His expression changed drastically.
The cave was filled with the stench of decay and foul odor.
Young boys and girls in the prime of their lives were imprisoned inside, their faces blank, their eyes filled with fear and despair.
Their hands and feet were shackled with chains, the other end of which was inserted deep into the rock wall, severely limiting their range of movement.
Most of them wore tattered clothes, some were even barely clothed, and their wounds had only received basic treatment; some were so severe that they had become infected.
Maggots even appeared, and the animal lay on the ground, barely breathing.
Even more shockingly, several of the women among them were pregnant, their bellies swollen, scratching the ground in agony, completely deranged.
"Let me out, please!"
Someone rushed forward, pulled on the chains, fell to the ground, got up, and knelt down in front of them.
The disheveled girl stretched out her hand but could only barely reach Yu Tang's trouser leg. She cried and begged in a sorry state, "Please, let me out!"
"I'll give you anything as long as you let me go back!"
"My family is a noble family in Qintian City. If you just let me out, my father will give you anything you want!"
"Please...please let me go home..."
Chapter 33
Died for the villain for the tenth time (33)
Yu Tang felt a sharp pain in his heart upon seeing this scene, and his eyes reddened.
Even though Wei Yuan told him that these were things that had happened in the past, at this moment, he seemed to see Wei Yuan and his mother from the past through the current scene and through this girl.
In this filthy environment, they suffered endless hardships, living a life worse than death.
Wei Yuan grabbed Yu Tang from behind and pulled him behind him.
Then he gently shook his head.
Yu Tang understood what he meant.
He lowered his eyes, unable to bear looking any longer.
But then other masked monks saw the girl.
He suddenly grabbed the girl by the collar, carefully examined her face, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"Nobility?" the monk said. "Don't you know that here, your family background is the least valuable thing?"
Here, they are all puppets controlled by others, and their lives are more important than anything else.
In such an environment, everyone has only one path to take: depravity.
The monk chuckled wickedly and said, "But as expected of a noblewoman, a pampered young lady is indeed beautiful."
His hand caressed the girl's face: "How about this, if you serve me well, I'll consider letting you go..."
"I..." The girl hesitated.
She looked at the pregnant women around her, smelled the stench, and finally closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face: "I promise you, just please let me out, please..."
Seeing this, Yu Tang finally lost his temper and grabbed the cultivator's hand with such force that the cultivator screamed in pain.
The fingers that were gripping the girl loosened, and the girl fell to the ground, staring blankly at the scene.
"What are you doing?!" Upon seeing this, the other cultivators immediately drew their swords and pointed them at Yu Tang.
"Do you intend to betray the master?!"
The cultivators rebuked Yu Tang: "If you dare to betray that lord, the Soul-Sealing Seal on your neck will prevent you from even leaving this cave!"
"So that's how it is?" Yu Tang's face was cold, and his tone was sarcastic.
"I'm so scared."
As he said this, he drew his sword in the blink of an eye and, in an instant, took the heads of those cultivators.
More than a dozen headless corpses lay on the ground, blood flowing everywhere, shocking everyone, including Wei Yuan.
With another slash of the longsword, he severed the chains binding everyone in the cave.
Yu Tang took a few quick steps, kicked open the sealing barrier, broke through the enchantment, and said to the people behind him, "Go..."
"The farther you go, the better."
After saying that, he quickly led Wei Yuan away from this filthy place.
In the forest, Yu Tang remained silent, only pulling Wei Yuan away from the cave. However, the images from earlier still lingered in his mind, causing him to tighten his grip on Wei Yuan's hand and breathe rapidly.
Wei Yuan said softly, "Master, were you angered by that cultivator's behavior towards the girl?"
“Not entirely…” Yu Tang felt his emotions had stabilized a little before he stopped walking.
He looked up at Wei Yuan and reached out to touch Wei Yuan's face.
"I was thinking of you." Yu Tang's eyes were still red, and she tried to take a deep breath to keep the tears from falling. "I can't bear to think that you used to go through the same thing."
It's one thing to say something, but it's another to see it with your own eyes.
Yu Tang was truly provoked just now, and he now completely understands why Wei Yuan killed so many people in the past.
Because in such a situation, no one would remain rational.
Wei Yuan grasped his hand, pressed it against his cheek, gently rubbed it, and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Master, I've made you sad."
"Actually, when I saw you being so impulsive, I was initially shocked and wanted to stop you, but later I was mostly happy."
He smiled, his eyes crinkling: "Especially when you kicked that fence open, I felt like I was saved too."
"You don't need to be so sad about what I went through. Because now, I have been rescued from that hell by you, Master."
He embraced Yu Tang, his heart filled with an unbelievable warmth: "I'm so happy right now, really... so happy..."
Yu Tang felt even more aroused by his words.
The tears she had been holding back started falling uncontrollably again. She quickly reached out to wipe them away and replied to Wei Yuan, "You brat, you don't need to apologize at all."
This argument between the two completely threw Yao Huashan into chaos.
It even alarmed the sect leader and many elders of the Qingcang Sword Sect.
Yu Tang and Wei Yuan concealed their presence, completely hiding their figures in the grass, and observed the passing crowd.
When Yu Tang saw those people with extremely high cultivation levels, his eyes widened slightly.
Because he recognized the leader as one of the people who had stopped him from taking Wei Yuan away after he repaired the crack some time ago.
“I’ve seen that person,” Yu Tang said, telling Wei Yuan everything he knew.
Wei Yuan said, "He was also the one who led me to the last cave in Wanku Mountain."
"We will continue to use the identities of Gu Yuan'er and Chi Yu to delve deeper into the Qingcang Sword Sect. We should be able to find out more about the Yintian Dao."
The two were of one mind.
Seeing that dawn was approaching, he transformed back into his youthful form and became the first group to arrive at the gates of the Qingcang Sword Sect.
"Only two this year?" The disciple waiting in front of the mountain gate looked different from the masked cultivators. He didn't have a diamond pattern on his neck. When he saw Yu Tang and Wei Yuan, he shook his head.
I went up to them, asked their names, and then made a note of them in the booklet.
She murmured, "A man and a woman need to live separately. One in the West Garden, and the other in the East Garden..."
Upon hearing this, Wei Yuan immediately became anxious and said, "Brother, Brother Chi Yu and I have been engaged since childhood, we can live together!"
"That won't do." The disciple adopted an stern and impartial demeanor: "There are rules in the sect that men and women must never live together, and you two are engaged, so there can be no exception."
"Pfft..." Yu Tang couldn't help but laugh when he saw Wei Yuan's attempt to steal a chicken backfire.
Wei Yuan was so angry that he didn't speak to him for a long time after entering the room.
But when it was late at night and Yu Tang went out to fetch some water, when he came back, he saw the "little girl" in red lying inside him, winking at him.
"Brother Chiyu, you can't shake me off..."
Chapter 34
Died for the villain for the tenth time (34)
Yu Tang was already used to Wei Yuan's way of doing things, so he wasn't too surprised.
He placed the basin on the ground, sat down on the edge of the bed, and looked down at Wei Yuan: "I didn't want to get rid of you. I wish you would stick to me every day."
Wei Yuan was secretly pleased. He sat up, put his arm around Yu Tang's waist from behind, and began to get down to business: "I found out that there is a place in the center of the Qingcang Sword Sect that only the sect leader and elders can go, called the Mutian Hall. Ordinary disciples who enter will be punished with death. I think we should be able to find some information there."
"Hmm..." Yu Tang turned his gaze to the basin of clear water, stretched out his finger, and condensed his true energy to form a drop of golden water.
It dripped from my fingertips.
It slammed into the basin with a loud thud.
Wei Yuan watched as the water droplet struck the spot, instantly spreading out layers of black mist.
Seemingly frightened by the water droplets, it kept retreating towards the edge of the basin.
“This is the drinking water here,” Yu Tang said. “I heard that this water is not only for the people of the Qingcang Sword Sect, but also flows into the villages and towns at the foot of Yaohua Mountain.”
“If you drink it for a long time, these black energies will accumulate in your body, and the consequences will be unimaginable.”
"If the gods in the Tower of Heaven and the Temple of Heaven in the Divine Realm also did such things, then it can be seen that Yin Tian Dao not only wanted to separate you and me."
Instead, they wanted to subtly and gradually gain control over both the human and divine realms.
Wei Yuan was surprised: "But he is the Heavenly Dao, which is supreme, so why would he do these things?"
"Gods need to be worshipped, and the same principle should apply to the way of Heaven."
The Yin and Yang principles are opposing forces. The Yang principle is the correct one and represents the great way of heaven and earth, which naturally attracts many believers.
But Yin Tiandao is inherently the dark side, and there is more light than darkness in the world. He has always been suppressed by Yang Tiandao, so he is naturally dissatisfied.
Therefore, he needs believers, more and more believers, to cause chaos and make the world a mess, thereby providing him with the yin energy he needs.