Heavenly Prison. Two divine beast statues awakened.
White Dragon Bai Yujun, battered and exhausted, entered the Heavenly Prison with an ice-sealed figure dangling from her hand.
She passed the Platform of Execution.
As she passed the dust-covered Dragon Slaying Platform, her footsteps slowed. She lowered her head and glanced at Xiao.
Without a word, she continued onward. The empty Heavenly Prison's long-silent calm was broken by her lonely footsteps. The Metal Puppets abandoned along both sides of the path stood guard in silence. Everything remained as it had been, unchanged in the slightest.
Cells several stories high stretched along both sides of the corridor into the distant darkness.
Bai Yujun walked swiftly.
Her other hand was held flat, an ancient lampstand floating above her palm. Its tiny flame drove back the darkness.
She walked all the way to the pitch-black end of the Heavenly Prison.
She took out the Warden's Seal. After Divine Light flashed across the ancient seal, the prison gate opened with a thunderous rumble. Black iron chains clattered loudly. The stale aura sealed away for countless tens of thousands of years blew her temple hair into disarray. Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, and she flicked her dragon tail, using its fin to sweep away that rotten air.
With a casual toss, she threw Xiao into the cell she had carefully selected for him.
She gently blew out a breath, and the scorching wind of dragonfire melted the ice.
"From now on, this will be your eternal home. You can avoid being caught up in the catastrophe. Don't worry. That one in hell will come here to keep you company as well."
Xiao, newly unsealed, discovered that he could not sense even a shred of power. He shivered violently from the cold.
Trembling, he laboriously raised his head