Chapter 7: Playing a Dirty Trick on You 1

As expected, even though He Lanjiu held her breath immediately, she still inhaled a trace of it and quickly lost consciousness.

"Not good!..." The youth and Ye Ling had also fallen victim!

When He Lanjiu woke up, she found herself locked in a dungeon.

The dungeon was not large, containing only three cells.

She was the only one imprisoned in the entire dungeon.

The walls and floor of the dungeon were very dry and covered in thick dust, with no unpleasant odors, which indicated that this prison was not used to hold people frequently. Furthermore, no one had been stationed outside to guard it.

Under these circumstances, this was unlikely to be a prison belonging to the government, a sect, or a great clan; it was usually something privately and temporarily constructed.

It was already dark outside.

The faint chirping of insects could be heard from the surroundings, occasionally punctuated by the howls of wild beasts.

From this, one could infer that this place was likely located in a remote mountain forest where human footsteps were rarely seen.

"I heard before that people often went missing at Bailing Slope... so it was true." Being locked up here did not frighten He Lanjiu in the slightest; to be honest, this cell could not hold her.

He Lanjiu looked down at her shadow and hooked her little finger. "Come out. It's your turn to work."

Then, a bizarre scene unfolded. He Lanjiu's shadow gradually detached from her body, passed through the gaps in the cell without any obstruction, and slipped outside silently.

Not long after He Lanjiu traveled to this cultivation continent, she discovered she possessed a special ability.

Her shadow could detach from her body at will. Everything the shadow saw after leaving her body would be fed back to her brain, just as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

Moreover, the shadow's form was versatile, and its movements were silent; its ability to hide was unparalleled, such that even a Golden Core stage cultivator would be unable to detect it. She had once experimented with this on Old Ghost Guo.

Otherwise, how could she have learned even a fraction of Old Ghost Guo's skills?!

She relied on her shadow to occasionally sneak into Old Ghost Guo's alchemy room to peek at his alchemy notes or observe his alchemy techniques, and so on.

Of course, the shadow ability also had its drawbacks.

Once the shadow left her body, it could not stray too far from her; there was a certain range limit.

Fortunately, as her own strength increased, her ability also upgraded. Previously, when she had just traveled here, the shadow could only stay about three meters away from her body. Later, it became ten meters, then gradually twenty meters, a hundred meters... and now, after breaking through to the first layer of Qi Refinement, its free movement range had expanded directly to one li.

About fifteen minutes passed.

The information fed back by the shadow left He Lanjiu dumbfounded.

Damn it, did she run into people from the Hehuan Sect?

What was the specialty of the Hehuan Sect's cultivation techniques? Dual cultivation. And what did dual cultivation mean? To put it plainly, it meant relying on sex to increase one's own strength, or relying on sex to plunder the cultivation of others.

The latter was a shortcut to cultivation that went against the natural order and was despised by the righteous factions.

Both the youth and his servant had been captured... interesting.

"Aiya, how could I miss an opportunity to watch a show like this?" He Lanjiu's small eyes flashed with a predatory light as she rubbed her small hands together in excitement. Then, she pulled a hidden silk thread from her sleeve and fiddled with the keyhole of the cell for a few moments.

It took only two breaths for the iron lock to open.

He Lanjiu quietly exited the cell and crept toward the room where the youth was being held.

According to what the shadow saw, the ones who had captured them were a pair of sisters from the Hehuan Sect, both of whom were enchanting and beautiful.

The elder sister had the highest cultivation, at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. The younger sister was also at the eighth layer of Qi Refinement.

Their cultivation levels were both higher than He Lanjiu's, and the reason He Lanjiu still dared to watch the show was that the sisters were currently working together to prepare to pluck the "flower" that was Ye Ling.