Banshee Family Training Record

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"If we act quickly, we should be able to get things done before he even realizes what's happening!"

The hunched old man's eyes lit up, and he nodded, "Let's not delay, let's go!"

The tall, burly man remained silent throughout. He still wanted to rush up the mountain and capture Yun Chu'an directly, which would be the most straightforward and effective way to resolve the issue.

Unfortunately, since the other two had already reached a consensus, he had no choice but to hold back and follow suit.

The three of them used the Shrinking Earth technique to travel to Huai Mountain Town, to the small courtyard where Yun Chu'an usually lived. They then unleashed their divine senses and began to search high and low.

They entered room after room, opened wooden door after wooden door, and ransacked the machines he had used to print talismans, the warehouses used to store materials, and the cabinets used to store souvenirs or medicines and other necessities.

However, aside from some hidden treasures, the three of them found almost nothing.

After putting Yun Chuan's belongings into his own storage bag, the tall, burly man reunited with his senior brother, his expression revealing barely suppressed anxiety: "There's nothing here at all. We're not familiar with his habits, and trying to find his secrets will probably be a waste of time and effort."

"If you ask me, it would be better to just arrest him, beat him up, and then we'll know everything!"

The hunched old man was also getting impatient, but he was even more annoyed with his junior brother's behavior: "Can't you be a little more mature? What if this is actually a misunderstanding? If you fall out with him, how much more trouble will you cause later?"

Both of them were getting anxious and almost started arguing. Just then, a voice called out from inside, "Come over here, there's a new discovery!"

Both men's expressions changed, and they followed the sound, only to find that it was a seemingly normal bathroom.

The floor and surrounding walls were made of long, brown wooden planks, with a showerhead hanging above the walls and a huge, round wooden bathtub below.

At that moment, Rong Jieyu stood behind the bathtub, struggling to push it away.

Unfortunately, with her current late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, she could probably push open a skyscraper without any effort, but even with both arms outstretched, the bathtub remained completely still.

There's clearly a ghost involved.

Upon seeing the two of them arrive, Rong Jieyu hurriedly said, "Senior brother, junior brother, come quickly and help me see what's wrong with this bathtub!"

"I suspect there's some secret hidden down there!"

The two were overjoyed. The hunched old man hurried over, frowned, and began to observe. After a moment, he whispered, "I've seen this kind of seal before, and the way to break it... hmm, this should work..."

"I can't do it myself, junior sister, please help me and remember this incantation."

He quickly taught Rong Jieyu the incantation to break the seal, which she memorized. She then cooperated with him to circulate her spiritual power and cast a counter-spell.

The tall, burly man couldn't offer much help, so he stood guard at the door to prevent anyone from coming in. After a long while, Consort Rong reached out again and pushed the bathtub, her expression full of surprise: "It's open! There really is a door down there!"

A dark and deep passage stretched downwards, seemingly leading to the eerie and terrifying Netherworld.

The tall, burly man hurried over from the doorway, and upon seeing the tunnel, a chill ran down his spine.

He looked up and exchanged glances with his senior brothers and sisters, all of whom saw the tension in each other's eyes. Immediately, he also swallowed hard.

Chapter 482 The Dungeon, Reunion, Showdown

"That kid is definitely suspicious!" the tall, burly man declared. "I'll go and bring him here!"

"No rush!" Rong Jieyu was worried about You Wensi's state of mind. Recalling the day her junior sister suddenly burst into tears in front of her, she felt as if her heart was being squeezed halfway. "Perhaps... perhaps we've misunderstood... this environment might be a cultivation space that my junior sister created for herself..."

As she said this, she suddenly looked up at the burly man and said, "You go first and take a look!"

The tall, burly man nodded, silently chanted an incantation to summon spiritual power to protect himself, and then descended the stone steps of the passage, stepping lightly without making a sound.

He proceeded cautiously, step by step, down the path. Behind him, the hunched old man also slowly descended, and finally, it was Rong Jieyu's turn.

The three of them walked down the steps. The steps weren't very long, but they were cautious and it took them several minutes to finally reach the bottom.

The area wasn't entirely dark; dim braziers hung on the walls on either side, burning slowly to provide light and illuminate the deep corridor before them.

Looking at the narrow corridor, the small rooms enclosed by iron bars on both sides, and the instruments of torture such as hay, shackles, and handcuffs inside, the three of them finally became convinced that this was not an underground tomb used for cultivation by some corpse-driving sect cultivators, but a secret prison used to seal someone away!

Looking at the gloomy environment, Rong Jieyu's heart pounded wildly, feeling as if it were about to jump into her throat.

She couldn't imagine that her junior sister had been living in such a place for so long.

When did it start?

She didn't know, but dared not make a sound, afraid of alerting something. The three of them tiptoed, carefully concealing their movements, and silently stepped forward.

After carefully walking forward a few dozen steps and passing through two cells, Rong Jieyu suddenly saw a familiar figure behind the iron bars.

Instantly, her pupils contracted sharply.

Youwensi!

Her dear junior sister!

At this moment, Rong Jieyu could hardly believe her eyes. Although You Wensi in the cell still looked healthy, her long, black hair was disheveled, as if it hadn't been styled in a long time. Instead of wearing exquisite, form-fitting, and sexy clothes, her plump and slender body was dressed in a loose, oversized, and completely ill-fitting gray and white striped prison uniform!

Her wrists were gleaming handcuffs, restricting her movement. At this moment, she wasn't even wearing shoes, her bare feet were on the dry grass, and even her fair ankles were locked with shackles with iron balls.

No matter how you look at it, this appearance absolutely cannot be considered seclusion; it must be imprisonment!

"Junior sister!"

Unable to contain the surging emotions within her, Rong Jieyu cried out.

In the prison cell, You Wensi was peacefully resting with her eyes closed, adjusting her state, and using meditation to dispel the loneliness of Yun Chuan'an's absence.

However, this heartfelt call struck her like a thunderbolt, and she opened her eyes.

Then she saw that her three fellow disciples from the Corpse-Driving Sect were standing outside the cell, staring at her with shocked expressions.

In an instant, You Wensi's hands and feet turned ice-cold, and she couldn't control herself.

It's over...it's all over...

The truth has been revealed: me, my future, my image...

In an instant, her mind went blank, and she couldn't think of anything.

Seeing her prisoner-like behavior, Rong Jieyu felt a surge of anger.

"Junior sister, answer me!"

She rushed forward, grabbed the cell bars, and demanded sharply, "Was it Yun Chu'an? Did he do it?!"

"He imprisoned you, robbed you of your freedom, and turned you into this!"

She gritted her teeth in hatred, her body trembling. You Wensi snapped out of her daze, her eyes pale, her lips trembling, instinctively trying to conceal her condition, following her previous pattern: "No… Senior Sister, you've misunderstood. I did it willingly, I…"

"This is a form of self-cultivation... I am refining myself..."

She made feeble excuses for herself, trying to justify herself and maintain her image and dignity.

However, these words only provoked Rong Jieyu's fury: "What's wrong with you? Have you been fooled by him? He's harming you! He's locked you in a cell!"

"Wait, junior sister, I'll open this cell right away and set you free!"

As she spoke, she began to channel her spiritual energy into the iron bars, attempting to break them.

However, at this moment, the force in her hands, which was enough to crush a building in an instant, did not move the iron railing at all!

Behind her, the tall, burly man also recovered from the shock of the scene, and a surge of rage rushed to his mind, making him tremble all over: "Yun Chu'an, wait, I'm going to take his head off right now!"

Upon hearing this, You Wensi suddenly came to his senses, and then his eyes were filled with fear.

"No!" she suddenly cried out, "Don't go, junior brother, don't go!"

The three of them stared at her in disbelief, then they saw You Wensi close her eyes in anguish: "Don't go... You are no match for him..."

Rong Jieyu frowned, unable to understand. Even with his late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, his offensive techniques were extremely rudimentary. How could he possibly be their opponent?

Considering the woman's behavior just now, Rong Jieyu's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Junior sister..." Her words carried a strange tone, "You wouldn't really...fall in love with him, would you?"

You Wensi's expression changed drastically, then she shook her head violently: "No, you guys have to leave quickly, or it will be too late!"

She already had a premonition and frantically urged him on. But before Rong Jieyu could ask another question, a man's voice suddenly rang out from afar: "I gave you a chance."

It was Yun Chu'an's voice.

Immediately, the three members of the Corpse-Driving Sect were startled and quickly turned to look at the entrance to the dungeon.

You Wensi's hair stood on end, and immense fear gripped her chest: "No—!"

Unfortunately, at this moment, her words had no effect whatsoever.

At the entrance to the dungeon, Yun Chuan stepped down the stairs one by one and entered the narrow passage.

His gaze swept over the three people in front of him, finally landing on You Wensi. Looking at her expectant eyes, he sighed, but still shook his head slightly.

Instantly, only despair remained in You Wensi's eyes.

Yun Chu'an then turned his gaze back to Rong Jieyu and the other two, and said in a clear voice: "My mother-in-law and I have made a deal. If she is willing to do as I say, then you can all spare your lives for now."

"We will not lose our lives or our freedom. We will continue our spiritual practice smoothly within the truth we have created together."

Rong Jieyu looked at him coldly, and sneered when she heard his words: "You wish, but in my opinion, you know you can't deal with us, so you can only use this kind of thing to deceive us and carefully survive in our blind spot."

Despite her sarcasm, Yun Chu'an remained unperturbed, calmly replying, "Senior, if I truly intended to harm you, I would have had ample opportunity to do so, not to mention others, just considering you alone."

"Why should I wait until you've all figured this out before I'm honest with you all?"

He said this, leaving Rong Jieyu speechless: "You—!"

At the critical moment, it was the tall, burly man behind her who couldn't hold back and said in a deep voice, "No matter what, Yun Chu'an, you've already been exposed."

"I'm too lazy to waste any more time, and forget about maximizing profits. Everyone, let's take action and capture him. Right here in the Golden Core stage, we'll refine him into a human core, and we can both return to the Golden Core realm!"

Chapter 483 You Wensi's Plea

Before he finished speaking, a pale white ghostly fire ignited on his body. Like a brute, he suddenly pushed off the ground and charged straight at Yun Chuan in front of him!

Rong Jieyu and the hunchbacked old man stopped talking and moved to the side to coordinate with his attack.

The three worked together flawlessly, digging a large pit for Yun Chu'an to jump into. However, in the prison behind them, You Wensi watched all this with only despair in her eyes.

At the dungeon entrance, Yun Chu'an seemed unaware of the trap and fell for it. He dodged backward and avoided the eight-foot-tall, burly man whose body was engulfed in ghostly flames.

But at that moment, a sly smile appeared on the burly man's lips, and he suddenly shouted, "Ten thousand ghosts, heed my command!"

He suddenly took out a pale soul banner with his left hand, and with a gentle shake, a pale female ghost appeared behind Yun Chu'an, opening her blood-red maw.

He had been prepared, so before entering this underground prison, he had already set a trap at the cell door, just waiting to trigger it now and catch him off guard!

The female ghost remained motionless, which made it seem as if Yun Chu'an had walked right into the trap and jumped into the female ghost's mouth.

The three members of the Corpse-Driving Sect relaxed. Once a cultivator below the Golden Core stage falls into their trap, it's practically certain death.

But when You Wensi saw this scene, she covered her face and couldn't help but want to cry.

It's over, it's over...

The next instant, just as she had expected, a burst of lightning erupted from Yun Chu'an's body!

Golden lightning illuminated the entire cage, and the restraint derived from the most fundamental aspect of their cultivation techniques caused the corpse-driving sect cultivators present to change color in shock: "Golden divine lightning!"

"Damn it, what era is this? How come there are so many nemesis of our corpse-driving sect everywhere!"

"Don't panic, retreat first—uh—!"

Amidst the golden lightning, the white female ghost gradually vanished. The white soul banner, which was linked to the tall, burly man's life, suddenly turned charred black, as if it had been scorched by fire. The burly man's face turned pale, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!

Ahead, Yun Chu'an had already changed into his purple-gold soft armor, with golden lightning surging around him.

He handled the situation with ease and composure, then took out a long, slender Guan Dao from his storage bag.

Upon seeing the iconic lightning bolt and guan dao (a type of halberd), all three paled in shock: "Wait, you..."

"You're Li Changsheng?!"

Consort Rong was the first to expose his disguise when he was in the Zhao Kingdom. Her beautiful eyes widened in disbelief that the two of them were actually the same person!

The Heavenly Spiritual Root that they had been plotting to refine into a human pill turned out to be the very thing that restrained them the most and that they feared the most!

There aren't that many geniuses at all; that was just a fake identity he used!

Realizing this, Rong Jieyu was suddenly gripped by a strong sense of fear. She suddenly understood why You Wensi had told them to run away immediately; this level of enemy was indeed beyond their capabilities!

"go!"

She immediately changed her strategy and dodged backward, but in such a narrow area, trying to outrun Yun Chuan would be tantamount to courting death.

He held his guandao horizontally in front of him, and incantations and thunder erupted simultaneously, propelling his body into a streak of lightning, heading straight for the tall, burly man in front of him—

"Well--!"