Chapter 1788 - 1083: Breaking Free

The few people had anxiety in their eyes, but were less anxious, bowing respectfully before leaving...

Since Supreme Yun said to wait, there must come a time for waiting.

Xuan Ya.

"Ah, interesting, Yen Yileng actually got caught... Sis, do you think Supreme Yun will take action herself this time?"

"Possibly, possibly not."

"Eh...."

The woman reclined on the soft mat, raising her fair and slender legs, not afraid of being exposed in the spring light. She was casually pinching grapes and tossing them into her mouth while saying, "Yen Yileng seems a bit different. She was raised by Supreme Yun since childhood, breaking her precedent of not taking students. Later, Sword Supreme’s son pursued her... Sword Supreme even publicly stated support... But Supreme Yun has always been indifferent."

The woman was beautiful, charming, and lazy, completely different from her sister.

"Yen Yileng... belongs to that lineage."

Yazu mentioned a name.

The grape the woman tossed up fell on her face, her expression bewildered.

"Human Race Imperial Line? Emperor Monarch, Starry Lord, Earth Que Baili, Hundred Valleys Jiang, Fahai Jin... Who is she?"

"Emperor’s Vessel forms a spirit, controlled by Divine Race, indicating the Imperial lineage is extinct. Unless the bloodline reincarnator of that lineage escapes those pursuing them and survives, altering fate, you consider which lineage she belongs to. Presently, the Imperial Court is ruled by Baili, and although Hundred Valleys Jiang is of the Imperial lineage, it was assigned fortune based on the comprehensive evaluation of Human Race’s bloodline abilities back then, with the strongest being Emperor Monarch... Hundred Valleys Jiang at the end, can only be that demonic Jhiang Chenyu, followed by choosing between Starry and Fahai, whom do you think?"

Starry, Fahai?

"Traces of Starry remain in the Dark Realm, none sensed over there, implying she is definitely not of the Starry lineage, only Fahai, Jin... Speechless, Fahai Imperial Lineage... learned swordsmanship? Supreme Yun is indeed... whimsical, those people could never have imagined."

Yazu squinted and said faintly: "Supreme Yun... perhaps in the future the most unexpected will be herself."

She had this premonition.

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Yen Yileng eventually regained consciousness and immediately felt the cramped space, and Sui Yi closely next to her.

"This Clan Emperor is truly creative."

Sui Yi opened her eyes and spoke.

Yen Yileng indeed resisted the terrible toxicity, barely enduring through sheer willpower, as the poisonous gas grew over time, no second result could transpire. Yet strangely, when truly close to this man, she instead felt calm.

It seemed... the other’s aura couldn’t stir her inner turmoil.

She felt something was amiss but had no time to ponder deeply. (Because Teacher is a female indeed~~)

"This person is profoundly scheming, even if this act can’t harm you and me, there will surely be other means... We can’t sit and wait for death.."

Yen Yileng spoke as she touched the cold, sticky, foul-smelling wall with her palm...

Soft and disgusting...

Suddenly, she looked at Sui Yi.

"Teacher is so calm, extraordinary temperament, Yileng admires."

Now Yen Yileng sincerely admired Sui Yi and felt Jing Hong’s respect for her was justified.

Thus the dissipated Favorability Points gradually regained somewhat.

But in the next second.

Sui Yi glanced at her.

"It’s not my calmness."

"Then what is it?"

"Because of you accompanying me."

"....."

"If I die, it wouldn’t be me alone... a more balanced mentality, perhaps."

Teacher, how come you haven’t been beaten to death.

In the end, Yen Yileng got accustomed to this Sacrificial Wine’s humor, not annoyed but chuckled lightly, "Fortunately, Teacher is here, otherwise, I really wouldn’t know what to do."

"You will find out.."

Eh? Yen Yileng was puzzled when she saw Sui Yi’s fingertip picking a bit of the viscous earth off the cage’s wall. Though foul-smelling, Sui Yi shook her finger and smiled broadly: "The most stable and least fundamentally damaging cage in this world adopts a triangular mode using Big Dipper Earth Que Human Extinction specifications. With Clan Emperor’s method, what binds us must be at the Great Celestial Venerable level, significant attention but not wasteful... Poison Vein Clan’s old lair likely in the Southeast wild marshes, Big Dipper as Qian Wilds, Earth Que led by Poison Dragon, Human Extinction as Alien Species, originally powerful. Yet this Poison Vein Emperor clearly dislikes injecting his soul into a cage lest his soul’s location is revealed, thus hiding tens of thousands of corpses and bones inside, entrapping souls for substitution. Cages only imprison, no need for control, even if we escape now avoiding some mechanisms outside, he wouldn’t know."

Earlier, Yen Yileng also roughly inferred the Poison Vein Emperor’s cunning fox-like personality, extremely cautious and afraid of death, otherwise, he wouldn’t hide his temperament towards them, these two prisoners.

But deep down, he harbors a bit of arrogance.

The Sacrificial Wine’s judgment was likely precise.

And her insight... made Yen Yileng very admire, fitting with this person’s previous breaking of Ice Encapsulation using formations.

"But you and I can’t break through it now..."

Sui Yi glanced at Yen Yileng, "Did you only learn swordsmanship?"

Yen Yileng froze, subconsciously thought Sui Yi was asking if her master only understood swords...

"Master knows many things, but she said I have a strong talent for swords, focusing is best."

Really?

Sui Yi was contemplative, when she used Magnetic Sensation to probe earlier, she sensed the cultivation level of this imprisoned girl seemed to....

Not a sword soul.

Indicating talent not in sword.

That Supreme Yun... interesting.

"Big Dipper Qian Wilds, Earth Que Poison Dragon, Human Extinction Corpses and Souls, to secretly escape this formation, one must use true fire to temper the third formation pillar..."

It sounds so simple...

Yet the internal workings? Yen Yileng truly does not understand, but she feels that this sacrificial wine’s offhand remarks might be beyond the understanding of even the Great Celestial Venerables beneath her sect.

For she has never heard these terms before.

And the most important thing is...

Where is the pillar? And the fire?

Right, it seems she said to secretly leave, not break the formation...

Quite a significant knowledge.

Yen Yileng looks at Sui Yi, with an obedient look that says she’s listening to him and only him...

Sui Yi chuckles, turns his face, and flicks his fingertips to produce a cluster of flame, solid and nearly liquid in form.

Yen Yileng is taken aback.

This person has not been sealed?

Though not yet understanding, Sui Yi has already found the third pillar...

Burning an opening.

Then grabbing Yen Yileng, they fall through this opening...

Beneath seems a great depression of formation.

Continuously descending, the deeper she falls, Yen Yileng feels the sealing influence weakening on her...

That prison is indeed formidable. No doubt even others without seals coming to rescue them would be affected by the seal.

Deep within the Earth Veins.

The two finally halt their descent.

Plop.

The ground is wet, seemingly sticky with slime.

Yen Yileng almost slips, Sui Yi pulls her, a flick sets a light up in the dark, Yen Yileng finally sees the pitch-black surroundings...

Upon seeing it, she falls silent.

Sui Yi approaches a hanging corpse to inspect, covered entirely in slime, looking quite disgusting, the corpse half-decayed and half-fresh, the abdomen hollowed, containing a placenta... the placenta seems to be a Poison Vein Clan entity, its veins piercing into the corpse flesh, protruding on the skin, some even reaching the eyes and mouth...

"It’s a human egg~nest... these humans have been captured to incubate Poison Vein Clan’s... no wonder the reproduction speed of these alien species has been so swift lately, they even possess strength to declare such war"

Yen Yileng’s expression turns icy, she belongs to the Human Race, instinctively defending humans, different in background from Sui Yi.

Sui Yi observes the surroundings.

"At least one hundred thousand bodies here... those are mostly weaker, this side slightly stronger, likely deeper in, these vessels are stronger... likely some live ones"

Upon hearing there might be living people, Yen Yileng instinctively looks toward the sticky area ahead.

Just as she’s about to step forward, her hand is held back.

"Are you really going over there?"

Yen Yileng: "Can the teacher lift my seal?"

"Yes, but lifting it would likely let that person detect us, though if he leaves the nest, getting more than 100 miles away, then he won’t notice..."

Sui Yi points upwards.

"Wait one night, he will discover our disappearance, but certainly won’t think we’re hiding just below"

Yen Yileng understands, "He will then suspect that for us to escape, there must be a Supreme Level infiltrator, hence he himself would have to leave the nest and pursue... but that opening just now..."

"I have already sealed it again."

Left speechless, Yen Yileng ponders briefly, then remarks: "Teacher is the second-most capable person I’ve seen, next to my master..."

"Yes, your master is the most formidable, peerless in the world..."

Feeling slightly embarrassed, Yen Yileng turns away, "So, are we to wait here a night?"

Sui Yi smiles, indicating indeed, they just need to wait.

Though the surroundings... are quite challenging to endure.

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Over the course of one night, the pair linger in the unbearable underground lair enduring the stench, while elsewhere, within the Poison Vein Clan’s dominion, three hundred miles southeast in a certain poison swamp, reeds exude a toxic demeanor...

Jing Hong hides among the reeds, her complexion somewhat pale.

Previously, she was randomly transported by Sui Yi’s gentle force, failing to send her back to the Human Race’s territory, inevitably landing in this Poison Vein Clan area, though 300 miles seems far, it’s quite dangerous for a single race. If not for her soul-concealing ability, she would have likely been caught by now.

Yet the situation keeps worsening.

—She has been poisoned.

This alien realm inherently downgrades to venomous insects, flora, even the air suffused with toxins, upon landing hunted by poison beasts, fearing creating commotion, significantly restricted, resulting in injury and poisoning, initially trivial but progressing to more fatal over time.

Even with good fortune, escaping over a hundred miles seems plausible at best, while evading capture by the Poison Vein Clan’s pursuers...

Another method is deploying a flying vessel to flee, but doing so would certainly draw attention from Supreme Poison Vein or even the Poison Vein Emperor...

It’s indeed... a dead end.

But, nevertheless.

Jing Hong still leaves a subtle mark on the ground, a secret signal among disciples under Supreme Yun’s command.