"Your father — is he truly gone?" Gu Mingyuan asked.
"Elder, I believe my father is not dead."
Chu Feng answered honestly, speaking his true thoughts.
With Gu Mingyuan, he saw no need to hide anything.
"Then I understand."
Upon hearing this, Gu Mingyuan asked no further questions. However, a look of relief surfaced on her face.
Chu Feng could tell that Gu Mingyuan probably wasn't all that familiar with his father.
But their relationship should have been decent — at the very least, Elder Gu Mingyuan hoped his father was safe.
After that, Chu Feng, Chu Lingxi, and Gu Mingyuan headed together to the place where the Blood Devouring Hall members were being interrogated.
However, when they arrived at the interrogation hall, they found that Chu Xuanzhengfa — who was skilled at interrogation — along with numerous experts from the Punishment Hall, were all completely at a loss.
Interrogation was nothing more than using torture to force the other party to reveal what one wanted to know.
Although the Blood Devouring Hall experts possessed formidable cultivation, because they had been bound by Gu Mingyuan's special chains, the methods used by Chu Xuanzhengfa and the others could still take effect on them.
Yet it was a pity that the Blood Devouring Hall Master and those few experts, while certainly not good people, were all made of iron and steel — stubbornly resilient no matter what.
No matter what means Chu Xuanzhengfa employed to torture them, not a single word escaped their lips.
Judging by the way they carried themselves, even if they were killed on the spot, they would never reveal who was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
"Chu Feng, Lingxi — why are you two here?"
Seeing Chu Feng and the others appear, Chu Xuanzhengfa was somewhat surprised.
Clearly, he did not want Chu Feng and Chu Lingxi — and especially Gu Mingyuan — to see him in this helpless state.
But Gu Mingyuan paid no consideration whatsoever to Chu Xuanzhengfa's feelings. The moment she entered the hall, she waved her hand. "All of you, leave."
Her tone was as cold as ever — utterly different from how she had spoken with Chu Feng. When talking to Chu Feng, she was a gentle and amiable elder.
But right now, she was a lofty, emotionless queen.
Although Gu Mingyuan was not a member of the Chu Heavenly Clan, for a figure of her stature, even Chu Xuanzhengfa dared not be negligent — let alone anyone else.
And so, Chu Xuanzhengfa didn't even ask a single question.
He simply led all the Punishment Hall members out of the hall, handing over this interrogation chamber — which had originally been theirs — to Gu Mingyuan.
And so, within the dark and damp interrogation hall, aside from those Blood Devouring Hall experts who were bound and restrained, only Chu Feng, Chu Lingxi, and Gu Mingyuan remained.
"I must say, I didn't expect a bunch of scum like you to have a sense of professional pride."
"Keeping your mouths shut tight," Gu Mingyuan remarked in an exceedingly mocking tone.
"Heh — what new methods of torture are you going to use on this old man?" the Blood Devouring Hall Master said.
"Torture? Torturing you would be pointless," Gu Mingyuan said.