Translator: Lordbluefire

  “Master, sob sob sob, you’ve finally summoned me again!”

  As soon as the Holy Pharaoh came out, it dashed in front of Sun Mo like a ferocious tiger charging toward its prey. It then started to rub against his leg.

  Its fawning look was no different from a pug.

  “Move away a little!”

  Sun Mo kicked the Holy Pharaoh.

  He couldn’t help it. He was born to be uncomfortable with creatures like bugs, especially those with many legs. Those were even more disgusting.

  “Ouch!”

  The Holy Pharaoh felt very hurt as if it was abandoned by a heartless man.

  “F*ck!”

  When the others saw the Holy Pharaoh, all of them jumped in shock, their scalps turning numb.

  The Holy Pharaoh was Egypt’s guardian beast, an evil and terrifying undead creature that had lived for more than 10,000 years. The undead aura it emitted had a natural deterrent effect on living creatures.

  With the appearance of Holy Pharaoh, white frosted qi of death started to permeate the prison, causing the temperature to drop by more than ten degrees.

  “This looks like a dung beetle. Why does it give off such a strong pressure?”

  Upon hearing this, the Holy Pharaoh swung his head and stared over. Its huge compound eyes exuded a murderous and vicious aura.

  “Teacher…… Teacher Sun, I didn’t mean that!”

  Yu Lin quickly explained.

  “Stop wasting time. Help me check how many days it has been since the person who was staying here has left.”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “.……”

  The Holy Pharaoh wanted to curse. (I’m the deity of the Egyptians, but you’re treating me like a dog?)

  “Hurry up!”

  Sun Mo urged, “After we’re done with this, I’ll allow you to eat one soul!”

  “Woof woof!”

  The Holy Pharaoh immediately did as it was told. (If there’s food, you can treat me as anything you want, even a dog.)

  As an undead, scarabs were very sensitive to the smell of living creatures. Moreover, it was the guardian of tombs, so it was good at using soul-type magic to create various terrifying nightmares.

  Tomb raiders often went crazy from nightmares even before they could see the Holy Pharaoh.

  “The person who lived here left this morning.”

  The Holy Pharaoh reported, “Do you need me to continue tracking him?”

  Sun Mo had a contract with the scarab, so they communicated telepathically. Other people could not hear this reply.

  “This morning?”

  Sun Mo frowned.

  “What’s the matter?”

  Ji Han saw that Sun Mo’s expression was not right and became even more worried.

  “Kong Yuxin left in the morning.”

  Sun Mo examined every inch of the cell carefully, not even missing the toilet bowl.

  “Haha, is your bug reliable?”

  Zhang Qingmin sneered. “I can confirm that the spirit rune lock was opened two days ago. Tell me, how could the patrolling prison guards not notice it if the door lock was opened two days ago?”

  “The prison guards are his accomplices?”

  Yu Lin interrupted.

  The Prison of Desolation’s patrolling guards didn’t just take one round in their patrolling duties. They also had to talk to the prisoners to confirm that they were not dead, as well as check if the door locks were damaged.

  “My men won’t commit any crimes!”

  Ji Han trusted the prison guards.

  “We’ll see how things are after the interrogation is done!”

  Zhang Qingmin smirked.

  Soon, everyone in the prison was called to the first floor.

  Zhang Qingmin started to interrogate them. He started with the prisoners who knew spirit runes, then he grabbed the prison guards and questioned them one by one. During this time, he used both soft and hard methods and even beat up people.

  Sun Mo did not interrupt. Instead, he sat at the side and started reading the information about Kong Yuxin.

  An hour later, Ji Han couldn’t wait any longer. “Teacher Zhang, did you find anything?”

  “What’s the hurry?”

  Zhang Qingmin complained unhappily. He scratched his head and sized up these people again. Judging from their expressions, these people did not lie. Moreover, there were no loopholes in their confessions.

  This was bad!

  Zhang Qingmin stole a glance at Sun Mo and was a little worried. (Am I going to be defeated again?)

  “Teacher Sun, don’t you have anything you want to ask?”

  Ji Han looked at Sun Mo.

  “No!”

  Sun Mo shook his head. Although Zhang Qingmin was arrogant, he did have some capabilities. His interrogation methods and techniques were very tricky.

  “Should we talk to the prison warden for further directions?”

  Yu Lin suggested.

  “We can only do that now!”

  Ji Han was displeased.

  According to the regulations, the prison door would open once every seven days. If it didn’t open, it meant that something had happened inside. When that happened, Hu Xingjiang would definitely come to check on the situation personally. However, if they were to open the door now, Kong Yuxin might end up running away.

  Of course, Ji Han could also send a signal now and inform Hu Xingjiang in advance.

  “In my opinion, all of you have been tricked by Kong Yuxin!”

  Zhang Qingmin started to make deductions. “He had escaped so many times, so he must be very careful. Why did he leave behind such an obvious loophole in the spirit rune lock? It’s clearly some kind of lure. He might have left the prison long ago.”

  “Think about it. There are still three days before the prison door opens again. Wouldn’t he be alerting the enemy if he were to run out now? So he must have left when the door was opened the last time.”

  Zhang Qingmin looked at the prison guards. “There must be someone among them who was controlled by Kong Yu with secret arts, helping him in his prison breakaway plan.”

  “That’s impossible!”

  Ji Han rejected this deduction. “When the prison guards leave the prison, our guards will check on them. Therefore, as long as one was influenced by spiritual control techniques, puppetry, Gu techniques, or things like that, they’d be discovered.”

  “What if your standard is not good enough?”

  Zhang Qingmin rebutted.

  Ji Han snorted and couldn’t be bothered to argue. In the end, he still decided to report this matter to Hu Xingjiang and let him make the decision.

  15 minutes later, everyone received a reply.

  Hu Xingjiang asked Zhang Qingmin and Sun Mo to continue investigating the case. He would take responsibility for the pursuit outside.

  Three days passed by very quickly.

  Sun Mo and the others found nothing.

  The prison’s door opened.

  “I feel that there’s definitely a traitor among these people!”

  Zhang Qingmin was indignant.

  Ji Han had the same thoughts. However, they could not imprison these people anymore. Otherwise, it would break their hearts and it’d be hard to lead them in the future.

  However, Ji Han had arranged for people to secretly monitor these prison guards.

  Zhang Qingmin was a prisoner, so he could only return to his cell. However, Sun Mo was free. He could use this opportunity to freshen up and have a feast.

  “Teacher Sun, let’s have a meal together!”

  Wu You called out.

  “So what if someone like Kong Yuxin ran away? It’s not like he would cause any harm.”

  Pang Tong thought nothing of it.

  To put it bluntly, Kong Yuxin just had some moral issues. He did not have any criminal records.

  The prison’s patrolling level had been raised to the highest level, but even after ten months, there was still nothing. Now, even Ji Han had resigned himself to fate.

  One day, the moon was dark and the wind was strong.

  A couple was hiding by the cliff, admiring the moon while talking about love.

  “Oh, my stomach hurts! Just a minute!”

  The man looked like he was in agony and held onto his stomach as he ran toward the cliff. He couldn’t hold it in anymore and could only deal with it nearby. He felt better after he was done, but he didn’t notice that a bug the size of a fingernail was crawling away from the feces.

  The bug raced down the cliff and landed directly in the sea, bobbing up and down with the waves. After it had left the island for a distance, the bug emitted a strange soundwave, and a school of fish swam over. One of them swallowed the bug.

  The sky turned bright and the night passed.

  On the surface of the sea, a fish suddenly popped out, flicking out of the surface. When it landed again, its stomach had turned over and it was dead.

  A few minutes later, a human arm suddenly pried open the fish mouth and stretched out. Then, there was a head, shoulders, and even half a body……

  Finally, a man in his seventies climbed completely out of the fish’s mouth. He lay on his back on the surface of the sea, staring at the blue sky, the white clouds, and the rising sun in the east. He suddenly felt a sense of exhilaration.

  At that moment, the man wanted to sing loudly, but he restrained himself in the end.

  “I’m not safe yet. I have to find a ship quickly and return to land as soon as possible!”

  Kong Yuxin’s face was pale. The activation of the Gu Technique had consumed a large amount of his spirit qi and stamina, causing him to be very weak.

  “I’ll go home and then propose to Little Lan!”

  Kong Yuxin cheered himself on and started swimming. However, after ten minutes, he stopped and looked toward the west.

  A black shadow quickly floated over from the sky.

  “Why does it feel like a human?”

  Kong Yuxin frowned. For safety’s sake, he dived into the sea to hide.

  “Kong Yuxin, stop hiding. I’ve been following you for more than half a month.”

  Sun Mo spoke up.

  Splash!

  Kong Yuxin emerged from the water and looked at Sun Mo in surprise. “It’s you? Great Teacher Sun, let’s make a deal. I’ll give you two saint-tier cultivation arts and you let me off. How about that?”

  “You’re so generous?”

  Sun Mo pretended to be surprised.

  “You should know about me, right? I’m not interested in things like cultivation or career. I just want to marry Little Lan and give her happiness. ”

  Kong Yuxin sounded sincere.

  “Has Secondary Saint Hu given you his silent consent for you to leave?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  “No! I ran off by myself! Don’t spout nonsense!”

  Kong Yuxin denied this repeatedly.

  “Can you tell me why you opened the spirit rune lock but didn’t leave?”

  Sun Mo was puzzled. “That shouldn’t have been your original plan, right?”

  “When did you set your eyes on me?”

  Kong Yuxin did not answer his question.

  “You might not believe me, but my understanding of the origins of Gu techniques is more comprehensive than many Gu grandmasters. Moreover, I know some forbidden arts and I have a scarab that is proficient in soul-related secret arts. Therefore, I was able to determine your location on day one.”

  Sun Mo shrugged.

  It was really amazing how he could turn into a bug and get swallowed by a prison guard.

  “Then why didn’t you expose me?”

  Kong Yuxin was very surprised. The people from Nanyue were very secretive about Gu Techniques. They wouldn’t even teach these techniques to people from other tribes, let alone people from the Central Plains.

  The secret Gu Technique Kong Yuxin used was something he had obtained from an ancient book. He had never used it before, so Ji Han and the others would not be wary of him in this area.

  “I want to see what you’re capable of!”

  Sun Mo smiled and gave him a thumbs-up. “This is really unbelievable.”

  “Didn’t I still end up being caught by you in the end?”

  Kong Yuxin said self-mockingly.

  “I’m a grandmaster in herbology. That’s why I was able to scatter medicinal powder on those prison guards without anyone noticing. I relied on the scent of the powder to track you down.”

  Sun M’s lips twitched. “The many times you tried to escape previously should have been a smokescreen, right? It’s to conceal the fact that you know Gu Techniques. This way, no one will know how you escape no matter how hard they rack their brains over it!”

  “That is one reason, but more importantly, I wasn’t done with the training of the gu-bug yet!”

  Kong Yuxin sighed. Why did he have to encounter Sun Mo?

  Otherwise, he would have succeeded.

  “Why did you choose to flee at such an unreasonable time?”

  Sun Mo felt curious.

  Chapter 1248: The Weight of these Two Words ‘Great Teacher’!

  Translator: Lordbluefire

  “My friend was brought to the laboratory, and I wanted to save him!”

  Kong Yuxin did not hide anything. After all, this was a scandal involving the great teacher world. If it was leaked out, the ones embarrassed would be Hu Xingjiang and the others.

  “.……”

  Sun Mo did not know if he should continue listening. This thing was definitely a secret. If he were to find out, he might be killed and silenced.

  “You can’t be thinking that the Prison of Desolation is where the prisoners are kept, can you?”

  Kong Yuxin chuckled mockingly. “It’s actually a laboratory. Many forbidden arts that are banned in the Nine Provinces can be conducted here.”

  Most forbidden art experiments, even if they didn’t involve humans in the early stages, would definitely use humans in the later stages. Only then would the data be the most accurate.

  “Generally speaking, criminals who committed serious crimes can forget about leaving this place alive. For criminals of lighter crimes, if they want to have their sentence reduced, they can choose to be experimental subjects. But to be honest, there’s a high chance that they will die in the experiments.”

  Kong Yuxin looked sad.

  He had made a good friend in the Prison of Desolation, someone who understood his love. That was why he had taken the risk to go to the laboratory on the lowest floor to save him. Unfortunately, it was too late.

  Kong Yuxin had failed in the attempt to save his friend and had his trump card exposed. Hence, he had no choice but to escape in advance. Otherwise, if he were to stick to the original plan, he would not have been discovered at all.

  The Gu technique he cultivated was called Worm Transformation Replacement Art. It could nurture his lifeblood and soul into a vital Gu worm in his body.

  This bug could then engulf its owner and then spit them out whole.

  The drawback was that the user would eventually become an existence that was both a human and a worm. They would gradually forget whether they were a human or a bug on the consciousness level.

  If it wasn’t for the sake of escaping, Kong Yuxin would not have cultivated this forbidden technique.

  “Sun Mo, you should hurry up and run. A few major characters in the laboratory are very interested in your body and want to experiment on you.”

  Kong Yuxin reminded Sun Mo. This was a piece of information that he had obtained without anyone knowing while he was attached to a host in the form of a bug.

  “What are you planning to do next?”

  Sun Mo grabbed his wooden blade.

  “Head back to the Nine Provinces and propose!”

  Kong Yuxin’s answer was given without any hesitation.

  “It’s been 30 years. Do you think your disciple will still be waiting for you?”

  Sun Mo’s question struck straight at his soul.

  “She will!”

  This was the only answer Kong Yuxin could give. Otherwise, his 30 years of persistence would have been in vain. “She said that she would stay in the countryside and wait for me to return!”

  “Since you can even give up your identity as a great teacher for her, why can’t you live in seclusion with her?”

  Sun Mo frowned. “Love between a teacher and a student is against moral ethics.”

  “I want to give her a perfect wedding. I want to live an upright life with her!”

  Kong Yuxin persisted.

  “Wedding is just a ceremony. Why can’t you understand that?”

  Sun Mo was furious. “Even if you invited all the saints and emperors in the Nine Provinces to congratulate you, what meaning is there to that?

  “In my opinion, the congratulations from the Saint Gate can’t be compared to the mutual respect between husband and wife or the simple meals on the dining table!

  “Kong Yuxin, the reason you’re so insistent is because you know in your heart that a love relationship between a teacher and student is disgraceful. Those rumors and strange gazes are harmful to that girl! So you want to obtain people’s recognition.

  “But I’m telling you, that’s impossible!”

  Kong Yuxin became anxious. “Why is it impossible? We’re truly in love with each other!”

  “Have you thought about it? If the Saint Gate approves of your marriage, then it would be treated as a norm for great teachers to marry their female disciples in the future.”

  Sun Mo’s tone was solemn. “Some female disciples covet their teacher’s cultivation arts, secret manuals, and alchemy prescriptions. They will take the initiative to seduce and marry them. Also, some despicable great teachers will use these benefits as bait to tempt their female disciples.”

  Kong Yuxin fell silent because the situation that Sun Mo had mentioned was present right now.

  “Once such private transactions are exposed, the reputation of great teachers will be ruined. However, if the love relationships between great teachers and their students are accepted as being reasonable, great teachers will just get another wife or even a concubine. Even if there are disagreements, it will be a conflict between husband and wife. Who will be able to manage such problems?”

  Sun Mo tried to persuade him. “Is the love you guys want a formality? Or to be helping each other even in difficult situations?”

  Kong Yuxin looked ashamed.

  “Kong Yuxin, to be honest, I look down on you very much. Even if your student loves you, you should stop her.”

  Sun Mo sighed. “You’re a great teacher. Your duty is to teach people, not to love them. You should have told your student how big this world is, taught her to have courage, and taught her the ability to take on this ‘world’. What you should have taught her is not love.”

  Kong Yuxin was stunned. Sun Mo’s words were very enlightening that they instantly shattered his pride as a teacher.

  “You said that you’ll give up on being a great teacher for love?”

  Sun Mo sneered. “In my opinion, you’re not fit to be a great teacher. We should be the lighthouse for students, the starting point for them, not their final destination!”

  Sun Mo flew away and gave him a final warning.

  “Kong Yuxin, you’ve never hurt any prison guards, nor have you done great evil. Therefore, I won’t capture you. I also hope that after you return to the Nine Provinces, regardless of what kind of life you see that girl leading, you won’t harm her.”

  Kong Yuxin’s thoughts were in a mess. He drifted on the spot for a few more minutes, bowed to Sun Mo, and started thinking of ways to return to the Nine Provinces.

  Nine months later, Kong Yuxin finally returned to land after going through great hardships. He was currently very weak. But fortunately, he was rescued by a fisherman.

  After recuperating for another three months, Kong Yuxin disguised himself and hurried back to his hometown without stopping. ……

  The last time Kong Yuxin was home was before he went to work. Coupled with his 30-year prison term, it could be said that Kong Yuxin had not been home for nearly 60 years.

  The old poplar tree at the village entrance was still lush, but its bark was filled with wrinkles, making it look like an old man with wrinkled skin and thinning hair.

  The small river that meandered through the village still looked the same. However, Kong Yuxin no longer recognized the women washing clothes by the river.

  Someone cast a suspicious and wary gaze at Kong Yuxin, but he ignored them. He stumbled and staggered as he went along the road and rushed to the entrance of his house.

  The door was half-closed, and the sound of weaving could be heard from inside.

  Kong Yuxin reached out to push open the door, but he did not dare to. He was trembling uncontrollably.

  “Is it the Li Family’s daughter-in-law?”

  However, a question rang out from the room.

  Although this voice was a little old, it was still as clear as it had been in Kong Yuxin’s memories. Thinking of the sweet memories, he could no longer control himself and pushed open the wooden door.

  The person in the house didn’t hear any reply and thus walked out.

  It was a woman in her forties. She was dressed in rough clothing and had a handkerchief on her head. When she saw Kong Yuxin, she froze on the spot.

  She covered her mouth with both hands, tears gushing down her cheeks like a torrential flood.

  “Teach…… Teacher!”

  Hearing this gentle address, Kong Yu was immediately filled with varying emotions. Sun Mo’s words surged into his heart.

  When they parted, she was in her youth, like the peach blossoms in March or the clear flowing spring water, full of youth and vitality.

  But now, she was already past her prime, and no longer had the childishness and beauty of a young girl. What she was left with was only old age.

  “Lan`er!”

  Kong Yuxin’s voice trembled slightly as he called out this name. However, it brought about a piercing pain.

  He finally understood Sun Mo’s words.

  Great teachers should be the starting point for students, not the end point.

  Lan`er’s life shouldn’t have lived several decades in this dilapidated and poor village. She had once been a genius and yearned for the great world outside, wanting to learn powerful cultivation arts and become a great teacher like himself. However, he…

  He had held her back for her entire life!

  Lan`er suddenly rushed forward and hugged Kong Yuxin.

  “You’re back? You’re really back?”

  Lan`er was in disbelief. She hugged Kong Yuxin tightly and felt his warmth.

  “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

  Kong Yuxin was very reproachful.

  “Everything is in the past now. It’s good that you’re back!”

  Lan`er consoled him.

  “Lan`er, tell me, do you regret it?”

  Kong Yuxin looked at his disciple’s eyes. He felt anticipation, hesitation, and nervousness.

  “I’ve been weaving cloth and lived as a village woman for 30 years. It’d be impossible to say that I don’t regret it. After all, my heart would be filled with bitterness whenever I saw my good friends and schoolmates achieving success in their careers or having blissful families even if they didn’t get great fame. But when I think of you, I don’t feel any pain anymore.”

  Lan`er revealed a gentle smile. “Don’t think too much about it. I had waited for you willingly!”

  “That’s right!”

  The pain in Kong Yuxin’s heart was like having limbs torn off. (You had done it willingly, but I had held you back for life because of this ‘love’.)

  (Why didn’t I let you go back then?)

  Unfortunately, time was merciless. It was also cold and would not give anyone the chance to make amendments.

  (If only I had met Sun Mo back then and been enlightened by him!)

  Kong Yuxin did not regret staying in prison for 30 years. However, he regretted letting Lan`er lose the most wonderful period of her life.

  Sun Mo was a man that didn’t let down his identity as a great teacher!

  At this moment, Kong Yuxin finally understood the weight of the great teacher title. Before loving Lan`er, he should have first done a good job as a teacher, telling her how she should live her life! ……

  When Sun Mo returned to the isolated island, he had only taken a few steps before he saw Hu Xingjiang standing by the cliff, looking at the scenery with his hands behind his back.

  Sun Mo paused. He had been gone for so long, so Hu Xingjiang had probably guessed what he had done, right?

  “I feel very upset!”

  Hu Xingjiang looked at the clouds in the sky with a dejected expression.

  “Teacher, why do you say that?”

  Sun Mo was perplexed.

  “When Kong Yuxin was sent here, I investigated and found that there was indeed love between him and his student. I wanted to let him go because that girl was waiting for him, but I couldn’t do it!”

  Hu Xingjiang sighed. “Do you know why?”

  Sun Mo shook his head.

  “Because if I had done that, it’d be even harder for Kong Yuxin to understand the meaning behind the two words ‘great teacher’!”

  Hu Xingjiang leaned forward as if he was about to jump into the sea. “In order to let Kong Yuxin understand the weight of being a ‘great teacher’, I might have let a girl lead a life by herself for 30 years. I was the one who had wasted her youth.”

  “Is that why you made things easier for Kong Yuxin and eventually decided to let him leave on the 30th year of his prison term?”

  Sun Mo spoke bluntly.

  He had long since been suspicious of how a person could easily break out of prison so many times without being targeted.

  “Teaching and nurturing people is the foundation of great teachers. Sometimes, I’d wonder if it’s a sin to hold up others in order to educate Kong Yuxin.”

  Hu Xingjiang looked at Sun Mo with a lost expression.

  “The moon has periods of waning, and people experience joys and sorrows, unions and separations. How can there be anything perfect in this world? We just need to do our best to have a clear conscience.”

  Sun Mo did not want to think about this problem because it was one without a solution.

  “If it were you, what would you do?”

  Hu Xingjiang asked.

  “Punish Kong Yuxin.”

  As a teacher, Sun Mo would definitely not agree with a love relationship between a teacher and a student. “A female student is still a child. What would she know about love? Moreover, the proportion of love in life is not everything. As a teacher, it is a huge mistake not to establish the right values and perspectives for students.”

  In the Nine Provinces, teachers were like half a parent. For example, if Sun Mo killed Lu Zhiruo, even if it was by accident, he would at most be blamed, but he wouldn’t need to be sentenced.

  That was why love relationships between teachers and students were despised and boycotted. It was like a father falling in love with his daughter. It was unacceptable ethically and morally.

  In this case, Hu Xingjiang was an open-minded person. If a stubborn old man was in his shoes, they would have long since killed Kong Yuxin in prison.

  “Teacher, the matter has passed. Let’s not look for trouble anymore!”

  Sun Mo turned to leave. “I’ll go find someone to spar with.”

  “Do you want to enter the laboratory to take a look?”

  Hu Xingjiang suddenly asked.

  “Hmm?”

  Sun Mo blinked and pretended to be puzzled.

  “Stop with the pretense. Since you saw Kong Yuxin, how could he not tell you about this matter?”

  Hu Xingjiang was also a crafty old fox and had seen through everything.

  Sun Mo felt very awkward. “The more one knows, the faster one dies. I’ve never played with any of the famous prostitutes and top courtesans in the Qinhuai River and brothels!”

  “Let’s go!”

  Hu Xingjiang led the way.

  Although he looked calm, his heart was in turbulence, feeling great astonishment.

  (Isn’t Sun Mo too amazing? To think that he even knows about the rare Worm Transformation Replacement Art?)

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Hu Xingjiang +1,000. Respect (3,200/10,000).

  Sun Mo was stunned for a moment when he heard this voice. He then heaved a sigh of relief. (Since he has given some favorable impression points, I don’t think that he’ll silence me, right?)

  The two of them entered the prison, but Hu Xingjiang did not bring Sun Mo down directly. Instead, he walked past one prison cell after another and told him about the convicts who had been detained in the past.

  There were heinous bastards, malicious villains, and unlucky scapegoats.

  The more Sun Mo listened, the more he felt that something was amiss. (Why are you telling me these things? Are you taking care of things before your death? Or are you going to nurture me to become the next prison warden?)

  The day passed just like that, but Sun Mo didn’t find it annoying because Hu Xingjiang would tell him some of the prisoners’ ultimate arts and experiences.

  An opportunity like this was far too precious.

  Sun Mo went all out and memorized them.

  Hu Xingjiang actually admired Sun Mo a lot and wanted to take him in as a disciple. However, as he thought about how his identity would make things inconvenient for Sun Mo, he gave up on that thought. He only used this method to impart some knowledge to Sun Mo.

  This was the guidance of a secondary saint that others could not even hope to obtain.

  Half a month passed just like that, and the two of them arrived at the fifth level.

  Hu Xingjiang looked at Sun Mo, feeling increasingly satisfied with him. Look at his learning ability. It was simply off the charts. No matter what it was, Sun Mo would understand it after he explained it once, and he’d also be able to draw inferences from it.

  How nice would it be if this was his student!

  Hu Xingjiang sighed. He wanted to ask Sun Mo if he wanted to take a rest. However, the entire prison suddenly shook. The snakes, insects, rats, and ants that were hiding in the corners and cracks in the walls also crawled out and surged in one direction like a tide.

  “F*ck, what’s happening? An earthquake?”

  Sun Mo panicked. “Teacher Hu, what should we do?”

  Save the others?

  Or to escape first?

  The Prison of Desolation was underground…… If it were to collapse, many people would be buried.