m. He quickly came up with a reason, "Oh... there were some things about the course material that I didn't understand, so I went to ask her.""So she's giving you private lessons," Xie Yujia said immed...Chapter 744 - Who Can Save You!
Swish... Yue Zilong grabbed Hao Ren and entered the Dragon God Temple's large barrier.
The arena and cells that were flattened by Yue Zilong's foot had turned into rubble.
However, the black Dragon God Temple standing in the middle of the platform remained steady and majestic.
Yue Zilong grabbed Hao Ren's collar from the western door and rushed up to the top floor of the Dragon God Temple like a shadow.
Bang!
After entering the deepest room, Yue Zilong released his grip on his right hand and tossed Hao Ren away.
"Reporting to the Lord Priest. I have apprehended Hao Ren," Yue Zilong said calmly.
"Mm." The broad figure facing away from Hao Ren and Yue Zilong nodded faintly.
He raised his hand, and Hao Ren's Inspector badge suddenly flew up. Then, Hao Ren felt a sharp pain on his forehead, and the mark representing an Inspector also vanished.
The Lord Priest effortlessly demoted Hao Ren back to being a regular person with just a wave of his hand.
"Zilong, you needn't be angry. This isn’t your fault. Saving one's parents is human nature. This was a test, and since he couldn’t pass it, that’s fine," the Lord Priest said.
"Yes, my lord." Yue Zilong lowered his head in response.
Zhen Ciming sneaking into the Dragon God Temple to steal various items, Yue Zilong could believe this wasn't a joint effort between Hao Ren and Zhen Ciming. However, Hao Ren's father in the secular world had caused great trouble for the dragon clan.
The Lord Priest seemed to have intentions of promoting Hao Ren, so Yue Zilong had taken good care of Hao Ren in Donghai City. He fulfilled all of Hao Ren’s requests and gave him many interdimensional tokens.
If Hao Ren could handle this matter properly in the future, becoming Deputy Lord Priest was possible. But after Hao Ren killed a Third-Level Inspector out of impulse and continued to remember his secular emotions, he had cut off his own prospects for advancement.
Yue Zilong’s anger stemmed from this.
Having followed the Lord Priest for many years, Yue Zilong could sense some regret in his tone.
"Put him away," the Lord Priest facing away from the door said and waved his hand.
"Yes, my lord." Yue Zilong bowed twice before grabbing Hao Ren again.
Just as Yue Zilong took two steps out of the room, the Lord Priest suddenly added, "This matter hasn’t been settled yet. There may be a major enemy coming our way. Be prepared."
"Yes!" Yue Zilong paused in his steps and then carried Hao Ren towards the spiral staircase into the middle section where Third-Level Inspectors and Fourth-Level Inspectors worked, unlocking the dark prison.
The heavenly jail housed serious offenders among dragon cultivators who were either extremely wicked or incredibly powerful, making it impossible for local dragon palaces to handle them on their own.
As Yue Zilong carried Hao Ren into the passage of the heavenly jail, the inmates in the cells on both sides immediately started yelling when they saw the stone door open.
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Note: The original Chinese text mentions "天牢", which literally means "heavenly jail". In this context, it's being translated as "prison" for clarity and to maintain consistency with previous translations of similar terms in the story.
Bang!
Yue Zilong unleashed his peak Gān-level realm, and the noisy prison suddenly became very quiet, so much so that one could hear a pin drop.
No one wanted to be caught by a peak Gān-level cultivator for a beating.
The Dragon God Temple never executes any prisoners, but these prisoners are training objects for the reviewers.
The years of imprisonment in the Heavenly Prison are determined by the severity of their crimes. The shortest sentence is 50 years, and the longest is indefinite detention.
At this moment, the dark prison was terrifyingly quiet.
Vicious gazes from both sides of the cells were fixed on Hao Ren.
Hao Ren still wore the long robe of a reviewer but had no badge around his waist.
The three golden dragons with broken tails were imprisoned in separate connected cells. Seeing Hao Ren enter, their eyes filled with hatred.
"Hahaha, I never expected you to end up like this!"
In a grayish small cell, a weak black wolf let out sharp laughter and shook the bars violently, making loud clanging sounds.
The reverberations echoed through the prison.
Other prisoners seemed stirred by his actions. Realizing this must be the reviewer responsible for catching them, who was now imprisoned in the Dragon God Temple, they expressed great satisfaction with eerie howls that instantly echoed throughout the prison.
Yue Zilong spread both hands to the sides.
All prisoners inside the cells were violently slammed against the stone walls behind them.
The prison was suddenly quiet again.
Clink... Yue Zilong opened a cell and threw Hao Ren in.
Across from him, Jing Cunming was imprisoned in his own cell.
Prisoners with higher realms or greater danger were kept in solitary confinement. Since Hao Ren and Jing Cunming both belonged to the category of serious offenders, they were separately detained.
Yue Zilong coldly turned around and left just as coldly.
The heavy stone door slowly closed, making the prison even darker with no trace of Heavenly energy.
The floor of the cell was covered with damp straw. Hao Ren wanted to use his fire elemental spirit energy to dry it but found he couldn't summon any strength at all.
Using a sword glow against Yue Zilong, who was peak Gān-level, was akin to handing over his life-bound treasure to him; this severely underestimated Yue Zilong's prowess.
Moreover, there wasn't even a hint of Heavenly energy in the prison, so recovering spirit energy here would be nothing but wishful thinking.
Zhen Ciming was sitting in the opposite cell, looking over the bars at Hao Ren.
Hao Ren also stared back at him, silently.
In fact, he felt that this might be a test from the Dragon Temple, but he could not tolerate Qin Shaoyang attacking his family.
Qin Shaoyang took on this mission due to personal grievances, and Hao Ren's direct action was also driven by personal grievances.
No matter what the intentions of the Dragon Temple are, Hao Ren would never let his family face even the slightest danger. He absolutely wouldn’t risk his family!
As the sky牢重新變得昏暗，牢籠之間立刻充斥著各種謾罵、叫囂、挑釁。
隨著天牢再次變暗，牢房之間的空間又充滿了各種咒罵、喧鬨和挑戰。
Hao Ren sat down, blocking out all the noise with his ears and closed his eyes, quietly practicing the sword techniques of the Mysterious Water Swordsmanship in his mind.
The cells in this sky牢都佈置著厲害的結界，隻要這些囚犯施展靈力想要強行破除牢籠，就會有更強烈的雷力反彈回來。
These cells were set up with powerful barriers; if the prisoners attempted to use their spiritual energy to forcibly break out, they would face a strong counterattack of lightning.
Since there was no way out and no opportunity for cultivation or death, all the prisoners could do was shout at each other endlessly. Living in such an environment for a long time would drive anyone crazy.
Zhen Ciming saw Hao Ren sitting quietly with his eyes closed inside his cell and was surprised by his calmness.
He didn’t know that Little White had already reached the sixth stage of spiritual beasts and could transform into a little girl. As long as it wasn't a cultivator in the Fusion Soul realm, Little White would be able to handle anything.
The Golden Light Shield hadn’t followed Hao Ren and clearly ran off to report the incident; Hao Ren believed that when Little White returned home, she could protect his family’s safety.
Zhen Ciming sat in his own cell with his legs crossed, not in a hurry at all. The items he had stolen from the Dragon Temple were taken back by several deputy temple lords, but Zhen Ciming knew that keeping him locked up was just to give him a lesson and would last no more than ten or fifteen days.
“I’ll just take this as a vacation.” Zhen Ciming whistled softly while secretly worrying about Wu Luoxue.
In the dark sky牢, there were no distinctions between day and night. The prisoners couldn’t rest due to all the shouting.
The cells didn’t have regular meals delivered; only a bit of spiritual energy seeped through the cracks from time to time, causing the prisoners to temporarily stop arguing as they frantically absorbed it.
Hao Ren ignored these prisoners and used the Light Division Sword Shadow Technique to gradually recover his meridians while secretly practicing the first twelve moves of the Mysterious Water Swordsmanship with his fingers.
He had just entered this sky牢, so he still had a vague sense of time. He roughly estimated that about half a day had passed.
In the opposite cell, Zhen Ciming was already snoring loudly. Being Master Qu Niu’s disciple meant no one dared to do anything to him.
But Hao Ren knew that Zhen Ciming wasn’t just Qu Niu’s disciple but also his grandson-in-law. However, this piece of information would be too shocking for Zhen Ciming, so Hao Ren didn’t tell him yet.
Rumble… The stone door of the sky牢gradually opened again.
Qin Shaoyang in his silver robe slowly entered the central passage of the sky牢.
His face was pale, and his footsteps were heavy. However, a shiny third-level Inspector badge hung from his waist.
He walked all the way to the deepest part of Sky Prison where he finally stopped in front of Hao Ren who was imprisoned inside one of the farthest cages.
"Ambassador Hao, how does it feel being locked up in Sky Prison" Qin Shaoyang squinted his eyes and asked through the bars.
Hao Ren raised his head to glance at him before resuming his cultivation.
Qin Shaoyang was just a Guntan (Jade Level) who had been defeated by Hao Ren. Thus, Hao Ren didn’t even bother with him.
However, he hadn’t died despite the Spiritual Sword that pierced through his chest and scattered most of his strength. He must have quite good luck. But judging from how weak he looked, Qin Shaoyang was probably not as strong as those second-level Inspectors.
"What a pity, you failed to kill me," Qin Shaoyang shook his head and said. "I took the Dragon God Hall’s fifth-grade Spiritual Pill ‘Heavenly Heart Pulse Strengthening Pill’ and had two Vice-Chief Deans adjust my meridians; it won’t be hard for me to reach Guntan again."
Hao Ren raised his head once more to look at Qin Shaoyang.
He was so boastful, believing that the Dragon God Hall regarded him as a treasure. Indeed, being treated by two Vice-Chiefs of the Dragon God Hall wasn’t easy, but it didn’t necessarily mean that Qin Shaoyang was useful.
Hao Ren felt that his news about forming an alliance with Zhen Yuanzi hadn’t reached the Dragon God Hall yet. However, what they did seemed to be a way of not making things worse.
If Qin Shaoyang had died, this matter would have been out of control for sure.
"The three of you, my senior brothers, will soon return home now that I’ve asked the Dean to let you go," Qin Shaoyang then turned toward a cage housing three Golden Dragon cultivators and said.
The three Golden Dragon cultivators immediately looked relieved.
They had been captured by Yue Zilong, locked up in the Dragon God Hall for days, yet no one from the Golden Dragons came to save them.
How would they know that the senior Golden Dragon Elders who went to capture Hao Ren were all driven back and Taiyi Pavilion’s Pavilion Lord had run away after being fiercely attacked by Zhao Kuo For now, there was no one on this side to take care of these three Upper Heaven Level Golden Dragon cultivators.
Seeing Qin Shaoyang—the only person in the Dragon God Hall who worked for them—suddenly saying such words made them feel thankful.
Achieving his goal, Qin Shaoyang swaggered toward Hao Ren’s cage and demanded loudly, "Tell me where Su Han is!"
Hao Ren still ignored him.
"Once you enter the Dragon God Hall’s Sky Prison, do you think there will be anyone who can save you" Qin Shaoyang suddenly raised his voice and glared at Hao Ren.
Boom!
The Sky Prison started to shake violently.
"Hahaha… even my nephew and son are not safe from the Dragon God Hall’s grasp!"
Zhen Fei’s beautiful, yet stern voice penetrated through the thick black stone walls and reached every prisoner inside the Sky Prison.
(To be continued)s also a type of妖丹in some respects, but overall, the cultivation method of dragon cultivators was closer to human cultivators.Generally, only high-ranking cultivators like Yu Zilong could sense demoni...
