Wang Dazhuang was a low-ranking prison guard at the Black Domain Heavenly Prison.
His main duty was to sit at the entrance of the Black Domain Heavenly Prison and make simple records of the people entering and leaving.
It was an utterly inconspicuous position.
Only slightly better than the few prison guards watching the Great Gate.
Yet obtaining this post had not been easy. He had only gotten in after getting involved with the daughter of a Hundred-Household Officer among the Embroidered Uniform Envoys and pulling the right strings.
Although it was located deep within the Soul Mountain Range, and one was not permitted to leave the Black Prison Heavenly Prison unless necessary, it was leisurely and safe.
It was leisurely because the Black Prison Heavenly Prison held important figures of the Cave True Realm and above—legendary people whom one might not see a new arrival being escorted in for a year and a half.
It was safe because the Black Prison Heavenly Prison was an important site of the Great Zhou Imperial Court, and nothing had happened here for over a thousand years.
Though he and the guards at the gate were not highly cultivated, merely at the first or second level of the True Essence Realm,
the gates of the Black Prison Heavenly Prison
were a living spirit-like existence!
With a living spirit standing guard, it was comparable to a legendary Myriad Transformations Titan keeping watch day and night without rest!
That made them safer than could be.
Over the years, he had heard that the outside world had grown increasingly chaotic. Some important figure called Dao Venerable Qing Xuan had defeated Divine Emperor Your Majesty's avatar; Heavenly Beings had clashed, ending worlds and destroying lands—news arrived one after another, dazzling the eyes.
But none of that had