The ghost cultivators led the captured cultivators into a dungeon within the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect and then departed.
As the ghost cultivators left, Chu Lingwei emerged from her spatial artifact and retrieved her ring.
The dungeon was saturated with arrays. The moment anyone stepped outside its confines, the arrays would activate.
She looked around and saw cultivators from various sects filling the area.
Chu Lingwei finally understood why the territories of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect were devoid of any cultivators. They were all here, imprisoned.
“Hey, wake up quickly?”
A cultivator from Zhaoyang Mountain, who shared the same dungeon cell, approached the newly captured cultivator after the ghost cultivators had departed. He offered him a pill.
“Where is this?”
“This is the dungeon of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect. How did they bring you in?” Si Ling, from Zhaoyang Mountain, helped the cultivator to sit up, his expression filled with hatred. “You were brought in by those ghost cultivators. You’ll never be able to leave again.”
“What?” Wei Yi jolted up, touching the back of his head. “What happened then?”
He hadn't felt the two cultivators make a move. His vision had gone black, and then he knew nothing.
“You don’t know what happened?” Si Ling looked at him, filled with disappointment. “He knocked you out, and you didn’t even react?”
Wei Yi’s face flushed red, and he stammered, unsure how to respond. “I really don’t know anything.”
“You were brought in by the ghost cultivators,” Si Ling said, sitting down on the ground and pointing at the surrounding cultivators. “Look at them. They are almost all the same as you. Brought here and then ignored.”
“Why would they do this?” Wei Yi’s expression was filled with shock. He had heard that the ghost cultivators only controlled the people of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect, but he hadn’t expected them to spare even the disciples of their own sects.
“Why do you think they would do this?” Si Ling’s eyes were filled with sarcasm. “They brought you here, perhaps for their amusement.”
Wei Yi’s face turned redder. He understood the sarcasm in Si Ling’s voice.
“That’s not what I meant. I meant, why would they go to such lengths? Wouldn’t it be better to just kill us?”
“You’d have to ask them.” Si Ling had also pondered this question but couldn’t come up with an answer, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
Wei Yi fell silent. The ghost cultivators’ actions could only mean one thing: they didn’t want them to have an easy time.
Listening to their conversation, Chu Lingwei gathered that Si Ling had been imprisoned here for a long time.
Since Si Ling and the others had been captured for so long without their lives being in immediate danger, it implied that the other captured cultivators were also not in imminent peril.
Chu Lingwei couldn’t help but wonder. If the ghost realm’s goal in controlling the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect was to instigate conflict on the Profound Heaven Continent, then without bloodshed, it would be ineffective.
What was their true objective?
“We need to find a way to get out of here?” Wei Yi suddenly stood up, intending to rush towards the dungeon entrance.
Si Ling watched as Wei Yi charged forward. He was repelled by an invisible force and crashed heavily to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
“Don’t even think about finding a way out. Every time you touch an array, your cultivation will be greatly reduced.”
Wei Yi sat up and began to regulate his breathing. When he felt his cultivation diminish, he was shocked. “What’s happening?”
“What do you think is happening? It’s all the work of those people from the ghost realm,” Si Ling snorted. If he ever got out of here, he would personally hunt down and kill every single ghost cultivator.
“What do we do now? We must find a way to escape.” Wei Yi walked to the entrance. He couldn’t see anything, but he could feel a chilling aura.
“Do you think you can come up with a solution on your own?” Since these people were captured and brought here, they were clearly no match for the ghost cultivators. Their only hope was that the powerful figures from their respective sects could quickly find a way to break through the arrays set up by the ghost cultivators.
Wei Yi’s lips moved, but no sound came out. He knew he had no chance of dealing with these ghost cultivators.
Chu Lingwei approached one of the ghost cultivators’ arrays and reached out, intending to dismantle it.
Before her hand could make contact, a surge of powerful Yin energy emanated from the array. The entire dungeon became incredibly eerie.
Chu Lingwei immediately withdrew her hand and turned to look at Si Ling behind her. He should know what was happening.
“What’s going on?” Wei Yi asked on behalf of Chu Lingwei.
“Someone is trying to break the array.” This kind of event happened several times a day. He had long grown accustomed to it.
“Did they succeed?” Wei Yi murmured to himself.
Si Ling rolled his eyes. If the array had been broken, they wouldn’t be standing here.
Am I imprisoned here?
“Meow meow, do you have a way to break the dungeon’s array?” Chu Lingwei transmitted her thoughts to the Illusionary Cat.
“I’ll try.”
The arrays in this dungeon were different from those in the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect’s market. They should not be as formidable.
Chu Lingwei remained still. Although the cultivators here were trapped by the ghost cultivators' arrays, their cultivation was still intact. If she was careless, she could be discovered.
Right now, she couldn’t let these cultivators find her, nor could she let the ghost cultivators find her.
“Weiwei, I can break this array,” came the voice of the Illusionary Cat from within her spatial artifact.
“Can you send just me away without the cultivators here or the ghost cultivators noticing?” Chu Lingwei wanted to understand the situation outside before making any plans.
“Yes.”
Hearing the Illusionary Cat’s words, Chu Lingwei breathed a sigh of relief.
“Okay, send me away now. I need to go out and see what has happened to the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect.”
“Mhm, Weiwei, wait for me.”
The voice of the Illusionary Cat came from within the spatial artifact.
A quarter of an hour later, just as Chu Lingwei was about to inquire about the Illusionary Cat, the array in front of her suddenly lit up.
Just as she was feeling puzzled, she heard Si Ling’s voice.
“Someone else has arrived?”
Chu Lingwei looked towards the dungeon entrance and saw three ghost cultivators leading in a male and female cultivator.
Upon seeing the female cultivator’s face, Chu Lingwei couldn’t help but exclaim how small the world was.
She never expected to encounter Mei Ji and Mu Shuyang here.
As they entered, Chu Lingwei clearly felt Mu Shuyang’s gaze sweep towards her.
His eyes quickly passed over her.
Mu Shuyang had seen her.
This surprised Chu Lingwei. Even Mei Ji hadn’t detected her presence, yet someone with a lower cultivation than hers could find her.
This Mu Shuyang is not simple.
“Weiwei, I’m ready. I’ll send you away now,” the Illusionary Cat’s voice transmitted at this moment.
“Wait, it’s not urgent right now.”
Mu Shuyang did not possess the cultivation level he displayed. This person was very strange. Chu Lingwei decided to observe him further and see what he would do.
Mei Ji and Mu Shuyang were taken to a dungeon not too far from Chu Lingwei’s.