Enhancement Count

Inside the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. Yu Xian stood before Cell 001, his gaze locked with Luomo's. Neither of them spoke. Their eyes fixed on each other, neither even blinking. A Mighty One. Just a year ago, Yu Xian would have considered such a being impossibly out of reach. Yet now, even a Mighty One had become a prisoner under his charge. Fate really was damn interesting. Yu Xian didn't keep up the staring contest with Luomo for long. With a beckoning wave of his hand, a book instantly teleported beside him, hovering in the air as it waited for his use. This was the very book that, during his previous visit, he could not lift no matter how hard he tried. Now, he needed no exertion whatsoever; it obeyed his every beck and call, coming and going at a whim. He glanced down at the book. The mysterious runes were no longer mysterious—they appeared in plain Chinese characters. The strange runes he had seen before were actually just scrambled code. The book clearly had a certain clearance level. Those who failed to meet its criteria could not decipher a single word, while someone who met them could read it effortlessly, even if they were illiterate. The book's title was surprisingly simple: *Prison Canon*. Packed within were dense records of wanted criminals. Any living being across the myriad heavens and worlds whose wickedness crossed a certain threshold was automatically recorded by the Prison Canon, becoming a wanted fugitive of the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. Yu Xian could follow the clues in the records, track down these felons, and lock them in the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower to claim rewards from the Prison Canon. Furthermore, as the Warden of the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower, he would receive additional monthly rewards based on the number of convicts held inside. [Cell 001. Prisoner Name: Luomo, Sect Master of the Myriad Demons Sect. Crimes: Founded the Myriad Demons Sect thousands of times across different territories, directly or indirectly causing the deaths of living beings equivalent to the sum total of 911668621578691244663388774452212395541239857889544621455 Tier-9 worlds. Heinous crimes, sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. Fulfilling the Warden's duty of custody grants Enhancement Count +1 annually; fulfilling the duty of punishment grants Enhancement Count +1 every ten years.] Looking over Luomo's entry in the *Prison Canon*, Yu Xian naturally understood how the "enhancement counts" worked. These enhancement counts could be applied to any living being or object to elevate its effects to a higher level. If an item was damaged, enhancement counts could also be expended to repair it. It was essentially an all-purpose energy. *I wonder if enhancement counts can be used to upgrade items from Transcenders.* Yu Xian inexplicably thought of the mind wondrous items Zhang Buyao had mentioned. If even the mind wondrous items crafted by the Transcender "Zhen" could be enhanced, then these enhancement counts would be truly formidable. Still, there was no rush. After all, he had only just assumed the post of Warden. He would have to wait a full year before receiving an enhancement count. Once he got one, he would see what it was truly capable of. "What did you do to this place?" Luomo finally could not hold back any longer, staring at Yu Xian as he demanded an answer. He couldn't even remember how many years had passed without the slightest change in the Land of Glory. Yet the moment Yu Xian arrived, the space within the cells shrank. He would never believe this had nothing to do with Yu Xian. In the past, he had considered himself a very composed individual who could take things in stride. Yet now, sitting in this cramped cell, he felt thoroughly miserable. He couldn't even stretch out both arms, and the confinement was suffocating. "Take a guess," Yu Xian replied with a faint smile, shutting the *Prison Canon* and turning to leave. "..." Luomo watched Yu Xian walk away, his hands clenching tight within his sleeves. He was a man of profound cunning who rarely displayed his true feelings. Though countless thoughts surged through his mind, his face remained entirely devoid of expression. Not that it mattered. Whether he maintained his facade or not, Yu Xian wasn't even looking back. Yu Xian walked over to the second cell, looked at Ao Hai within, and opened the *Prison Canon* once more. [Cell 002. Prisoner Name: Ao Hai, Dark Gate Dragonman. Crimes: Inadvertently destroyed thirty major branches of the Tree Universe during a battle with Luomo, plunging countless lives into misery. Heinous crimes, sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. Fulfilling the Warden's duty of custody grants Enhancement Count +1 annually; fulfilling the duty of punishment grants Enhancement Count +1 every ten years.] Clearly, Ao Hai wasn't far behind Luomo in power. Both held the same tier in the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower, which was why their rewards were completely identical. From there, he went down the line from one prisoner to the next. Sure enough, the crimes of the inmates further back were similarly catastrophic. Yu Xian returned to his administrative quarters. The formerly gloomy, dim office space had been transformed under his modifications into a bright, luminous hall. Sitting in his brand-new chair, he placed the *Prison Canon* on the desk, crossed his legs, and fell into thought while gazing at the cells. Even an idiot could tell there was something fishy going on. He had merely cultivated the Everlasting Silence Prison-Suppressing Art, yet all these prisoners had bafflingly been transferred into his cells. Moreover, being able to speed-run the Everlasting Silence Prison-Suppressing Art inside the Land of Glory was already deeply strange. Naturally, he had his own conjectures. For example, the Land of Glory itself might have been an Everlasting Silence Prison Tower all along. Perhaps the cultivator who constructed it had died, leaving the tower behind, so cultivating the Everlasting Silence Prison-Suppressing Art here allowed Yu Xian to inherit the predecessor's legacy as a matter of course. Alternatively, that senior might be a shameless schemer waiting for Yu Xian to scour the worlds, capture a massive horde of criminals, lock them inside the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower, and prepare to reap the benefits—only for the schemer to suddenly pop out and demand the tower back. It would be just like an unscrupulous landlord demanding that a tenant move out the moment the tenant finished renovating the apartment. However, Yu Xian felt the former scenario was far more likely than the latter. After all, the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower was originally built to imprison evil criminals; surely the powerhouse who created the Land of Glory possessed a rather high moral standard. Because of that, Yu Xian entertained a third guess: perhaps that powerhouse had simply grown tired of being the Warden and chose to "resign and go on strike." In any case, he was now the "homeowner" of the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. He could use it however he pleased. As long as he obeyed its most fundamental rules, his room for maneuver was enormous. Rising from his seat, Yu Xian turned and walked up to a door behind him. Opening it revealed a brightly lit room. The Warden did indeed hold the authority to construct private quarters for rest within the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. The Land of Glory had originally contained similar chambers, but Yu Xian hadn't been the Warden back then and had lacked the clearance to enter. Yu Xian had no idea how large the previous Warden's quarters had been, but his own room was absurdly spacious. What was more, the more prisoners there were, the more cell space he could squeeze, meaning his quarters could expand even further in the future. Best of all, his room included a flight of stairs that led straight to the second floor, third floor, fourth floor... The sheer vastness of the space! Mom would never have to worry about him running out of storage space again. Yu Xian strolled around for a while. After confirming that there were no problems with his private quarters, he teleported straight out of the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. Reappearing on the island where he had entered, he immediately kicked into diligent farmer mode, continuously stashing the items he had found into the Everlasting Silence Prison Tower. Before long, all sorts of treasures began populating the previously vacant rooms one after another.