Prison

After seeing Yu Jing off, the cinema manager returned to the first floor and took a detour to the special punishment room.

If Yu Jing had chosen the white envelope, he would have been sent here to receive swift and severe punishment. The manager waved from the doorway, signaling the staff inside that they no longer needed to prepare the "soul extraction" device.

Since the unfinished plotline involving Yu Jing was an important side story, and the Blood Demon's departure had caused huge changes to the later main storyline, the consequences were exceptionally serious. On the condition that it would not be fatal, he was to receive the most severe punishment—physical separation.

Yu Jing's soul would be extracted, and his physical body crushed.

His soul would then be placed in the Central Ring, where he could search for an infected person's body and continue living.

"Having your soul extracted at least lets you survive. But an unarmed disciple at the 'Ghost Taming Stage' entering the prison is basically ten deaths with no hope of survival."

Chana Empire High-Security Prison

Criminals whose crimes were unforgivable, but whose deaths could not be brought about through capital punishment, would be sent here to serve indefinitely until they died.

The prison had been entirely built, controlled, and managed by the government.

A hundred years ago, the entire upper government had voted to establish the prison in the rock strata a thousand meters beneath the central government of District Twenty-One, the lowest-altitude region in the entire Chana Empire. The cost and scale of the project had been enormous at the time, but its secrecy measures had been flawless.

The prison employed the Chana Empire's most advanced security measures. Since its establishment, there had never been a single prison break.

It had carried out the