When she saw Darryl’s defiant face, Chang Er lost her patience. Then, she said to the guards outside, “Lock him up! Execute him the first thing tomorrow morning!”

A few guards immediately carried Darryl and dragged him out of the main hall.

Darryl wanted to struggle, but his acupoints were sealed. He could not move even if he wanted to do that.

Half an hour later, Darryl was brought into a dark, wet prison cell. His hands and legs were cuffed with iron chains.

He scanned his surroundings—walls on three sides, the fourth was covered in iron rails. Darryl almost lost it.

‘No. No. I have to escape!’ Darryl’s heart pounded. He walked to a corner of his cell, sat down, and crossed his legs. He tried to calm down.

He still had many things to do; he could not die there.

‘I can use my internal energy to unseal my acupoints!’

Once he had decided to do that, Darryl slowly calmed. He paid attention to his breathing and started to activate his internal energy.

Time passed by, and soon, it