Xiao Mu suddenly looked up and stared into the depths of the corridor.

Since energy fruit trees grew in the Divine Prison, there shouldn't be just one.

In the depths of the Divine Prison, there might be other energy fruit trees.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Xiao Mu couldn't care less about exploring other rooms and suddenly activated the Earth Escape Technique, his body transforming into yellow light, swiftly and incomparably darting deeper into the corridor.

He wanted to explore all the corridors first, find all the energy fruit trees growing in the Divine Prison, and harvest their energy fruits.

The advanced energy fruits could be absorbed faster and would allow him to break into the later stages of the Yin God Realm in a shorter period.

Sure enough, after a moment, Xiao Mu found another advanced energy fruit tree ahead in the corridor.

After plucking the energy fruits, he casually destroyed the tree, stowing the tree stump into the Earth Seal Space to avoid leaving any clues for the Curse Gate members to discover his movements.

Xiao Mu continued his exploration, and before long, he had covered the entire Prison Zone Five, finding a total of six energy fruit trees and obtaining more than three hundred energy fruits.

Three hundred energy fruits were not enough to satisfy Xiao Mu.

To break into the later stages of the Yin God Realm, he needed roughly four hundred energy fruits in total, and currently, he was still short by a hundred.

Xiao Mu thought about the other zones.

If Zone Five had energy fruit trees, the other zones should not be without them.

Glancing at the map of the Divine Prison, Xiao Mu walked towards the corridor between Zones Five and Four.

Standing at the spot between Zones Five and Four, he paused for a moment before starting to use the Yin-Yang Divine Drill to bore a small hole at the bottom of the invisible wall.

After several hours, Xiao Mu had successfully entered Zone Four and began to use the escape technique to search the area.

Zone Four was much larger than Zone Five, with at least twice the number of prison rooms.

However, the number of energy fruit trees could not compare with that of Zone Five; after searching Zone Four, Xiao Mu only found four energy fruit trees, obtaining roughly two hundred fruits.

Could it be that the growth of energy fruit trees is related to the strength of the imprisoned criminals? Or is it because places with stronger criminals have denser spiritual energy?

Xiao Mu couldn't help but speculate.

If that was truly the case, then the trees in Zones Three, Two, and One should be fewer in each succeeding zone.

While moving between Zones Four and Two, Xiao Mu touched the invisible wall in the corridor and fell into hesitation.

Just now, in order to move from Zone Five to Zone Four, he had spent several hours of his time.

Several hours was not a short amount of time, enough for the Curse Gate to open a dozen or even more prison rooms.

If he continued to delay, Xiao Mu worried that people from the Curse Gate might enter Zone Five.

Boom!

Suddenly, a loud booming noise came from Zone Three.

Xiao Mu's heart tightened.

This sudden booming noise was undoubtedly the Curse Gate members breaking open a room and opening the prison gate.

The people from the Curse Gate had already entered Prison Zone Three.

He couldn't delay any longer; if he did, the Curse Gate members would be upon him.

Xiao Mu turned around and headed back to Prison Zone Five.

Several hours later, Xiao Mu, who had successfully drilled a small hole in the invisible wall between Zones Four and Five, returned smoothly to Prison Zone Five.

Xiao Mu hurried to explore the remaining rooms and casually released a Ghost Servant, commanding it to go to the corridor between Zones Three and Five to keep a lookout. If the Curse Gate members breached the wall, he was to be notified immediately.

Soon after, Xiao Mu used the Yin-Yang Divine Drill to open the next prison cell.

Inside the cell was an old man, who had died in a meditative pose, sitting in the corner of the cell.

"My apologies!"

Xiao Mu walked over to search the old man's corpse, but found no storage bag that could contain objects.

However, Xiao Mu found a vermillion brush over seven inches long, crystal clear, seemingly made out of red agate, in the old man's embrace.

The Netherworld Judge's Pen!

Xiao Mu's eyes lit up.

He knew this pen; it was the Netherworld Judge's Pen, also known as the Soul Hooking Judge's Brush, a treasure of the judges, which, when used in combination with the Book of Life and Death, could perform soul-hooking and soul-stealing.

After Examining the Judge's Pen for a moment, a look of disappointment appeared on Xiao Mu's face.

This Netherworld Judge's Pen was actually damaged, with a tiny hole the size of a grain of rice at the end of the pen.

Don't underestimate this tiny gap; for such divine treasures, any minor defect could greatly reduce the power of the divine object.

"What a pity!"

Xiao Mu held the Netherworld Judge's Pen and waved it through the air a few times, and his Earth God Rank was easily able to sense the pen's diminished power.

"Well, even if it's damaged, it's still a divine treasure."

Xiao Mu sighed and stored the Netherworld Judge's Pen in the Earth Seal Space.

"My apologies!"

After paying his respects to the old man's corpse once more, Xiao Mu left the cell to explore the next one.

He opened the room using the same method.

The subsequent five cells yielded little reward; not only was there no Divine Treasure, there weren't even any Secret Manuals, he only acquired four fragments of Divine Treasures.

The sixth cell gave Xiao Mu a surprise.

The criminal in this cell was actually a divine being.

More precisely, this was a Land God, which was evident from his attire.

The man was of middle age, his appearance scholarly and refined, and he wore the attire of a Land God, including an official robe, a black gauze hat, and black official boots.

Xiao Mu first searched the man's body, but after a while, he was disappointed; there was nothing on the man, not even a storage bag or a fragment of a divine treasure.

But just as Xiao Mu was feeling crestfallen, the black gauze hat on the middle-aged man's head suddenly shone, emitting silver radiance.

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