Chapter 339 - 194: Dragon Capital in Upheaval
"Commander Huang!"
After the lesson from last time, Officer Zhao and the others rushed over, with Chief Duan leading the charge, kicking open Chief Huang’s door.
"Commander Huang..."
The three of them were stunned by the sight before them.
They saw Chief Huang with a look of pain on his face, eyes wide open, bulging, and blood covering the ground; he had fallen to the floor, breathless.
"Prison Doctor!"
"Quick, call Prison Doctors Zhang and Wang over!"
Officer Yang shouted loudly.
"General Han, Commander Huang, he..."
Officer Zhao had a look that asked, Did you see that? This really has nothing to do with us!
Two Vice Commanders had died in the prison, in the same room, leaving Officers Zhao and the others bewildered.
Han Dong said nothing, carefully examining Chief Huang’s condition: meridians completely severed, Qi and blood in reverse... Could it be... was Jiang Feng the same?
"Move aside."
At this moment, Prison Doctors Zhang and Wang arrived.
In front of everyone, they comprehensively examined Chief Huang.
Prison Doctor Zhang sighed, "Commander Huang is already dead. My lords, please restrain your grief."
"Commander Huang’s internal organs were torn to shreds by the reversed Qi and blood. It seems he was too impatient during practice, going into Qi deviation and dying."
Prison Doctor Wang analyzed.
"This... Commander Huang wasn’t reading the Heaven-Stealing Creation Insights, right?"
Officer Zhao looked devastated.
"We don’t know much about cultivation matters, but Chief Huang’s condition indeed looks like he suffered from Qi deviation, resulting in his death from reversed Qi and blood."
Prison Doctor Zhang explained.
"General Han, what do you think?"
Chief Duan looked at Han Dong.
Han Dong looked at Chief Huang’s corpse, trying to calm down, but couldn’t manage it. She thought of Jiang Feng—did he leave in such agony as well?
"General Han."
"General Han."
Officer Zhao called out several times.
"Did Commander Jiang leave like Commander Huang?"
Han Dong finally came back to her senses, speaking with a trembling voice.
"No, Commander Jiang passed while sitting on a meditation mat. He had his eyes closed, and aside from a bloodstain on his chest, everything else appeared normal."
Officer Yang reported.
"I personally examined Commander Jiang’s body; his meridians were also severed, but unlike Commander Huang, his internal organs weren’t torn apart by the reversed Qi and blood. His death was instantaneous, with no suffering."
Prison Doctor Wang, noticing Han Dong’s attachment to Jiang Feng, stepped forward to comfort her.
"Heaven-sent talents envy those with exceptional abilities. How could the two Vice Commanders, months apart, suffer Qi deviation in the same room?"
Prison Doctor Zhang questioned with confusion.
Everyone exchanged bewildered looks, sensing something amiss.
"Jiang Feng was always cautious. I don’t believe he would fall into Qi deviation; maybe the Heaven-Stealing Creation Insights are just a cover."
"There’s definitely something wrong here."
Han Dong wanted to investigate thoroughly.
"General Han, when Commander Jiang went into seclusion for cultivation, I was guarding the door. I swear on my life, no one disturbed him during his seclusion."
Officer Zhao knelt down.
"Stand up, I wasn’t doubting you."
Han Dong walked around the room.
"Call Lord Bao over."
Han Dong instructed.
"Right away."
The three were taken aback, and then Officer Yang ran out.
With Han Dong present, for a moment they mistook her for the Prison Director, forgetting to report to Bao Longwei.
"There’s no issue here; how could Jiang Feng and Chief Huang both suffer Qi deviation in this room?"
Han Dong searched every corner meticulously.
But found nothing unusual.
"What is this aura?"
She stepped out of the room into the courtyard, suddenly detecting an unusual aura.
"This... it’s emanating from below."
"Is it the aura from the underground palace?"
After some searching, Han Dong finally discovered a fluctuation of spiritual energy.
As a First Grade Qi Refining Realm expert,
Chief Huang, being less cultivated than her, was able to sense the fluctuation after staying for over a month, so how could Han Dong not notice it?
Moreover, the spiritual energy fluctuation from the underground palace had been gradually intensifying these days. Though still formless, when Upper Third-Grade Martial Artists approached, their Qi and blood would feel stirred and restless.
Han Dong tried to capture this aura,
Using her own primordial power to guide it.
"Ah?"
She quickly withdrew her hand, sensing the aura attempting to infiltrate her body through her primordial power, entering her Qi Sea.
"What is this power?"
"Such a dangerous feeling."
Han Dong looked wary.
But concerning Jiang Feng’s cause of death, she once again used her primordial power to guide and attempted to absorb a strand of the spiritual energy.
At that moment, Han Dong felt a soft needle, following her primordial power, entering her bloodstream and traveling into her Qi Sea.
The primordial power in her Qi Sea, originally turbid, became extremely restless. Han Dong felt as if her Qi and blood were suddenly strengthened.
But when she tried to control that strand of spiritual energy in her Qi Sea, to grasp and harness it, she discovered that the energy was beyond her primordial power’s control.
It charged violently, almost exploding her primordial power.
Han Dong was horrified.
She urgently mustered all her primordial power to contain it.
"Boom!"
She struck the ground with a palm.
A blood arrow shot out from her palm.
Han Dong’s body shuddered, stepping back a few steps.
She opened her hand to see a wound on her palm, blood beads continuously emerging, and the meridians in her arm seemed torn, causing intense soreness.
"General Han, what’s wrong?"
"Your hand is injured."
Officer Zhao and Chief Duan saw the blood dripping from Han Dong’s palm, and their expressions were panicked. If Han Dong died in Zhenbei Prison, how would they explain it?