Heavenly Laws Were Harsh

The punishments were severe. With no backing and no connections, if you violated the Heavenly Laws, you might as well wait for death.

The strictness of Heaven far exceeded imagination. Do not think that becoming immortal meant spending every day drinking, feasting, and laughing uproariously. That was treatment reserved for old immortals famous for ages. Carefree freedom simply did not exist. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. If one casually used Star Shifting and Battle Transposition, would that not throw everything into chaos? Moving mountains and filling seas were even expressly forbidden.

Immortal arts could wreak enormous destruction upon the mortal world, so harsh laws were needed to dam up wayward thoughts.

Before the Immortal Official had even finished, Bai Yujun guessed she could probably go on for days and nights.

"Furthermore, there are four additional punishments!"

"Imprisonment!"

"Suppression!"

"Ten Thousand Deaths and Ten Thousand Lives!"

"Demoted to the lower realm!"

"Molten copper and iron pellets!"

"Extralegal suffering!"

The first few were easy enough to understand from their names. Rumor had it that Monkey Sun had once been suppressed beneath Five Elements Mountain. On the first and fifteenth of every lunar month, someone would pour molten copper and iron pellets into the monkey's mouth. Immortals would not die from eating such things, but it was agonizing.

Extralegal suffering was really just private punishment. Whether it was light or severe depended entirely on the wishes of those above.

"The Heavenly Laws are far stricter than mortal laws! Do not harbor any wishful thoughts!"

Bai Yujun obediently committed them to memory. This was not something she could afford to be careless about. One misstep, and she could suffer soul annihilation and be completely finished. When she had been on the boat before, she had never imagined any of this. Nor