Taihuang Star Seal

The lava roars and rolls eternally in the invisible abyss, making a dull whimper like the dying whimper of a giant beast.

The thick, pungent smell of sulfur was everywhere, accumulating heavily in the lungs, and every breath felt like swallowing hot sand.

This place is called "Heart of Purgatory", and it is a hopeless prison located in the volcanic veins under the Holy City of Shenzhou!

Here, the turbid air is twisted and evaporated by the underground fire.

As far as the eye can see, there is only endless, suffocating dark red and charred black.

At the core of this space, there is a huge copper pillar that rises from the ground and pierces into the rolling smoke above.

The surface of the pillar is engraved with densely packed forbidden runes that flicker with ominous dark light. They greedily absorb the heat from the earth veins, burning the copper pillar red and shiny, as if it had just been taken out of a furnace!

At this moment, a figure was being fastened to a red copper torture pillar by heavy chains that were also engraved with talismans and were as thick as a baby's arm.

The chains, burning like fire, were deeply embedded in the flesh of her limbs, waist and abdomen, and it hurt just to look at it!

This figure was none other than the only female disciple mentioned by Gu Yue Honghuang who had never betrayed Ding Chen and submitted to Mu Zihong: Xiao Youjing.

Once upon a time, Xiao Youjing was also the "Pearl of the Fairy City" who performed stunningly in countless star field competitions, outshining the sun and the moon.

Now, she has been tortured to the point where only a severely injured and broken body remains...

She lowered her head, her messy long hair, matted into strands by sweat and coagulated blood, drooped limply, covering most of her face.

The tattered dress on her body, whose original color and texture had long been unrecognizable, hung on her body in a charred and tattered state, like burnt paper ash.

Through the torn holes, you can clearly see new wounds overlapping old ones.

Whip marks so deep that you could see the bone meandered across her once jade-like skin, with the flesh curled up and the edges charred.

The crisscrossing marks, like an ugly spider web, were burned into the shoulders, collarbones, and arms.

Those places where the chains had been rubbed and embedded over the years were bloody and fleshy, with bones visible!

Every weak rise and fall of breath would involve these hideous wounds, causing new blood to seep out.

Before the fresh blood had even dripped, it was burned into a dark brown scab by the scorching surface of the torture pillar with a "hiss". This repeated cycle was extremely cruel and brought the victim to the extreme despair...

Suddenly, a slightly turbid gasp sounded: "Tsk, Senior Brother Fu, what exactly does the Grandmaster want from this girl by treating her like this?"

"She's been boiled in underground fire and whipped with a bone-biting whip every day. How many days has it been like this? Even a god should have been boiled to dust! But look at this woman..."

His rough fingers pointed at the broken figure on the torture pillar, and his tone was filled with a hint of unbelievable greed. "Look at that figure, that exposed skin. Damn it, it's been tortured to this state, how can it still arouse people's itch?"

"Stupid thing, you know nothing!"

Another warden responsible for maintaining the power of the formation here curled his lips and said complacently, "She's called 'unbroken pride'!"

"Look at her face. Even though it's covered in blood, it can't hide her ruthlessness!"

"Look at those eyes again. Even if they're closed, I can feel like there's fire burning inside them. They're hotter than the magma under our ground!"

"This fire is just her 'spirit' that hasn't burned out yet!"

At this point, the prison warden's lips curled up with a hint of cruel interest: "It is this 'spirit' of hers that Master wants to extinguish!"

"When the fire in her eyes is extinguished and her bones are softened, then she will be at the mercy of others."

"Crack, crack, crack..."

Suddenly, a burst of applause broke out.

The sudden noise frightened the two prison wardens so much that their hair stood on end: "Who?!"

"Don't be afraid, I am your teacher."

A female voice sounded, with a hint of arrogance and laziness.

Hearing this familiar voice, the two of them hurriedly knelt in the direction of the voice: "Disciple greets Master!"

That’s right, the person who came here at this moment was their master, the supreme ruler of the Holy City of Shenzhou: Mu Zihong.

She looked down at the male cultivator who had just been talking and said calmly, "You just analyzed my thoughts very clearly and logically. You have quite some ideas. Not bad, not bad."

The man was overjoyed and bowed again: "My disciple's humble cultivation is unworthy of Master's praise. I am ashamed, ashamed..."

At this moment, Xiao Youjing suddenly opened her eyes, staring at Mu Zihong fiercely with murderous eyes: "Poisonous woman, how dare you come here?!"

As she raised her head and asked angrily, the blood-stained hair that was stuck to her cheek was suddenly thrown away, revealing the face underneath.

What a face that is!

Even though it was covered with old and new bloodstains, with a large purple bruise on the cheekbone, his lips were cracked and bleeding, and his chin was so sharp that it was almost out of shape...

But the facial features, which can still be called exquisite, still stubbornly reveal a broken beauty.

The most terrifying thing was her eyes that suddenly opened, like a sharp sword that could kill anyone who touched it, so captivating!

"You ungrateful, vicious woman! To help you heal your soul, which was gnawed by the soul-devouring evil spirit, your master risked his life three times entering the mortal prison of ghost fire, using the 'ghost spirit fire' to refine a pill to nourish your soul."

"Master treats Xue Jie like his own son. In order to help him overcome the 'Inner Demon Tribulation', he endured the Immortal-Slaying Thunder of the Talisman Weapon and didn't sleep for ten days and ten nights!"

"It's a pity that what I got in the end was the vicious betrayal of you two!!"

"You two bitches, mother and son, are destined to die a miserable death, a miserable death!!"

Xiao Youjing cursed with all her might, venting her emotions hysterically.

Over the past three hundred years, she has done this almost every time she sees Mu Zihong.

Even if I don't have the ability to kill you, I will scold you to death!

Mu Zihong snorted coldly: "Humph, I haven't seen you for over a year, and you still can't change your bad habits!"

"I came here this time to tell you a good news."

"Master Ding Chen, the one you've been complaining about so much, is still alive!"

Xiao Youjing was stunned when she heard this, then she sneered and shook her head.

"What? Don't believe it?"

Mu Zihong raised her eyebrows and continued, "Forget it, I don't need you to believe it."

"I just need to transmit the painful image of you being tortured to the 'Chaos Star Sea' so that your master can see it and feel the pain in his heart!"

While speaking, Mu Zihong swept his fingertips and took out a large number of photo crystals from the storage bracelet, until the entire purgatory space was almost filled.

Then, she instructed the two jailers, "Continue to torture her, increase the intensity. I will make her suffer unbearably. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Xiao Youjing gnashed her teeth: "You... vicious woman!!"