"Yes, Your Majesty." Although the Chief of the Ministry of Justice was puzzled, he would unconditionally obey since it was the Emperor's order.
However, after retreating, he turned back.
"Your Majesty, Grand Commander Afu under the late Emperor committed heinous crimes, including deceiving the Emperor, and should be imprisoned in the Cosmic Prison. However, he is only a mortal and may not be able to withstand the power of the Cosmic Prison. Moreover, besides Afu, there are also many mortals among the most heinous criminals in the dynasty," the Chief of the Ministry of Justice respectfully mentioned.
He has now broken through to the Ancient God realm and can naturally feel the palpitating aura in the Cosmic Prison. Mortals who get within thirty feet of it may die instantly, let alone be imprisoned. He needs to ask the Emperor how to deal with this.
"Then let them break through to the Divine-Demon realm first, and then imprison them in the Cosmic Prison," Xuan Ming said after a moment of contemplation, waving his hand.
With the dynasty's resources,
allowing some mortals to break through to the Divine-Demon realm is as easy as moving a finger.
Moreover, after extracting their essence, energy, and spirit, the resources used can be plundered back.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand." The Chief of the Ministry of Justice respectfully took his leave.
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Chapter 302: Afu Sentenced to Fifty Million Years of Imprisonment
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The Chief of the Ministry of Justice came out of the Xuanhuang Hall.
First, according to the Emperor's instructions, he placed the Cosmic Prison in an uninhabited starry sky. The Cosmic Prison, freed from suppression, instantly swelled and expanded, eventually becoming a behemoth. Even the combined area of several great domain worlds next to it could not compare to one-tenth of the Cosmic Prison's size.
"With this prison bestowed by the Emperor, the staff of the dynasty's Ministry of Justice will be able to relax a bit in the future," the Chief of the Ministry of Justice opened his mouth, a trace of emotion flashing in his eyes.
In just a year or two, the dynasty has expanded its territory to a hundred million or several hundred million times its former size. The number of criminals added daily is countless, and the prisons established by the Ministry of Justice in various realms have been expanded again and again.
Even so, the number of prisons in the dynasty is still increasing daily, used to manage prisoners that other prisons cannot accommodate.
Now, with this Cosmic Prison,
not only can the expansion of prisons be stopped, but many overcrowded prisons can also be vacated.
The Chief of the Ministry of Justice did not stay here for long. After a while, he returned to the imperial capital city, summoned the divine officials serving in the Ministry of Justice, and, according to the Emperor's order, issued orders level by level, arranging the steps and guidelines for transferring the dynasty's prisoners, so as to avoid causing riots due to the large number of transfers.
As time passed, the orders gradually became clear, and the divine officials of the Ministry of Justice began to issue orders. Soon, the prisons in various realms began to operate.
At the same time,
deep within the Imperial Capital Prison, in a special cell,
Afu curled up in a corner, his eyes lifeless.
To date, this is his second year in prison.
Although it has only been a year, he feels as if he has lived countless years, feeling infinitely long.
The reason, of course, is his sentence.
The Ministry of Justice sentenced him to fifty million years of imprisonment for crimes such as deceiving the Emperor and arrogance!
Fifty million years!
He won't live that long.
Even.
Afu felt that even if he turned to ashes after death, he might not be able to wait until the end of his fifty million-year sentence.
Because of this, Afu once suspected that the Ministry of Justice was deliberately messing with him, but even if he suspected it, there was nothing he could do.
Any small soldier whom he once looked down upon in the Ministry of Justice has now become a Celestial God.
And he is still among the mortals. The great era that is rumored to allow countless people to break through and gain huge improvements has only allowed him to barely break through to the Saint realm. Celestial God is so far away for him.
"Alas!" Afu sighed deeply, extremely decadent.
The ground was covered with weeds. He casually picked up one and drew circles on the ground boredly.
Some time ago, his cellmate, Bing Tianlong, was also dragged out and beheaded.
Now, in the large cell, he is the only one.
Not to mention fifty million years, even five hundred years or fifty years, Afu is about to collapse.
"When will these days end?" Afu murmured.
Bang!
Just as Afu was in a daze,
the cell door was suddenly pushed open violently.
Two burly, large-sized Divine-Demon jailers walked in.
The two jailers kicked Afu and lifted the weak Afu up.
"Eat it!" One of the Divine-Demon jailers took out a dark pill from his crotch and brought it to Afu's mouth.
A strange smell was sniffed into Afu's nose.
A trace of rejection suddenly appeared on Afu's face.
"Don't want to eat it? Afu, this is a good thing sent from the Pill God Palace. After eating it, no matter whether you are a Saint or a mortal with nothing, you can immediately become a Divine-Demon. Are you sure you don't want to eat it?" The jailer mocked.
"His Majesty ordered you to transfer these heinous criminals to a new prison, but that prison is only accessible to Divine-Demons. Therefore, in order to allow you to successfully transfer, the Pill God Palace specially refined this kind of pill. So, you should honestly swallow it, and don't force us to force you." Another jailer had already pinched Afu's chin.
"No... don't... uh!"
Afu struggled with a look of struggle, but how could his strength compare to the two strong men? In the end, he swallowed the pill with the strange smell.
Visible to the naked eye,
Afu, who swallowed the pill, climbed his cultivation aura.
Soon reached the critical point of the Saint realm, and with a snap, broke through to the Earth God realm.
"Ugh..." It's just that Afu doesn't care about this now, the smell of the pill makes him nauseous.
"It's a pity, after Afu leaves, there will be no more fun," the two jailers shook their heads helplessly as they sent him to the Cosmic Prison.
The Imperial Capital Prison is the highest prison in the entire dynasty.
It holds the most vicious and uncontrollable criminals from all realms.
Among them, Afu is the only mortal.
They don't dare to deal with other prisoners, but only when dealing with Afu can they bully him at will, but now, this only pleasure is gone.
Afu's type of prisoners were the last to enter the Cosmic Prison. After they entered, the Cosmic Prison officially began to operate.
Strands of divine substance were extracted by the Cosmic Prison and fell into Xuan Ming's hands.
Xuan Ming observed it slightly and nodded secretly.
The essence, energy, and spirit substances extracted from the prisoners by the initial operation of the Cosmic Prison contain a lot of easy-to-refine energy, which is in line with Xuan Ming's vision. In this way, when those stowaways enter it, the extracted divine substance can slightly increase the dynasty's foundation.
"The Cosmic Prison should focus on sustainability and not exhaust the fish. After the prisoners have been extracted almost completely, the Cosmic Prison absorbs external energy and allows these prisoners to recover for a period of time before continuing to extract."
Xuan Ming fell into deep thought. Although there are many prisoners, they are not infinite. The existence of the Cosmic Prison should be able to provide a sustainable resource supply for the dynasty.
In the end, in order to ensure the continuous production of this divine substance,
Xuan Ming set the prisoners entering the Cosmic Prison into four parts.
Each week, a portion of the prisoners' essence, energy, and spirit is extracted, and then they are rotated. In this way, the prisoners whose essence, energy, and spirit have been extracted have the remaining three weeks to recover. When their next week arrives, they can continue to extract.
Subsequently, this setting was applied to the Cosmic Prison. The produced divine substance was also assigned to special personnel for safekeeping, first collected into the national treasury, and then distributed to the Pill God Palace, Weapon God Palace, and other dynasty institutions.
When the dynasty incorporated the Divine camp's star river, the existence of the Cosmic Prison also provided a small auxiliary role. During the dynasty's incorporation period, the various Divine Gods resided in the depths of their own Divine Domains and never showed up, seemingly preparing for the decisive battle in the Earth Divine Domain in two months.
As time passed,
in the Unowned Starry Sky area, as the Divine-Demon Division occupied the territory of two immortal forces, gathered a large number of forces, and greatly increased its foundation, the other four immortal forces had the intention to jointly resist the Divine-Demon Division.
This made those forces attached to the Divine-Demon Division feel a burst of panic.
"Lord Tianzhen, your combat power is outstanding, but the other party has four immortals, and a large number of ordinary Ancient Gods. If there is no other way, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to gain a foothold."
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Chapter 303: The Divine-Demon Division is Part of a Certain Force
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In the Divine Hall, an Ancient God of the Triple Heaven said with a troubled face.
His name is Lapu, and he is the Old Ancestor of the Winter Jujube Clan.
When the dynasty's Divine-Demon Division first arrived in the hinterland of the Unowned Starry Sky, the first to arrive was the Winter Jujube Clan's territory.
After realizing that the Divine-Demon Division could not be resisted,
the Old Ancestor of the Winter Jujube Clan took the lead in leading the clan to surrender.
Since following the Divine-Demon Division in battle, the Old Ancestor of the Winter Jujube Clan believed that he already had some understanding of the Divine-Demon Division's foundation. According to the original situation, with the immortal Ancient God in front of him, the Divine-Demon Division was not afraid of any party, and could even crush a single opposing immortal force.
But now, it is precisely because of this reason that the four immortal forces are vaguely uniting to encircle and suppress the Divine-Demon Division, which makes the Old Ancestor of the Winter Jujube Clan feel slightly panicked.
Four immortals, plus so many other Ancient Gods, according to his understanding of the Divine-Demon Division, it is difficult to resist.
Because of this, he dared to say this.
At the head of his seat, sat an old man with a disc on his head, wisps of immortal aura falling down, faintly causing wrinkles in the surrounding void, it was the Ancient God Tianzhen.
"Is that so? I don't think so," Ancient God Tianzhen said, a trace of indifference flashing in his eyes.
If the Divine-Demon Division were an independent force,
the four immortal forces, he might have temporarily retreated to avoid unnecessary casualties.
But the problem is, the Divine-Demon Division is not.
"I have my own way to deal with this matter. In the next few days, you can just be more vigilant," Ancient God Tianzhen waved his hand and ordered.
"Yes, Lord Tianzhen." Lapu opened his mouth to say something, but seeing Ancient God Tianzhen's indifferent expression, he immediately stopped his voice and slowly retreated from the Divine Hall.
"How is it?"
