13: Has she given birth?

The protagonists of destiny that storytellers talk about can always hide nearby while great powers fight and quietly seize opportunities.

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Now it seems that this is purely the self-indulgent fantasy of Mortals.

When Immortals fight, Mortals suffer.

Fang Huai didn't have a direct feeling about it before, but now he finally understands this sentence.

Merely the poisonous miasma emitted by the venom of a Foundation Establishment Yao Beast had poisoned him, a half-baked Cultivator with a Corpse Fall Worm.

If it were the fight of higher-level great powers, low-level Cultivators wouldn't even be able to steal opportunities; they might be turned to ash just by approaching quietly.

After being poisoned, Fang Huai's consciousness remained in a blurred state, only feeling himself being carried by a kind person and sent to a cold place.

When he finally regained some clarity, he felt the surroundings were very noisy, filled with swaying white and red ghostly shadows, as well as wailing and mad ravings.

“Am I dead?” Fang Huai's throat tightened. “Is this Hell?”

His vision finally became clear, but when he saw his surroundings, his heart suddenly constricted; this place was even more terrifying than Hell.

Oppressive, dark, and filled with the stench of rot and blood.

As far as the eye could see, every five or six meters stood an ancient bronze pillar carved with strange patterns, numbering in the hundreds.

On each bronze pillar, there were people bound by chains, men and women alike. Aside from their delirious, demon-like crying and howling, their state was too horrific to look at.

【Miasma Body Explosion】, 【Corpse Demon Internalization】, 【Qi Deviation】, 【Resentful Souls Devouring Body】... Just looking at the labels on these people gave Fang Huai a huge shock.

Those who still had clothes covering them were barely tolerable to look at, but those who were barely clothed were truly an eyesore.

His stomach churned, making him unable to resist dry-heaving.

What was even more fatal was that his Spiritual Qi and blood energy were also tightly sealed!

His gaze fell on the strange patterns on the bronze pillar, and he finally understood the problem—

These bronze pillars carried the 【Spirit Lock Soul Seal】 label.

【Spirit Lock Soul Seal: Seals the Qi Sea, suppresses blood energy, and inhibits Soul Power】

Just as cold sweat broke out on his forehead, two Guardian Disciples dressed in gray robes walked toward him while chatting.

Li San and Hu Jiu, both were at the Qi Refining Third Layer.

Fang Huai hurriedly called out: “Two Senior Brothers!”

When the two heard someone calling, they turned their faces toward Fang Huai and said in surprise: “I thought this one was going to die of poison, I didn't expect him to come back to life.”

Then they walked quickly toward Fang Huai.

“His condition is not bad, he can sell for a good price.”

The two of them talked back and forth, treating Fang Huai entirely like livestock.

Fine sweat broke out on Fang Huai's forehead. Why did it sound like he was being sold?

“Two Senior Brothers, where is this?”

“Here? This is the Human Puppet Hall!”

The two seemed to be in a good mood because Fang Huai had survived, so they explained his current situation to him.

This place was the Human Puppet Hall, belonging to Talent Peak, and was guarded by the two Outer Sect Disciples, Li San and Hu Jiu.

The 'talents' bound to these bronze pillars were called human puppets. Most were Mortals from the Profound Sword Sect's territory captured by the Sect, and their purpose was to serve as consumables for Corpse Fiend Sect Disciples.

To put it simply, if a Corpse Fiend Sect Disciple's blood energy was empty, they would find a human puppet to harvest blood energy; if poisonous miasma was hard to expel, they would find a human puppet to discharge it into; if an arm was lost, they would borrow an arm from a human puppet... Fang Huai became more alarmed as he listened and said: “Two Senior Brothers, I am Fang Huai, a Disciple of our Corpse Fiend Sect. I don't know why I ended up here, but I hope you can show mercy and let me out.”

The two Guardian Disciples seemed to have heard something extremely funny: “Where is your identity token?”

Fang Huai was speechless. He only had a few tattered clothes left on him, so how could he have an identity token? He said:

“The token is lost, but a check at the Servant quarters will confirm it. I also have fellow Disciples who can prove it...”

“Enough, enough,” Li San said impatiently, “Are you also going to say you already have the qualifications to enter the Outer Sect?”

“Yes!”

“And were you just about to report to the Outer Sect Hall?” Hu Jiu added.

“Yes!”

“Were you poisoned by a Foundation Establishment Stage centipede Yao Beast?”

“Yes!”

“Before you fainted, were you walking toward the southwest?”

“How did you know?”

“This was told to us by Senior Brother Luo, who sold you here.”

Li San said with a face full of impatience: “If Senior Brother Luo Heng hadn't told us in advance that you would make up stories, we really would have been fooled by you.”

He took a step forward and said condescendingly: “The story is well-made, but there is one loophole that proves you are not a Disciple of this Sect but an intruder.

The Outer Sect Hall is located to the due east. Why were you walking toward Talent Peak in the southwest?”

Southwest... Talent Peak?

Senior Brother Luo, Luo Heng?

Wasn't that the kind-faced Senior Brother who led the way for him?

At that time, he had smiled with a face full of sincerity and even specially and kindly warned him to avoid Skinning Peak, saying it was dangerous.

It turns out it was all a lie from beginning to end! That wasn't a kind reminder; it was leading him toward an even more fatal path so he could be sold as goods!

Fang Huai felt his blood energy rush to his head, his eyes seemed to spit fire, and he cursed: “Luo Heng! I'll screw your whole Family!”

“Snap!”

Li San pulled out a whip and lashed it across Fang Huai's chest, saying angrily:

“Just as Junior Brother Luo said, you are a crazed thing! I'm telling you, don't harbor delusions about Junior Brother Luo's Family; he's an orphan, his Family died long ago!”

Fang Huai took the whip and shut his mouth obediently.

The two obviously wouldn't believe his words anymore. Instead of suffering whips for the sake of venting his anger, it was better to think about how to break out of this situation.

Thinking it over, there were now two paths.

One was to exchange for a powerful label to help himself break the Seal and slaughter a path out.

But that was merely a thought.

Setting aside whether the Sect would recognize him after losing his identity token, he really couldn't think of any label whose power could allow him, with his cultivation sealed, to slaughter a path out under two Qi Refining Third Layer Cultivators.

The second was to replicate the risky move he used to kill The Liu Brothers.

First harm himself by eight hundred to kill the enemy by a thousand, tricking Li San and Hu Jiu to death, and then hope the next Guardian Disciple would believe his story.

But it was also a problem of the cultivation gap; he was afraid that before he could harm himself enough to deal a fatal blow to the opponent, he would succumb first.

In the following few days, Fang Huai thought hard but couldn't find a way to break the situation. At the same time, something happened that drove him crazy.

Because he didn't consume any poisonous substances, the Corpse Fall Worm became increasingly restless, constantly scratching at his heart. This constant agony almost made Fang Huai collapse.

Just when Fang Huai was about to be driven mad, the Corpse Fall Worm stopped its agitation. Upon internal inspection, Fang Huai was shocked.

Beside that Corpse Fall Worm, a miniature replica had appeared at some point.

It gave birth?

Was this Corpse Fall Worm female? Or was it hermaphroditic and could reproduce with itself?

While he was completely puzzled, Li San and Hu Jiu led a gray-robed male Cultivator toward him.

【Lu Ping】

【First Level of Qi Refining】

【Blood Energy Depletion (White)】, 【Blood Loss Curse (White)】

【Blood Loss Curse: A curse effect that causes blood energy to drain uncontrollably】

Lu Ping came from a Loose Cultivator Family. Not many days after entering the Sect, he was dragged by a kind-hearted Senior Brother from the same peak to the depths of Miasma Valley to search for treasure.

The Senior Brother was indeed going for treasure, and there was indeed treasure, but Lu Ping didn't go as a partner; he went as bait—

To attract the attacks of Yao Beasts and help the Senior Brother seize the treasure.

He fled for his life and barely survived, but he was struck by a Yao Beast curse, and his blood energy was leaking uncontrollably, requiring an urgent dispelling of the curse.

To dispel this curse, one needed to use another person's blood energy to continuously wash over the cursed area.

He certainly couldn't count on his Senior Brothers; those people wished he would die sooner.

With no other way, Lu Ping could only take his last few contribution points to the Human Puppet Hall to try his luck.