C5 - Not Clear! Sooo Not Clear.

A voice rang out from a flying elder. "Inner Disciple Yin Kai, your presence is requested immediately at the Punishment Hall."

Yin Kai paused his swagger yet again. "Senior brother Long Lei supervised, is this regarding the recent challenge?"

"So you admit your wrongdoings!" The elder shouted.

Yin Kai let out a long sigh. "I admit to no wrongdoing, nor do I understand what I've been accused of." He quietly added.

The elder harrumphed. "Follow me!"

Yin Kai continued his pompous walk as he changed his direction yet again.

"Look at him." A nearby disciple sniggered. "He's constantly being sent to the punishment hall, and yet every time the guy walks in with such a swagger."

The walk of shame (no, swag) continued. Once Yin Kai reached the Punishment Hall, he bowed perfunctorily. Cupping his hands, he shouted, "Yin Kai greets the Punishment Hall of the sect, and the Elders within!"

"Welcome." The head punishment elder replied.

"Head Punishment Elder Mo, disciple Yin Kai greets."

"Do you know why you're here today?"

"This sect's disciple is unaware."

"There were traces of poison found on Gu Ding. Coincidentally, in the place where you subdued him, his neck."

"You have been told previously that you will not be allowed to use poison in the Sect Challenges, no matter the strength."

"However, it was such a low dose that I will only be throwing you into the Bone Binding Prison for three days."

"Afterwards, you'll be free to visit whatever parts of the sect you need. Until then…"

Head Punishment Elder Mo looked towards Yin Kai, then at the elder that brought him in. "Elder Gu, cuff him."

"Gladly." The elder replied.

Yin Kai's blank face realized the relation. Elder Gu must be related to Gu Ding. Additionally, he most likely pressured Head Elder Mo. However, Head Elder Mo should not have been influenced by such behavior, as his character was truly upright.

"I thank Head Punishment Elder Mo for his fair treatment." As Elder Gu shoved him hard down the hallway, he added internally, 'His VERY fair treatment.'

Yin Kai had not been messing with poison lately. As such, his hands should be truly clean from anything that could have hit Gu Ding.

However, if his hands DID have poison on them, Elder Gu was making a mistake. He was pulling and prodding on the metal cuffs, even making Yin Kai's hands bleed.

Yin Kai smiled. He had been carrying a secret. His mother had a special constitution, the 'Myriad Poisons Body.'

In order to conceive Yin Kai, she had found his father - a holder of the 'Myriad Flame Refinement Body' - and quickly engaged him directly.

Unfortunately for Yin Kai, the two special constitutions had fought each other for supremacy and resulted in his life of cultivation - a cripple.

But the Ancestral Pill of Origin had healed him and allowed him to finally cultivate- did he regain his special constitution as well?

He had been making his own poisons and ingesting them, all in the hopes of re-opening this constitution.

Yin Kai was thrown against the wall and chained.

Elder Gu smirked at him and spit. "You're in my house now, boy. Better watch out."

"As long as Head Elder Mo agrees!" The hairy disciple retorted with a smile. Elder Mo, while allowing Gu the opportunity to imprison him, surely meant it as a tempering opportunity. Yin Kai knew it in no way truly affected his character. Or judgment.

"Hrmmph!" The shadowy, angry elder stalked off.

Yin Kai began to cultivate the Ancestral Origin Transformation Art within his body. The head elder had deprived him of Qi, and the chains kept him from using it outside his body. However, the constant influx from Bae Re's offspring allowed him to slowly advance his cultivation in the Qi Opening realm.

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The day passed. Yin Kai cultivated through the night. The next day came, and he was brought food and water. He continued his cultivation until he heard the jingle of keys at his door.

"What do we have here?" A crass voice cackled.

"Why brother Jin, he appears to be locked up and unable to move."

"Brother Jin Jie, welcome. This Yin is glad to see your face once more. Your nose is looking quite suave tonight as it glistens in the moonlight against the curvature of the floor."

Yin Kai sneered. Surely, the crooked nosed young master and his cronies were up to no good. But rules were rules, and punishment…

"This junior brother has been cultivating the wrong methods." Jin Jie grandly gestured to his cronies.

"Junior Xie, pull out the artifacts."

Xie Li, a shorter man with scraggly hair, pulled out from his pockets the sets of poison herbs that Yin Kai had been cultivating.