There were only young men and women inside the prison separated in three sides.

Towards his left, the people looked sad but they were healthy and men had minor injuries on their hands and some women crying and some smiling. It looked like they are the ones the bandits got from the village recently.

On the right side, he found most of the men and women and the sight of them made Zhu Xuan boil with anger. The men had crippled hands and legs, and the women were laughing maniacally and wailing like they lost their mind. He controlled his anger and looked at the centre of the prison.

The young men were practising claw technique that leaders and commander used to fight him. But what made him shocked was the women, they looked like they are concentrating and there were iron balls floating in the air in front of them. Zhu Xuan was astonished and thought "They have the ability of Telekinesis."

Telekinesis is a famous concept in Earth, and with no strong proof of its existence. So he was astonished to find these women were performing it right in front of his eyes. They all stopped their practise and looked at the unexpected intruder who came inside the person.

Zhu Xuan observed them a while and looked behind them to find two small prison, where a male and female were shackled, the male had his hand covered with some silvery metals while the female had her head was completely covered with pure black metal like a helmet.

He walked up to the male slowly and stopped in front of his prison. The young man had his head lowered. He spoke slowly to the young man "Hey, are you awake? Why were you all imprisoned here and do you know what those bandits doing to all of you?"

When the young man heard the last sentence, he lifted his head immediately and asked with a weak voice "You are not with them?"

Zhu Xuan observed the young man. He looked like a handsome man only if not for his long dirty hair and face filled with dirt and his ragged clothes. He replied calmly "Of course not. I already killed their leaders and the commander, and came to see the situation here and found you people."

The young man was sceptical about Zhu Xuan's words. He wasn't sure whether the person in front of him was telling the truth or is this another plot by the bandit group. Understanding the young man's doubt, he explained everything briefly from his first day in this forest, excluding the details about mission.

After hearing Zhu Xuan's explanation, the young man was first shocked and then he calmed down and asked "Can you first release me please?"

Zhu Xuan didn't worry about the young man attacking him; he broke the prison gate and removed his shackles. He tried to remove the silver metals covering the young man's hands but was unable to remove them. He even tried using his weapons but was shocked to find it didn't even leave a mark on the silver metal.

Zhu Xuan asked the young man to wait and left the prison leaving behind him confused, and ignoring the other prisoners who are crying out to release them. He went outside cave entrance of the stronghold, where he hid his things and retrieved them into his spatial ring. He wanted to find if his Twin dragons can cut open the silver metal.

He came back in a while, and used his Twin dragons on the silver metal. He found it was easy to cut through the silver metal and released the young man. After releasing him, they went next to the woman's prison, who according to the young man is his sister.

After the young man asked his sister to calm down, Zhu Xuan used his sword to cut open the black metal. But what they didn't expect was, as soon as the helmet was removed, a sudden severe pain came into their mind. Both the Young man and Zhu Xuan clutched their hand to their head and fell down in pain. They felt like they were being stabbed my numerous needles inside their mind.

Zhu Xuan recovered after a minute and looked up at the woman with a fright. He still felt pain in his head like having a huge headache.

She was looking at her brother and crying and trying hard to remove herself from the shackles while mumbling she was sorry. He made the young man sit up first and then walked to the women with a tense body.

He asked her with caution "What was that just now? What did you do?"

She relaxed to find out her brother was okay and then looked at Zhu Xuan and spoke slowly "I'm so sorry I injured you, I can't control the energy once you removed the black helmet. I won't use it anymore."

Zhu Xuan relaxed himself when he heard her and then removed her shackles. She immediately ran to her brother and hugged him while crying. Zhu Xuan gave them some space, and only moved towards them once they calmed down and asked calmly "Now can you tell me what exactly happened?"

Both of them sat straight once they heard his voice, and the young man responded politely "Thank you for saving us from these people. My name is Wang Shuang and this is my sister Wang Qinyang, we are from the Wang clan in Feng Wu city. May I know the Young master's name?"

Zhu Xuan confirmed his thoughts. He believed they are not from any village inside the forest from their looks and clothing. Wang Shuang is a handsome man with strong body, and Wang Qinyang is a beautiful woman, comparable to Bai Ling, and both siblings had purple eyes and hair which gave them a mysterious aura. And even though both their looked dirty and their dress looks ragged, their clothes were of high quality so he believed they are not from this forest area.

He spoke slowly "I'm Zhu Xuan and not from any cities nearby. I'm just a wandering cultivator."

Both the Wang siblings were shocked to learn that he is not from anywhere near the forest cities. They figured he might not want to revel is identity and used a fake name and didn't ask any further.

Zhu Xuan paused and asked "So how were you captured by the bandits when you are from a powerful clan?"

Wang Shuang explained what happened slowly with a sad tone "There was an internal conflict with some of our elders and leader in our Wang clan, which turned into a battle. During the battle, a person who had conflict with us previously tried to kill us with his subordinates. We are no match for them, so we escaped to the Storm-rage Mysterious Forest. But unfortunately, we ran into a bandit leader of Blood claw bandits; he captured us and brought us here more than a month back."

Zhu Xuan now understood why they were captured even with a powerful family background.

He then turned and looked at the other prisoners and asked "What exactly did they do here? They have captured so many people from all the villages in the forest and brought them here. And If I'm right, these people were forced to practice some bizarre technique form their condition."

Wang Shuang spoke slowly "You are right Young master Xuan. They captured us and brought here to practice two types of energy. They called it physical energy and spiritual energy. Only men are allowed to practice the first type, and women allowed to practice later though I don't know the reason behind these conditions."

He paused and continued "They wanted us to practice a claw technique while asking us to bury our hands inside burned sand and heated the sand with fire constantly. Some energy seeped into my hands and purified my acupoints and enlarged my meridians, but the technique was too dangerous and crippled their hands and only some of us succeeded in practising the technique. They even made many people to practice other fist and leg techniques from current times to practice but everyone who practiced are crippled without fail so far."

Zhu Xuan interjected at that point and asked "What do you mean by techniques from current times?"

Wang Shuang replied "This is just my conjecture, but I think the claw techniques they taught us is not from our present time. When the first time they taught, I saw the scroll which they used to explain us the technique. I don't recognise the language on that scroll and I have read through various books about history in my clan and I have never seen or heard of the language. So, I believe these techniques didn't come from our time and belonged to ancient techniques that are not recorded in our history."

Zhu Xuan understood his thoughts after his explanation. He learned previously from history books that there was an invasion and a bloody war unfolded twenty thousand years ago. Many powerful clans and kingdoms fell in that war, and the whole world changed and a new era born after the war. This technique might be from one of the destroyed clans on the war, but he also had another thought and said "There is also another possibility. This technique might not have originated from our world at all."