In the dim cage, Shi Chun, with a beard and disheveled hair like a lion's mane, leaned against the stone wall, half-awake and dazed.

This was already his fifteenth year in prison, and one gets the feeling that a person might go mad enduring this.

Without the help of Li Hongjiu's Thunder Sword, the Earth Immortal Upper Realm Demon Essence he had absorbed before took a full twelve years to be completely refined into his own cultivation, and his cultivation had long since broken through to the Human Immortal Realm.

The Demon Essence cultivation refined over twelve years, in terms of the Human Immortal Minor Realm, was like a tree on a hill. To make the tree cover the entire hill and truly achieve a forest, who knows how many more Earth Immortal Realm Demon Essences he needs to catch and absorb.

Thinking about the Human Immortal Upper Realm, the Great Achievement Realm, and even the Earth Immortal Realm, if he truly can reach the so-called Heavenly Immortal Realm, damn, he himself can't even imagine how many demon cultivator corpses he'd have to step over.

Upon careful thought, even he feels that the cultivation technique he's practicing is somewhat excessive.

But thinking all those distant thoughts, the three years spent refining Demon Essence, he occasionally has all kinds of fantasies.

Imagining if Life Prison would throw in another demon cultivator for him to interrogate, so he could seize the demon essence and spend many years that way. There's no choice; the damn flaws in this cultivation method are too great. Without the help of Demon Essence, no matter how much he meditates, there's no progress at all.

But such opportunities to throw demon cultivators in only happened once, and never again.

So, after being bored for so long, he started singing to himself or to imagined people.

Even talking to himself, arguing with himself.

Sometimes imagining holding Bian Weiyin, sometimes imagining holding the Red-clothed Woman, doing shameful things.

Dressed in tattered clothes, he sometimes dances alone, with the silhouette of that dream captivating figure dancing in his mind.

The people who occasionally came to interrogate him, he would wish to chat a bit more, but if he doesn't cooperate, they turn away and leave without a single extra word.

Even the interrogators found his rambling annoying, and even the occasional visits from Lan Qiaoyan found him a bother.

Sometimes, the loneliness seems scarier than fighting, harder to endure than survival in the Land of Exile back in the day.

He even feels it'd be better if they sentenced him heavily, destroyed his cultivation, and threw him into the Land of Exile, where at least there's a slight chance for 'life'.

If not for matters involving Wu Jinliang, if not for Wu Jinliang being safe for now, he sometimes truly wants to trade his secrets for freedom, but as the serious consequences surface in his mind, he curbs his loneliness,

"Locked up until death?" This is a phrase he often mutters to himself, and at times like this, Wu Jinliang becomes his last unbroken hope.

He feels he should give Wu Jinliang time, believing that Wu Jinliang would not stand by idly and would find a way to get him out once the opportunity arises.

From the moment the restraints on him were lifted, Life Prison hadn't given him a bite of food or a drop of water, relying entirely on his own cultivation for sustenance, but thankfully, his Immortal Body is remarkable.

Furthermore, Lan Qiaoyan would find a way each year to communicate, sending him a meal inside, allowed only once a year, which was already a huge favor.

Fifteen years, regardless of monks or ordinary people, fifteen years isn't short for anyone, changing many things, changing many people.

People and things are hard to withstand the test of time.

Under a sky full of sunset clouds, it seemed even Dazhi City was cloaked in a layer of celebration, as it was the good day for Dong Liangyi, the eldest daughter of the Dong Family at Chao Yue Hall, to marry.

Compared to ordinary people, Dong Liangyi was slightly older; for monks, it was still alright, though her cultivation aptitude wasn't great.

She was marrying into a top-tier family, a family no ordinary person would match to marry Dong Liangyi.

And the reason such a good family was willing to marry Dong Liangyi was undoubtedly because of the Dong Family's background.

The Dong Family's background is indeed impressive.

Dong Liangyi's master was the world's top Artifact Refining Master, Situ Gu, and although she hadn't learned much, the status was there.

Her brother Dong Liangze studied under Sword Saint Fu Que, whose dedicated guidance reshaped his aptitude, beginning to show prominence in the Cultivation World.

Her third sister Dong Liangying also has a background with the Artifact Refining Sect Yanbao Sect, and not just any background, but one that connects to the core layer; it was said every year she meets directly with the Yanbao Sect Master.

Many worthy families have set their sights on Dong Liangying, just waiting for her and her family to give the nod.

To outsiders, the second sibling Dong Liangyu seemed relatively unknown, although there were those interested in the Dong Family background wanting to marry, but Dong Liangyu had a bit of a clear heart, having explicitly told the family she had no intent to marry, planning to spend her life guarding the Book Collection Pavilion.

And today's Dong Family indeed enjoyed great glory, with respect, though Situ Gu, who seldom taught disciples, personally arrived at Dazhi City on the day of his disciple's marriage, causing a sensation throughout Dazhi City.

Along with some disciples from Refining Heaven Sect accompanying him, presenting gifts on behalf of some high-level members of the Sect, Situ Gu also publicly gave a Magical Treasure he had personally crafted to his disciple as dowry, completing the master-disciple relationship with an impact hard to imagine.

Sword Saint Fu Que and Yanbao Sect also sent gifts.

The groom's family was quite excited, publicly announcing they'd do everything possible to help Dong Liangyi reshape her cultivation aptitude.

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