Lin Ya Is Captured, Betraying the Peak Martial Arts Hall

Lin Ya was captured, betraying the Peak Martial Arts Hall. East Forest Base City, underground prison.

Dim lights flickered like ghostly flames, casting shifting shadows across the cramped space. The air was thick with the pungent stench of rust, blood, mold, and despair.

Thick alloy chains engraved with confinement runes hung from the walls, glinting with a cold, oppressive sheen in the faint light. They tightly bound several figures in tattered Peak Martial Arts Hall uniforms to the walls like livestock awaiting slaughter.

If Lin Ming had been here, he would have recognized quite a few "acquaintances."

Hanging in the very center was Zhao Wuji, the East Forest Inspector who had sent out the distress signal. His aura was the weakest, yet his eyes remained as sharp as an eagle's. He was at the Sixth Tier, Fourth Layer.

Beside him hung two others, also Inspectors stationed in East Forest by the Peak Martial Arts Hall. Their auras were at the Sixth-Tier Second Layer and Sixth Tier, Third Layer respectively.

In the corner was another figure with an even deeper aura, but it had now completely fallen silent, as though he had slipped into a permanent coma.

That was Chen Zhan, the Chief Inspector and highest-ranking official of the Peak Martial Arts Hall branch in East Forest Base City. A true expert at the Sixth Tier, Peak Stage, he was only one step away from entering the Seventh Tier.

A shocking palm print marked his chest, his ribs were caved in, and he was barely breathing. He had clearly been ambushed and severely injured, left on the brink of death.

Besides those four Inspectors, the prison also held seven or eight other core members of the Peak Martial Arts Hall, as well as... two figures Lin Ming was even more "familiar"