Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhao Zheng realized the young emperor feared the power he held and considered sacrificing himself to resolve their conflict, but Chen Du warned that his death would leave his family vulnerable. The next day, Zhao Zheng met privately with the emperor, then sent his wife and children away.

• Zhao Zheng lamented his loyalty to the dynasty, and Chen Du explained that the emperor feared him because he had the power to rebel.
• Zhao Zheng decided his death could restore stability, but Chen Du warned that the emperor and Zhao Zheng's enemies might endanger his family afterward.
• Zhao Zheng listened without revealing whether Chen Du had changed his mind, and Chen Du left him to consider the warning.
• The next day, Zhao Zheng entered the palace alone and spoke privately with the young emperor throughout the afternoon.
• Zhao Zheng returned to his residence and sent his wife and children away.

After Zhao Zheng’s death, the young emperor’s purge left Lin-shi and Zhao Heng in danger, and masked assassins attacked them during Zhao Zheng’s funeral vigil. An old man in white revealed overwhelming power, rescued them, and warned the young emperor to leave the regent prince’s family alone.

• The young emperor honored Zhao Zheng’s funeral publicly while purging more than a hundred officials linked to him.
• Lin-shi and Zhao Heng suffered as servants and guards disappeared and members of the household died; Lin-shi fell gravely ill.
• Masked assassins invaded the funeral hall, and Zhao Heng carried his mother away from them.
• An old man in white appeared by Zhao Zheng’s coffin and destroyed the assassins with a gesture.
• The old man led Zhao Heng and Lin-shi out of the residence and defeated Commander Zhou when he tried to stop them.
• The old man declared that Zhao Zheng’s wife and son were under his protection and warned the young emperor against pursuing them.

Chen Du continued working in the Divine Prison as former followers of Zhao Zheng were imprisoned and executed, while Zhao Heng joined him as the jailer Lin Heng. Uneasy about the prison’s mysterious protector, the young emperor brought Imperial Preceptor Cang Xuan and three hundred guards to confront the Divine Prison, where they were met by the bureau chief.

• Chen Du ignored Adviser Sun and Commander Zhou’s pleas for help as Zhao Zheng’s former allies were locked in the Divine Prison.
• Chen Du executed Commander Zhou and gained white qi from the crimes he had committed.
• Zhao Heng left his secluded life after Lin-shi urged him to find his own path, joined Chen Du in the Divine Prison, and took the name Lin Heng.
• After hearing Commander Zhou’s account of his son’s rescue, the young emperor suspected a powerful backer in the Divine Prison and summoned Cang Xuan, appointing him imperial preceptor.
• The young emperor traveled to the Divine Prison with Cang Xuan and three hundred elite guards, where the bureau chief greeted them at the gate.

The young emperor found Zhao Heng in the Divine Prison, where Chen Du revealed his overwhelming power and subdued Cang Xuan. Cang Xuan awoke imprisoned on the thirteenth of eighteen levels, while the young emperor remained behind in shock.

• The young emperor searched the Divine Prison with Cang Xuan but found neither Zhao Heng nor the legendary backer.
• A hidden corridor opened in the secret chamber, and Chen Du emerged with Zhao Heng disguised as a jailer.
• Chen Du challenged the young emperor to provide evidence that Zhao Zheng had rebelled, leaving the emperor unable to answer.
• Cang Xuan unleashed his full Tenth Realm power, but Chen Du remained unmoved and transformed from an old jailer into a young man.
• Cang Xuan recognized Chen Du's Eleventh Realm cultivation, and Chen Du trapped him in a vision before sending him to the Divine Prison's thirteenth level.

Cang Xuan discovered that the Divine Prison held legendary cultivators and at least three Eleventh Realm prisoners, all terrified of Chen Du, who sentenced him to a hundred years. Meanwhile, Chen Du warned the young emperor never to return to the prison, and the emperor fled after promising to obey.

• Cang Xuan recognized Qiong Lao and sensed powerful legendary prisoners throughout the Divine Prison, including three Eleventh Realm auras on the sixteenth level.
• Qiong Lao learned that an old jailer had thrown Cang Xuan into the prison and reacted with terror, as fear spread among the prisoners across the lower levels.
• Chen Du told Cang Xuan to behave for a hundred years, and Cang Xuan gratefully accepted the sentence.
• The young emperor begged Chen Du for his life and promised to restore the regent's reputation and family.
• Chen Du forbade the young emperor from ever entering the Divine Prison again, and the emperor swore to obey before fleeing.