Chapter 568: Chapter 156: Child of Destiny? Palm Force Is Pretty Good, Perfect for Blowing Air_2

After all.

Back then the Vice Minister of Justice, in order to make sure Lin Chen would definitely be locked up inside, didn’t even bother notifying the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

After all, if the Embroidered Uniform Guard got involved, there’s a good chance the person would be taken straight to the Imperial Prison.

Even knowing how cruel the Imperial Prison is, maybe the Vice Minister of Justice still felt more at ease capturing people onto his own turf.

"Postnatal Perfection?"

When he heard those words—

Ye Liuyun’s brows visibly twitched.

With the system’s scan, Lin Chen’s cultivation was already at Late-stage Innate, only a small step away from the Grandmaster Realm.

So...

Did the guy level up after being thrown into the Celestial Prison?

"That’s right!"

The jailer didn’t think much of it.

He nodded, answering smoothly.

"Pretty funny, actually. When Lin Chen was first brought in, all the cells on this floor were full. Just then, an inmate—must’ve been old—up and died, leaving a space!"

Even now, talking about it again—

The jailer felt it was a crazy coincidence.

Lin Chen shows up, someone dies—almost like fate cleared him a spot on purpose.

"..."

Ye Liuyun didn’t speak, just nodded thoughtfully.

His gaze locked onto Lin Chen’s cell.

But it was as if he could see through Lin Chen, straight at the straw-covered ground behind him.

"Who was the previous owner of this cell?"

"That one was famous!"

Hell, it’s the Celestial Prison. Of course there’ve been notorious prisoners here.

"Used to be locked up here: one of the most infamous great demonheads of the martial world a century ago. Used blood-drinking cultivation to get strong fast—heard it took a huge effort to capture him and finally lock him up here!"

"But after over a hundred years! No matter how high-level a demonhead, time gets everyone!"

A Grandmaster Realm demonhead—

Just aged to death in this cell. Honestly, that’s its own kind of torture, huh!

"I see!"

At that, Ye Liuyun’s eyes grew even more enlightened.

Deserving of the title: Child of Destiny.

Family wiped out—nowadays, it’s practically a mandatory trait for destiny’s chosen.

Have a miraculous encounter, cultivate, come back for revenge.

Locked up in Celestial Prison, discover some cultivation technique left behind by a senior, keep training.

I bet—

If not for me, Lin Chen would’ve spent his days in the Celestial Prison, training to a certain level, then just bust out.

Then the sky’s the limit, the sea’s wide—just another bird, another fish!

Too bad you met me!

Yeah, that’s right.

Ye Liuyun guessed: that old demonhead who used to live here, even though he died, probably carved his cultivation technique into the cell itself.

Lin Chen moved in, saw it—perfect timing.

Classic Child of Destiny routine.

No miraculous encounter, you don’t get to be the Son of Destiny.

"Governor Ye, want me to drag him out first?"

Beside him, Zhao Yizheng saw Ye Liuyun was pretty intrigued by Lin Chen.

So he wondered—maybe start by pulling Lin Chen out for execution?

"No rush!"

Good things are worth waiting for.

Apart from Lin Chen, there are still some purple-quality Talent Entries—can’t waste those!

"Leave him till last. Start with the others first!"

"Got it! Got it!"

Hearing that, Zhao Yizheng didn’t dare object; he immediately nodded over and over.

Then shot the jailer a look.

"???"

The jailer was clueless what Zhao Yizheng wanted.

"Didn’t catch Governor Ye’s meaning? Bring out the other prisoners. Execute them!"

"Execute?"

Honestly, the jailer thought this was just a show, for the officials to see these folks—he didn’t expect executions.

Suddenly, a ton more work.

"Hmm?"

Zhao Yizheng glared right at him.

The jailer might be confused, but he could only swallow it down.

He hurried to get people ready, started bringing prisoners out cell by cell to begin executing them.

Moments later—

The bottom floor of the Celestial Prison echoed with an endless string of screams.

...

"What the hell is going on?"

Watching prisoner after prisoner get dragged out, not a word, just strapping them to racks and beating them—

Beating them to death, in fact.

One dies, next comes up.

The whole scene made the usually calm Lin Chen frown, despite himself.

A strange sense of unease rose inside him.

Just like Ye Liuyun was thinking—

After Lin Chen got locked up here, he really did find the Bloodthirsty Demon Skill left by the previous inmate.

Intended to train up to Innate Perfection and then bust out, using the Bloodthirsty Demon Skill to surge into the Grandmaster Realm.

But he hadn’t expected this.

Just one last step to go, and then this kind of mess appears.

Especially—

Lin Chen realized Ye Liuyun’s gaze seemed locked on him the whole time.

He didn’t know who Ye Liuyun was, but seeing how everyone around acted so respectful to him—

Clearly the guy’s got even higher status, and obviously runs the show here.

He figured maybe the executions were to get information—but now, not a single question asked, just bodies piling up. So... is this just pure sadistic pleasure?

"What kind of kink is this?"

Even Lin Chen found it unbelievable.