Years of Arduous Cultivation, All for This Day: At Last, Mastery of the Divine Prison Law
Time flies, and another thirty years have passed.
Everything in the Divine Prison remained the same; phosphorescent flames burned eerily, the array patterns on the stone walls flowed slowly, and occasionally, a few low growls from prisoners echoed from the depths of the corridor.
Chen Du still maintained his disguise as an old prison guard, while Zhao Heng, who was by his side, had grown from a thin boy into a calm and reserved middle-aged man.
He changed his surname to Lin Heng and worked as a jailer in the Divine Prison for thirty years. He was a man of few words but steady in his work, and the younger jailers all called him "Uncle Lin".
No one knows his true identity. He doesn't mention it either.
For the past thirty years, Chen Du's cultivation has never stopped.
[Become a Saint on the Spot] and [The World as a Book] relentlessly extract the Dao Resonance from every inch of the Divine Prison's stone walls, transforming it into cultivation techniques and insights.
[Heaven's Way's Gift] As he executed more and more prisoners over the years, White Qi and Black Qi accumulated continuously, transforming into various cultivation resources.
[Divine Revelation Reading] has always been his sharpest blade, dissecting, verifying, and integrating the threads of each law one by one.
Until this day, as he sat in the side cave on the eighth floor, closing his eyes to deduce, he suddenly felt that the law that had been dormant for too long in the depths of his consciousness had finally loosened.
[Using Divine Revelation Reading as a guide, you meticulously examined the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Law from the beginning. You had previously grasped the basics of this mid-level core ninth-grade law, but hadn't even entered the first realm. Thirty years of accumulation, fueled by tens of millions of years of White Qi, and based on your Eleventh Realm Martial Law Master Realm, you worked day and night, finally fully comprehending the Law's essence.]
[The First Domain of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth. Eternal Night descends, annihilating all things. Within this domain, the enemy's laws, soul, and body are all buried in the Eternal Night, with no way to escape.]
[You then deduced the Wrath of Heaven Law. You have cultivated this Lower First-Level Law to the first realm, accumulating knowledge over thirty years, and with a broad understanding, you used the first realm of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as a reference to reflect on the Wrath of Heaven.]
[You are most deeply immersed in the Way of Wrath, Wrath of Heaven Law continues to ascend from the first level, to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth levels.]
[The Wrath of Heaven Law, Ninth-Level Domain: Under Heaven's wrath, all things are burned; in a single act of wrath, heavenly fire descends upon the world, incinerating all laws.]
[Continue to deduce the Wrath Devouring Law. You cultivated this Lower Second-Level Law to the Ninth-Level Domain in your early years, and now, with this re-verification, it has become even more refined. The Wrath Devouring Law, Ninth-Level Domain perfected.]
Chen Du slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.
Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth, Level One
The Wrath of Heaven is ninefold.
Ninefold Wrath Devouring.
He looked down at his hands, where the power of laws flowed like silk threads in his palms.
Chen Du sat in the side cave on the eighth floor, simultaneously activating the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Domain, the Ninth-Level Domain the Wrath of Heaven Domain, and the ninth level of the Wrath Devouring Ninth-Level Domain in his sea of consciousness.
The power of the three laws surged, collided, and merged within his body, like three great rivers flowing into the same ocean.
He closed his eyes and activated [Divine Revelation Reading] at full power, fusing the threads of these three laws one by one.
[Using the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as its core, the Ninth-Level Domain of the Wrath of Heaven Domain as its guide, and the ninth level of the Wrath Devouring Ninth-Level Domain as its framework, you have re-evaluated the Soul Devouring's Wrath.]
[The power of eternal Eternal Night, capable of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth and earth, and the intent of Wrath of Heaven, capable of burning the heavens, collided violently in your sea of consciousness. Eternal Night seeks to annihilate everything, while heavenly wrath seeks to incinerate all things. They are of the same origin, both seeking destruction, both seeking end. Yet, between annihilation and incineration, there exists an extremely fine chasm. You, through Divine Revelation Reading, perceive that chasm and embed both powers within it.]
[You use Wrath Devouring as a bridge. Wrath devours everything, merging Annihilation and Incineration into one. The first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth forms the skeleton, the Nine Levels of Wrath of Heaven the flesh and blood, and the Nine Levels of Wrath Devouring the meridians. When the three are combined, the eighth level of Soul Devouring's Wrath takes shape.]
[Eighth Floor... Soul Devouring's Wrath - Rage-Burial of the Firmament.]
Chen Du slowly opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting a bottomless darkness.
In that darkness, firelight flickered, anger surged, and Eternal Night spread.
He raised his right hand, forming a sword shape with his fingers, and gently slashed at the stone wall deep inside the cave. There was no sword light, no shockwave, but a very thin mark appeared on the stone wall.
The mark seeped from the surface of the stone wall into its interior, running downwards, through the entire stone wall, through the rock behind it, and extending deep into the earth.
All the rocks touched by that mark lost their color.
Gray, brown, black—all colors were swallowed up, leaving only a pure, deathly nothingness.
[Rage-Burial of the Firmament... Using rage to unleash the power of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth and destruction, annihilation and incineration merge into one. With a single sword strike, those at the Middle Stage of the Eleventh Realm and below have their souls, bodies, laws, and space all buried in Eternal Night. Those below the ninth-grade laws at the mid-core level crumble upon contact. Its power is ten times that of the seventh level.]
Chen Du withdrew his hand and exhaled a breath of stale air. He looked down at his fingers, where a faint trace of dark color remained at the fingertips... Rage-Burial of the Firmament.
He used the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth as the core, the nine levels of Wrath of Heaven as the guide, and the nine levels of Wrath Devouring as the bone, pushing the Soul Devouring's Wrath to an unprecedented height.
Those at or below the Middle Stage of the Eleventh Realm can be annihilated with a single sword strike.
He stood up and stretched his shoulders and neck.
He had been in the Divine Prison for far too long, so long that he knew every inch of the prison's stone walls, every array pattern, and every flow of suppressing power like the back of his hand.
He could even feel the "breathing" of the Divine Prison itself. It was like a living entity, slowly pulsating over tens of thousands of years. Each pulsation pushed the suppressive force to each layer, maintaining the balance of the entire prison.
This insight was something he honed little by little over hundreds of years.
Then he removed the severed arm.
The right arm of a powerful cultivator at the Eleventh Realm of the Demon Realm. Dark purple scales, thick bones, and the remnants of the Mara Law still linger at the severed end.
He gripped the severed arm, channeling the power of the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth into it, crushing, stripping away, and devouring the remaining Mara Laws and Demon Realm aura.
The severed arm turned to dust in the palm of his hand, and the dark purple fragments of light dissipated in the side cave. Deep within his sea of consciousness, White Qi surged in like a tide, lasting for millions of years.
It was rich, heavy, and carried the decaying and corrosive aura unique to the Demon Realm.
He roughly calculated that, including previous accumulations, the total amount of White Qi had exceeded 20 million years.
Without hesitation, he sent all twenty million years of White Qi into the [Heaven's Way's Gift].
His talent suddenly surged, a surge far more intense than ever before.
A moment later, a dark golden light appeared deep within his consciousness.
That light was unlike any reward he had ever received before. It was not a wisp of insight, not a bottle of pills, not a divine weapon. It was a complete law, its entire body flowing with ancient sealing patterns, like a miniature Divine Prison floating in his sea of consciousness.
The name of this law is [Divine Prison].
The accompanying insights spanned a full 100,000 years.
The paths trodden by ten unknown predecessors on the Divine Prison Law, every step of their enlightenment, every breakthrough, and every obstacle they overcame and then reopened, are all contained within this light.