The corridor was empty; the escaped demons were all huddled in their cells, the iron bars tightly shut, not daring to even breathe.
As he walked by, some of the demons knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while others buried their faces in the stone ground, not daring to raise their heads.
He ignored him and walked straight to the deepest part of the seventeenth floor.
In the deepest part of the cell, the black circle had expanded to the size of a millstone.
A dark purple aura of the Demon Realm surged forth from it, so intense it seemed almost tangible.
Chen Du stood at the cell door, squinting his eyes.
The edges of the passage were as smooth as a mirror, while the inside was as black as ink. Yet, within that darkness, countless dark purple tentacles were surging wildly.
Each of those tentacles was as thick as an arm, covered with countless suckers and sharp teeth.
They stretched out from the other end of the passage, desperately trying to squeeze into this space, attempting to tear open an even bigger crack.
Chen Du sensed that an extremely evil and powerful force was impacting the passage from the Demon Realm at the other end.
Those powers far surpassed Yuan Ming's, and far surpassed any of his previous opponents.
Those are beings from the depths of the Demon Realm, higher than the Eleventh Realm. They have sensed the aura of this world, the cracks loosened by tens of thousands of years of suppression, and are desperately trying to squeeze in.
He snorted coldly, raised his hand, Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Law gathered in his palm; he intended to destroy this passage.
But the moment he made his move, two innate talents deep within his sea of consciousness trembled simultaneously.
[The World as a Book] and [Become a Saint on the Spot] reacted simultaneously. Chen Du was startled.
These two talents never activated on their own when he faced the Demon Realm passage.
He made a decisive move, activating both of his talents simultaneously.
The Dao Resonance emanated from the space surrounding the passage, drawn and condensed by the World as a Book.
A moment later, an extremely thin piece of paper appeared deep within his consciousness.
The piece of paper was small, about the size of a palm, with an ancient, dark golden sheen, and its edges were worn, as if it had been torn off.
He probed it with his Spiritual Power and saw that move.
That move has no name, or rather, its name has been worn away by time.
Only a very faint line remained on the paper, like a winding river or a chain guarding the heavens and the earth.
But it was these lines that made Chen Du freeze in place.
The layers contained within that pattern were so profound that they sent chills down his spine.
He saw the shadow of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth in it... Eternal Night, Heaven-Burial, Earth-Extinction, All Laws Return to Devouring, all the things he had painstakingly comprehended were just the most superficial in front of this pattern.
These lines are from the original design of the Divine Prison, used to suppress the passage to the Demon Realm.
It is a sealing technique personally inscribed by the first builder of the Divine Prison.
Its level far surpasses everything he has currently comprehended.
Chen Du held the piece of paper, repeatedly analyzing it.
He felt a sudden, profound clarity, like a door that had been pushed open for a long time, only to be cracked open from the outside.
The laws contained within that pattern were more complete, more profound, and closer to the essence than the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth he had comprehended.
He closed his eyes and activated [Divine Revelation Reading] at full power.
[Using Divine Revelation Reading as a guide, you dismantle the remaining sealing patterns on the piece of paper one by one. Those patterns are far too profound; with your current level, you can only understand a small portion. Yet, even this small portion has already elevated your understanding of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth to a new level.]
[You cross-reference the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth with that pattern. The Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth represents Eternal Night and annihilation, while that pattern represents suppression and sealing. They seem different, but their essence is the same. Suppression seals the Demon Realm, while annihilation seals all things. Using that pattern as a reference, you rearrange the laws governing the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth.]
[You have integrated the Heaven's Wrath First Layer Domain, the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law, and all the Lower Second-Level Laws, using the Ninefold Wrath as the catalyst, Wrath Devouring as the core, Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as the bone, and that sealing pattern as the soul.]
[Seventh Layer: Soul Devouring's Wrath - Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial. With the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as its core and the sealing pattern as its soul, All Laws Return to Devouring, Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial. With a single sword strike, those at the Middle Stage the Eleventh Realm and below have their souls, bodies, laws, and space completely sealed into eternal prison, forever trapped and unable to escape. Those at the mid-core level with laws below the ninth rank crumble upon contact.]
Chen Du opened his eyes and looked down at the piece of paper in his palm. It had become extremely thin and faint, as if it would disappear at any moment.
He stored it deep within his consciousness, then raised his hand and aimed it at the expanding black circle.
The power of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Law poured out from his palm, carrying the lingering aura of the sealing pattern, and flooded into the passage like a tide.
The black circle trembled violently, and its dark purple tentacles twisted wildly within the power of the laws, emitting a silent hiss.
But they couldn't stop it. The passage began to narrow, its edges tightening inch by inch, forcing the dark purple aura back to the other end.
He stood in front of the cell, watching the black circle slowly shrinking.
Although the passage had been forced back by his laws, it was not completely sealed off.
The dark purple aura was still struggling on the edge. Although most of the tentacles had retreated, a few still clung tightly to the inner wall of the passage, refusing to let go.
But deeper inside, a presence was rapidly approaching.
It rushed in from the other side of the Demon Realm, moving at an extremely fast speed and exuding an extremely strong aura. It was carrying a monstrous demonic energy and killing intent, and it crashed straight into this world.
Chen Du narrowed his eyes, raised his right hand, and the dark blue runes on the Tenth Tier sword surged, the cold light on the blade reflecting on his handsome face.
He poured the power of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Law, the lingering resonance of the sealing pattern, and the power of the seventh level of Soul Devouring's Wrath into the sword at the same time.
On the sword's edge, darkness and dark gold intertwine, and Eternal Night merges with the sealed prison.
He slashed out with his sword.
Soul Devouring's Wrath, Level 7, Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial.
Sword light erupted from the cell, like an Eternal Night river of night stretching across the heavens and earth, pouring straight into the black circle.
The powerful Demon Realm from the other end of the passage rushed to the entrance and collided head-on with the sword light.
The two forces collided violently in the passage, causing the entire seventeenth floor to tremble violently. The array patterns on the stone walls lit up and then shattered, and the phosphorescent flames in the corridor went out and then reignited simultaneously.
A visible shockwave exploded in the air, bending and deforming the iron bars of the cell and sending rubble flying several meters into the air.
The powerful Demon Realm was tall and imposing, covered in dark purple scales, with two horns on its head and eyes like copper bells.
He had barely poked half his body out of the passage when he was struck in the face by the sword light.
His aura surged to the Middle Stage the Eleventh Realm in that instant, but the passage itself suppressed his power, and he could only unleash less than ten percent of it.
Chen Du's sword light contained the essence of the suppressive power of the Divine Prison, something he had just gleaned from that piece of paper, specifically designed to counter the power of the Demon Realm.
The sword light struck the scales, shattering them inch by inch.
The powerful Demon Realm let out a deafening roar, crossed his arms in front of him, and dark purple demonic energy surged out wildly, condensing into a thick shield in front of him.