That Fair-Faced 'Sage' {Completed}

10. The Leaders Of Xin Dao

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LanFen stepped into the  dark prison room, and the instant the door was shut, she felt a powerful array, bear down on her from all sides.

The ropes fell off her and she fell to her hands and knees, coughing up several mouthfuls of blood.

The array kept bearing down, forcing her down flat on her face, causing the bamboo hat to fall off. She couldn't even breath properly!

"How cruel!" She panted. "It's no wonder they generously let the ropes fall off!" The array was deadly enough without the spirit-binding ropes.

This was how they kept powerful prisoners in.

The prison cells were surrounded by a barrier which drained the prisoners. After a night here, they might even be begging for mercy.

She now understood why Meng ZhuGuo had boldly challenged her to walk out of here with her own two feet...

One would surely be considered strong if they could even crawl out of here!

But LanFen wasn't one to lose...

She shut her eyes and began to fight off the effect. She struggled to her knees first, then into the *lotus position.

*Lotus position - cross-legged meditation pose.

She placed her hands on her knees, palm facing upwards, then began channeling her qi and using it to fight off the effects of the barrier.

She lifted her hands and formed two seals. Then she used two fingers to hastily draw a bright purple air tailisman.

The talisman disappeared, but it produced a thin black mist which spread out from her hands till it covered her skin completely and reduced the effect of the array.

Then when she could breathe again, she gulped in lungfuls of wonderful air, coughing a few more times till her breathing had steadied.

Her next hand seal produced a light talisman, which rose up and plastered itself to the ceiling.

It made a dull, yellowish light to fall softly around the dark room.

She wiped her bloody lips with the back of her hand and stood up weakly to walk around and study the walls.

The walls had deep characters carved into them, no doubt to enhance the array and keep people from getting out. She tried touching one wall, but a large shockwave flung her backwards.

She rose to her knees, coughing more blood.

"Not good." She said, as she wiped her mouth again.

Even if she managed to summon her teleportion demon, there would be no way for him to get her out.

She sighed, as she sat down to meditate some more. "One trouble after the other... At this rate, I might actually wind up being executed!"

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Time seemed to pass slowly in the Shuǐ prison.

This was largely because there was no external source of light, so it was impossible to tell the time.

LanFen must have dozed off at some point, and she opened her eyes to find the smiling child looking down at her.

He was a young boy who looked about seven, wearing a set of black robes, with a red vermilion sitting right in the middle of his forehead.

He smiled down at her.

Jun.

"Hm Hm hm." she chuckled softly, realising she wasn't awake and that this was some beautiful, dazzling dream.