"No need for courtesy. Take me to the corresponding cell."
Lin Xin said casually.
The prison warden nodded quickly. He led the three of them into the Black Prison, swiftly passing through one forbidden gate after another. Before long, a special reinforced cell appeared alone in the depths of the Black Prison.
The cell was filled with black water. A pungent, spicy stench steamed up all around it, while black-red patterns gleamed everywhere across the prison walls.
This was a Load Array meant to suppress a prisoner's cultivation and strength.
Hua Shenxi leaned against a corner of the wall, hidden in the pitch-black shadows. Like a statue, he neither spoke nor made a sound.
The three stood at the prison entrance, silently watching the figure in the corner.
"Hua Shenxi, the Sect Leader True Person has personally come to see you. Get over here!" the prison warden roared rudely.
The figure within the cell slowly walked over, stirring up waves of water.
Hua Shenxi had long since lost the handsome, elegant appearance he had possessed in his flowing white robes. His face was waxy yellow, and one of his eyes had apparently been gouged out at some point, leaving only a Blood Cave.
"Lin Xin. It's you."
Hua Shenxi looked at Lin Xin standing outside the cell.
He now wore a filthy, disheveled gray robe of coarse hemp.
In contrast, Lin Xin stood outside in the black-and-white Dao Lord robes of a Sect Leader True Person, four formidable Magic Swords that were clearly no ordinary weapons strapped to his back, wisps of vast and majestic aura seeming to coil around him.
One was splendid, the other bedraggled; their stations in life were worlds apart.
"Tell me Nan Shunqing's whereabouts."
Lin Xin did not waste words with him and went straight