The white-robed elder, Chen Liansheng, showed a contemplative expression.
He looked at Liu Hanyan, and considering the Cultivation Family behind her, he naturally found it easy to make a choice.
Although Mutated Dual Immortal Roots were rare, in this era, they were almost equivalent to Waste Immortal Roots.
“Yang Che, blame it on your ill-fated birth and bad luck.”
Chen Liansheng sighed, “Hand your Storage Pouch to Junior Martial Uncle Liu, and then the Discipline Hall will carry out the execution.”
Yang Che’s heart, which had been hanging by a thread, plummeted to the bottom after Chen Liansheng “sentenced him to death.”
“Is the path of Cultivation going to end like this?”
“I was forced to kill to survive, so why do I have to die?”
Yang Che was unwilling, his eyes glinting with a chilling light.
He had been enduring the pain of his bones breaking, but at this moment, the frustration, anger, and unwillingness he felt in his heart far surpassed that pain.
“Yang Che, it seems I’ll have to do it myself.”
Seeing that Yang Che had not taken off his Storage Pouch, Liu Hanyan walked step by step towards Yang Che, a cold and disdainful expression appearing on her face.
“Even if I die, I’ll make you pay.”
Yang Che’s heart hardened, and he was about to summon his Flying Fire Needles to unleash his unwilling, desperate strike.
Just then, a flash of inspiration struck him, as if he had grasped a final straw of hope.
Just as Liu Hanyan was about to make her move, Yang Che suddenly shouted, “Wait!”
Everyone looked at Yang Che in surprise.
Yang Che quickly said, “I want to see Frost Moon Fairy.”
As soon as these words were uttered, the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
Not only Chen Liansheng, but even Liu Hanyan’s expression changed slightly upon hearing that name.
Chen Liansheng hurriedly asked, “Yang Che, do you know Frost Moon Fairy?”
“Yes, I do. So I want to see Frost Moon Fairy and ask her to uphold justice for me.”
At this point, Yang Che could only hold on stubbornly.
He truly had no other choice; Frost Moon Fairy was his last ray of light, his last glimmer of ‘hope’ in despair.
“You’re lying! How could you possibly know Frost Moon Fairy?”
Liu Hanyan snorted, naturally believing that Yang Che was desperately grasping at straws to save his life.
Chen Liansheng said, “Yang Che, you can’t just say things carelessly. You claim to know Frost Moon Fairy, but do you have any proof?”
Proof again!
Yang Che suppressed the anger in his heart, “What proof do you need? Is it true or false? Wouldn’t asking Frost Moon Fairy reveal the truth?”
Seeing Yang Che speak with such certainty, Chen Liansheng no longer dared to make a hasty decision.
Liu Hanyan was also puzzled; could this boy really know Frost Moon Fairy? If they truly had a connection, then killing this boy would be somewhat difficult.
“Senior Brother Chen, this Yang Che must know that Frost Moon Fairy is not in the Sect right now, which is why he’s acting so brazenly. I think there’s no need to waste any more time; just kill him directly to make an example.”
As Liu Hanyan spoke, she moved forward to make her move.
“Junior Sister Liu, wait.”
Chen Liansheng’s face turned cold as he stopped Liu Hanyan.
Others might not know Frost Moon Fairy’s background, but as one of the two Deputy Valley Masters, how could he not know?
He secretly transmitted, “Junior Sister Liu, since this matter has changed, let’s first imprison Yang Che in the ‘Yellow Character Dungeon’ of the valley. Once Frost Moon Fairy returns, we can ask her to confirm the truth. If it’s true, then we’ll naturally follow Frost Moon Fairy’s attitude. If it’s false, it won’t be too late to kill him then.”
Since the matter involved Frost Moon Fairy, Chen Liansheng dared not make a rash decision.
Even if he clearly knew that Junior Sister Liu would be extremely unwilling, there was nothing he could do.
The Cultivation World was inherently a place where the strong preyed on the weak.
“Yang Che, this matter still needs verification, so for now, you will be imprisoned in this valley’s ‘Yellow Character Dungeon’. You may temporarily keep your Storage Pouch, but you must return all of Liu Yuan’s items to Junior Martial Uncle Liu.”
By bringing up Frost Moon Fairy, Yang Che finally escaped death.
He was taken by the Discipline Hall Disciples to the Sect’s ‘Yellow Character Dungeon’ and imprisoned.
It was a square, luminous prison, very similar to the Taiyan Temple’s, except that the Taiyan Temple used True Word Binding Arts, while the Wulong Valley used Seal Array Talismans.
Yang Che took several more Nourishing Yuan Pills, lay on the cold ground, and gradually regained his composure.
The Cultivation Sect he had once yearned to enter had almost cost him his life here. It was indeed a realistic and cruel world.
Yang Che knew that he had to find a way to escape as soon as possible.
He did know Frost Moon Fairy, but in reality, they had no real connection.
He could already guess that the power behind Liu Hanyan was certainly not weak. Who would care about him, a person whom the Sect saw as having no hope of Foundation Establishment?
This was the most perilous situation he had faced since entering the Cultivation World. Even if he avoided being executed by the Sect, without Nourishing Yuan Pills, his severe injuries might not have allowed him to last until now.
A Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator had almost no power to fight back against a Foundation Establishment Cultivator; the gap was simply too vast. If he could also successfully achieve Foundation Establishment…
Yang Che’s desire for Foundation Establishment became unprecedentedly strong.
Half a month later.
Suddenly, a commotion came from outside the Yellow Character Dungeon.
“Who goes there? The Sect Dungeon is not to be trespassed upon!”
“Bang, bang, bang… Ah…” A series of fighting and muffled groans suddenly sounded, but quickly faded into silence.
Yang Che’s heart sank slightly, unsure of what was happening outside.
While he was pondering, a masked Cultivator appeared outside the square luminous prison.
The masked Cultivator looked around, took out a thin tube of unknown material, infused it with magical power, and the thin tube then penetrated the spiritual talisman light array.
Yang Che stared intently at the Cultivator’s actions and soon saw wisps of green smoke drifting out from the thin tube.
It was poison!
Based on the Cultivator’s figure, Yang Che guessed that this person should be Liu Hanyan.
Although he had Qingxin Pills, he wasn’t sure if they could counteract the poison of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
The faint green poisonous mist quickly drifted in, filling the entire luminous prison.
Yang Che had already thrown two Qingxin Pills into his mouth.
As he had expected, the poison in this mist was exceptionally potent.
Its toxicity was much stronger than the poisonous smoke he had previously concocted to deal with Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
Soon, Yang Che found that his entire body began to become incredibly stiff.
Fortunately, with the medicinal power of the Qingxin Pills and his relatively strong Physical Body, his fingers could still move.
At the same time, Yang Che immediately circulated the “Heaven and Earth Chaos Art” and began to try and absorb these poisonous mists, while the masked Cultivator left.
More than a quarter of an hour later, the masked Cultivator returned.
She seemed to have considered for a moment.
The Cultivator snorted coldly, then directly tore off the sealing Array Talisman on the luminous prison, walked inside, pulled Yang Che up, and headed out of the dungeon.
At this point, Yang Che discovered that the five or six Qi Refinement Stage Disciples guarding the Yellow Character Dungeon had all been killed.
The Yellow Character Dungeon was originally used to detain Qi Refinement Stage Disciples who had committed mistakes, and those guarding it were all Qi Refinement eleventh and twelfth-level Disciples.
His heart suddenly trembled; it seemed that Liu Yuan was very important to Liu Hanyan, otherwise Liu Hanyan wouldn’t have gone to such lengths.
He felt a vague sense of foreboding.
His fingers moved slightly, and a handful of Flying Fire Needles were already tightly held in his hand.
Soon, he was quietly taken out of Wulong Valley and brought to a desolate wilderness.
“The Sect forbids killing you, but how can my Yuan’er have died in vain?”
It was indeed Liu Hanyan’s voice.
Yang Che’s heart sank.
He guessed that the green poisonous smoke he had inhaled shouldn't cause his body to remain paralyzed, but its greater purpose was likely to allow Liu Hanyan to track him at all times.
Liu Hanyan roughly threw Yang Che off the Flying Magical Artifact.
“You can just wait here slowly with fear. Either you’ll be eaten by the Yao Beasts in this desolate wilderness, or you’ll still die by my hand.”
Liu Hanyan sneered a few times in her heart and then flew away from the area.
Just a moment ago, she had several times wanted to directly kill Yang Che, but then she thought of the true identity of the suspected ‘Frost Moon Fairy’ that she had investigated these past few days, and she had to consider the entire Liu Family. In the end, she forcibly restrained herself.
She had to have a legitimate reason to kill Yang Che. Even if Yang Che had a connection with Frost Moon Fairy, Frost Moon Fairy would have nothing to say. She would now return to the Sect, and after obtaining a ‘wanted order,’ she would then openly and righteously kill Yang Che!
For her Yuan’er, she had already resorted to brutally killing several Disciples guarding the Yellow Character Dungeon!
After Liu Hanyan left, Yang Che knew that he had to escape immediately! Even though the five or six Disciples guarding the Yellow Character Dungeon whom Liu Hanyan had killed earlier would all be blamed on him from now on.
As for whether he actually had the strength to kill these Qi Refinement Stage Disciples while his injuries were unhealed, it no longer mattered to Wulong Valley.
Even if he managed to escape, he would henceforth be a Wulong Valley Disciple who had ‘fled to avoid punishment,’ and he would be hunted by Wulong Valley until he was killed or captured and brought back to the Sect’s Discipline Hall.