113: Fuck! ? ?

Xu Sanyan returned to his sleeping quarters with the book, lying on the bamboo bed and carefully reading it silently.

Soul Refining, that is, strengthening one's Divine Soul, making the Divine Soul more powerful. Upon Major Achievement, one can even swallow others' souls to strengthen one's own.

However, this requires one's cultivation to reach the Soul Refinement Realm.

At the same time, outside Da Gu Mountain.

A middle-aged man stood in front with a solemn expression, gazing directly at Da Gu Mountain, lost in thought. Behind him followed over a dozen Cultivators, all with serious expressions.

This middle-aged man was precisely the one sent by the Yue Family to hunt down Qin Manyang, but she managed to escape, and the three people who came with him also went missing. It was truly a case of losing both the wife and the soldiers.

At this moment, Da Gu Mountain was as usual, and the figures of Xu Sanyan and the three Yue Family members had long since disappeared.

Only a thin rope lay quietly in the distance, which was the Magic Treasure the three Yue Family members used to pull Xu Sanyan earlier.

The man confirmed that the three might have been pulled into Da Gu Mountain only after seeing this Magic Treasure.

A young man holding a compass frowned and said, "Second Uncle, my cousin's aura dissipated here. They probably went in…"

They had long heard of the name of Da Gu Mountain. Years ago, a Lu Family Elder from a major family in Central Province, a dignified Soul Refinement Realm Cultivator, who had the same cultivation as their Yue Family Old Ancestor and was even stronger, was still trapped inside, his life or death unknown.

Since then, Da Gu Mountain's reputation spread far and wide, and no one dared to approach it again. Logically, those three shouldn't have been so reckless. They must have encountered some unexpected situation.

"Catch a few death row prisoners and send them here. Throw them in to explore the situation," the middle-aged man ordered.

"Alright, Second Uncle."

…

The next day, the gong sounded, and everyone still gained a moment of clarity.

"How did this Old Gentleman become small again?"

Xu Sanyan found it very amusing to see a five or six-year-old child frantically calling himself an Old Gentleman, but no one else was in the mood to laugh at him.

"We can't get out…" Someone sighed in self-pity, having already given up struggling.

"To think that I, a dignified Lu Family Elder, a Soul Refinement Realm Cultivator, would end up in such a state. Haha… how pathetic."

Xu Sanyan's pupils widened. He looked sideways at the young-looking man. This person was actually a Soul Refinement Realm Cultivator?

After Foundation Establishment is the Mystic Path Realm, and only after Mystic Path Realm is Soul Refining. Such cultivation is already enough to establish a sect. Even the Sect Master of Guangyuan Sect is only at the Soul Refinement Realm.

And… even with this cultivation, he can't get out?

"Clang…"

The second gong sounded, and everyone became dazed again, lining up and walking out. Xu Sanyan came to the center of the line.

It was still the same assessment at the door. Xu Sanyan passed smoothly, and fragments of Divine Soul, just like yesterday, surged into his body. Several scenes reappeared in his mind.

In the first scene, he became an Old Gentleman, sitting cross-legged in a spacious hall, meditating. Two people knelt before him, their faces pale and lifeless, with only faint breathing indicating they were still alive.

The Old Gentleman placed his hands on the top of each person's head, not knowing what he was doing.

A moment later, the two completely stopped breathing, slumping powerlessly to the ground, their faces utterly pale and bloodless.

A flush of satisfaction spread across the Old Gentleman's face, and he let out a long moan before opening his eyes.

The scene shattered, ending there.

In the second scene, Xu Sanyan once again became a woman. His gaze fell upon a cozy women's boudoir. "She" was kneeling on the bed, being…

What the hell?!

Xu Sanyan clenched his fists tightly. Thankfully, it was just a scene with no sensation, otherwise he would have gone crazy.

"Brother Huan, has that dead man of mine been dealt with…?"

"Don't worry… absolutely no problem. He's guaranteed not to come back from this trip… From now on, only you and I will enjoy the family fortune he built. Don't worry, I'll treat you well. I only love you…"

Xu Sanyan's head was full of black lines. Damn it, they were still a pair of scoundrels!

Just from this brief conversation, it could be deduced that the two were not only having an affair but also conspiring to kill the woman's husband. They were truly the modern-day Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing.

Xu Sanyan took a deep breath, suppressing the indescribable agitation in his heart.

The scene shattered again, and the next one immediately followed.

This time, he became a young man, running frantically through a dark, dense forest, his face filled with panic, as if something was chasing him from behind.

His vision flickered with the young man in the scene, and faintly, dark shadows could be seen darting through the dense forest behind him, but he couldn't make out what they were.

"Aow!"

A violent roar came from behind, and then a huge black shadow leaped high and pounced.

"My life is over!" The young man turned his head and cried out in despair.

Xu Sanyan also took this opportunity to see what it was: a spider as huge as an elephant?

Eight sharp leg-blades gleamed with a faint light, and its eye sockets contained countless dense eyes, clustered or scattered, a true blessing for those with trypophobia.

Saliva flowed freely from its massive mouthparts and fangs, and its enormous body pounced directly at the young man.

Xu Sanyan frowned, not out of fear, but just feeling a bit disgusted.

Suddenly, a golden light emerged from the dense forest, and a clear bell sound resonated, instantly trapping the spider. No matter how the spider struggled, it was useless.

Xu Sanyan's pupils suddenly contracted. A bell…

Such a familiar bell, exactly like Qin Manyang's!

The scene shattered here, and Xu Sanyan's thoughts surged. He hadn't expected to see Qin Manyang's bell in the memory fragments.

He couldn't yet determine who owned the bell. Was it Qin Manyang? Or someone else?

The three scenes ended, and Xu Sanyan opened his eyes.

"Take your seats," the Old Gentleman said.

Xu Sanyan obediently sat down, but found that his height seemed to have increased a bit, though it hadn't reached the height he was at when he first entered.

Xu Sanyan silently watched the others get beaten, deep in thought.

Suddenly, he noticed two people walking into the schoolhouse from outside. Both were men, still expressionless and dazed, pushing open the schoolhouse's bamboo fence in a rigid manner and obediently coming to the back of the line.

Newcomers?

Someone else came so quickly?

Xu Sanyan keenly noticed that the clothes the two were wearing seemed to be… prison uniforms?

He had figured out a bit of Da Gu Mountain's rules: whatever clothes your Physical Body wears, that's what you will transform into upon entering, not a single detail will be different.

In other words, the two were wearing prison uniforms before they came in. Combined with the fact that Yue Family City was not far from here, and the Yue Family had lost three people, he could conclude that

These two were very likely prisoners of the Yue Family, sent to investigate, or rather, to their deaths.