"Want to escape? You can't."

"I shouldn't have any overly harsh moral standards, but when I see you, I just feel uncomfortable and want to kill you."

"So, you can first judge whether what I'm saying is true or false, and then carefully consider whether you need to use something to buy your life," Ye Chuxiao continued, speaking into the prisoner's ear.

Seeing his unpredictable expression, full of entanglement and struggle, Ye Chuxiao stood quietly to the side, waiting with a smile that resembled a devil's.

"You'll get your retribution."

"I can give you the method for mental grafting that you want. But you must guarantee that you will never secretly harm me again." The prisoner said through gritted teeth, his fierce pupils memorizing Ye Chuxiao's appearance, as if still planning to keep his useful body to take revenge in the future.

Seeing the prisoner finally make up his mind, Ye Chuxiao took a step back, "Forget it! I'm worried you'll play tricks, secretly hiding some key incantations. After all... I'm that kind of person myself, and I've done things like that before."

"Having been rained on by others, I'm worried about having my umbrella stolen. I'll choose a simpler method."

With that, Ye Chuxiao walked out of the prison cell.

"Let him taste all kinds of special snacks from our Ministry of Justice's prison, ask him if he has any accomplices to confess. After three or five rounds, if he still has a breath left, transfer him to the innermost cell in this area!" Ye Chuxiao ordered.

The guards on either side looked at the prisoner with icy eyes, already looking at a dead man.

With so many prisoners in the dungeon, there were always sudden accidental deaths. Before the body was identified and the records were cleared, it could only be piled in the coldest, most isolated cell.

Ordinary cultivators, having their cultivation sealed and being thrown into such a place, would soon contract diseases and eventually die from them.

This prisoner, after being subjected to several rounds of torture, would definitely die if he was thrown into such a place.

As for any vengeful spirits being born from resentment and anger... that wouldn't happen!

Under the Zhenyu Divine Artifact (prison-suppressing artifact), any vengeful spirits would be crushed into nothingness before they could even be born.

Ye Chuxiao's superfluous trip was only because he had heard that among the ordinary people killed by this prisoner, dozens were children who had been cruelly broken limb from limb and tortured to death.

Ye Chuxiao wanted him to struggle repeatedly, believing that he could use his resources to exchange for a glimmer of hope.

Then, he would cut off that hope.

Three days later, Ye Chuxiao watched the prisoner breathe his last.

The Dao rhythm (essence of the Great Dao) that had been absorbed and used in his body was also absorbed by Ye Chuxiao's golden clock. Under Ye Chuxiao's subjective judgment, the golden clock shattered this wisp of Dao rhythm and transformed it into cultivation experience.

As expected, Ye Chuxiao found a more complete 'Spirit Root Visualization Method', as well as a 'Mental Command Incantation' and the 'Mental Grafting Method' contained within it, in this cultivation experience.

A cultivator who used the grafting method would inevitably be controlled by the cultivator who possessed the Command Incantation.

After spending about four or five days, Ye Chuxiao familiarized himself with these methods, and asked several erudite official prisoners about the places that were not particularly clear or understood.

After smoothing out the details, Ye Chuxiao prepared for his second interworld journey.

Although Daheng had temporarily restored its Heavenly Dao, and the cultivators in Daheng no longer had any flaws on the surface, there were still many aspects that could not compare to interworld cultivation.

Moreover, Ye Chuxiao intended to make some attempts this time, and play something big.

Operating like this in Daheng, even if he made a commotion, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to clean it up.

It was different in another world. If things got out of hand, he could just leave without taking responsibility.

He could be bolder and cause more trouble.

He called Li Fu over, instructed him on some matters, and put on a show of entrusting him with important tasks.

In less than an hour, Ye Chuxiao also met with Xu Biao and Patrol Head Fei Kai one after another, expressing his expectations for them and adding some burdens.

Since he was going to another world to cultivate temporarily, he had to arrange the backyard first.

Expecting his prison guards to be one hundred percent loyal and reliable would require powerful spells and Gu poison. Due to the court's restrictions, he couldn't use these, so he could only play the game of power balance.

After secretly summoning Ma Shaokang and giving him the promise of heavy rewards, Ye Chuxiao prepared for his interworld journey.

Of course, his secret moves were not limited to these.

Some official prisoners in the Ministry of Justice's prison who had capital and the potential to rise again could also be considered Ye Chuxiao's 'allies'.

Not only that, but now, most of the profitable projects in the prison system would inevitably go wrong if they deviated from the rules set by Ye Chuxiao and left his control.

Even if they could be adjusted, it would take at least several months.

With these arrangements, Ye Chuxiao was not worried that he would be removed from the position of Warden after returning from a month or two away.

"I still need to find and cultivate subordinates who are truly highly loyal."

"Otherwise, I'll have to put in so much effort before each interworld departure. It's too troublesome," Ye Chuxiao hid some key files and rubbed his forehead.

Half a day later, Ye Chuxiao announced that he was going into seclusion for at least a month.

However, he didn't really leave. Instead, he simply practiced martial arts, drew talismans, and waited for three days. When some noise appeared in the prison, he suddenly showed up again, catching those with ulterior motives off guard.

He focused on dealing with the few who had jumped out as pawns, and kicked them out of the guard team.

After doing this again, everyone became suspicious, suspecting that Ye Chuxiao was setting a trap, using the law to eliminate those who disobeyed him in secret. Only then did Ye Chuxiao truly spend Dao rhythm as a ticket, leave Daheng, and board the Ship of Fortune.

The Ship of Fortune pitched and rolled in the Great Dao River.

The shock of what he saw was far less than the impact formed by his intuition and inspiration.

Ye Chuxiao didn't delay. Following Ye Chuyu's teachings, he began to communicate with the Ship of Fortune, spending a thousand Destiny Points in advance to lock in his identity.

"The worlds you travel through are indeed 'random', but random can also be framed within a range."

"Before the Ship of Fortune actively throws me out, I can lock in my identity first, which can define a general world type range."

Opening the light curtain, Ye Chuxiao wrote 'Rich Second Generation' in the identity column, and 'Online Broadcaster' in the occupation column.

This was Ye Chuxiao's first attempt.

He was trying to have the Ship of Fortune take him to see if it could connect to the world he had transmigrated from.

Identity and occupation could both serve as coordinates to lock in certain fixed worlds.

At least, there would never be an 'Online Broadcaster' in a purely ancient-style world.

As for why 'Rich Second Generation' instead of a more valuable identity...

It was still related to some of the potential rules of 'customizing' an identity.

If it weren't for Ye Chuyu, Ye Chuxiao would probably have suffered several big losses before understanding.

Customized identities all had fixed 'Destiny'. Ye Chuxiao spent a thousand points to customize an identity. After descending, the identity he obtained would itself carry a certain amount of fixed Destiny based on the identity. This Destiny upper limit would never exceed a thousand points, and it could not be brought out of that world.

In other words, this Destiny only belonged to that identity, not to Ye Chuxiao.

And whether the selected identity was reliable depended entirely on the cultivator's own remaining true Destiny Points.

For example, if Ye Chuxiao chose the identity of a prince, or even an emperor, a thousand Destiny Points could certainly customize such an identity for him.

But if his true remaining Destiny Points were only one or two hundred, then when he transmigrated and became a prince... he might be the least favored, even marginalized and ostracized prince. And when he became an emperor, he might have a white silk hanging around his neck, or a cup of poisoned wine being presented to him by an old eunuch with a sinister face.

But if he chose to become an ordinary wealthy merchant or a sect disciple, his situation would be much better, even thriving.

In short, even when customizing an identity, you still had to see your own Destiny balance first.

If the balance was insufficient, don't rashly make too risky attempts.