Chapter 1120: Entry, operation (2/2)

Every night, Ning Jing’s head was filled with images of the little tender face that sent her into tears. She would cry and cry until her heart, lungs, and very bones shattered. Su Xiaoyu was locked up right next door. Thanks to the stone walls, she couldn’t hear Nng Jing crying or that they were even neighbors. Compared to Ning Jing’s depression, she was in far better spirits. She was certain her master had a way to get them out of here and was even debating how to torture Bai Yanqing and his undying body once they captured him. She wouldn’t stop until she finished a few hundred--nay, a few thousand--tortures on him! Of course, before that she would have Ning Jing take revenge first by pulling out his teeth!

With a temper like hers, it was questionable who would dare to marry Su Xiaoyu after she grew up.

Two more hostages were prisoners in this underground prison. One of them was Mu Qingwu, while the other was Duanmu Yao. Mu Qingwu had been switched locations thrice after his kidnapping before being brought to the undergruond palace. Even now, he had no idea who his captors were, or that Cloud Realm Continent had already undergone a war and resumed its peaceful days. Nor did he know that his Mu Clan, being descendants of the Li Clan, had become reviled figures of the people thanks to their previous faults and his father’s instigation, then gotten wiped out by Long Feiye. Even the Li Clan members who escaped the slaughter didn’t dare to reveal themselves for fear of public enemies.

Mu Qingwu had walked a broad and level path in his independent life, always open and righteous. If he ever found out the terrible truth and his clansmen’s unspeakable past, what would he feel? Besides the three meals he got a day, no one ever visited him in his cell. He had asked countless times for the identity of his captors and their motives, but the ones delivering his meals never spoke a word. After all this time, he was ready to believe the kidnappers had simply forgotten about him.

It was true, Bai Yanqing had forgotten about him after he turned worthless. But that was fortunate in itself, for he would have cut off the meals and had Mu Qingwu starve to death instead!

Similarly, Duanmu Yao had been forgotten as well. If she had even a bit of brains, she wouldn’t have handed Third Honored Elder to Bai Yanqing. However, she was simply witless! With the destruction of Heretical Sword Sect, Celestial Mountain resumed its law and order. To Bai Yanqing, she had no use at all. After she handed Third Honored Elder into his hands and had her hidden spies in Tianning kidnap Mu Qingwu, she became one of Bai Yanqing’s abandoned pieces. When Bai Yanqing had locked up Han Yunxi in the underground palace, she stupidly requested him to hand the woman over. Since then, she’d been locked up herself and Bai Yanqing refused to see her no matter how many tantrums she threw.

If Bai Yanqing hadn’t forgotten her entirely, she might have been starved to death too. It wasn’t clear whether she was lucky or unlucky to be alive now!

At this moment, Bai Yanqing was drinking with Hao San in the room next door to Han Yunxi’s.

“Master, how do you plan to pit Han Yunxi and Long Feiye against each other?” Hao San had been wondering this for a long time. His master had lived his life for the sake of love--but even more for the sake of his hatred. Still, he’d never thought of himself in the face of his goals.

Bai Yanqing didn’t speak as he downed the contents of a goblet. As he slammed the cup onto the table, his silence belied the waves that Hao San’s question had raised in his heart. After avenging himself on Mu Xin’s daughter and Mu Xin herself, what next? What else could he do? He couldn’t die or decay, so how was he to face the endless days in the future?

Hao San paused for a spell before he probed, “Master, after Han Yunxi and Long Feiye kill each other off, this world will have no master of its own!” He always hoped that his master could take the kingdom for himself. Then he too would be able to enjoy the benefits of a high rank, glory, and wealth, standing beneath one and above the rest for all his days!

Although Hao San’s hint was obvious, Bai Yanqing didn’t take it to heart! He laughed coldly and said, “A world without a master is the most interesting one!”

Flames of war would rage as the destitute and homeless wandered about; pestilence and plunder would run rampant as the people suffered without livelihoods! Hao San’s eyes flashed helplessly, but he kept silent.

Meanwhile, daybreak had arrived outside. Long Feiye and Gu Qishao, Gu Beiyue and Tang Li all entered the undergruond palace at the same time. Soon after that, they met with their first blockade--the same challenge for both sides.

This was none other than…