As Si Qing spoke, the hand holding the lock on the door grew tighter.
Inside the door, Qi Yu suddenly felt the shackles binding her tighten further.
Immediately after, the divine whip flew up into the air and lashed hard against Qi Yu's back.
Si Qing felt a sharp pinch on his hand, as if Qi Yu had dug her nails into him. He instinctively looked up, and upon seeing the scene inside through the crack in the door, his pupils contracted. He immediately let go of the lock:
"Elder Sister, Elder Sister, what's wrong! Why is it hitting you again!"
"..." Qi Yu, clutching the shackles around her neck, couldn't speak. Si Qing looked at the timing of the divine whip hitting Qi Yu, then at the door lock with his own finger marks. He seemed to realize something. kuAiδugg
"Elder Sister, Elder Sister, how are you? Elder Sister, your face is so pale, you're becoming more transparent. Don't scare me." Si Qing wished he could go in and take Qi Yu's place, but he didn't even have the right to enter this door.
"I'm fine," Qi Yu wrote these three words on his palm with trembling fingertips. After writing, she rested for a moment, then continued, "I don't know what happened just now. The chains suddenly tightened, and then the whip struck. Now it's suddenly stopped."
Si Qing looked thoughtful. The next moment, he suddenly stood up: "Elder Sister, I think I know how to unlock this lock. Wait for me. Replenish your spiritual energy and wait. Wait for me to save you."
Qi Yu didn't know what he had thought of again, but she simply nodded gently.
Si Qing extended his little finger towards her.
Qi Yu saw it through the crack in the door. She was stunned for a moment, then smiled and extended her own almost transparent little finger, hooking it lightly with his.
Si Qing tightly hooked her little finger. After a while, he let go and turned to leave.
Within the Southern Sea.
Feng Mingxi, Feng Yunzui, Feng Siqian.
Yue Zhiyin, Sui You, Qi Nian, Chi Ming, Qi Yan, Ming Lou.
An Nuo, Shaofeng, Yan Hua, Chen Xi, Jin Yan, Yu Yuan, Wang Lanqing, Chi Shangming.
They had all gathered to discuss their respective progress.
In the end, they discovered that the number of people willing to accompany them in kneeling and pleading was roughly the same for each of them.
Although Wang Lanqing and Chi Shangming had not been directly involved in this matter, after hearing the whole story from everyone, they also wished to stand up for Qi Yu. Therefore, they had already penned a letter and sent news to the various immortal sects in the cultivation world.
With the help of those cultivation disciples, there would be a greater chance of success.
When Si Qing returned, everyone was just discussing matters related to the cultivation world.
An Nuo saw him approaching and immediately got up to greet him, pulling him to sit down: "Did you just return from a village in the mortal realm? How is your situation? My father and I are not in a very good situation."
"My situation is not a matter of good or bad, it's terrible. No one is willing to help at all." Si Qing paused, then added, "I just came down from the 13th Heaven. I discovered something, so I came back specifically to discuss it with you."
"What?" Yan Hua became interested.
"I discovered that the lock binding Elder Sister seems to have a consciousness." Si Qing frowned. "I forcefully pressed my fingerprints into the lock, and then the lock began to attack Elder Sister."
"So I want to know, does that lock have consciousness? If I do something, will it willingly loosen and let my Elder Sister go?"
Si Qing asked this question with a grave and serious expression.
Yan Hua's focus, however, was slightly off. As if to confirm something, he asked Si Qing again, "You said that lock could be deformed by your grip?"
"...It wasn't deformed, it just imprinted my fingerprints." Si Qing explained, "Perhaps I used too much force."
"...Do you know what kind of lock that is?" Yan Hua looked at Si Qing, then answered his own question, "That is the Lock of Heavenly Punishment. It is not gold, not silver, not copper, not steel, not iron. It is no ordinary mortal object, and it is not something that can easily have fingerprints imprinted on it."
"What do you mean..." Si Qing was confused.
"It means that you, a seemingly ordinary fellow, actually managed to shake a divine lock forged with heavenly and earthly spiritual energy." Jin Yan looked at Si Qing. "Do you know who the last person to achieve this was?"