The dungeon was buried deep beneath Heaven's Sky Court.Stone walls black as coal lined the corridors. Torches flickered in rusted iron brackets, casting long shadows across the walls. The air was cold and damp, thick with the smell of mildew and old blood. Every few feet, iron bars blocked off another cell, each one carved with runes that glowed faintly in the darkness.The runes were the key. They pulsed with a dull orange light, feeding on the Dao energy of whoever was trapped inside. The stronger the prisoner, the brighter the runes burned.They siphoned power away, channeled it into the walls, left the captive weak and helpless.There were seven levels to the dungeon. The first level held minor offenders, disciples who had broken small rules. Their runes barely glowed. The second level held more serious criminals. Their runes flickered like dying embers.Lu Yin was on the fourth level.The runes in her cell burned bright orange, nearly red at the edges. She sat in the corner, h

The next three days went by in a blur with no sign of Lin Feng. The heaven's sky court was no longer thrown into turmoil as Elder Wu had gotten the information passed across that Lin Feng wouldn't show up until the last minute when Lu Yin is about to be executed.Although Elder Wu told them what he found out from Mu Xuan, he didn't tell them everything. He kept the information of the man being chained down in the dungeons not being Mu Xuan but a strange man whose identity he didn't know. Whoever that man was, he knew something they didn't and if they are able to capture Lin Feng, he'll find out what it is. There was a knock on his door, distracting him from his thoughts. Using his soul consciousness, he could tell it was just Gao Ming.He immediately invited him in, Gao Ming standing before him. "I got news from the Patriarch of the purple heart sect, the sword god and the patriarch of the Holy Land sect. They've gotten to the gate of the Heavens Sky Court. You instructed me to rep

The chaos space closed behind them and the pressure of the outside world vanished completely.Lin Feng released Lu Yin and Leona, his legs nearly giving out beneath him. Tearing through space had drained more energy than he wanted to admit. His three cores spun slowly, struggling to replenish what he had lost.Lu Yin stumbled but caught herself. Her chains had fallen away during the escape, dissolved by the chaos energy. She looked at Lin Feng with an expression he couldn't quite read."You came for me," she said.Lin Feng met her eyes. "Don't read too much into it. I needed you alive."Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. "For what?""For information. For what comes next." He turned away from her. "Sit down and recover. You're useless to me injured."Lu Yin's jaw tightened but she said nothing. She found a flat surface and sat down, closing her eyes to cultivate.Leona watched the exchange with amusement. "You have a way with people.""I don't have time to be nice.""Clearly."Lin Feng ignored he

Lu Yin hesitated when Lin Feng pressed her for answers. Her eyes dropped to the stone floor and her fingers curled against her palms."I do not know exactly where my father is hiding," she said slowly. "But I have a suspicion. He used to talk about a place in the Dark Noxious Mist territory. The elders of the demon cult sect are more familiar with the place than anyone else. I think if they should be hiding anywhere it would be there."Lin Feng frowned at the unfamiliar name. "Dark Noxious Mist?"Leona's expression shifted immediately. Her eyes narrowed and her arms uncrossed slowly."You cannot be serious," she said.Lu Yin looked up at her. "What?"Leona turned to Lin Feng. "The Dark Noxious Mist is not a normal territory. It is a territory belonging to powerful Dao beasts. It is deemed dangerous for cultivators."Lin Feng still did not understand what made the place so dangerous. Leona must have read the confusion on his face because she sighed and began explaining."Dao beasts a

Leona, Lin Feng and Lu Yin surrounded the dao beast, all on their toes and ready to fight. It was a three spiked reptile. "You all can handle that one yourself. I only fight strong dao beasts, not weaklings." Xian moved aside, refusing to join the fight and Lin Feng glanced back, cursing at him in his mind. "Ignore the little guy, we need to focus on the dao beast instead," Leona said dismissively and Lin Feng could feel Xian shooting daggers at her with his eyes and cussing her ancestors as always but no one paid him any attention. "This is a C-grade dao beast," Leona said, her eyes hovering around the beast and Lin Feng was stunned, gawking at the dao beast in front of them. Surprisingly despite being surrounded it wasn't attacking them just yet. It felt like the dao beast was bidding his time. "It's not," Lu Yin replied, as though able to read his mind. "This dao beast doesn't put us in it's eyes which is why it isn't looking bothered." Lin Feng's eyes widened in surprise an