"Ah Tian, I heard you had the Heavenly Prison closed. Why not reopen it and send someone to draw blood from those two bastards? It's been over a year since anyone took their blood, and I'm almost out of Netherworld Pills!"
The noblewoman walked up to Ye Mian and began to complain. In her eyes, Ye Qingci and Ye Kong were children their father had sired with a lowly concubine. That made them bastards, with bloodlines unworthy of respect.
Ye Mian's face darkened. Through clenched teeth, he said, "Someone rescued those two bastards!"
"What? Someone rescued them?"
Ye Chen and his mother stared at him, their eyes wide with disbelief.
The noblewoman immediately said to Ye Mian, "How is that possible? Those two bastards had their cultivation crippled. They were shackled and locked in the Heavenly Prison, which is protected by so many powerful Formations and Barriers. Even if they escaped the prison's Barrier, they'd still have to get out of the Xuanhuang Origin Realm!"
"That's right, Father. Are you joking?"
Ye Chen spoke up too. He could not believe anyone could escape from the Ye Family's Heavenly Prison.
Ye Mian forced down his anger and said, "They really were rescued!"
Ye Chen and his mother froze.
After a long while, Ye Chen asked, "Who did it? Is there a traitor in our Lineage?"
As Ye Chen saw it, if someone had truly escaped the Ye Family's Heavenly Prison, there had to be a traitor in the Ye Family. Without inside help, no prisoner could have gotten out.
Ye Mian shook his head slightly. "There was no traitor."
Over the past year, he had ordered repeated investigations and had everyone in the Heavenly Prison screened. They had found no sign of one.
"How is that possible? The Ye Family's Heavenly