Chapter 1349: Chapter 866: Purgatory
Waving his hand, signaling Sui to release him, Yang Xiao wore a sinister smile, step by step approaching the Bone Burning Taoist who was tortured half to death.
The Bone Burning Taoist had long lost his previous arrogance; at this moment, in his eyes, Yang Xiao was no different from the most terrifying demon of this era.
The Withered Bone Pavilion he was in was inhumane, and so was this guy.
Turning his hand to draw out the Ghost Bamboo Stick, Yang Xiao pressed it against the decayed shoulder of the Bone Burning Taoist, where the rotten wound was left by the Mirror Ghost with a black stone.
As spiritual power was slowly injected, the Bone Burning Taoist watched in horror as the flesh on his shoulder broke apart bit by bit, revealing the white bones underneath. This feeling of watching his own flesh fall apart was something he had never experienced before.
This was no longer physical suffering, but rather a spiritual torment.
"Tell me, where are the other two parts of the map?" Yang Xiao’s voice was low and hoarse, squeezed out through his teeth.
Upon hearing this, the pupils of the Bone Burning Taoist suddenly contracted. He never thought Yang Xiao would know so much; this was the greatest secret of the Withered Bone Pavilion. "Who... who exactly are you?!" the Bone Burning Taoist shouted in a strange voice.
Yang Xiao maintained that mysterious and sinister smile, then he withdrew the Ghost Bamboo Stick and pressed the other end of the stick against the Bone Burning Taoist’s forehead.
"No, I’ll talk, I’ll say everything!!" At this moment, the Bone Burning Taoist was truly terrified, having fallen into the hands of this person, he no longer held hope of survival, only wishing for a quick death.
But even so, Yang Xiao didn’t stop. Through the eyes hidden behind his mask, the Bone Burning Taoist saw the excitement in them.
He seemed not very interested in the so-called secrets either, just purely loved to torture people.
Pervert!
A pure pervert!!
At this moment, the Bone Burning Taoist felt that compared to him, he was far inferior; this person must be a pure Great Heretic Cultivator, with an unlimited future!
"One part is with the Great Protector, another is with the Five Guardians, the part that Song Ziming stole was originally under my care, but unexpectedly, something went wrong, and the person was taken!" the Bone Burning Taoist shouted.
"Continue, I’m listening." Yang Xiao said with great interest, holding the Ghost Bamboo Stick, gesturing up and down on the Bone Burning Taoist’s body as if searching for a spot to make a move.
"It’s... it’s three women, these three women are the patron’s playthings, and the patron divided that place’s map into three parts, tattooed it on the backs of the three women, and arranged three protectors to manage them separately."
"This was both for confidentiality, and in case his lordship ran into trouble, we could piece the map together and find that place, ensuring our Withered Bone Pavilion would not lose its inheritance." The Bone Burning Taoist spoke very fast, obviously afraid of being further tortured by Yang Xiao.
"What kind of place is that?" Yang Xiao smiled while staring at the Bone Burning Taoist, giving the latter the impression that he knew everything.
"It is the land of Purgatory, also the reason for the strength of our Withered Bone Pavilion."
"Ah! Ahhh!!"
Suddenly, the Bone Burning Taoist burst into a series of screams, as the flesh on his belly was torn off in a piece.
"Sorry, I couldn’t resist touching it, you continue." Yang Xiao put away the Ghost Bamboo Stick, showing a kind smile.
"The land of Purgatory was discovered by the patron, no one knows its exact location, only by obtaining the complete map could it be found, and at regular intervals, the patron would take us there to train for a period of time."
"Your bodies transformed into this ghostly appearance in that place?" Sui Chengguo couldn’t help but ask.
When he fought against these guys from the Withered Bone Pavilion, he noticed they were not easy to deal with, having extremely rich combat experience and very high physical resistance.
Each one bore a skeletal face, their bodies emaciated, if it was just one it could be ignored, but all of them being like this, it indicated they must have been influenced by some bizarre force.
Indeed, from the Ten Guardians of the Bone Burning Taoist’s mouth, they got the answer.
"Our bodies were indeed altered by the land of Purgatory, every entry into it distorts and emaciates more, the more one goes, and the longer one endures, the more this happens. Our patron has already... become no different from a skeleton!" said the Bone Burning Taoist rapidly.
From this, Yang Xiao learned that the more emaciated someone from the Withered Bone Pavilion was, the stronger they became, and the higher their status within the sect.
He believed the Bone Burning Taoist wasn’t lying; after all, he had seen other disciples from the Withered Bone Pavilion, and none were as exaggerated as the Bone Burning Taoist.
"What did you see in there, what kind of place is it?" Yang Xiao pursued further.
But this time the Bone Burning Taoist only shook his head in pain, "I don’t know, I... I really don’t know, every time we come out our memory suffers damage, nearly erased, perhaps... perhaps only those at the patron’s level of strength can resist."
"But... but each time we come out, our bodies become stronger, especially resistance to blows, additionally, our compatibility with the artifacts on us also improves, very bizarre," the Bone Burning Taoist added.
This description instantly awakened Yang Xiao’s memory, as in the Ru Lin Academy, there was also a place like this, held a dark tournament every few years.
But the Purgatory land mentioned by the Withered Bone Pavilion was evidently unrelated to that mysterious space in the Ru Lin Academy, after all, Yang Xiao had personally fought in the dark tournament, and never heard of anyone being drained after entering.
But these two peculiar spaces should have similarities, Yang Xiao concluded that the so-called holy land of the Withered Bone Pavilion, that land of Purgatory, must also be a space similar to a Ghost, formed by a masterless high-level Magic Artifact.
