Chapter 99: What Kind of

Yu Chunlan's face turned pale all of a sudden.

She could clearly feel the gazes of the people around her landing on her, gradually turning into greed and inquiry.

A treasure capable of moving Lu Ren's heart...

What on earth could it be? She wanted to know so badly.

She wanted it so badly! Eyes filled with all sorts of complex desires fell upon Yu Chunlan, like a pool of sludge, wrapping her up so tightly that she couldn't breathe.

She loathed the Fierce Beast before her and feared her own future fate, so she made up her mind to keep her mouth shut tight, determined not to say another word.

However, some things were not hers to keep silent about just because she wanted to.

Qiongqi flicked his tail, guarding Yu Chunlan and temporarily acting as the guardian of the Eighth Layer for the Snake Woman.

He looked simple and honest, even like a black dog from a mortal household, yet no one underestimated his small body.

Yu Chunlan was on guard, staying on guard, when she suddenly heard a thud.

A figure, coming from who knows where, suddenly fell heavily to his knees beside her.

The direction he knelt was pointed straight at Qiongqi.

His lips were white, covered in mysterious crystallized deposits, looking as if he had just swum over from the sea and been frozen, his head hanging down in despair and helplessness.

His voice was hoarse.

"Please... please, spare me..."

"I'll talk, I'm willing to say anything, I'm willing, I'm willing, I'm willing to do it all!!"

"Spare me, spare me!"

His sanity...

was already gone.

Yu Chunlan felt both chilled and disdainful.

What kind of courage was that? And he was a cultivator, too; was he really going to fall apart over mere hunger?

Hmph.

She would never give in! Qiongqi caught a glimpse of Yu Chunlan's expression out of the corner of his eye, and his playfulness was instantly piqued.

He flicked his tail and suddenly spoke with a grin: "Fine, I forgive your sins."

"Thump!"

The man, as if reborn, could no longer support himself; his whole body seemed to fall apart, and he collapsed trembling on the ground, his limbs twitching constantly, his lips stammering only a few phrases over and over.

"Great... I'm saved... Great..."

Was it really that serious? No matter how foolish Yu Chunlan was, she couldn't suppress the doubt in her heart.

Was it really that serious? How could it be so exaggerated?

But unexpectedly, as if Qiongqi knew exactly what she was thinking, he suddenly whipped her cheek with the tip of his tail, making a "slap" sound that was extremely crisp.

And especially humiliating.

Yu Chunlan covered her face, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

Qiongqi said: "Are you very curious about why he's so desperate?"

He only asked, without giving Yu Chunlan an answer, looking at her with a half-smile, "You'll know soon enough."

"Pitiful Human Race."

"Ignorant Human Race."

"Hehe."

"Hehehehe..."

Yu Chunlan frowned, "Playing god and acting like a ghost!"

She made up her mind that she would never sink into this eerie atmosphere, and while thinking this, she kept trying to communicate with her spatial storage.

She would hide inside the space the moment she could connect to it.

That was what Yu Chunlan thought in her heart.

But the corner of her eye still couldn't help but watch the cultivator lying on the ground, twitching.

He looked truly pitiful.

And his clothes were in tatters...

The doubt in Yu Chunlan's heart grew even larger.

Was she mistaken?

Why did the people here all look like they were in rags? Even if twenty or thirty years had passed, they weren't wearing mortal clothes; surely they wouldn't have rotted to this extent.

"Hehe... twenty or thirty years?"

The person lying on the ground, twitching constantly, suddenly let out a laugh.

But the sound he forced out from his throat was extremely hoarse and extremely eerie.

His eyes were wide open, staring at the stone liquid dripping from above, looking like a dead fish that had just crawled ashore, unable to close its eyes in death. Yu Chunlan only then realized she had asked her inner thoughts out loud.

She felt a bit irritable, glanced at Qiongqi, who was flicking his tail tip beside her as if shooing away insects, and decided to just ignore everything and ask the question in her heart directly.

"That's right!"

"No matter what, it's impossible for you all to have been trapped here for a hundred years, right?"

Lu Ren wasn't even a hundred years old yet! But the man lying on the ground, after hearing what she said clearly, couldn't help but laugh, laughing until his whole body shook; it wasn't just him laughing, the others huddled around were also laughing.

They laughed, mocked, and ridiculed.

They looked like monsters with nothing left but malice.

Yu Chunlan was driven to the brink of collapse by this atmosphere.

She stomped her foot hard.

"What exactly are you laughing at?"

She could not endure it any longer.

Upon hearing her questioning roar, the person on the ground slowly calmed down, but then began to cough violently.

He spoke while coughing.

"Dozens of years, hundreds of years?"

"Little girl, I don't know where you came from, but you underestimate Lu Ren a bit too much."

"I have already spent a full thousand years here."

"Do you know how I spent these thousand years? Without Spirit Power, without resources, I could only forcibly consume my lifespan; I couldn't even cultivate, watching helplessly as I walked toward the end of death."

"If it were you, could you hold on for a hundred years?"

"Impossible!" Yu Chunlan suddenly widened her eyes, "How could there be so many years..."

Her questioning words came to an abrupt halt when she saw the face of the person lying on the ground as he looked up.

Yu Chunlan's body trembled.

She even showed faint signs of breaking down.

"You!"

"You!"

"You... what is your name? Are you, are you called Yu Gongyan?"

The cultivator lying on the ground rested a hand on his forehead; upon hearing Yu Chunlan's question, he was dazed for a moment, and only after a long while did he respond lazily.

"Hmm? Yu Gongyan... it seems there is such a name... a thousand years have passed, I suppose that is what I am called."

Yu Chunlan was struck again.

She stumbled back two steps, shocked and incredulous, "Impossible... Yu Gongyan is my second uncle! He has been missing for over twenty years! How could it have been a thousand years! Over twenty years ago, he was still in our family!"

Yu Gongyan lazily lifted his eyelids.

He did not take it to heart at all.

"Oh... so you are also a little girl from my Yu Family; has it really only been twenty years outside? Time truly flies."

What did he mean by "outside"?

What did he mean by "also"?

Yu Chunlan clutched her head, shaking it desperately.

"Stop talking!"

"I don't believe it!"

"You must all be lying to me! This is an illusion, isn't it?"

Qiongqi let out a laugh without reservation.

"Hehehe!!"

"You're already at your limit?"

He jumped down from the stone leisurely and paced in front of Yu Chunlan, "Do you know why everyone turns pale at the mention of my Lu Family Heavenly Prison?"

"It is because for every year that passes outside, dozens, or even a hundred years pass here..."

"Guess how many years have passed outside in the time you've been in here?"

For a moment, Yu Chunlan looked like a chicken whose neck had been throttled.

Her lips turned white, and she trembled incessantly, unable to utter a single word.

As of now.

Only one sentence remained in Yu Chunlan's mind.

Lu Ren, what kind of "Great Philanthropist Lu" is he? He is clearly a devil! The entire Tianxuan Continent has been deceived by him!!

(End of chapter)