748: Chapter 467 Black Prison 748: Chapter 467 Black Prison Stepping on water turned to ice, the ink robe disappeared.
Staring at the traces Ran Qingmo left on the lake’s surface, Xu Yuan’s eyes lost their complexity and were replaced with a touch of astonishnt.
Through spiritual vision, the ice energy was formless.
The ice crystals that ford on the water’s surface seed to be Ran Qingmo’s nad technique, Ice Cloud Step, but what was strange was that under spiritual vision, he could not sense any fluctuation of Origin Qi on the ice crystals.
So…
Was this Dao Charm?
And moreover, it was Dao Charm that did not require the stimulation of an energy chanism…
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan controlled the expression on his face and took a deep breath in his heart; two words subconsciously erged in his mind.
Integration Path…
Ran Qingmo was actually about to break through Primordial, and he was taking the path of Integration Path!
Compared to other cultivators who had to fumble through trial and error to find their own breakthrough thods, Xu Yuan, although currently only an Integration Body, had morized various thods and cultivation ways for cultivators to advance.
Apart from the thod of breaking through to Saint Level that his old dad hadn’t given him, he held several thods for the Primordial breakthrough, Mortal Transcendence, not to ntion the thods for a Great Grandmaster to break through to Primordial.
As for a Grandmaster breaking through to Primordial, there is a widely circulated proverb in the world,
“When reaching Primordial, one can enter through martial arts and be reborn from a drop of blood, or enter through qi where the soul becos solid and can leave the body and snatch souls.”
When he first crossed over, Xu Yuan took these words seriously, but now he sees that these are just the initial two thods after all.
Whether one enters through qi or martial arts, or any other thod, the essence is to integrate the Dao Charm within oneself.
Of course, different thods of breakthrough result in different characteristics gained.
It is sowhat similar to that proverb, but the description in the proverb is sowhat exaggerated.
Among all these thods to break through Primordial, the known hardest path is the Integration Path.
Because Integration Path has so subtle differences from the usual Doa-rging thods of breaking through realms.
rging with the Dao is integrating the Dao Charm into oneself, while the Integration Path is slowly converting oneself into Dao Charm.
The most significant feature is that the fluctuation of Origin Qi will be replaced by Dao Charm.
For cultivators who break through realms with the thod of the Integration Path, because the fluctuation of Origin Qi is concealed, their stealth abilities will be stronger, and they can attach Dao Charm to every single movent without the need for Origin Qi to drive it.
Typical representatives are that elder sister Lou Ji and Luo Bingli, the Semi-Saint powerhouse who ambushed him in Huizhou County earlier.
However, this does not an that cultivators who follow the Integration Path will necessarily be stronger than those on the Path of Dao-rging.
As Lou Ji used to say,
‘The Path of Dao-rging and the Integration Path are just two different paths.
Whether one is strong or not still depends on the individual.
Your maternal uncle and elder brother both entered through Dao-rging, and there are none among their peers strong enough to suppress them.’
Thinking about this, Xu Yuan looked again at the lonely pavilion standing on the lakeshore.
Based on the spiritual vision just now, the Big Ice Lump should soon break through Primordial, with the resources from the Pri Minister’s Mansion tilted in her favor.
He felt a mix of joy in his heart and finally sighed silently.
He, probably won’t be able to breach her defenses again soon…
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Due to the identity of Third Grade official Wang Yuqian, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, they smoothly entered the deepest part of the Pri Minister’s Mansion that outsiders could access, the Glittering Water Courtyard.
It was a complex built upon a huge man-made lake, covering hundreds of acres, with buildings of jade and beauty connected by water walkways, while the lake was dotted with lotus and water lilies, with koi fish swimming amongst them, and one could sll the faint fragrance of clear water.
Here, was where the high-level annual eting of the Pri Minister’s Mansion took place and the pinnacle of the architectural craftsmanship of the era.
After all, under this lake was the enormous dungeon.
This was a traditional skill of the old Xu Family.
There was a dungeon below Xu Residence in Jingjiang Prefecture, and there was one in the Pri Minister’s Mansion in the Imperial Capital as well.
The difference was that the dungeon below Xu Residence did not have a na, while the one under the Pri Minister’s Mansion had many fine nas, one of which was Black Prison, one of the three major prisons of Dayan.
Yes, the Black Prison that held many remnants of the village massacre.
After being led to the Glittering Water Courtyard by the attendant, they were soon guided into a quiet loft, beneath which was a secret passage leading directly to Black Prison.
Looking at the abyss-like tunnel that opened with a rumble in front of him, Xu Yuan suddenly rembered a cold joke Lou Ji had told him before.
Changtian, do you know why the Pri Minister’s Mansion’s routine etings are held in this exposed courtyard?
Of course, it’s for the convenience of throwing so of those incompetent fools into the Black Prison, hehehehe~
Every year, when the senior officials of the Pri Minister’s Mansion convene for the routine eting, so people will be taken away to the Black Prison, and this year, the number of people going in should be a bit higher…
After all,
my father has already said,
this year, there will be a major purge within the Pri Minister’s Mansion.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan gently shook his head and stepped into the Black Prison.
The process of entering the inner court of the Pri Minister’s Mansion was much more complicated than Xu Yuan had imagined.
It was like the underground resistance movents in the movies connecting with each other through secret signals.
Wang Yuqian, that little old man, was in front giving the passwords, then entering layer by layer.
But when you think about it, it really does need to be this troubleso.
After all, he couldn’t use the identity of the son of the Vice Minister of War nor his real identity, and during the ti he returned to the inner court, there had to be soone who replaced him, becoming the person brought back to the Wang Residence by Wang Yuqian, the Vice Minister of War.
During this process, there could be no room for error at any point.
Following the guide’s lead, Xu Yuan was actually quite interested in looking around this dungeon.
He had already been to the Imperial Prison, and now he was in the Black Prison; if he visited the Sky Prison once more, he could achieve a title called “Pure Prison Style” in the Cangyuan Chronicles.
Compared to the Imperial Prison, where the sll of blood and decay was everywhere, the narrow and cramped tunnels of the Black Prison in his own ho were much cleaner, and the air even had so incense in it.
It’s no wonder since the place was directly under the jurisdiction of my elder sister Lou Ji.
However, after Xu Yuan used his spiritual vision to see through the closed walls engraved with Formation Patterns, this idea was dispelled.
Bloody,
Very bloody.
Because of the powerful life force of high-level cultivators, the thods of torture in this world were far more nurous than in the ancient tis of the previous world.
“Drip… drip… drip…”
The three of them walked silently through the narrow corridors of the Black Prison, their footsteps echoing far and wide, no screams, but it was eerie.
When he arrived in front of a sealed prison cell, Xu Yuan suddenly stopped, lifting his eyes to look at the characters on the prison door.
Yin Liulan.
Since it was managed by Lou Ji, the important cells were typically nad after flowers.
And if Xu Yuan’s mory served him correctly, this cell nad Yin Liulan was holding an old man with white beard and hair.
An old man who acted without reservation, just like a child, with high “swagger.”
Nad Naless.
Of course, this person’s real na is definitely not Naless.
But the Cangyuan Chronicles had taken the title of an old man nad Naless, and players would not know the true na and identity of the character under any of the various endings.
As for why this high-swagger old man was locked up in the Black Prison?
Heh.
According to the plot in Cangyuan Chronicles, perhaps this old man called Naless could be useful.
After all,
he really was quite powerful.
If there were no major changes, could he maybe be a match for my elder sister Lou Ji?
With these thoughts, Xu Yuan chuckled softly, shook his head, and continued to move forward, but he made a ntal note of this location.
When he had ti, he could try coming to check it out.
The paths within the Black Prison were intricate and complex, but there was no direct access to the inner court; Xu Yuan and the others entered just to avoid drawing attention under the guise of passing through.
After several more transfers, Xu Yuan finally took off the human skin mask and returned to his own inner court.
Then,
upon pushing open the room door,
he saw himself, Xu Xinyao, asleep on his own bed.
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