About an hour had passed, with only a few dozen minutes remaining until the end of the test. At this point, all those who had come to improve themselves and survive this ordeal were hidden on the second level, waiting for the conclusion; it wasn't worth the risk.

Outside, in the center of Celestial Abyss City, a dozen elders watched with penetrating gazes from a circular formation. At the end of the test, all disciples would have to exit through that point. After the previous failure to capture a young disciple, they were willing to abandon all their honor and would not allow another escape.

Dyen was among them, with a dark and bloodthirsty look. He had already lost almost all of his resources bribing these elders. It was no longer a matter of revenge for the previous humiliation. Five elders were killed by three young disciples; no one could believe that ridiculous joke initially. However, the traces of blood and the manifestations of death in the last place they were made it clear.

The gathered elders had eyes full of greed, and they were certain of one thing: these young ones had many secrets.

They had no idea how or where they had fled, so they didn't consider the possibility of them being dead. However, old Dyen didn't need much to convince them to wait there. At that moment, he clenched his fists, feeling a dense energy coursing through his veins. It was a pure life force, extracted from a young woman. Soon, a macabre smile took over his face, leaving him satisfied.

***

Inside the dark cave on the fourth level of the prison, Langrum immediately opened her eyes, feeling something running through her meridians.

Soon, she found the whale with its fat hand extended a few inches from her forehead, eyes closed. In that instant, she felt the Yang energy entering her body, making her mind and body tremble. Desperately, she put her hands over her mouth to try to control herself. Her senses then roamed the area, realizing that Zanou and Mira were sleeping soundly a little distance away. Then, her eyes lit up in perverse relief.

After a lengthy discussion, Gael reluctantly agreed to undergo this torment again. This time, however, he sealed his ears and eyes before initiating the process. He just wanted to pretend that it never happened in the future.

But shortly after Langrum woke up, even with his ears and eyes sealed, he felt very strange things being transmitted to his hand, so he sealed his sense of touch. Soon, even his body seemed to sense an intense sound vibration very close. Nonetheless, he didn't open his eyes at all, preferring not to see. The only relief was knowing that Mira and Zanou were in an induced coma by them to recover faster.

After a few minutes, he halted the transfer of the QI. Then, he waited for two minutes, stood up, turned around, took a few steps back, and only then opened his eyes, releasing his ears.

In front of the whale, Zanou and Mira were unconscious on a rock. Time was short, and they needed to prepare for another challenging escape, but they showed no fear. Suddenly, he heard a frantic and intense breathing behind them. Without turning, Gael spoke.

"Compose yourself; I have to wake them up." After his words, the cave fell into silence.

The whale sighed, and Gael erased all associated memories from his mind. Then, touching the foreheads of Mira and Zanou, they slowly awakened. As soon as Zanou opened his eyes, they turned red, and his body began to convulse. The curse penetrated deep into his body, slowly killing him like a torturous and nefarious poison.

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It didn't take long for Zanou's screams of pain to echo through the cave, and Mira woke up, frightened, jumping on the nearby whale.

SLAP!

A resounding slap struck Zanou, sending him flying and colliding with the cave wall. "Get a grip, idiot. If you accept this curse, it will spread deeper and kill you faster." The whale spoke harshly.

Intense sobs echoed from Zanou; the slap made him realize he was still alive amidst that hell.

"We have a few minutes left until the end of the test, and we still have to fight to survive outside. Everyone came to the prison to cultivate their bodies and infernal laws. We haven't had any time for that. If we leave like this, we have less than a 30% chance of victory. So, we need to make the most of these remaining minutes."

At that moment, a spatial rune lit up, and a large amount of infernal laws emerged from the spatial inventory. Along with these laws, the beastly smell of blood enveloped the cave.

"I managed to collect the body of the Wyvern by luck. It had a significant amount of infernal laws inside, and everything about it was a treasure. Zanou and Langum, focus on creating wings as quickly as possible. Mira, take the egg out for me to take a look," said the whale calmly.

Immediately, Mira waved her spatial ring, and an egg over a meter and a half tall appeared. Soon, the whale touched the surface and felt something inside.

"A mutant beast is being created, no doubt, but the bloodline of a dragon still runs in it. I will put all the power of the Wyvern's bloodline into the egg; this will help in incubation and improve its bloodline," he said, looking at Mira, who was smiling radiantly.

"It will never hatch if you keep it in the inventory; when we get out, we have to look for a beast-tamer technique in the sect. But even so, if we don't have some great luck, the egg should take a while to hatch."

Mira nodded, understanding with some regret. Then, quickly, a dozen luminous drops sprouted in the whale's hands, and soon they were sucked into the egg; it was the power of the dead Wyvern's bloodline.

When a faint glow appeared on the egg, they spoke to Mira. "Try to feel and study that rune with your soul; we don't have much time."

Zane and Gael then turned to themselves. After death, infernal laws seek some living being to merge with, and celestial QI naturally disperses, returning to the world. But in the body of this powerful-cultivated Wyvern, a portion of the QI remained inside the core and meridians for a short time.

The core of the Wyvern was sealed by them; that was their greatest treasure, and they would hardly find another like it on this planet. But the QI in the meridians of the Wyvern's body was equivalent to less than 1% of the beast's original, but thanks to the tattoos, they managed to control it. So, before waking the three of them up, Gael filled Mira, Zanou, and Langrum's meridians with QI using the Yin and Yang tattoos. Thus, Zanou, who was not injured, was in good condition again. As for Langrum, she had a body that recovered at high speed after being 'nourished' by Yang.

As for the infernal laws, almost everything inside the Wyvern was lost, but when they collected the dead body after killing the other Wyvern, a large amount was still in the air, and they sucked it all in.

In the end, using the infernal laws together, the whale could regain the two wings it lost using the infernal technique taught by Langrum. And maybe break through a level with the remaining QI from the Wyvern's meridians. They didn't improve much in cultivation inside this prison. But the amount of treasures they received was unbelievable for any evil cultivator.

The whale fell silent, and everyone focused on the orders. Zanou struggled to concentrate, feeling all that pain disturbing his mind. Langrum, on the other hand, was withdrawn and silent in a corner, but something about her intrigued Mira.

Suddenly, Zane and Gael felt a strange wave of rage very close to them. They opened their eyes and turned to Mira. At that moment, she was very close to them, and the sound of her breathing rapidly could be heard.

She then ran her hand over the whale's body, looking for something, searching for the source of a strange smell that only she could sense. Suddenly, she reached his left fist and stopped with a start.

"M... master..." She immediately turned around, and her eyes met Langrum leaning in a corner of the cave.

"What happened while I was sleeping!?" She murmured, pretending to be calm and looking piercingly at her.

"N... nothing!" Langrum replied strangely.

"So why..." Mira immediately opened the whale's fat hands, and something sticky was stuck between its index and middle fingers.

Gael saw that and immediately understood what Mira was thinking.

*Pah!*

*Ouch!*

Gael immediately slapped the back of her head once again. "You and this dirt mind of yours. I helped her recover her Yang power using my tattoos. This is nothing but the sweat of her body. Why the hell do you always have the worst possible ideas?"

Mira rubbed the back of her head, feeling wronged. "It was you who taught me all of this..." Obviously, she was talking about the time Denil was truly just Denil, the perverted.

Langrum and Zanou looked at Goku with weird expressions. "No wonder..." they both murmured at the same time.

Goku's mouth twitched. He obviously heard the other two. He then looked at Mira, even angrier. "I told you, that guy is dead!"

"You seem very alive, master." Mira answered.

*Pah!*

*Ouch!*

Once again, Mira felt the pain of her actions.

Langrum and Zanou looked away. Those words were all they needed to hear. "Such a beast..."

Gael felt like crying already.