I let you tame beasts, and you've already formed a contract with your stunningly beautiful mast

"Come on, don't just stand there."

Cao Kun opened the stone door with a wicked grin and pushed Yun Xiyue inside.

Yun Xiyue lost the support of her cultivation and staggered forward several steps before barely managing to stand still.

The air inside the stone chamber was extremely stuffy.

A strong, putrid stench mixed with a certain fishy, ​​foul smell assaulted my senses.

Yun Xiyue held her breath and looked up at the center of the stone chamber.

There stood a black stone bed.

There was also a grotesque creature lying on top, chained up.

His entire body was covered in bruises and dried scabs, with not a single patch of unblemished flesh.

His eye sockets were sunken, and his cheeks were so hollow that only skin and bones remained.

He lay there lifelessly.

Only his chest continued to rise and fall faintly.

"The ultimate age..."

Yun Xiyue's eyes widened, and she blurted out.

She couldn't believe her eyes.

Is this really her proud and high-spirited disciple who is always so glamorous?

Hearing the noise at the door, Ji Jinian on the stone bed turned his head with difficulty.

Those eyes, which were originally filled with despair, emptiness, and lifelessness.

After adjusting to the light.

I saw the snow-white figure standing at the door.

In an instant, tears welled up in Ji Jinian's sunken eyes, and he broke down in a wail.

"Master!"

"Help me!"

"Get me out of this awful place! I can't take it anymore! I really can't take it anymore!"

The mournful wails echoed in the cramped stone chamber, striking Yun Xiyue's heart hard.

She couldn't imagine the horrific and inhuman torture that Ji Nian had endured in the secret prison of the Hehuan Sect.

Only then could a Golden Core cultivator be squeezed dry and reduced to this state.

At this moment, the dozens of old women surrounding the stone bed stopped what they were doing.

Cao Kun slowly stepped into the stone chamber and casually tossed a cloth bag into his hand.

"Alright, that's enough for today."

"Go out and collect your reward."

The old women immediately understood.

They glanced at Ji Jinian with lingering reluctance before respectfully bowing to Cao Kun and gradually leaving the stone chamber.

This dark and oppressive space was left to the three of them.

Yun Xiyue couldn't bear to look at Ji Jinian's miserable appearance any longer.

He turned his head and glared angrily at Cao Kun with bloodshot eyes.

"You monster!"

Cao Kun leaned against the door frame, arms crossed, seemingly unconcerned.

He leisurely watched the ever-changing expressions on Yun Xiyue's face.

From shock to heartache, then to anger and deep despair.

This kind of drama, where an aloof, icy beauty falls to earth, is truly captivating.

"You flatter me."

Cao Kun smirked, his tone nonchalant.

"He dared to bring people to block the gate of my Hehuan Sect and even tried to undermine me."

"I was already being merciful by not chopping him up and feeding him to the dogs on the spot."

"If you're going to act like this, you might as well just kill him!" Yun Xiyue gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with hatred.

"Killing him would be pointless. I've always believed in making the most of things."

Cao Kun straightened up and slowly walked to Yun Xiyue's side.

He leaned close to her fair earlobe and threatened in a low voice, "Elder Yun."

"Now, shouldn't we reconsider my suggestion?"

"You wouldn't want your beloved student... to continue suffering here, would you?"

"Those old women will only have even more energy tomorrow after receiving the reward."

"How many more nights do you think he can last, given his physique?"

Cao Kun's words were piercing to the heart.

This plunged Yun Xiyue into an extremely painful struggle.

On one hand, there is the innocence and dignity that one has upheld for hundreds of years.

On one side is his most trusted disciple, on whom he has placed high hopes and poured countless efforts.

How is she supposed to choose?

If you agree to Cao Kun's request.

Becoming this shameless man's personal maid completely ruined her life.

But if you don't agree.

Ji Nian would die in this dark and gloomy dungeon, tortured to death by those hideous old women.

Yun Xiyue still held onto a sliver of hope.

She turned to look at Ji Jinian on the stone bed.

Even if Ji Nian could show a little bit of backbone at this time.

Even if he said something like, "Master, go quickly and don't worry about me."

She would feel immense satisfaction.

Then, without hesitation, he detonated his nascent soul, perishing together with the demon Cao Kun.

Unfortunately, she completely overestimated Ji Jinian.

It also underestimates the selfishness of people when faced with extreme fear.

Seeing his master bowing his head and remaining silent, Ji Jinian, lying on the stone bed, panicked.

He thought his master was going to abandon him and watch him be drained dry by those old women.

In order to save his own life.

In order to avoid facing that group of terrifying old women again, he shamelessly screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Master!"

"Please, please say yes!"

"I don't want to die! I'm still young! I have a bright future ahead of me! I don't want to die here!"

Yun Xiyue's delicate body trembled as she looked at Ji Jinian in disbelief.

She couldn't believe these words came from her own apprentice's mouth.

But Ji Jinian completely ignored Yun Xiyue's eyes, which were already on the verge of breaking.

All he can think about now is surviving.

His tone even carried a hint of self-righteousness.

"Master, please bear with it for a little while!"

"Isn't my current situation all because you insisted on setting me up with that Leng Qingyue?"

"You're the one who got me into this mess! You have to take responsibility and get me out of here!"

"Elder Cao is a man of great talent and profound cultivation."

"Your following him wouldn't be beneath you. Can you bear to watch your disciple die?!"

Every word Ji Jinian uttered was like a sharp blade.

It pierced Yun Xiyue's chest with precision.

It shattered all her expectations and feelings for this apprentice.

Yun Xiyue felt that the person in front of her was completely unfamiliar, so unfamiliar that it made her want to vomit.

Is this the apprentice she raised and taught with great care since childhood?

They were greedy for life and afraid of death, shirked responsibility, and were extremely selfish.

In order to save his own life, he didn't hesitate to let his master become someone else's plaything.

Years of teaching and hundreds of years of teacher-student relationship shattered into pieces at this moment.

Yun Xiyue was heartbroken.

Her insistence seemed utterly ridiculous at this moment.

Cao Kun, standing to the side, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

They clapped rhythmically.

"Slap. Slap. Slap."

"Wonderful, truly wonderful! What a respectful and virtuous disciple!"

Cao Kun didn't hold back in mocking him.

"Elder Yun, you have excellent taste."

"This disciple was worth raising; he truly knows how to care for his master in crucial moments."

"As the master, you can't possibly refuse such a small request from your disciple, can you?"

Cao Kun's words completely shattered Yun Xiyue's last psychological defenses.

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Even though I'm heartbroken to this extent.

Yun Xiyue looked at Ji Jinian, who was barely clinging to life.

In the end, I just couldn't bring myself to completely ignore it.

Even if not for this beast, we must consider the lives and fortunes of the thousands of disciples of the Miaoyin Sect.

If Ji Jinian were to die in the Hehuan Sect.

Once the Ji family patriarch emerges from seclusion, the Miaoyin Sect will surely suffer annihilation.

So she had no choice.

From the moment I stepped into the Hehuan Sect.

They had already fallen into Cao Kun's carefully woven trap.

Yun Xiyue closed her eyes.

Two lines of clear tears slid down her cheeks.

Her centuries-old pride and dignity were shattered by her own apprentice in this dark and damp dungeon.

"I……"

I promise you.

"Let him go, I'll do whatever you say."