Heavenly Court.
The entrance to the Heavenly Prison in the Seven-Layered Heavenly Palace.
The Heavenly Prison had originally been established by the Divine Court of Panfeng World to punish sinners who did not need to be executed immediately. Demons, monsters, guilty immortals, and fallen gods—if they did not need to be put to death at once, they were thrown into the Heavenly Prison to suffer and serve their sentences, with no hope of ever seeing daylight again.
Demon Monarch Hewei followed True Lord Yuehui to the prison entrance. Nothing barred their way.
Along the route, the patrolling Heavenly Generals took the initiative to salute True Lord Yuehui while treating Hewei as though she were invisible. Ordinarily, that would long since have angered her. But after finding herself at others' mercy everywhere in the Three Realms, she had learned to mind her manners. If the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals ignored her, she pretended not to notice.
At the entrance, the divine lord guarding it checked True Lord Yuehui's jade tablet, then handed him another token from the Thunder Department.
True Lord Yuehui explained, "The Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion's jade tablet grants entry to the Heavenly Prison, but restrictive wards and formations are everywhere inside. To pass through safely, you need a Thunder Department transit token. Only if the original himself came, or someone held a golden talisman bestowed by His Majesty, would the token be unnecessary."
With that, True Lord Yuehui accepted the token, thanked the guard, and led Demon Monarch Hewei inside.
The prison was nothing like the gloomy, damp place Hewei had imagined. A boundless sea of clouds greeted her instead. At its center stood an immense copper pillar, ten thousand zhang thick and rising to an unknown height before vanishing into the clouds above. The Heavenly Law Edict