Chapter 19: Chapter 19: A Snowy Night of Murder
Since Su Bai was the only one involved in the entire process, his Suppression Involvement shot up to one hundred percent!
’The Experience Points are as high as 500!’
Su Bai glanced at the Experience Points reward, a look of delight on his face.
This meant that this single person could provide Su Bai with 6,000 Experience Points every day!
Filled with anticipation, Su Bai then checked the other person’s information.
[Criminal: Lin Bao]
[Sin Level: Three-Star]
[Strength: Qi Sea Third Layer]
[Status: Near Death (Imprisoned)]
[Suppression Involvement: 100%]
[Reward: 300 Experience Points / two-hour period]
’300 Experience Points? Not bad at all!’
A smile spread across Su Bai’s face after he read their information.
’These Northern Three Heroes... they’re such thoughtful "good people"!’
’The three sworn brothers together can provide me with nearly 10,000 Experience Points every day!’
’Awesome!’
[Congratulations, Tripod Master, on your first 100% suppression. Reward: three lottery chances!]
The next moment, a spinning wheel once again materialized before Su Bai’s eyes.
Just like last time, nine of the slots were Experience Point rewards, with only one holding a Cultivation Technique.
With a thought from Su Bai, the pointer on the wheel began to spin.
A moment later, all three lottery chances had landed on Experience Points.
The total came to 20,000 points, which wasn’t too bad.
With the Northern Three Heroes, Su Bai’s daily Experience Point gain had soared to nearly 20,000!
It was an explosive increase!
As a result, the speed at which he broke through Realms also increased significantly.
Of course, in the days that followed, Su Bai tirelessly continued to patrol the various prison areas.
Whenever new criminals were brought in, Su Bai was always there.
Over time, Su Bai even earned the "Prison’s Model Worker" commendation!
This left Su Bai rather speechless.
...
「One day.」
Inside his personal palace, Su Bai slowly opened his eyes, exhaling a breath of turbid air.
The aura around him surged once more!
CRACK! CRACK!!
Simultaneously, numerous bones in his body emitted a series of crisp cracks as they began a transformation.
’Divine Power Fourth Layer!’
After a while, a golden pattern began to manifest on Su Bai’s right arm.
A total of four golden patterns now shimmered with a dazzling light.
With just a thought, Su Bai could make these golden patterns retreat into his body.
So he didn’t have to worry about others discerning his specific Realm.
After breaking through to the Divine Power Fourth Layer, the dual-colored gold and white True Qi vortex within Su Bai’s body also generated three smaller vortices around it.
The amount of True Qi in his body had once again multiplied several times over.
Its recovery speed had also accelerated considerably.
He could now last much longer in an intense battle.
Furthermore, after carefully sensing the changes, Su Bai discovered that his physical strength had also increased significantly with the breakthrough.
With the buff from the Golden Body Technique, Su Bai’s strength was even more terrifying!
He estimated that with his physical body alone, he could slap a Martial Artist of the same Realm to death in just a few moves!
During this time, thanks to his diligent imprisonment efforts, the number of criminals in the Purification Tripod had surpassed three hundred.
The total Experience Points they provided him daily had reached an astonishing 30,000!
The only downside was that he had already made his rounds through the entire C Prison Area.
This meant it would be difficult to achieve another significant jump in his Experience Point gain anytime soon.
Still, Su Bai was content with earning 30,000 Experience Points every day.
"Greetings, Su Prison Chief!"
Su Bai hummed a little tune as he walked down the corridor.
Some of the Prison Guards greeted him with smiles when they saw him.
They felt a mix of awe and admiration for him.
With a "model worker" like Su Bai around, they no longer had to worry about being injured by inmates.
In the past, whenever particularly vicious criminals were brought in, for one reason or another, many Prison Guards would be on edge, terrified that these brutes would suddenly lash out and they would get caught in the crossfire.
But ever since Su Bai had joined, even the most ferocious criminals were on their best behavior, not daring to cause any trouble.
Any inmate who got ideas was slapped into a near-death state by Su Bai, almost expiring on the spot.
After one good beating, most of the criminals learned to behave.
Su Bai returned their greetings before continuing his stroll through the various prison areas.
He was hoping to find some newly incarcerated criminals.
Unfortunately, after a full day of wandering, Su Bai had only managed to process a few inmates.
Their Cultivation was low, and their Sin Level was insignificant.
The Experience Points they yielded were pitifully low.
「The next day.」
A bone-chilling wind snaked its way through the C Prison Area, feeling like a piercing blade.
Winter had arrived in the Great Xia Dynasty.
This year’s winter seemed even colder than usual. In past years, there were always cases of inmates with low Cultivation freezing to death.
After all, a prison wasn’t a private manor or a vacation resort.
Being thrown in here meant enduring torment and hardship.
’Want blankets and clothes?’
The Prison Guards would "kindly" inform them.
’Just tough it out!’
’Stop thinking about such useless things.’
’Perhaps the heavens will break these stubborn inmates and loosen their lips.’
That evening, as Su Bai was preparing to return to his quarters, Li Da found him.
"Uncle Da, what is it?"
Su Bai asked, seeing the anxious look on Li Da’s face.
"Su Bai, it’s like this..."
Li Da spoke with Su Bai for a moment, explaining what had happened.
It turned out that early this morning, Li Da had suddenly received a letter.
The letter claimed that they had his wife and child. If he wanted to ensure his family’s safety, he had to go alone to a desolate mountain temple tonight to meet them.
"Kidnapping?"
Su Bai’s expression hardened as he understood the situation.
Kidnapping a Prison Guard’s wife and daughter was a major crime in the Great Xia Dynasty.
This law had been personally decreed by the Emperor of Great Xia himself!
Not even officials within the Great Xia Dynasty would dare do such a thing; otherwise, it would be a direct slap in the face to the Emperor of Great Xia.
Clearly, these culprits were likely not from within the Great Xia Dynasty.
Moreover, for this group to be able to abduct Li Da’s wife and daughter from the heavily guarded Imperial City, their strength was clearly not to be underestimated.
After a moment of thought, the image of three young men surfaced in Su Bai’s mind.
’Could it be... that this is related to the Northern Three Heroes?’
Su Bai considered it and concluded that the kidnappers were probably not after Li Da.
’They’re after me!’
After all, Su Bai had no close ties to anyone—except for Li Da.
"Uncle Da, don’t panic. I’ll go with you."
After calming Li Da down, Su Bai grabbed his Treasure Saber, his expression turning cold.
Regardless of the truth, Li Da had always treated him well.
It wasn’t in Su Bai’s nature to stand by and do nothing when a friend was in trouble.
He cultivated the Martial Dao to achieve a clear and unburdened mind.
A moment later, the two changed into practical attire.
They left the prison, braving the blowing snow.
Tonight was a night of wind and snow.
And a night for killing.
