Perhaps, the prison guard who delivers the food is my chance to escape!

I quickly pressed myself against the prison door, holding my breath. The guard soon passed the tray through the iron window.

As the guard reached in, I secretly turned my palm into a claw, aiming for his wrist.

Just as I was about to restrain him, the guard tapped the tray a few times with his finger—a signal from Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall), meaning: be careful.

I slowly lowered my hand, took the tray, and the guard quickly withdrew his hand and hurried away.

I waited until the guard was far away before dumping everything from the tray onto the floor and searching through it. Finding nothing unusual, I broke open the steamed bun lying nearby.

Unexpectedly, I found a finger inside.

I was immediately shocked. Judging by the shape of the finger, its owner should be a young girl.

Although I didn't know who this severed finger belonged to, I was certain she must be from Liangjie Tang. Otherwise, threatening me with a severed finger would be meaningless.

"Bastard!" I stood up, clutching the severed finger, and punched the iron door of the cell.

The cell door buzzed from the impact, but I still felt like the frustration in my chest couldn't be vented. "Zhu Zining, I swear I won't rest until I tear you to pieces."

I had been desperately protecting Liangjie Tang, afraid of losing any of my friends there. Now, one of their fingers was presented before me, bloodied.

Unable to vent the anger in my heart, I raised my hand again towards the cell door.

Before my fist landed, I felt the finger I was holding move in my hand.

Before I could react, the finger flung itself to the ground. After a moment, I saw bones and flesh growing from the end of the finger. In just a few seconds, it transformed into a pale white palm, and it continued to grow rapidly.

In a few short seconds, an arm, shoulder, neck, and face grew out one after another.

Just as I was on full alert, the person's features emerged from her face.

"Su Su?"

As I stared dumbfounded at Su Su's face, she shrieked, "Turn around! Close your eyes! Are you trying to be a pervert? Don't tell you to turn back!"

I quickly turned around, facing away from Su Su, and said, "What's going on?"

Su Su said, "I tried it. This prison can block ghosts and gods from entering, but it has a threshold. If you don't exceed that point, you'll be ignored. So I sneaked in with just one finger."

So, Su Su was the type of ghost with extremely strong regenerative abilities. As long as a part of her body remained, she could be reborn.

"Su Su, are you a mutated earthworm?" I asked, facing away from her. "Um, can you still fight after you grow back?"

Su Su gritted her teeth and said, "When I get back, I'll have Butcher Jie and the others deal with you."

"It's not like my body was shattered by an opponent. I don't need to recover my strength after being reborn."

"After you were captured, Ling told me that everything was under control. She told me to find Little Cat first, and through Little Cat, find a way to sneak in and find you, then take you to Ye Yang."

"Ling said that whether we can break this situation depends on whether you can find the secret hidden in this prison."

"Also, Ling said, don't worry about what's happening outside. The civil officials of the underworld are good at using the rules, and the Ten Yama Envoys aren't made of clay or paper either. Even if they don't win, they won't suffer a loss in their struggle."

"Wang Hun and the others haven't made a move because they want to find the Huangquan (Yellow Springs) smuggler who infiltrated the Yang Jian (mortal realm) officials. The game between them has just begun, and you are the key to their struggle."

"Only when you're safe can we take care of the rest!"

I asked in confusion, "Ling, having me cause trouble in the prison, won't that put Wang Hun and the others at a disadvantage?"

Su Su replied, "I asked Ling about this too."

"Ling said: Wang Hun and the others will find a way to resolve it. She told you not to worry."

I breathed a sigh of relief. Now that I calmed down and thought about it, I was indeed a little impatient.

Although Wang Hun had gone to the underworld, his subordinates had always been involved in officialdom. Furthermore, in addition to their status as sorcerers, the Five Emissaries also had the backing of their sects' vast assets. They were not so easy to deal with.

The fact that Little Cat and the others had not rescued me yet only meant that they were competing with their opponents, not that they were necessarily at a disadvantage.

I immediately asked back, "How did Ling know that there was a secret hidden beneath this prison?"

Su Su said again, "Little Cat and the others deliberately got you into this prison. They already knew that there was a ghostly mystic realm hidden beneath this prison. However, this prison isn't under Little Cat's jurisdiction, so there's no way to investigate it openly."

"Bringing you and Ye Yang in is actually to give you a chance to use the secret realm beneath the prison to fight back."

"Ling and Lao Liu (Old Liu) had already calculated all of this."

"They are moving forward step by step. Oh right..."

Su Su suddenly seemed to remember something and quickly reminded me, "Lao Liu said, these are all Ling's arrangements, they have nothing to do with him!"

I gnashed my teeth and said, "That old bastard, I'll break at least two of his legs when we get back!"