Heroes' Prison

Chapter 1003 - 948: Discovery of the Underworld

Time seemed to stagnate as Huang Yi and Sharp Sword faced each other, their pupils reflecting each other’s images!

In the next moment, Sharp Sword lifted his leg and stepped forward!

He directly passed through Huang Yi, arriving behind him!

Huang Yi was slightly startled, glancing with the corner of his eye, he found Sharp Sword stopping before the Fallen General, head raised, scrutinizing its enormous form!

It turned out that Sharp Sword’s target was not Huang Yi, but the Fallen General behind him, it was just that Huang Yi happened to block Sharp Sword’s view, causing Huang Yi to mistakenly think Sharp Sword was looking at him.

At this moment, Sharp Sword’s hand suddenly swayed, skillfully pulling out a bloody hook, easily hooking it onto the Fallen General!

The hook directly pierced into the soul body of the Fallen Messenger, firmly hooking it, unable to break free. Sharp Sword hooked the Fallen General, striding toward the horizon rapidly, disappearing soon with the Fallen General, as if they never appeared.

Huang Yi was stunned!

He gaped in shock at the direction Sharp Sword had vanished, a shiver passing in his heart!

Sharp Sword could actually see this world! Not only could he see it, but he also familiarly hooked away the soul of the Fallen General, purposefully heading to some place.

Clearly, Sharp Sword had already spent some time in this mysterious world!

While Huang Yi had just discovered this world, knowing nothing about it!

What exactly is this world? Why is it identical to the geographic features of the real world?

Why do most people not see this world after entering the Death Space?

Why was he previously unable to see this world, but now he can?

Why can only his left eye see everything here, while the right eye remains pitch black?

Huang Yi carefully recalled. The last time he died in the wild was during that battle in the Land of Dongying. But at that time, after entering the Death Space, he did not see any of this, it was pitch black all around, and reincarnated back to Singapore continent, the whole process was normal.

That is to say, from that death until now, within these nearly six months, his left eye underwent some changes, enabling him to see everything in front.

What changes occurred in his left eye?

Almost instantly, he recalled a potion—Tears of the Underworld King!

A while ago, a magical potion named "Tears of the Underworld King" was bred in his medicine bottle, which when dropped into one eye, grants that eye the ability of the Eye of the Underworld.

At that time, he dropped that potion into his left eye! This granted his left eye the ’Eye of the Underworld’ ability, but that ability was unusable, only usable in the Underworld!

And now, his left eye saw this mysterious world!

Could it be, this is the legendary Underworld?!

Thinking this, Huang Yi immediately checked his energy value.

Sure enough, his energy value was slowly declining now, indicating that the Eye of the Underworld had self-activated, consuming his energy value!

Huang Yi turned his head in shock, reassessing this world!

His gaze swept over the ocean islands below, over the unaware souls, becoming increasingly certain about this conjecture!

The Underworld, also known as the Nether Realm, is the final resting place for all creatures. Throughout history, all beings, whether Legendary Hero or ancient Magical Beast, whether The Gods or hordes of demons, after death, if the soul isn’t absorbed or subjected to other anomalies, it will inevitably go to the Underworld!

And this world perfectly matches this description, it’s filled with souls, especially the Fallen General he had just killed with his own hands, now seeing its soul here!

All indications show that this is indeed the Underworld!

As it turns out, the Underworld, which countless people seek, is indeed the Death Space!

This huge revelation also finally dispelled the doubt in his heart—

After breaking the world record for the 240th floor of the Tower of Pantheons, he obtained an Underworld Pearl, which required having been to the Underworld to use, and item description showed he had been to the Underworld!

At that time, he was extremely shocked upon learning this, recalling carefully but couldn’t guess where it was. Now it’s easy to infer the reason, he had died in the wild area before, visited the Death Space, naturally meaning he’d been to the Underworld.

Seeing this way, nearly all players worldwide have been to the Underworld, they just lack the Eye of the Underworld, being unable to see its circumstances, assuming there’s nothing there.

Huang Yi faintly feels that this Underworld may be the ultimate region in the Myriads of Heavens and Realms, even the King of Hell has intricate ties with it, once clarified, all prior mysteries might resolve completely.

Huang Yi stroked his waist, taking out his Waist Pendant.

Originally, he fused the Underworld Pearl onto this ancestral Waist Pendant, although the attributes of this ancestral jewelry had fallen far behind, its attached skill of Level Up kept him wearing it till now, raising 20 levels within ten seconds.

After fusion with the Underworld Pearl, this piece of jewelry can absorb souls in the Underworld for enhancement, reaching up to Epic Equipment level!

At this time, Huang Yi noticed a soul drifting nearby, he immediately directed the ancestral Waist Pendant toward that soul!

In the next moment, the two touched together!

The soul trembled instantly, its expression seemingly extremely painful, struggling with fangs and claws, eventually turning into a wisp of smoke and being absorbed into the Ancestral Waist Pendant!

The Ancestral Waist Pendant immediately became more crystalline, with a more transparent texture, and its attributes slightly improved a bit.

Huang Yi simply held the Ancestral Waist Pendant and actively drifted towards each soul.

This time, the souls in this world were instantly swept away, all turning to gray smoke and being completely absorbed into the Ancestral Waist Pendant. The Ancestral Waist Pendant became more and more crystalline, more and more like a treasure, and its attributes became higher and higher.

Finally, after three hours, he heard a System Prompt—

"[System Prompt]: [Ancestral Waist Pendant] has been upgraded to Epic Equipment and can no longer absorb souls."

[Ancestral Waist Pendant] (Epic, Jewelry-Pendant)

Magic Defense: 2800

Strength+25%

Constitution+25%

Critical Hit Rate+20%

Critical Hit Effect+100%

Attack Speed+15%

Attack Power+20%

Rage Accumulation Speed+200%

Durability: 10000/10000

Required Level: Can increase with level up, currently Level 269

Equipment Score: 5400

Item Description: You are my Underworld; otherwise, why would my soul belong to you?

Attached Skill:

[Level Up]: Active Effect: Can temporarily increase your level by 20, lasts 10 seconds, cooldown time 10 days. Passive Effect: Experience Points acquisition speed +20%

After being upgraded to the Epic Tier, all attributes of this pendant have greatly improved, all directly increasing by percentage. Additionally, the [Level Up] skill also gained a passive effect for Experience Points acquisition speed +20%.

Epic Equipment usually carries two skills, but Huang Yi’s skill slots are full, so the Ancestral Waist Pendant does not generate new skills.

Huang Yi reattached the Ancestral Waist Pendant to his waist, equipped it, and immediately felt his strength increase once more.

As of now, all his equipment has surpassed Legendary! The kind of equipment that an average person might not obtain even in their lifetime, yet now he wears it all over!

It can be said that he no longer has any needs in terms of equipment, having reached the top-level tier.

Next, Huang Yi again surveyed the area, his gaze locking onto Sun Island below, and he fell into thought.

He had previously speculated that Sharp Sword had a method of duplicating equipment, but he never knew how it was done.

During the Third-tier Trial, he returned to over a hundred years ago and in an internet cafe witnessed old games like "Legendary" and "World of Warcraft," further deducing that Sharp Sword must have found a place similar to a replica of The Second World, thus able to duplicate his experiences and obtain his Legendary Epic Equipment!

Now it seems that the place Sharp Sword found should be this Underworld, and those duplicated pieces of equipment should all be obtained from here. There must be many items in this Underworld corresponding to those in The Second World.

Thinking of this, Huang Yi couldn’t help but descend from the air, landing on Sun Island, and began to weave through the dense coconut grove, looking left and right, searching carefully.

He had heard Thunder God mention something in a chat before. When Thunder God conquered Sun Island, he had killed a Murloc Tribe Chief who ruled Sun Island and obtained an Orange Gear armor called "Murloc Scales."

If Huang Yi could repeat such an experience on Sun Island in this Underworld, then his guess would be completely confirmed!

After searching for a while, Huang Yi finally discovered a tribe surrounded by fences and covered with a few shabby straw huts in a forest in the northwest.

At this time, there were dozens of murloc souls floating in the tribe, among which one murloc soul was obviously larger, wearing simple equipment, and holding a harpoon, seemingly the chief.

Huang Yi, holding the Wrath of the Godslayer, charged straight up and started striking at that murloc chief head-on!

The next moment, the murloc chief’s body was split into two, directly instakilled, and a piece of armor popped out of the body, glimmering with scales, seemingly made of fish scales.

Huang Yi quickly picked it up, checked it, and his pupils instantly shrank.

Sure enough, the armor was called "Murloc Scales," an Orange Gear!

This completely proved the previous speculation that Sharp Sword’s method of duplicating equipment was indeed realized in this Underworld!

The long-standing mystery was finally solved!