After silencing Xi Li, Black Codex raised the scales high in his hand amid Xi Li's ugly expression.
A strange energy radiated outward from the scales.
A phantom of a prison cage appeared on the left pan of the scales, while a thick-bound book surfaced on the right pan—it was precisely the "Dark Prison Codex" in Serum's hands.
At that moment, the "Dark Prison Codex" began flipping through its pages at high speed. Row after row of prison codex regulations and punitive statutes seemed to come alive, leaping from the book and floating through the air.
Each row of statutes bore the words "guilty," "judgment," and "heretic."
Like musical notes, these statutes had originally risen and fallen around the "Dark Prison Codex." But when Black Codex uttered a single word—"Judge"—the statutes lined up and drifted into the prison cage on the left pan, merging into it and gradually turning it from a phantom into something real.
At the same time, the black mist filling the entire arena began to churn. It was as though countless hands were reaching out from black water, seeking to drag Xi Li into the darkness.
Faced with the current situation, she had no way to deal with it. To avoid the range of the black mist, she could only take flight or leap out of the arena. If she flew, she would lose the support of the earth and be at a disadvantage against the enormous Black Codex; if she jumped out of the arena, that would be equivalent to admitting defeat.
Xi Li did not want to surrender just like that, but she truly lacked the strength to break free.
After struggling against the black mist for a long time, she was ultimately engulfed by the black fog.
When Xi Li opened her eyes