Black Stone Prison
Swallowed Star: Ascending as a Hongmeng MasterBiodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Black Stone Prison |
| Original | 黑石牢狱 |
| Type | Self-created domain-type secret technique |
| Creator | Qin Zhao |
| Core Laws | Law of Earth and Law of Space |
| Status | Ultimate-level fusion secret art |
| First Appearance | 32 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Concept and initial design | 32 | Qin Zhao designs the technique around the perfected Earth Element, Pulse of the Earth, and Gravity Space Mysteries, supported by Law of Earth Origin recognition. |
| Prototype completed | 33 | After ten years, it gains a fluctuating gravity field, Pulse of the Earth vibrations, condensed black-crystal walls, material binding, and internal matter-and-soul attacks. |
| Perfected trinity domain | 35 | Integrates material binding, law suppression, and soul assault/illusions into a complete “Death Domain.” |
| Great Perfection battlefield version | 43 44 | Nine Black Stone Cores extend its range to over 1,000 kilometers, creating a mobile death zone for the Universe Peak Genius Battle. |
| Space Suppression integration | 125 127 | Incorporates spatial stabilization, lockdown, and suppression, making movement, attacks, and law fluctuations sluggish within a ten-kilometer field. |
| Masterful Earth-Space version | 230 | Incorporates insights from the Hun Tian Earth-Space Mirror’s Shaping Chapter; it can temporarily trap high-level King Rank enemies. |
| Peak secret technique | 237 | Rebuilt with six Earth-style Mysteries and Space Lockdown, Strangulation, and Teleportation. Gains mutable forms, self-repair, Space Labyrinth effects, and potent sealing. |
| Ultimate-level fusion secret art | 243 | Earth and Space origins undergo qualitative fusion into a unified grayish law origin, elevating the technique to Ultimate level. |
Background / History
Qin Zhao conceived Black Stone Prison after his Earth God Clone reached Midgod and obtained recognition from the Law of Earth Origin. He adapted the concept from a technique remembered from the Coiling Dragon world, replacing its Soul Stones with his own Earth-law mastery and origin-law control. King Lanchen encouraged the attempt as a means of organizing Qin Zhao’s understanding of Earth and finding a convergence with Space. 32
The first version took ten years to create on Thick Earth Continent. Qin Zhao stabilized a Gravity Space field, added Pulse of the Earth fluctuations, and eventually condensed Earth-type energy into rune-bearing black-crystal walls. The completed prototype could bind, oppress, and attack both the body and soul, but consumed enormous energy, had limited duration, and was less effective against enemies with exceptional soul will. 33
Over a further decade, Qin Zhao incorporated his emerging Illusion Warrior methods. The result was a perfected domain whose gravity, spatial distortion, material prison, and soul assault could destabilize an enemy’s mind, origin power, and physical defenses simultaneously. 35
As Qin Zhao’s Law of Space comprehension grew, Black Stone Prison risked becoming obsolete. Under King Lanchen’s guidance, he shifted from simple material containment toward suppression of spatial structure itself. Later advice from King Zhenyan clarified that the technique was still an application-level coordination of Earth and Space rather than true Earth-Space Fusion Law. 106 107 182
After its limits were exposed against determined King Rank opponents, Qin Zhao remade the technique using templates supplied by the Darkness Master. Thousands of Virtual Universe simulations produced a mobile, adaptive peak domain, before six thousand additional years of deduction enabled its Ultimate-level breakthrough. 234 235 243
Abilities & Skills
Gravity, Binding, and Material Suppression
Black Stone Prison establishes a grayish-yellow or dark-yellow domain whose fluctuating gravity pins targets down, disrupts movement, and crushes defenses from within.
- Materializes black-crystal walls or countless black cubes to enclose and isolate targets. 33 362
- Its gravity can be spread over a wide area or condensed into a dense millstone-like prison for greater pressure. 44 241 270
- Early forms could greatly restrict Domain Lords, while the perfected version dominated Star Level opponents. 33 45
- Peak and Ultimate forms can suppress King Rank enemies and impede the operation of their Divine Power. 237 238 244
Soul Assault and Illusion
Pulse of the Earth vibrations and Qin Zhao’s Illusion Warrior methods allow the domain to directly affect the target’s soul.
- Induces fear, distorts perception of time and space, and disrupts origin power and spiritual control. 35
- Weakens telepathic weapons by interfering with their connection to their controller. 36
- The early prototype was notably weaker against opponents with exceptionally strong soul will. 33
Spatial Suppression and Strangulation
The technique gradually evolved from Earth-based binding into a domain that restrains space itself.
- Space Suppression makes the enclosed area heavy, viscous, and difficult to traverse, reducing movement techniques and attack power. 125 127
- Peak-level forms use Lockdown, Strangulation, and Space Folding to create barriers, spatial labyrinths, and cutting effects. 235 237
- Can distort or redirect incoming attacks rather than meeting them directly. 239
- At full power alongside the Starry Sky Diagram, it can solidify space across dozens of light-years. 379
Adaptive Domain Shaping
Following reconstruction, Black Stone Prison can alter its structure and operational mode according to the opponent and battlefield.
- May take the form of a net, layered formations, simulated terrain, a protective shield, or close-fitting domain armor. 237 239 270
- Adjusts its range, gravity distribution, and spatial structure from large-area control to concentrated single-target suppression. 235 241
- Can employ limited whole-domain Teleportation for pursuit or evasion. 235
- Its barriers can rapidly self-repair after sustaining bombardment. 238
Sealing
At peak level, the fusion of Earth’s gravity and Space’s strangulation gives Black Stone Prison a sealing effect capable of acting on both Divine Bodies and souls. 237
- Ultimate Black Stone Prison materializes chains of Earth Laws and Space patterns to trap and seal Blood Eye King. 244
- When resonating with the Sealing Star, it becomes a miniature sealing world; its suppression and lockdown power increases by more than a hundredfold. 261
- The technique can create enough relative quiet amid combat for Qin Zhao to refine a Sealing Star. 260
Associated Items
- Nine Black Stone Cores — Nine metal spheres used to expand the technique’s coverage beyond 1,000 kilometers and anchor a stationary prison zone. 43 45
- Sealing Star — A sealing-type heavy treasure whose Star Domain complements Black Stone Prison’s gravity and spatial-lockdown path. 219 261
- Starry Sky Diagram — Enhances the domain in the form of Starry Sky Diagram · Black Stone Prison. 289 379
- Prison Realm — A peak domain-type supreme treasure aligned with Earth-Space Fusion Law, containing inherited secret arts focused on suppression, sealing, trapping, binding, gravity, and spatial pressure. 283
Story Role / Major Arcs
- Noah Secret Realm development — Created and refined as Qin Zhao’s first major self-created secret technique. 32 33 35
- Peak Ranking Battle — Allows Qin Zhao to overwhelm Star Level competitors and establish a one-thousand-kilometer death zone. 36 44 45
- Law of Space cultivation — Becomes the practical vehicle through which Qin Zhao explores Space Suppression and the possibility of Earth-Space Fusion Law. 106 107 182
- Outer Domain Battlefield — Its early King Rank limitations lead to a complete redesign; the peak version enables Qin Zhao’s aggressive hunts in the Shattered Star Belt. 233 234 237
- Blood Eye King conflict — Ultimate Black Stone Prison suppresses and seals Blood Eye King, reversing Qin Zhao’s earlier disadvantage. 243 244 245
- Star Tower struggle — Assists Qin Zhao in navigating Forbidden Spaces, claiming a Sealing Star, and resisting attacks from stronger experts. 250 251 260 261
- Later large-scale battles — Serves as Qin Zhao’s principal lockdown and strangulation domain against Universe Venerables and other high-level opponents. 362 379
Trivia
- Black Stone Prison was inspired by a technique Qin Zhao remembered from the Coiling Dragon world, but its Swallowed Star version was independently reconstructed around Earth Origin recognition and the Law of Space. 32
- Qin Zhao regards the technique as the combat system most suited to his own path and refuses to abandon it for preexisting high-level secret techniques. 106
- The Ultimate form is described as a prison of countless black stones, each carrying immense weight while spatial strangulation flows through every gap. 362