Free Web NovelChapter 13: Chapter 13: Riot, Slaying the Demon
Over the next three days, Su Bai continued to leverage his position as Prison Chief to get acquainted with the Prison Guards in the zones connected to Zone Seven—that is, Zones One through Nine.
Whenever a new convict was brought in, he would use his authority as Prison Chief and insist on helping the other Prison Guards escort the convict and lock them in their cell!
His fine-sounding excuse was that properly managing convicts was a duty that every Prison Chief should do their utmost to fulfill!
Of course, the Prison Guards didn’t dare object to Su Bai’s opinion, so they all agreed to his requests.
As for the other Prison Chiefs, when they saw that Su Bai seemed to genuinely be interested only in locking up convicts and harbored no other intentions, they didn’t intervene.
After all, they were all Prison Chiefs of equal rank. Besides, they suspected Su Bai had a fifth-grade official as a backer, so they wouldn’t dare move against him recklessly!
And this supposed fifth-grade official was none other than the new Prison Chief who had reported the news up the chain.
And so, over the next ten-odd days, Su Bai took some of the obviously tough and unyielding troublemakers and absorbed them all into the Purification Tripod!
These new additions, along with Lin Hu and the Celestial Blade Disciple from before, brought his total Experience Points income to over 1,800 per day!
With so many Experience Points flowing in, Su Bai’s Realm skyrocketed!
In a palace within Zone Seven.
Su Bai, who was in a secluded, elegant room, slowly opened his eyes.
A spiral of True Qi swirled around his body, and his entire being felt like an unparalleled treasure saber—impossibly sharp!
His eyes were bright and piercing, enough to make one’s Heart Spirit tremble at the sight!
The True Qi within him had reached an extremely high level, nearing its peak—more than ten times greater than when he had first become a Prison Chief!
"I’ve finally broken through to the Tongxuan Eighth Layer!"
Su Bai murmured to himself and slowly rose to his feet.
He picked up the Treasure Saber resting nearby, released his True Qi, and swung it casually forward.
BOOM!
A flash of Sword Qi effortlessly sliced open the solid floor. Two exquisite Jade Tables nearby were caught in the blade’s wake, shattering instantly and scattering pieces of Jade across the ground!
A deep gash was carved into the floor, which was made of hard marble!
"Not bad!"
"My Cultivation has reached the Tongxuan Eighth Layer, and I’m very close to the Tongxuan Ninth Layer."
"Combined with my Three Illusions Dustless Body Technique and the Purple Mist Saber Technique, I finally have some means of protecting myself in this prison!"
Su Bai sheathed his Treasure Saber and murmured with a smile.
Throughout the entire C-Class Prison, aside from the Prison Chiefs, who were experts at the Qi Sea Realm, the highest Cultivation most Prison Guards had was merely the Ninth Level of the Tongxuan Realm.
Of course, he couldn’t rule out a few hidden aces among the Prison Guards—the kind who knew how to lay low and conceal their true strength, appearing unremarkable on the surface.
Their true Cultivation might have already broken through to the Qi Sea Realm!
But Su Bai had his Experience Points rewards; he could get stronger just by idling, so he wasn’t worried!
’Time to go! I’ll make the rounds through the other zones today and see if there’s any new harvest to be had!’
Overjoyed, Su Bai slid his Treasure Saber into its sheath and walked out of the room!
After becoming a Prison Chief, his authority had increased dramatically. His daily work no longer consisted of patrols and delivering meals; he was free to manage his own time!
Therefore, he spent most of his time making the rounds in the various prison zones, hoping to absorb more criminals and increase his Experience Points rewards!
Meanwhile, his second-in-command saw that Su Bai spent his days simply making rounds and escorting convicts, and saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Thus, he stopped paying much mind to the supervisory task his superiors had assigned him.
He spent his days slacking off, humming tunes, drinking fine wine, and reading the classics.
He was living the life!
A short while later, Su Bai arrived in the neighboring Zone Eight.
The Prison Chief of Zone Eight was a short old man who rarely involved himself in daily affairs. He spent all his time in his palace, engaged in closed-door cultivation.
Su Bai had met him once and gotten the impression that he was an ascetic cultivator.
’Hm? Why is the cell door open?’
Walking down the prison corridor, Su Bai frowned.
’Bloodstains!’
The next moment, he saw a pool of dark red blood on the floor!
His expression immediately turned wary!
He hastily activated his Three Illusions Dustless Body Technique, dissolving into several Illusion Bodies as he followed the blood trail toward the Prison Guards’ lounge.
’They’re all dead!’
When he arrived, Su Bai discovered that several of the Prison Guards he had previously interacted with had been brutally killed in the lounge.
Among them was an old Prison Guard at the Ninth Level of the Tongxuan Realm!
The convicts who had escaped their cells had also met gruesome ends throughout the area!
Their eyeballs had been gouged out, their tongues and noses were missing, and their arms had rotted into a bloody pulp, their entire bodies emitting a nauseating stench!
The scene was so bloody it was sickening!
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Su Bai scanned the lounge and immediately spotted it in the corner!
A black monster was gnawing on flesh and blood!
JIE JIE JIE!
Hearing Su Bai’s footsteps, the monster slowly rose. It stood ten feet tall, with six eyes and eight arms, its form like that of a withered humanoid. It let out a series of strange cackles!
’A Demon Fiend?’
The thought flashed through Su Bai’s mind.
SWOOSH!!
The next instant, the monster’s body transformed into a long, narrow streak of black light, its eight sharp, black claws extended!
It lunged ferociously at Su Bai!
But midway through its lunge, an impossibly sharp flash of purple saber light instantly struck the monster’s torso!
HSSS!!!
The monster shrieked in pain, and a large amount of black blood spurted from where the blade light had struck!
However, as soon as the monster landed, it reached for the wound with its eight sharp claws.
Then, it yanked hard!
RRRIP!!
With a wet tearing sound, chunks of black flesh mixed with black blood splattered across the floor!
And the black chunks of flesh that splattered onto the ground instantly transformed into smaller monsters!
It was an incredibly bizarre sight!
Su Bai’s expression turned cold. He activated Three Illusions Dustless, and his body split into three Illusion Bodies!
He swung his Treasure Saber, unleashing one purple blade light after another! fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
He slew all of the smaller Demon Fiends!
The main monster, however, seemed unaffected by its injuries.
Even after Su Bai nearly sliced it in two at the waist, it continued to roar and fight him fiercely!
But with Three Illusions Dustless active, no matter how fiercely the monster attacked, it could only strike Su Bai’s Illusion Bodies; it was completely unable to harm his True Body!
After several minutes, Su Bai put all his strength into a single slash!
He cleaved the black monster in two!
Then, Su Bai made sure to finish the job!
He unleashed one purple blade light after another on the monster.
He didn’t stop attacking until the black monster was utterly and completely dead.
The dead monster quickly melted into a pool of black blood.
"What a bizarre creature!"
Su Bai stared at the pool of black blood, sighing internally.
’If it weren’t for Three Illusions Dustless, I might really not have been a match for that monster.’
’Its Life Force was just too powerful!’
Then, Su Bai looked again at the Prison Guards in the lounge and their gruesome deaths.
He couldn’t help but feel a pang of sorrow.
He had once been a Prison Guard himself, so he knew full well that while the guards seemed to hold the power of life and death over the convicts...
...in reality, they too had to face the threat of death at any moment!
Take this time, for example. Faced with this monster, the Prison Guards were no match and were slaughtered in their own lounge.
’In the end, if you want to survive in this world...’
’...it all comes down to strength!’
