Chapter 18: The Hall of Flowing Clouds
The Council of Elders deliberated for three days and finally decided to vote.
General Bai Ye, the city lord of Tianfeng City, abstained from voting, this is almost his custom, as long as it is the vote of the Elders, Bai Ye must abstain, because he can't afford to mess with any of the seven major families.
The Jiang family also abstained. The reason is that there are only two options for this vote, one is to severely punish Jiang Yu, and the other is to punish Jiang Yu lightly. No matter which one you vote for, it is actually an admit, which is unacceptable to the Jiang family. Moreover, the Jiang family also knows that they have many grievances with the other six families, and instead of voting for the embarrassment of voting one-to-six, it is better to abstain and fight, which is more beautiful.
What is surprising is that only the Lian family voted for a severe punishment of Jiang Yu, while the other five voted for a light punishment of Jiang Yu. This result made Lian Poyun, the patriarch of the family, hard to believe, and Jiang Zhonglie didn't expect that the other five would be punished lightly.
"Are you crazy!" Lian Poyun yelled at the people of the five families, he had met with these people in advance, and he had informed them, and he would give face to the Lian family if he said that it was good, but when it came to the end, they all changed.
"You can!" Lian Poyun threw something and kicked the door away, but he couldn't change the decision of the Elders' Council, as Zhou Heng expected, Jiang Yu was punished to guard the Liuyun Palace. The sentence is ten years.
Jiang Yu lay in the dungeon for three whole days, and finally recovered a little, at least he could continue to refine the aura of the bipolar sword heart. While refining the Spiritual Qi of the Bipolar Sword, Jiang Yu also tried to find a way to use the Seven Absolute Soul Tricks of the Withered Sword, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find a way to use that power.
Jiang Yu was in the dungeon, listening to the Elders' decision to punish him announced to him by the envoy of the Council of Elders. Hearing the result, Jiang Yu smiled slightly bitterly, and said in his heart that Zhou Heng didn't lie to himself, he really did it.
Half an hour later, Jiang Yu was escorted by more than a dozen envoys of the Council of Elders, that is, the elites selected by each family, to the Liuyun Palace. When he came out of the north gate of Tianfeng City, Jiang Yu, who was sitting in the iron cage, saw that on the highest pavilion at the north gate, there were two people standing, one was Zhou Heng, and the other was Xiao Ruo.
Seeing that Xiao Ruo was safe and sound, the worry in Jiang Yu's heart was put down.
"Young Master Jiang, the young master of my family asked me to tell you that the people who escort you are all trustworthy masters, you can rest assured. There is no problem in reaching the Liuyun Hall safely. But after you get to the Liuyun Palace, you have to rely on yourself. An elite of the Council of Elders leaned over and whispered to Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu nodded.
After saying goodbye, Jiang Yu and his party went all the way to Liuyun Palace. The distance between the Liuyun Hall and the Heavenly Wind City is about 800 miles. Tianfeng City is in the White Moon Country, and even the Snow Continent is a relatively northernmost city, and further north, there are basically no people, and the eyes are covered with snow. And in the end, there was not even a single tree left in the barrenness. There is heaven above, snow below, and between heaven and earth, there are only these two things.
The guards escorted Jiang Yu all the way to the north, walked for five days, and by the evening of the fifth day, a series of mountains appeared in front of him. And the legendary Liuyun Hall is on top of that continuous mountain range.
Liuyun Temple, the legendary ancient temple. That said, it's actually a pile of dilapidated buildings. Not even a ghost. He belongs to the White Moon Country and is shared by the twelve northern cities of the White Moon Country. According to the national law of the White Moon Country, like this temple, the twelve northern cities must send people to garrison here, but no one wants to come to this bitter cold place where birds don't, not to mention anything else, there is no way to guarantee food alone. Few people are willing to come in the way of reward, so they can only use punishment. At first, some cities exiled criminals here to perform the duty of guarding the Liuyun Palace, and over time, the twelve cities all exiled the criminals of their own cities here. After a long time, many people have forgotten that Liuyun Hall is an ancient temple, and only regards it as a natural prison for exiled criminals.
The elite of the Council of Elders sent Jiang Yu to the hands of the current hall master of Liuyun Palace, or Lin Wei, who should be called the prison warden.
"Are you mistaken?" Lin Wei, who was in his thirties, with a scar on his face and looked quite fierce, looked at Jiang Yu from one glance to the next. He could see that Jiang Yu's cultivation was also the double level of the Spiritual Qi Realm, but on the list given to him by the elite of the Elders who escorted him, the crime was that he killed more than 20 people from the Lian family, and the miscellaneous soldiers on it were almost unknown, but Lian Xiu He had heard of it, the master of the eightfold Spiritual Qi Realm, among the juniors of Tianfeng City, was also a little famous. I was killed by this little ghost.
"Are we the ones who can make mistakes? Thousands of miles back and forth! The food brought to you from outside, find someone to carry it yourself!" said the escort elite with some dissatisfaction.
"Okay, good!" Lin Wei perfunctorily, casually typed the return order, and handed it to the escort, so that the handover was completed.
The Elders' Council elites who got the receipt returned to Tianfeng City without mentioning it, and said Jiangyu. Along the way, those escorts took good care of him, and he basically didn't suffer much to arrive at this Liuyun Palace.
Liuyun Palace, as rumored, is very large, the scale is even larger than Tianfeng City, and the architectural style is very simple. It's just so dilapidated that it's hard to find a complete building. Broken walls and broken bricks and stones can be seen everywhere.
Na Lin was so worried that the escorts were gone, waved his hand, and drove his subordinates away. Only he and Jiang Yu were left.
"Is what is written on this list true?" asked Lin Wei. Seeing that Jiang Yu didn't speak, Lin Yu said: "The things written on this list are too unbelievable, and if you really killed so many people, it is estimated that you should be executed directly, right, how could you be escorted here." I'm sure the Presbyterian guys don't believe you can kill so many people, and they want to take you to blame, it's pathetic. But I don't really believe that you are innocent, anyway, you are already here, and to be honest, no one will punish you again. ”
"I killed it. Jiang Yu said silently. He knew that if he said that it had nothing to do with him, he simply told the truth.
Lin Wei laughed and said, "What a powerful afterlife." You are so powerful, that old guy Jiang Zhonglie will not protect you and leave you here. Well...... You won't be the concubine of the Jiang family, will you?"
Jiang Yu nodded, and then asked rhetorically, "What do you say?"
Lin Wei said: "What do you say? Haha, Jiang Zhonglie is not ashamed, his cultivation is average, but his jealousy is extremely strong. I heard from the prisoner from Tianfeng City that a few years ago, he was afraid that a concubine of the Jiang family would surpass his son, so he secretly poisoned that concubine, and the concubine who harmed him was half dead or even blind. Now that you are so powerful that you threaten his son's position, it is only natural that he does not protect you. ”
Lin Yu said what he said as a joke, Jiang Yu listened to it, but his heart was turbulent. Because the person Lin Wei said was not who else he could be. It's not that Jiang Yu didn't suspect Jiang Zhonglie, but he didn't have definite evidence. Now listening to Lin Wei say this, he has already confirmed the suspicion in his heart.
"I used to think he was a good person!" Jiang Yuxin said that when he heard that Jiang Zhonglie defended himself because he killed Lian's family, he was still a little grateful in his heart, but who would have thought that the truth behind it would be so ironic.
Jiang Yu was resentful in his heart, but he didn't want to show it on his face, so he had to lower his head and not speak. Seeing him like this, Lin Wei patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are lucky, you arrived at the Liuyun Palace, not the Hades Palace." But if you don't have the ability, this place is even more terrifying than the Hades Palace!"
Although the Liuyun Hall is a prison, it is a prison without a cell. Just because there are hundreds of miles of barren snowfields here, there is no place to hide, even if you escape, you will be caught quickly. However, this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is the cold and hunger of the Great Snow Field, these two are the best prison doors, anyone who wants to escape from the Flowing Cloud Hall must think carefully about whether they can get out alive,
Jiang Yu was designated to be allowed to move freely in the outer hall of the Liuyun Palace, as for where to live, that was Jiang Yu's own problem. In the outer hall of the Liuyun Palace, there are thousands of houses, all of which are dilapidated, and you can see from a distance that there are some figures shaking around those broken houses, and they are all prisoners here.
Jiang Yu moved his hands and feet, using the feedback of the heart, and only now can he be considered to have fully recovered, he is very curious, since this is a prison, why is it not forbidden for prisoners to practice the exercises at all. Nine times out of ten, the prisoners he saw were either meditating or practicing martial arts. If someone hadn't told him it was a prison, he wouldn't have believed it.
"New here?" When Jiang Yu was walking around the outer hall, a tall and thin man leaned over with his hands to keep warm.
"How do you know?" Jiang Yuxin said that when he came in, he walked through the side door, and no one here should have seen him.
"Just look at your face!" When the man spoke, he turned around and motioned to Jiang Yu to look at the other prisoners, Jiang Yu looked sideways, and found that most of those prisoners were yellow and thin, and the skin of their hands and feet was very pale, and it was obvious that these people were malnourished.
"Do you have anything to eat?" the tall and thin man asked Jiang Yu in a low voice.
"Food?" Jiang Yu thought for a while, and touched a handful in his pocket, and the big steamed bun that was left over on the road was still there. As soon as he took it out, before he could say anything, the tall and thin man snatched it and took a bite of it. Before he could swallow a mouthful, he was busy biting continuously, as if he hadn't eaten for a long time.
Looking at the thin and tall man, Jiang Yu was afraid that he would choke himself to death. Seeing Jiang Yu take out the steamed buns, the eyes of the surrounding prisoners also lit up, and five or six people surrounded them and fought with the tall and thin man. How can that thin and tall person be the opponent of so many people, and soon the steamed bun in his hand will be snatched away, and the person who grabbed it will immediately be beaten by the group, and everyone who is beaten by the group will not fight back, they are all buying time to gnaw a few more bites on that steamed bun. Soon the steamed bun was snatched up.
Jiang Yu could see that the cultivation of those people was about fourfold to fivefold in the aura realm, and these people broke their blood for a steamed bun, so that Jiang Yu, who had "never seen the world", could not understand.
"You don't have to laugh at me, it won't be long before you'll be like me!" Looking at Jiang Yu's expression, the tall and thin man said. I saw him swallowing steamed buns, wiping the blood on his face, and finally spitting out a bloody tooth.