Chapter 615: When the Heavens Wish One Dead, They’ll Drive Him to Madness

Goosebumps rose on the sultry woman’s snowy skin.

Without even pausing to think, she said, “If it means I can live, I’m willing to do anything.”

As she spoke, she gazed at Su Yi. When she saw that he was just a young man, she couldn’t help but feel bewildered.?Just where did he come from?

Did Elder Hua and the others just stand back and watch as he entered the dungeons?

Or… could it be that they’re all already dead?

This thought made her heart shake, and as she looked at Su Yi, her gaze filled with deep trepidation.

“First, get dressed,” said Su Yi, withdrawing his sword qi.

This request caught the woman off guard, but she quickly got her clothes in order, then whispered, “What else would you have me do?”

She seemed to have meekly accepted her fate.

“Lie down for me,” said Su Yi.

“Uh…Ah?” The sultry woman’s cheek’s were instantly red with embarrassment.

Thud!

A moment later, she lost consciousness, and her body fell limply to the floor.

“Don’t read too much into things.” Su Yi shook his head. He couldn’t be bothered to even look at her.

This was a lady demonic cultivator who seized Yang to replenish Yin. Who knew how many men she’d ridden? Su Yi found the very thought revolting; how could he possibly take a fancy to her?

He walked up, then entered the first ward of the dungeons.

Inside, he saw a group of unconscious people, men and women of various ages. Su Yi only recognized two: Xiao Tianque and his granddaughter, Xiao Zijin.

These were undoubtedly members of the Lanling Xiao Family.

Su Yi unleashed his divine sense and examined their condition, one by one. Before long, he sighed in relief.

Earlier, he’d been worried that the demonic cultivators had placed some sort of insidious secret art within the captives’ bodies to threaten him.

Now, it seemed they’d done nothing of the sort.

It seems the Celestial Prison Demon Court isn’t at all concerned about these hostages, or rather, they never anticipated that I’d arrive so quickly…

He’d effectively caught his opponents off guard.

Had they prepared more thoroughly, this rescue operation couldn’t possibly have gone so smoothly.

Su Yi then examined the rest of the dungeons, finding a series of familiar faces.

Like Zheng Tianhe, head of the Imperatorial Province’s Zheng Family, and his daughter, Zhang Muyao.

Or the Spiritmartial Marquis, Chen Zheng, and his subordinate, Zhang Yiren…

When he saw his old friends and allies, Su Yi felt an irrepressible murderous intent rise within his heart.

It was clear that Chu Xiu had resorted to underhanded methods to get revenge; there were no depths to which he would not sink.

Su Yi had a simple way of responding to such attempts at revenge——

He’d pull the grass up by the roots.

After searching the entire dungeons, Su Yi furrowed his brow. Wen Changtai and Qin Qing were nowhere to be found!

Su Yi then returned to where he’d left the unconscious woman. “Wake up. It’s time to talk.”

Every word boomed like thunder in her ears, shaking her soul. She awoke from her unconsciousness and hurriedly rose to her feet. “What would you have me do, Fellow Daoist?”

“Where are Wen Changtai and Qin Qing?” asked Su Yi.

The sultry woman froze, stunned, then seemed to realize something. Her eyes widened, and she blurted, “You.. Don’t tell me you’re Su Yi!?”

“One more wasted word, and I’ll kill you,” Su Yi said coolly.

Beneath the weight of his distant gaze, the woman shuddered, then said hurriedly, “Sir, I won’t keep it from you: the day before yesterday, Elder Hua Hongtai had two of his subordinates deliver husband and wife to Bloodthistle Yao Mountain. Apparently, he was handing them over to Elder Tu Baizhen.”

“There are so many people in the dungeons,” said Su Yi. “Why only send the two of them?”

The woman lowered her voice and said, “Because Elder Hua Hongtai searched these people’s souls, one by one, and in the end, he discovered that those two were the most likely to be useful.”

Su Yi understood.

Hua Hongtai had undoubtedly sensed that having Wen Changtai and Qin Qing firmly under his control gave him the best odds of threatening Su Yi!

“To the best of my knowledge, you experts of the Celestial Prison Demon Court originally crossed over from the exposed spatial barrier beneath Bloodthistle Yao Mountain. Is that right?” asked Su Yi.

The sultry woman hesitated, then nodded. “That’s right.”

Su Yi stretched out his hand and seized her by the neck.

“Didn’t you say that so long as I cooperated, you’d spare my life?” blurted the woman.

“Relax; you’re still useful to me. I won’t kill you. At least, not yet.” As he spoke, Su Yi exerted strength through his finger, and the woman fell unconscious once more. Su Yi then picked her up and left the dungeons.

…..

Halfway up Unknown Dragon Mountain.

A vast, majestic palace.

Elder Hua Hongtai had once occupied this place.

When Su Yi arrived, he performed a cursory search and found a blood gourd.

The blood gourd was about the size of a palm, and it was crystalline and transparent. Natural golden Dao Marks floated above it, and it was obvious at a glance that it was extraordinary.

“A Spirit Gourd?grown?from a Golden Spirit Vine, and they went and refined it into something demonic? They’ve really desecrated a natural treasure.”

Su Yi immediately recognized the gourd as a Grand Dao Elixir born of the rare divine material, Golden Spirit Vine. It was naturally emblazoned with the sharp, forceful Dao Charm of Metal.

In the eyes of Spirit Dao sword cultivators, such gourds were ideal materials for refining Sword-Nourishing Gourds. They could nourish their natal spirit swords, and the Dao Charm of Metal would polish their edge and improve their weapon’s quality.

Yet now, this rare treasure, the kind that could only be happened upon by chance, had been forged into a demonic instrument!

When Su Yi inserted his divine sense into it, he discovered bloody mist churning with the Golden Spirit Gourd. Thousands of blood-colored silhouettes floated in and out of view.

Each had a vicious, sinister presence, like evil spirits who’d crawled straight out of the depths of hell.

Su Yi couldn’t help but look repulsed.

Those were Blood Spirits!

They were a type of evil spirit produced from the souls of virgin boys and girls. When refined with?bloodmeal, the Blood Spirits would undergo repeated transformations.

Raising Blood Spirits was as ruthless and brutal as could be. It didn’t get crueler than that.

In the Nine Provinces of the Wilds, only second-rate demonic factions would use such despicable, brutal heretical arts.

There were nine hundred Blood Spirits inside the Golden Spirit Gourd, half male, half female. They were no weaker than Martial Dao Grandmasters.

“How many people did you kill, and how much?bloodmeal?did you refine to raise so many Blood Spirits so quickly?”

Su Yi was no saint, but when he saw this, his brow furrowed deeply.

He recalled the disasters taking place throughout the Great Zhou: spirit beasts were attacking en masse throughout the nation, bringing ruin to the populace!

The Celestial Prison Demon Court was doing this just to gather enough?bloodmeal?to nourish these Blood Spirits…

“When the heavens wish someone dead, they’ll first drive him to madness. You’re nothing but a second-rate, paltry little Demonist faction. Do you really think you can do whatever you want in the Great Zhou?” Su Yi muttered to no one in particular, his gaze distant and cold.

He had no ambitions of supporting the whole world on his shoulders or saving the populace, but since they’d provoked him, he didn’t mind teaching the Celestial Prison Demon Court a lesson they’d never forget!

As he thought, Su Yi formed a hand seal and pressed his palm against the gourd.

Boom!

Bloody, baleful energy churned without the gourd, and nine hundred Blood Spirits let out high-pitched, desperate shrieks as they burst into bloody mist.

Su Yi’s hand burst with radiant light as he formed the Buddhist Great Brightness Pure World Seal.

Golden Buddhist swept through the gourd’s interior, instantly eliminating the bloody, baleful mists within. Nothing was left behind!

The formerly red-tinged Golden Spirit Gourd regained its natural golden luster. It was as smooth as if it had been forged out of gold, bright, and clean.

Su Yi then turned and left.

He planned to take a trip to Bloodthistle Yao Mountain!

Night was upon them, and the enormous imperial palace was shrouded in darkness.

The grounds’ various halls and palaces were thoroughly lamplit, and teams of imperial guards were on patrol.

Inside the Hall of Peace, it was as bright as midday.

When Xiao Tianque, Xiao Zijin, Chen Zheng, Chang Yiren, and the others regained consciousness and saw their surroundings, all of them were visibly bewildered.

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“You’re finally awake,” said Zhou Zhili. He rose from his throne with a smile.

“Your Majesty!” Xiao Tianque exclaimed in disbelief. “Did you save us?”

The others looked at Zhou Zhili as well, only to see him shake his head. “I wasn’t in a cell, but I was under the demonic cultivators’ control. I was as much a prisoner of the Celestial Prison Demon Court as you were. “

The newly-freed captives had no idea what to make of this.

This was the imperial palace! Throughout the Great Zhou, who else could have saved them from the Celestial Prison Demon Court?

It was then that Xiao Zijin couldn’t help but ask, her voice tentative, “Don’t tell me… Was it Master Su?”

Master Su!

When they heard this, Xiao Tianque, Chen Zheng, Zhang Yiren, and everyone else present looked bewildered.

They couldn’t help but recall the young legend who’d swept through the Great Zhou, sword in hand, as if he were a fallen immortal.

“That’s impossible. They say he’s long since gone to the Great Xia, and there’s been no word of him since,” murmured Xiao Tianque. “Besides, the Celestial Prison Demon Court is so terrifying, I’m afraid that not even Master Su…”

His words trailed off, but his meaning was clear.

Everyone else nodded to themselves.

The Su Yi they knew was, even at his strongest, only in the Grain Avoidance Realm. Although he’d stood at the pinnacle of the Great Zhou, he was far weaker than the Celestial Prison Demon Court. Their strongest experts were in the Spirit Dao!

“It was indeed Master Su,” Zhou Zhili said solemnly. “He’s incomparable to his past self, and he can kill even Spiritual Manifestation Realm cultivators as easily as a scythe cutting through wheat.”

“....”

The atmosphere was suddenly heavy. Everyone was wide-eyed and dumbstruck; it was clear that this shook them to the core.

When Zhou Zhili took in their bewildered faces, he couldn’t help but sigh to himself. Hadn’t he reacted in much the same way when he saw Su Yi kill Hua Hongtai?

“Where is Master Su now?” asked Xiao Zijin, her voice revealing her excitement as she broke the hall’s silence.

All eyes were instantly upon Zhou Zhili.

“After saving us, Master Su headed straight for Bloodthistle Yao Mountain,” Zhou Zhili said softly.

Bloodthistle Yao Mountain!

That was the Celestial Prison Demon Court’s base!

When they heard that, everyone was stunned, but more than that, something occurred to them——

Don’t tell me Master Su is going there to pull this otherworld demonic faction up by the roots?