"Talisman water, Gu poisons, plus soul-sealing needles and Immortal-Binding Ropes."
"The Jade Appraisal Pavilion's methods really are vicious and practiced."
"By the look of it, they do this all the time."
"I just wonder what Liu Dong Cang is trying to find in that mine."
Inside a tightly covered carriage, Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost, both covered in wounds, appeared to sit side by side with their heads lowered, but were actually exchanging secret voice transmissions.
Although the Jade Appraisal Pavilion's people had placed layer upon layer of restrictions on them, to two Half-Step Half-Immortal Realm experts like Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost, those restrictions might as well not have existed.
"Hey, you two."
Just then, a cultivator sitting opposite Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost suddenly called softly to them.
Only then did Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost raise their heads.
They saw a cultivator, likewise covered in wounds, staring at them with hope written all over his face.
The cultivator had a thin, refined face and clear eyes.
His body was likewise covered in wounds.
There were actually four or five other such cultivators in the carriage, but they had all passed out because of the restrictions on their bodies.
At that moment, the clear-eyed cultivator asked the two of them quietly:
"Do either of you have any magic power left?"
Blade Ghost and Xu Taiping exchanged a glance, then asked with wariness filling their eyes:
"What are you trying to do?"
Seemingly wishing to ease Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost's wariness, the cultivator immediately introduced himself:
"I am Zhu Yan, a Flame Guard of the Flame Court. This time, I came on my sect's orders to investigate the disappearance of cultivators in Dan Mountain Red Water."
Xu Taiping had heard back at the Chaotic Stars Assembly that the