Confessions
"Mother, are you not going to explain what just happened to Commander Huo? He looked so confused at everything." Xue Bai couldn't help but ask as they flew away.
"We don't really need to. He can assume what happened himself. He's a smart man." Li Rou spoke casually.
Though Xue Bai still felt bad, he couldn't change the mind of his stubborn mother, so he stopped asking questions.
"Mistress, I didn't know you were so cool! That fireball you made was so amazing!" Xiao'er was simpler, on the other hand.
"Xiao'er, you'll get to my level eventually. Just cultivate diligently." Li Rou spoke sweetly as she rubbed the head of Xiao'er.
"I will!" Xiao'er nodded expectantly.
After the maid's words, the rest of the flight was spent quietly as the group enjoyed the serene scenery as they flew to the prison.
The prison of their territory was built on the side of an extremely large and steep mountain. It was also built just a few kilometers away from the Estate and far away from Snowy Wind City, which was why Li Huo wanted to deny Xue Feng's request.
Landing on the prison walls, Xue Feng called over a random guard.
"Yes, Lord Duke!" The guard asked respectfully.
"Where did Brother Huo go? He was carrying two men frozen in a block." Xue Feng asked, getting right to the point.
"Lord Duke, if you meant Marquis Huo, then he should be in the Negotiations Chamber. He only arrived a few minutes ago." The guard answered.
Xue Bai, on the side hearing the name 'Negotiations Chamber,' shivered. That name, though, seemed nice on the surface. But it couldn't possibly be what it entailed.
'This is a prison. Why the hell would there be any negotiations? This is a cultivation world, not Earth. Even if we did catch the wrong guy, we could just flip the script, and it'll be the right one.'
Unaware of his son's thoughts, Xue Feng nodded at the guard's words before flying over to the Negotiations Chamber.
The Negotiations Chamber, on the surface, seemed to be a simple-looking pagoda, but Xue Feng, the man who built and designed it, knew that everything scary about it wasn't above ground.
However, just before he was about to step in, Xue Feng looked over to Xue Bai and said, "Bai'er do you want to come down there with us? It'll be cruel torture isn't a beautiful sight. You can stay in the pagoda, and we'll relay their words to you."
With those words, Xue Bai agreed. He also didn't want to see two grown men get tortured. Even if he knew that he'd have to do things like that eventually, once he saw such a brutal scene, it would be hard to forget. So Xue Bai planned to keep his innocence as long as possible.
Nodding, Xue Feng flew Xue Bai and Xiao'er to the top floor of the pagoda before he and Li Rou went down to where Li Huo was.
Xue Bai, now on the top floor, jumped on a chair and relaxed as he waited for his Father to contact him. The top floor was mainly used for receiving guests, and because of that, it was well-furnished and fancy looking. So Xue Bai felt at peace in it, even though there were countless men in extreme agony a few floors down.
"Xiao'er, why do you look so anxious? Nothing is going to happen to you. Just sit down." Xue Bai couldn't help but giggle as he saw how Xiao'er looked.
ραпdα Йᴏνêl(сòm) "But, Young Master, aren't you scared? There are such brutal things happening a few dozen meters away from us." Xiao'er asked as she sat on Xue Bai's chair for comfort.
Thankfully it was a loveseat, so she was able to sit comfortably.
"Xiao'er worse things happen. The stuff that's happening down there is pretty tame for what happens in the outside world." Xue Bai spoke simply as he pulled out some food from his spatial ring.
Like in my novels, the spatial ring in the Baishen Plane was able to keep things at the same temperature as when it was put in. So the food Xue Bai was eating was still the same piping hot it was when he put it in.
"Young Master, how can you have the appetite to eat now?" Xiao'er asked, amazed.
"I'm hungry, Xiao'er. I'm not going to ignore my hunger because of what's happening a few floors down." Xue Bai spoke casually as he continued eating, ignoring the amazed Xiao'er.
As Xue Bai was eating, Xue Feng and Li Rou finally reached where Li Huo was at. Walking into the cell, they saw Li Huo sitting casually, waiting for their arrival, as the two Xia Clan members were chained up while staring at Li Huo with bloodthirsty eyes.
"Brother Feng, you're here. I already took the chance to seal their cultivation bases. So you can ask away." Li Huo replied as he noticed Xue Feng walk in.
Though Li Huo had Spiritual Sense, the cells were covered with arrays that blocked any Spirit Sense from going in or out, leaving Li Huo in the dark until Xue Feng walked into the room.
Nodding at his brother-in-law, Xue Feng looked at the two Xia Clan members deeply.
"Are you going to say your plans, or are we going to have to force it out of you?" Xue Feng spoke simply.
Now that the two Xia Clan members were in prison, their lives were forfeit. The only thing that mattered was how long it took them to come clean before they died.
The two Xia Clan members look at each other seriously before seemingly coming to a decision.
After a few seconds of silence, the leader spoke up, "We can tell you as long as you get revenge for us. We were forced to do this, and neither of us wants the man who told us to do this to live peacefully."
"You have no right to negotiate. I'm only giving you two the choice of whether you die with or without pain." Xue Feng refused immediately.
In a negotiation, in order to be able to negotiate, each side had to be equal. This was especially so in a cultivation world where might equal rights. If you didn't have a big enough fist, your words meant nothing.
Even though the two Xia Clan members had the information to negotiate, they weren't strong enough to stop Xue Feng from simply forcing it out of them.
"It doesn't matter whether you want or don't want to avenge us. He'll be coming after you anyway, so you'll need to defend yourself." Then, finally, the second Xia Clan member spoke up.
"Who was it?" Li Rou couldn't help but speak out.
Hearing such ominous words come from him, she couldn't help but go curious.
The two Xia Clan members looked at each other before saying, "Wang Yin. My comrade and I were out on an excursion last week before Wang Yin found and kidnapped us. After that, he fed us a poison pill and told us to kill Huo Chen."
"Forced to comply, we planned for 5 days before going to assassinate Huo Chen, where you three found us."
"Oh, then that's fine." Li Rou breathed a sigh of relief.
She was thinking that there was some mastermind plot behind the Xia Clans' motive. But it turns out it was just the Wang Clan getting bloodthirsty and wanting to damage their Dukedom even more.
"Then you two have no more use." Xue Feng spoke casually before summoning two icicles and killing the two.
"Tsk! Even Bai'er could've told us that. We wasted an entire night for nothing." Li Rou clicked her tongue in annoyance.
"It's fine as long as we get the right information. Wasting a few hours was worth it. We rely too much on the information Nephew Bai gives us nowadays." Li Huo chimed in from the side.
Li Rou agreed with his words before walking out of the cell.
After the death of the Xia Clan members, the group of three went to the top of the pagoda to meet up with Xue Bai.
"Mother, Father, what happened? Were they too hard to break?" Xue Bai asked as he saw the three walk into the room.
Though Xue Bai wasn't sure about how ruthless his parents and uncle were, they were all extremely famous generals they couldn't be nice people to their enemies. To be able to still be tough-willed even after being interrogated by them, those men surely must have been iron-willed.
"No, it was the opposite. They came clean instantly. We didn't even need to touch them." Xue Feng spoke.
"Oh. Then do we go home now?" Xue Bai asked. He was slightly disappointed in the two, but it was getting somewhat late now, so he wanted to go home now.
No one disagreed with Xue Bai's proposal, and after bidding Li Huo farewell, the groups went back to their homes.
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