Wanxi Rebirth - Chapter 11

A long silence enveloped the flying carriage.

Yue Tingxi was a little confused. She remembered that Miss Qin had a “let’s see” attitude before. Why did she seem to have made a certain decision so soon, one that she would not give up until she reached her goal?

However, being able to save someone was a good thing. After she came back to her senses, she immediately took over the conversation: “Okay! If there is anything I can help with, just tell me!”

After she said that, she found that Qin Suiliu’s expression had improved a little, as if she had let out a sigh of relief.

In order to seize the time to save people, Qin Suiliu put two more spiritual stones into the flying carriage’s energy slot and returned to the Qin family at full speed.

She informed her mother, Lan Kongming, of the general situation, and then ordered the butler to arrange a clean room and send someone to open the underground private prison used for detention and interrogation.

“Living puppets? A Master of the Underworld?!” Qin Yingguang, who came to greet her sister as usual, naturally also heard part of the truth and immediately stared with wide, horrified eyes, “How can the Linglong Pavilion allow such a scourge to run free?!”

“The Ghost Market is inherently chaotic, and with the help of a ‘noble’ person, he’s hidden deep. If he also keeps a low profile in his daily activities, he can not only live in the Ghost Market for a long time but also do dirty business with cultivators,” Qin Suiliu patiently explained.

But the young girl seemed to have heard some shocking and terrible news. She stood there in a daze as if struck by a bolt from the blue. After she came back to her senses, she immediately ran to the Qin family’s library: “I’ll go find the old records now!”

After the servant who was tidying the room for the victim left, Qin Suiliu closed the door and motioned for Yue Tingxi to take out the peach wood box.

“Do I need any special ceremony to open it?” Yue Tingxi asked while placing the peach wood box on the ground, “There seems to be a spell sealing it. My spiritual sense can’t detect the girl’s condition, I only know that she’s in a deep sleep.”

“It’s fine, I’ve already told my mother, she will come and set up an exorcism formation later.” Qin Suiliu was not in a hurry, “First, let’s get He Shen out and interrogate him.”

Yue Tingxi wanted to say that with her cultivation, it didn’t matter if He Shen was trapped for a little longer. He wouldn’t wake up in a short time anyway, and saving the girl was more important.

But then she changed her mind. Even if the Qin family had records about the Master of the Underworld, they were conclusions from the past. A living person had been captured, and if they could get information from the interrogation, it would be faster than aimlessly searching for records. So she followed Qin Suiliu out of the room.

The news that the eldest daughter and her distinguished guest had captured a Master of the Underworld had already spread throughout the Qin family. After listening to her youngest daughter stammer an explanation, Madam Qin, Lan Kongming, pointed her to a location in the library. Then, she returned to the room where the peach wood box was placed with a stern face and began to set up a formation to purify the evil spell.

The three of them tacitly did their own things.

When they reached the underground private prison, Qin Suiliu dismissed the people around them and set up a barrier in the interrogation room. Only then did she feel at ease letting Yue Tingxi release He Shen.

Under the effects of the Thunder Tremor Talisman and the Gray Moth Pearl, He Shen had been in a coma.

Qin Suiliu summoned a rope-like magic tool and swiftly bound the man to the interrogation chair, then looked at Yue Tingxi: “Do you want to watch me interrogate him? Although I am a righteous cultivator of a prestigious sect, I am never soft-hearted towards people like this.”

Yue Tingxi did want to stay and listen. She didn’t know much about Masters of the Underworld. Since they had caught a live one, it would be a good opportunity to “catch up on her studies”.

However, she keenly sensed that Miss Qin did not want her to stay, so she wisely gave up her curiosity and walked towards the door: “I’ll wait for you outside.”

She still remembered that Miss Qin was worried about her interacting with other people in the Qin family, so she might as well read a book. She still hadn’t opened the “Human Realm Rules” book that Miss Qin gave her that morning!

Watching Yue Tingxi walk out of the barrier, Qin Suiliu activated the Gray Moth Pearl to wake up He Shen.

In just a few breaths, her eyes turned cold, as if she were looking at a dying person.

She was actually no stranger to He Shen, but all of her memories related to him came from her previous life.

That year, the Qin family was wiped out by malevolent ghosts and evil spirits overnight. Before she fell into the demon realm with severe injuries, the last person she saw was this man.

—He Shen, the high-level Master of the Underworld who was rescued by Lin Chaoyao ten years ago and then disappeared, who had cultivated an evil ghost-controlling sorcery during his disappearance, and could drive zombies and ghosts.

The square iron plate in the fire basin next to them had long been a scorching red. Qin Suiliu held the handle, which was attached with an insulation spell, and expressionlessly seared it onto He Shen’s right shoulder.

He Shen had just woken up from a coma and had not yet figured out what had happened when he was seared and screamed non-stop.

“I ask, you answer.” He heard a cold female voice commanding, “If your answer doesn’t satisfy me, I will treat you the same way you treat the living people you are about to refine.”

Even though he had been subjected to various insults in the past, it was the first time He Shen had met someone who resorted to torture right from the start.

Facing the purple-robed woman’s cold gaze, he shivered and still tried to play dumb: “I… I don’t know what you’re talking about…”

Before he could finish his words, he felt a sudden stabbing pain in his abdomen, and the intense pain quickly moved down to his dantian, as if a cold, sharp claw was clenching the Core that he had only just formed recently.

He immediately understood that the purple-robed woman in front of him was serious.

If he continued to be evasive, even if he was lucky enough to survive, he wouldn’t be able to keep his Core! The loss of cultivation meant becoming a useless waste. Everything he had painstakingly accumulated over the years would turn into nothing! He might as well die!

“Why did the Sect Master of the Azure Sun Sect come to your residence?”

He Shen was about to give in, but the purple-robed woman’s next sentence made him hold his breath.

…He couldn’t say it!

He would never betray Sect Master Lin!

“You recognize me, but I don’t remember having any contact with you,” he tried to change the subject.

“Unable to find his missing new wife, the Sect Master of the Azure Sun Sect dared to sneak into the Ghost Market the day after his wedding to seek the help of a Master of the Underworld. You must have a very deep connection, otherwise, why would he think of you first after such a major incident?”

He heard the purple-robed woman continue to question him on her own, but unexpectedly, she also used “connection” as a topic and directly confirmed the crime of “Sect Master Lin being acquainted with a Master of the Underworld”!

“No! Sect Master Lin really came to me suddenly today!” In his desperation, He Shen had to explain and quickly clarify things for Sect Master Lin, “The last time we met, I, I was severely scolded by Sect Master Lin! He even threatened me that if I truly persisted in my delusion, he would come and take this life back…”

“Since you still remember these words, why are you surprised to wake up on this interrogation chair now?”

With just one sentence, the purple-robed woman blocked all of his explanations.

“…What… do you mean?” He Shen looked at her with a mix of surprise and fear.

“How pitiful, you were schemed against without even realizing it. Even when death is imminent, you still have to speak for your ‘savior’ who has already abandoned you.” The purple-robed woman said with pity, “Do I have to spell it out for you? This is a trap. If you hadn’t continued to dabble in the business of a Master of the Underworld, you should have sternly refused him at the beginning, but you chose to prepare goods for him…”

She deliberately paused, “Tell me, how could he not be disappointed? How could he not make up his mind – to kill you, this stubborn evil ghost?”

An hour later, Yue Tingxi, who was reading a book outside, poked her head for the fifth time to look at the motionless barrier.

Why was the interrogation taking so long? Nothing could have gone wrong, could it?

As she worried, she repeatedly told herself: This is an interrogation! When the other party is tight-lipped, it’s normal for it to take all night. What’s more, Miss Qin probably just wants to get more useful information to help save the girl.

But… the “living puppet” was still waiting for them.

How long could that girl wait? Would she feel pain in her deep sleep?

Yue Tingxi nervously put away the thick book, paced back and forth a few times, and still couldn’t help but go forward and gently tap on the barrier.

“Miss? Miss Suiliu?”

She didn’t have much hope. If they were at a critical point in the interrogation, it was very likely that Miss Qin wouldn’t pay attention to her.

But as soon as she finished speaking, Qin Suiliu walked out and stared at her intently.

“What do you need me for?”

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