The two handed over the mountain patrol talisman in a side hall near the front, and then went to the cliff on the other side. There were some caves there for them, the mountain patrol disciples, to rest.
As for the nearly a hundred palaces, low-status outer disciples like them are not qualified to live in them, and they are not even qualified to enter some of the main palaces inside.
There is a strict hierarchy in the demon sect. The Black Flame Palace is divided into outer disciples, formal disciples, true disciples, and then the elders. Above the elders are the five great elders, and the highest status is the palace master.
Mountain patrol disciples belong to the first level of outer disciples. They are said to be outer disciples, but in fact they are handyman disciples. They have low cultivation level and low status. They do some dirty work and have no ability or opportunity to do evil.
Outer disciples like Pei Jue and Lu Guo may one day do well, be appreciated by the people above and pass on the first chapter of "Black Flame Art", and then they can become official disciples. They no longer need to do those chores and can go out. Do something else.
In fact, Pei Jue has been able to become an official disciple for a long time, but he knows that once he becomes an official disciple, he will have to go out and fight with others, so he has always been in a position of neither getting better nor inferior, and will neither be criticized nor become a formal disciple. In the final analysis, it is all because of being too afraid of death.
The cliff on the left is where the outer disciples live, and the cliff on the right is where the formal disciples live. Those who are true disciples and above all live in the stone palace. Those who are qualified to live in the stone palace usually meditate instead of resting. They don’t need to be very old. Secondly, the total number of people who can live in the stone palace is only a few hundred, and this stone palace is more than enough to accommodate them.
Only in the demon sect where strength is paramount and the strong are respected can there be such a clear class situation. At least Bu Xiaotian has never heard of the distinction between outer and inner sects in Yuxu Sect, even in the rules In the most strict Wuji Peak, all daily chores are done by each disciple in turn, even the senior brother Li Yungui, who has the highest level of cultivation, is no exception.
Bu Xiaotian didn't know much about these things before. Pei Jue told him everything. On the way back, the supporting character told Bu Xiaotian almost everything he knew. Now he is even better than Bu Xiaotian himself. He cared about his safety and was afraid that Bu Xiaotian would accidentally violate any of the rules of the Black Flame Palace.
According to Pei Jue, those stone palaces are not just a symbol of status. The stone palaces are very close to the fire veins of the volcano, and practicing the skills of the Black Flame Palace there can get twice the result with half the effort.
Bu Xiaotian can also understand this. The four sects of the Demon Sect hide evil and evil, and all kinds of strange and weird cultivation methods emerge in endlessly. However, the core skills of the four sects have one thing in common, which is to absorb external forces to strengthen the body. This external force can be the power of heaven and earth, or the vitality of others.
Most of the disciples of the Black Flame Palace practice the "Black Flame Art" of the Black Flame Palace. Naturally, the closer they are to the fire veins, the better.
The two of them walked all the way back to Pei Jue and Lu Guo's residence. It was a small stone room dug into the mountain wall. It could accommodate three or four people at most, so only he and Lu Guo lived here.
This also made it easier for Bu Xiaotian to do things.
Counting the time, it was already late at night. Bu Xiaotian walked to the door of the stone chamber and looked out. He saw that the fireball above the stone halls had also dimmed a lot, leaving only a faint yellow light. It seemed that the fireball would also follow the time. Variety.
Bu Xiaotian looked at the stone palace group for a while, his figure slowly faded, and soon disappeared.
Pei Jue, who had never dared to sleep, watched Bu Xiaotian slowly disappear in front of his eyes. He didn't dare to say or do anything. He could only look helplessly in the direction of the door of the stone room, praying in his heart that he could survive this. One calamity.
After Bu Xiaotian left the stone chamber, he followed the darkest corner and walked to the edge of the stone halls. But looking at the large stone halls in front of him, he didn't know where to look for a while, and neither did Pei Jue. Know which stone palace is where the prisoners are held in the Black Flame Palace.
After hesitating for a moment, he made a decision and slowly approached the stone palace at the edge.
The night passed quickly, and Bu Xiaotian appeared again at the door of the stone room where Pei Jue lived, looking a little tired.
That night, he searched for nearly twenty smaller stone temples, and he had to carefully guard against being discovered by the people from the Black Flame Palace. His mind was almost never relaxed.
But when he saw Pei Jue in the stone room, he found that he was even more exhausted than him, and even his eyes were bloodshot.
Pei Jue was worried all night, fearing that something would happen if Bu Xiaotian made a noise, so he always paid attention to the situation in the stone palace. He was also focused, and his cultivation level was pitifully low. He seemed to be worse than Bu Xiaotian was very tired.
There are five mountain patrol teams in the Black Flame Hall, each with a hundred people, divided into ten teams. They take turns doing chores, so Pei Jue and the others can have one day off every five days.
It was a coincidence that Pei Jue and Lu Guo were taking a break today, so they had nothing to do and could have a good rest.
When Pei Jue saw Bu Xiaotian coming back, he relaxed and fell on the bed, but within a moment he heard snoring.
Bu Xiaotian ignored him, walked to another empty stone bed and sat cross-legged.
He needed some rest, too.
That evening, the originally quiet mountain suddenly became lively.
Bu Xiaotian and Pei Jue heard the noise outside and walked out of the stone room and looked towards the place where the noise came from. They saw a group of Black Flame Palace disciples escorting a person from the cave and towards the stone hall.
With Bu Xiaotian's eyesight, he could naturally see who the person they were escorting was, but he didn't know that person.
But when the man turned his eyes to him in a panic, he saw an inexplicable smile flash in his eyes.
Bu Xiaotian immediately guessed the identity of that person, it was his third senior brother Chu Yungong!
Judging from this situation, Chu Yungong must have been caught deliberately in order to sneak in.
Perhaps because he was afraid of exposing his flaws, Chu Yungong just glanced here and then turned his gaze elsewhere, looking around in panic.
Soon, the disguised Chu Yungong was escorted into one of the stone halls. Bu Xiaotian secretly remembered the stone hall and turned around and returned to the stone room.
When Pei Jue saw that Bu Xiaotian had gone back, he didn't dare to stay outside for a long time, so he followed him back.
In the blink of an eye, it was midnight again, the fireball above the stone hall dimmed again, and Bu Xiaotian quietly disappeared into the stone chamber again.
This time he did not continue searching from where he searched last night, but went directly to the shadows beside the stone palace where Chu Yungong was escorted in the evening.
A group of patrolling disciples walked past Bu Xiaotian's hiding place, unaware of Bu Xiaotian hiding in the dark.
When the group of disciples turned the corner, Bu Xiaotian jumped up and silently climbed over the stone wall, which was no more than ten feet high.
Bu Xiaotian climbed over the stone wall and landed in a shadow. He looked around at the scene behind the wall and found that there was only one main hall and two side halls. At this time, the hall doors were all closed.
There were a few disciples guarding the door, but they were dozing off and no one was seen sneaking in.
Bu Xiaotian raised his hand to knead the formula and recited the formula several times silently. He saw the guards who were standing crookedly fell to the ground one by one.
After everyone fell to the ground, Bu Xiaotian took one of them to a remote corner and woke him up.
As soon as the man woke up, he felt a chill on his neck. A long sword was placed on his neck. A man in black and masked in front of him said coldly:
"Don't say anything! Otherwise I'll kill you!"
The man immediately dared not make a sound and nodded cautiously, fearing that his neck would be cut by the sword if he moved too much.
The man in black said again:
"Where is the man you captured this afternoon? Don't even think about lying to me. If I find something wrong, I will kill you first!"
The look of horror on the man's face was even worse, but he did not dare to hesitate and pointed tremblingly at the side hall on the right.
Bu Xiaotian carried the man to the side hall and signaled him to open the door. The man did not dare to disobey and slowly pushed the door open.
The door just opened a crack, and a cold voice came from inside:
"who?"
The man suddenly got the strength from nowhere and suddenly broke free from Bu Xiaotian's grasp and slammed the door open.
But Bu Xiaotian reacted faster than him. As soon as he opened the stone door, his heart was broken by a palm, and at the same time, a cold light flew out and went straight into the palace.
Although the people in the palace had been vigilant in advance, Bu Xiaotian's cultivation level was much higher than his, and the cold light directly cut off the weapon in his hand and inserted it into his chest.
Only then did he see clearly that it was a long sword. He wanted to shout loudly, but he couldn't muster any strength and fell to the ground weakly.
After Bu Xiaotian killed the people in the hall, he immediately recalled his sword and looked at the main hall and another side hall with vigilance, but he waited for a long time and saw no movement.
It seems that only this side hall is guarded.
He stepped into the side hall and saw that there were no cages or passages inside. Bu Xiaotian couldn't help but frown.
Did the guard just lie to him?
Just when he wanted to visit the other two halls, he suddenly found that the blood stains of the people in the hall seemed to be cut off at a certain place.
He immediately noticed something was wrong. When he took a closer look, he found that there was a straight gap in the ground. After the blood flowed there, it seeped in along the gap.
Is there something down there?
Bu Xiaotian threw the man's body aside and found that there was a pull ring under the man's body, which was just blocked by his body.
Seeing the pull tab, Bu Xiaotian's eyes lit up and he raised his hand, but he didn't move it.
Bu Xiaotian didn't believe in evil, so he channeled his true energy, and he pulled up the four-foot-long stone slab diagonally.
After pulling open the stone slab, there was a hole underneath, with a faint flicker of fire.
Bu Xiaotian waited for a moment by the entrance of the cave and jumped in after finding that there was no movement inside.
After falling three or four feet, we reached the bottom of the cave. There was a not too long passage on one side of the stone wall. There were several iron basins on the stone wall of the passage. There were flames burning inside, but there was no smoke.
Bu Xiaotian held a long sword and slowly walked into the passage, always on guard against possible guards.
But until he walked out of the passage, no one came to stop him.
When you walk out of the passage, you will see cells after cells. The doors of the cells are made of fine iron bars, which are absolutely impossible for ordinary people to break. Those who can be locked up here, even if they have a high level of cultivation. Presumably, before being imprisoned here, his cultivation level will also be abolished or banned.
At this time, most of the cell doors were unlocked and no one was guarding them. There were guards in front of a few locked cell doors, but they all fainted.
Bu Xiaotian took a few steps forward and found that the door of a cell was cut open with a sword.
Seeing the iron gate cut in half, Bu Xiaotian already had a guess in his mind.
This must be where Third Senior Brother was imprisoned, and the fainted guards outside must have been caused by Third Senior Brother.
Thinking of this, Bu Xiaotian no longer hesitated and walked forward quickly, hoping to find Chu Yungong.
He walked until he walked along the passage between the cells on both sides, and saw some people in the cells who were haggard and looked very miserable.
Although Bu Xiaotian felt some pity in his heart, he also knew that this was not the time to cause trouble, so he did not save them.
Soon Bu Xiaotian reached the end of the passage. At the end of the passage was a row of stone steps extending diagonally downward.
Bu Xiaotian walked dozens of steps along the stone steps and saw the cells on the other floor.
There are not many cells on this floor, only a few. Although the doors of the cells are also iron bars, Bu Xiaotian can tell at a glance that they are not ordinary fine iron, but made of black iron.
Chu Yungong was originally standing in front of one of the cells, with his back to Bu Xiaotian. Not far from him, he saw the two men in black. The blood-stained ground beneath them showed that they had died. into the hands of Chu Yungong.
When Chu Yungong heard the footsteps, he turned around and saw that it was Bu Xiaotian. The alert look on his face gradually dissipated, replaced by a look of sadness that could not be concealed. He opened his mouth to say something, In the end, nothing was said.
Bu Xiaotian naturally saw that something was wrong with Chu Yungong's expression, and quickly walked to Chu Yungong's side and looked into the cell.
Seeing this, Bu Xiaotian felt a rush of hot blood rushing to Tianling, and his breathing suddenly became extremely heavy.
There is a person locked in this cell, a person who cannot be identified as male or female.
Although the man is still alive, he is no better than dead!
Because not only was He unkempt, his clothes were tattered, and his appearance was obscured by dirt, but He was also so thin that only skin and bones remained, making him look like a skeleton, or a mummy.
His hands and feet were chained with iron chains, and his lute bones were penetrated by iron hooks. I don’t know how he survived such torture.
Just by looking at his appearance, no one could recognize who he was, but three big characters were carved on the stone wall behind him - Situ Xue!
