Tai Bai Peak, Heavenly Gold Cave.
Yang Huai rose from the cloud couch, his gaze falling upon the ancient altar nearby.
Deep within the ancient altar, which had remained unchanged for years, faint ripples of spiritual light suddenly appeared. More than a dozen message beads had appeared in a narrow groove above the altar.
Yang Huai's eyes stirred.
Black Prison had finally taken the initiative to contact him!
He immediately stepped forward to the altar.
He casually picked up a thumb-sized message bead wreathed in flowing white light. In an instant, a message appeared before Yang Huai's eyes.
"After returning to the manor, Her Ladyship has already recovered her true form. Son-in-law, do not worry!"
This message bead seemed to contain only that single sentence.
Yang Huai pondered for a moment, then took out a second bead.
Another message flowed into his mind.
"Son-in-law, it's so boring up here. There are only two rules here: 'not allowed.' This isn't allowed, that isn't allowed. For minor offenses, you're demoted into the beast realm; for serious ones, you're sent up to the Immortal-Scraping Platform!"
Yang Huai could not help but smile. He drew out another message.
A message entered the depths of his sea of consciousness, carrying Black Prison's faintly aggrieved voice.
"I haven't seen Her Ladyship in so long. The Heavenly Lord sent her to patrol Myriad Demon Mountain, and who knows when she'll return! It's so boring. I'm locked up every day and can't go anywhere. That Immortal Maiden Green Ji next door is truly hateful—she plays her qin every day, vexing the tiger!"
Yang Huai crushed one message bead after another.
Most of them were Black Prison's ramblings, largely complaining that the heavenly rules of the Purple Palace Celestial Realm were excessively strict, leaving it constrained in body and