[Daoist Danyuan looked around, his gaze sweeping past Shui Xu without lingering. Instead, he raised his head toward Rogue Du'e, who was confronting Liu Sui in midair.]
[The two were old acquaintances.]
[Dan Yuan stroked his beard and spoke leisurely. "Say, Du'e, so the reason you weren't at the bottom of the prison these past few days was that you'd already become someone's dog."]
[Rogue Du'e heard him, but his expression did not change.]
[He knew Daoist Danyuan's temperament well-this man had always been a loner, acting entirely on his own likes and dislikes, with no regard for common sense. In earlier years, he had tried dealing with him, only to discover that Dan Yuan seemed deliberately unwilling to associate with the demons in the Northern Sky Prison.]
[Moreover, the man had openly declared that he wanted to remain in the Northern Sky Prison to atone for his sins. His ideas were like a heavenly horse galloping through the skies, impossible to judge by ordinary reason.]
[Shui Xu turned sideways, his gaze settling on Daoist Danyuan. "Dan Yuan, since I summoned you here, you should understand my intentions."]
[Only then did Daoist Danyuan slowly turn his eyes toward Shui Xu, smiling with narrowed eyes. "I understand. Kill the Crown Prince of Azure Sea Lake, and you'll restore this old Daoist's freedom."]
["And you'll also allow me to set up a furnace and refine pills in Northern Flow, supplying everything I need."]
[Shui Xu nodded impassively. "If you're unwilling, that's fine too. I have ways of making you willing."]
[At those words, all the demons understood. If this man truly was Marquis Wu Ze, Gu Changqing, then as an eighth-tier demon cultivator, activating a higher level of Prison Slave would naturally be effortless.]
[At that point, subduing a seventh-tier Demon Ancestor