Between autumn and winter, there is actually only one snowfall.
In the fifth month of Xu Qing's arrival in the county capital, the winter in the county capital came silently as the first snow fell.
In that silver wrap, snowflakes fell on the roofs of buildings, streets, and pedestrians' hair.
While whitewashing the entire earth, it also made the eyes look like there were more white-haired people in the entire city.
The first snow came suddenly and was very heavy.
Landed outside the Prison Division and landed on the sword pavilions.
And in the wind and snow, Xu Qing, dressed in a white sword-wielding Taoist robe, walked towards the Prison Division in this snow-colored world.
Today is the day he goes to Area C to be on duty.
A few days ago, he completed the suppression of District Ding and passed the assessment of promotion, and from that moment on, he was no longer a pawn in District D, but a soldier in District C.
As for Ding Yi32's position as guard, Xu Qing has not stepped down, he will also serve as Ding 132.
The clothes of the jailer in Area C are no different from those in Area D, except that there is an additional black badge at the neckline.
The coat of arms looks like a branch.
If the Prison Division is compared to a big tree, then the jailer in District D is the leaf, and the District C is the branch.
At this moment, walking down the steps of the Criminal Prison Division, Xu Qing clearly felt the glory represented by this badge, because all the jailers in District Ding who saw him along the way greeted him with respectful expressions.
Xu Qing returned the salute, walked to the eighty-eighth floor, passed by the eighty-ninth floor, and when he stepped down the steps to the ninetieth floor, he took a deep breath and looked solemn.
"Ninety floors......" Xu Qing muttered in his heart, his steps were firm, and he walked down slowly.
A clicking sound came from Xu Qing's feet.
That was the sound of his footsteps landing on the steps, echoing around at this moment, especially obvious in this quiet environment.
The light from the top of the Prison Division could not be reflected into the depth where the ninety floors were located, so the world displayed in Xu Qing's eyes became darker and darker.
Until he finished walking the last step leading to the 90th floor, Xu Qing paused and looked up at the 90th floor of the Prison Division.
This place is completely different from the Ding area.
The ground was damp and covered with moss, obviously only one layer away from the top, but Xu Qing looked up, and a feeling of separation from Ding rose in his heart.
Because although this place is also circular, there is no cell, let alone a prison door!
The entire circular wall is full of murals as far as the eye can see.
This mural permeates the entire wall, which paints the sun, moon, clouds, mountains and rivers, and all living beings!
Like a whole world!
It's just that the colors are monotonous, all dark.
Xu Qing's heart was shocked, looking at this painting, he thought of Ding Yi 32's Danqing tribe.
After a while, Xu Qing walked towards the mural, and after looking at it carefully, he shrank back.
These murals seem to be alive, everything in them is changing, the clouds are drifting, and the mountains and rivers are changing.
It was as if it was really a dark world, and Xu Qing was standing outside the world looking down on everything.
"Ninety floors, only one cell."
There was a familiar voice in the cold, and it came from behind Xu Qing very abruptly.
Xu Qing turned around suddenly and saw a figure walking from the darkness.
It was a tall old man, his body was filled with coercion, his eyes were cold, and his whole body exuded a strong evil aura.
It seemed that there were countless creatures that died at his hands, causing countless resentful souls to surround him all year round, radiating malice to all living beings.
"Meet the ghost hand senior!"
Xu Qing immediately recognized that the other party was the mentor who explained the fatal points of the creatures of all races to their new swordsmen during the secret training of the sword wielders.
On that day, Xu Qing, as his assistant, saw with his own eyes the old man take out countless corpses, and some of them were killed on the spot.
He had heard Kong Xianglong say before that the other party was a jailer, but in the past few months, he had met Xu Qing in the prison department, and at that time he guessed that the other party should be deeper.
Seeing it at this moment, Xu Qing was not too surprised, and bowed respectfully.
The old man glanced at Xu Qing, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.
"I remember you, the little guy who poisoned the sick ghost."
"It's good to be promoted from Ding District so quickly."
The old man smiled, but his whole body was too angry, and at this moment, this smile also had a gloomy feeling.
Noticing that Xu Qing's expression had not changed, the old man was more satisfied, in fact, when he chose Xu Qing as his assistant, he was very optimistic about him.
At this moment, when he walked in front of Xu Qing, he looked at the mural and spoke calmly.
"Most of the pawns in Area C have cultivated as Yuan Ying, do you know why?"
"Because the law of suppressing criminals in District C is different from that of District D?" Xu Qing thought for a while and replied.
"I thought you would say that prisoners have deeper cultivation." The old man smiled.
"The prisoners in Area C do have deeper cultivation, both the Yuan Ying prisoners and the Lingzang prisoners, but this is not the point, the point is...... Only the original infant can not be crushed by it when carrying the rules of a small world in one body."
The old man's eyes still fell on the mural, and his voice echoed in all directions.
"The rules of the small world?" Xu Qing thought about it and looked at the mural as well.
"From the 90th floor to the 122nd floor, it is all Area C, with a total of 33 floors." The old man spoke slowly.
"Area C does not have any cells like District D, and every floor is filled with such murals."
"Every mural is a small world! These thirty-three small worlds are the cells in Area C!"
As soon as the ghost hand words came out, Xu Qing's eyes showed a strange light, he had guessed when he saw the mural before, especially since he had experienced the Taixu Realm, so he was not ignorant of the existence of small worlds.
But I was still shocked by the handwriting of the Criminal Prison Division.
"Take the thirty-three small worlds as the prison of Area C, then Area B and Area A below...... What will it look like?" Xu Qing took a deep breath.
And the words of the old man with ghost hands were still echoing.
"The old man is the prison master of the first realm of these thirty-three realms, leading the jailers of the first realm of District C to guard this realm!"
"Your position is to be arranged in this first realm prison, but you are not cultivated to the primordial infant, and it is difficult for you to bear the power of the rules of the first realm on your own, so I will take you to this world first to let you feel it."
The old man said, spitting out black mist at the mural.
As the mist fell and spread around, the murals became vivid in color wherever they passed.
No longer dull, but more color, and finally colorful and lifelike.
"Let's go."
The old man put his hands behind his back and walked towards the restored color strokes.
Xu Qing followed, and in an instant, he stepped into the mural with the old man and walked to the first realm of the thirty-three realms.
What was displayed in front of Xu Qing was an boundless nothingness.
In the depths of nothingness, there was a gray continent covered with a red light shell like an eggshell.
It was filled with countless runes formed by formations and prohibitions, and there were no less than hundreds of millions of them, forming an amazing seal that enveloped the entire continent and sealed it tightly.
And those runes shine with each other, as if following a certain law, so that at least a million runes are flashing at the same time at every moment, running forever.
And with the rotation of the formation seal, four illusory withered statues appeared around this continent.
These four statues were extremely huge, and their appearance was very different from that of the human race, and they were more like fierce beasts.
Their heads were the same size as the continent, and at this moment, they were arranged in the east, south, and northwest, while bowing their heads and staring at the continent.
The eyes converge and turn into the sun and moon.
As the formation runes shone, these four figures were also slowly changing their orientation, so there was an alternation of the sun and moon.
This scene was extremely vast, and Xu Qing's heart was turbulent when he saw it.
"This is the first realm, and the nothingness here was ingested by the first generation of palace masters from the void realm and integrated into this place as a cover for the breath of the first realm."
In the void, the old man was in front and spoke in a deep voice.
"The rune seal on the shell, you can see it as the law of this world, refined by the self-holding sword palace, and those four withered statues are the initial four heavenly bodies in this world."
"Now, leave your imprint in the formation, so that you will not be suppressed by the rules after you step in."
As he spoke, the old man took a step forward, fell into the formation seal, shuttled away, and descended directly on that continent.
Xu Qing heard the words and pinched the trick, put his mark into the light shell formation, and walked behind.
As the continent became clearer and clearer in his eyes, their figures passed through everything and appeared in the clouds and mist.
Below, there are the mountains of the earth in this small world.
"The moment this world is transformed into a prison, the law is set that alien creatures cannot reproduce."
The old man slowly spoke and continued walking.
While following, Xu Qing noticed that this world was not small, the overall landform was dominated by deserts and wilderness, and the aura was extremely thin, and even he felt suffocated when he first arrived.
Just as the whole body was bound by invisible power and suppressed by infinite peaks, it was difficult to exert even 10% of the power and was severely restricted.
Fortunately, soon, as the formation of the external light shell was running, Xu Qing returned to normal in an instant, and he was relaxed.
This experience made him know more about this prison.
At the same time, the climate in this world is extremely harsh, standing at the highest point, you can see sandstorms sweeping in some places, and the wind inside has the power to cut bones.
In some places, poisonous rain pours down, and all things can only wail.
In other places, magnetic storms filled the air, and thunder fell one after another, killing everything.
"In the thirty-three realm prisons, countless races and strange people are imprisoned, they are tormented in the small world, life and death are not up to themselves, and all the rules of this place are controlled by my Criminal Prison Division."
The old man waved his hand, and suddenly the desert of the earth changed instantly, mountains rose from the ground, and the landform turned into mountains crisscrossing.
Without finishing, he waved his hand again, the mountains here were instantly erased, infinite water vapor gathered in an instant, a large amount of seawater seeped out from the ground, and the next moment this place turned into the sea.
Moving mountains and seas, all changes are in one hand.
Xu Qing looked at this scene with a solemn expression.
"Xu Qing, do you know why prison itself is frightening?" The old man looked at Xu Qing.
"Because of deprivation." Xu Qing replied solemnly.
"That's right, depriving them of what originally belonged to them, and turning what they were used to on weekdays into what they dreamed of, but they couldn't have it again, the pain caused by this contrast is the most heart-wrenching."
The old man looked at the sea below, and his voice echoed.
"The principle of the Thirty-Three Realm Prisons is to use the laws of the small world itself to turn into a cage, so that all the primordial infant cultivators imprisoned in this First Realm Prison can be invaded by this world here.
We have not limited their cultivation, they are still primordial infants, but they are primordial infants in the small world."
"The four fires of the foundation building of the ancient continent are almost comparable to the primordial infant of the small world, and the power of the golden elixir is almost the same as that of the middle stage of the primordial infant."
"In this way, these prisoners in this world, who were used to being able to summon wind and rain with a single technique in the Wanggu Continent, are now powerfully reduced, and the feeling of being bound by heaven and earth will make them who know the beauty outside even more longing and pain."
"What was once taken away, the simplest thing that once belonged to them, has now become the most extravagant desire."
"This is the prison in District C of the Criminal Prison Division." The old man looked at Xu Qing and spoke in a deep voice.