“Lin Zhaoting.”
Hearing someone call his name, Lin Zhaoting, who was practicing his sword, put down his sword. He looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was Fu Zhiyou who had called his name.
“Senior Sister Fu,” Lin Zhaoting respectfully bowed to Fu Zhiyou.
“Come with me, Master wants to see you,” Fu Zhiyou said coolly.
The other inner disciples immediately looked at Lin Zhaoting with envy.
The Peak Lord actually wanted to see Lin Zhaoting. Could it be that he wanted to take Lin Zhaoting as his personal disciple?
However, Lin Zhaoting was indeed exceptionally talented and hardworking, and was now at the eighth level of the Qi Cultivation Stage.
Although he couldn't compare to their Junior Martial Aunt at all, among the inner disciples who had just joined the sect, he was already considered an outstanding one.
Lin Zhaoting's heart skipped a beat.
Normally, the Peak Lord hadn't shown him any special attention, so why would he suddenly send Senior Sister Fu to summon him today?
Could it be…?
Impossible, Qing Gui always had principles when taking orders and wouldn't leak the employer's information.
And by his estimation, the secret realm probably hadn't been open for long, so Wen Xiangjie and Qing Gui should still be exploring within the secret realm.
It seemed very possible that his recent performance had caught the Peak Lord's eye.
Thinking of this, the expression on Lin Zhaoting's face relaxed considerably.
“Please lead the way, Senior Sister,” Lin Zhaoting said with a smile.
Following behind Fu Zhiyou, Lin Zhaoting couldn't help but fantasize about his future development.
Now that he had caught the eye of the Lingjian Peak Lord, and once the news of Wen Xiangjie's death arrived in a few days, with this great mountain no longer weighing down on him, he would surely be able to climb to the very top of the Taiyi Sect step by step with his excellent performance.
With the resources of the Taiyi Sect, he would surely be able to ascend to the Upper Realm and clear this game instance!
As for whether Wen Xiangjie could return alive?
No matter how heaven-defying Wen Xiangjie's talent was, she still needed time to develop. Having entered the game instance for such a short time, she couldn't possibly defeat Qing Gui, who was already at the Mid Nascent Soul Stage!
Just as Lin Zhaoting was wondering if Wen Xiangjie had encountered Qing Gui yet, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his Sea of Consciousness, and then he lost all awareness.
After an unknown amount of time, he woke up groggily.
“Hiss—” Lin Zhaoting instinctively clutched his head and cried out in pain. His Sea of Consciousness was still throbbing with needle-like pain.
“The last one woke up,” a pleasant female voice entered his ears.
“As expected of Senior Sister Fu, a sword cultivator. Once she starts, she gets a little carried away and almost killed him directly.”
Lin Zhaoting struggled to suppress the pain in his Sea of Consciousness, raised his head, and saw Wen Xiangjie sitting opposite him, holding a cup of ice-cold little drink.
“Wen Xiangjie?!” Lin Zhaoting cried out Wen Xiangjie's name in disbelief.
He quickly scanned his surroundings and found that imprisoned in this cell were not only himself, Zhang Yu, and Zhou Yibin from the Taiyi Sect, but also Lin Zhaoyuan from the Baiyu Sect, as well as those Family disciples who had joined other sects.
Except for Lin Zhaokai and the already confirmed dead Zhou Yunchang and that collateral Family member of the Lin Family, all the Family disciples who had entered the game instance were imprisoned here.
All swept up by Wen Xiangjie.
Given the situation, Lin Zhaoting wouldn't foolishly ask Wen Xiangjie why she was here.
It was clear that their plot to hire Qing Gui to kill Wen Xiangjie had been completely exposed, which was why they had been sent to Wen Xiangjie, to be dealt with as she pleased.
“What is your cultivation level now, exactly?” Lin Zhaoting didn't speak, but Zhang Yu, unwilling to accept, asked from the side.
Even now, he still didn't believe that Wen Xiangjie had escaped Qing Gui's pursuit on her own.
Even if Wen Xiangjie's golden finger effect was heaven-defying, and she quickly ascended to the Golden Core stage relying on it, in such a short time, Wen Xiangjie shouldn't have been able to advance further.
To completely break these people's psychological defenses would make Wen Xiangjie's upcoming interrogation more convenient.
So Wen Xiangjie, with great kindness, exerted the pressure of a Perfected Nascent Soul Stage on Zhang Yu and the others.
“Perfected Nascent Soul Stage???” Zhang Yu's eyes were splitting with rage.
The physical pressure from Wen Xiangjie was not as difficult to bear as the severe blow to his spirit, which made it even harder for him to breathe.
Not much time had passed since Wen Xiangjie broke through to the Golden Core stage, and she had actually broken through again!
And this time, she had almost broken through two major realms, because Wen Xiangjie was only one step away from reaching the Leaving Aperture Stage!
How could Zhang Yu possibly accept this!
Before entering the game instance, he was a strong individual close to level 60, while Wen Xiangjie was just a level 20 novice.
According to the rules of the game instance, the basic attributes he gained after entering the game instance should have been several times higher than Wen Xiangjie's. However, after Wen Xiangjie entered the instance, her basic attributes not only crushed theirs by several times, but her subsequent cultivation growth was also ridiculously fast.
He even suspected that if the game instance allowed it, a level 90 strong individual entering this game instance with Wen Xiangjie would probably also be crushed by Wen Xiangjie within this game instance, wouldn't they?
All of this was simply too absurd!
Zhang Yu couldn't accept it!
“You're cheating! You must be cheating!” Zhang Yu pointed his index finger at Wen Xiangjie and roared, “You, a level 20 novice… Ah ah ah ah ah!!!”
Zhang Yu's words were cut short by a piercing scream.
Because his index finger, extended to point at Wen Xiangjie, was forcibly broken by an unseen force, and the bones inside the index finger were crushed into powder inch by inch.
Ten fingers are connected to the heart; even though Zhang Yu was already a Cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Stage, he could not endure such excruciating pain.
“I like it when you say I'm cheating, but I don't like it when you point at me with your finger,” Wen Xiangjie said with a smile.
The formation set up in this prison was truly excellent; as long as she wanted, any kind of torture could be arranged immediately.
Seeing Zhang Yu being tormented by Wen Xiangjie like this, Lin Zhaoting and the others closed their eyes and their mouths.
They understood that Wen Xiangjie would not let them go.
Now, they were the fish on the chopping block, and they only wished for death.
“Already begging for death? You're thinking quite beautifully,” Wen Xiangjie took a sip of her ice-cold little drink. “You Families went to such great lengths to cause me trouble, shouldn't I get some compensation from you?”
Wen Xiangjie snapped her fingers, and various tortures began immediately.
Immediately, screams rose and fell within the prison.
After enjoying it for a while, Wen Xiangjie found it too noisy. She took out a silencing formation plate and integrated it into the prison, and the entire world instantly became quiet.
However, just because she couldn't hear their screams didn't mean they couldn't hear her sarcastic remarks.
“Tsk tsk tsk, this one being burned, it's like a wild boar having its hair singed.”
“Each of you, outside, were respected as level 60 strong individuals. Why did you have to be so thoughtless as to enter this game instance?”