Heroes' Prison

Chapter 204 - 202 Treasure (Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Huang Yi squeezed his horse’s belly, slowly entering the Dragon’s Mouth on the headless horse.

Inside the Dragon’s Mouth was a passageway, leading to a place similar to an Underground Palace, with a vast subterranean space.

This place was entirely built with stones, each carved with dragon patterns, densely packed like Relief Sculptures, exquisitely peerless.

However, such ancient art clearly lacked appreciation. The ceiling and walls of the underground palace were covered in spider webs, with occasional spiders crawling over them. Along the way, Huang Yi also saw many shovels, torches, and other tools carelessly discarded on the ground, revealing that this place had been explored countless times before.

The clip-clop of horse hooves echoed in this silent underground palace, resonating round after round, enveloping Huang Yi as if he had entered into the vast expanse of historical spacetime, completely isolated from the world.

After circling around, he did not find any valuable clues; it seemed to be a common underground palace, without any secret passages or mechanisms.

Huang Yi then employed the Third Eye!

Suddenly, his Third Eye emitted a Divine Light, sweeping back and forth across the underground palace, scanning each stone slab, each Relief Sculpture, not missing a single detail, clear down to the number of grains of sand in every crevice between the stones.

After a long inspection, he still discovered nothing unusual; it seemed there really was no treasure here.

Huang Yi pondered for a moment, then activated the Eye of Time, observing the past history of this area!

The next moment, the scene before Huang Yi’s eyes suddenly changed, much like playing a movie, tracing back through the distant history, traveling through time, with chunks of history flitting before his eyes.

"Hmm?" After continuously observing ten thousand years of history, Huang Yi finally noticed a difference.

In the northwest corner of the underground palace, on a palm-sized piece of the ceiling, not a single spider web had formed in ten thousand years, whereas the rest of the place was covered with them, only that spot remained untouched.

Huang Yi stopped using the Eye of Time, dismounted, and walked toward that area of the ceiling. The ceiling of the underground palace was heavily decorated, too many to count, and no one would pay attention to that small stone slab. If Huang Yi did not have the Third Eye, or the Eye of Time, he definitely would not have noticed this subtle detail; one must possess both abilities to discover it.

Quickly, Huang Yi arrived below the piece of ceiling stone, transformed into his White Dragon Form, flew up, and began to study that piece of the ceiling.

This ceiling tile, along with the surrounding ones, were carved to form a Giant Dragon, which seemed lifelike. However, such reliefs were commonplace in this vast underground palace, numbering in the thousands and were not conspicuous at all.

This ceiling tile was precisely carved with the Dragon Claw portion of the dragon!

Huang Yi thought that a dragon’s claw was akin to a human’s hand and that hand symbols typically conveyed actions like opening or pushing, suggesting that this stone slab might be a mechanism. But countless people had previously searched this place, likely touching every ceiling tile without triggering the mechanism, probably because they did not meet the required conditions.

Huang Yi pondered for a while, then his gaze suddenly fixed on the carved Dragon Claw on that stone slab, the carving of a single claw suggesting that the mechanism might require a Dragon Claw to open!

At that moment, Huang Yi was in his White Dragon Form. Although it was just an Incarnation, he had infused his blood, which had the blended Talents of the Dragon Clan, during its creation process, and this Incarnation shared all his abilities, including the lineage of the White Dragon Clan, making it effectively a dragon!

The next moment, he adjusted his posture, extended his Dragon Claw, and gently touched the ceiling tile.

"Click!" A sound of a mechanism being unlocked suddenly resounded!

"Boom!" At that moment, the wall at the deepest part of the underground palace began to tremble violently, opening to the side, as countless dust particles fell.

Seeing this, Huang Yi breathed a sigh of relief; he was right in his guess!

This place was related to the Golden Holy Dragon, and the mechanism could only be opened by Bloodline Bearers of the Dragon Clan. Without the Dragon bloodline, even finding the mechanism was useless.

Quickly, the wall completely opened, revealing a golden Barrier that obscured the view, hiding what lay behind it as if it were an unknown world.

Huang Yi flew over, arriving at the entrance of the hidden chamber, and examined the Barrier with the Third Eye. However, his hitherto invincible Third Eye seemed useless in front of the golden Barrier, utterly unable to see through to what lay hidden inside.

Huang Yi extended his Dragon Claw, testing the Barrier, which provided no resistance to him and he easily passed through. Somewhat surprised, he immediately proceeded in, crossing the Barrier.

A flash of light later, Huang Yi found himself in an entirely new scene.

Inside the Barrier was a long and silent corridor, seemingly forgotten for countless years. Not far ahead stood a stone tablet, on which a few lines were engraved—

"Adventurer, congratulations on reaching my Treasure Room, the wealth within now belongs to you. But unfortunately, the Barrier behind you only allows entry, not exit, unless your strength reaches Level Two Hundred, otherwise you won’t be able to force this Barrier open. You have found my treasure after many hardships and possess countless riches, yet you cannot leave alive. This must be very amusing, right? — Golden Holy Dragon, Vantes"

Upon reading these lines, Huang Yi was shocked, immediately turning to touch the golden entrance Barrier. Now, the originally unobstructed Barrier had become as hard as iron, completely impenetrable!

He was completely trapped in this hidden chamber!

There were only two ways out: the first, as described on the stone tablet, was to reach Level Two Hundred. But that was impossible, this place was not a Level Grinding zone, leveling up was not an option, and even if it was possible, it would take who knows how long to reach Level Two Hundred.

The second method was death, which could allow Resurrection outside!

Huang Yi suddenly felt fortunate that it was his Incarnation that came here; if it had been his true form, he would have had to die once!

The joke played by this Golden Holy Dragon was a bit too much. If NPCs were to come here, they would probably be trapped for a lifetime, and if players were to come, they would have to die at least once; with bad luck, they might even face reincarnation.

However, Huang Yi had a question in his heart: if this Golden Holy Dragon wanted to kill those treasure hunters, it could have easily relaxed the entry conditions to let more people in. But now, the mechanism outside could only be opened by Bloodline Bearers of the Dragon Clan. He wondered what the reason could be.

Transformed into a Humanoid Beast King, Huang Yi proceeded down the corridor. This should be the treasure of the Golden Holy Dragon, the treasure that countless people had searched for over many years, and it was right before him.

After a while, a door appeared beside the corridor with a line written on it: Level 50 Treasure.

This room could probably only be entered by players above level 50; Huang Yi met the criteria. He tried pushing the door and it opened easily.

Inside was a small stone chamber with just two chests, as if waiting for countless years for someone to open them.

Huang Yi immediately entered, stood before the two chests, took a deep breath, and opened the first one.

The next moment, a dazzling light radiated from the chest.

The chest was neatly filled with stones the size of a fist. They were all black and emitted a faint halo, illuminating the entire stone chamber.

"Energy Stones!" Huang Yi couldn’t help but exclaim!

This box full of glowing black stones was none other than the precious Energy Stones!

In the past, Huang Yi had only obtained Energy Stones one by one, with the most being the ten C-grade Energy Stones after leading the Yanhuang Legion to first kill the Zombie King. But here was a whole box!

Such a large quantity was enough to shock anyone.

Huang Yi calmed his emotions and counted carefully; there were exactly 50 Energy Stones in the box, all C-grade, each capable of increasing 3000 Energy Points. That meant there were a total of 150,000 Energy Points here.

Huang Yi used the Eye of Time to check the system’s verdict for the 9th Stage of the War Soul, which required 2000 Energy Points daily. This box of Energy Stones could support him for 75 days of consumption!

The long-standing problem of Energy Points was finally perfectly resolved!

Next, with an excited heart, Huang Yi opened the other chest.

What was revealed before him were crystal stones the size of a thumb. They were transparent and emitted blue light. Inside the center of the crystals were frozen shadows of various beings, Elves, Dwarves, Gnoll, and many others.

"Crystals!" Huang Yi recognized these items once again!

This box was filled with Level 60 Crystals, specifically used to enhance the War Soul, and there were exactly 50 of them.

It seemed that the treasures in this room were set according to what players between levels 50 and 60 needed most.

After level 50, players could undergo War Soul Awakening and Job Change. Enhancing the War Soul would require a large number of Crystals!

And level 50 was precisely the stage for the first Job Change. After changing classes, the use of some Class Ultimate Moves by common classes would also start consuming Energy Points, and Energy Stones would become a common consumable for everyone. Everybody would need them.

Now, the two most precious consumables in the eyes of players above level 50 were laid out before Huang Yi, there for the taking.

Huang Yi immediately placed the two treasure chests into his storage ring, checked around to ensure nothing was overlooked, then exited the room to continue down the corridor.

It wasn’t long before Huang Yi saw another room with a line written on the door: Level 100 Treasure.

Huang Yi pushed on this door, but no matter how much force he applied, the door wouldn’t budge, not even a speck of dust fell.

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