Before the side door, everyone began making preparations. The Grand Academicians cast various lasting works of War Poetry one after another, such as Enhancement Protection Poems and Swift March Poems, then readied everything they would need.
At a time like this, Fang Yun held nothing back. He gave everyone two Sage Pages and questioned the Grand Academicians. Upon learning that Zeng Yue actually knew a Fourth-Realm War Poetry piece, and that Wei Huangan had already cultivated "Song of the Great Wind" to the Fourth Realm despite his youth, he gave each of them a drop of sacred blood.
At Fang Yun's command, the Crime Hall's side door rumbled open, connecting it to the Crime-Suppressing Main Hall.
The water ahead shimmered, half glittering gold and half murky gray, like the boundary between two worlds.
"Get ready!" After Fang Yun spoke, everyone passed through the side door in succession, officially entering the Crime-Suppressing Main Hall.
They felt like ants that had entered a magnificent Dragon Palace.
Ahead stood an enormous pillar, its vivid red dazzling to behold. The golden dragon coiled around it radiated brilliant golden light.
The Coiling Dragon Pillar was more than ten zhang in diameter, too thick for even a dozen people to encircle with their arms. It rose straight through the water, disappearing into the palace's vaulted ceiling.
They looked farther in and saw an identical Coiling Dragon Pillar every few hundred zhang, extending all the way to the far end of the hall, eighty-eight in total. In the murky gray water opposite them stood another eighty-eight matching Coiling Dragon Pillars.
Blood-colored chains wound around several of the Coiling Dragon Pillars, binding enormous corpses. Each corpse loomed like a small mountain beneath its pillar. There was a gigantic turtle shell a hundred zhang tall, broken all over, and