Film & TV: Public Enemy of Justice

"I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems like it's a system where you can only enter but not leave," Sheng Xiaomo said after a moment of silence.

He knew little of the wilderness, only that his master had imprisoned one of his senior brother Mo Yan's lovers, a female demon, inside. He hadn't seen that woman again, so he assumed he couldn't escape through that passage.

"Then you should know how to get there!" Zi Xun said confidently.

Sheng Xiaomo nodded, but then shook his head: "I only know Songxi Garden."

"Songxi Garden?" Lin Yaoxie repeated, "Lead the way to Songxi Garden first!"

Now that we have a way to get in.

So they should seize the opportunity and go in first. As for getting out, there are always ways. At worst, they can just tear open the Gate of the Wilderness with a single sword strike!

Sheng Xiaomo glanced at his senior brother, who was no longer able to speak: "Then my senior brother..."

"You are not in a position to negotiate with me right now."

Lin Yaoxie's voice already carried a hint of murderous intent; he hated such stubborn people!

"If you can help us rescue Qian Gu, your senior brother's life can be spared for now."

As Zi Xun spoke, she quietly pressed Lin Yaoxie's arm with her hand, signaling him not to kill him yet.

"Alright, Immortal Zixun, I am willing to cooperate with you fully, but please spare my senior brother."

Sheng Xiaomo said.

Upon hearing his words, Zi Xun glanced at Dongfang Huoqing.

"If you're smart enough, don't waste any more time!" Dongfang Huoqing said. "Report to the fourth person, and have Sheng Xiaomo take you and Immortal Zixun to Songxi Garden first. I'll stay here and have a proper chat with World Honored Demon Yan!"

"Alright!" Lin Yaoxie and Zixun walked out of the hall first, leaving only the words "Lead the way quickly!" in the air.

Sheng Xiaomo glanced at Mo Yan, who, even though he couldn't speak, kept shaking his head. Sheng Xiaomo sighed and followed Lin Yaoxie out of the palace gate.

Chapter Ninety-Nine: Determined to Find

As Mo Yan watched Sheng Xiaomo's departing figure, his face instantly darkened. Sheng Xiaomo's mention of Songxi Garden was tantamount to revealing half of the truth. All the effort he had put in to set up such a grand scheme had ultimately failed.

Looking at the somewhat dejected Mo Yan, Dongfang Huoqing disregarded his still pale lips and weak body, and forced himself to speak, "How does it feel to be defeated in the end?"

Mo Yan looked at Dongfang Huoqing's gloating face and cursed, "When did it become your place, the Yixiu Pavilion, to interfere in the affairs of my Changliu!"

"Now that the World Honored One of Changliu is a prisoner, do you still expect to maintain Changliu's airs?" Dongfang laughed. "Why don't you call Bai Zihua to rescue you?! Is he barely able to save himself?!"

"Bah!" Mo Yan said, "Even if you '247's' know where it is and how to get in, what good is it if you don't know how to get out?!"

"Things can always be resolved. What you're unwilling to say, perhaps your junior brother will be willing to tell us!" Dongfang Huoqing said confidently.

"He knows nothing. Even if you beat me to death and force a confession, he still won't know!" Mo Yan said, barely holding on.

"Is that so? And how much do you know?" Dongfang Huoqing's words were extremely impolite, making Mo Yan feel extremely angry. He, the dignified World Honored One of Changliu, was actually being bullied like this by the Yixiu Pavilion!

"Me? Don't try to trick me! Things have come to this point, and I'm definitely not going to reveal another word to you!" In fact, he had already gone this far, and he couldn't afford to contradict himself.

"Is that so? Some things will definitely not go as you wish." Dongfang Huoqing took out a pill from his pocket. The pill was crimson and emitted a strange smell.

"This is the Deer Cry Pill, from the Venerable Changliu. Do you know what it tastes like?" Dongfang Huoqing placed the pill near Mo Yan's mouth. "Whether you want to say it or not is unimportant, whether you are willing to say it or not is also unimportant. What is important is that I'm letting you say it. Do you have a choice?"

This Deer Cry Pill is comparable to the poison that Mo Yan gave Qing Shui before. Of course, Mo Yan knew this. He never expected that the Yi Xiu Pavilion would just take out this hard-to-find medicine so easily!

"What are you doing!" Mo Yan struggled to back away, "I won't eat! I won't eat!"

Sheng Xiaomo led Lin Yaoxie, who was now like a god of death, all the way to Songxi Garden.

"Young Master Lin, this is Songxi Garden." Sheng Xiaomo pushed open a door. The door was very dilapidated, as if it had been abandoned for a long time, but there was a place that looked very new near the door.

Lin Yaoxie explored the traces of the door, said nothing, and followed Sheng Xiaomo inside. He just wanted to find the entrance as soon as possible and then deal with that audacious Mo Yan.

“Demon…” Zi Xun tugged at Lin Yaoxie’s sleeve, signaling him to pay attention to the path in Songxi Garden. There was something unusual about it, as if some kind of Qimen Dunjia method had been used.

"These are all illusions, utterly worthless." Lin Yaoxie shook his head, telling her not to worry. These things are utterly useless in the face of absolute power; they're just a way to prolong one's life.

"Young Master Lin, Zi Xun, back then, Master gave Songxi Garden to Senior Brother Mo Yan, and then recorded the things of the wilderness in his notes, saying that he left a small path that could only be entered but not exited."

"So where is this entrance now?" Lin Yaoxie asked.

Lin Yaoxie and Zixun exchanged a glance, both seeing in each other the hidden meaning in Sheng Xiaomo's words. He hadn't yet revealed everything he knew.

"My senior brother..." Sheng Xiaomo bit her lip, knowing full well that Mo Yan was now everyone's Achilles' heel, but she still spoke up to protect her senior brother.

"Sheng Xiaomo!" Lin Yaoxie flung him out of Songxi Garden with a single palm strike, smashing the door panel to pieces!

"Don't keep testing my patience!" Lin Yaoxie shouted, cursing these ungrateful people!

"You just want to save your senior brother's life, right? But if I tell you now that your senior brother has been poisoned by the Deer Cry Pill, do you still think his life is more important than anything else?!" Dongfang Huoqing's voice appeared in Sheng Xiaomo's ears.

"What Deer Cry Pill?! What?!" Dongfang Huoqing had completely blocked Mo Yan's escape route, and Sheng Xiaomo could only passively accept it.

Sheng Xiaomo's voice turned somber, "How could you do this? I already promised to come to Songxi Garden!"

"When your senior brother went to murder Qian Gu, why didn't he say anything about why?! We just used his own methods against him!" Zi Xun cursed!

"We still have a sliver of hope left; we haven't engaged in a life-or-death struggle with you. You need to cherish that!" Dongfang Huoqing continued, "Now, tell us properly: where is the entrance?! How do we get in?! Perhaps Mo Yan can still escape with his life..."

Sheng Xiaomo sat on the ground for a long time without uttering a single word.

“What happened back then was indeed as I said; Master never told me about it,” Sheng Xiaomo said after a pause. “But then something else happened, and I learned a lot about the Wilderness. Senior Brother Mo Yan didn’t know that I knew these things.”

"Tell us everything you know about the Wilderness!" Zi Xun said anxiously.

“My senior brother once had a disciple named Zhu Ran. His mother was imprisoned in the Wilderness for some reason, so I know a lot of things from him!” Sheng Xiaomo said, getting up from the ground. “He once told me that the entrance to the Wilderness is very obvious, right where everyone can see it!”

As Sheng Xiaomo spoke, he pushed open a half-closed door, revealing a flowing light within, which turned out to be a barrier.

Is this the legendary case of the most dangerous place being the safest? Lin Yaoxie thought to himself as he touched the barrier with his finger.

"There's a huge suction force pulling me in!" Lin Yaoxie said, quickly pulling his finger back.

"Back then, that disciple tried many methods to rescue his mother, but he never succeeded. Therefore, this passage, at least until now, remains inaccessible."

"We can get in!" Sheng Xiaomo said. "This place only has one way to get in, it's very straightforward, we can walk in or push in, but there's no way to get out, there really is no way! There really isn't!"

“Evil spirits…” Zi Xun heard this and saw that Sheng Xiaomo had already revealed most of what was going on. Perhaps they really didn’t know how to get out, or perhaps they really couldn’t get out.

"Xiao Gu is inside, I have to go save her." Lin Yaoxie said, shaking his head at Zi Xun.

Chapter 100 A Chance Encounter with Bamboo Dye

"Report four..."

Dongfang Huoqing was also somewhat worried, as they currently had no way to get out of the wilderness.

Lin Yaoxie decided to enter the wilderness, but he wasn't entirely confident he could come out.

“Dongfang, time is running out. Xiaogu is inside by herself, and I’m worried she won’t be able to handle it,” Lin Yaoxie said. “After I go in, you and Zixun will help me find a solution outside.”

Dongfang Huoqing nodded to Zixun, indicating that they would do their best.

"Oh dear, there's not a single cell phone in this place!" Lin Yaoxie sighed inwardly. Once he entered the wilderness, he wouldn't even have a way to contact anyone.

How about this? We agree on seven days. After seven days, if you haven't found another way out, we'll coordinate an attack from the inside and outside of the Wilderness Gate. If you find...

If we reach another entrance, I should be able to find it inside.

“Alright! Let’s set seven days as the limit. If there are no other methods by then, we’ll go to the Gate of the Wilderness!” Dongfang Canqing said.

"Demon, don't worry, we will definitely find a way to save you, and we will do everything we can to send you messages!" Zi Xun bit her lip. "You must take good care of yourself..."

Lin Yaoxie glanced at Zixun and gently stroked her hair with his hand:

"Don't worry, it's just a wild and desolate place. It's nothing to me!"

Zi Xun naturally understood, but she couldn't help but worry.

After all, this wild place is not only unsuitable for human habitation, but also home to many strange beasts that will ambush people.

Dongfang Huoqing didn't know much about the Wilderness before, and at the time she only thought that this place might be a dead end. She never expected that this would happen today.

"Report to Fourth, our Yixiu Pavilion knows very little about the Wilderness. You must be careful of the strange beasts around you on this trip. It is said that they are extremely ferocious. Moreover, the Wilderness once imprisoned many rogue immortals who committed serious crimes. Now their strength is not to be underestimated! You must be careful of them!"

Dongfang Huoqing reminded him.

Some of these wandering immortals were able to survive in the wilderness, and they must have adapted to the environment by now. Now that the forest demons have just arrived, a fierce battle with them is inevitable.

"Don't worry! Xiao Gu is inside alone, her life hanging in the balance. I have to go find her right away. Zi Xun, Dong Fang, I'll leave the outside matters to you." Lin Yaoxie said, then walked inside. "If Bai Zihua shows up, don't confront him directly. Wait for me to come back."

"Don't worry, I have a way..." Zi Xun said.

Although Lin Yaoxie was going to rescue Hua Qiangu, he was still thinking about his own situation.

Zi Xun was deeply moved. Although she was a dignified immortal, she was powerless to resist Lin Yaoxie's care.

"Mmm..." Lin Yaoxie nodded and walked directly into the barrier.

The entrance they had just entered through had already closed again. Lin Yaoxie looked at the closed wall, reached out and touched it; it was now as solid as a rock.

He could only roughly remember the location; he could explore it again later.

The wild wind swept up the yellow sand, making it feel like entering a desert, and without any light, a kind of dark and gloomy place, practically a prison where freedom of movement was restricted.

"Little Bone... Little Bone..."

Lin Yaoxie tried to shout a couple of times, but there was no response from the vast expanse of yellow sand.

It seemed that Hua Qiangu was no longer here. Lin Yaoxie thought to himself, and then chose a direction and continued walking forward.

The weather in the wilderness was very cold, and he saw human and animal skeletons on the ground along the way, which he guessed had either frozen to death.

Either the wandering immortals imprisoned here killed them and took their fur.

"Who?" Lin Yaoxie suddenly condensed a wisp of golden light in his palm, which directly split open a mound on his left.

One of the animals was already injured and lying on the ground. It was an older fox. The fox looked at Lin Yaoxie in pain, and its eyes showed a hint of begging for mercy.

Just a fox? Lin Yaoxie wondered. He clearly heard the sound. Could it be that the fox had become a spirit?

"Ban'er!" A cool male voice came from another direction.

"Who are you? How dare you hurt my companion?!"

The man's face was covered in scars, making it impossible to recognize him.

"You wouldn't know even if I told you, so why ask?" Lin Yaoxie said, frowning.

This man has been imprisoned in the wilderness for who knows how long. Even if you beat him to death, he probably wouldn't believe that in this day and age, there is someone named Lin Yaoxie who has secretly formed his own faction.

The man looked up at Lin Yaoxie and actually laughed: "You're not from Changliu after all!"