Seven days passed.

Yanyan from Eastnether Isle was now locked up in the Celestial Bureau. Despite being constrained with ten dharma shackles, she hadn’t shown any signs of submission. In fact, she constantly came up with all sorts of inventive curses, all of them directed at Xu Qing. Of course, her voice couldn’t penetrate through the walls of the prison to the outside. But she was full of energy. After the week passed, and it became obvious Seven Blood Eyes wasn’t going to free her, she seemed to go mad.

When Xu Qing heard what was happening, he issued orders to add ten more shackles to her. However, the increased force of suppression just seemed to drive her even more insane with fury. That said, her energy eventually waned, and her cursing grew more infrequent.

Xu Qing didn’t personally go to see her. He just scanned the reports about her, then moved on to other matters. He wasn’t in a hurry to free her. The sect’s attitude about the whole thing was intriguing. Other than the instructions on the day of the incident, there hadn’t been a single request made about her. For the time being, they really were letting him have full authority on the matter. It was Xu Qing’s first time experiencing something like that.

Is it because I’m in the echelon?

That said, he knew his place, and wouldn’t do anything foolish like kill her. That would have to wait until she was free and he could do it without anyone realizing what happened.

Therefore, his plan was to wait until the sect notified...