"I can answer all your questions, but you must tell me where you came from. Let me know whose hands I fell to, so I can die with my eyes closed," Chi Pei said.
Song Wen shook his head slightly, a mocking smile on his face.
"Chi Pei, you have no bargaining chips left."
Before his words had faded, Song Wen began forming hand seals.
A fist-sized mass of golden liquid gradually appeared before him.
The golden liquid churned ceaselessly, like molten gold boiling away.
A scorching aura rolled outward like a surging heat wave.
As Chi Pei watched the molten gold drift toward him, terror filled his eyes, and he hastily shouted.
"Stop! Just ask! I'll tell you everything!"
"That's more like it." Song Wen smiled faintly. "We could have talked perfectly well, yet you insisted on forcing me to resort to cruel methods."
Song Wen waved the molten gold away and continued.
"As a core disciple of the Divine Blood Sect, why did you come to the Qicang Region?"
The fear on Chi Pei's face eased slightly. "I was ordered by the Divine Blood Sect to conduct a routine inspection of the Moon-Covering Hall. According to the assignment, I only needed to stay in the Qicang Region for a few years before returning to the sect. But after learning that a demonic beast suspected to be a Blood-Eyed Divine Ape had appeared in Rotting Miasma Ridge, I decided to remain here and investigate clues about it."
"Where is the Divine Blood Sect based?" Song Wen asked.
"In the Phantom Nether Mountains on the Eastern Profound Continent," Chi Pei said.
"How does one reach the Phantom Nether Mountains from the Qicang Region?" Song Wen asked.
Chi Pei raised his eyes and gave Song Wen a somewhat strange look.
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