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Chapter 140 Lost Memory (4)_1

Chapter 140: Chapter 140 Lost Memory (4)_1

"Jiang Yu, I’ll need your help with something tonight."

Unable to guess why the Divine Temple raised a Ferocious Beast like Huagui, Dugu Qianye stopped dwelling on the question. She planned to go out again tonight for a visit to the Thunder Temple!

Late at night, the moon would sometimes hide behind the clouds, and at other times it would emerge and reflect its figure on the sea. Those who were sleeping slept, those who were cultivating continued their cultivation, those who were engaged in Alchemy practiced their craft, and there was no one out on the streets. Holy Sea City had settled into tranquility.

Dugu Qianye stealthily slipped out of her room, but as she was about to leave the courtyard, she was stopped by a figure.

"You can’t go out in the middle of the night," Cang Jin said, watching Dugu Qianye as she prepared to scale the wall.

Just as Dugu Qianye was about to jump over the wall, a voice suddenly came from behind, giving her quite a scare. She turned around and saw Cang Jin watching her from behind the window. It turned out that the wall she had chosen was right next to Cang Jin’s room.

"You’re not resting late at night?"

Cang Jin looked at her petite figure in the moonlight, thinking that if he hadn’t experienced her ferocity himself, he would never have connected her with the domineering person in the arena.

"The people from the Divine Temple have said, you can’t go out at night," Cang Jin said.

"I know. Just pretend you didn’t see me," Dugu Qianye replied, turned around, and scaled the wall. But as soon as she was out, another figure also dropped down.

"What are you doing?" Dugu Qianye asked.

"Following you," Cang Jin answered expressionlessly.

"Why?" Dugu Qianye looked at him, speechless. Had this guy lost his mind?

In response to Dugu Qianye’s puzzled look, Cang Jin blatantly ignored her. "If you want to get back before dawn, it’s better to hurry up."

"Do you know where I’m going?"

"You’ve been observing the Divine Temple’s layout and restricted areas all day," Cang Jin replied. "I guessed that you would take action tonight."

Dugu Qianye hadn’t expected Cang Jin to be so observant; this seemingly cold person actually had a shrewd heart.

Seeing Dugu Qianye hesitate, disappointment flickered in Cang Jin’s eyes, but it quickly retreated. He said, "I also think there’s something wrong with the Divine Temple and want to investigate."

Dugu Qianye thought for a moment, then summoned Xiaoyin and mounted it.

"To the Thunder Temple," Dugu Qianye instructed, essentially telling Cang Jin her destination.

Upon receiving Dugu Qianye’s command, Xiaoyin swiftly set out. Hearing Dugu Qianye’s instructions, a subtle smile appeared on Cang Jin’s face. He summoned his own Phantom Beast and followed after her. The speeds of both their Phantom Beasts were quite fast, and they soon reached the area of the Thunder Temple.

Following the route from the daytime, Dugu Qianye arrived at the restricted area of the Thunder Temple—the Punishment Hall of the Divine Temple. Unlike the other courtyards with wooden houses, this place was built with stone, with high walls enclosing it, much like a modern prison.

Arriving outside the Punishment Hall, Dugu Qianye retracted Xiaoyin back into the Refining Demon Pot, and Cang Jin also put his Phantom Beast back into the Contract Space. Seeing Dugu Qianye about to walk over so boldly, Cang Jin hurriedly pulled her back.

"You’re just going to walk over like that?"

"Yes!"

"The Thunder Temple is the strongest among the four temples! If you go out like this, you will definitely be discovered," he said.

"I know. I have a way to keep them from discovering us. Just follow me," Dugu Qianye said and continued towards the Punishment Hall.

Cang Jin looked at Dugu Qianye and had no choice but to follow helplessly. He didn’t notice the wisps of white mist, like the faintest breath, coming from Dugu Qianye’s ears.

Arriving at the central room, Dugu Qianye peered through the small window to see the scene inside.

This was the largest room in the Punishment Hall, several times bigger than a regular prison cell. The walls were lined with all kinds of torture devices, some still dripping with blood. In the center of the room stood a stake, from which hung a thick iron chain that swung eerily in the dim light.

At that moment, four people were interrogating a disciple who had betrayed the Divine Temple. Two sat in chairs at the front of the room, while the other two stood by the accused, one stepping on the interrogated man’s back. The man, having undergone severe torture, had no strength left and lay on the ground, gasping for air with great difficulty.

"Speak, why did you betray the sacred Divine Master and join the filthy Secret Pavilion?" the person sitting on the left side asked nonchalantly as he filed his nails.

The man on the ground was obviously at his last breath, but he mustered his remaining strength to say, "I’ve already said it, I have not betrayed the Divine Master. I haven’t joined the Secret Pavilion."

The others clearly did not believe him. The one stepping on him applied pressure, and blood gushed out of the man’s mouth.

"I have not betrayed the Divine Master," the man repeated one last time and, unable to endure the torture any longer, gave out a final breath.

"Tsk tsk, he died so quickly."

"That’s the thirtieth one."

"We’ll continue tomorrow; anyway, there are so many people locked up in the prison. We must root out all the people from the Secret Pavilion. It’s unexpected that they infiltrated our headquarters; the Hall Master is very angry. Let’s go, go, go, back to sleep. Having to come here every night wastes so much of my beauty sleep," said the man, packing up his nail-filing equipment and walking out. The other three followed him.

Dugu Qianye and Cang Jin stood outside the door, both silent. Seeing the people inside walking out and Dugu Qianye showing no reaction, Cang Jin also stood still. Surprisingly, the four members from the Divine Temple passed right by them as if they hadn’t seen them, and left straight away.

After they had left, Dugu Qianye looked again at the unrecognizably tortured person inside the room, a trace of darkness surfacing in her eyes. The Divine Temple, seen by outsiders as a sacred and inviolable place, was in fact just a hypocrite cloaked in sanctity.

The Divine Temple Master must know about all this, just as he must have known about Huagui’s matter back then!

Dugu Qianye glanced at Cang Jin and continued to check the rooms one by one.

"Are you looking for someone?" Cang Jin asked in a low voice.

"Yes," Dugu Qianye did not deny.

"Those people couldn’t see us just now because of you?" Cang Jin finally asked the question that had been bothering him.

"A friend of mine did it," Dugu Qianye answered. She had asked Jiang Yu for help, causing the people here to fall into a semi-Phantom Realm state.

Dugu Qianye found the prison cell referred to by that person and peered through the ten-centimeter-sized window to see that it housed dozens of prisoners. She looked at each one, not finding Youwu’s grandfather, nor the principal or her grandfather. To ensure she didn’t recognize the wrong person, she even had Xie Ping provide her with two portraits.

"Did you find the person you’re looking for?" Cang Jin asked.

Dugu Qianye shook her head and turned to leave. Then she searched through the rest of the Thunder Temple, still not finding the people she sought. Dawn was not far away.