Cold and damp.
Dim and cramped.
Filthy, chaotic, and rancid.
A sliver of sunlight refracted from a square-foot iron window high in the wall, illuminating a pallid, bloodless face.
Eyelids fluttered, and dry, cracked lips moved for a moment, emitting a coughing sound.
Huff~
With the rattling of chains, Qiao Moke sat up. Beneath his disheveled hair, his eyes were faintly red: “I’ve really taken a fall this time...”
His slightly dimmed gaze swept across the prison cell, but he didn't see the figure he expected. Qiao Moke frowned slightly.
Since leaving Lan Shan City, he had been inseparable from Xi Ying for over twenty years. Not seeing her now made him feel uneasy.
“Hey! With your pipa bones pierced, your upper and lower dantian nailed shut, your magical power and limbs locked, and heavily injured...I thought you were a goner. Who knew you'd recover in just three days? What a jinx...”
A sound of clicking tongues came from a corner of the prison. An old, disheveled prisoner poked his head out, peering at Qiao Moke in the light. His wizened old face was gaunt:
“The Qiong City Heavenly Prison isn't a place for ordinary prisoners. Kid, what did you do?”
“Qiong City Heavenly Prison?”
Qiao Moke mulled over the name, his heart sinking. He looked at the old prisoner: “The female cultivator who was arrested with me, have you seen her, senior?”
He wasn't unfamiliar with this place. Or rather, for Da Zhou cultivators, this place had a great reputation.
Each of Da Zhou's seventy-two provinces had one of these Qiong Cities. Legend has it that these Qiong Cities have existed for a long time, imprinted with a Dharma array of some great power.
Not to mention Jindan cultivators, even Yuanshen Grand cultivators, it is said, are imprisoned in large numbers.
“Female cultivator? Hahaha!”
The old prisoner cackled when he heard this: “What a lecherous kid. Too bad, you’ll be disappointed. I haven’t seen any female cultivator. If there was one, would I have time to waste talking to you? I would have already… ah!”
Before the sinister words could be uttered, the old prisoner screamed and flew straight out, crashing heavily into the prison wall.
Bang!
The prison cell shook, dust falling in a ‘whoosh’. The old prisoner fainted without a sound.
“The Jing Ye Si didn’t deliver a fatal blow, they must want something. I'm not afraid of being imprisoned, but Yingqing has been pregnant for seven years...”
Qiao Moke took a deep breath, suppressing his worries. In his faintly red eyes, words flowed down:
Qiao Moke]
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Realm: Jindan Four Revolutions, Cultivation Method: Great Dragon Elephant Heart Sutra, Great Spirit Town World Dao, Dragon Slaughtering Eight Methods, Sword Phoenix Escape Method...]
Dao Power: 37045 points]
Loadable Templates: Second-Order God Great Spirit God, First-Order God Stove Lord, Zero-Order God Lan Shan City Land God...]
Divine Court Heavenly Net: Activated]
“The Jing Ye Si’s sealing technique really can't affect my ‘Template’ loading!”
Seeing that the panel was still there, Qiao Moke breathed a sigh of relief.
The templates on the Divine Court Panel were not related to his magical power. Even a mortal without magical power could load the God Template at a critical moment to overcome difficulties as long as he had enough Dao power.
Just like now, even if the Jing Ye Si sealed his magical power and divine will, he could still transform into the Great Spirit God.
“The Qiong City of Lingquan Dao is the most heavily guarded place in Da Zhou. Even a Second-Order Great Spirit God, even with enough Dao power, is limited by my own realm to at most the battle power of a Jindan Ninth Revolution. I'm afraid I can't break through this Qiong City Heavenly Prison...”
Thoughts flickered in Qiao Moke’s mind. He gritted his teeth slightly: “Perhaps, I need to find a new god from the Divine Court Heavenly Net to help me overcome this difficulty...”
After all, immortal god templates are just templates, and they are still bound by their own realm and cannot exert combat power beyond their own level.
But the essence of the immortal god template is ever-changing ‘divine power’. Even if limited by realm, some divine powers can exert incredible power.
Huff~
As soon as the thought arose, there was a reaction. Qiao Moke’s heart shook, and his divine will seemed to touch an indescribable barrier.
Buzz~
In the next moment, Qiao Moke only felt a darkness before his eyes, and then a glimmer of light appeared. A vast night sky like a starry sky slowly unfolded in his mind.
This night sky was boundless, with countless stars twinkling or flowing within it. Looking closely, one could vaguely see that among those light spots, some clearly had human shapes and animal shapes.
Qiao Moke knew that this starry sky represented the Divine Court Heavenly Net. Anyone with a form meant that the ‘divine star’ had an owner.
Just like now, where Qiao Moke was, the starlight was manifested as a Great Spirit God General holding an axe and roaring angrily. The surrounding stars were the ‘Stove Star’, ‘Land Star’, and so on.
“Divine Court Heavenly Net...”
Even though it wasn’t the first time he had witnessed this starry sky, Qiao Moke still had great reverence in his heart.
These twinkling, seemingly endless stars, each ray of light represented a god, representing a powerful divine power.
The Great Spirit God he possessed was only a Second-Order god, but in these twenty years, he had saved him from danger several times, and even made his cultivation speed surpass many geniuses whose talents were even greater than his own.
And at this time, in this night sky, how many were stronger than the Great Spirit God?
What kind of terrifying power did the existence that created this Divine Court Heavenly Net contain?
“The Great Spirit God is only a Second-Order god. His advanced gods are the Eastern Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Southern Virūḍhaka, the Western Virūpākṣa, and the Northern Vaiśravaṇa... My Dao power is only enough for one choice. How should I choose?”
Looking at the higher level than where he was now, only a few starlight spots with human and animal shapes, Qiao Moke murmured in his heart, hesitant.
Although in theory, there were many opportunities to choose the god template, Dao power was hard-earned. His twenty years of accumulation was only enough for one choice.
Once he chose wrongly, it would be a waste of twenty years, which he couldn't afford.
Thoughts churned in his heart, constantly weighing the options.
In the end, Qiao Moke’s gaze fell on a star. Then, the shadow of a majestic god general with a face full of curly beards, wearing a jeweled crown, wearing golden armor, holding a pagoda in his left hand, and holding a dragon in his right hand was reflected in his heart.
Western Virūpākṣa, also known as the Evil-Eyed Heavenly King, Lord of All Dragons, Great Dragon King... Red dragons are wrapped around his arms, which can bind all things and all existence, and also have the ability to escape through the void and break through boundaries. Therefore, the Divine Dragon is often seen only at the beginning and not at the end...]
Seeing the words ‘seen only at the beginning and not at the end’, Qiao Moke’s eyes lit up, but before he could examine it carefully, an ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart.
“Hmm?!”
Qiao Moke’s heart shook, and he immediately withdrew from this Divine Court void. The dim prison cell reappeared in his eyes.
Crack~
A sound of unlocking came from the dark prison corridor.
A group of armored jailers with swords filed in, breaking the silence of the prison cell, attracting gazes from the shadows that were either pale green, ghostly, or scarlet.
Some were greedy, some were violent, some were sinister, some were resentful...
Snap!
The long whip cracked in the air, making a sharp, ear-piercing sound of air explosion.
“You've all been locked up in the Qiong City Heavenly Prison. If you still don’t know how to be cautious and act accordingly, then you’re really courting death! If you offend a noble, I’ll make your lives a living hell!”
A hoarse reprimand followed, and the gazes in the shadows disappeared into the darkness.
There was also a cold snort from an unknown place.
Clap clap~
An old man with a hunched back put away his long whip, flicked his long sleeves, and bowed, turning his head back: “Sir, these prisoners are all ruthless and merciless people, you still need to be more careful...”
The old man's expression was humble, without the previous sharpness. His head was lowered slightly, but the corners of his eyes were raised, secretly sizing up the brocade-clad youth who was pacing in from outside the door.
“With their Dantian sealed, their pipa bones locked, their magical power sealed, and their limbs crippled, if they can still hurt me, then this trip will not have been in vain!”
The brocade-clad youth was playing with a jade Ruyi scepter in his hand. Hearing this, he casually glanced at the dark prison cell in front of him and said with a playful smile:
“Commander Fang, you say, since these people are all fierce and vicious people, why doesn’t the Imperial Court just kill them one by one, but instead capture and imprison them?”
Fang Shanmin, who had changed into a black uniform, stepped forward, half a step behind the youth, and bowed slightly:
“This dynasty inherited the system of the previous dynasty, and this Qiong City Heavenly Prison was also left by the previous dynasty. I heard it was the decree of a great figure, meaning that all things should have a glimmer of hope...”
“A glimmer of hope?”
The smile on Lin Boxun’s face gradually faded, and a hint of mockery rippled in the depths of his eyes: “Few people who enter this prison can get out alive.”
Fang Shanmin straightened up, coldly sweeping across the faces in the darkness, some狰狞some wooden, and shook his head slightly: “There are still some after all...”
“Noble, do you need this lowly one to lead the way?”
The old jailer with a hunched body smiled obsequiously, asking carefully.
Snap!
Lin Boxun casually tapped the jade Ruyi scepter in his palm, not looking at the old jailer, and stepped into the dark, foul-smelling prison:
“You just wait here.”
After saying that, he had already walked into the shadows. At this moment, even Fang Shanmin did not see the greedy smile on his face.
“Spiritual Qi is the true essence of heaven and earth. Anyone who can absorb and transform Spiritual Qi for their own use is inherently a person with transcendent destiny, and more or less has the favor of Heaven. Killing such a person is equivalent to killing ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand ordinary people...”
“If you can kill all the prisoners in this city, no, even half, or even less, perhaps it will be enough for you to become a god on the spot, it is not yet known!”
“At that time, the Da Zhou Imperial Court will have to crawl at your feet. What prince, grand master, even if the Da Zhou Grand Ancestor is reborn, you can kill him with a wave of your hand!”
The Great Freedom's cold and extremely tempting voice echoed in Lin Boxun's heart.
“You're saying too much.”
Faced with the tempting whisper in his heart, Lin Boxun only replied indifferently, but his eyes kept sweeping from side to side.
“I don’t need you to remind me how to do things!”
In the past twenty years, the number of living beings who had died at his hands was no longer as simple as mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but he was still vigilant.
He could take one or two people from the prison, and killing a hundred or so would not have any impact at all, but if he killed too many...
The Da Zhou Imperial Court does have laws.
“Hmm?!”
At a certain moment, Lin Boxun's heart suddenly shook, and then his eyes blazed, and the Heavenly Mandate Compass buzzed and vibrated in his heart, as if it had been greatly impacted.
This vibration was unprecedented!
Lin Boxun lowered his eyes and looked forward, and saw a ragged youth, also opening his eyes and looking at him.
“This is?”