerous aura that even the experts in the Tenth Realm did not give him.
Eleventh Realm?
"You finally came."
The old man suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were shining like electric light.
Li Mu made countless judgments in an instant. Could it be that this old man was the builder of this cell and the mastermind behind it? Or could it be that he was also a prisoner locked up in a cell?
"Are you waiting for me?" Li Mu slowly walked over. "Did you know I was coming?"
The old man carefully looked at Li Mu, and there seemed to be surprise and some disappointment in his eyes. He said, "Since you stepped into the Dark Heaven Palace, I noticed you, but I didn't expect you to be so young."
"Who are you?" Li Mu went straight to the point and said, "I'm looking for a girl named Shen Xiaoyue. Do you know where she is?"
"Looking for a girl? Is she your lover? " A strange expression appeared on the old man's face, as if he was thinking of his once beautiful lover when he was young. He gently shook his head and said, "Young man, I can see that your cultivation is good, at least in the Tenth Realm. You can get through the Shadow Assassins in the Dark Heaven Palace, which is really amazing for your age. But this is still not a place for you. Go quickly."
"Is it dangerous here?" Li Mu asked.
The old man said, "Dangerous, very dangerous, the danger you can't imagine."
Li Mu said, "Since it's so dangerous, I'm afraid it's too late for me to leave now."
The old man was stunned and said, "If you leave now, you may have a chance to escape. If you don't, you will definitely die, and your end will be worse than mine."
Li Mu asked, "Are you miserable?"
Compared with the experts in the Tenth Realm on the B layer, the old man's situation could be said to be in heaven.
The old man said, "Look behind me."
Li Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he walked behind the old man. At a glance, he was shocked.
There was not a complete piece of skin on the old man's back. There were countless hair-thin tubes, like capillaries, extending from his body and finally condensing into a red tube as thick as the mouth of a bowl, which extended into the wall. Li Mu didn't know where it led.
Those fine capillaries contracted rhythmically, drawing something from the old man's body and sending it to the blood vessels.
"It's been a hundred years. I've been sitting here, motionless. If I struggle a little, I'll suffer as if thousands of ants are biting my heart. The strength and essence in my body will be continuously extracted. If I'm also deaf, blind, and confused, I'll be fine. But I'm awake, and I can only watch my former disciples, lovers, and friends being killed …"
The old man looked at Li Mu and said, "Do you think there's anything more painful in this world?"
Li Mu said, "The mental torture is indeed far worse than the physical pain."
The old man said, "If the girl you're looking for is also caught by the black-robed men, maybe you're not in the wrong place. But even if you find her, you can't save her."
Li Mu asked, "Where will she be?"
The old man said, "Here, maybe next door, maybe … in the underground tactical deployment."
Shen Jia's eyes were filled with surprise. He turned around and was about to run next door.
"Wait a minute."
Li Mu stopped him.
"Senior, I'll save you, and you'll take me to find Miss Shen. How about that?" Li Mu asked.
The old man said, "You can't save me. Once the tentacle behind me is cut off, I'll die unless I find the real body of the demon and kill it first … Forget it, there's no point in talking about this. Young man, I advise you to give up on the idea of saving her and leave quickly. With your talent, you might have a chance to avenge your lover in another hundred years. It's better than both of you dying here. "
"Demon? What demon? Where is its real body? "Li Mu asked.
The old man did not answer. Instead, he said, "When I was controlled by them, I was at level eleven."
In other words, even level eleven was not a match for the black-robed men, and he did not want Li Mu to die.
"Are you the Palace Master of Xuan Tianyun Palace, the God of Martial Arts in the Northern Wilderness Region, Xuan Tian Divine Dragon Nie Renlong, Senior Nie Renlong?" Shen Jia exclaimed.
In the past hundred years, there was only one person at level eleven in the Northern Wilderness Region, and that was the Palace Master of Xuan Tianyun Palace.
"I didn't expect someone to still remember my name after so many years. Unfortunately … it's all in the past." The old man let out a long sigh. Even though he thought he could face everything calmly after almost a hundred years of humiliation and torture, he still could not control the waves in his heart when his name was mentioned.
Shen Jia was dumbfounded.
The undefeatable god in the hearts of everyone in the Northern Wilderness Region … actually ended up like this?
"What happened?" He could not help but ask. It was as if the faith in his heart was collapsing.
Li Mu said, "Let's save her first and talk about the past. Senior, if Miss Shen is not next door, how can I find the underground formation you mentioned? Is it underneath this prison?"
The old man nodded. "Since you have made up your mind, let's go next door first. But be careful, I don't know what kind of person is imprisoned next door. The two rooms next door are empty, so let's take a look underground. I don't know how to enter, but I know that this prison is specially chosen. There is a peerless monster sealed underground, and the disaster that befell Xuan Tianyun Palace was also caused by it."
"Alright, senior, please wait here. I'll come and save you after I save her."
Li Mu cupped his hands and left the room with Shen Jia.
"Master …" Shen Jia followed behind, exiting the room, and said, "Did I say something wrong just now?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "You didn't say anything wrong. It's just that we have to hurry."
He came to the door of the room next door and pushed it open.
The aroma of food, wine, and meat filled his nose.
Li Mu was slightly stunned.
What was going on?
Walking through the doorway, the stone room was brightly lit. There was a stone table filled with delicacies. A young man in a white robe was sitting on a stone chair, eating heartily. Behind him stood a middle-aged man with a sword strapped to his back.
It looked more like a private room in the Cloud Inn.
"It's you?"
Li Mu immediately recognized that the middle-aged man who looked like a servant was the first sword slave who blocked him with the Seven Strikes of Morning Dew and forced him to take two steps back in the battle of the Four Seas God Sect. At that time, he was beaten back and seriously injured, but he did not die. Later, he disappeared without a trace. Li Mu did not expect that he would appear here.
The first sword slave glanced at Li Mu without any expression.
The young man in a white robe finished the drumstick in his hand, wiped his hands with a white brocade handkerchief, and then picked up the wine pot on the table, took a sip of the wine, and looked intoxicated and comfortable. He took a long breath, glanced at Li Mu with a faint smile, and said, "Have you finished talking with the old fool next door? Haha, to be honest, you came much later than I thought. "
"The young master of the Four Seas God Sect?" Li Mu asked.
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