Heroes' Prison

Chapter 1370 - 1300: Stealthy Pursuit

After a rapid journey, Yun finally arrived once more at the front of the Hell’s Gate.

"You demons, don’t even think about passing through the Hell’s Gate!" At this moment, an angry shout came from the direction of the Hell’s Gate, accompanied by sounds of intense fighting.

Yun focused his gaze and immediately saw a few familiar faces—

T.N.T, Tarna, Miyamoto Musashi!

After their deaths, the three of them had also chosen to rush back to the Seventh Challenge of Purgatory Mountain, but upon reaching the Hell’s Gate, they were fighting with the Guardian Assassin, dragging on until now.

Seeing this scene, Yun could roughly guess the reason. After Assassin was killed by the Heavenly Demon before, grudges were formed against the Demon Clan, and upon seeing T.N.T, Tarna, and Miyamoto Musashi, the natural course of action was to attack them.

Yun gripped the Wrath of the Godslayer tightly, planning to rush up and kill T.N.T, Miyamoto Musashi, and Tarna again to test the new power of this level six artifact embryo.

But quickly, his eyes flickered, and he abandoned this plan.

He used invisibility, suddenly disappearing into the air, quietly sprinting towards the Hell’s Gate.

"The God of Slaughter has already snatched a boss from the Seventh Challenge, we must return there quickly! I will trap Assassin immediately, and then force my way into the Hell’s Gate!" At this time, Tarna let out a tender shout, suddenly tore off the black headscarf wrapped around her head, and tossed it toward Assassin!

The black headscarf instantly transformed into a silken stream, swiftly wrapping around Assassin, binding him tightly.

Taking advantage of this gap, Tarna, Miyamoto Musashi, and T.N.T rushed hurriedly towards the Hell’s Gate!

Just then, from the air in front of them, a figure suddenly appeared, holding an axe, blocking their path.

The figure was very thin, but standing in front of them, exuded an imposing manner that was insurmountable, like a great mountain blocking their way!

"The God of Slaughter!" Miyamoto Musashi and the others immediately halted their steps, staring at the silhouette gravely.

They had just learned from team messages that Yun had forcefully stolen the beautiful boss of the Seventh Challenge from the Heavenly Demon and others.

Moreover, T.N.T and Tarna had died due to the Kiss of Death, essentially at Yun’s hand.

"Quick, drink these Antidote Essences!" Miyamoto Musashi hurriedly took out two bottles of S-class Antidote Essence, handing them to T.N.T and Tarna.

Seeing Yun had already given them a psychological shadow, no matter what, they drank the antidote potion first.

Yun quietly watched them hurriedly drink down this precious Antidote Essence, maintaining a faint smile on his face. In fact, he had not released the Kiss of Death Poison, the air was clean and safe.

At this moment, he suddenly weighed the Wrath of the Godslayer in his hand, and used the second artifact skill he had just acquired—the Slaying God’s Curse!

In the next moment, the Wrath of the Godslayer glowed with a bloody light, emanating a powerful divine power aura, and every engraving on the axe seemed to come alive, quickly turning blood red!

Soon, three drops of fresh blood flowed out from the engravings, emitting a glaring red light, directly shooting at Miyamoto Musashi, T.N.T, and Tarna!

The three of them were shocked, quickly dodging, using various defensive techniques, making their defenses impenetrable.

But the three drops of blood seemed to have eyes, no matter where they retreated to, or how they dodged, they relentlessly followed, chasing them to the end!

Soon, the three drops of blood broke through their layers of defense, striking their bodies fiercely.

The three of them shuddered instinctively, but quickly realized that this strike didn’t hurt at all.

They instinctively tensed up, waiting for this move to take effect, then planning a response.

One second passed.

Two seconds passed.

They couldn’t help but feel puzzled, having waited until now, those three drops of blood hadn’t caused any consequences, not even a sense of pain, as if nothing had happened.

"What kind of trick is this?"

"Why is there no noticeable reaction?"

"It doesn’t hurt or itch, my attributes haven’t changed either."

The three of them, Miyamoto Musashi, lowered their heads, staring blankly at themselves, whispering to each other.

"Don’t be nervous, just playing a joke on you!" Yun smiled faintly, stepping aside to the road, rushing to Assassin, and untying the black headscarf entwined around him.

Miyamoto Musashi and the others, half-believing, half-doubting, hurriedly seized the opportunity and immediately rushed to the front of Hell’s Gate, opening the door and slipping inside.

Soon after, Yun helped Assassin untie the black headscarf.

Assassin resentfully stared toward the direction of Hell’s Gate, frowning and cursing under his breath: "Damn it! They actually forced their way into the Hell’s Gate!"

"Don’t worry, I’ll go in and kill them, avenging you!" Yun said.

Assassin turned to look at Yun, seeing there were only two sin marks left on his forehead, he was suddenly surprised: "So fast, you’ve already washed away the Five Deadly Sins?"

"Yes! The Seventh Sin is also halfway washed away, the female Guardian of the Seventh Challenge, I’ve already slain!" Yun nodded.

"The power of you Heaven-Sent Men is truly terrifying!" Abigail murmured in astonishment, "Just now, those three Demon Clan Heaven-Sent Men, Martial Emperor, Fire God, Undead Princess, also possess extraordinary strength!"

Martial Emperor, Fire God, Undead Princess are precisely the names bestowed upon Miyamoto Musashi, T.N.T, and Tarna.

"I will enter Hell’s Gate and kill these three for you right now!" Huang Yi said, striding forward to Hell’s Gate, pushing it open, and rushing in.

Earlier, the reason Huang Yi didn’t kill Miyamoto Musashi and the others but instead used the Artifact Skill [Slaying God’s Curse] was to plant three Seeds of Slaughter on them, allowing him to control the whereabouts of the three at any time.

Once the Seeds of Slaughter parasitize, Huang Yi can know the current location of the parasite at any time.

Previously, Ling, Miyamoto Musashi, T.N.T, and others were chasing the Heavenly Demon without climbing slowly from the first challenge to the second but took a shortcut directly to the third challenge!

By parasitically implanting the Seeds of Slaughter on Miyamoto Musashi and the other two, Huang Yi can know their path forward at any time. As long as they take that shortcut again, Huang Yi will also know where it is.

...

After entering Hell’s Gate, Miyamoto Musashi, the other two arrived at that Infinite City and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In front of the God of Slaughter, their pressure was enormous!

"Let’s go! We’ll find that shortcut, use it to climb the mountain again, saving a lot of time." Miyamoto Musashi said.

In Purgatory, some abilities are unusable, such as Huang Yi’s Eye of Time, teleportation abilities, flight capability, etc. To ascend the mountain, they can only travel honestly.

"Exactly! The God of Slaughter doesn’t know the shortcut to the third challenge, needing to waste time traveling there. By the time he catches up to the seventh challenge, we’ll have already reached the top!"

As they spoke, they quickly moved along the previous path, weaving through a cluster of blood-red buildings, heading towards the street where the shortcut was.

"We’re here!" After traveling for a while, Miyamoto Musashi smiled slightly, pointing at a residence ahead on the street.

The residence had three stained-glass windows, standing out among the blood-red structures.

The three accelerated, rushing forward, pushing the door open, and entering the residence.

They moved deftly to the northwest corner of the room, where there was a cellar, into which they directly jumped.

Shortly after they jumped into the cellar, the light in the room suddenly dimmed, with a new figure appearing.

This person was none other than Huang Yi.

Using the Seeds of Slaughter setup in Miyamoto Musashi and others, he had tracked them all the way here.

He soon noticed the cellar, a smile appeared on his face.

It seemed this was the shortcut to the third challenge.

He promptly jumped in, arriving at the bottom of the cellar.

The cellar contained a secret corridor, dimly lit on both sides, extending far into the darkness.

In the secret passage, Huang Yi sprinted, the lamplights turning into a trail of flowing beams, rapidly retreating.

"We’ve found the tree hole of the seventh challenge! Pope, where are you?" At this moment, Abigail sent a team message. They had finally caught up, about to meet up with the Pope.

"Hurry and jump down the tree hole, always keep left! Heavenly Demon and others are attacking the male BOSS, we must stop them, buying time for God of Slaughter to ascend!" The Pope quickly replied.

...

After sprinting for some time, Huang Yi finally burst out of the secret passage.

The clouds here were very low, almost brushing against his head, silent and without any thunder.

As expected, he was very close to the 3rd Stage!

Huang Yi rushed into the clouds, heading straight for the coordinate point of the Thunder Hole.

"Boom~" After traveling a distance, from the depths of the distant fog, came the sounds of an intense battle.

That was clearly the direction of the BOSS point!

Previously, Huang Yi set the BOSS of this challenge to the Pope. His team could directly bypass this BOSS, but other teams had to defeat the BOSS to continue forward.

Thus, from the battle sounds, it was surely Miyamoto Musashi, T.N.T, and Tarna battling the BOSS, and the conflict sounded extremely tense, a minor mistake would lead to disaster!

Huang Yi smiled slightly, gently uttering a spell: "The Curse of Slaughter—Activate!"

In the next moment, at the BOSS point far away, erupted an unprecedented cacophony of noise, weapon clashes rang out wildly, and various Skill Radiance lit up simultaneously, dyeing the clouds in a myriad of colors!

After the intense noise, the light emitted from there suddenly dimmed, the battle sounds weakening swiftly, eventually descending into complete silence, with no light again.

Huang Yi opened the Level rankings, indeed seeing Miyamoto Musashi, T.N.T, and Tarna had all dropped one Level.

They had died once more!