Sacredfall Netherworld Prison lay in the southeastern Heavenfall Sea. It was one of the natural forbidden lands separating the Heavenfall Sea from the Endless Sea: the living were forbidden entry, and the dead could not pass on.
Legend held that Sacredfall Netherworld Prison was a place where the Great Dao had collapsed and an Immortal Venerable had fallen. Thus, the dead could not enter reincarnation, but were imprisoned there forever and became ghosts. Whether or not that legend was credible, Sacredfall Netherworld Prison had indeed evolved from an ancient battlefield. It had also been the front line of the Two Seas battlefield for countless ages. Innumerable soldiers, warriors, and cultivators from the Heavenfall Sea and the Endless Sea had fallen there without entering reincarnation. The vast majority became ghosts and nether creatures, making Sacredfall Netherworld Prison more perilous by the day!
Perhaps because Xiao Ying wore the mantle of "Pangu's successor," and because the Pangu Lineage on Heavenheart Island paid considerable attention to him, the Order Immortal Emperor had indeed been quite accommodating and attentive. Although he had not immediately approved opening routes through Nine-Dragon Island to the Heavenfall Islands in the other directions, he had authorized Xiao Ying to use the island's ultra-long-distance Heaven-Grade Teleportation Formation to travel directly to Southeastern Heavenfall Island. Xiao Ying had to cover the expenses himself, however. The teleportation fee alone reached a staggering one hundred million immortal crystals!
After detailed discussions, Xiao Ying brought the Eight Separation Witch King, Tan Shier, and the four Great Witches-Mountain-Mover, Golden Eyes, Heaven Desolation, and Steel Vajra-along with three thousand Demon-Scaled Witch Guards. Their Demon-Scale Armor had all been infused with ape souls, giving it the properties of Sacred Armor and greatly increasing their strength. The Sky-Supporting tribesmen led by the Blood Xuan Witch King also teleported