Liang Huai smiled faintly. "Brother Yang Chen, don't be so hasty in drawing conclusions. The key lies with the True God Stage cultivators of Purgatory Gate."
Yang Chen was puzzled. "Brother Liang Huai, do you mean...?"
"It is not difficult to understand. Purgatory Gate has now lowered the difficulty for True God Stage cultivators to leave Bloody Purgatory. The top five may leave. Precisely because of this, those five cannot all be True God Stage cultivators from Purgatory Gate, so Purgatory Gate will also recruit True God Stage cultivators from other sects." Liang Huai said solemnly, "But clearly, if one wishes to leave Bloody Purgatory, one must first pledge allegiance to Purgatory Gate."
Yang Chen was not surprised. He had already guessed as much.
Where could there be such a good deal? Without pledging allegiance to Purgatory Gate, how could one possibly escape from Purgatory Gate's grasp?
"Then what does Brother Liang Huai intend to do? If one truly challenges their way to the strongest, must they then join Purgatory Gate?" Yang Chen asked, puzzled.
Liang Huai drew a deep breath. "Brother Yang Chen, you have only just arrived, so perhaps you cannot understand my thoughts. But if you stayed here for decades or centuries as well, you would understand the pain in my heart. So long as I can get out, forget pledging allegiance to Purgatory Gate—even if they asked me to become Purgatory Gate's dog, I would be willing. There is no helping it. You cannot understand yet. My family outside has waited bitterly for me for decades, perhaps centuries, with no idea whether I am dead or alive. I cannot see my family. I cannot even see my wife."
At this point, Liang Huai gritted his teeth, and true qi inadvertently seeped out.
Yang Chen had originally