Lin Qiye moved through the pitch-black night like a ghost. After the Town Ruin Stele's effect had weakened, all of his Forbidden Ruins had been unsealed, and the Starry Night Dancer was no exception.
The open-air activity area was deathly silent. Nearly all the prisoners had broken through toward the main gate; no one would turn around and head deeper into the Abstinence Hall.
"That is..."
Lin Qiye's Mental Power suddenly sensed something. He stopped and looked toward the "Mindscape" rift not far away.
Through that opening, he could clearly see that the surface of the Town Ruin Stele standing within was already covered in cracks, with three deep chisel marks carved into it. It looked as though a few more blows would shatter it completely.
It seemed someone had indeed used some special method to open the Master's "Mindscape," and had even damaged the Town Ruin Stele to this extent... The Town Ruin Stele might only suppress Forbidden Ruins, but the material itself was extraordinarily tough. Ordinary tools could never have damaged it.
In other words, had this damage been caused by a prohibited artifact?
Bringing a prohibited artifact into the Abstinence Hall was no easy matter, unless it was a special prohibited artifact like An Qingyu's Eerie Silk, which could merge into the body. But the prohibited artifact damaging the Town Ruin Stele clearly was not of that type. Judging from the damage, it should have been a large prohibited artifact.
A large prohibited artifact could not have been brought in by a prisoner... Which meant someone inside the Abstinence Hall had done this?
Was there a mole?
After reaching that conclusion, Lin Qiye frowned slightly. But it did not seem strange, either. If there had been no mole in the Abstinence Hall, how could Great Xia's most