Chapter 567: Chapter 156: Child of Destiny? Decent Palm Force, Perfect for Blowing Air

"Target: Lin Chen!

Cultivation Realm: Late-stage Innate!

Talent Entry: Fate’s Blessing (Gold), Concealing Breath (Blue),"

One gold and one blue? Though there are only two talent traits, one of them is a rare gold-quality trait.

And with talent traits like these—is this yet another Child of Destiny?

Ye Liuyun had clearly seen Children of Destiny before; after all, his own Fate Entry had been obtained in just such a way.

Moreover.

Lin Chen? That name really does sound like a Child of Destiny.

As if by some innate intuition, the disheveled Lin Chen sitting inside the cell seemed to sense someone’s gaze.

He lifted his head, as if compelled, and his eyes met Ye Liuyun’s.

However.

Lin Chen’s gaze was nothing like the other prisoners’—he showed no trace of fear at seeing Ye Liuyun.

Instead, he sized up Ye Liuyun with curiosity.

This is getting interesting.

"Who’s that person?"

Staring in Lin Chen’s direction,

Ye Liuyun asked Zhao Yizheng beside him in a casual tone.

"Uh!"

Zhao Yizheng definitely had no idea who that was.

Though he worked for the Ministry of Justice and managed the Celestial Prison, he barely visited places this filthy once in a year, if that.

And even if he did come,

it was just out of duty—a perfunctory glance around, never lingering long.

As for the prisoners inside—he was even less familiar with them.

Luckily,

the cell head responsible for this level, sensing Zhao Yizheng’s bewilderment, immediately stepped out and respectfully addressed Ye Liuyun.

"Sir, this prisoner is called Lin Chen, originally the son of the Lin family, a wealthy merchant household. Later, some misfortune struck his family, and he was brought here because of that!"

"Explain in detail!"

An accident involving a Child of Destiny—it definitely wouldn’t be something ordinary.

And just as well,

Ye Liuyun wasn’t in a hurry. After all, the talent traits weren’t about to run off.

He couldn’t help but be curious—how did a Child of Destiny end up thrown into the Celestial Prison?

Seeing Ye Liuyun’s interest,

Zhao Yizheng immediately gave the cell head a significant look—whatever would please Ye Liuyun, he was to do.

The cell head wasn’t stupid.

Even if he hadn’t recognized who Ye Liuyun was, his superior’s attitude made things obvious enough.

He dared not show the slightest objection, and carefully bowed to explain everything to Ye Liuyun.

"Here’s what happened!"

Originally,

the Lin family was quite a well-known merchant clan within Great Qian—while not wealthy enough to rival a nation, they could have kept Lin Chen living in comfort for life, no question about it.

But in the present era, no matter how rich a merchant is, wealth can hardly contend with power.

So, the Lin family’s patriarch began planning to foster a powerful Martial Artist for the family.

If their family produced a powerful Martial Artist, the Lin family’s standing would inevitably soar even higher than before.

Thus,

not strapped for cash, the patriarch simply purchased a top-tier Martial Arts Manual at an auction hosted by the merchants’ guild.

What happened after was fairly simple.

You could say the Lin family patriarch underestimated the brutality of the martial world.

Many Martial Artists might not care how wealthy you are, but if you possess an exceptional cultivation technique or a rare Spiritual Artifact, without the strength to protect yourself—

in the eyes of many Martial Artists,

how are you any different from a lamb awaiting slaughter?

Not only was the supreme cultivation manual stolen, the entire Lin family was ransacked, leaving no survivors. Yet as a Child of Destiny, Lin Chen naturally wouldn’t die in such a moment.

Not only that,

having survived, Lin Chen somehow learned formidable skills from somewhere and exacted revenge for the Lin family.

"How did a prisoner like this get thrown into the Celestial Prison?"

Reasonably speaking, with a case like this, he should’ve been handed over to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, right?

"Uh!"

The cell head clearly hesitated, unsure whether to continue.

But when he saw Zhao Yizheng’s impatient glare, he nearly whispered, lowering his voice as he went on,

"Back then, plenty of people coveted the Lin family’s business—among them, the son of the Ministry of Justice official!"

Put simply, the Ministry of Justice official’s son was also involved in the massacre of the Lin family. Since Lin Chen succeeded in taking revenge, of course the official’s son ended up dead as well.

In fact,

it was the Ministry of Justice official himself who personally requested that Lin Chen be locked in the bottom level of the Celestial Prison.

He ordered the prison guards to torture Lin Chen every day, without killing him outright—just to keep him suffering endlessly.

Unfortunately,

the Ministry of Justice had been rotten for ages—when it’s corrupt at the top, the rot spreads below.

The cell heads and guards in the Celestial Prison hadn’t laid a hand on a prisoner for ages—nobody ever came to inspect or check on things anyway.

As long as prisoners didn’t escape, that was all that mattered, right?

It was just a job—idling away the days was much better, wasn’t it?

Probably only...

everything is just karma. If that Ministry official had bothered to check in a few more times, Lin Chen wouldn’t have lived so comfortably here.

But think about it—

for a Child of Destiny,

blessed with the luck of the heavens, isn’t it unsurprising that things turned out this way?

"As for Lin Chen’s cultivation, back in the day, he’d already reached Postnatal Perfection, and nearly broke through to the Innate Realm. To catch him, our Ministry of Justice lost quite a few men."

When discussing this part,

there was no small measure of resentment in the cell head’s tone.