The chivalrous spirit is fickle

"Xiaoyue, you can't call me Sister Xiaojiu."

"Well, what should we call you?"

"You should call me Master's Wife."

"..."

……

Shi Gu was escorted all the way by people from the five major sects, and finally arrived outside the city.

Outside Huiyin City, a man who looked like an old farmer was taking a nap under a tree, holding a hoe. A blue cow was tied to the side of the road, nibbling on the grass with its head down.

Su Xun brought Shi Gu and stopped in front of the old farmer. He bowed solemnly to the old farmer and called out in a low voice.

"Senior Fan Zheng, we have brought the person here."

Hearing this, the old farmer raised his head slightly, opened his cloudy eyes, glanced at everyone, and finally stopped at Shi Gu who was tied up with chains.

"Hey, this guy looks familiar."

The old farmer's voice was loud and clear, like a bell, but not sharp. He looked at Shi Gu curiously, feeling that the man in front of him looked familiar.

Su Xun smiled bitterly and whispered to the old farmer.

"This person is the Qingcheng Shigu from back then. You should have some impression of him."

Hearing this, the old farmer still frowned and spoke incoherently.

“I think I’ve heard of this name.”

As he spoke, the old farmer waved his hand and spoke casually.

"Forget it, old man, I don't care about your business, just send the person in quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, the blue cow that was eating the grass suddenly raised its head, opened its mouth, and sucked hard.

In an instant, the dense crowd of people was swallowed by the green bull and entered its stomach.

Shi Gu narrowed his eyes slightly, and when he looked forward again, he saw a dark prison with no light at all.

The prison corridor was extremely long, with no end in sight. Turbid water kept dripping from above, and the air was filled with a strange smell of rotten grass.

Su Xun flipped his palm lightly, and a flame leaped in his palm, illuminating the dark prison and the cells next to it. He saw that each cell was packed with prisoners.

But those people looked pale and extremely weak, as if they were at the end of their strength, with empty eyes, and they didn't even look at Su Xun and his group.

"Your cell is up ahead, follow me."

Su Xun spoke, then turned around and waved, asking the people behind him to disperse, and then stepped forward.

Shi Gu dragged the heavy chain and followed the steps. When he stepped down, the soles of his shoes were covered with mud. Upon closer inspection, it was a bunch of rotting grass roots.

Seeing this, Shi Gu frowned slightly, and spoke softly while following Su Xun's footsteps.

"Is this the stomach of the green bull?"

Su Xun put his hands behind his back and walked slowly forward. Hearing this, he just nodded slightly and replied indifferently.

"Yes, this place was formed from the stomach of the blue ox."

Shi Gu's face darkened slightly and he spoke in a low voice.

"He's a demon!"

Su Xun responded coldly without stopping.

"Does it mean you deserve to die if you're a demon? Your attitude is just like those old antiques."

With a clatter, Shi Gu dragged the chain and quickly caught up with Su Xun, standing in front of him and spoke in a deep voice.

"Not all monsters deserve to die, but this one must not live."

"He is an old demon. Don't tell me you can't feel the evil spirit on him. This is the evil spirit that he has to have eaten so many people!"

Su Xun stopped and looked at Shi Gu who was standing in front of him. After a moment's silence, he spoke in a low voice.

"We have been trying to kill the demons since a long time ago, but after so many years, we still haven't been able to kill them all."

"You should also recognize this fact. The demon race originated from humans. As long as humans don't die, the demon race will not be destroyed."

"In that case, we should try to live with them and accept them."

As he spoke, Su Xun waved his hand, pointed at the Black Prison, and said in a deep voice.

"You see, this black prison is where humans and demons coexist. Once you enter this place, you can't escape even if you have wings."

"Whether it's imprisonment or sealing, it's better than the Heavenly Stone Prison back then, and there's no way for others to get in if they want to rescue him."

"We use him as the Black Prison, and he eats the bad guys in the Black Prison, so he won't eat the mortals in the world anymore. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"

"The benefits of this matter outweigh the disadvantages, can't you see that?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Gu swept his gaze across the cell next to him, looking at the prisoners in the cell who were like zombies, his eyes slightly cold.

"This blue bull is really convenient."

"Those who are inconvenient to kill and those who should not be seen in public are thrown here all at once. In this way, even the corpses will not be left behind. This is really a good place to destroy the corpses and get rid of all traces."

Su Xun lowered his head and remained silent, but did not answer Shi Gu's questions. He strode past Shi Gu and continued to move forward.

Shi Gu's eyes flickered, he sighed, turned around and followed Su Xun, speaking slowly.

"Seven years ago, there was a large village with hundreds of households, but one day, they were all eaten up."

"Nothing was left at the scene, not even bones, but someone saw someone leading a blue ox through the village."

Su Xun just lowered his head and did not answer Shi Gu's question. Seeing this, Shi Gu continued speaking calmly.

"Going back a little further, thirty years ago, a child from a noble family in the North Sea went missing. The family spent a lot of effort to find the child, and finally found him in a wilderness."

"In the wilderness, the bodies of children were piled up like mountains, their internal organs had been eaten clean."

"Qing Yao Fan Zheng."

"That's the name left there, right?"

Hearing this, Su Xun finally stopped. He turned around and looked at Shi Gu with a terrifying look in his eyes and said hatefully.

"Have you said enough?"

Shi Gu stopped, met Su Xun's gaze, and said calmly.

"No, I can say a lot more about similar things."

"Green demon Fan Zheng, whether he kills people or eats people, it's all just for fun. I really can't think of any reason for him to continue living."

Hearing this, Su Xun's eyes twitched slightly. He took a step forward, stared at Shi Gu, and shouted in a low voice.

"I'll tell you why."

"Because he is very strong, he is comparable to a powerful person in the Demon Transformation Realm. The cost of killing him is not something the five major sects can afford."

"It is already the best option to get him to cooperate with us. Do we, the five major sects, have to seriously injure ourselves just to kill a big monster like him?"

"Whether you like it or not, the five major sects still maintain the peace in this lower martial world."

"If something unexpected happens to the five major sects and their vitality is severely damaged, the martial arts world will be in turmoil, and more people will die."

Shi Gu frowned and said nothing, and seeing this, Su Xun sighed, softened his tone, reached out and patted Shi Gu's shoulder, and whispered.

"I know you don't agree, but that's the truth."

"Now that Fan is cooperating with us, he won't go out and kill people at will, and we will make the best use of him. This is the best result."

Shi Gu narrowed his eyes and spoke softly.

"The Demon Cult's Fang Jue can kill Fan Zheng, but given her personality, she will not let Fan Zheng live."

"So, the sects that cooperate with Fan Zheng are actually only your Xuanming Division and Yulin League."

Su Xun's expression froze, his lips moved, but he was unable to refute Shi Gu's words. He withdrew his hand, turned his back again, and continued to walk forward, leaving only a complex low murmur.

"The Demon Cult...has become too powerful in recent years."

Shi Gu didn't ask any more questions or say anything, and just followed Su Xun quietly.

Everything has an answer, and all the excuses are ultimately just a high-sounding excuse.

The leader of the Demon Cult, Fang Jue, is very powerful, so powerful that the Demon Cult is almost superior to the other four major sects, so the Xuanming Division and the Yulin Alliance found the Green Demon Fan Zheng.

This is their backup plan, a possession to deal with the Demon Cult, and the Green Demon Fan Zheng also has reason to deal with Fang Jue, because Fang Jue will not allow such a demon to live.

This is the real reason, a mixture of shamelessness and filthiness.

Su Xun brought Shi Gu to a cell and threw him in. Perhaps because of the previous conversation, Su Xun's expression was a little complicated. He whispered to Shi Gu through the cell door.

"It was the Yulin League leader's idea to lock you up here. He knows that once you learn about our relationship with the Green Demon Fan Zheng, we in the Xuanming Division will have no reason to protect you."

"But... we did drink together after all. When this matter is over, I will secretly replace you with someone else. Of course, I will also erase your memory of this place."

"Shigu, you... just take care of yourself."

After saying that, Su Xun sighed, turned around and left. With Su Xun's departure, the entire Black Prison fell into darkness, without a trace of light.

Shi Gu dragged his chains and sat cross-legged in the cell. He looked calm, but there was a hint of fatigue in his eyes.

Su Xun is older than him. When he was not yet the Heavenly Tribulation Killer, Su Xun was already a famous young genius in the Xuanming Division.

Perhaps Su Xun didn't know that two hundred years ago, Shi Gu, who was not yet killed by the heavenly calamity, had drunk with him.

At that time, Su Xun was full of vigor and pride. Holding a wine bowl, he boasted to Shi Gu, who was wearing a human skin mask, that one day he would kill all the demons in this world.

Two hundred years was not too long for Su Xun, and he could still live for many more years, but he was no longer the high-spirited young man he once was.

Perhaps, it was Fang Jue from the evil cult who, with his contemptuous attitude, wiped out Su Xun's spirit and made him become so gloomy.

Shi Gu didn't want to think about it any further. He held his breath and concentrated, circulating his true energy. As his true energy circulated, the silver needles were forced out of his body one by one and fell to the ground.

Sealing acupoints with silver needles is still useful for warriors in the early stage of the ninth level of martial arts, but if they reach the middle stage of the ninth level, the true energy in the body will no longer be restricted by the acupoints.

Although Shi Gu now only has the strength of the peak of the eighth level, he was once a person in the innate realm after all. Although his true energy is not as strong as before, it cannot be restricted by silver needles to seal the acupoints.

After the silver needle fell to the ground, Shi Gu gently raised his hand, and the chains on his body were like paper, and were easily torn apart by him, breaking into several pieces and falling into the dust.

The stench of rotten grass lingered at Shigu's nose. He frowned slightly and looked forward.

The dark prison without a trace of light was as bright as day in Shi Gu's eyes. In Shi Gu's sight, a man in green clothes was standing in front of his cell.

The man had a charming appearance and was dressed like a Confucian scholar, but at the corner of his eye, there was a scar that stretched from his forehead to the side of his face, which looked a little scary.

"You do look familiar."

The man in green raised his foot, stepped straight over the prison door, came in front of Shi Gu, and looked at Shi Gu calmly.

The green demon Fan Zheng.

In other words, the one in front of him was the real body of the Green Demon Fan Zheng, and the gloomy old man outside was just a decoy.

Fan Zheng leaned forward slightly, looked at Shi Gu's face carefully, and his brows gradually furrowed.

"Boy, have we met somewhere before?"

Shi Gu looked at the scar on Fan Zheng's face seriously and said softly.

"If I had seen such an obvious scar, I would never forget it."

Hearing this, Fan Zheng's pupils shrank, and then he opened his folding fan, covering the scar on his face, and said coldly.

"Forget it. Whether you have seen it or not, you will die today."

Shi Gu smiled when he heard this, spread his hands and said.

"Senior, you really love to joke. I just came today. Logically, even if you want to execute someone, you should interrogate him first and then execute him."

There was an evil look in Fan Zheng's eyes, but he smiled faintly and spoke slowly.

"According to the agreement between me, Xuanming Division and Yulin League, this is indeed the case, but today is a little different."

"The people from Yulin League offered me a good price, asking me to torture you and then eat you up."

As he spoke, Fan Zheng gently waved his folding fan, and the ground began to wriggle and form a long table, which was filled with various torture instruments, which made people shudder.

Shi Gu looked at the torture instruments in front of him with great interest, then asked with a smile.

"Can you tell me what the good price is?"

"I want to die with a clear mind."