Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

"Key individuals requiring assistance and rehabilitation?"

Chen Beixuan chewed on those words, finding them extremely grating.

He is none other than the Northern Mystic Immortal Venerable, whose might shakes the starry sea!

Even if I am now stuck in shallow waters, I will never tolerate such humiliation!

He was about to lash out when his gaze fell on the man's hand.

Dragon King Ye Fan was skillfully spreading out a rough cotton quilt.

He used his hand to swiftly cut out the edges and shape it into a perfect "tofu block".

The short-haired young man wiping the bed next to him, Gu Yanchen, not only didn't laugh, but instead looked at him with admiration.

"Brother Ye, your technique of using internal energy to cut tofu into pieces is getting more and more refined."

"You're definitely the model of housekeeping in our cell this week."

"That's natural."

Ye Fan patted the blanket, a desolate yet wickedly arrogant smile curving his lips.

"Back then, at my command, 100,000 soldiers returned."

"Now when I use the Dragon God Technique to fold the blankets, even the discipline officer has to give me two extra points for class participation."

Chen Beixuan was dumbfounded.

What is all this about?

He pointed at the two fellow inmates who looked mentally unstable, his voice trembling.

"You...you actually used your supreme true energy to fold blankets and wipe the bed boards?!"

What a waste of resources! What an insult to culture!

"New guy, save your energy."

Chu Tianjiao, who was doing one-handed push-ups on the ground, stood up.

His muscles gleamed with sweat under the incandescent light.

His eyes revealed an extreme sense of weariness, as if he had been brutally beaten by reality.

"Here, true qi can only help you do more physical labor and eat a couple more steamed buns; it's completely useless."

Chu Tianjiao walked to the pool and washed his face.

"Look at your tattered Hanfu and that utterly hopeless expression..."

"Wasn't he brought in by that guy surnamed Lu?"

Upon hearing the words "surname Lu," Chen Beixuan's eye twitched violently.

Gu Yanchen stopped wiping the bed and came closer.

He gossiped like a neighborhood committee auntie: "Hey bro, what got into trouble?"

"Embezzlement? Assault? Or, like me, did you go to jail because of love?"

"love?"

Chen Beixuan snorted coldly, a sickly arrogance appearing on his pale face.

"How could I, the Great One, be troubled by worldly love and affection!"

"I have summoned the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder, intending to make this entire city tremble under the heavenly tribulation!"

The cell fell silent instantly.

Gu Yanchen, Ye Fan, and Chu Tianjiao exchanged glances, a hint of shock flashing in their eyes.

Triggering a heavenly calamity?

Is this newcomer a cultivator?

This version updates way too fast!

"Then how did you get in?" Ye Fan swallowed hard. "Didn't the heavenly tribulation kill him?"

Mentioning this, Chen Beixuan's usually aloof and arrogant face instantly twisted in pain.

It was as if I was recalling something that made me extremely nauseous.

"He...he installed three 20-meter-long oxygen-free copper lightning rods!"

Chen Beixuan gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins of humiliation.

"He used the principle of point discharge to conduct all of my Heavenly Thunder into the underground power grid!"

"My five hundred years of arduous cultivation and tribulation have ultimately turned me into a free capacitor for the municipal power supply bureau!"

"Pfft—cough cough cough!"

Gu Yanchen couldn't hold back and almost choked on his own saliva.

Chu Tianjiao even slapped himself on the forehead, laughing so hard his shoulders shook wildly.

"Lightning rod? What the hell is a lightning rod?!"

"Hahaha, this is so much like Lu Jingyan!"

Seeing the three laughing wildly, Chen Beixuan trembled with rage: "What are you laughing at! That's the desecration of the laws of Heaven!"

"Brother, calm down. We're not laughing at you, we're laughing at this messed-up world."

Gu Yanchen walked over and patted the "Immortal Venerable" on the shoulder.

His tone was full of sympathy and mutual understanding.

You'll get used to it.

"I am the president of the prestigious Gu Group, with a net worth of hundreds of billions."

"I wanted to throw a billion at him, but he turned around and charged me with bribing a state official, doubling my sentence."

Ye Fan pointed to himself, his face full of bitterness.

"I am the Dragon King of the North, with 100,000 soldiers under my command."

"As a result, because he refused to cooperate after running a red light, he was pinned to the hood of the car and handcuffed in the street."

Chu Tianjiao sighed and silently raised his hand.

"I, the God of War who protects the nation, led a hundred fully armed brothers to surround the airport."

"He directly deployed armed police armored vehicles and heavy machine guns to clear the area for me."

"In the end, because I brought a knife, I was convicted of possessing a controlled knife."

The three once powerful figures exchanged glances.

They all shed bitter tears.

Chen Beixuan was completely stunned after hearing this.

A billionaire CEO? The Dragon King of the North? A war god protecting the nation?

In any storybook, these characters would be absolute protagonists capable of stirring up a storm in the world!

Now they're all acting like quails!

He was locked in this iron box dozens of meters underground by that man named Lu Jingyan!

"Just what kind of monster is this Lu Jingyan?"

Chen Beixuan muttered to himself, his Dao heart shattered into pieces.

"Is he an embodiment of the Great Dao Law specifically designed to restrain us Chosen Ones?"

"He is not the embodiment of the law; he is just an unyielding legal machine."

Gu Yanchen pulled Chen Beixuan to sit down on the bed.

"Brother, accept your fate."

"There is no magic, no true energy on his territory."

"Only the Criminal Law and the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments apply."

"Yeah." Ye Fan touched his head, which had been shaved into a buzz cut.

"My dream now is to behave well, try to get a reduced sentence at the end of the year, and go out to deliver food as soon as possible."

Listening to these former kings now speaking so humbly.

Chen Beixuan's breathing gradually became rapid.

Resign yourself to fate?

He is a Celestial Venerable from the Nine Heavens!

How can I waste my life here like these ants whose edges have been worn down by the world!

Even if Lu Jingyan used those despicable physical methods to break his tribulation.

It destroyed most of his cultivation.

But his inherent pride would never allow him to give in!

"No, I refuse to accept my fate!"

Chen Beixuan suddenly stood up, a mad and resolute glint flashing in his eyes.

He looked at the three dejected "protagonists" in front of him.

He lowered his voice, his tone carrying a chilling allure.

"Are you content to spend your whole lives operating sewing machines here?"

Gu Yanchen and the other two were all stunned and looked up at him.

"What do you mean?" Chu Tianjiao frowned.

"This is the provincial department's underground prison for serious offenders; not even a fly can get out."

"How can a mortal's cage confine a true dragon!"

Chen Beixuan sneered.

Although his face was pale, that arrogant demeanor returned to him once again.

He leaned closer to the three of them and made a mysterious gesture.

"Although my cultivation has been largely destroyed, my Nascent Soul stage spiritual foundation remains!"

"I also have a secret technique called 'Bone Shrinking and Earth Escape Technique'."

"If the four of us join forces, using my inner energy in conjunction with your modern demolition experience..."

Chen Beixuan's eyes gleamed with an eerie green light in the dim light.

"Tonight at midnight, when the yin energy is at its strongest, we can break the seal on the dungeon's sewers!"

Upon hearing the words "prison break".

Gu Yanchen, Ye Fan, and Chu Tianjiao's breathing instantly became heavy.

The restless blood in their veins boiled again.

prison Break?

Yes, they are the chosen ones!

How can you waste your precious youth on folding blankets!

"Let's do it!"

Ye Fan clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles cracked.

"I've had enough of waking up to the whistle every day!"

Gu Yanchen gritted his teeth, and the greed for capital rekindled in his eyes.

"Once we get out of here, I'll show Lu Jingyan what it means to have fortunes change every thirty years!"

"I want him to understand that the combination of capital and cultivation is the true ultimate form of this world!"

Chu Tianjiao clenched his fists together, and the might of the God of War faintly revived.

"Tonight's operation is a do-or-die situation; failure is not an option."

Looking at the three who had reached a consensus, Chen Beixuan finally curled up a long-lost arrogant smile.

Lu Jingyan, do you think you've won?

You have no idea how incredible a cultivator's trump card is!

Tonight, these four extraordinary protagonists will overturn this prison!

Let's build a new world without you!