Phantom Karma Heartflame

Song Wen stepped out of the cell, finding himself facing a dim, narrow corridor.

The corridor stretched to both his left and right, with no telling where either direction led.

Some force still lingered in the corridor, suppressing his Divine Sense. Song Wen could only perceive about a li around him.

"Fellow Daoist Blood Brow, do you know which way we should go?" Song Wen asked.

Blood Brow followed Song Wen out of the cell. After probing both directions, she shook her head.

"I've only heard of Avici Prison. I've never been here before."

"Then shall I pick a direction at random?" Song Wen asked.

After Blood Brow agreed, Song Wen floated down the corridor to the left, his feet never touching the ground.

He had traveled less than ten zhang when another cell appeared on the right side of the corridor.

Song Wen peered inside through the opening in its stone door.

The cell's layout was identical to the one that had imprisoned them. There was neither the Teleportation Array nor the treasure they had hoped to find.

They continued onward, passing one cell after another, all empty.

Only after traveling ten li did the space before them suddenly open up.

At the end of the corridor lay a cavern hall about a li wide.

Besides the corridor they had come through, three other corridors opened onto different sides of the cavern hall.

Several stone torture racks stood in the center of the hall. This appeared to be where prisoners were tortured.

Beside the racks stood a stone platform bearing an assortment of torture implements.

But after so many years, the implements had lost all their spiritual properties and were worthless.

Blood Brow swept her Divine Sense back and forth through the cavern hall, seemingly searching for something in