Mysterious mirror hanging high

Chapter 1021 Escorting Prisoners

Inside the prison van, locked up was an elderly woman with white hair.

She was dressed in rags, her body was hunched over, and her long, dry white hair was draped down, covering most of her face, leaving only her cracked lips and a pair of droopy, lifeless eyes visible.

Her neck, wrists, and ankles were tightly bound by black shackles inscribed with runes, clearly rendering her powerless to resist.

The prison van was being escorted by six cultivators dressed in matching black outfits.

They stood around the prison cart, their expressions cold and their auras deep; they were all at the Cave Heaven Realm level.

The leader among them had reached the late stage of the Cave Heaven realm, his eyes sharp as lightning, constantly scanning the surrounding crowd with an undisguised warning.

They were clearly well-trained, standing in formation to protect the prison van in the center, guarding against any possible accidents.

Whispers arose among the onlookers:

"It's a prison cart made of Soul-Locking Black Iron... The shackles on that old woman seem capable of severing her meridians and sealing her acupoints? What a grand scheme!"

"Who is this old woman? What heinous crime did she commit that warrants such imprisonment and the personal escort of six experts at the Cave Heaven Realm?"

"do not know."

Among the cultivators, some clearly knew this person's background, and said mysteriously:

"Hehe, I do know some inside information... This person should be a [mind reader]."

"Mind reader?"

"You all know that recently, the Mind Readers in the Immortal Realm have been able to hear each other's thoughts, right? How many Mind Readers are there in the Immortal Realm? I don't know, but you can imagine how huge an intelligence network that must be."

"It's like the mind readers have eyes and ears in every corner of the immortal realm. Don't you think that's terrifying?"

"Moreover, the Reborn Ones and Mind Readers have always been hunters of geniuses, so the major powers in the Immortal Realm are now in a state of unease."

The cultivator shook his head and said, "It is said that this person will be escorted to the Third Heaven and handed over to several major celestial courts so that great supernatural beings can study why they can connect their consciousness and hear each other's thoughts."

"Quite a few Mind Readers have already been sent to the Celestial Court; this person is just one of them."

"The cultivators escorting the goods are all elites from various major forces, which is why there was no chance of anything going wrong."

“This old woman is a mind reader…” Jing Yu narrowed his eyes, looked at the old woman locked in the prison cart, and secretly began to circulate the [Mind Reading Technique].

"Can't hear anything? Can't hear anything at all?"

Jing Yu glanced at Guo Tingshu beside her. Without a word, Guo Tingshu had already sensed Jing Yu's inner doubt, and he shook his head as well.

"I can't hear anything, it's all static."

Some people had long heard that the consciousness of the "mind reader" was interconnected, and naturally they were curious. They also tried to use some supernatural and secret methods to probe minds, but all of them failed.

One cultivator laughed and said, "Don't waste your energy. A Mind Reader can read what others are thinking, but their own thoughts are obscured by some kind of power... Otherwise, if the major immortal courts could capture a Mind Reader, it would be equivalent to knowing all the thoughts and plans of that group. What would be there to be afraid of?"

"Who knows who is behind the [Reborn One] and the [Mind Reader]? It's causing widespread panic in the Immortal Realm..."

"Is he perhaps a supreme being? In any case, he is someone we cannot afford to provoke."

"Even if I don't provoke them, they might not let me off the hook."

"Come on, what qualifications do you have? They specialize in hunting down geniuses. Do you think you're a genius?" a cultivator sneered.

Ignoring the chatter of the surrounding cultivators, Jing Yu sensed something amiss.

Something's not right. Nine out of ten things are wrong.

Seeing the blank look in Guo Tingshu's eyes, Jing Yu transmitted her voice and said:

"Big Fool Tree, I feel there's something wrong here. Let's leave without waiting for the teleportation array to activate."

"Why?" Guo Tingshu asked in surprise.

Jing Yu frowned and said, "Don't you find it strange? The consciousness of the [Mind Readers] who have been corrupted by that mysterious existence is now connected, which means that all the Mind Readers in the Immortal Realm know each other's exact location."

"Under these circumstances, the safest option would be to place this person in the cave of a Mahayana cultivator, allowing that Mahayana cultivator to directly traverse the void and secretly escort him to the Third Heaven. Why would they so openly transport him in a prison cart?"

"Firstly, in the real world, other mind readers would eventually find out the prisoner's exact location, and secondly, it's not convenient, is it?"

"Isn't this just waiting for someone to come and hijack the prison van?"

"and……"

Jing Yu narrowed her eyes: "This immortal city we're in now, although it has a large teleportation array, seems to be just a small immortal city, right?"

"The city lord here seems to be just a Mahayana cultivator."

"In other words, there are no immortals here... The highest combat power is only at the Mahayana stage."

"If a few Mahayana-level Mind Readers were to come and attempt to break the prisoner, the chances of success wouldn't seem too low, would they?"

Before Jing Yu could finish speaking, as if to confirm his ominous premonition—

"Om-"

The void above the plaza trembled violently without warning, ripples spreading through the space, followed by several pitch-black cracks suddenly tearing open—

"boom!"

An immense pressure, like a celestial river pouring down, enveloped the entire plaza. Three figures emerged from the crack, their auras vast and unfathomable—all were clearly powerful cultivators at the Mahayana realm!

They were all dressed in similar black robes, with most of their faces covered by hoods, and each of them looked expressionless.

The three appeared in a triangular formation, trapping the prison cart and the six escorting cultivators at the Cave Heaven Realm in the center.

Without any further words, one of the Mahayana cultivators raised his hand and pointed.

There was no dazzling brilliance, only a condensed gray line that flashed by in an instant.

"puff!"

The escort leader, whose cultivation had reached the late stage of the Cave Heaven realm, along with the several layers of protective spiritual light he instantly activated and a tortoise-shell-shaped magic treasure that automatically protected its owner, were all ripped apart like tofu cut by an invisible sharp blade!

He didn't even have time to react before he was instantly killed by the Mahayana cultivator.

The other two Mahayana beings also made their moves at the same time.

With a flick of his sleeve, one person unleashed countless fine, emerald-green phosphorescent lights that seemed to possess their own sentience, ignoring spatial distance and instantly disappearing into the brows and dantian of the other five cave-heaven cultivators.

The five people's bodies stiffened abruptly, and then the protective aura shattered like bubbles. Their skin rapidly turned bluish-black and withered. They fell straight down without even letting out a scream, their life force extinguished.

The other person made a feinting grab at the heavily guarded prison cart.

A giant hand made of countless tiny talismans appeared out of thin air, ignoring the resisting spiritual light aroused by the restrictions on the prison cart. Its five fingers came together, as if it wanted to take the entire prison cart and the old woman inside away!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. From the tremor of the void to the appearance of the Mahayana, the killing of the guards, and the seizure of the prison cart, it was only a matter of two or three instants!

Only then did most of the cultivators in the square awaken from their shock.

"Mahayana! It's a Mahayana practitioner!"

"Prison break! Run!"