Above the Great Dao

Chapter 1233 576: Criminal Chen Shi

All around, there was a cacophony of schadenfreude, quite noisy. Chen Shi followed the sound and looked around, seeing many similar cages nearby. Inside, there were also some people held, be they Immortals, Demons, or Monsters, all alike, their powers sealed, trapped inside the cage.

"Quiet down!"

A loud call came from outside the cage. Chen Shi followed the voice and saw many Bi'an climbing the walls and pillars outside the cage. With tiger heads and bodies, dragon claws and tails, their bodies several yards long, they climbed the walls and pillars as if on flat ground.

The largest one suddenly leapt down, landed on the ground, and walked slowly in the dark prison, speaking in human tongue, sinisterly saying, "Those locked in the Heavenly Prison are all guilty, none are wronged. I can smell deep guilt from your scent!"

It slammed against the cage, its voice rumbling like thunder: "You spilled the Heavenly King's Glazed Cup, death penalty! You peeked at the Palace Maids bathing, death penalty! You stole the Immortal Pill, death penalty! You, you, and you, all guilty of death! There are no innocent here in the Heavenly Prison!"

It came to Chen Shi's cage, glanced at him, and said: "As a Heavenly Soldier, you publicly slaughtered the General, attempting a coup, guilty of death a thousand times over!"

Chen Shi quickly said, "I am innocent! I had a fair duel with Yin Fenglou..."

"Shut up!"

The Bi'an snorted and yelled, "Guilty or not, I can sniff and know! I smell the scent of guilt on you!"

It sniffed hard, looking puzzled, sniffed again, even more puzzled, then jumped onto the wall.

Other Bi'an crawling on the wall came to its side and said, "Big brother, what's wrong?"

"From this criminal Chen Shi, I smell guilt, but also the sacred incense scent."

The Bi'an said, "This is strange; maybe he's working for some deity, hence killed the General. From the incense scent I detect, this deity is no ordinary one... Who brought him here?"

A scrawny Bi'an said, "From Western Heaven Swing, brought by the Commander of Heavenly Soldiers guard, Gui character. They said this Heavenly Soldier killed General Yin Fenglou, injuring many soldiers, causing chaos in Western Heaven Swing, sent here to face justice as an example. Big brother, is there a wrongful case here?"

The Bi'an sneered, "He is guilty of immense crimes, where's the wrongful case? Besides, isn't it common for the wronged to end up in the Heavenly Prison? We just guard them, as long as they don't die in the cell before being sent to the Immortal Slaying Stage, we have nothing to worry about."

The other Bi'an nodded one after another.

"We don't need to bother with Chen Shi, three meals a day, don't short him, let him eat and drink."

The Bi'an said, "Our job is done once he's at the execution, nothing more. The only thing to be cautious of is a jailbreak. If someone comes to free prisoners, we'll all pretend to be asleep so they can take him, avoiding getting killed to silence us."

He paused, then said, "The forces behind him might be beyond what we can contend with. It's not worth losing our lives over this matter."

Standing in the cage, Chen Shi tried to use his own mana. Whenever he tried, the shackles lit up with a dim glow, locking his three Dantian with a strange array, his meridians sealed with Immortal Dao Talismans, even his Primordial Spirit shackled, making any mana unusable.

This was the Immortal Lock, Binding Immortal Lock, used by the Heavenly Court to bind Immortals. Once trapped by it, escape was impossible.

Chen Shi struggled slightly, unable to break free from the shackles, frowning a little, thinking, "Am I really going to be trapped in the Heavenly Prison, waiting to be sent to the Immortal Slaying Stage?"

Just as he thought this, suddenly, an inexplicable force surged from inside him, and with two clicks, the shackles opened!

Not only that, the locks sealing his three Dantian, meridians, and Primordial Spirit all released, allowing his mana to flow unobstructed!

Chen Shi was stunned, staring at his hands in disbelief, he had done nothing, so how did the locks open?

He steadied himself, activated the Mixed Yuan Dao Scripture, letting Immortal Yuan flow freely.

When a Cultivator is in the Ascension Realm, their cultivation begins transforming from True Yuan to Immortal Yuan, a quality superior to True Yuan, bestowing the wonder of immortality.

Although Chen Shi's realm was only the Heavenly Immortal Realm, his Immortal Yuan cultivation was no less than that of ordinary True Immortals.

"Strange, why did my shackles open on their own?"

He still didn't understand entirely, approaching the edge of the cage. The cage had numerous seals, invisible on regular days, but if one tried escaping, they would trigger these Sealing Dao Patterns, locking the prisoner. Even if they escaped the shackles, they couldn't escape the cage.

Chen Shi hesitated a bit and cautiously reached for the edge of the cage.

"Buzz!"

Sealing Dao Patterns appeared, forming a dense net.

Chen Shi was surprised; his hand clearly touched and even passed through the net, but it had no reaction!

"Is the Heavenly Prison this lax?"

He hesitated momentarily, then boldly stepped through the net, coming outside the cage. The net had no reaction.

Outside, a Bi'an was just talking about a jailbreak, not worth losing lives over. At this moment, a Bi'an poked it with its claw, signaling downward, whispering, "Big brother, what if there's no jailbreak, but the criminal walks out of the Heavenly Prison himself?"

The Bi'an looked down and saw Chen Shi walking out of the Heavenly Prison. Instead of fleeing, he stood there, looking around.

The Bi'an's heart trembled: "A powerful entity secretly helped him escape the Heavenly Prison's seals! That's more terrifying than a jailbreak!"