The pitch-black, forbidding mountain peaks collapsed one layer after another, leaving only their main structure. They almost completely blocked the entrance to the Heavenly Prison, leaving a gap barely half a foot wide.
Nine Heavens Xuan Nü had never seen the Demonic Blood Peach, a "Primordial Evil Thing," inside Shou Xing's head. Naturally, she couldn't guess what Meng Qi was thinking. She could only vaguely piece together that after she had separated her spirit from her flesh and fallen into slumber, someone had bypassed the seal, slipped into the upper three levels of the Immortal Realm, and dumped Shou Xing's corpse in the Peach Garden. Whether the two had ventured in together, whether someone had struck suddenly for some benefit, or whether it had been done deliberately for some other purpose, she had no way of knowing.
At that moment, she looked at the remains of the Heavenly Prison's entrance. After a moment of silence, she said:
"The outer seals have been completely destroyed."
If any of the old gods of the Nine Heavens or former ghosts of the earth had been lucky enough to escape, they could easily leave this place.
Meng Qi gave an almost imperceptible nod. His body shimmered, growing illusory, and he passed straight through the gap, officially setting foot inside the Heavenly Prison of the old Immortal Realm. He saw a towering dome, like an endless night sky hanging silently overhead, its farthest reaches impossible to discern. It stretched wider than the floating continent itself, forming a world of its own.
Countless jade pillars stood here, each towering a hundred feet high. Meng Qi among them was like an ordinary man who had wandered into a land of giants. It gave him a glimpse of just how immense the old gods and former ghosts of