The young lad Gouzi looked at Li Qingmu with disdain, thinking this person was truly shaless.
He did not know that this man’s wife always thought he was a scoundrel, and if she knew, she would certainly agree.
"Click, click!"
"Ah, ah, ah..."
Inside ca the sound of gears turning, the gate slowly creaked open, accompanied by a foul odor, with harrowing screams erging from within.
The screams made one’s scalp tingle. Li Qingmu looked at Gouzi, "Is this where you trained before?"
Gouzi nodded, "Yes, many were trained to beco various types of death warriors, then sold elsewhere. So couldn’t endure and died, becoming sacrificial offerings. I was lucky, a master saw potential in and taught chanical techniques."
"Look out!"
Just as Gouzi and Li Qingmu were talking, two people suddenly rushed out from inside the gate. They appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen, their eyes empty, devoid of any life as they slashed at Li Qingmu with hefty axes.
"Clang!"
Nan Haitang quickly stood in front and pushed forcefully, toppling the two while his long sword sliced downward, taking one of their heads off.
This strike t with great resistance, but Nan Haitang, being skilled in martial arts, managed to decapitate the person.
"These people are also undead, but are not yet fully ford, so they can be slain with ordinary blades, though it’s quite labor-intensive."
Gouzi explained while looking at Nan Haitang, giving him a thumbs up, "You may be a pretty boy, but you’re far more capable than this fellow beside !"
Li Qingmu: "..."
This brat!
Li Qingmu rudely gave him a head pat as they continued deeper, their eyes taking in everything in this underground facility.
This place was ant exclusively for cultivating special individuals. A long corridor stretched through the middle, with rooms on either side.
Each room had an iron-barred section, giving a view inside.
The first room was large enough for thirty to forty people, with periodic screams of battle and biting heard from within.
This was the Gu breeding room.
The strongest children were selected and then distributed below.
Li Qingmu glanced and tightened his scalp at the filthy and dirty scene, full of children’s severed bones and intestines, with the few survivors still fighting ferociously inside.
He wanted to rescue the children but realized they had gone mad, and freeing them could bring calamity to others.
Li Qingmu abandoned the idea.
Ahead was the second room, filled with unique dicinal pools. According to Gouzi, anyone from the first room had to soak here for three days and nights. If they didn’t drown, they passed.
The third room was a practice room for children who bathed in dicinal pools to practice martial arts. The fourth was a gladiator room for trained death warriors to fight, with survivors continuing for further cultivation.
Onward to the fifth, sixth, seventh room...
Walking through, Li Qingmu felt a chill in his bones.
This place was cruel!
But undeniably, it was a place that could cultivate people.
He turned to look at Nan Haitang, "Why is Lord Nan unaffected?"
While others gasped along the way, Nan Haitang remained indifferent, arousing suspicion.
Nan Haitang: "Before, I also trained in a similar manner, but the Emperor was rciful, and his thods were not as extre. If we wanted to give up, he would let us leave. Those who remained were absolutely loyal!"
Li Qingmu nodded; surviving such a harsh environnt ant either being forced or driven by strong convictions.
Qi Yun desired absolute loyalty, fearing Jiangnan might not turn on him one day if coerced.
A snake bites deep, into the bone.
Moreover, what they wanted here were mindless death warriors who obeyed commands blindly, but Qi Yun wanted adaptable talents.
The desired results were different, and naturally, the processes differed too.
"These people are useless now, their minds entirely lost to drugs."
Gouzi looked at the vacant-eyed youths and shook his head.
Among them were those who ca with him, and others he personally saw being captured. It pained him to see them so utterly lost.
Li Qingmu frowned slightly, "Isn’t there more than just these people? Where are the children recently brought in?"
"All the way inside, in the deepest room, but the lock is hard to open."
"Let’s go!"
Li Qingmu led him to rescue the other innocent children.
Suddenly, as they passed through a corridor lit by dim lights, Li Qingmu glanced at the many bones inside.
"Wait, what is this place for?"
"An altar, a very ancient altar, with carved runes and patterns. Hey, everyone in there is dead, going there is useless!"
Gouzi worried Li Qingmu might touch sothing he shouldn’t and hurriedly caught up to him.
Here was another stone chamber, larger even than the first, with heaps of bones everywhere, astonishingly terrifying.
Even though Li Qingmu had witnessed killings, this place made his spine tingle with cold.
"This is an altar, seemingly used to sacrifice sothing."
Nan Haitang circled the altar and suddenly his pupils contracted!
"Mr. Li, co look at this, are these not birth dates inscribed?"
"Yes!"
Li Qingmu glanced and confird it, then one birth date felt familiar, like it was...
His body felt struck by lightning, extrely rigid. He slowly looked up, seeing Nan Haitang’s equally strange gaze.
"Who is so audacious?"
As he spoke, even his own voice trembled.
Because this birth date was none other than Qi Yun!
Were they sacrificing for Qi Yun?
No, they weren’t, this was not a blessing altar, but a death curse!
The patterns and characters on the altar were not auspicious but vile and terrifying!
It signified a place filled with inauspiciousness!
"Bold, outrageous, soone is using the Yansheng technique!"
Nan Haitang snapped out of it, trembling with anger. Who dared to curse the supre Emperor with such malice?
Such a person must be hunted down with their entire clan exterminated!
"The officials here were oblivious to this and even allowed it. They deserve death!"
Li Qingmu’s voice was eerie, as if erging from the depths of the underworld, filled with anger!
"Make an impression, quickly, replicate the altar’s patterns, find a master to decipher it!" Nan Haitang shouted, then turned to leave. "Rescue those children, seal this place, and bury it, bury it all!"
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