“Miss, those are imprisoned criminals, what danger could they pose?”
Gu Mingyuan asked.
Her mood was quite complicated at this moment.
On one hand, she didn’t think Bai Liluo was joking.
On the other, she felt the people from the Blood-devouring Hall posed no threat.
Otherwise, why didn’t the Blood-devouring Hall Master resist when she was torturing his grandson earlier?
Unless there was some conspiracy.
“Criminals? You’ve locked up monsters?” Bai Liluo asked.
“Monsters?”
Her words made everyone realise something was off.
It was likely that Bai Liluo wasn’t referring to the people from the Blood-devouring Hall.
After all, while those people were dangerous, they didn’t qualify as monsters, at least not as dangerous as Bai Liluo described.
“Sister Liluo, are you talking about something inside that person?”
Chu Feng pointed towards the cell and asked.
The person he referred to was the Blood-devouring Hall Master’s grandson.
“That person? I can only sense the monster, not the person,” Bai Liluo said.
Hearing this, Chu Feng understood. As a heaven-and-earth anomaly, Bai Liluo had a special sensory ability.
But her senses were limited to unique entities, and she couldn’t detect ordinary martial cultivators.
The place where the Blood-devouring Hall members were held had a barrier that could indeed block sensory abilities.
However, while the barrier blocked Bai Liluo’s ability to sense the Blood-devouring Hall members, it couldn’t prevent her from detecting that unique entity.
“Forget it, I’ll take a closer look.”
As Bai Liluo spoke, her gaze shifted, and she looked again at the barrier gate.
However, as her gaze changed, Chu Feng and Master Liangqiu’s expressions shifted.
“This girl?”
Chu Feng was fine, but Master Liangqiu’s eyes were filled with shock.
Both Chu Feng and Master Liangqiu could sense that Bai Liluo was using a special observation technique.
It was a barrier technique, and from the method she employed, they could tell that Bai Liluo’s spirit power was at the Dragon Mark Saint-cloak level.
This was the same level as Master Liangqiu.
So, when Bai Liluo used this technique, the barrier array blocking sensory abilities became useless.
At that moment, the situation inside the cell was clearly visible to Bai Liluo’s eyes.
“Brother Chu Feng.”
“Did you sense it too?”
After her observation, Bai Liluo turned her gaze to Chu Feng.
“Sister Liluo, is it really something in that man’s head?” Chu Feng asked.
“Yes, that’s the thing,” Bai Liluo confirmed.
Hearing this, Chu Feng felt a trace of lingering fear.
The monster Bai Liluo referred to was the poison within the Blood-devouring Hall Master’s grandson.
Earlier, Chu Feng had come into contact with that thing. Though he sensed its strangeness, he hadn’t realised it was that dangerous.
Thankfully, Bai Liluo had arrived, or no one might have noticed such a dangerous entity lurking within the Chu Heavenly Clan.
“Chu Feng, what’s going on?”
At this point, Gu Mingyuan, the Chu Heavenly Clan’s Clan Chief, and the others looked at Chu Feng with curiosity.
Though Chu Feng understood the situation, the others were still in the dark.
Seeing this, Chu Feng briefly explained the situation to them.
“There’s actually a monster hiding in the Blood-devouring Hall Master’s grandson?”
Everyone was shocked to hear this.
The most surprised was Gu Mingyuan, as she had just tortured the Blood-devouring Hall Master’s grandson.
And it was she who had captured him in the first place.
“Miss, is that thing hard to deal with?” Gu Mingyuan asked.
“It’s hard to say, it’s still dormant. We’ll only know its strength when it awakens.”
“But it’s better not to take risks. I can sense that thing is very dangerous, even more malevolent than the Black-haired Spectre. If it wakes up and we can’t handle it, we’ll be asking for trouble,” Bai Liluo said.
“Hiss—”
Even Chu Feng couldn’t help but gasp at her words.
Bai Liluo’s comment that it was more malevolent than the Black-haired Spectre showed just how dangerous it was.
After all, the Black-haired Spectre had just massacred the Tantai Heavenly Clan, an act already heinous.
Something even more malevolent could do unimaginable things.
“Miss, is that monster residing in that person’s body?” Gu Mingyuan asked again.
“Something like that,” Bai Liluo replied.
“If we kill the host, will it die?” Gu Mingyuan asked further.
“Kill? You’d better not provoke it, or the host’s emotions will affect the monster,” Bai Liluo said.
“This…”
Hearing this, Chu Feng, Chu Xuanzhengfa, and Master Liangqiu instinctively glanced at Gu Mingyuan.
Faced with their gazes, Gu Mingyuan looked a bit embarrassed.
After all, her earlier actions had gone beyond merely provoking the host.
“Then we can only let them go,” Chu Feng said, looking at the Chu Heavenly Clan’s Clan Chief, “Clan Chief, is that alright?”
“Let them go,” the Clan Chief nodded.
No one objected to this decision, not even Gu Mingyuan.
Normally, the Blood-devouring Hall members, with their ill intentions, would be lucky to be kept alive, let alone released.
But with the monster’s presence, they had no choice but to let them go, as they couldn’t afford to anger the Blood-devouring Hall Master’s grandson.
Though the grandson was merely the monster’s host, Bai Liluo had said that provoking the host could affect the monster.
So, killing was out of the question, they could only release them.
After the decision, Chu Feng and the others did just that, freeing the Blood-devouring Hall Master, his subordinates, and his grandson.
Of course, they didn’t just let them go outright. Chu Feng and the others staged an elaborate act.
They made it seem like Chu Feng had gone to great lengths to convince Gu Mingyuan and the others to spare their lives.
Before releasing them, Chu Feng set a condition.
After being freed, the Blood-devouring Hall Master had to take his subordinates and grandson and leave the Ancestral Martial Starfield, never to return. Even in other starfields, they were not to kill innocents.
The Blood-devouring Hall Master and his people hadn’t expected to leave alive.
So, they agreed to the condition without hesitation.
And they weren’t just pretending, they agreed earnestly, even with gratitude and guilt.
Chu Feng and Gu Mingyuan knew a bit about the Blood-devouring Hall Master.
Though he was a sinner with the blood of many innocents on his hands, from another perspective, he was a man who valued loyalty.
Since he agreed, Chu Feng believed he would likely keep his word.
Thus, the Blood-devouring Hall Master, his subordinates, and his grandson left the Chu Heavenly Clan.
However, after they left, Chu Feng looked troubled.
“Chu Feng, what did you and the Blood-devouring Hall Master talk about in secret?”
Gu Mingyuan asked.
They all knew Chu Feng had communicated privately with the Blood-devouring Hall Master.
And Chu Feng’s current worry was surely related to that conversation.
“I think I know where that monster came from,” Chu Feng said.
“What?”
Everyone’s hearts jolted.
They all wanted to know the monster’s origin.
But judging by Chu Feng’s reaction, it seemed far from simple.
It might even be tied to their fate.
