After the Way of Shadow Silence Symbiosis passage was successfully established, construction of the cross-dimensional defense system entered a stage of steady progress. Shen Hao remained in the Shadow Domain, guiding the follow-up calibration of the warning and communication arrays on one hand, while focusing most of his efforts on interrogating the Corrupting Realm Tribe prisoner on the other.
During the Corrupting Energy bomb incident beneath the Shadow Origin Tower, Zi Xuan and Shi Pan had joined forces to capture a Corrupting Realm Tribe being. This being was not particularly powerful, only at Mid-stage Origin Fusion, but as a member of the Corrupting Realm Tribe, he was bound to know many secrets of his race. Shen Hao hoped to pry useful intelligence from his mouth, such as the precise location of the Corrupting Realm Rift, the weak points of the sealing array, the Corrupting Realm Tribe's troop deployment, and their next plan of action.
The Shadow Clan's prison lay a thousand zhang beneath the Shadow Origin Tower, built from the hardest Obsidian. Its walls were covered in Shadow Escape Runes and Symbiotic Runes, forming a double layer of protection. It could both prevent prisoners from escaping and suppress the Corrupting Energy within them, keeping them from destroying the prison or self-destructing. At the center of the prison, that Corrupting Realm Tribe being was tightly bound to a stone pillar by a gray-black energy chain. The Symbiotic Energy and Shadow Escape Energy flowing continuously through the chain steadily purified the Corrupting Energy in his body, leaving him weak and miserable.
Shen Hao entered the prison alone. The stone door behind him slowly shut with a dull rumble. The prison was dimly lit, with only the faint glow of the runes on the walls illuminating the Corrupting Realm Tribe prisoner. He remained