Chapter 961 - A Volunteer Dao Treading Realm Prisoner? (1/2)

Lin Mu's words were like daggers, and its intent was sharp like one too. Tie Niu couldn't help but regret all that he had done. He went silent and didn't speak anything until Lin Mu ordered him again.

”SPEAK!” Lin Mu yelled and stomped his foot on the ground.

~THUD~

Another crater was created on the ground, while a foot imprint was left at the center of it. Seeing the force of the stomp, Tie Niu quickly started speaking for the fear that the next thing getting stomped might just be him instead.

”Yes… at first I just had some suspicions. But later I got to know that all of them were being sacrificed. They were how the pills were made…” Tie Niu accepted.

”What did you do next?” Lin Mu asked further.

”We… we continued what we did. But we came across several obstacles. A lot of my subordinates and the people of the city didn't want to go along with my plan. They wanted to rebel against me.

Thus… I killed them and sent them to be sacrificed as well. But this meant that I would not have enough people under me, for which my son gave me a suggestion. He told me to make use of others that were in the same condition as us; those stuck at bottlenecks.

And thus I called some people who would be willing to follow us with no problems. They were desperate for straws, drowning in the sea of despair, and we would be giving them an entire ship.

They quickly accepted our offer, and we gave them the pills.” Tie Niu spoke.

”But these pills weren't the same, were they?” Lin Mu questioned.

”No… they were made slightly differential and had some other effects.” Tie Niu admitted hesitatingly.

”What were those effects?” Lin Mu inquired.

”In addition to increasing the cultivation base, these pills also made the consumer subservient to others that used a certain technique.” Tie Niu answered, surprising Lin Mu.

The cogs in Lin Mu's mind turned as ideas started to appear in his mind.

'It can't be… did Gu Yao find a way to make other's control people for him? That too without the Human controlling blood curse?' Lin Mu wondered.

”How does this technique work, exactly?” Lin Mu questioned, his voice deeper.

”For the technique to work, I need to inject a wisp of my spirit sense into the person who had just consumed the pill. Once they consume the pill, their cultivation base enters a vulnerable state, and we make use of that.

They don't even realize that all this has happened and that our spirit sense has entered their dantian. Once that is done, we can give them orders though our spirit sense. Though it is not fully accurate.

Many times, the orders just work as suggestions. Because of this, I needed to make use of other method so that they followed me. Giving them some more benefits, like a proper position in the city, was enough to do that.

Plus, the greed for more pills was also good enough of a motivator. Most of them had no scruples with what we did and more people joined us later on; some of them even being sent by the elder of the Blue Ribbon Sect.” Tie Niu answered hurriedly.