Chapter 639: The Prison is Everything

The essence of Wujian Qiulao seems to be everything.

Or to be precise, it is a prison, a cage that contains everything. For anything within the prison, the concept of "outside the prison" does not exist.

This means that no matter how powerful the things inside the prison are, no matter how many Worlds they have transcended, or how many inconceivable realms they have reached—such as the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the unstayable, or the ungoable—they still cannot transcend the outside of the prison.

To the prisoners, the outside of the prison simply does not exist!

Now that Li Heng is in the outside world, peering into Wujian from the exterior, he can see the Calamity and monsters inside; they are countless, each entrenched within the prison, radiating Great Terror.

There is a terrifying monster serpent entrenched in the Infinite universe, its head and tail connecting the origin and end of time; there is a turtle-tower monster composed of layers upon layers, piling up into a constantly ascending worldview; and there are evil Disasters that permeate Infinite space-time, spreading panic and the Unknown.

But no matter how powerful these monsters and Disasters are, they have never been able to break through the seal of Wujian or leave this cage; they cannot even touch the edges of the cage.

Li Heng is lost in thought.

No wonder Wujian is one of the experimental products of that mysterious organization behind the scenes, possessing a specific serial number and seemingly shouldering the duty of imprisoning Disasters and monsters; so that is the principle behind it.

Using this principle for imprisonment, it is indeed very difficult to escape.

After a slight sigh, Li Heng does not dawdle; his Great Venerable-level power penetrates every corner of Wujian Prison, helping Wujian digest rapidly.

Outside, Wujian's expression shifts in shock; he finds it incredible.

As someone who has experienced it firsthand, no one knows the difficulty of digesting these Disasters and monsters better than he does. If he were to digest them alone, it would likely be a long, indefinite process. But now, after being infused with the Venerable's power, he is actually digesting them at high speed, as if an accelerator had been activated, fast to the point of being unbelievable.

He is astonished in his heart: is this the power of the Venerable?

To what terrifying degree has the Venerable's realm reached now?

"Do not overthink; get to work."

Li Heng withdraws his gaze, and seeing Wujian's mind wandering, he cannot help but offer a critique.

"Yes, Venerable."

Upon hearing this, Wujian nods, discards the distracting thoughts in his heart, and dares not waste any more time; he focuses entirely on the digestion, and soon completes a process that should have been endless.

In an instant, the aura around Wujian surges.

In Li Heng's eyes, Wujian's strength climbs step by step, breaking through several barriers with unstoppable force, and in the end, he even directly breaks through to the Venerable Realm!

Li Heng cannot help but raise an eyebrow.

Should one say that he is, after all, an experimental product of that organization behind the scenes?

One must admit that he has quite a lot of potential.

The Venerable Realm is, after all, the supreme strength of an era; it is worth rejoicing if an era can produce even one Venerable, and some eras do not even have a Venerable.

Yet now, Wujian is able to break through with ease.

Wujian opens his eyes, returns to his senses, and speaks with joy.

"Reporting to the Venerable, the digestion is complete. I do not know how the Venerable wishes to handle these imprisoned and sealed Disasters and monsters; should they continue to be imprisoned, or should they be brought out directly?"

He asks aloud.

The situation is very clear now; his Venerable certainly did not come here just to see him. Now that he has helped him digest rapidly, it is clearly for the sake of the Disasters and monsters within.

Li Heng ponders for a moment and asks.

"What level of attacks can the interior of your cage withstand?"

Wujian is taken aback, then quickly answers.

"Reporting to the Venerable, this must be divided into two situations."

"For prisoners who have been completely imprisoned and contained by me, no matter what level of attack they unleash, I can withstand it and ignore it. After all, everything about them is under my control and within my definition."

"But for those who have not been imprisoned or are not completely imprisoned, it depends on what my current strength is. I can withstand attacks of the same level as my current strength. There is no distinction between inside and outside."

Li Heng nods; this is within his expectations.

Once completely imprisoned and contained by Wujian, it is equivalent to being dimensionally reduced, becoming a character in a storybook, while Wujian is equivalent to the author of that storybook, possessing the power of complete definition over the prisoners; no matter how powerful the prisoners are, it is useless.

Some who are weak in essence would even be directly modified by Wujian. It is only because these Disasters and monsters rely on their own unreasonable essence that they ignore the modifications.

Otherwise, there would be no need to imprison them at all.

However, this ability is useful, yet also useless.

After all, if their raw strength were truly greater than Wujian's, how could they have been completely imprisoned and contained by Wujian in the first place? Unless there was external force helping Wujian to assist in the imprisonment, such as him helping to take action, or the seals of the True Realm that Wujian had previously swallowed and contained.

But even so, the digestion would take a very long time.

"Since that is the case, then let it be so."

With a thought from Li Heng, another version of himself emerges before him—a Venerable Avatar possessing his own strength—and he then sends this avatar into Wujian Prison.

He does not intend to bring those Disasters and monsters out, because this might increase the risk of the Disasters and monsters escaping. Although he is a Great Venerable, logically speaking, he should not fear that the Disasters and monsters would escape his grasp.

As the saying goes, caution is the parent of safety.

These Disasters and monsters are unreasonable in essence; what if some of their methods are even more unreasonable, and they truly could escape from the hands of a Great Venerable? If one escapes, he loses that much more Source Power.

Therefore, to avoid capsizing in the gutter, one must be cautious.

Killing them directly inside the prison—isn't that satisfying?

Moreover, according to his estimation, a Venerable-level avatar should be enough. After all, how powerful could the Disasters and monsters sealed by the backup left by the Heavenly Emperor at that time be?

At that time, the Heavenly Emperor was at most in the Venerable Realm.

Therefore, the sealed Disasters and monsters are likely below the Venerable Realm. His Venerable Avatar going in is nothing but a naked slaughter; it cannot be considered a waste of time.

"Venerable..."

Seeing his Venerable's avatar enter the prison to slaughter, Wujian is about to offer a suggestion to be careful, but after saying only two words, he swallows the rest of his words back.

There is no other reason; just in that instant, eighty percent of the Disasters and monsters in the prison died. It was more than a slaughter; it was an instant kill, a dimensional strike.

With this kind of strength, does he even need to be reminded?

To remind him is to not believe in the Venerable's strength!

"What did you want to say?"

Li Heng looks at Wujian and says calmly.

Wujian was silent for a moment; he certainly couldn't say that he didn't quite believe in his Venerable One's strength, could he? Wouldn't that make his own intelligence seem too low? After thinking it over, he spoke as follows.

"Reporting to the Venerable One, some time ago I observed that in a corner of the prison, a monster's aura was somewhat peculiar, as if it were in the middle of a breakthrough stage..."

He hurriedly pulled the structural diagram of the inner prison out from the Void and pointed to one of the corners as he spoke.