On the Avenue.

Chapter 578: The Criminal Chen Shi
There were shouts of gloating all around, it was very noisy, Chen Shi looked around and saw many similar cages nearby, with some people imprisoned inside, including fairies, demons, and monsters. Like him, they were locked up and trapped in cages.

"Don't make any noise!"

A loud cry came from outside the cage. Chen Shi looked in the direction of the sound and saw many Bi'an monsters climbing on the walls and pillars outside the cage. They had tiger heads and bodies, dragon claws and tails, and some were several feet long. They were climbing on the walls and pillars as if they were walking on flat ground.

The largest one among them suddenly jumped down and landed on the ground. He walked slowly in the dark prison, speaking in human language and said grimly: "Those who are imprisoned in the prison are all guilty. None of them are innocent. I smell a deep sin from your scent!"

It knocked against the cage, and the sound was like thunder: "You knocked over the glass cup of the king, death penalty. You peeped at the maid bathing, death penalty! You stole the elixir, death penalty! You, you, and you, all are guilty of death! There is no innocent person in this prison!"

It came to Chen Shi's cage, glanced at Chen Shi, and said, "As a heavenly soldier, you slaughtered the general in public and attempted to seize power. You deserve to die!"

Chen Shi quickly said: "I am innocent! Yin Fenglou and I had a fair fight..."

"Shut up!"

The Bi'an snorted and shouted, "Whether you are guilty or not, I can tell with just one sniff! I smell the scent of sin from you!"

He sniffed hard, looking puzzled, sniffed again, even more puzzled, and jumped onto the wall.

The other Bi'an crawled on the wall, came to his side, and asked, "Brother, what's wrong?"

"I smell the scent of sin and the scent of sacred incense from the criminal Chen Shi."

The Bi'an said, "This is a bit strange. Maybe he was working for a certain saint and therefore killed the general. From the incense I smelled, this saint must be very important... Who sent him here?"

A skinny Bi'an said, "He was sent to Xitian Pagoda by the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Soldiers Gengzi Guard. It is said that this Heavenly Soldiers killed the general Yin Fenglou and injured many Heavenly Soldiers. He made a big fuss in Xitian Pagoda and was sent to the Heavenly Prison to be executed as a warning to others. Brother, is there any injustice here?"

The Bi'an sneered, "He has committed heinous crimes, how can there be any injustice? Besides, there have been many people who have been wrongly imprisoned since ancient times. We just need to detain him. As long as he doesn't die in prison before being taken to the Execution Platform, we can rest assured."

The other Bi'an nodded one after another.

"Let's ignore Chen Shi. Don't skip his three meals a day. Eat and drink as you please."

The Bi'an said, "When the execution comes, we will have nothing to do with him. The only thing we need to be on guard against is jailbreakers. If someone comes to jailbreak us, we should all pretend to be asleep and let him be kidnapped, so that he won't kill us to silence us."

He paused and said, "The power behind him may be beyond our ability to resist. There is no need to lose our lives for this."

Chen Shi stood in the cage and wanted to use his own magic power. Every time he did so, the shackles and handcuffs would emit a faint light, and his upper, middle and lower dantians would be locked by a strange formation. The meridians in his body were also blocked by immortal talismans. Even his soul was in shackles and no magic power could be mobilized.

This is the immortal-locking shackle, the immortal-binding chain, which is specially used by the Heavenly Court to bind immortals. Once it is put on the body, there is no way to escape.

Chen Shi struggled for a while, but couldn't get rid of the shackles and handcuffs. He frowned slightly and thought to himself, "Am I really going to be trapped in the Heavenly Prison, waiting to be taken to the Immortal Execution Platform?"

Just as he thought of this, suddenly a strange force surged in his body from somewhere, and with two clicks, the shackles and handcuffs opened!
Not only that, all the seals and shackles that had just sealed his upper, middle and lower dantians, meridians and soul were now all opened, allowing his magic power to flow unimpeded!

Chen Shi was stunned and stared at his hands blankly. He clearly did nothing, so how did the shackles open?
He calmed himself down, activated the Hunyuan Taoist Scripture, and his immortal energy flowed freely.

When a cultivator reaches the Ascension Stage, his cultivation begins to transform from true essence to immortal essence, which is of a higher quality than true essence and contains the secret of immortality.

Although Chen Shi's realm is only the celestial immortal realm, his cultivation of immortal essence is not inferior to that of ordinary true immortals.

"Strange, why do the shackles on my body open automatically?"

He still didn't quite understand, so he walked up to the cage. This cage had many seals that were invisible on weekdays, but as long as one tried to escape, these seals would be triggered and the prisoner would be locked in. Even if the prisoner got rid of the shackles, he couldn't escape the cage.

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment, then tentatively reached out his hand and quietly reached towards the edge of the cage.

"Buzz!"

Lines of forbidden patterns emerged, forming a dense web.

Chen Shi was surprised. His palm clearly touched and even passed through the net, but the net did not react at all!

"Is the Heavenly Prison so open?"

He hesitated for a moment, then bravely walked through the net and came to the outside of the cage. The net still did not respond.

Outside, the Bi'an was talking about the jailbreak, saying that it was not worth losing his life for it. At this time, a Bi'an looked surprised, poked him with his claws, pointed his mouth downwards, and whispered, "Brother, what if there was no jailbreak, but the criminal walked out of the prison on his own?"

The Bi'an looked down and saw Chen Shi walking out of the sky prison. He did not run away, but stood there looking around.

The Bi'an was awed in his heart: "Someone powerful has secretly helped him to unlock the seal of the Heavenly Prison! This is more terrifying than a prison break!"

When he thought of this, he immediately sent a message to all the Bi'an: "Pretend to sleep! No matter what noise comes from the prison, don't open your eyes!"

All the Bi'an in the prison immediately closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep.

"Hey! Prison boss, someone has come out of the Sky Prison!" the death row prisoner next to Chen Shi shouted.

The Bi'an all pretended to be asleep and turned a deaf ear to it.

The other death row prisoners in the prison looked outside and saw the new death row prisoner Chen Shi walking outside. They immediately became indignant and shouted, "Prison boss, someone has escaped from prison! Come and catch him!" "Prison boss, are you blind? That stubborn immortal has escaped!" "Still pretending to sleep? Your immortal boss!"

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They kept cursing, but the Bi'an pretended not to hear them. They just hoped that Chen Shi would escape successfully as soon as possible, leave this place of trouble, and not implicate them.

Chen Shi stood there looking around, obviously not knowing how to escape from the prison.

He looked around, but no matter which direction he looked, he could only see spiral passages, the walls of which were densely packed with cages like pigeon cages.

As his footsteps moved, these passages and the arrangement of the cages in the passages also changed accordingly, as if no matter where he went or how fast he walked, he was always in the very center of the Sky Prison!

"This situation should be an ultimate space magic! I'm afraid that any cage in the Sky Prison will see the same scene as mine. All places are the center of the Sky Prison!"

Chen Shi's eyes flickered as he looked at this wonder and thought to himself, "This is probably what it looks like when the transformation of the universe is refined to its extreme. This achievement is far beyond mine, and also far beyond Uncle Xiaowu's. Even if Uncle Xiaowu is thrown into the prison, he can't get out!" He thought about it and walked back into the cage.

"Brother, he went back again!" You Bi'an found Chen Shi and reported it quickly.

"gone back?"

The Bi'an couldn't help but feel a headache when he heard this. He was looking forward to Chen Shi escaping from the prison. As long as Chen Shi escaped, whether he was dead or alive would have nothing to do with them. Unexpectedly, Chen Shi not only did not leave, but returned to the cage, as if he wanted to stay there.

"What if a prison robber comes..." He sighed.

Chen Shi couldn't stay in the cell, and sometimes he would run out of the cell and wander around the prison leisurely. Whenever this happened, the Bi'an would pretend to be deaf and dumb and ignore him, and also turn a deaf ear to the prisoners who were shouting that someone had escaped from prison.

"I'll beat you if you make any more noise!" You Bi'an was annoyed by the noise and threatened the death row prisoners.

"He is also a death row prisoner. Why don't you care about him escaping from prison?" Some death row prisoners still refused to accept the result.

Then he was whipped by Bi'an, causing him to roll on the ground and his screams echoed throughout the prison.

Later, when Chen Shi came out for a walk again, there were no more death row prisoners shouting, probably because they were scared by the beatings.

Chen Shi practiced in the Heavenly Prison, but there was no obstacle. On the contrary, because of the quietness, he felt that his cultivation progress was much faster than before, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

"I just don't know what happened to Black Pot now."

On this day, Chen Shi was leaning against a cell and asked his cellmates, "How did you get in? I was in here for fighting. I killed someone and was sentenced to the Zhuxiantai... Why don't you say anything?"

The cellmate remained silent.

Chen Shi cheered up and said, "Can you practice? I can practice now. I have practiced Hunyuan Daojing very well..."

"Boom!"

The prison suddenly shook violently, startling the dozing Bi'an. They opened their eyes and looked around in confusion, "Did someone come to rob the prison?"

Then there were more loud rumbling noises, but they did not come from the Sky Prison, but from the space outside the prison, as if a giant was venting boundless power and destroying everything around him!
Even the Sky Prison was shaking violently, swaying from side to side, and the death row prisoners in the prison were tossed all over the place and could not stand steadily.

Another wave of extremely terrifying throbbing came, scaring the Bi'an so much that they all crawled down and dared not move. Even Chen Shi felt that the unusually active immortal energy in his body suddenly became quiet and could not be awakened no matter what.

"What kind of Taoism is this?" He couldn't help but be shocked.

At this moment, a crisp sound came between heaven and earth, which could be heard clearly even in the sky prison, as if something in the heart was suddenly cut off.

Chen Shi felt empty inside, as if he had lost something precious. However, many death row prisoners in the prison seemed to have their softest parts touched, and many of the most vicious death row prisoners actually started to cry.

Deafening shouts came from outside the prison, like a tide, the noisy voices crowded together, making it impossible to hear what they were shouting.

Chen Shi listened carefully, but couldn't hear clearly, but he could hear the fear in the voice.

After a long time, the sounds gradually subsided, and the loud noise disappeared at some point.

Many Bi'an continued to guard the Heavenly Prison and did not dare to go out to find out the news.

After a long time, someone escorted the prisoner to the prison. The Bi'an rushed over and asked, "Captain Pu, what happened outside that caused such a big commotion?"

The divine detective was in charge of capturing criminals who had fled to various places. He had just entered the Heavenly Palace this time and sent a death row prisoner in to exchange for some immortal spirit fluid. He said, "The Heavenly Palace was attacked. I heard that a great demon appeared nearby. It took advantage of the Heavenly Palace's unpreparedness and sneaked into the Heavenly Palace, killing many immortals."

Chen Shi also came up to them, mingled among the Bi'an, and listened attentively.

The Bi'an turned a blind eye to this, but the divine detective had never seen Chen Shi before, so he looked at him a few more times, thinking that he was a jailer in the Heavenly Prison, so he didn't pay any attention to him, and said: "This time the great demon made a big scene, not only killing many immortals, but even the Heavenly Palace was impacted. I heard that the Heavenly Secret Strategy in the Heavenly Dao magic weapon was also destroyed by the great demon."

As soon as these words came out, all the Bi'an were stunned. The leading Bi'an said in a trembling voice: "The Heavenly Dao magic weapon was destroyed?"

The detective said: "It's not that the Heavenly Law was destroyed, but that the Heavenly Strategy was destroyed."

Those Bi'an are unpredictable. All along, the magic weapons of heaven have been the symbol of heaven. These magic weapons of heaven are extremely powerful and fierce. It is precisely because of these magic weapons of heaven that the immortals and gods can be kept from opposing each other.

Now that Tianji Ce has been destroyed, the balance between the two sides has been broken.

Chen Shi poked his head in and asked curiously, "Who did this?"

Pu Shenbo looked at him, then looked at the Bi'an. The Bi'an remained silent. Pu Shenbo said, "Of course it's the Great Demon. Who else could it be? Could it be one of those powerful Daluo Jinxian?"

Chen Shi understood and said, "The timing of the great demon's appearance was too coincidental, as if someone had arranged it on purpose. Why didn't it attack those gods, but instead attacked Tianji Ce?"

He suddenly remembered that when he went to the West Heaven to achieve the Dao, his consciousness was summoned by the Tianji Ce. The Tianji Ce almost forced him to "see" all of the Tianji Ce's Dao patterns!
The so-called "looking" is not just looking, but Tianji Ce has imprinted these heavenly Dao patterns into his consciousness!

"This happened not long after Tianji Ce branded its Heavenly Dao pattern. Could it be that Tianji Ce had already anticipated that he would be destroyed, so he prepared in advance and transferred himself into my body?"

He blinked, held his chin with his left hand, supported his left elbow with his right hand, and walked back and forth.

Pu Shenpo looked at him suspiciously, and suddenly whispered, "This man is a criminal, right?"

"Prisoner? What prisoner?"

All the Bi'an were stunned and looked around, "Where is the prisoner?"

Pu Shenpo had no idea what was going on in these gourds, so he could only say, "Hand over the prisoner quickly so I can go to the Heavenly Court to collect the reward."

The Bi'an tribesmen handed over the prisoners to him and imprisoned them in the Heavenly Prison.

Pu Shenbo was about to walk out when someone suddenly came up and said with a smile, "My Lords, the court has issued an order that the suspect Chen Shi has been found not guilty and can be released!"

(End of this chapter)