Recaps

Chen Du learned of Prince Duan Zhao Xuan’s crimes and the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s corruption, then secretly cultivated on the Divine Prison’s third level. There, he obtained a Tenth-Tier technique containing a Lower First-Level Law and looked toward exploring deeper levels.

• Chen Du heard that Prince Duan Zhao Xuan had plotted rebellion but was given luxurious quarters and would likely be released, and he memorized the prince’s cell location.
• Old Zhou told Chen Du that Chancellor Wei Changgeng dominated the court, sold offices, and diverted relief and construction funds while silencing those who opposed him.
• Chen Du tested Soul Devouring’s Wrath during a night patrol, and Old Zhou later entrusted him with the keys to the Divine Prison’s third level.
• Chen Du went alone to an abandoned cavern on the third level and used Become a Saint on the Spot and The World as a Book to condense a new technique.
• Chen Du obtained the Tenth-Tier Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Scripture, which fused six Lower Second-Level Laws into a Lower First-Level Law.

Over decades in the Divine Prison, Chen Du accumulated nearly 300,000 years of Qi, took on more of Old Zhou’s duties, and secretly freed Gu Changqing instead of executing him. The chapter ended with Old Zhou dying after a long decline.

• Chen Du spent three years executing prisoners and accumulated approximately 290,000 years of White Qi and 8,900 years of Black Qi.
• Old Zhou grew frail and handed Chen Du the keys to more areas of the third level.
• When Gu Changqing’s execution order arrived, Chen Du knocked him unconscious, smuggled him out of the Divine Prison, and sent him south with supplies and money.
• Gu Changqing thanked Chen Du, who gained six hundred years of White Qi for sparing him.
• Thirty years later, Chen Du found Old Zhou dead and covered him with a blanket, placing his tobacco pipe beside him.

After decades as a jailer in the Divine Prison, Chen Du combined ten-thousand-year law insights with a Tenth Tier divine sword and broke through to the Tenth Realm. He returned to his patrol, ready to face the stronger prisoners deeper in the eighteen-level prison.

• Chen Du and the other jailers buried Old Zhou on a sunny slope behind the Divine Prison.
• After accumulating execution rewards over thirty years, Chen Du used Heaven's Way's Gift to gain ten-thousand-year law insights and a Tenth Tier divine sword.
• Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to merge six laws into the Lower First-Level Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Law and reach the First Martial Law Realm.
• Chen Du's breakthrough aura briefly alarmed a fourth-level guardian, who could not trace its source and assumed a senior had advanced.
• Chen Du returned to Old Zhou's stone house, reflected on the talents that had enabled his breakthrough, and set out to patrol toward the deeper levels.

Chen Du took charge of the fourth and fifth prison levels, where he secretly assessed the powerful prisoners and Divine Prison Bureau wardens. When Demon Spirit Sect spy Li Han tried to seize his soul, Chen Du’s overwhelming power shattered the technique and left Li Han gravely injured.

• Chen Du volunteered to transfer to the fourth and fifth levels, then led two frightened young jailers into the gloomy fourth level and surveyed its tenth-realm prisoners.
• Chen Du worked quietly on the lower levels while secretly monitoring the wardens, and he noticed Li Han watching him suspiciously.
• Li Han, a Demon Spirit Sect spy, decided to turn Chen Du into a puppet to gain eyes in the prison’s upper levels.
• Li Han followed Chen Du on the stone steps and attacked him with the Soul-Seizing Secret Art.
• Chen Du’s power destroyed Li Han’s soul technique, and Li Han collapsed with severe soul damage as Chen Du turned to face him.

Chen Du learned that the Demon Spirit Sect had infiltrated the Divine Prison Bureau to rescue prisoners held in its depths, then left the prison as bait for the forces watching him. When more than a dozen attackers struck, an unseen power erased them, leaving the Ninth Realm commander to fear that he had unleashed someone extraordinary.

• Chen Du secretly crushed Li Han’s soul with law suppression, and the Ninth Realm commander arrested the babbling spy without discovering who had harmed him.
• The interrogation revealed that Li Han had mapped the Divine Prison for the Demon Spirit Sect, which planned to free followers of demonic path figures imprisoned deep inside.
• Chen Du considered the danger posed by the many forces interested in the prison and obtained leave to visit his family.
• The Divine Prison Bureau’s Ninth Realm commander followed Chen Du, using him as bait while other forces trailed him from the woods, rocks, and road.
• More than a dozen demonic path, demonic beast, and other cultivators attacked Chen Du, but a terrifying pressure ground them to dust.
• The commander found Chen Du unconscious and the attackers’ remains gone, then feared the unknown power behind the attack.

After executing Helian Feng, Chen Du learned the Calamity Light law and developed Soul Devouring's Wrath into its third layer, then spent twenty years cultivating in the Divine Prison. The chapter ends as he begins working through the law of anger.

• Chen Du executed Helian Feng, a Tenth Realm prisoner who had once led the Helian Family and fought the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty.
• Chen Du used the fifth layer's accumulated Dao resonance to create the Supreme Void Netherworld Prison Calamity Light Scripture and began comprehending its Calamity Light law.
• Chen Du combined his laws to develop Soul Devouring's Wrath into its second layer, Heaven-Splitting, and then its third layer, Return to the Void.
• Over the next twenty years, Chen Du continued patrolling, executing prisoners, supervising young jailers, and cultivating, accumulating more than three million white qi and over a hundred thousand black qi.
• Chen Du began working through the law of anger.

Chen Du advanced his laws and perfected the fourth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath before learning that Wei Changgeng had seized power in the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty and begun purging his enemies. As the Divine Prison's jailers discussed the killings, Chen Du returned to studying the Law of Calamity Light, preparing for the chaos he expected to come.

• Chen Du raised the Law of Anger to the ninth-level domain, cultivated the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law to the first-level domain, and deduced Soul Devouring's Wrath to its fourth layer, Divine Fall.
• Chen Du continued studying the Law of Calamity Light and advanced it to the first-level domain several months later.
• Chen Du read a court bulletin reporting that Wei Changgeng had killed Emperor Zhao Long, enthroned eight-year-old Zhao Huan, and purged members of the Zhao Clan in the Capital.
• Divine Prison jailers discussed Wei Changgeng's executions and the safety of their workplace, while Chen Du listened and remembered the victims.
• Chen Du returned to his stone room and continued studying the Law of Calamity Light so he would be better prepared for the coming chaos.

The Divine Prison filled with officials and military officers accused in Wei Changgeng’s purges, including Prince Duan Zhao Xuan, whom Chen Du treated as an ordinary prisoner. When nearly a hundred more prisoners arrived, Chen Du noticed that several lacked Suppression Marks and wore fake shackles.

• Officials and officers accused in the Shen Du treason case were crowded into the Divine Prison, where some protested their innocence.
• Imperial guards brought Prince Duan Zhao Xuan into the prison, and he recognized Chen Du and demanded to be released.
• Chen Du reminded Zhao Xuan that he was only a prisoner now, then left him to curse behind the bars.
• Days later, nearly a hundred prisoners arrived at once, and Chen Du used his Spiritual Power to inspect them.
• Chen Du spotted seven or eight prisoners without Suppression Marks whose shackles were made of ordinary refined iron.

Chen Du stopped a demonic cultivator from exploiting a breach in the Divine Prison and killing the jailers. After the commander sealed the entrance, Chen Du secretly gained thirty thousand years of white qi.

• Chen Du recognized that several prisoners had disguised themselves and suspected they had infiltrated the Divine Prison.
• Three prisoners self-detonated at the entrance, disrupting the prison’s suppressive power and allowing a Late Stage Tenth Realm demonic cultivator to charge inside.
• The demonic cultivator began attacking cells while Chen Du realized the intruder’s plan could trigger a chain reaction across the prison’s floors.
• Chen Du used Soul Devouring's Wrath, fourth layer, to destroy the demonic cultivator before he could continue his rampage.
• The commander found the intruder reduced to bloody mist, ordered the entrance sealed, and began checking everyone again.
• Chen Du helped clean the corridor and secretly received thirty thousand years of white qi.

Chen Du used ten thousand years of insights to advance his laws and Soul Devouring's Wrath, then spent decades cultivating in the Divine Prison while concealing his strength. After Wei Changgeng fell and Zhao Zheng seized the throne, political purges filled the prison with new inmates, giving Chen Du another hunting ground as he approached the Eleventh Realm.

• Chen Du absorbed insights into the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law and the Calamity Light Law, reaching the sixth and fourth levels and creating the first-level Wrath Devouring Law.
• Chen Du combined four laws into the fifth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath, powerful enough to shatter the body, soul, and laws of a Tenth Realm Peak Stage opponent.
• Over nearly a hundred years, Chen Du secretly reached the Tenth Realm Peak Stage, killed Zhao Xuan by poisoning his meals, and earned access to the Divine Prison's eighth floor.
• Jing Prince Zhao Zheng marched south, Wei Changgeng's forces collapsed, and Wei Changgeng died by poisoned wine after being surrounded in his residence.
• Zhao Zheng took control of the Capital, purged Wei Changgeng's followers, and moved against the vassal rulers, plunging the realm into chaos.
• The Divine Prison filled with Wei Changgeng's former subordinates and other officials, while Chen Du continued his work and looked toward the Eleventh Realm.

After entering the Divine Prison Bureau’s eighth level, Chen Du gained five laws that completed a connected system with his earlier laws. Over the next fifty years, he amassed enormous stores of karmic luck and reached the Peak Stage of the Tenth Realm, leaving him just short of the Eleventh Realm.

• Chen Du passed newly imprisoned former followers of Wei Changgeng, who protested that they had been jailed unjustly by the Jing Prince.
• Chen Du entered the eighth level for the first time and used its rich Dao resonance to obtain five lower-class first-grade laws.
• Chen Du realized the five new laws connected with his previous laws to form a complete system.
• Over fifty years, Chen Du executed tens of thousands of prisoners and accumulated more than ten million years of white qi and over a million years of black qi.
• Chen Du cultivated on the eighth level until he reached the Peak Stage of the Tenth Realm, one step from the Eleventh Realm.

Chen Du used the white and black qi to gain seven vast stores of law comprehension, complete all nine lower first-level laws, and fuse them into the medium core level nine law Prison Devouring Heaven-Burial. He broke through to the Eleventh Realm, drawing the capital’s attention, but concealed his identity and remained an unassuming jailer in the Divine Prison.

• Chen Du invested ten million years of white qi and a million years of black qi in [Heaven's Way's Gift] and received seven balls of law comprehension, each containing more than twenty thousand years of insight.
• Chen Du used [Divine Revelation Reading] to raise the seven laws to the ninth-level domain within a year.
• Chen Du fused all nine lower first-level laws into Prison Devouring Heaven-Burial and broke through to the Eleventh Realm, the Martial Arts Master Realm.
• The lingering force from Chen Du’s breakthrough darkened the capital’s sky, alerting Zhao Zheng and powerful figures across the city to the emergence of an Eleventh Realm expert.
• Zhao Zheng ordered an investigation, and factions searched the capital for three days but failed to trace the aura.
• Chen Du sealed his aura inside the Divine Prison and resumed his role as an old jailer, unnoticed by those searching for him.

Chen Du secretly followed the new chief commander, Pei Xuandu, into the Divine Prison’s deepest levels. Months later, the Demon Heaven God revealed that he had possessed Pei Xuandu and stolen an ancient key, then began descending toward the eighteenth level to escape.

• Chen Du noticed that Pei Xuandu’s Tenth Realm aura felt unusually cold and secretly followed him into the eleventh level.
• Pei Xuandu settled into his post and repeatedly visited the key vault under the pretext of checking its defenses.
• Pei Xuandu replaced the eighteenth-level key with a fake and waited several months before acting.
• The Demon Heaven God revealed that he had eroded and assimilated Pei Xuandu, using the chief commander’s authority to steal the key.
• The Demon Heaven God descended past the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth levels, heading toward his prison on the eighteenth.

Pei Xuandu, Demon Heaven God’s clone, tried to break the seals on the Divine Prison’s eighteenth floor, but Chen Du revealed his eleventh-realm strength and killed him while devouring the black qi in his body. The surviving clone escaped as a wisp of mist, terrified by the jailer it had never detected.

• Pei Xuandu reached the eighteenth floor and began examining the weakened seals on the ancient stone cell.
• Chen Du confronted Pei Xuandu and revealed that he was an eleventh-realm expert.
• Chen Du suppressed Pei Xuandu’s laws and devoured the black qi from his body, leaving him dead.
• The Demon Heaven Illusion Transformation clone emerged from Pei Xuandu’s corpse and fled through cracks and shadows in the Divine Prison.
• The clone realized that Chen Du’s hidden strength matched Demon Heaven God’s true body and continued escaping in fear.

The escaped avatar of Demon Heaven God returned to the Demon Spirit Sect, unaware that Chen Du had followed it and trapped it along with the sect’s leaders. Chen Du destroyed the avatar, the sect master, and the three elders, then returned to his stone house with their accumulated black qi.

• The dark red avatar escaped the Divine Prison and fled for a month to the Demon Spirit Sect, where it met the sect master and three elders.
• The avatar confronted the four, but they saw Chen Du standing behind it and warned that he had trapped it in a cage of light.
• Chen Du revealed the cage and imprisoned the avatar, the sect master, and the three elders together in a tiny cage, transporting them back to the Divine Prison.
• Chen Du shattered the cage and used the Devouring Annihilation Burial Heaven Law to erase all five captives.
• Chen Du absorbed the avatar’s accumulated black qi and walked back toward his stone house.

A Demon Heaven clone vanished while trying to free Demon Heaven God, leaving the Divine Prison Bureau baffled about what stopped it. Outside, Zhao Zheng stabilized the dynasty as regent, and Chen Du learned that Gu Changqing had been executed after leading a rebellion.

• A gaunt old man learned that the Demon Spirit Sect’s communication token and its Demon Heaven clone had been destroyed, and decided to avoid the Divine Prison.
• The Divine Prison Bureau’s commanders discovered that Pei Xuandu had been assimilated by Demon Heaven God and vanished before breaking the eighteenth-floor seal.
• Zhao Zheng supported the young emperor as prince regent, purged Wei Changgeng’s followers, and suppressed rebellions across the dynasty.
• A young jailer told Chen Du that Gu Changqing had led a southern uprising and been executed, and Chen Du quietly asked the rebel’s name.

Chen Du reflected on the prisoners he had secretly released and created the sixth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath, Eternal Night Sky-Burial. After Zhao Zheng discovered that more than ten thousand prisoners had escaped the Divine Prison, he led guards there to uncover the truth and restore the law.

• Chen Du remembered the prisoners he had released and accepted that he could offer them a chance to choose, but could not control their lives afterward.
• Chen Du combined Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth with other laws to create Soul Devouring's Wrath: Eternal Night Sky-Burial, a killing move that could destroy opponents at the early eleventh realm and below.
• Zhao Zheng learned that more than ten thousand prisoners, many of whom had claimed to be wrongfully imprisoned, had escaped the Divine Prison over several decades.
• Zhao Zheng told the court he would root out whoever was releasing prisoners and, after reviewing the case files, concluded that the pattern amounted to defiance of the Divine Dynasty.
• Zhao Zheng set out for the Divine Prison with three hundred personal guards to investigate and confront the person responsible.

Chen Du revealed himself as an eleventh-stage powerhouse to Prince Regent Zhao Zheng, who had come to investigate the Divine Prison’s released prisoners. Zhao Zheng left without pursuing him, carrying Chen Du’s promise that his descendants could seek refuge if his family was destroyed.

• Zhao Zheng searched the Divine Prison and entered its secret chamber alone, where Chen Du admitted he had released the wronged prisoners.
• Chen Du shed his old-jailer disguise and revealed the pressure of his eleventh-stage cultivation, forcing Zhao Zheng to his knees.
• Zhao Zheng insisted that he would uphold the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s laws and would not usurp the throne, even if the emperor later moved against him.
• Chen Du warned Zhao Zheng of the danger ahead and told him his direct descendants could come to the Divine Prison if his family faced execution.
• Zhao Zheng thanked Chen Du, left the Divine Prison, and concealed his discovery from the people waiting outside.
• Chen Du returned to his secluded room and reflected that he had promised Zhao Zheng a way out because the prince regent’s fear resembled that of the wronged prisoners.

Over ten years, Chen Du cultivated in secret, advanced his Law of Anger into the Wrath of Heaven Law, and watched Zhao Zheng tighten his control over the court and turn the Divine Prison into a comfortable stop for his men. The chapter ended with one of Zhao Zheng’s prisoners assaulting Chen Du over his meal, while Chen Du endured the abuse without revealing his strength.

• Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to raise his Law of Anger beyond the ninth Domain and grasp the first Domain of the Wrath of Heaven Law, while continuing to study Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth.
• Zhao Zheng gained control over much of the court, and his men were routinely released from the Divine Prison after brief stays in well-appointed cells.
• Chen Du continued carrying out executions and distinguishing unjustly condemned prisoners from the guilty by the qi he gained.
• Chen Du brought a meal to a special cell, where a burly prisoner rejected the fish and hurled the food box at him.
• The prisoner grabbed and slapped Chen Du, then ordered him to bring a new meal as Chen Du apologized and did not fight back.

Chen Du reached the Divine Prison’s eighteenth level and discovered two powerful cultivation manuals, while a prisoner on the seventeenth level opened a small passage to the Demon Realm. The prisoner began drawing in its power as he waited for the passage to widen.

• Chen Du ignored Zhao’s lackey after being struck and returned to studying Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth.
• On the eighteenth level, Chen Du used his abilities to form the Heavenly Net Divine Prison Demon Body and Indestructible Prison-Suppressing Golden Body manuals.
• After several months, a long-imprisoned man on the seventeenth level continued eroding the Divine Prison’s seals with his Demon Luo Eroding Heaven Law.
• The man opened a small black passage to the Demon Realm and confirmed its power could resist the Divine Prison’s suppression.
• He began drawing the Demon Realm’s aura into himself while waiting for the passage to grow.

The Divine Prison Bureau’s chief and his Tenth Realm guards failed to stop a peerless fiend from breaking through the prison’s seals and advancing toward the human world. As the fiends reached the steps to the thirteenth level, an old jailer appeared and ordered them to go back.

• The Divine Prison chief discovered that seals on the fifteenth through seventeenth levels had failed and ordered the guards to retreat and activate the final sealing formation.
• The peerless fiend surged up from the seventeenth level, using Demon Realm aura to destroy the Divine Prison Bureau’s formation and overpower its defenders.
• The chief and his eight Tenth Realm high-ranking members tried to hold the fiends back, but the formation shattered and the defenders were badly injured.
• The fiends advanced toward the thirteenth level as the youngest surviving guard shouted for them to stop before losing consciousness.
• An old jailer appeared on the stone steps and quietly told the fiends to go back.

Chen Du revealed his true strength as an Eleventh Realm Martial Arts Master and killed Yuan Ming and the fiends who attacked the Divine Prison Bureau. After learning of Yuan Ming’s atrocities, Chen Du gained more than six million years’ worth of white qi, while the surviving fiends fled back to their cells.

• The Eleventh Realm fiend mocked Old Zhou and attacked him with the Demon Luo Eroding Heaven Law.
• Old Zhou transformed into Chen Du, whose Eleventh Realm aura overwhelmed the fiends.
• Chen Du used Soul Devouring's Wrath Sixth Layer to destroy the fiends charging at the front and badly wound the Eleventh Realm fiend.
• Chen Du identified himself as an old jailer, then killed the fiend when it tried to surrender.
• Chen Du learned that the fiend’s real name was Yuan Ming and saw the crimes he had committed across the human world and Demon Realm.
• Chen Du gained more than six million in white qi, and the surviving fiends returned to their cells and locked themselves in.

Chen Du discovered the Divine Prison's ancient sealing pattern and used it to advance Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth into Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial. He drove back the Demon Realm passage and struck an approaching expert, but the battle's outcome remained unresolved.

• Chen Du found the Demon Realm passage on the seventeenth level expanding as powerful beings tried to force their way through.
• The World as a Book and Become a Saint on the Spot revealed a scrap bearing the Divine Prison's original sealing pattern.
• Chen Du studied the pattern and comprehended Soul Devouring's Wrath's seventh layer, Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial.
• Chen Du used the new technique to shrink the passage, but an eleventh-realm Demon Realm expert rushed toward its entrance.
• Chen Du struck the expert with Prison-Sealing Heaven-Burial, and the demon raised a shield as the sword light shattered its scales.

Chen Du severed an Eleventh Realm Demon Realm expert’s arm, sealed the passage, and repaired Divine Prison’s weakened formations. When the bureau chief awoke, he discovered the prison restored and began to suspect someone inside had defeated the fiends.

• Chen Du pursued the Demon Realm expert into the passage, severed his arm, and drove him into the darkness.
• Chen Du sealed the Demon Realm passage and stored the severed arm to study its Mara Law and Demon Realm aura.
• Chen Du realized Divine Prison’s suppressive power was weakening and used the sealing pattern’s essence to restore the formations from the fourteenth to the seventeenth levels.
• The bureau chief and the other Tenth Realm senior members awoke and found the formations repaired, the passage sealed, and the fiends cowering in their cells.
• The bureau chief questioned the fiends, but they refused to speak, and he recalled seeing a figure before he lost consciousness.

Chen Du left the Divine Prison to investigate the rumors accusing Zhao Zheng of plotting rebellion and found him drinking alone in the Regent's Residence. Zhao Zheng admitted he could seize the throne but remained conflicted about betraying the imperial family.

• Rumors that Zhao Zheng planned to usurp the throne spread across the Capital and the borders, but his agents could not trace their source.
• Chen Du recognized the rumors as a tactic like the one Wei Changgeng had used against Shen Xing and suspected something had happened to Zhao Zheng.
• Chen Du secretly entered the palace and found Zhao Zheng drinking alone in a side hall.
• Zhao Zheng recognized Chen Du and asked whether he had come to laugh at him.
• Zhao Zheng said the young emperor and several ministers were secretly working against him, and he could arrest them and depose the emperor before dawn.
• Zhao Zheng questioned whether he should seize the throne, fearing that later generations would judge him like Wei Changgeng.