A group of bare-chested men walked through the dim passageway and stepped out of the Penal Prison.
The blazing sun hung high overhead, its fierce rays shining down. Only then did the bone-deep chill fade considerably, and they could not help feeling as though they had escaped death itself.
What they had experienced this time was destined to remain etched in many people's memories for the rest of their lives. As for that hellhole called the Penal Prison, they would surely keep their distance from it in the future.
Zhou Kui and Zhang Cheng quickly led their own team members away. Before leaving, Zhou Kui did not forget to shoot Lu Ye a hateful glare.
"One Leaf, I dragged you into this," Geng Wuwang said.
Lu Ye looked in the direction Zhou Kui had departed and slowly shook his head. "We still don't know who dragged whom into this."
"What do you mean?" Geng Wuwang did not understand.
"That Zhou Kui was probably coming for me. Two days ago, I went to the Zhou Family and brought someone back," Lu Ye explained.
At first, he too had thought that Geng Wuwang's inability to restrain his temper had triggered the conflict between several squads.
But when Lu Ye learned that the man who had fought him was actually named Zhou Kui, several things that had previously puzzled him suddenly became clear.
When the conflict had broken out earlier, Lu Ye had rushed over to help, yet Zhou Kui had stopped him at once. Lu Ye had felt then that something was off. As a Tier Nine True Lake Realm Body Cultivator, there was no reason for that man to fix his gaze on him from the start.
In that situation, Zhou Kui should have been watching Geng Wuwang.
But if that