The Eternal Heavenly Palace's enormous purple-and-gold hull had barely entered the Star-Sea Exile Facility's security perimeter when the vast, icy hall began to shudder violently. Amid muffled thunder, tens of thousands of jailers clad in Netherworld Heavy Armor filed out from its depths. Frigid laws of death swirled around them as they sealed off the surrounding starry expanse without leaving a single gap.
The facility's chief jailer—a higher-dimensional powerhouse with a withered face and the Soul-Severing Judgment Blade in hand—cast a bone-chilling gaze of judgment across the void at Chu Qing atop the Eternal Heavenly Palace. A trace of cruelty and mockery surfaced in his lifeless eyes as he roared:
[Exile Facility Prohibition: The star sea is forbidden ground. All living beings are barred! Lower-dimensional madman Chu Qing, trespassing into the Return to Void's exile facility compounds your crimes!] [Logical Attack: Activate "Ten Thousand Souls' Karma Prison." Forcibly strip the target's true spirit of its freedom and suppress him as the facility's hundred-millionth convict laborer. Immediately revoke every definition of transcendence!]
Those lines of forbidden logic from beyond the realm flashed with blinding Netherworld Black Light, mingled with the wails of countless tormented souls. In an instant, they became an immense karmic net that blotted out the sky and sun. Bearing pressure powerful enough to shatter a Daluo Golden Immortal's Dao heart on the spot, it swept down over the Eternal Heavenly Palace.
"Ten Thousand Souls' Karma Prison? What a fine Return to Void Divine Court. Not only do you inflict the harshest punishments on defenseless remnant souls, but now you dare flaunt this sordid karmic net before me."
Chu Qing stood atop the Heavenly Palace with his hands behind his back. Facing the immense karmic net bearing down from every direction, his expression remained as still as