Incarcerated

The Ladder of Sin

It was a prison used to incarcerate sinners from the Old World,

with different depths and prison zones corresponding to the severity of their sins,

which, from shallowest to deepest, were:

"Bewilderment" (Upper Stairway, upper section)

"Torture" (Upper Stairway, lower section)

"Pain" (Mid-level Stairway, upper section)

"Grief" (Mid-level Stairway, lower section)

"Emptiness" (Lower Stairway, upper section)

"Endless" (Lower Stairway, lower section)

Among these, Torture and Pain were the largest zones and held the greatest number of sinners. About sixty percent of all sinners were confined between these two zones.

As for the zone where the Former Commander of the Death Plague Knights was imprisoned, it was located at the very bottom: Endless. Of course, this zone had already been sealed off, and no one had set foot in it for hundreds of years.

Blindfolded and wearing Thorn Collars, the two of them followed the Princess around the abyss's Surface Layer, whose structure resembled a labyrinth. They soon arrived at the central entrance to the stairway.

Of course,

Yi Chen had already perfectly obtained the labyrinth's route through his Breathing Technique. He had even completed a bird's-eye view of the monastery's Surface Layer in his mind.

The blindfolds were removed.

The two now seemed to be standing inside an enlarged ancient Roman arena—circular and spacious.

The high walls surrounding the area were embedded with large numbers of metal monks. They constantly monitored the gates to the Ladder of Sin, and the moment anyone attempted to escape, they would be discovered immediately.

A gate whose weight could not be estimated, resembling countless iron chains compressed and fused into one, was embedded in the center of the floor.

"'Gate of Sin.' Once a monk dies, after the body is recovered, it is refined through incineration to produce 'Self-Sacrifice Chains.'