BXBX NOVEL Chapter 321 The Hunter Who Killed Immortals (72)
(Mount Xilean- Holy Sword Sect)
(Twentieth Peak- Secret Prison)
"ARGHHH! HAHAHA! ARGGHHH! HAHAA!"
"LAUGH MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS FOR WE SHALL BE FREE!"
"PRAISE! PRAISE!"
The original Xu Lu covered her ears with her hands and curled up into a ball. She had no idea how long she had spent in this place.
In the darkness of her cell… time lost all meaning.
Minutes turned to hours… hours turned to days… days turned into decades…
She could feel her mind slowly cracking.
No… perhaps she had already gone mad… it was impossible to tell in this place surrounded by the insane and the criminal.
Then there was a change.
The door to her cell finally swung open.
After decades of isolation, the original Xu Lu curled up in a ball like an animal and hissed at the figure who looked at her with an expression of triumph.
"Don\'t you look horrible…" the familiar voice of her master jeered mockingly as she stepped inside the cage and grabbed the original Xu Lu by the corner of her tattered robe.
The flashback ended and Xu Lu\'s eyes opened.
Being in this place had unlocked more memories from the original Xu Lu and none of them were pleasant.
She had spent decades trapped inside this underground prison complex and by the end of her time here… she was as mad as the rest of them.
"Another nightmare?" a lazy voice came from the other cell.
"How did you know?" Xu Lu asked with a hint of curiosity in her tone.
"Your breathing… it changed for several seconds then returned to normal…" the mysterious man spoke casually.
"Wait… I thought these cells drain our cultivation…" Xu Lu furrowed her brows as she tried to summon the spiritual energy from her dantian.
"It does… this is just a little trick I picked up… was pretty useful when detecting lies…" the man sighed heavily as he spoke.
Xu Lu could hear a shuffling sound as if the man was rummaging around his pockets. Suddenly something flew out of the darkness and landed in her cell with a heavy thump.
The saintess reached out with her palm and carefully picked the object up. It was a golden pendant with a single red eye painted in the centre of the amulet.
"I used to be the successor of the Crimson Demon Sect… now well… heh… that trinket is wasted on an old and bitter man like me," the prisoner calmly spoke.
"But why give it to me?" Xu Lu asked quietly.
There was a brief moment of silence as the prisoner chose not to reply. Xu Lu glanced at the amulet before tucking it away in one of the pockets of her robe.
Wait… her pet!
Xu Lu quickly searched all of her pockets but could not find her little white mouse who had been her companion for the last few months.
It must have escaped somewhere before she was dropped off in the prison…
Well… she had no regrets.
It would be nice for some companionship, but her mouse was better off in the wild than trapped in a damp, dark cell.
"It is just a whim," the mysterious prisoner suddenly spoke up.
"I\'m bored… I mean we are both going to rot in here so isn\'t it funny if I make so that the once saintess of the Holy Sword Sect is now an honorary demon cultivator?"
"Hehehe… actually it is very funny…"
The prisoner burst into a fit of giggles.
Xu Lu let out a sigh and walked up to the bars, she then proceeded to grip the iron bars with all the force that she could muster.
Nothing.
"Wait! Wait! I thought of something interesting! Why don\'t we tell everyone who you are?!" the prisoner suggested.
"Go ahead… I don\'t really care…" Xu Lu shrugged her shoulders as she continued to wrap her fingers around the iron bars.
Come on… come on…
"HEY EVERYONE!" the male prisoner shouted with a surprising amount of force.
"THE SAINTESS OF THE HOLY SWORD SECT IS LOCKED IN THE CELL NEXT TO ME!"
His statement did not even create a ripple of interest because everyone who was still clinging on to a thread of sanity just assumed it was another statement by a madman.
Well… all except one.
"Jun Yang! Have you finally gone mad? Or are you telling the truth?" a seductive feminine voice came from several cells to the left.
"I swear it! The saintess really is here…" the mysterious man replied with his hands placed across his chest.
"Ohh… I wonder if she was the cutie who came in that brat Shi Jian\'s arms… damn… I wonder what she tastes like…" the female prisoner purred lustfully.
"Yeah… not interested... thanks…" Xu Lu replied sarcastically.
"A spicy one! I think I like you even more now sweetheart!" the female prisoner giggled, and her bell-like laughter echoed through the prison.
Xu Lu shook her head and tried to ignore the new round of shouts that filled the air.
This place was unbearable… the scent of urine, faeces and the unwashed smells wafting off the prisoners\' bodies were causing her eyes to water.
And that was not even mentioning the constant non-stop screams.
What to do?
How to escape from this place?
Xu Lu sat down on the ground in a cross-legged position and closed her eyes. In the original timeline Xu Lu had been thrown in here by her master Lei Ying.
Now this time around it had been the Sect Leader. Either way Xu Lu could not see a good ending for herself.
She was either going to be killed or left to rot in this place for decades.
Somehow, she got the feeling that the Sect Leader would not be taking her out of the prison with an apology.
Xu Lu kept her eyes closed as she used the last traces of her spiritual qi to scan her body. There was only a handful of spiritual energy left and not nearly enough to break out of this cell.
Wait… what was that?
Xu Lu\'s brows furrowed as she felt a dark insidious power located right behind her heart. This power seemed ancient… primordial… and righteous?
The saintess felt a bit reluctant to touch this power but seeing that she had no other option, she forced her mind to enter the barrier containing the mysterious energy.
Sinners…
Xu Lu opened her eyes and her pupils shone with a golden luster.
Her body crackled with energy as she saw thousands of golden threads erupt from her body and scattered across the prison.
The power felt weaker… it should be stronger…
Xu Lu had no idea how she knew that but somehow, she could tell that the power she was using was only a partial amount of its full strength.
The saintess approached the bars of the cell and this time her palms easily tore apart the metal like a hot knife passing through butter.
Kill them… kill the sinners…
Xu Lu gripped her head in pain as a dark voice whispered in her mind. It hungered… it wanted to feed…
One of the golden threads was connected to the cell next to her where the man who had given her the amulet was kept.
The saintess reached out with her hand and touched the thread.