“I did not.” Wang Jianyu lowered his head in shame, feeling like he couldn’t help Lin Xi and Bian Linghan in any way. “I spent a lot of time in the army, understanding clearly that the best way of avoiding cultivators is to hide… If it wasn’t because I really couldn’t hold on anymore, I would have definitely hid inside a cave and not leave. I only felt like I really couldn’t hold on anymore this morning, and that was why I came out to see if there was anything to eat. In the past few days, I always hid in a small nearby cave, not coming out.”

Lin Xi’s voice fell. “Do you know roughly where the other prisoners like you are?”

Wang Jianyu shook his head, saying with a bitter smile, “I was sent here by myself, only heard the imperial city expert tell me that Green Luan Academy and Thunder Academy’s students are carrying out a capture the flag here. He said that the emperor felt that my actions were forgivable, but emotions are not above the law, so only by surviving through this competition, cooperating with the academy students’ competition, would he be able to grant me amnesty.”

Lin Xi wanted to say something, but when he thought about what Mu Qing told him before, that matters on the emperor’s level involved just far too much, not necessarily able to completely understand everything with what...