Folk Card Maker: Starting from Painted Skin.

Chapter 262 Divine Prison
While Zhang Jingtian was still in his dream, the association president and the manager looked at each other in bewilderment.

The two seemed to fall silent for a moment, unsure of what to say next.

After a moment, the manager slowly spoke:

"Can we see what his dream is like now?"

The guild leader on the other side shook his head:
"Of course not, that's beyond my capabilities."

"However, I think he is on the same side as us."

The manager watched Zhang Jingtian's figure and remained silent for a moment: "His strength and talent far exceed what one would expect for someone his age. You know, that makes people uneasy."

“That’s what geniuses are like,” the president said calmly. “You can’t use our standards to measure a genius, can you?”

At this point, the manager nodded: "You're right. Hopefully, he's on our side, as you said. Otherwise, there will definitely be trouble."

When Zhang Jingtian in his dream opened the door, he didn't see anything particularly dramatic.

If you had to put it into words, what appeared before him at that moment was nothing more than a cramped office.

Really, it was just a very ordinary and standard office.

After Zhang Jingtian casually sat down in the office, he glanced at the desk and found it empty.

Then his gaze fell on the drawer.

When Zhang Jingtian opened the drawer, he found something that looked like a diary.

This appears to be something written by the previous warden.

Zhang Jingtian immediately became interested. He opened the diary attentively and began to read it carefully.

Zhang Jingtian did find some useful information in the other person's diary.

For example, this prison is called the Divine Prison, and it holds mythological figures that he is familiar with, who are also gods in the eyes of the public.

From the records of the first warden, we can roughly deduce the birth of this divine prison, which is the time when these gods were imprisoned.

Around the time the world of card making was born.

This means that the world, with its many legends and cultural discontinuities, is not experiencing a break in its cultural continuity because the memories of these stories have been sealed away, but because the deities they refer to have been imprisoned.

Therefore, the related stories disappeared.

The mastermind behind this is probably the ruler behind the Calamity Star People, who is likely also a god, otherwise it would be impossible to do this.

Logically speaking, the fact that the sealed gods are imprisoned in prison should prevent the emergence of true gods.

This means that when the Scourge creates the God Card, humanity will be unable to break through to the God level.

This is indeed a foolproof method.

But no one expected that Zhang Jingtian would arrive in this world as a time traveler.

His appearance directly shook everything, because he remembered those legends and stories, and even increasingly connected with these imprisoned gods.

Zhang Jingtian even suspected that his appearance had caused the gods imprisoned there to gradually regain their power.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have started affecting the world they live in.

It is even highly likely that his presence here, as the new warden, is the result of the combined efforts of several deities.

Only in this way can Zhang Jingtian have a chance to change the world. And Zhang Jingtian does indeed possess a key that can unlock this divine prison.

However, Zhang Jingtian was still unable to confirm whether these gods would side with humanity after being released.

After all, some of them are clearly ancient ferocious beasts, and they might even support the aliens from the Cataclysmic Planet.

Zhang Jingtian thought for a moment, and realized that among these imprisoned gods, the only one he could trust was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

So Zhang Jingtian walked step by step toward the prison where the other party was located.

“Great Sage…” Zhang Jingtian was very excited to see the hero he loved most in his childhood.

"Hmm." The Monkey King glanced at Zhang Jingtian and smiled calmly: "You know everything?"

Zhang Jingtian shook his head. He knew, in fact, that there were still many unanswered questions. For example, why were some cells in this Divine Prison empty?

And if there really are gods on the Scourge's side, why don't they just wipe out humanity? Their strength should be overwhelming.

He always felt that his diary contained very little.

The Monkey King glanced at him: "You're very clever. I know what you want to ask. Even if we are released, we won't directly descend into your world. It's just that our divinity has been unlocked, which means you can awaken us by creating cards."

"As for those prisons that are now empty, it's because those gods have fallen. They have submitted to our ultimate enemy, the masters of the Scourge, the Abyss Lords. So they have left, but like us, they have no way to descend."

Zhang Jingtian thought of those heretics and the Dark Moon Kingdom. He feared that if these card makers could break through to the god level, they would be able to summon those fallen gods.

"Who exactly built this prison?" Zhang Jingtian couldn't help but ask.

“It is us,” the Great Sage Equaling Heaven said. “When the Scourge invaded, your strength was far too disparate, so we descended to confront the Abyss Lord.”

However, the difference in strength between us is too great; we cannot kill the Abyss Lord, and of course, the other side cannot eliminate us either.

In the end, we had no choice but to seal it away. The price, however, was that we exhausted all our divine essence and were trapped in this divine prison.

“We have been waiting for someone to come here and save us. Now the Abyss Lord is about to awaken, and you have arrived. It can only be said that everything is destiny.”

Zhang Jingtian touched his nose: "I didn't expect I to be this important."

"So if I release you, I can create you?"

The Monkey King smiled and said, "That's how it is for others, but it's not so troublesome for you. You're the warden; you can mobilize all our forces."

However, due to your physical limitations, the amount of power we can grant you depends entirely on your, well, level.

Zhang Jingtian nodded, then suddenly said, "But just now, it seems like I've become an ordinary person again."

"Things will be different once you leave."

Then Zhang Jingtian picked up the key and released every god in the divine prison.

Before they left, they all remembered what Zhang Jingtian looked like.

Then they left.

At this time, Zhang Jingtian also returned to the familiar card-making space.

He saw that the five cards he had created were undergoing a transformation.

(End of this chapter)