Chapter 737: A Second Visit to the Hall of Sinners

Lu Yang wondered if it made any difference who was in jail. "Fairy, if you serve the time for me, won't I still be in the mental space? It's not like I won't be in the Hall of Sinners just because you're the one locked up."

The Immortal Fairy's spirit of "one person acts, one person takes responsibility" was truly rare.

Even if it was useless.

But it was indeed rare.

"Do I need to be locked in too?" Bai Ye replaced Daoist Zhuiyue.

"When night falls, you can just come out, Tree Ancestor," Luo Hongxia said. Bai Ye hadn't done anything; how could she be jailed?

"Oh, alright then." Bai Ye shrank back, handing control of the body back to Daoist Zhuiyue.

"Tree Ancestor, don't go yet. There is one more matter that requires your consent," Luo Hongxia called out to stop the Tree Ancestor.

"What is it?"

"Previously, we were unaware that you had gained sentience. The Xiangong has been felling and selling laurel trees without seeking your opinion, and we feel ashamed. These laurel trees are your property, and the spirit stones earned from selling them should belong to you. Please inform us when you gained sentience so the Xiangong can calculate the spirit stones to return."

Bai Ye found it hard to understand Luo Hongxia's meaning, but she roughly gathered that they wanted to give her spirit stones.

"I have no use for spirit stones. You keep them. As for cutting and selling the trees, just carry on as usual."

"The Tree Ancestor is benevolent," Luo Hongxia bowed.

The moment the Laurel Tree Ancestor gained sentience and became a "person," the ownership of the Big Snow Mountain laurel trees transferred from the Xiangong to Bai Ye. However, the Xiangong had been unaware of Bai Ye's existence at the time; their felling and selling of the trees lacked subjective criminal intent and did not constitute a crime.

Now that the Xiangong knew of Bai Ye's existence, they could not fell or sell the laurel trees without her consent.

The Hall of Sinners.

"Palace Master, why are you here?" Elder Mo Ran, dressed in a black lotus dress, was very surprised.

What surprised her even more was that Luo Hongxia had brought two children inside.

"You have children?"

Because she was responsible for guarding the Hall of Sinners, Elder Mo Ran rarely had the chance to leave, and she didn't know what had happened in the outside world.

She instantly imagined that Luo Hongxia and Daoist Daoist Bu Yu had secretly fallen in love, but because Daoist Daoist Bu Yu had many enemies, they dared not make their relationship public and could only meet in secret, even having two children. With Daoist Daoist Bu Yu's promotion to the Tribulation Transcendence stage and no longer fearing his enemies, Luo Hongxia finally dared to announce their relationship and was taking the children around to meet people...

The corner of Luo Hongxia's eye twitched; she felt Elder Mo Ran's gaze on her was not quite right.

Elder Mo Ran had always had a vivid imagination; she wondered what she was thinking about now.

"The Xiangong recently had some accidents, and all the disciples have become small. Lu Yang is no exception. This little one is Lu Yang."

"So magical?"

"Then is Lu Yang here to visit the Hall of Sinners again?"

"He is preparing to stay for five days."

Elder Mo Ran was stunned, understanding Luo Hongxia's meaning.

"You're really preparing to follow your master's example and take a walk through our Hall of Sinners."

Lu Yang: "..."

Elder Mo Ran must have some misunderstanding about me.

"And this one is?"

"Her identity is inconvenient to disclose. You only need to know that she committed theft. Due to special reasons, she is locked in the Hall of Sinners during the day and can move freely at night."

Daoist Zhuiyue cared about her image and did not want outsiders to know she had turned into a little girl, so she hoped Luo Hongxia would keep it confidential.

"A connection?" Elder Mo Ran had guarded the Hall of Sinners for a thousand years and was seeing such a free prisoner for the first time.

Luo Hongxia: "..."

How was she supposed to explain this? In a sense, she really was a connection.

Usually, Elder Mo Ran was responsible for locking people in, but since Luo Hongxia had come personally, Elder Mo Ran was too lazy to act; such an important matter should be handled by the Palace Master herself.

Just as they entered the interior of the Hall of Sinners, they heard Qu Ling's voice full of resentment: "My good disciple, I didn't think you would dare to come here!"

"Daring to imprison your master, how rebellious!"

"Shut up," Daoist Zhuiyue scolded unhappily. "I have to come in when I make a mistake; what are you?"

If it were any other time, Qu Ling would have been furious if someone dared to speak to her like that, but for some reason, being scolded by this little thing, Qu Ling instinctively felt a sense of fear and dared not act out.

"Who are you?" Qu Ling looked at Daoist Zhuiyue with suspicion, not understanding why she was afraid of this little girl.

"You are not worthy of knowing."

"You!"

Luo Hongxia glanced at Qu Ling: "For the sake of you being my master, I advise you to be respectful to this person, otherwise you will regret it later."

Qu Ling snorted and said nothing more.

"Are you... Fellow Daoist Lu Yang?" Xue Shilou rubbed his eyes, thinking his eyesight had worsened due to his recent bloodline awakening.

Fellow Daoist Lu Yang, who was over a meter tall a few days ago, why was he only a meter tall now?

Lu Yang secretly thought it was bad; he had forgotten this. He wanted to keep his shrinking a secret, but now Xue Shilou, an outsider, knew.

The Immortal Fairy tried hard to maintain Lu Yang's dignity in front of outsiders: "Ahem, I am currently practicing the Longevity Immortal Art. Something went wrong during practice, and I shrink for a few days every year. The outside world is too dangerous and I have too many enemies, so I came to the Hall of Sinners to hide and find some peace."

"So that's how it is." Xue Shilou suddenly realized. "Then Fellow Daoist Lu Yang, you must pay more attention to safety when practicing; this art sounds very dangerous."

"Is that true?" Xuanyuan Tianhen looked skeptical.

"Naturally, it is true," the Immortal Fairy said nonchalantly, trying to act like a Ministry of Justice official inspecting the prison environment. However, Lu Yang was too small, and no matter what expression or posture he struck, he couldn't give off that feeling.

The prisoner Lu Yang had seen before who was locked up for theft had already finished their sentence and been released, just in time to free up space for Daoist Zhuiyue to stay.

The Immortal Fairy lived next door to Daoist Zhuiyue.

The Immortal Fairy made the bed and happily jumped onto it to lie down, feeling a very familiar sensation.

"It feels like I'm the same way in the mental space."

"It's not exactly the same; the bed in the mental space is more comfortable."

The Immortal Fairy closed her eyes, her consciousness returning to the mental space.

"Little Yangzi, come have a snowball fight."

Lu Yang sighed: "Fairy, there's no difference whether you're in jail or not."

Before, she said the cultivators locked in the Hall of Sinners were too low-level; now they were high enough—even an immortal had come in.

"Master, Lu Yang disappeared after passing by the hot spring. Could something have happened to him?" Lan Ting hadn't seen Lu Yang for a day and a night and was so anxious she found Luo Hongxia.

"... It's not exactly an accident; it's just that he is currently staying in the Hall of Sinners."

"Ah? This isn't considered an accident?" Lan Ting then understood; it was because of the incident of accidentally entering the hot spring.

She believed that Senior Brother Lu Yang must have his own reasons for doing so.

"If you wish to see him, you may visit the Hall of Sinners." Luo Hongxia felt that this good disciple was a lost cause, so she decided to just gift him to the Wendao Sect.