Chapter 1362: 1008: Alarming Winds and Changed Faces (Part 3)

Looking at the pavilion, which appeared significantly more glamorous than before, he patiently advised, "There’s no need to worry. Go as far as you can inside; just keep a calm mindset. Furthermore, due to your usual cooperative coordination with Zhile, this time you two will be teaming up for the training. Face death without fear; I will replace your spirit roots with top-grade dual ones, allowing revival. By then, your path of cultivation will become increasingly luminous!"

After calling over Hu Zhile to explain the details, he set their training time for early tomorrow morning—today, the eldest disciple returns from traveling, isn’t it right to celebrate properly? Celebration requires drinking, inevitably leading to a dizzy slumber.

Tomorrow, enter the Time Pavilion with vigor and emerge in a while, both of your strengths can advance another step!

Organizing the welcoming banquet was still left to Hu Zhile to manage.

Jiang Yuan then flashed into the Seven-Layered Glazed Treasure Tower, where You Lai, imprisoned within, instinctively curled up with an anxious heart upon hearing the commotion.

When an evil cultivator falls into the hands of the righteous cultivators and is brought back alive rather than being killed outright—it doesn’t take much effort to know there must be other motives.

What could they be?

You Lai’s heart pounded wildly, resolute in the decision that, no matter the cost, he must not affect Snow Cloud Valley. Even if his own life should perish, he must protect his entire clan!

Before leaving the Wilderness World for Yingtian Star, the Leisure Sect wasn’t so bad. It was merely the holy land for disciples’ tribulation crossing that was destroyed, and even that gluttonous Great Protector was stable—how big of a mess could it cause?

Therefore, You Lai was completely unaware of the situation beyond the Wilderness. He still immersed himself in the false image described by Jiang Yuan impersonating Qi Baijun.

Even being captured, he mistakenly thought of himself as unlucky for high-profile travels on Yingtian Star that provoked the righteous cultivators, thus exposing his identity. As long as he returned to the Wilderness World, as long as the transaction connection between Snow Cloud Valley’s Mi Family and Leisure Sect remained, he could escape disaster!

Little did he know, aside from him, the entire Leisure Sect beyond the Wilderness had already been obliterated— even the Sect Leader had been caught and confessed everything in detail.

"Tap, tap, tap!"

Footsteps approached closer, and You Lai could feel someone standing before him, staring. After a few moments, the person bent down, placing a hand on his shoulder.

His heartbeat almost halted; he didn’t know who the person was or their intentions. Surely they wouldn’t... strip him, right?

It wasn’t that You Lai was overly self-absorbed, but as a proud scion of the Mi Family, he indeed possessed assets to boast about. Many female demons actively approached him normally, and maybe he had run into someone seeking beauty.

However, Jiang Yuan didn’t leave him much space for fantasy.

After thoroughly searching to confirm no spoils left behind, he proceeded to use the Soul-Devouring Demon Skill!

[Lifespan +70 years]

[Lifespan +75 years]

......

"Soul-Devouring Demon Skill? Evil Cultivator! Qi Baijun?!" Bound tightly, unable to see or speak, You Lai felt his restricted spiritual power and vibrant vitality being brutally seized, internally crying out, "Good one, Qi Baijun, you had previously mentioned having an insider within the Demon Realm Alliance, and now indeed got me extradited back, yet intend to devour me!"

Jiang Yuan watched as the target’s health bar dropped to a near-empty state, with the system assessment showing You Lai’s lifespan remaining only a day and a half. Satisfied, he stopped and clicked to remove those shackles and the sensory-sealing magical treasures.

To send him to the new dungeon and join the bizarre army, these good items mustn’t be contaminated.

"You, are you Qi Baijun?" The Merit Token and Storage Bag had long been confiscated. You Lai, looking at the unfamiliar young man, remembering the Black Knight’s complaints about the Three Protectors changing faces again, felt bewildered and wanted to confirm the target’s identity.

Too lazy to bother with nonsense, Jiang Yuan clicked to throw him into the dungeon, reminding, "I have matters to attend to, no interrogation, save some cards for yourself to exchange for merit."