205: Dragon's Den and Tiger's Lair

The wine shop was in chaos.

Su Quan took the opportunity to take Jiang Sui to a secluded spot.

Looking at the woman whose aura was weak and who was on the verge of death, he summoned the System, spent ten regret points to exchange for a Medicinal Pill, and then shoved it into the woman's mouth.

"Ugh—"

The pure medicinal power dissolved in her body, slowly repairing her injuries, and Jiang Sui slowly woke up.

"Am I still alive? This... Little Sister Su, where did you get this Medicinal Pill?"

"I hid one when I was captured; I didn't expect it to come in handy now."

Su Quan placed his palm on the woman's chest, channeling Immortal Qi to help her heal.

"This, this is too precious!"

Jiang Sui struggled to sit up.

Mine Slaves like them were not qualified to consume healing Medicinal Pills, so being injured often meant death; a single Medicinal Pill often represented an extra life.

"Little Sister Su, I cannot thank you enough. You saved my life. If you have any orders in the future, just say the word. Even if you ask me to die, I won't even frown."

"Sister Jiang, you're being too serious. We are both Mine Slaves; what's all this talk about dying?"

Su Quan said this, but in his heart, he was nodding in affirmation.

Jiang Sui was a bold and righteous woman without too many ulterior motives; he hadn't saved the wrong person.

"Sigh, this is all my fault. Speaking the truth after drinking is a major taboo. It's also bad luck; to encounter a direct descendant in a dilapidated place like the Lin Family market, I deserved this calamity."

Jiang Sui angrily punched the ground.

She was not a reckless person; besides the alcohol, it was more because she had experienced the exotic beasts in the mine and seen several Mine Slaves die before her eyes, so she had to vent.

Su Quan looked at her suspiciously: "Sister Jiang, I know your character; you are not someone who fears death. Why did you just..."

He didn't finish the rest of his sentence.

Jiang Sui sighed softly: "Little Sister, I know what you are thinking. I am not someone who fears death, but offending a direct descendant of the Lin Family has consequences far worse than death."

"I still have family and a Sect in the Lower Realm. I cannot let them fall into danger because of my momentary impulsiveness."

"Sister Jiang, I understand. It seems this Lin Family is truly domineering, being able to intervene in matters of the Lower Realm as well."

Su Quan's expression turned solemn.

Bound by the Laws of Heaven and Earth, the cost required to descend from the Immortal Domain to the Lower Realm was immense, and it was not something an ordinary force could afford.

"Indeed. The Lin Family relies on the Heavenly Court, that behemoth, behind them."

Jiang Sui's eyes held deep fear: "You saw the woman in the golden robe earlier, didn't you? She is a special envoy from the Heavenly Court."

Heavenly Court?

The Heavenly Court again!

"The Immortal Domain is so vast, and the forces are as numerous as the stars. The strongest of the Lin Family is only a Nine Heavens Profound Immortal. Can the Heavenly Court even manage all of that?" Su Quan asked the doubt in his heart.

"Little Sister, come with me!"

Jiang Sui felt her body had recovered a bit and led Su Quan toward the depths of the Lin Family's mountains.

Soon, a huge statue carved from mysterious white jade appeared before them.

It was a huge human face, with ordinary and simple features, completely unremarkable—the kind you wouldn't look at a second time if tossed into a crowd—yet it exuded a terrifying, domineering aura that seemed to devour the heavens and earth.

It was the Heavenly Emperor!

Su Quan was all too familiar with this face.

At this moment, the golden-robed special envoy he had encountered earlier was standing beneath the face statue.

She was placing basket after basket of top-grade immortal crystals around the face statue. A rough estimate suggested there were tens of millions of them.

Just then, the face statue seemed to come alive.

It exuded silver radiance throughout its body, divine light shot from its eyes, and an eternal, supreme will descended upon this world.

In just an instant, tens of millions of top-grade immortal crystals disappeared, and after that, the statue returned to calm.

"Is this the aura of the Heavenly Emperor? It's so, so terrifying. I feel like if she even glanced at me, I would die!"

Jiang Sui was breaking out in a cold sweat, her delicate body trembling slightly.

"No wonder the Lin Family can hold onto this top-grade mineral vein; it turns out they have the Heavenly Court backing them. That's no surprise then."

Su Quan took a deep breath.

He suddenly realized that the reach of the Heavenly Court might far exceed his imagination.

"Sister Jiang, you have lived in the Immortal Domain for many years. Are there many statues like this one from the Heavenly Court?"

"I'm not very clear about the situation in the Immortal Domain because I was captured by the Lin Family as a Mine Slave as soon as I finished Undergoing Tribulation and ascended."

Speaking of this, Jiang Sui's eyes burst with deep-seated hatred: "The Heavenly Court has built many such statues in the Lower Realm. My former Fuhun Great World had seven of them erected."

"The conditions for erecting these statues are extremely harsh. I lost three daughters buried within them."

"Sister Jiang, my condolences."

A chill arose in Su Quan's heart.

From the woman's words, he sensed that the Heavenly Court's plans were immense.

"Let's not talk about these wretched things. We are not even as good as ants before the Heavenly Court, so how could we dare to harbor resentment?"

Jiang Sui sighed helplessly, then pulled Su Quan's hand and secretly left the place: "Let's go first. Although they don't restrict the movements of Mine Slaves here, it's never good to be discovered."

"Hmm, Sister Jiang, then do you know what obstacles one would face if one wanted to escape from here?" Su Quan asked straightforwardly.

"Escape?"

Jiang Sui's body stiffened. She slowly turned her head to look at him, and seeing that the other party did not seem to be joking, she lowered her voice after confirming no one was eavesdropping: "Little Sister, I can understand your feelings. Many Immortal Slaves think about escaping when they first arrive, and I was no exception back then."

"However, wanting to escape from here is as difficult as ascending to heaven."

"First, you have to face the Lin Family's Zhengtian Guards!"

"The Zhengtian Guards maintain order internally and wage war on territories externally. Their commander is a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and the rest are all exclusively Golden Immortals."

"Over so many years, every single Mine Slave who has tried to escape has been caught by them without exception, and then tortured to death."

"If you can luckily escape the pursuit of the Zhengtian Guards, then what lies before you is the Lin Family's Dragon-Tiger Extermination Array."

"Unless you hold a hand-written order from a direct descendant of the Lin Family, even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal would perish inside if they tried to break through the array to escape."

Hearing this, Su Quan's brows furrowed even deeper.

He hadn't expected a small Lin Family to be as strict as a Dragon's Pool and Tiger's Den.

He estimated that with his current strength, he could barely contend with a Golden Immortal if he went all out, but facing a Zhengtian Guard unit, he would undoubtedly die.

"And even if you could really pass through the Lin Family's Dragon-Tiger Extermination Array, you would still have to face the biggest obstacle, which is the Lin Family Old Ancestor, a Nine Heavens Profound Immortal!"

"The terror of a Nine Heavens Profound Immortal is not something you or I can fathom. It is rumored that they can kill ordinary Immortals from billions of miles away with a single thought, and with a wave of their hand, they can reverse time and space in an area. Unless a Sovereign, King, or Emperor appears, they are the supreme powerhouses of the Immortal Domain."

Jiang Sui patted Su Quan's shoulder a few times to comfort him and sighed: "So, don't have such improper thoughts. I have finally met someone I find agreeable after so many years, and I don't want you to die in vain at the hands of those people."

"After all, it is better to live a wretched life than to die, don't you think?"