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"We are here to save you!" Zhou Yun's words were like the morning light, warm and firm. She held the pink-dressed girl's shoulders tightly, her eyes were like torches, and she said seriously: "Don't be afraid, I promised your parents that I would bring you home safely."

The pink-dressed girl froze in an instant, her face full of disbelief, her eyes wide open, staring at Zhou Yun in a daze.

Zhou Yun said softly: "You should learn to read. Tell me your name first."

The pink-dressed girl nodded repeatedly, crawled to an open area, and wrote with her bloody hands trembling. After she finished writing, she looked at Zhou Yun with hope, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Your name is Yingchun." Zhou Yun took out the list in his hand, found her name, and said gently, "You are the only daughter of Wu Xiucai from Moxia Village." Yingchun was so excited that she couldn't control herself. Tears and blood mixed together and slid down her cheeks. When she heard the names of her family members, her eyes sparkled brightly, like the brightest stars in the night sky.

"Were you all brought up the mountain by the immortal master who claimed to be from the Qianmen Sect?" Zhou Yun held her trembling shoulders and asked softly.

Yingchun opened her lips, but no sound came out, so she could only nod vigorously.

Then she lowered her head and wrote eagerly on the ground with her fingers.

Zhou Yun looked at the words written by Yingchun, and her expression became more and more serious. She never thought that these girls were deceived by lies and suffered such a miserable fate after going up the mountain. Those evil monks said that they would accept them as disciples, but after taking them to the mountain, they used them as test subjects to tame spirit beasts!

Yingchun continued to write her experiences on the ground with her fingers. When the blood on her fingertips dried, she opened her mouth and bit her fingers without hesitation.

Zhou Yun was startled and hurriedly held her hand, "That's enough, let's go out first. There are so many evil sect disciples outside, we can find out everything by just arresting one and interrogating him."

Yingchun nodded with tears in her eyes, and the tears in her eyes were like a flood that never stopped.

Jimo Yanzhou quickly untied the restraints on the trapped girl. They supported each other and walked slowly towards the exit.

Zhou Yun led a dozen girls and successfully escaped from the underground.

However, after seeing the spirit beasts in the cages, these girls were so scared that they collapsed to the ground. Some opened their mouths wide, but no sound came out. They screamed silently, their eyes filled with deep fear.

"What happened to them?" Jimo Yanzhou was shocked and looked at the terrified girls in confusion.

Zhou Yun's face was solemn. He waved his arm and a talisman flew out from his fingertips, dragging a disciple over like lightning.

This disciple had been attacked by his own spiritual beast before. He finally killed the spiritual beast that attacked his master and was about to report the incident when he was caught by Zhou Yun. The disciple was thrown to the ground fiercely, and with the sound of broken bones, he looked up at Zhou Yun with horror in his eyes.

When the girls saw this disciple, they huddled together in fear, with fear flashing in their eyes.

Zhou Yun approached the disciple and stepped on his leg mercilessly. There was a "click" sound, followed by a scream. The disciple's legs were twisted at a strange angle, his pupils suddenly contracted, and the severe pain made him faint.

Zhou Yun held a whip taken from the basement in his hand and waved it casually. The whip wrapped around the disciple's neck like a spirit snake and gradually tightened. The disciple woke up from the torture of suffocation and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was Zhou Yun with a faint smile and a dim look in his eyes.

"Fairy... spare... my life..." the disciple spoke with difficulty, his voice trembling.

"Did you cut off their tongues?" Zhou Yun's voice was light and deep, like the voice of death coming from the underworld. She stared at the terrified face of her disciple, and there seemed to be a hint of excitement in her eyes.

"It's none of my business. It was done by my senior brother and the others." The disciple explained in horror. He tightly grasped the whip around his neck with both hands and struggled desperately, trying to get a glimmer of hope.

Zhou Yun asked: "Why did you trick the girl into going up the mountain?"

The disciple felt his neck tighten and his breath was choked. He opened his mouth and tried to breathe. After a while, he felt the suffocation on his neck ease. He coughed and took several deep breaths. After seeing Zhou Yun's cold eyes, he felt as if his whole body fell into an ice cave. He said hurriedly: "To tame beasts. The sect master got a beast taming technique, which can tame spirit beasts with high intelligence. Spirit beasts usually become intelligent later. Even if some of them are more talented and become intelligent earlier, it is still difficult to tame them in the later stage. That's why the sect master thought of using evil magic to extract the consciousness of people and put it into the body of spirit beasts."

"Then why did you trick the children and girls into going up the mountain?" Jimo Yanzhou frowned and asked suspiciously.

The disciple replied, "Children are not strong-minded and can be easily controlled. Young girls are usually gentle and easy to control."

"You use evil magic to extract human consciousness and place it into the body of a spirit beast. Isn't the success rate low?" Zhou Yun said.

The disciple was embarrassed. Thinking that his life was controlled by others, he could only answer: "The success rate is only 50%. However, the success rate of truly taming a qualified summoning beast is even lower, only 30%."

That's why they kept tricking young girls into going up the mountain in the name of a fairy master recruiting disciples. Those villagers rarely saw fairy cultivators, so when the so-called fairy master showed up and threatened to take their children to learn, they would naturally regard it as a rare opportunity and wish for it.

Seeing that Zhou Yun had no intention of letting him go, the disciple hurriedly said, "Erase the spirit beast's consciousness and implant the human's consciousness. Before implantation, all memories of the consciousness will be erased. Every inner sect disciple is eligible to choose his own summoned beast."

"Where is Fang Baoer?" Zhou Yun's brows furrowed.

"Who is Fang Baoer?" The disciple obviously had never seriously learned the names of those girls. Perhaps in their minds, those girls were no different from the spirit beasts locked in cages. There are always some people who, relying on their own abilities, bully the weak.

"She, she's dead." The disciple was panicked. He couldn't remember who Fang Baoer was. He instantly felt the fierce murderous intent in Zhou Yun's eyes. He shuddered and said quickly, "Her mother went up the mountain to find her and discovered the secret of our training of spirit beasts."

"There is a formation in this place. How can a mortal like Fang Baoer's mother break through the barrier here?" Jimo Yanzhou glanced at the girl hiding in the corner, and his eyes swept over the pile of horrible spirit beast corpses. Perhaps there were human remains besides the spirit beast corpses. Didn't this disciple say that he wanted to tame a summoned beast, but the success rate was extremely low?

"Fang Baoer brought her mother in, and they were discovered when they were leaving. At that time, Fang Baoer had already been a successfully summoned beast. For some reason, she still retained her human memories and recognized her mother. The eldest senior brother and the elders were worried that the matter would be exposed, so they killed both mother and daughter, and threw their bodies under the cliff at the back mountain of Jiuyun." The disciple suddenly felt the whip on his neck tightening like a poisonous snake.