"You want me to get you out?"
Cao Jinxing sat up, clutching his chest, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and fixed his eyes on him.
The man had maimed limbs and already had trouble moving, with a huge iron ball dragging behind him besides. Even if he could get through that opening, he would have no way to swim.
He had not killed them or even seriously injured them because he wanted to keep them useful, so they could rescue him!
"Clever."
The old man was in excellent spirits-almost too excellent. He looked nothing like someone who had been trapped at the bottom of a lake for over a decade.
Yet with his maimed limbs and all those chains, he looked incapable of even feeding himself. How could he be in such good spirits?
The Demon Cult...
The Absorbing Power Great Method?
No.
Cao Jinxing thought to himself that even if it were the Absorbing Power Great Method, allowing him to absorb power from a distance and feed on the snakes, insects, rats, and ants in this cave, merely staying alive would be an achievement. It could not possibly give him such a rosy complexion and bright eyes...
There must be another reason...
"Ten years! That despicable scoundrel Li Yuzhou plotted to trap me here for ten whole years!"
The old man's words brimmed with murderous rage. "Just get me out of here, you two! I'll teach you supreme martial arts and guarantee you wealth and honor for the rest of your lives!"
"Li Yuzhou?"
Qin Xuanji propped herself up on one arm and sat up coughing. She seemed to know the man and said in some surprise, "He trapped you here? He did this to you? But I heard he was the leader of Jiangnan's