Shen Luo forcibly suppressed his panic as his Divine Soul began to drift through the gray mist, trying to find some clue—at the very least, he had to figure out where exactly he was trapped.
With a thought, he propelled his Divine Soul thousands of miles away.
Yet when he stopped and looked around, all he saw was the same emptiness and endless gray mist.
"Hmph, this must be Chi You's doing!" Shen Luo cursed inwardly and darted away again, crossing another thousand miles.
However, when he stopped once more, he was met with the same disappointment. Nothing in the surroundings had changed, and there was still no trace of any living being or dead object.
Anxiety filled Shen Luo's heart as he kept trying, kept leaping through space, and ultimately... kept being disappointed.
At last, he understood. This was an endless, boundless prison world devoid of all things. His Divine Soul had been trapped here, and he likely would never escape.
Shen Luo finally stopped. Gazing at the vast mist, his emotions gradually settled.
He no longer rushed to escape, instead beginning to consider his current predicament. After analyzing it for a while, he realized that the one who had trapped him could not have been Chi You.
In their final life-or-death clash, Shen Luo had lost to Chi You in every respect—power, cultivation, and accumulated foundation. The gap between them had been enormous.
With such an imbalance in strength, Chi You had no need to go through the trouble of imprisoning him. He could simply have obliterated Shen Luo's Divine Soul directly, leaving nothing behind.
"I've been to the Netherworld before. Even if my Divine Soul wasn't destroyed, it should have returned to the Nine Serenities. But this clearly isn't the Netherworld either. Where exactly am I?" Shen