Who taught you?

The South Sea, a secret site of the Azure Cloud Jiang Family.

The seawater rippled, then the currents swirled into a vortex. Moments later, an abyss opened in the sea, reaching straight to the seabed.

"The Lineage has ordered Abao to set out immediately?" Li Yunbing, in the guise of Jiang Chenghuan, had received word from his elders.

Eight thousand feet underground, light shone. Beneath the vast abyss lay a hidden steel cavern. Steel that concealed auras lined every stone wall here, its surface smooth and silver, every section joined without the slightest gap. An ordinary person who came here might have thought it something not of this world.

Li Yunbing descended inside. The array on the sea's surface closed, and everything returned to stillness.

He walked deeper into the cavern, his feet on the steel floor. Every hundred meters, chambers appeared along the passage, holding cultivators and fiends. These cells were forged from materials that siphoned the magical power of living beings. Their entrances were only three meters wide, yet had no doors.

A maddened cultivator spotted Li Yunbing and lunged at him, only for an array to suddenly appear and stop him. The cultivator cursed furiously, "Let me out, Jiang Chenghuan!!! Otherwise, one day I'll slaughter every last member of your Jiang Family!!!"

Li Yunbing stopped and sneered. "Slaughter my whole family? You should count yourself lucky that young Qiuming is in charge now."

The clone sent an array down into the cell, and agonized screams rang out.

He continued calmly onward. There were hundreds of cells like these, half of them holding different prisoners, with stronger captives the farther he went. Recalling that cultivator's curses, the clone shook his head. Though he was Li Yunbing's clone, he possessed half of Li Yunbing's soul.

He knew what had