Published: March 8, 2025
The bald old man’s eyes lit up, and he spoke urgently, “Who taught you this?”
Chu Yang struggled and replied with difficulty, “This is my personal secret... I... can I... not say?”
The bald old man's gaze turned cold, and he suddenly shouted, “If you don’t say, I’ll kill you!”
With a thunderous sound, an incomparably overwhelming aura pressed down, as if the heavens and earth were suddenly collapsing. The might of this moment was truly unparalleled!
Moreover, it was accompanied by powerful mental coercion! This was the most effective, and never-failed method used by the Law Enforcement Hall to interrogate prisoners!
Chu Yang fell to the ground with a bang, his mind seemingly collapsing all at once, utterly destroyed... His eyes rolled back, frothing at the mouth, his limbs convulsing, trembling all over, and he incoherently shouted, “I’ll say it... I’ll say it... I’ll say everything... all of it...”
“Then hurry up and say it!” The bald old man bellowed again, looking ferocious, but he was strengthening the mental coercion further.
“It was a bright spring morning, I went out and found a mountain...” Chu Yang's eyes glazed over, and he began to recount mindlessly...
The bald old man maintained a mental lock on his entire consciousness, heartbeat, and pulse... A smug smile crept across his face, as he was ten thousand percent sure that Chu Yang’s mind was already controlled by him. In this state, even an immortal... could not lie!
But as Chu Yang continued his tale, both the bald old man and Qin Baoshan slowly widened their eyes, revealing an expression of disbelief.
Because what Chu Yang was saying was undoubtedly worlds apart from what they had heard, it was like a donkey's bray not matching a horse's neigh, a total mismatch.
“...I discovered a cave, entered it, and then fell down with a splash. There was a stone chamber below...” Chu Yang muttered blankly, “...In there, I saw four characters: If you come here, you are fated. Pass on my legacy, save the world...”
The bald old man and Qin Baoshan listened, their expressions twisted in disbelief.
“...It was all ancient healing techniques that had already been lost... Five Absolute Yin Curses, Seven Poison Severing Pulse Hand... Yin-Yang Blending Steps, Hell’s Palm, Yama’s Locking Poison Techniques...”
The string of names of cultivation techniques that Chu Yang rambled off made the bald old man and Qin Baoshan feel overwhelmed...
What the hell was going on?
“Stop!” The bald old man interrupted furiously, “How did you come to the upper three days? What have you done before? Tell us everything.”
Since there were no clues from the sect, they would ask about his background. There had to be traces to follow...
This was the real method for getting to the root of the problem. Qin Baoshan nodded repeatedly from the side.
“I was in the lower three days... I suffered so much...” Chu Yang started to weep, recounting his “tragic past...”
Today I was beaten by Li the Rogue, tomorrow I was extorted by Zhang the thug, the day after that I was wildly beaten by Sun the thug... This young man's life was truly miserable, he had been beaten up since childhood...
After rambling on for a better part of an hour, he mentioned a lot of names, at least a hundred, all insignificant characters from the lower three days, the most impressive being a street gang leader...
The bald old man and Qin Baoshan looked pale, but at this point, they could not interrupt him and had to listen through their discomfort...
“...I met my master, my master...” Although Chu Yang’s eyes were dazed, he spoke fluently, “So I graduated and traveled everywhere... until one day!”
His tone suddenly turned sorrowful and heavy.
“What happened?” The bald old man’s heart skipped a beat, sensing a significant turning point.
“...I cured the daughter of Master Liu, and he promised to marry her to me, but then he changed his mind, not only that... he beat me, drove me away, cursed me... Later, he even knocked me out and threw me into the mountains. Every time I went back, I got beaten... Wuwuwu...”