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Chapter 122 - 50, Life and Death Chess

Thirteen Flames, as an Ultimate Killing Skill, could render the owner of the stele invincible in an era beneath the Great Cultivators, showing its formidable power.

Although the owner of the stele also practiced the Demon Refining Body Method, the main reason for his prowess was this Ultimate Killing Skill.

Now that it was completed, Lin Yue had gained another trump card.

"Very good."

Lin Yue smiled and used the Silent Bone to store the fragment of the stele.

He kept important treasures within the storage space of the Silent Bone, while other miscellaneous items were kept in an emerald ring left by a Patrol Envoy.

Then, Lin Yue continued to explore the storage space within the belt.

After a moment.

"Why are there so many gourds?"

Lin Yue grabbed in the void and pulled out a purplish-black gourd, slightly shaking it to find it filled with liquid.

Casually pulling out the gourd’s stopper, he found it contained a cyan-gray medicinal liquid.

"What is this?"

Lin Yue smelled a strange fragrance, vaguely feeling an odd sensation rising in his body, like excitement mixed with dizziness, and his breathing became a bit rapid.

Baili Fengzhi sniffed and, being a strong Martial Cultivator, immediately noticed the change in her body.

She slightly frowned and said, "It feels somewhat like opium; when I was at the Northwest Pass, the mortal soldiers under my command used opium to relieve stress and for entertainment, but it greatly affected their health over time and was addictive, so I expressly banned it."

"Opium?"

Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrow and said, "That stuff is only effective on mortals, but just smelling this liquid causes a reaction in my body; it’s probably effective on Martial Cultivators as well."

"Master..." Master hesitated for a moment, then said, "This should be Immortal Fate Water."

"Immortal Fate Water?"

Lin Yue looked at him. "You’ve seen it?"

"I’ve heard of it," Master said. "Immortal Fate Water is a cyan-gray liquid, similar in effect to opium, but very expensive. After taking it, one feels as if floating towards paradise, and the user also becomes addicted. Martial Artists from the Four Symbols Heaven Barrier who take it too much find it very hard to quit."

Lin Yue nodded in realization.

"It seems, this Supreme Elder of the Nanyun Sect has been using this stuff to keep dogs," he said softly. "This isn’t medicine; it’s poison."

"Indeed, it’s poison."

Master nodded slightly and said, "It originally seemed to have spread from Di Hong City, and many suspected the Twelfth Prince was behind it, but no evidence was ever found, and since then, Immortal Fate Water has not appeared in Di Hong City."

Lin Yue understood.

The Twelfth Prince, suspected to be the reincarnation of the Myriad Poison Demon Ancestor who excelled in using poison.

A prince cultivating power, such addictive poison could not only earn huge profits but also be used to control others; hence, the suspicion toward the Twelfth Prince was naturally the greatest.

"Again, the Twelfth Prince..."

Lin Yue narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Let’s go ask this Supreme Elder of the Nanyun Sect."

...

Inside the prison of the Sword Seeking Boat.

"Splash."

A fierce stream of water appeared out of nowhere, hitting the face of the glamorous woman, who was no longer glamorous.

Lying on the ground, the glamorous woman suddenly woke up, only then realizing that there was a chair in front of her, and sitting on the chair was the young man known as ’Master.’

The humiliating memories before she lost consciousness surged up; she immediately remembered the fear of almost having her skull crushed and started retreating frantically, tremblingly saying, "What... what are you doing..."

Lin Yue shook the gourd in his hand and casually asked, "You haven’t taken Immortal Fate Water, have you?"

"You... you actually know?" The glamorous woman looked at him in panic.

"You use this stuff to keep dogs, right?"

Lin Yue casually pulled out the stopper and looked at her with a mocking smile, "Want to try it? Once you’ve taken enough, you’ll probably beg me for the drug like a dog, right?"

The glamorous woman was stunned, her mind recalling the men she had turned into dogs with the liquid, remembering their ugly and humble appearances—once she shifted from the master to that miserable and humiliated state...

"No! Please no!!"

She immediately collapsed, screaming and frantically shrinking back, wriggling on the ground like a maggot.

At the same time, she looked at Lin Yue in fear, her voice trembling, "Kill me, please, don’t make me take Immortal Fate Water! Please, I beg you!"

Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrow.

The abuser knows best what the victims have endured and what they have become.

Thus, they are most afraid of becoming victims themselves.

"From now on, I’ll ask you a question, and you’ll answer one; each mistake, I’ll feed you a sip."

Lin Yue shook the gourd in his hand and asked, "Understood?"

"Understood, understood!" The glamorous woman immediately nodded.

Lin Yue spoke calmly, "You search for talented young Martial Cultivators, for what purpose?"

"A mysterious man, unknown to me, asked me to find young Martial Cultivator talents; for each sufficiently talented Martial Cultivator I found, he would reward me with a treasure."

The glamorous woman quickly said, "There were precious Spirit Pills and secret texts and treasures; once when I found an extremely talented Martial Cultivator, he even rewarded me with a storage treasure."

Saying so, she subconsciously looked toward her waist, noticing her belt had been removed, then looked at the gourd in Lin Yue’s hands, realizing her storage treasure had been forcefully opened by this young man.

This suddenly made her even more terrified.

Reasonably, only Great Cultivators could forcefully open her storage treasure!

"How long?" Lin Yue asked.

"Five years."

The glamorous woman honestly said.

She didn’t know how much the young man knew, but since her actions had been anticipated by him, she already suspected he had incredible intelligence capabilities; at this point, she naturally dared not lie.