Chapter 821: Chapter 821: Abyss Pill Well
“Criminal Fang Lin, reckless and audacious, we are ordered to come here to escort Fang Lin into the Abyss Pill Well.” Two Pill Alliance stewards arrived, both exuding extraordinary auras, their faces bearing traces of cold arrogance.
Before these two men, Fang Lin stood with his head bowed, assuming a very humble posture.
“Are you Fang Lin?” asked the middle-aged man dressed in grey, looking indifferently at Fang Lin.
“The disciple is indeed he,” Fang Lin replied, clasping his hands in respect.
“Hmm, put on the Sin Imprint, and follow us,” said the grey-clad middle-aged man, as he handed a black Sin Imprint to Fang Lin.
The so-called Sin Imprint was something that only those Pill Refiners who had erred would wear. Once donning the Sin Imprint, one could not use their Pill Refiner badge, and wherever one went, they’d be under the tight surveillance of the Pill Alliance.
Fang Lin silently accepted it, thinking, if he had to wear it, so be it, and then hung the Sin Imprint around his neck.
At that moment, Ye Mengxian spoke up, “I will personally escort Fang Lin there.”
Upon hearing this, the two middle-aged men’s expressions changed slightly.
“Master Ye, the criminal can be escorted by the two of us, there’s no need for Master Ye to take the trouble of going there personally,” said the other middle-aged man in a green robe.
“There’s no need for further discussion, I must escort him personally,” said Ye Mengxian, his tone firm and not one to negotiate with the two men.
The two middle-aged men were completely out of options at this point and inwardly grinding their teeth. If Ye Mengxian were to escort Fang Lin, any underhanded tricks they wished to play on Fang Lin in secret would be impossible.
Ye Mengxian, of course, could see that these two fellows might try to do something to Fang Lin during the escort, which was why he insisted on doing it himself, to prevent such things from happening.
After pondering for a moment, Fang Lin also understood why Ye Mengxian was insistent on escorting him himself, feeling a surge of warmth in his heart, and he was quite grateful to Ye Mengxian.
“Let’s go,” Ye Mengxian looked at Fang Lin and said with a wave of his hand.
Fang Lin glanced over at Dugu Nian not far away, who was looking at him with a face full of worry, her eyes also filled with reluctance.
Fang Lin smiled faintly at her, signaling that she need not worry.
Thereupon, the two middle-aged men, along with Ye Mengxian, escorted Fang Lin away from North Town Hall, heading towards the Abyss Pill Well.
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The Abyss Pill Well, there were several locations within the Pill Alliance, which were previously used to mine various rare underground Crystal Stones.
Now, those several Abyss Pill Wells have been abandoned for many years and are used to confine those Pill Refiners who have committed crimes.
And the particular Abyss Pill Well that Fang Lin was about to be taken to was the most special one among the several wells.
There were once three Pill Refiners who were confined in this Pill Well, all of whom disappeared within the well without a trace, leaving not a single clue behind, and have not been seen to this day.
This eerie occurrence happened three times in succession, causing some high-ranking members of the Pill Alliance to pay special attention to this Pill Well, which was once even sealed up due to the incidents.
However, for some unknown reason, this Pill Well was opened again decades ago and still used to confine guilty Pill Refiners, although no further disappearances within the well have been reported since then.
This time, Fang Lin was also to be cast into that mysterious Abyss Pill Well. Ye Mengxian had once attempted to negotiate the matter, but the dozen or so Hall Masters were resolute in their stance, insisting that Fang Lin be locked up in that Abyss Pill Well, otherwise, they would not let the matter rest.
With this, Ye Mengxian had no other choice, and she couldn’t trouble her grandfather, Elder Tiankui, over such a trivial matter.
There was silence along the way. With Ye Mengxian’s personal escort, the two middle-aged men had no opportunity to do anything to Fang Lin. Five days later, they arrived at the location of the Abyss Pill Well.
It was a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the Abyss Pill Well was hidden deep within the valley, extremely concealed.
Two white towers were built on the peaks of the mountains on either side, both marked with the emblem of the Pill Alliance—clearly structures of the Pill Alliance.
“The two of us will be responsible for guarding you here. After a hundred days, you can remove the mark of guilt and leave on your own,” the man in grey said to Fang Lin.
Fang Lin pouted and looked down into the valley, indeed seeing a well, from which a chilling aura was faintly emanating.
Ye Mengxian glanced at the two men and said, “He is my disciple. If anything untoward happens to him here, you both know the consequences.”
These words were an undisguised threat and warning, causing a change in the expressions of the two men in grey. They were both high-ranking stewards of the Pill Alliance, but that was all they were—stewards. Although they were part of the upper echelons, they could only take orders, tasked with the menial and exhausting work of running errands.
As a Hall Master, Ye Mengxian was someone they dared not provoke. Now, faced with her warning and threat, the two men naturally nodded in acquiescence.
Ye Mengxian turned to Fang Lin and said, “You only need to stay here for a hundred days and focus on cultivating. After a hundred days, I will come here to take you back to North Town Hall.”
Fang Lin nodded and gave Ye Mengxian a fist salute, “Thank you, Master, for escorting me all this way.”
“Alright, go ahead,” Ye Mengxian said.
With that, Fang Lin turned around and leaped into the depths of the Abyss Pill Well.
As he fell, the depth of the Abyss Pill Well was somewhat beyond Fang Lin’s expectation, but it was not surprising—after all, how could it be called an abyss if it weren’t deep?
After Fang Lin entered the Abyss Pill Well, Ye Mengxian also left. As the Master of North Town Hall, she had many affairs to attend to. Personally escorting Fang Lin here was already quite special; she couldn’t stay any longer and left.
When Ye Mengxian left, the two middle-aged men finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now that Fang Lin had entered the Abyss Pill Well, there was nothing they could do. They each entered one of the high towers, preparing to stand guard for a hundred days.
Below the Abyss Pill Well, Fang Lin was still descending, looking up he could barely see the sky of the outside world anymore.
The further down he went, the colder it got. However, with his strong physique and vigorous vitality, Fang Lin hardly minded.
But for other Pill Refiners with average physiques, entering a place like this would indeed be a torment.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, Fang Lin heard a humming sound from below, as if something was erupting upward.
“Earth Qi!” Fang Lin was a little startled. He hadn’t expected to encounter an outburst of Earth Qi just after entering the Abyss Pill Well—a bad omen indeed.
Immediately, Fang Lin released his Inner Strength to protect his body. The Earth Qi surged up like a tidal wave, hitting Fang Lin hard.
His entire body was pushed upwards by the force of his Inner Strength, and his chest felt stuffy.
“Such mighty Earth Qi. If it were any stronger, I’m afraid I would have been injured,” Fang Lin said to himself.
Once the Earth Qi subsided, Fang Lin continued his descent for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, finally reaching the bottom of the well.
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