Chapter 146: Heart of an Innocent Child

Since then, Xia Di knew that to become enemies with the Congwendao Sect would be to fulfill the "one hundred thousand year curse."

Those people in the dark only thought that Miss Yun Zhi was talented and very strong, but they had no clear concept of Miss Yun Zhi's "strength."

If they knew how strong Miss Yun Zhi was, they would know how stupid this alienation scheme was.

"Grand Senior Sister, where are we going?" Lu Yang saw that after flying to the Congwendao Sect, Grand Senior Sister did not stop at Tianmen Shanfeng and continued flying forward.

Lu Yang had never set foot here before. Below them were great mountains and marshes, thousands of miles of scorched earth, and yellow soil deserts.

"Prison Shanfeng."

Neither Lu Yang nor Meng Jingzhou had ever heard of this place.

Grand Senior Sister passed through these areas and landed on a gloomy mountain peak. The peak was wrapped in giant chains, the other ends of which were wrapped around four mountains in the four cardinal directions. Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou's hair stood on end; they felt this was not a good place.

Lu Yang had studied a little bit of Feng Shui arrays. Feng Shui emphasizes "flow"; at least one of the four directions—east, west, south, or north—must have a connection with the outside world. This is vitality. But this Prison Shanfeng was surrounded by mountains on all four sides, blocking all vitality. The clouds tightly hugging Prison Shanfeng were like a lid, covering this area tightly.

Prison Shanfeng is a place for imprisoning and interrogating prisoners.

The three landed. Miss Yun Zhi opened the array entrance, carrying the souls of the two Integration stage cultivators, entered from the foot of the mountain, and went all the way down for about five thousand meters before stopping.

The prisoners were all locked under Prison Shanfeng.

Arriving at Prison Shanfeng, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had the feeling of returning to Buyi Town; they could not mobilize even a bit of spiritual energy. This was not a spiritual-prohibition array, but a kind of rule.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou discovered that there were nearly a hundred cages here. Most of the cages were empty, with only a dozen or so holding people.

To be precise, what was locked inside were not people, but soul bodies. Under the suppression of the rules, these soul bodies were listless and dispirited.

Some soul bodies, seeing the two little fellows Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, drooled, wanting to pounce over and eat them, but after seeing Grand Senior Sister, they all became obedient.

Lu Yang felt that the number of people locked in this place was too few? The dungeon in Yanjiang County held more than this.

"Those locked here are all ancient Integration stage cultivators. You both should be careful," Miss Yun Zhi reminded.

The two immediately shivered, no longer feeling that there were too few.

Good heavens, a dozen Integration stage cultivators locked here?

"Grand Senior Sister, aren't you afraid they will run away?" Lu Yang asked in a low voice.

"Run? You little brat, you look down on this old person too much." A childish voice came. Lu Yang turned his head back upon hearing the sound and saw a white-haired child. The child was not tall, and only reached his waist when standing on tiptoe.

"Master's Master."

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were surprised; the white-haired child was actually Daoist Bu Yu's master.

"Master's Master," both called out.

"Hehe, do you think I'm too small?"

"No, no."

The white-haired child said in an old-fashioned way: "You are still too young, your experience is insufficient, and you don't understand my state. This is a cultivation method of mine."

Lu Yang quickly thought of a legend: "The ancients said, 'Constant virtue does not depart, returning to the infant,' 'The crowd is bustling, as if enjoying a grand feast, as if climbing a terrace in spring; I alone am calm, with no signs, like an infant who has not yet become a child.'"

"Many great cultivators spend their whole lives pursuing the heart of an innocent child, but they can never reach this realm. Deliberately pursuing it is no longer the thought of a child; how can one achieve a true heart of an innocent child?"

"Could it be that you, Master's Master, have 'returned to the infant,' reached the state of returning to simplicity and unity of heaven and man, and have the state of mind of an innocent child?"

Meng Jingzhou was also surprised. The heart of an innocent child had always existed in legends. None of the elders of the Meng clan could reach this state of mind. Who would have thought that the Congwendao Sect had one?

The white-haired child smiled without saying a word, nodding gently, with an expression of "a child who can be taught."

Miss Yun Zhi was a bit strange: "Why is the news I heard not like this?"

"Master said that when you were young, Master's Master, you were promiscuous, lingering in brothels and delaying your cultivation. Later, you didn't know what kind of stimulation you received, and you suddenly woke up, wanting to cultivate hard. To show your ambition, you fixed your body forever at the age of six, so you wouldn't have to worry about the leakage of yang energy."

Lu Yang: "..."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

Strictly speaking, this was indeed a cultivation method.

The two remembered that when cultivators reach a certain realm, they can control their appearance. Why do some cultivators like to keep the appearance of a young child or an elderly person? Could it be the same reason as Master's Master?

No, no, no, this kind of thing cannot be thought about too much. The two hurriedly emptied their brains.

"In any case, with this old man here, not a single Integration stage cultivator locked here will think about running out!" The white-haired child forcibly changed the subject. "Yun girl, did you catch two more people?"

"Yes, I want to interrogate them."

"Why not just search their souls?" the white-haired child suggested.

Miss Yun Zhi shook her head: "Soul searching will destroy their intelligence. Integration stage souls are excellent materials for refining magic treasures. Once intelligence is lost, the effect of the magic treasure will be greatly reduced."

The two Integration stage souls shivered. Wasn't it said that the Congwendao Sect was a righteous sect? This was different from the righteous sect they imagined!

Miss Yun Zhi looked at the two Integration stage cultivators suspiciously, not understanding why they were afraid: "You let so many people die in fear, so isn't it normal for you to have the same treatment?"

Do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourself. Miss Yun Zhi thought these two had long understood this principle.

Miss Yun Zhi and the white-haired child each carried an Integration stage soul and threw them into the cages. Lu Yang followed Miss Yun Zhi, and Meng Jingzhou followed the white-haired child.

Miss Yun Zhi started with a set of torture, various torture instruments aimed at soul bodies taking turns. The person screamed in pain repeatedly, making Lu Yang's eyes twitch. He didn't expect Grand Senior Sister to be so ruthless.

Wait, it seems that when he first started cultivating, Grand Senior Sister did the same thing?

Could it be that Grand Senior Sister used her experience in torture to teach him cultivation?

Every time the Immortal Fairy saw Grand Senior Sister use a torture instrument, she shivered. She felt that joining the Congwendao Sect was a wise choice.

The Congwendao Sect shouldn't be so ruthless to their own people, right?

"Strange, why doesn't he confess anything?" Miss Yun Zhi was puzzled. Master's Master told her that following this set of procedures, the prisoner would definitely say everything.

Lu Yang asked in a low voice from the side: "Grand Senior Sister, you haven't asked yet."

Miss Yun Zhi said "Oh," picked up the first torture instrument, and prepared to go through the process again, scaring the other party into saying hurriedly: "Don't, don't, don't, I confess, I confess everything."

"What era are you from?"

"The 40,000th year of Great Yu."

"Have you heard of the Immortal of Decay or the Immortal Fairy of Decay?"

"Never heard of them."

"Hmm? Still lying?"

The man was almost scared to tears by Miss Yun Zhi's indifferent expression: "I really haven't heard of them. In our era, we only heard that the Western Buddhist Kingdom had immortals, the Southern Demon Domain had immortals, and the Eastern Ocean and the Jibei were suspected to have immortals. I don't even know the name of a single immortal."

"If you are looking for the Immortal of Decay, you can go to the Jibei and take a look. Maybe the immortal is frozen; that can also be considered decay."

The Immortal Fairy of Decay was so angry that she wanted to roll up her sleeves and hit someone on the spot.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 147 =====