Lang Yi initially remained silent.
Although he had some fear of this human Heavenly Pride, he had already offered his soul to the Great Sovereign, leaving an imprint.
Betrayal was impossible.
He could only sacrifice himself; it was just a pity he hadnât entered the Divine Domain Realm yet, hadnât had a chance to stand at the worldâs heights and enjoy the scenery, hadnât...
Interrogating the alien races was relatively difficult, and Green Shadow had captured no less than eighty to a hundred aliens so far.
At the beginning, there were no results.
Even using every torture, using potions that could magnify pain by a factor of a hundred or a thousand; using illusion techniques to tempt; invading the aliensâ memories, etc...
Every method was exhausted.
There was a special mark in the souls of the alien races, rendering illusion techniques and memory invasion ineffective.
Getting the aliens to speak for themselves always resulted in self-destruction at the last momentâa passive self-destruction.
Perhaps due to having enough materials,
or maybe it was a case of one thing restraining another, and it just so happened that there was a restraining treasure on Earth, the Intelligence Department indeed researched a method to crack the aliensâ self-destruction.
ââIn the souls of the aliens, there were âimpuritiesâ not belonging to themselves. These âimpuritiesâ could make them stronger but also subjected them to control by the "Devil Race."
Similar samples, like the souls of Demonized Beasts, were almost entirely composed of this âimpurity.â
When Green Shadow was still just a small Sanctuary, they accidentally discovered a Source Crystal Vein behind the mountain, and there, a giant tree was rooted. Its leaves were crystalline, with clear patterns, and he named it the "Soul Ancient Tree"ââwhy add âancientâ? It sounded nicer that way, and a good name for a good tree!
The leaves of the "Soul Ancient Tree" were the main material for creating âsoul power containers,â which played a significant role during the apocalypseâs early period, allowing a batch of Crystal-Consuming Party members to enjoy the pleasure of refining soul power without leaving their homes.
Indeed, he was talking about himself.
Later, the soul power dissipated, but that didnât mean the âleaves of the Soul Ancient Treeâ lost their usefulness.
They could grow soul power to some extentââfor instance, brewing tea with the leaves of the ancient tree. Drinking a pot every day for three months could increase the soul power significantly.
They could also purify polluted souls!
Initially, beneath the "Soul Ancient Tree," many Demonized Beasts gathered, staying long-term under the ancient tree. Their souls were purified, their intelligence enhanced, and they gained more potentialââthough still under the control of the Devil Race.
Unlike these pure battle weapons, the âimpuritiesâ in the alien racesâ soul power were added during the late period.
Purifying the âimpuritiesâ could reduce the control of the "Devil Race" over the alien races.
"Go, fetch two liang of ancient tree tea leaves for this Sect Master."
A member of the Law Enforcement Team with a local Green Shadow household registration left immediately and returned shortly with a small jade box and a large bucket of pure water from the âSource Power Pool.â
Tang Yu brewed tea right in front of Lang Yi.
The actions were elegant, much like an... old tea drinker.
Lang Yi couldnât comprehend it, but since he was already hanging off a cliff edgeâhe was rather fearless!
"Come, drink tea!"
Lang Yi sneered, unmoved.
"Oh, I forgot your hands and feet are locked, come, pour the tea down his throat."
Indeed,
Tang Yu used the word âpour.â
He wasnât brewing Kung Fu tea or thermos tea, but a bucket of teaâusing the wash water he casually conjured, while that bucket of âSource Power Mountain Springâ was naturally brewed for himself to drink.
The Law Enforcement Team warrior lifted the tea bucket to Lang Yiâs mouth, and another pried Lang Yiâs mouth open. The tea, slightly green in the clear liquid, was poured into the wolfâs mouth, and the Law Enforcement Team warrior used Source Power to bind the flow, preventing spillage.
Lang Yi gulped it down, tasted it, hmm, quite good, but a bucket of tea to buy off this clan leader? Ha!
Purifying the soul takes time, and Tang Yu instructed Yan to watch over, while he dallied for two days before returning.
Lang Yi initially despised it.
After a few hours, he gradually became confused.
Now, he was already terrified.
Upon joining the Sovereignâs ranks, the soul imprint left to enhance power would feel its weakening when purified or erased. Lang Yi felt his power decline as well.
What exactly had they done to his body?
Why did the special power residing in his soul become so weakened?
Indeed,
It was a conspiracy by the âHigh-dimensional United Front,â and they had researched a secret weapon capable of breaking the soul imprint; naturally, he would not be spared.
...
The leaves of the Soul Ancient Tree couldnât completely erase the imprints.
However, Lang Yi was probably frightened, his faith collapsed, and after being subjected to harsh interrogation for ten days and nights, he confessed everything.
Tang Yu kept his promise and didnât kill him.
He was only imprisoned in the Pale Prison of Green Shadow City, and when Lang Yi saw so many other similarly imprisoned alien races in the prison, he felt much more balanced.
So, he wasnât the only one.
Great Sovereign, it wasnât that we were incompetent, it was just that the enemy was too insidious.
"Lord, what about that other Wolf Clan strong presence? Shall we also imprison him in Green Shadow?"
"He... let me think, oh, that guy seems to be a clan leader of a Wolf Clan division, shouldnât be lacking in resources, so we should let their people come to ransom him."
Tang Yu thought for a moment, then added, "Also, as itâs the first malicious event within the city, compile a video of the Law Enforcement Team subduing the two Wolf Clan members, focusing particularly on their faces, then play it on a loop throughout the districts of the city."
Lang Yan and Lang Yi were already strong presences of the time, able to take on two or three at once within the Unity Realm.
They would serve as notable negative examples, having deterrent value.
The two Wolf Clan strong presences couldnât have imagined that one would suffer a faith collapse, divulging a wealth of confidential information, while the other would face enormous compensation... possibly even go down in âeternal infamyâ in Tao City.
Tang Yu summoned Eileen, Grey Blade, Luo Zhe, and others to start a high-level meeting.
The crystal projection played all the intelligence that had been tortured out of Lang Yi, including how, when in the Mountain and Sea Realm, he had his beloved snatched by Lang Yan with a horizontal blade, how one day he suddenly heard the murmurs of a Great Entity asking if he wanted to become stronger, to control his fateâand Lang Yi agreed. He was summoned away from the Mountain and Sea Realm by some powerful force.
Next he reappeared in the heart of the Heart Demon Clanâan even more advanced plane than the Mountain and Sea Worldâwhere Lang Yi and two fellow villagers were assigned under a core genius of the Heart Demon Clan, a young genius of over a thousand years old.
Using the Array of the Heart Demon Clan, Lang Yi contacted some relatives connected by bloodâwhat Lang Yan referred to as âslaughtering the old and the youngâ were sacrifices, brought to take him and some of the clan members he persuaded to defect, away from the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Following what Tang Yu and the others speculated, it involved world destruction and devouring the World Origin.
This continued for over three hundred years, until their mission on the Aino continent was sabotaged, incurring heavy losses, and the Heart Demon Clanâs core genius was dispatched to such an âedge battlefieldâ as the Mountain and Sea Realm.
During this time,
The interrogators tentatively asked whether he had heard of Origin Star, but Lang Yi seemed ignorantâOrigin Star supposedly wasnât significant in the strategic deployment of the Devil Race. Tang Yu learned that there was currently a massive alliance, stronger than the Origin Star of the past, barely holding its own against the Devil Race.
This alliance was the âHigh-dimensional United Frontâ, and indeed, the interrogators had skillfully questioned Lang Yi, causing him to believe that Tang Yu was part of the High-dimensional Alliance.
"Lang Yi revealed that the Seven Lustrous Federationâs repeated attempts against Green Shadow were thanks to the Heart Demon Clanâs contribution, and they had even prepared a secret weapon: âCorrosive Divine Waterâ. Just 100 milliliters could corrode the entire Origin of a Peak Unity Realm expert, and the Heart Demon Clanâs strong presence had prepared at least 3000 milliliters, more than enough to eliminate several Divine Domain Realm experts."
Tang Yu could only marvel, realizing that the Heart Demon Clan truly lived up to being one of the Devil Raceâs Eight Major Subordinate Races, with much more clout than those no-rank alien races, able to procure treasures lethal to the Divine Domain Realm with just one âcore genius.â
Terrifying, truly terrifying!
They must be eliminated!
The meeting didnât discuss any specific strategies; instead, the Tao Sect and Tao City subtly entered a state of alert, with no one suggesting they inform the Seven Lustrous Federation of the alien infiltration among them.
The Seven Lustrous Federation and the Tao Sect had already experienced many frictions, regardless of the initial cause, the answer was to fight!
Strategy, schemes, tricks, Grandmaster Tang wasnât familiar with any of those, only âchargâ!