252: Chapter 252 Imprisonment, Betrayal by All!

Heavenly Demon Prison.

This was the place where the Netherworld Demon Sect imprisoned its most vicious traitors and enemies.

Deep within the prison, it was dark and damp, the air thick with the heavy stench of blood and decay.

Ji Hanchuan was locked to a wall covered in sharp, barbed spikes by thick, cold iron shackles, forced into an extremely humiliating position.

The Demonic Technique within his body was tightly sealed by dozens of powerful Restrictions, leaving him without the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power, no different from a Mortal.

"Aaaah!"

"Mo Yuan! I'll kill you!"

Ji Hanchuan struggled frantically, banging his head against the icy wall, producing dull, heavy thuds.

Blood flowed down from his forehead, quickly covering his eyes, yet he seemed to feel no pain, only roaring again and again.

"I, the mighty Nine Nether Demon Emperor, have actually fallen to such a state!"

"I refuse to accept this! I refuse!"

He was now one hundred percent certain that from beginning to end, it was that Mo Yuan who had been secretly plotting against him!

The theft from the Dharma Pool was definitely his doing!

The humiliation during the Grand Competition was also his arrangement!

Even this backlash from the Gu technique was absolutely connected to him!

But he couldn't understand, who exactly was this Mo Yuan? Why was he so meticulously targeting him? And how did he know so many of his secrets?

Just as he was acting like a mad demon, the cell door creaked open.

A figure clad in black slowly walked in.

It was precisely Mo Yuan.

Gu Changsheng, in his capacity as a Guest Elder, had volunteered to preside over the interrogation of Ji Hanchuan.

Ling Hanshang now trusted this Guest Elder, who had "detected the conspiracy in advance and saved her," immensely and agreed without a second thought.

Gu Changsheng looked at Ji Hanchuan, disheveled and ghastly like a demon on the wall, his expression showing not the slightest ripple.

He moved a chair, sat down in front of Ji Hanchuan, opened the dossier in his hand, and spoke in a cold voice.

"Ji Hanchuan, I now interrogate you in my capacity as a Guest Elder of the Netherworld Demon Sect."

"You'd best confess honestly; perhaps you can still keep your corpse intact."

Ji Hanchuan raised his head, his blood-red eyes fixed on him, his voice hoarse.

"Who the hell are you?!"

Gu Changsheng did not answer that question, instead proceeding directly with the interrogation.

"First question: Shortly after you entered the Sect, why did you have frequent private dealings with Outer Sect Steward Elder Li, Elder Wang, and Inner Sect Elder Zhao, who is responsible for Medicinal Pill distribution?"

As soon as this question was uttered, Ji Hanchuan's pupils contracted sharply.

These three Elders were trusted aides he had secretly recruited, using small favors and memories from his previous life, to facilitate his own affairs!

He had handled this matter with extreme secrecy; aside from himself, no second person could possibly know!

How did this Mo Yuan know about it?!

"Second question," Gu Changsheng continued without waiting for an answer, "When you were at the Ji Family in Tianxing City, you stole a High Grade demonic artifact named 'Soul Banner' from the Family treasure vault. Where is that item now?"

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Ji Hanchuan's back.

This matter was one of his greatest secrets since his Rebirth! That Soul Banner was a contingency he used to hide a part of his Devil Emperor remnant soul!

He had hidden it so well, how could it be...

"Third question: Half a month ago, you secretly left the Sect and went to the Black Wind Mountain Range to secretly meet with the Young Lord of the 'Blood Fiend Alliance'. What did you discuss?"

Ji Hanchuan was completely dumbfounded.

He felt that in front of this black-robed youth, he was like a person stripped naked, with no secrets left.

Every single thing he had done, every contingency he had hidden, was all known to the other party in perfect detail!

"You... who are you?!" Ji Hanchuan's voice carried a trace of fear he himself hadn't even noticed.

Gu Changsheng closed the dossier, stood up, looked down at him with an indifferent expression.

"Who I am is not important."

"What's important is that I am merely helping the Sect Master clean house."

With that, he turned and left.

Half an hour later, a detailed interrogation record, along with the "evidence" seized from the residences of the three Elders and Ji Hanchuan, was placed together on Ling Hanshang's desk.

When those three Elders recruited by Ji Hanchuan heard that the plot had been exposed, they were scared Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering. They immediately knelt before Ling Hanshang, weeping and wailing, begging for mercy.

To save their own lives, they desperately turned on Ji Hanchuan, portraying him as an ambitious schemer and madman who harbored ill intentions from the very start, seeking to overthrow the Sect and usurp the Sect Master's position.

But it wasn't over.

Gu Changsheng even sent someone to bring Ji Gang, the Ji Family collateral Disciple who had followed Ji Hanchuan from Tianxing City to the Demon Sect, to the interrogation room.

Ji Gang, this spineless coward, took one look at the situation and wet himself on the spot.

He knelt on the ground, snot and tears covering his face, selling out Ji Hanchuan completely.

"Please see clearly, Sect Master! He forced me! That Ji Hanchuan, he's a madman!"

"He was acting crazy even back in Tianxing City, saying he was the Reincarnation of the Nine Nether Demon Emperor! I thought he had lost his mind at the time!"

"Later, he threatened me, said if I didn't obey him, he'd kill my whole Family! I... I had no choice!"

...

Betrayal after betrayal, piece of evidence after piece of evidence, were relayed into the deepest part of the Heavenly Demon Prison through the mouths of the law enforcement Disciples.

Ji Hanchuan slumped against the icy wall, listening to everything coming from outside. The last glimmer of light in his eyes gradually extinguished.

Everything he had painstakingly built, all the contingencies he thought were foolproof, had been completely dismantled by that Mo Yuan in a single day, like a collapsing house.

Abandoned by all.

He had now truly become a man utterly alone.

[Ding! Detected that the Child of Luck Ji Hanchuan's power base has collapsed, and he has lost all support!]

[His destiny has suffered a devastating blow. luck value -150,000 points!]

[Current luck value: 80,000 points!]

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully plundering an Opportunity. luck value +150,000 points!]

Just as Ji Hanchuan's heart turned to ashes and all hope was lost...

The cell door opened once more.

This time, it was the Demon Queen Ling Hanshang who entered, clad in purple-black phoenix robes, her face as cold as frost.

She walked up to Ji Hanchuan, looking down at this prisoner who had once earned a flicker of her appreciation but now filled her with utter disgust.

She remained silent for a long time before her icy voice slowly rang out.

"Mo Yuan says you are the Reincarnation of the Nine Nether Demon Emperor?"

Ji Hanchuan jerked his head up, his contracted pupils reflecting Ling Hanshang's stunningly beautiful, cold face.

She... she knew?