Jiujian City is not far from the Imperial City. If you speed up your pace, you can reach it in one day.

Everyone who was still in class in the liberal arts college could never imagine what kind of danger Jiang Heyao was facing now.

The imperial city is inexplicably quiet. Jiang Heyao has been here once, but last time, the waiters in the palace were talking and laughing, and the imperial city seemed lively.

But this time, these waiters were all silent, and the entire imperial city seemed unusually quiet, even a little weird, which made people's hair stand on end.

Jiang Heyao began to be afraid unconsciously, and had a bad premonition lingering in her heart. Until she saw her mother.

"Yao'er, you're here."

When Sang Wan knew her daughter was coming, she hurried out to greet her. She hadn't seen her for a long time, and her face was full of longing.

The moment Jiang Heyao saw her mother, her thoughts surged up like a bursting tide. She ran towards Sang Wan with tears in her eyes and threw herself into her arms.

"Mom, Yao'er misses you so much."

"Well, mother misses you too."

Sang Wan hugged her lovingly and patted her back gently, as if to comfort her. This scene of reunion after a long separation was full of deep love between mother and daughter.

However, Jiang Heyao, who was too excited, did not realize that his mother, whom he had not seen for so long, did not shed a single tear after the long separation.

After crying for a while, when her mood gradually calmed down, Jiang Heyao raised his head, looked at Sang Wan, and asked:

"Mother, how is father? What disease does he have? There are so many powerful pharmacists in the Medical Heaven Sect, how come he can't be cured?"

Sang Wan showed a sad and sad expression, remained silent for a moment, and said:

"Yao'er, come with me, I will take you to see him."

…

Although this imperial city is said to belong to their Jiang family, Jiang Heyao is not familiar with it. He followed Sang Wan around and walked to nowhere. But out of trust in his mother, Jiang Heyao did not suspect anything.

No questions asked.

She just followed her mother. The waiter behind her didn't dare to speak, and her mother in front of her remained silent. The atmosphere here made her a little panicked.

It was so quiet, so quiet that it was deathly silent.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they came to a palace that looked simple and ordinary. There were many palaces in the imperial city, most of which were more gorgeous than this palace, so Jiang Heyao could be sure that this palace was definitely not his father's bedroom.

"Mother, why did you bring me here? Is father in this house?"

Because it is so simple, it is difficult to use the word palace to describe this house.

Sang Wan did not speak, but directly opened the door of the house and took Jiang Heyao in. Only then did Jiang Heyao see that the house was empty, with nothing...

"Mother, what are we doing here?" Jiang Heyao asked again.

Sang Wan walked to a wall. Because her back was to Jiang Heyao, Jiang Heyao didn't see what she did. He only heard a series of "G Leng Leng" sounds, and a secret passage opened on the floor of the house.

, the passage was pitch dark, and I didn’t know what was there.

"Okay, let's go down."

This was the first thing Sang Wan said since coming here. For some reason, Jiang Heyao felt that his mother's tone seemed to be a different person.

"Um."

Jiang Heyao did not doubt his mother and followed her down the passage. Sang Wan held a luminous pearl in her hand, which emitted a slight light so that they could see the road clearly.

There was a sense of danger in Jiang Heyao's heart, as well as some fear of the unknown. She could not imagine what would be deep in the tunnel, let alone her imprisoned father.

…

"Father...Father! Mother, what is going on? Why?"

Jiang Heyao saw the most unimaginable and terrifying scene for her. Her mother actually imprisoned her father.

The father's limbs were twisted to an unharmonious angle, tied with iron chains, and nailed to a shelf. His hair was messy, his body was a little dirty, and blood could still be seen vaguely.

Jiang Heyao grabbed the dungeon bars with both hands and looked at her imprisoned father. She couldn't figure out why. She was waiting for her mother's explanation, but her mother said nothing.

Jiang Chao's weak voice came, and his voice was hoarse, indicating that he had been screaming for an unknown amount of time.

"Yao...Yao'er...quickly...run away...run away..."

Her father's weak voice was very clear in this silent dungeon. Jiang Heyao could hear every word clearly. Uneasiness and fear instantly filled her brain. She didn't know what happened, but

Instinctively, she wanted to follow her father's instructions and escape from here!

Her mother has changed, and this is definitely not the mother she knew.

But when she just turned around, Sang Wan grabbed Jiang Heyao's arm.

"You can't escape."

Her mother's cold voice made Jiang Heyao feel as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. Is this her mother? This is definitely not her mother!

"Who are you? What are you going to do!"

Jiang Heyao asked loudly. She was too frightened and could only maintain her little sanity by shouting.

"I am your mother, but you and your daughter have never seen the real me."

A cold spiritual energy spread along Jiang Heyao's arm, to Jiang Heyao's body, to her Dantian, sealing all her cultivation. Jiang Heyao knew that this cold spiritual energy was what her mother had known.

Cultivation techniques.

"Mother, what are you going to do? Why are you doing this!"

Fear and heartache kept torturing Jiang Heyao, and his mother's coldness was like a thousand knives, cutting into his heart.

Jiang Chao's weak voice came: "Sang Wan, let Yao'er go, I can agree to anything..."

Sang Wan shouted: "Then hand over the Suzaku Fire."

"The Suzaku Fire has been extinguished. I...can't hand it over..."

Jiang Chao said feebly, not only was his body weak, his heart was also weak.

Sang Wan gritted his teeth, full of resentment. At this time, he still wanted to cling to the Suzaku Fire!

"Then don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"what are you up to!"

Sang Wan pulled Jiang Heyao over, pinched her mouth, and forced a pill into her mouth.

A fishy smell filled Jiang Heyao's mouth. There was no need to swallow the elixir. The moment it entered his mouth, it was completely dissolved.

Sang Wan took Jiang Heyao and threw her into the cell opposite, then locked the cell door tightly. Jiang Heyao's cultivation was sealed and she could not escape from the dungeon no matter what.

"You, what did you feed me?"

Jiang Heyao couldn't help but retched. That thing just now was really disgusting.

"Poison, my Sang clan used the power of the blue dragon as raw material to prepare the most powerful poison in the world, called 'Divine Plague'. This poison possesses the divinity of the power of the blue dragon, so there is no cure. I want to

To detoxify, you can only use the fire of Suzaku to burn the toxins.

Jin. He Yao, please advise your father. As long as he is willing to hand over the Suzaku Fire, he can save your life. As long as he is willing to hand over the Suzaku Fire, then our family can be like before. I am still you.

My mother will still love you as she did before."

Sang Wan said this to Jiang Heyao. She turned back and said to Jiang Chao:

"Jiang Chao, this divine plague is the only one in our Sang clan. I was reluctant to use it on you at first. This poison will cause the body of the poisoned person to gradually rot. Only the fire of the Suzaku can cure it. Jiang Chao,

Think about it carefully, I will leave this luminous pearl for you so that you can take a good look at how your daughter became covered in ulcers. You'd better figure it out quickly!"

After saying that, she put down the Night Pearl, turned around and left the dungeon, leaving only the father and daughter in despair.

The fire of Suzaku has long been extinguished, Jiang Heyao...

[Author's digression]: PS: Whenever a villain appears, the first thing I do is apologize to the villain, because I really can't bear to write such a disgusting plot, so the evil they can do will never be touched.

My bottom line is, but I can't tell what I will do to them. Who hasn't lost his temper yet? If you have the courage to do evil, you still don't dare to die with your body intact?
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