Chapter 123 The Truth

The ghost struggled desperately as he looked at me. "You... how could you break free from the traps?"

I squatted down and patted his face twice with my blade. "Those things you use are all leftovers from what I used to play with. When a grandson sees his grandpa, shouldn't he listen obediently?"

I wasn't bragging when I said that.

Back when the Nine Devils were training me, what kind of tricks hadn't they used? They must have tied my hands and feet and thrown me into the water countless times.

They weren't just trying to scare me; if I didn't find a way to save myself, I really would have drowned. Later, when ropes didn't work anymore, they used chains, even combination locks.

I'm not as good as Ye Yang when it comes to dealing with large mechanisms, but when it comes to opening handcuffs and things like that, he's really not as good as me.

When I was entangled in the combination lock, I used my curved blade to create some space for my hands. When the ghost was teaching Wang the Butcher how to use the knife, I had already quietly opened the lock.

I stared at the ghost on the ground. "Bai, shouldn't you be returning to the Underworld with me?"

The ghost shook his head. "No! I can't go back with you. If the prisoners below Zhenyu (Suppression Prison) don't come out, the art of Dao will be in danger, the art of Dao will be in danger!"

I said in a deep voice, "I can give you time to convince me. But remember, I don't want to hear any lies. Otherwise, this prison will be the burial place of your Bai family."

The ghost said, "I am Bai Hongzhen. Old Wang brought me here back then, saying that he wanted to slaughter demon beasts. After I came here, I discovered that this prison held someone who could shake the world."

"At that time, someone told me that only the person in the dungeon could save the art of Dao..."

I interrupted him when I heard this. "Who told you this? What evidence did he have?"

A look of confusion appeared in Bai Hongzhen's eyes. "Who told me? It was Old Wang... no, it wasn't Old Wang. Old Wang was sitting with me at the time, and that person was sitting across from us."

"Who was that person?"

Bai Hongzhen repeated it several times, and madness surged in his eyes again. "Everything I said is true. The great calamity is coming, and the art of Dao will be destroyed! If that person is not rescued, the world will surely be plunged into misery!"

"Look at me!" Ye Yang suddenly shouted, his eyes filled with cold fury.

Ye Yang wanted to use his Divine Eyes to test the truth of the matter, but he shook his head after a moment. "It's useless, his memory has been erased. Even if you shatter his soul, he won't be able to remember the person from back then."

"The person who did it also injected a bit of obsession into his soul. With this obsession, he will always believe that the person in the prison must be released. We can't take this person away unless we go to the prison."

I couldn't help but frown when I heard this. Once a ghost's obsession becomes too strong, it will bind itself to a certain place. Forcibly taking the other party away without resolving his obsession will result in the ghost immediately disappearing into thin air.

If we can't take Bai Hongzhen's Earth Soul with us, didn't we come here for nothing?

Do we have to risk going down to Zhenyu (Suppression Prison) again to find someone?

Is this really worth it?

I paused for a moment and said, "Bai, you don't even know who is imprisoned in Zhenyu (Suppression Prison), do you?"

"It's a Divine General! It's a reincarnated Divine General!" Bai Hongzhen said, "Who else but a reincarnated star from the heavens can turn the tide! The one imprisoned below is a Divine General."

When Ye Yang and I looked at each other, we seemed to understand the meaning in each other's eyes: Greed Wolf!

The person we both thought of at the same time was Greed Wolf!

I asked calmly, "What happened after that? Why didn't you ever go down to Zhenyu (Suppression Prison)?"

Bai Hongzhen said, "There are five checkpoints below Zhenyu (Suppression Prison), each of which tests the swordsmanship of the person who comes. Only those who can reach above the Grandmaster level are qualified to go down to Zhenyu (Suppression Prison) to save people."

"After the Divine General was possessed by some kind of evil, he sealed his consciousness and threw himself into a coffin. He's waiting for someone to cut off the evil spirit possessing him."

"The two great experts of the Heavenly Prison, hiding their identities, guard Zhenyu (Suppression Prison). The person they need to guard is not the Divine General, but the evil spirit possessing him."

I said in a deep voice, "Do you know what that evil spirit is?"

"I don't know!" Bai Hongzhen shook his head. "People who haven't gone down to Zhenyu (Suppression Prison) will never know the true face of the evil spirit. Even the two great jailers don't know. They can only stand on the top floor of Zhenyu (Suppression Prison)."

I asked again, "Do those two jailers know you've been here?"

"They know!" Bai Hongzhen nodded. "They never stop the descendants of the Bai and Wang families, because they know that only we can rescue the Divine General. However, they will not allow a large number of disciples to enter Zhenyu (Suppression Prison). The fewer people who know the secrets here, the better."

Bai Hongzhen's words were similar to my original judgment. Without the mediation of the two jailers, the disciples might have already discovered the location of Zhenyu (Suppression Prison).

I asked again, "Do you know that the Wei family of the jailers once took someone away from the dungeon?"

"It wasn't the Wei family who took the person away, it was the Wang family!" Bai Hongzhen said, "To be precise, that person left with someone from the Wang family. At that time, when the Wei and Wang families were changing shifts, I saw someone lying on the back of a Wang family disciple and being carried out."

"It seemed that there was even an argument with the person who came to change shifts with him. Later, the Wang family disciple came back and guarded here for another year before changing shifts with the Wei family."