Arriving at the Demigd Prison, Fang Ze first checked the current inmates of the Demigd Prison.
The first Zi Number prison was occupied by Little Grass. Until Little Grass left, this room would always be occupied by her.
The second Chou Number prison was occupied by the woman who used the iron whip from one of the Eight Major Gangs.
The third Yin Number prison was the one held by Jiang Cheng, also temporarily occupied.
The fourth Number 4 prison belonged to the elderly Mortality-Shedding level person.
And thinking that the elder would most likely stay on, continuing to occupy the prison room, Fang Ze suddenly felt... these 12 prisons seemed insufficient.
Perhaps the designer of the Demigd Prison hadn't anticipated the possibility of controlling inmates, which meant the prisoners inside constantly occupied the rooms.
Thinking about this, Fang Ze decided to raise the threshold for this prison in the future. It wouldn't be fitting to call it the "Demigd Prison" if it ended up holding a group of ordinary people and not a single demigod; that would be too disgraceful.
While pondering, Fang Ze arrived at Number 4 prison and observed it.
Number 4 prison was a flame prison, with flames everywhere inside, making the room oppressively hot.
The room had only a small chair to stand on, and the elderly Mortality-Shedding individual wore Law Prohibition binds on his hands, half-lying there with closed eyes, looking as if he had awakened several times before but ended up compromising after failing to break free of the binds and unable to leave the room.
With these thoughts, Fang Ze did not enter and raised any alarms. He carefully observed every detail inside from outside the door, ensuring the entire situation inside, down to every flame, was etched in his mind before quietly exiting the Demigd Prison.
Returning to the Late-Night Investigation Room, Fang Ze went to the lamp, placed his hand on it, and began adjusting the entire Late-Night Investigation Room.
Soon, bricks reappeared and flames emerged, and before long, the entire Late-Night Investigation Room was perfectly replicated to resemble Number 4 prison.
After completing this, Fang Ze made his body invisible, then summoned the summoning list. He carefully searched the list: he did not find the elder's image.
However, Fang Ze was not anxious, as this likely indicated the elder was not sleeping but resting with closed eyes.
Thus, he patiently waited while refreshing the list. An hour passed, and when Fang Ze refreshed the list again, the elder's three-dimensional image finally appeared in the selection list.
Fang Ze smiled slightly and selected the elder. Once the selection was complete, he controlled himself, the chair, and the lamp to slowly disappear from the room according to plan...
Sima Liu was the Mortality-Shedding level individual Fang Ze captured tonight.
He was a vassal of the Si Family, one of the two major noble families in Yunlan State. He did not originally bear the surname Si Ma; this was given to him by the demigod of the Si Ma Family after he broke through to the Yang Transformation level.
Besides this honor, nobles control their vassals in many ways.
Soft methods include providing money, cultivation resources, Awakening ability, social status, granting wives, and raising children, among others.
Hard methods include controlling family members and children; deliberately involving vassals in illegal activities, making them unable to be accepted by the Federation; bloodline assimilation; deliberately leaving flaws on the Extraordinary Path, etc...
With such a combination of carrot and stick, coupled with most first-generation vassals being orphans, adopted since childhood out of kindness and helping to establish Awakened Clans, nearly 99% of vassals are tightly controlled by nobles.
Sima Liu was no exception. He was an orphan picked up by the Si Ma Family as a child. The Si Ma Family raised him, taught him martial arts, granted him abilities, helped him marry, and reared his children. Now, his wife and children live in the Si Ma Family manor, enjoying life while serving as hostages, so he has no reason to betray them.
Moreover, he was clear about his position.
Although he had reached the Mortality-Shedding level and joined the high ranks of the Si Ma Family, he mostly listened silently during high-level meetings, rarely speaking. He never portrayed himself as high and mighty, diligently working for the Si Ma Family, earning deep trust from the demigod and the family head.
Due to this trust, when Sima Jin went to Xida State, the family head chose him to accompany and entrust Sima Jin's safety to.
After accepting this task, he did not take it seriously, thinking it would be an easy task. Who would have thought he and Sima Jin would fall into such a huge pit...
Recalling the siege by the nine Yang Transformation experts; recalling their ruthless attacks preventing him from summoning his Dharma Aspect, forcing him to fight with all his might; recalling how he was struck down and then stabbed to near death, Sima Liu felt true hatred!
He knew those people were serious about killing him! He survived solely due to his strong vitality!
If given another chance, he would not hesitate or hold back; he would kill those Yang Transformation individuals on the spot!
But now, there was no turning back, there were no regrets in this world. Sima Liu could only be full of remorse, deeply hating even in his sleep...
Unaware of the time, immersed in such emotions, suddenly a voice without joy or sorrow, like a deity from the Nine Heavens, whispered in his ear, "Do you want revenge?"
Hearing the voice, Sima Liu woke with a start.
He turned his head, trying to identify the speaker. But after searching for a while, he found nothing.
"Was it an illusion?" Just when he thought it was a hallucination, the voice sounded again, "Do you want revenge?"
Hearing the voice again, Sima Liu was now certain he did not imagine it. However... having lived for many years, seeing strange things, and his high realm, he was not deceived by the mysterious voice. Instead, he cautiously asked, "Who are you, and what do you want from me?"