"So that's how it is! No wonder this heavenly prison was used to confine the Dao Cultivator Lineage! Once inside, they're all but sealed away forever—undying, unable to leave or be freed!" Chen Xuan exclaimed.
The Prophet nodded and said softly, "The Dao-Extinguishing Heavenly Prisons hold far more than Dao Cultivators. They also hold countless forbidden monstrosities and strange species from the Upper Realm... In short, they serve a very specific purpose. I suspect it has to do with the Source Cultivator Lineage's greatest secret!"
The two then began to slip inside with the utmost care.
The Prophet summoned a peculiar Karma Lotus above their heads, concealing their auras.
The deeper they ventured, the stronger the reversal of time became.
Faintly, they could even hear all manner of wretched screams.
Though Chen Xuan had not seen the prisoners, he could feel their despair and bitter grief.
They had once been true chosen prodigies, mighty figures through the ages. Who could accept an end sealed inside a heavenly prison?
Then mottled, indistinct images appeared ahead of them.
Even Chen Xuan, with the strength of his Dao heart, was shaken.
They crept onward!
And onward!
The Dragon Pearl within Chen Xuan trembled ever more fiercely. Its twelve rotations of blood quivered without cease, sending out waves of desperate longing.
Suddenly!
BOOM!!!
An ancient, desolate, supremely terrifying wave of temporal power surged out.
It seemed capable of suppressing past and present alike!
"What is that?"
Chen Xuan and the Prophet stopped at the same instant and stared ahead in shock.
The illusory outline of an ancient wheel appeared, turning slowly. Countless Dao inscriptions covered its rim, extraordinary markings of time and void flickering across it!
Merely gazing at that phantom gave Chen Xuan the sensation of enlightenment pouring into him!
His understanding of