Divine Prison
I'm Already the Strongest in the Starry Sky, and Spiritual Energy Is Only Now Returning?
- Original Name:
- 神狱 (shén yù)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Place
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 374
- Chapters:
- 49
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 282
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Divine Prison (神狱) |
| Location | Originally underground in the Divine Prison Realm; later taken to Blue Star 182 184 |
| Affiliation | Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty and Divine Prison Bureau; later independent under Chen Du 171 183 |
| Purpose | Suppressing the Demon Realm passage and holding prisoners 170 183 |
| Structure | Eighteen levels 143 |
| Status | Under Chen Du’s control; removed from the Divine Prison Realm 183 184 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 142 |
Background
The Divine Prison predates the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty. According to a prisoner held in its depths, it was originally a barrier between the Demon Realm and the mortal world; prisoners were placed inside later 151 170.
The dynasty used it to hold serious criminals, including fiends captured from other small worlds. It also confined people caught in political purges or sentenced under false accusations 142 146 158.
Layout
The prison was a vast gray-black structure beneath the ground. Its dark, damp corridors had rusted iron bars, dim oil lamps and stone walls marked by formations 142 182.
| Level | Notable features |
|---|---|
| First | Vast enough to resemble an underground city, with intersecting corridors, large cells and an old execution ground. Its prisoners included Sixth- and Seventh-Realm beings, as well as a Ninth-Realm prisoner 143 146 148. |
| Second | Held stronger prisoners behind thicker bars and talisman chains. Its suppressive force and Dao resonance were greater than those on the first level 149. |
| Third | Held Tenth-Realm prisoners, including Tu Wanshan. An abandoned cavern contained an old formation foundation 149 151. |
| Fourth and fifth | Divine Prison Bureau wardens oversaw the prison areas and executions from the fourth level downward. The fifth level held Tenth-Realm prisoners 154 156. |
| Tenth and below | Bureau veterans regarded the tenth level as a dividing line, with the prison’s true core lying below it 163. |
| Thirteenth | Held legendary prisoners; Cang Xuan was later confined here for a hundred years 179 180 183. |
| Fourteenth | Site of the Divine Prison Bureau’s headquarters 171. |
| Sixteenth | Held at least three prisoners with Eleventh-Realm auras 180. |
| Eighteenth | The deepest level, where Demon Heaven God’s true body was imprisoned for tens of thousands of years 163 166. |
Defenses and Hazards
- Suppressive formations — Formations and chains restrained prisoners even when conventional locks were unnecessary. Suppression grew heavier on deeper levels 143 148 151 163.
- Controlled access — The entrance had three layers of formations requiring Divine Prison Bureau tokens. A deacon’s token was needed to open the formation at the entrance to the second level 144 159.
- Execution blade — The Divine Prison Blade devoured the souls of those executed with it, leaving them no chance at reincarnation 145.
- Baleful influence — Prisoners’ lingering auras could drive careless jailers mad or kill them. Decades of exposure to the prison’s suppressive force and baleful qi also wore down its staff 143 144 152 161.
- Demon Realm seals — The prison suppressed a passage beneath its deepest level. Its formations weakened over time, eventually allowing fiends to breach the lower levels 171 174 183.
Dao Resonance
Power left by prisoners, formations and guards accumulated in the prison’s walls, bars and chains. Chen Du used Become a Saint on the Spot and The World as a Book to turn this Dao resonance into cultivation techniques 143.
| Site | Technique obtained | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| First-level old execution ground | Xingtian Prison-Suppressing Art | Ninth 146 |
| First-level abandoned formation | Nine Serenities Prison-Cage Scripture | Ninth 146 |
| Third-level abandoned cavern | Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Scripture | Tenth 151 |
| Fifth-level stone wall | Supreme Void Netherworld Prison Calamity Light Scripture | Contains a Lower First-Level Law 156 |
| Below the twelfth level | Heavenly Net Divine Prison Demon Body; Indestructible Prison-Suppressing Golden Body | Eleventh 170 |
Notable People
- Chen Du / Qin Dong — Chen Du’s clone entered the body of the newly appointed jailer Qin Dong. He spent centuries cultivating in secret, eventually gaining control of the prison 142 182.
- Old Zhou — A veteran jailer who guided Chen Du through the prison and warned him of its dangers. He was buried on a slope behind it 143 153.
- Gu Changqing — A Ninth-Realm physician imprisoned for treating an exiled official. Chen Du later released him 147 167.
- Tu Wanshan — A Tenth-Realm prisoner sentenced to death for slaughtering three cities; Chen Du executed him on the third level 149.
- Demon Heaven God — An imprisoned fiend whose true body was held on the eighteenth level. An avatar attempted to use a possessed bureau commander to free him 163 166.
- Zhao Heng / Lin Heng — Zhao Zheng’s son, who joined Chen Du as a jailer under his mother’s surname 178.
- Cang Xuan — The imperial preceptor sent to confront the prison’s hidden protector. Chen Du confined him on the thirteenth level for a hundred years 178 180 183.
History
Chen Du’s arrival
Chen Du’s second clone entered the Divine Prison Realm and awakened in Qin Dong’s body. Guided by Old Zhou, he patrolled the first level while secretly using the prison’s accumulated Dao resonance and execution rewards to cultivate 142 143 147.
The prison held both brutal criminals and people condemned unjustly. Chen Du learned of Shen Xing, a framed general who had been executed, and made a grave for him within the prison. He later released Gu Changqing and other wronged prisoners; an investigation found that more than ten thousand people had apparently escaped over several decades 146 167 168.
Infiltrations and breaches
The Demon Spirit Sect planted Li Han in the Divine Prison Bureau to map the prison for a rescue attempt. In a separate attack, disguised prisoners detonated themselves at the entrance, disrupting its suppression and letting a Tenth-Realm demonic cultivator inside. Chen Du secretly killed the intruder before the attack could spread 155 159.
Demon Heaven God later assimilated chief commander Pei Xuandu and stole the eighteenth-level key. His escaping avatar reached the Demon Spirit Sect, but Chen Du followed it and killed it along with the sect master and three elders. The true body remained sealed 163 165 166.
When seals on the fifteenth through seventeenth levels failed, fiends overwhelmed the bureau’s defenders. Chen Du drove back an Eleventh-Realm Demon Realm expert, sealed the passage and restored the weakened formations 171 174.
Chen Du’s control and departure
After mastering the Divine Prison Law, Chen Du synchronized it with the structure and raised the entire prison from underground. He judged the prisoners individually, executing some, stripping others of cultivation and expelling them, and confining another on the eighteenth level 182.
Chen Du used the prison’s formations with his laws to seal the Demon Realm passage. He then declared the Divine Prison independent of the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty and departed with both the prison and the Heavenly Dao. On returning to Mount Tai, he stored the miniaturized prison in his sea of consciousness 183 184.
Above Blue Star
Chen Du later used the Divine Prison against extraterrestrial fleets threatening Blue Star. It seized thirteen starships, separated their warriors into cells and suppressed their laws, souls and bodies. All captured Ninth-Tier warriors and Tenth-Tier leaders died within seven days; veteran fiends remained confined in the deeper levels 186.