Inside the Nine Prefectures Prison.
"Bang!"
As the prison's stone door dropped shut, Xu Taiping's vision went dark, and he could hear nothing around him.
Relying on his Divine Soul's perception, Xu Taiping walked step by step to the cold stone bed in the Stone Prison, then sat cross-legged without a word.
Though Xu Taiping appeared silent, he had actually been communicating with Fairy Lingyue all along.
After Xu Taiping sat down, Fairy Lingyue immediately asked him again:
"You've been locked in the cell?"
Without betraying anything, Xu Taiping replied through voice transmission:
"Yes."
After sensing the cell's surroundings with his Divine Soul, Xu Taiping continued transmitting to Fairy Lingyue:
"This Stone Prison was probably carved straight into the mountain. The surrounding walls are covered in runic restrictions. There should be only one passage in or out."
"In other words, any cultivator who enters that passage from now on could be Su Chan or one of his subordinates."
Fairy Lingyue immediately replied:
"Don't worry. I've already stationed Bai Yu on the peak closest to Cloud-Pacifying Peak to keep watch. Bai Yu will note everyone who approaches that entrance."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
What awaited him was very likely an assassination plotted by Su Chan. It would have been a lie to say he was not nervous.
However, although the Lotus Eye had given him advance knowledge of the assassination, he was still somewhat puzzled by Su Chan's motive for framing him first, then assassinating him in prison.
There were some things he wanted to confirm with Fairy Lingyue.
So he immediately asked Fairy Lingyue:
"Sister Lingyue, it's been a little over four hours since I was locked in this prison. Has anything happened outside?"
This time, however, Fairy Lingyue did not immediately reply to