Entering the World Prison

In the void of the Three Realms, a towering giant peak no less vast than a major world floated in the air.

A cave estate had been carved into the peak. At that moment, True Immortal Zhou Yu flashed through space and arrived there.

"For nearly an entire Chaos era, this incarnation will be living here."

Zhou Yu surveyed the giant peak, feeling rather emotional.

Of this incarnation's life, only the first thirty billion years were things he truly remembered. As for the nearly one Chaos era afterward, he only knew roughly what this incarnation had experienced.

Zhou Yu even wondered whether this incarnation had truly lived through that time at all.

Whoosh!

With a movement of his body, Zhou Yu entered the cave estate within the mountain.

There, a figure dressed in black robes sat cross-legged. Simply sitting there, the divine power aura naturally radiating from him was enough to make ordinary Celestial Immortals feel fear.

This was a True God. Within the Three Realms, every True God held an exceptionally special status.

In terms of strength, True Gods were no weaker than pure Dao Ancestors. In actual combat, however, their divine bodies were difficult to destroy, making them far more troublesome than Dao Ancestors.

Among the truly supreme figures of the Three Realms, every single one was a True God or even an Elder God.

"Still, this True God incarnation of mine is only an ordinary True God right now," Zhou Yu understood inwardly.

In the eyes of others, this incarnation had always been in secluded cultivation. But to Zhou Yu, those hundred trillion years had been illusory. His realm and strength remained where they had been when he had first broken through to become a True God.

His Dao comprehension was ordinary, and the divine abilities he had mastered were likewise ordinary. Wasn't he simply an ordinary True God?

At most, he was probably a little stronger than certain Chaos True Gods with poor talent.

"But no matter what, this is still a True God. For me, it counts as ascending to the heavens in a single step."

"The road still has to be walked one step at a time." Zhou Yu did not dwell on it.

At that moment, his True Immortal incarnation also took out all the treasures obtained from Shaoyan Chou. Zhou Yu stored them within a Cave Heaven Treasure before slowly examining them.

Among the densely packed treasures, Zhou Yu quickly found a stone stele approximately ninety-nine zhang tall.

Methods such as Heart Force and heart-sense could not investigate this stele. It could only be seen with the naked eye.

It stood there, emanating an almost imperceptible pressure. Though the pressure was not great, it gave one a feeling of looking down from on high.

That feeling completely surpassed the Heavenly Dao.

"This is it, the Nine Directions Chaos Stele!"

Zhou Yu felt rather emotional. It was truly a waste for such a treasure to fall into the hands of a Celestial Immortal. If any True Immortal, True God, or Dao Ancestor had obtained it, things would likely have turned out very differently.

Whoosh!

True God Zhou Yu left behind an incarnation of divine power outside, while his true body entered the Cave Heaven Treasure and arrived before the enormous stone stele.

Zhou Yu reached out and touched the stele. Vast True God divine power poured into it, quickly beginning to seep into the lines of text on its surface.

Taowu Eighteen Gods and Devils, Nine Dissolutions of Insect Beasts, Sinful Divine Weapon, Lang Talisman, Universe Reversal One-Heart Array, Ghost God Scroll, Indestructible Body.

The seven great techniques on the stele's surface were all mastered by Zhou Yu.

"These seven techniques are all extraordinary. Among them, Taowu Eighteen Gods and Devils and Universe Reversal One-Heart Array will be of great use to me." Zhou Yu nodded inwardly.

Taowu Eighteen Gods and Devils was the incarnation technique cultivated by Shaoyan Chou.

Although each incarnation created by Shaoyan Chou through this technique was much weaker, once the second level was mastered, every incarnation could possess peak strength.

As for Universe Reversal One-Heart Array, it was an array designed to be used alongside Taowu Eighteen Gods and Devils. It had likely been created by some World God or Chaos Immortal.

Even if a World God or Chaos Immortal did not specialize in the Array Dao, the intricacy of an array they created should still rival that of someone who had cultivated the power of arrays to the fifth level.

Zhou Yu had always lacked guidance from Array Dao manuals. Obtaining Universe Reversal One-Heart Array now was like rain after a long drought.

In truth, Indestructible Body, one of the seven great techniques, was also exceedingly powerful. It had six levels in total. If a True God mastered the sixth level, their divine body would reach the level of an innate supreme treasure. At that point, its strength would rival Buddha Tathagata, whose protective body was the finest.

Unfortunately, this divine ability placed extremely high demands on external resources. Cultivating the first three levels in the Three Realms was not difficult, but mastering all six levels was far too difficult.

As Zhou Yu pondered, his refinement of this treasure reached its final stage.

Boom!

A tremor rang out, and True God Zhou Yu's figure instantly vanished from where he stood.

Zhou Yu arrived in a hazy Chaos-filled space. He knew that he had entered the interior of the Nine Directions Chaos Stele.

Very soon, two figures roughly a zhang tall, with dark skin, flew over.

Zhou Yu looked at the two figures. Their auras were considerably stronger than those of ordinary Empyrean Gods, but they were still far inferior to him.

"Greetings, Overseer."

The two figures both bowed, but one of them quickly noticed something strange.

"Huh? My lord is actually a True God?"

"Hmph, this seventeenth World Prison has not had an Overseer arrive for several Chaos eras. Who knows whether some trouble has arisen? By Lord Fu Siqi's order, I have come to oversee this prison for a time."

Zhou Yu merely snorted coldly.

During his second simulation, his identity had actually involved considerable contact with the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom. He knew the Nine Directions Chaos Stele rather well. Zhou Yu's rebuke immediately made the two jailers too afraid to say anything further.

More importantly, the jailers were not particularly intelligent to begin with. Even if they noticed something was wrong, it would be useless. The Chaos Stele had already been completely refined by Zhou Yu; he could come and go as he pleased.

In terms of strength, the auras of these two jailers were also clearly inferior to Zhou Yu's.

"My lord, please see clearly," one of the jailers hurriedly said. "The two of us have diligently guarded this place during this time. There is absolutely no problem within the World Prison!"

"Whether there is a problem or not will have to wait until I have inspected it." Zhou Yu said indifferently, "Where is the Chaos Spirit Liquid produced over these past three-plus Chaos eras? Hand it all over to me!"

Hearing this, the two jailers hesitated for a moment, but they quickly handed eighteen black jade bottles to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu accepted them without ceremony, then indicated that the two jailers could leave. Neither dared delay, and they swiftly retreated from the hazy space.

This new Overseer had far too terrible a temper. They had better keep their distance.

At that moment, a faint smile appeared on Zhou Yu's face.

With a wave of his hand, he took out a jade bottle. After opening it, he examined the "Chaos Spirit Liquid" within.

The moment he saw the Chaos Spirit Liquid, Zhou Yu understood that it truly was a treasure.

He could see traces within it of many powers: true spirits, souls, divine power, immortal power, Heart Force, and more.

"Moreover, I wasn't certain before, but now I can be completely sure. With this Chaos Spirit Liquid, my two Loose Immortal incarnations won't need reincarnation at all. They can directly reshape their souls and bodies." Zhou Yu nodded inwardly.

Reincarnation was simply the process of reshaping a body and soul. Any Dao Ancestor who had grasped the Heavenly Dao could easily construct a minor cycle of reincarnation.

Chaos Spirit Liquid, however, was a precious treasure from Chaos. Its level surpassed the Heavenly Dao, let alone reincarnation beneath the Heavenly Dao.

It could be said that bodies and souls nurtured anew with Chaos Spirit Liquid would be the most perfect possible, far more perfect than bodies and souls obtained through reincarnation.

"Haha, I'll go reshape the souls and bodies first."

Zhou Yu did not hesitate. With a single thought, he exited the Nine Directions Chaos Stele.

PS: I'm not certain whether reshaping souls and bodies through Chaos Spirit Liquid definitely requires one to grasp the Heavenly Dao. When Ji Ning helped his parents reshape their bodies, he was already a World God, so that is not much of a reference.

However, I've seen many people say this method works, so I'll set it here that Chaos Spirit Liquid alone is enough. After all, the original work also said that Chaos Spirit Liquid contains every kind of power. It makes sense that it could independently reshape souls and bodies.