CHAPTER 599: CHAPTER 578 SECOND UPDATE

Fu Dong and Nian Xia were also relying on Nanny Yun at this moment, as they truly had no idea what to do.

The Yin He before them was both the Yin He they knew and the Yin He they did not know; at least, the current Yin He was not someone they could easily command.

Nanny Yun stepped forward, handing over the blanket in her hand to Yin He. With a determined heart, she always had her personal biases—she had disliked this boy from the start, but this boy was easy to deceive, so his fate was up to him now.

"Yin He, you will have to endure a rough night today; we have been traveling for two days and are tired," Nanny Yun’s words were ambiguous, but her actions were clear. After handing over the blanket to Yin He, she sternly instructed Fu Dong and Nian Xia to go to the outer room.

Fu Dong and Nian Xia were stunned—was Nanny Yun letting Yin He sleep in the inner room’s bedroll?

In the past, the lady always had someone sleep in the inner room’s bedroll, usually with Fu Dong and Nian Xia taking turns; Xue Liu and Xing Yu slept in the outer room, also taking turns, while Nanny Yun was not present.

But now, Nanny Yun was actually letting...

The young man, amid the surprise of Fu Dong and Nian Xia, had already taken the blanket and seemed quite pleased.

"Nanny, rest assured." When he was massaging her earlier, he noticed Nian Ru was tired and had fallen asleep not long after. When at Prince Duan’s Mansion, he could not even take his turn in the outer room, but now, Nanny Yun was showing trust in him; surely Nian Ru would not be angry, neither will Nanny Yun and the others, which was a good beginning.

Yin He nodded, adeptly spreading out the blanket, while Nanny Yun even fetched a new quilt for him, because after all, it was their territory, wasn’t it?

Fu Dong and Nian Xia stood there, dumbfounded. They somewhat understood the condition, yet did not expect that a few words from Nanny Yun had landed the young man on the floor bedroll...

This...

Nanny Yun chased everyone out, glaring fiercely—nobody was to speak out of turn—and then ordered the four of them to sleep in the outer room while she slept in the side room.

...

Deep in the night, Ju Nanyi, clad in black, deftly dodged all the guards, heading straight through the dark and quickly passing through narrow alleys without needing to identify where he was headed.

Before coming, Ju Nanyi had memorized all the paths in his mind; even in the night, he moved through them swiftly. He had studied the architectural diagrams of the Bu Er Temple several times, and even though the structures had undergone several modifications, the basic framework remained unchanged, which Ju Nanyi recognized as soon as he entered the Bu Er Temple.

Thus, the places that could hide someone or be altered to hide someone were quite a few.

After unsuccessfully searching two places, Ju Nanyi finally stopped near what was supposed to be a cellar. The faint light emanating from the cellar indicated there was definitely a secret there.

Ju Nanyi was not in a hurry, quietly waiting for the right moment; an hour later, footsteps approached—a group of disciples from Ghoul Ravine slowly walked towards the cellar.

"Finally here—" a voice of complaint came from the cellar, followed by a hurried disciple emerging, evidently it was time for a shift change.

Ju Nanyi immediately followed; the move was daring, but as Ju Nanyi had suspected, though he did not know why, he observed that these disciples from Ghoul Ravine were not in the right spirit, at times resembling bodies without souls.

Ju Nanyi didn’t know if this was the right description, but his bold action soon confirmed his guess. These people hadn’t seen him at all; even their paces were very stiff. The guard he passed by had almost dashed out.

Ju Nanyi was still puzzled when he suddenly heard a voice ahead.

"So rushed, like they are running to a funeral, they are indeed lucky—"

Ju Nanyi didn’t know what that meant, and it wasn’t the time to delve into it. By the time he was in the cellar, the light had grown even dimmer. Taking advantage of the inattention of the people ahead, he directly slipped into a shadowy area.

After getting used to the dim light inside, Ju Nanyi could then see clearly. The entire cellar had been turned into separate dungeons, and there were obviously people locked in them.

Ju Nanyi suddenly turned around, and saw to his shock that right behind him was a dungeon, and at that moment, the person inside the dungeon was staring at him with hollow eyes.

Such an eye contact would instill a trace of fear even in a robust man. Ju Nanyi steadied his mind and soon realized that this person was also very strange, looking just like the disciples from Ghoul Ravine.

But if it was a person from Ghoul Ravine, why were they locked in the dungeon?

The next moment, Ju Nanyi quickly dismissed his initial guess, as the person in the dungeon was astonishingly dressed in the robes of a mage from Qiandao Temple. This discovery delighted Ju Nanyi.

It seemed his conjecture was right, the mages from Qiandao Temple were indeed held here, thus Master Huo Yi, Master Yu Sheng, and others might also be here.

The disappearance of all the people from Qiandao Temple overnight was very mysterious. With the modus operandi of Young Master Yin He from Ghoul Ravine, it simply didn’t make sense to put in such effort unless these people were still useful to Ghoul Ravine.

As for what use they had, Ju Nanyi didn’t yet know, but he felt that as long as he found Master Huo Yi, the answer would emerge.

Convinced that the person in the dungeon wouldn’t speak, Ju Nanyi then turned around and quietly walked deeper into the cellar. Despite the deep winter and the location halfway up the mountain, which made the weather colder than at the foot of the mountain, the stench in the cellar was still overwhelmingly awful; the severe cold couldn’t stop these nauseating odors.

The man’s movements, however, were not at all hindered as he stepped deeper into the dungeon.

Soon, he saw the disciples from Ghoul Ravine who had just changed shifts coming in. These people were oddly standing in the middle of the dungeon, staring at the dungeon in front of them, motionless, like statues. But Ju Nanyi had just heard these people talking.

Ju Nanyi picked up a stone from the ground and forcefully threw it into the shadows, causing it to make a hollow sound far away in another dark corridor.

The stone rolled far in the darkness, and this sound finally caught their attention. Their movements were very stiff as they turned to look, and the next moment, the leading disciple waved his hand.

"Go and check it out—" taking half of the men toward the darkness. The other half remained in place.

"When will it be our turn?" Seeing that the captain had left, the remaining people relaxed a bit and began talking again.

"Soon, in the next couple of days. Today it’s Gui Wu’s men, they started a day before us, it should be our turn tomorrow," said the person who looked the oldest.

"That’s good. My head has almost stopped turning, if it’s not our turn soon, I won’t be able to move my fingers." The person in the darkness continued to complain, while Ju Nanyi listened thoughtfully, but still didn’t understand what they were talking about.