The sharp-eyed man was clearly terrified of the Ten Extremes Area. Upon hearing that they intended to go there, even with Gu Xintang present, he was not optimistic in the slightest.
Everyone in the Black Prison Area knew — even the enforcement captains of the Cold Moon Punishment Hall wouldn't dare barge into a place like the Ten Extremes Area. If they had to go, they'd need to proceed with extreme caution.
The fiends lurking in the Ten Extremes Area — every last one of them was a deranged madman. A mere enforcement captain had no authority to put on airs in a place like that. If they happened to anger those devils, it was entirely possible they would lose their lives on the spot. The madmen of the Ten Extremes Area had killed enforcement captains before — there were plenty of precedents. Otherwise, those captains wouldn't be so terrified of the place.
The kind of people locked away in the Ten Extremes Area were not ones that some lowly captain could intimidate. To put it bluntly, sometimes even the Hall Master of the Cold Moon Punishment Hall had to watch himself when he visited the Ten Extremes Area — he couldn't afford to put on a show of authority. Otherwise, he could easily suffer a terrible fate.
With the Ten Extremes Area being so fearsome, how could this sharp-eyed man possibly dare to go? Forget going — he didn't even have the nerve to get close. And he had already exposed information about the Ten Extremes Area. If the powerhouses there found out he was the one who leaked their secrets, they would come roaring over in a rage, and he wouldn't have enough lives to save himself.
"Captain Gu, I'm not going." The sharp-eyed man blurted out the moment the thought crossed his mind.
Gu Xintang frowned. "Going or not is up to you. But if your intelligence turns out to be wrong, you can prepare to spend the rest of your life rotting in this Black Prison Area."
The sharp-eyed man shook his head. "My intelligence is absolutely correct. I gathered information from multiple sources and cross-analyzed it. There's no way it's wrong."
Jiang Chen tossed all ten Holy Spirit Pills to the man and asked in a deep voice, "You said the Ten Extremes Area is truly that terrifying — then why would the powerhouses there be so interested in an Origin Realm martial artist? What exactly did they take him there for? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?"
The sharp-eyed man smiled bitterly. "Do you think anything good can happen in the Black Prison Area? The people here — I won't say every last one of them is the worst criminal imaginable, but anyone who has risen to the Ten Extremes Area is not someone with a compassionate heart."
"What exactly is it for?" Jiang Chen pressed with a frown.
"I don't know the specifics. But I heard that the powerhouses of the Ten Extremes Area detected something unusual about that Origin Realm martial artist's bloodline — as if there were something in his blood that piqued their interest. So the powerhouses there have all started scheming to get their hands on him. Right now, they're at a standoff, still negotiating the terms of how to divide the spoils. But my speculation is that they might be keeping him alive and raising him, waiting to devour his bloodline power. After all, his Origin Realm cultivation is still far too weak. Perhaps they'll wait until he grows to the Spirit Realm, or even the Imperial Realm."
"That could take forever," Gu Xintang said with a frown. "There are no cultivation resources in the Black Prison Area at all."
"The Black Prison Area has no cultivation resources, but that doesn't mean the big shots in the Ten Extremes Area can't find any. To put it bluntly, those powerhouses in the Ten Extremes Area hold status many times higher than yours as a captain. Do you really think they can't find channels? Maybe there are even people among the Moon God Sect's upper echelons who are colluding with them!"
People were thrown in for a reason, but once inside, it didn't mean their old connections were completely severed. Anyone who had risen to the Ten Extremes Area — none of them were the type to be taken lightly.
Logically speaking, Jiang Chen should have been furious upon hearing this news. Yet he showed not a trace of anger — in fact, his expression relaxed.
No matter what the people in the Ten Extremes Area were planning, as long as his father was unharmed, as long as nothing had happened to him yet, that was enough. As for what those people were scheming, Jiang Chen couldn't care less.
No matter how dangerous the Ten Extremes Area was, with Old Mo here, there was nothing to worry about — they could handle anyone.
But Jiang Chen was puzzled. His father's bloodline couldn't possibly contain anything special. After all, his father was his own flesh and blood — Jiang Chen knew full well what kind of talent Jiang Feng possessed. The only explanation was that his father had taken the Five Dragons Open Heaven Pill, giving him a bloodline capable of cultivating all five elements simultaneously. Such a bloodline was extraordinarily rare in the martial arts world — perhaps one in a hundred million.
But the Five Dragons Open Heaven Pill was merely a foundational medicine used when breaking through to the Spirit Realm. It was a pill for building one's base. In the hands of an Imperial Realm powerhouse, it would be completely useless.
Jiang Chen didn't want to overthink it. As long as his father Jiang Feng was still alive, everything would be fine.
"Captain Gu, let's go take a look. You just need to lead the way. Once we're nearby, you don't have to go in." Jiang Chen had no intention of dragging Gu Xintang into deeper trouble.
But Gu Xintang shook his head. "If we go, we go together. I can't in good conscience let you go alone."
The sharp-eyed man, seeing that Gu Xintang was determined to go, looked thoroughly miserable. "Captain Gu, if something happens to you in the Ten Extremes Area, who's going to fulfill the promise you made to me?"
Gu Xintang snapped, "Shut your mouth. Just wait for me to come through on my promise. What's the rush? You don't have the guts to go — you think everyone in the world is as spineless as you?"
The man fell silent, tongue-tied. The people of the Ten Extremes Area were savage, but at the end of the day, Gu Xintang represented the Moon God Sect. As long as he didn't go too far, he probably wouldn't actually be killed.
But going to the Ten Extremes Area to demand someone — just the thought of it made the man break into a cold sweat on their behalf. Snatching prey from the tiger's jaws of the Ten Extremes Area? Only the top-tier figures of the Moon God Sect could pull that off.
Otherwise, even if the Hall Master of the Cold Moon Punishment Hall came in person, he might not be able to take a single person out of the Ten Extremes Area.