"Back then, seeing her beauty, lovely as a flower beneath the moon, I wanted her to stay by my side and serve me. Who would have thought she would refuse-and in front of everyone, no less? Feeling I had lost face, I destroyed her body, seized her soul, and sent her to the Cold Prison. I never saw her again after that," Wu Bo said.
"If so, how can you be certain her soul still exists? What if it has already scattered to the winds in the Cold Prison?" Song Wen demanded coldly.
Wu Bo said, "I personally sent her soul into the Cold Prison. If it had perished, the steward there would certainly have informed me. I have received no word all these years, so her soul must still exist."
After hearing this, Song Wen asked no further questions and silently considered the matter.
In his view, Wu Bo was probably telling the truth.
Wu Bo was now in his hands and had no reason to fabricate a lie; doing so would only bring even greater disaster upon the Wu Clan.
Since Lan Chen's soul still existed, he had to find a way to rescue her.
There were only two ways to rescue Lan Chen.
The first was to infiltrate the Wu Clan's Cold Prison and rescue Lan Chen without alerting the clan.
The second was to lure out the Wu Clan's other Integrated Body Realm Cultivator-Wu Shandie-and eliminate her before forcing his way into the Wu Clan.
Both approaches carried risks.
With the former, if the Wu Clan discovered him, he would very likely be trapped by their formations and unable even to protect himself.
With the latter, leaving aside the difficulty of killing Wu Shandie, even if he eliminated her, the Wu Clan's protective formation would not