Soul Devouring's Wrath Sixth Layer: Eternal Night Sky-Burial

He walked to the end of the first floor, turned into the secluded stone house, closed the door, and leaned against the wall.

Gu Changqing, he personally released that person from the Divine Prison.

He remembered what Gu Changqing looked like then: thin, withered, and with only a lifeless look in his eyes.

Gu Changqing said he couldn't save the world, and he accepted that.

But he still didn't admit it; after he left, he still went and rebelled.

Chen Du closed his eyes, recalling the hundreds of thousands of people Gu Changqing had saved in the Northern Border epidemic zone.

What happened to those people afterward? Some survived, and some died.

Gu Changqing's rescue was not in vain; he lit a lamp in the darkest place, and although the wind blew it out, someone still saw the light.

He let Gu Changqing go, in exchange for six hundred years of White Qi.

But that six hundred years of White Qi is far less valuable than the person himself.

Chen Du slowly exhaled. Over the years, he had released far more than ten thousand wrongfully convicted prisoners.

The accumulated amount over the past decade is enormous.

Some, like Gu Changqing, went out and lived out their lives in anonymity.

Some went on to different paths after leaving home; some practiced medicine to help people, some taught and nurtured students, and some went far away from home.

There were also those like Gu Changqing, who, after leaving, were unwilling to accept their fate and went on to fight and struggle, ultimately dying by the sword.

He didn't know if those people were right or wrong; all he knew was that by releasing them from that prison, he had at least given them a choice.

As for how they choose, that's their business.

He sat in the stone house, motionless for a long time.

The sky outside is still changing.

But he couldn't care less; he was just an old prison guard in the Divine Prison.

All he can do is stay in this prison and hold onto his own principles.

As for what's happening outside, the lives and deaths of those people, he can see it and remember it, but he can't change it.

He stood up, pushed open the door, and went out.

The faint sounds of young prison guards chatting and laughing could be heard in the corridor; a new batch of prisoners was about to be brought in.

He has to go and keep an eye on it.

A few days later, Chen Du sat in a side cave on the eighth floor and reviewed all the knowledge he had gained in his life.

The only Lower First-Level Law he has truly comprehended so far is... Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth.

This law was not obtained from any existing cultivation method, but rather he deduced all laws through Divine Revelation Reading, dismantling, recombining, and integrating the lower-level laws such as Nine Abysses Soul-Drowning, Great Annihilation, Yanfutu, Thought-Cutting Spirit-Slaying, and Eternal Night Sky-Burial contained in the Tenth Tier Lower First-Level Law method he obtained.

He then combined his earlier mastery of the Lower Second-Level Law, Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression, with various emotional laws such as anger and Soul Devouring, drawing inferences from one another, and finally condensed a law that belonged only to him.

He cultivated the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth and Earth to the Ninth-Level Domain, and then used it as the core to rearrange all the knowledge he had learned in his life.

[You primarily use the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Law, supplemented by the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law, and guided by various emotional laws such as the Ninefold Wrath and the Soul Devouring Ninefold, to re-enact the Soul Devouring's Wrath.]

[Sixth Layer... Soul Devouring's Wrath - Eternal Night Sky-Burial, with the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as its core, and the Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression as its auxiliary, All Laws Return to Devouring. With a single strike, those at the early stage of the Eleventh Realm and below will have their souls, bodies, laws, and space completely buried in the Eternal Night; laws below the intermediate core level will crumble upon contact.]

Chen Du slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air. The sixth level—this was the strongest killing move he had ever created.

Those at or below the Eleventh Realm can be annihilated with a single strike.

He stood up, stretched his shoulders and neck, and walked towards the stone house.

The phosphorescent lights in the corridor still burned faintly, while the sky outside continued to change.

He'd been in the Divine Prison long enough. But the road ahead was far from over.

Regent Zhao Zheng recently encountered a strange incident.

His spies submitted a list with several names on it.

He remembered those names perfectly.

Three years ago, he personally ordered the arrest of a group of Wei Changgeng's remaining associates and sent them to Divine Prison.

Three years later, however, another group of his spies spotted some of them in the countryside during a local inspection.

They were alive and well, with flesh and blood, selling vegetables on the street, sitting in a pharmacy, and teaching in a school.

The spy, not daring to alert the enemy, returned to report.

Zhao Zheng didn't believe it at first, thinking it was just a resemblance.

But when the spy presented the portrait, he saw it and it was exactly the same.

The person is still alive; they've been released from the Divine Prison.

Zhao Zheng kept quiet. He sent more people to investigate secretly.

This investigation uncovered something even bigger.

It wasn't just those few people.

In recent decades, tens of thousands of prisoners have "escaped" from the Divine Prison.

Some disappeared after leaving, some remained active among the common people, and some even re-entered officialdom, becoming minor officials in remote prefectures and counties.

How did these people get out? What is the Divine Prison? The Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty has existed for tens of thousands of years, and the Divine Prison has existed for tens of thousands of years as well.

It is an existence older than imperial power, with layers upon layers of seals that even a Peak Stage expert in the Tenth Realm cannot break free from.

It could be said that it was an accident that one or two people escaped.

Tens of thousands escaped, which means someone inside was releasing water.

Zhao Zheng brought the matter to the court for discussion. Upon hearing this, the ministers were immediately in an uproar.

Someone slammed their fist on the table in anger, shouting, "The Divine Prison is one of the foundations of the Divine Dynasty. How dare anyone sabotage it and release prisoners privately? This is shaking the very foundation of the nation!"

Someone said with a grave expression, "To release so many people, someone must be a high-ranking member of the Divine Prison Bureau. Otherwise, who has that authority?"

Some cautiously advised, "Your Highness, this matter has far-reaching implications. If we rush into a thorough investigation, we might alarm those old fogies in the Divine Prison Bureau..."

Zhao Zheng waved his hand, interrupting everyone.

He stood up, his gaze sweeping over the assembled officials, his voice deep and cold. "No matter how far his influence extends, there are those in the Divine Prison who are audacious enough to release prisoners and engage in corruption and malpractice. I will definitely root out the bad apples and corrupt officials within!"

He said he would do what he said.

The next day, Zhao Zheng selected three hundred personal guards, prepared carriages and horses, and personally headed towards the Divine Prison.

Throughout the journey, he sat in the carriage, flipping through the files presented by the secret agents.

Most of the prisoners who "escaped" had one thing in common.

They all cried foul.

Some were framed by Wei Changgeng, some were framed by local powerful figures, and some were implicated in fabricated cases.

The more Zhao Zheng read through the thicker the case file, the more his brows furrowed.

He initially thought it was a simple corruption case.

But as he looked at it more closely, he realized it wasn't that simple.

The person who released people released tens of thousands of prisoners, all of whom were innocent. This is not corruption.

This is going against the Divine Dynasty.

Regardless of who the other party is or what their purpose is, the rules of the Divine Prison cannot be broken.

A prisoner is a prisoner; releasing him would be breaking the law.

Zhao Zheng closed the file and looked out the window.

The direction of the Divine Prison was shrouded in heavy mist.

His mission was not only to uncover the truth, but also to let that audacious person know that the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty had not yet fallen.

He, Zhao Zheng, was still sitting in the regent's chair.