Under the Primordial World's current laws.
Criminals who violated any of the nineteen fundamental statutes were sentenced to spirit imprisonment, regardless of their rank.
So-called spirit imprisonment.
Meant locking criminals away in newly born small worlds.
Generally, criminals below the Golden Immortal realm received this punishment.
More powerful beings had the option of choosing higher-level worlds.
For example, in the past.
The Primordial World's greatest tax evader had been Buddhism's Joyful Buddha.
That was the rabbit everyone usually called him, who had once been an exiled member of the East Sea Loose Immortal Alliance.
In the original timeline, that is.
He had been one of the six attendant immortals of the Interception Sect founded by Sect Master Tongtian, before Xu Tong transmigrated into him, and the greatest turncoat in the original Primordial World.
Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal.
In this world, however, after this newcomer was expelled from the East Sea Loose Immortal Alliance, he promptly turned around and joined Buddhism.
Of course, back then it had still been called the Western Teachings.
Then he lived through the changes involving the Greater and Lesser Vehicles.
And successfully coasted his way into a prestigious position as Joyful Buddha.
His actual fighting strength was nothing impressive. He had only reached the primordial origin golden immortal realm because he had lived so long, piling up cultivation through time alone.
He counted as a Fourth Tier Primordial Origin Golden Immortal who had barely escaped the fifth tier.
And then.
After arriving in the New Primordial World, this Buddha, who was already widely criticized within Buddhism.
Still refused to mend his ways.
He would not listen to anyone's warnings, despite being a primordial origin golden immortal of Buddhism.
In every thousand-year era of the Primordial World, all primordial origin golden immortals were eligible to attend the assembly