Chapter 75: Rescuing Someone
Chapter 75: Rescuing Someone
Why was it so overbearing?
Ling Yi and the Enchantress were both startled. Ling Yi formed a hand seal, glanced outside, and saw the area was already empty of people.
An arrow was stuck in the ground outside the defensive layer of the grotto abode. A letter was tied to its shaft.
What era was this? Still playing these old tricks?
Couldn’t they have used a drone for delivery?
A Sect? How tacky!
Ling Yi opened the grotto abode and walked out slowly.
The Enchantress released her Spiritual Sense but did not detect anyone.
He pulled the arrow from the ground, took the letter from it, and casually tossed the arrow aside.
After opening it, there was just a short message—
Kid, we know all about your private affair with Elder Qian. If you want her to live, come meet us at the entrance outside the Sect. You have one hour. If you don’t show up, Qian Luoying will be publicly executed as a traitor to the Sect.
Whether you choose to be a brave man who faces this, or a cowardly turtle who hides, is up to you.
Although he was a bit worried about Elder Qian’s situation, this note still nearly made Ling Yi laugh. Afraid he wouldn’t go, they even resorted to this provocation.
He shook his head, crumpled the note into a ball, and threw it away.
The Enchantress couldn’t help but mock either. “Have these idiots been isolated from the world for too long? Have their brains rusted? Hahaha, I’m dying, ‘private affair’… I didn’t even know, how do they know?”
Ling Yi wore an expression of speechlessness. There was nothing wrong with her words, but somehow it felt weird.
The other side had clearly misunderstood his relationship with Qian Luoying, and misunderstood it deeply, believing Qian Luoying was his woman.
But in a way, they stumbled upon the truth, because Ling Yi would never stand by and do nothing, watching Qian Luoying fall into danger.
Thinking about it now, Silly Sister wasn’t completely foolish. When she noticed something wrong, she knew to send a paper crane to guide the way.
So indeed, many things in this world were simply fated.
“These people are truly heartless and unrighteous for the sake of profit,” Ling Yi sighed with some emotion.
“I told you that long ago. Alright, now you don’t need to have any psychological burden. Come on, let’s get to it!” the Enchantress encouraged.
Ling Yi couldn’t help but roll his eyes. He wondered which driving school the Enchantress graduated from, spouting so many bold words all day long…
Now that they knew where Qian Luoying was imprisoned, Ling Yi naturally would not fall for the trick and be lured outside.
So, under the Enchantress’s guidance, Ling Yi raced swiftly through the darkness.
Sects like the Heaven’s Gate Sect, which had been self-isolated for too many years, mostly had a flaw they couldn’t perceive themselves—arrogance!
Just like now, the entire Heaven’s Gate Sect was quiet. Under the Enchantress’s Spiritual Sense, not a single hidden sentry was detected.
How full of themselves did they have to be, how little did they think of others?
In terms of martial power, these people from the Heaven’s Gate Sect were naturally not weak. Few secular forces could compare. But in other aspects… they were really quite lousy.
Even old foxes within the Heaven’s Gate Sect like Lian Ziqing would not be much to look at in the outside world.
In terms of strategy and vision, forget someone like Sun Qingbo, probably even a Luo Xue could run circles around them.
They thought that just by imprisoning Qian Luoying, they could control Ling Yi completely. But they completely ignored other possibilities.
Of course, this had a lot to do with Qian Luoying’s consistently straightforward image.
No one expected that she would also be wary and keep a trick up her sleeve.
Ling Yi soon arrived at the mountain stream. From a distance, he saw the campfire and two people sitting before it drinking. He immediately felt speechless.
They really had big hearts!
If you didn’t know, you’d think they were hosting a campfire party here, not guarding a dungeon.
Some animal—a rabbit or something—was skewered on an iron spit, being turned over the glowing red coals below. The aroma wafted far.
Two Heaven’s Gate Sect Golden Body Realm disciples had already drunk quite a bit and were sitting there boasting to each other.
To be precise, one was boasting to the other—
“Junior Brother, I’m not bragging, but the entertainment spots in the Capital of Great Qin are so much fun. When I go, I can just waltz right through!”
“Those high officials and nobles, when they hear I’m from a Sect, their expressions, really, you didn’t see them. It was especially amusing; they all wished they could kneel and call me Grandpa, hahaha!”
A short, rather ugly-looking middle-aged man, holding a gourd of wine, boasted with flying spit.
Sitting across from him was a young man who looked about thirty. He had handsome sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes. Right now, he was wide-eyed, wearing an expression of envy.
He sighed. “I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to go out. Sigh, Master has always refused to let me go train in the secular world. He says the mortal world has too many temptations. Once you go out, your heart won’t come back. But didn’t you come back fine, Senior Brother? You didn’t lose a limb…”
The middle-aged man bared two yellow front teeth into a lecherous smile. “Junior Brother, you don’t understand. Every time I come back, I don’t lose a limb, but I lose a lot of other things… Forget it, let’s not talk about that, my back hurts! And if Master hears, he’ll scold me again.”
The young man wore a look of longing. “Senior Brother, tell me about it. Tell me about those women with long legs and perky bottoms. I want to hear…”
The middle-aged man took a sip of wine and looked at him. “You know why Master never lets you go to the secular world?”
“Is he afraid I’ll be stuck in the gentle, soft land?” The young man wasn’t stupid.
The middle-aged man chuckled. “Your Senior Brother here is sixty-eight this year, only a few years younger than Master. My life is set like this—Golden Body fifth level, can’t go up, can’t go down. Relying on my status as a Sect disciple, I can go enjoy life in the secular world, enjoy the feeling of being above others. Isn’t that what living is about? Enjoying some blessings? Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a waste of this life? But you’re different, Junior Brother, you’re only in your thirties, right?”
“Thirty-seven,” the young man said.
“Right, not even forty yet, and already Golden Body seventh level. Breaking through to Golden Body ninth level shouldn’t be too hard. When that happens, you’ll be the Sect’s key cultivation target!”
The middle-aged man said somewhat enviously, “Once you achieve Dao Enlightenment, in a few years, you could become a Heaven’s Gate Sect Elder, just like the one locked up inside. When that time comes, you’ll enter the secular world with far more prestige than your Senior Brother!”
“In the secular world, although I have a high status, I can’t exactly do whatever I want. I only dare to mess with girls who don’t have any background.”
“But you’re different! If you achieve Dao Enlightenment, noble ladies from high official families, even royal princesses, hehe… won’t be out of reach. When the time comes, your Senior Brother will have to beg you for protection!”
“Will that day… really come?” The young man was asking, but a gleam of excitement flashed in his eyes.
Because he knew it certainly would!
“I like girls with slim waists, long legs, perky bottoms, big chests, and fair, tender skin…” he muttered.
“Hahaha, when that time comes, you’ll have as many girls like that as you want!” the middle-aged man laughed heartily.
“Yes, that day will definitely come!” the young man said seriously, picking up his wine gourd to toast his well-traveled Senior Brother.
“No, that day will never come for you.”
A voice suddenly came from not far away. The two men jumped up in fright and looked into the darkness—
“Who’s there?”
“Come out!”
These two were both Personal Disciples of the Heaven’s Gate Sect’s Sect Master. Their status within the Sect was extremely high.
Someone dared to mock them like this? They were practically seeking death.
Immediately, both were furious.
In the air, a strange power abruptly descended!
Then, an invisible energy, sharp to the extreme and fast to the extreme.
It swept across in an instant.
The two Golden Body cultivators didn’t even have any perception before their heads were separated from their bodies.
Blood spurted out, splattering onto the red-glowing coals of the campfire, onto the roasting animal.
Sizzle, sizzle…
Two corpses fell to the ground.
Ling Yi couldn’t help but draw a sharp breath.
The Enchantress’s methods were truly sharp!
“Let’s go, save your Silly Sister!” the Enchantress reminded.
Ling Yi nodded and came to the dungeon door. Before he could do anything, the incredibly thick stone door of the dungeon, just like the treasures inside the grotto abode that day—instantly weathered away before his eyes!
Turned to dust!
The stone door became powder. Ling Yi stepped inside.
The dungeon was damp and cold, giving off a particularly eerie feeling.
The deeper he went, the more it felt like entering the Underworld.
Ling Yi walked down for about ten minutes before finally reaching the bottom of the dungeon. Before him appeared a very low, narrow, and cramped corridor. With his height, he had to bend over forcefully, hunching his back.
On both sides of the corridor were cells. Ling Yi turned on his phone’s flashlight and shone it inside, discovering that these cells were actually all filled with water…
A water dungeon?
“Sister Qian?”
Ling Yi called out.
“Ling Yi? Is that you? How did you get in? It’s dangerous here, you should take Yun Tong and Yunwu and leave quickly…”
A weak voice came from the room at the end of the dungeon.
Ling Yi quickly walked over. The next moment, the incredibly sturdy iron door of the dungeon also turned to powder.
Under the light of his phone’s flashlight, Qian Luoying was half-submerged in water, half above it. Her body was bound by a black rope and then tied to a post. Her hair was disheveled, and she looked quite disheveled.
Seeing Ling Yi appear as if descending from the heavens, Qian Luoying’s eyes were filled with disbelief and shock.
Especially the sight of the dark iron bars, as thick as a baby’s arm, turning to dust, left her incredulous.
Even as a Dao Enlightenment Master, she didn’t understand what method Ling Yi used.
Ling Yi jumped into the water. An icy, bone-chilling sensation hit him.
It seemed to be an underground river, living water, exceptionally cold. If a cultivator had their Spiritual Energy sealed and were imprisoned here, it wouldn’t take long for their whole body to freeze stiff.
They wouldn’t die, but the suffering would be extreme.
Lian Ziqing and his group were truly utterly heartless and unrighteous, seeing only profit, disregarding any sense of fellow disciple bond.
Ling Yi walked over and first untied the rope binding her to the post. Then he looked at the tight black rope coiled around Qian Luoying’s body.
Qian Luoying, her face pale, said, “This is a Demon-Binding Rope, a Dao-Entry Grade Magical Artifact. You can’t untie it.”
Without this Demon-Binding Rope, a dungeon like this could never hold someone of her level.
Ling Yi asked the Enchantress, “Is there a way?”
The Enchantress answered, “Yes, but it’s a bit troublesome. Let’s get out of here first.”