Chapter 98

In today's world, with no Grand Masters emerging, the people on the Heavenly List are the strongest in the world, the pinnacle of the heavens. Every time the Heavenly List is updated, it draws the attention of the entire world. Every wandering cultivator and faction will watch it as soon as it is released. Therefore, as soon as the list appears, it spreads across the Divine Continent.

At the same time, it also sparks countless discussions and arguments. Many factions' disciples will speak up for their own sect leaders or leaders.

For example, many disciples of the Sun Moon Cult believe that Dongfang Bubai should not be ranked ninth, and should at least move up a few places.

However, regardless of whether you believe the names on the Heavenly List are deserved, you must acknowledge that they are the strongest group of Grand Master-level experts in the world. People have also gotten used to using the Heavenly List to describe the strongest Grand Master-level experts in the world.

For the Sun Moon Cult, Dongfang Bubai's appearance on the Heavenly List not only enhances his own prestige but also boosts the sense of honor, belonging, and pride of the many disciples of the Sun Moon Cult.

Externally, it also greatly enhances the deterrent power. The most obvious effect is that after the Heavenly List is released, the entire southwestern region and its surroundings become calm. A single expert on the Heavenly List is enough to suppress the entire southwest and keep the surrounding areas quiet.

For example, when the Sun Moon Cult is guarding the southwest, it becomes much easier. Fewer people dare to insult Dongfang Bubai or attack ordinary disciples of the Sun Moon Cult. This is the deterrent power of being on the Heavenly List.

This allows the Sun Moon Cult to smoothly operate in the entire southwest, of course, this is something that will happen in the future.

At this moment, after Dongfang Bubai finishes reading the names on the Heavenly List, he no longer pays attention to it and starts handling the affairs of the cult. He silently remembers the names of those nine people in his heart.

Around the same time, those nine people also remember his name, and countless others remember the names of these ten people.

In the next six months, these ten people will be like the sun in the sky, and every move they make will cause ripples.

After seven days of busy work, the Two Pavilions, Nine Halls, and Five Temples have been roughly reorganized. The remaining work is just to integrate the new members of the Sun Moon Cult and make them truly recognize the cult, which will take a considerable amount of time. He, as the leader, needs to be strong enough to make them willingly submit.

Therefore, the affairs of the cult that Dongfang Bubai needs to handle personally have greatly decreased. After a while, he finishes them.

Then, Dongfang Bubai gets up and leaves the study, heading directly to the back mountain of Blackwood Cliff. At a secluded cliff in the back mountain, a large cave has been dug out at some point. Outside the cave, there are over a dozen guards, and on the cliff above the cave, three majestic characters are carved: "Training Prison."

"Pay respects to the leader!" Upon seeing Dongfang Bubai, the dozen people immediately bow.

Dongfang Bubai ignores them and enters the cave directly.

The cave is brightly lit. Following the corridor, Dongfang Bubai goes down. It can be seen that the Training Prison is quite large and built downward into the mountain. It was built not long ago, and many places are still quite simple, but it is heavily guarded.

On both sides of the corridor, there are two guards at regular intervals, and these guards are actually members of the Shadow Assassins organization.

As Dongfang Bubai passes, the Shadow Assassins on both sides of the corridor bow silently.

Finally, he stops in front of a cell door that looks like a prison. A Shadow Assassin takes out a key and opens the iron door, which is heavily locked.

"Dongfang Bubai!" As soon as the cell door opens, a voice filled with hatred rings out.

Dongfang Bubai walks in with a cold expression. The cell is large and relatively clean, but very simple, with only a stone bed and some basic living supplies.

On the stone bed, a figure is sitting cross-legged, with thick iron chains on his hands and feet.

Two Shadow Assassins quickly enter with a long spear, remove the chains, leave the spear, and then leave, gently closing the cell door behind them.

Dongfang Bubai steps forward and strikes the person with a palm, and immediately a surge of energy appears from the person's body.

"Qian Luo! Come on!" Dongfang Bubai steps back and says coldly. Indeed, the person on the stone bed is the captured Qian Luo.

"Hmph!" Qian Luo, after moving his limbs and recovering a tenth of his internal energy, glares at Dongfang Bubai and picks up the spear, thrusting it at him.

The spear moves fiercely, and although it is only a tenth of his internal energy, it is not to be underestimated. Dongfang Bubai uses the Heaven-Splitting Palm, using internal energy similar to Qian Luo's, or even a bit less.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

...

The cell is filled with the sounds of combat, but it seems that they are intentionally restraining themselves, as the cell remains undamaged.

After two incense sticks, Qian Luo in the cell is already knocked to the ground by Dongfang Bubai and cannot get up.

"No progress at all, you're really a waste!" Dongfang Bubai says coldly.

"You!" Qian Luo glares at Dongfang Bubai.

"Boom!" Dongfang Bubai strikes Qian Luo with a palm, and the tenth of his internal energy is sealed.

Then, he turns and leaves the cell. Two members of the Shadow Assassins come in to rechain Qian Luo and take away the spear.

After that, Dongfang Bubai enters other cells, each time not staying more than half an hour before leaving.

After five times, Dongfang Bubai leaves the Training Prison.

The Training Prison returns to calm, with only occasional sounds coming from the five cells.

The Training Prison, as its name suggests, is where Dongfang Bubai trains.

Two years ago, Dongfang Bubai started building the Training Prison, but at the time, he did not have a clear plan, just the idea of building a prison.

At Tian Ning Temple, he originally intended to kill the five people, including Water Mother Yin Ji, but later, considering his own situation, he did not kill them. Instead, he sealed their internal energy and imprisoned them in the Training Prison.

His Heaven-Splitting Palm needs to achieve minor, major, and perfect levels, which requires a large number of martial arts manuals, the wisdom, essence, and experience of others.

And these people, like Water Mother Yin Ji, are living martial arts manuals, with many aspects that Dongfang Bubai can absorb and learn from.

Moreover, they have not reached their peak and are all well-known figures. Over time, their wisdom, essence, and experience in martial arts will become stronger.

Therefore, Dongfang Bubai uses them as training partners, releasing a tenth of their internal energy each time to fight with him, thus absorbing their martial arts essence. Although it is not as effective as a full-power fight, it is still quite good.

This is like these five people providing wisdom, martial arts essence, and experience to help Dongfang Bubai train and improve his Heaven-Splitting Palm.

The five people also know this, but they also know that they are likely to spend the rest of their lives here. Apart from chatting through the cell bars, they can only think about martial arts. Although their internal energy is sealed, it does not hinder their ability to think and create martial arts wisdom and essence.

When Dongfang Bubai comes, not only out of hatred but also as martial artists, they cannot help but want to fight him.

Moreover, Dongfang Bubai has promised that if they can defeat him with the same internal energy, they can leave the Training Prison and Blackwood Cliff.

This is a great temptation, although they know the possibility of defeating Dongfang Bubai is low, they still hold out hope.

However, in the past two months, Dongfang Bubai has fought each of them three to four times, and none of them have been able to defeat him even once.

Dongfang Bubai is well aware that if the world knew he was imprisoning people like Chu Liuxiang to train, it would cause a huge uproar and bring many curses. After all, many people in the martial arts world would rather die than be imprisoned for life, and it would also attract many people to rescue Chu Liuxiang and others.

But he still did it, and without any concealment. Those who want to curse him should not let him know, and those who want to come should come, and he will train with them.

The Training Prison currently has only five people, which is far from enough for Dongfang Bubai's needs. The Training Prison has a total of five levels, and Chu Liuxiang and others are only on the first level.

When he confirmed the existence of the Training Prison, Dongfang Bubai said to himself that one day, he would fill the Training Prison with experts at the level of Grand Master or higher to train with him.

After leaving the Training Prison, Dongfang Bubai directly enters the training room to integrate the martial arts wisdom, essence, and experience he has absorbed from Chu Liuxiang and the others.

After a long time, he takes out a book made of gold sheets from a hidden compartment, with three large characters on it: "Shenzhao Jing."

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Because this book has its first patron, "Nian Shao Meng Wan Le," I am adding an extra chapter. Thank you to him and all my supporters.

Thank you all!

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