Heroes' Prison

Chapter 615 - 590: The Return of the Old Man

Very soon, the young dragon devoured all ten or so Spirit Grasses the little girl had picked, its forehead now adorned with an additional forty or fifty scales. Including the previous ones, it had broken through the hundred-scale mark, completely covering its entire forehead!

The dragon now appeared as if wearing a crown made of scales, each Dragon Scale reflecting dazzling, golden light in the sunshine, neatly aligned. Though still very young, it already boasted a more impressive presence than at birth, the aura of a Golden Holy Dragon becoming increasingly evident.

Having consumed so many herbs in one go, the overload of medicinal power gathering inside its body seemed a bit too much to digest. Its eyelids began to droop, and its small body swayed before finally collapsing into the little girl’s arms, fast asleep.

"Poor thing! Sleep well!" the little girl said tenderly as she hugged the dragon tightly, stroking its little head.

Huang Yi watched the sleeping dragon with content, happy for its growth. Normally, it would have taken a lot of effort and perhaps half a month to find these Spirit Grasses, and if there were Guardian Beasts around, it would have been even more troublesome. But now, it got to eat them all with ease.

"Roar!" Just then, a thunderous roar reverberated from a distance, as if an unparalleled beast was enraged. Although far away, the sound was still terrifying.

"Could Master be under attack?" the little boy looked in the direction of the roar and said worriedly.

"Master is so skilled at escaping, he should be fine, right!" At this point, even the playful little girl became slightly anxious and glanced in the direction of the roar.

"Roar!" At that moment, a clearer roar burst from the mountains, as if the formidable beast was rushing towards them with great haste.

This made both the boy’s and the girl’s expressions turn grave as they stared in the direction of the roar. The girl clutched the little dragon in her arms even tighter, fearing it might get hurt.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

Gradually, the roars became clearer and more earth-shattering, and the ground itself seemed to tremble slightly.

Finally, Huang Yi’s sharp eyes spotted the legendary beast!

A giant monkey emerged from a valley between two distant mountains, a massive creature more than twenty meters tall, bellowing furiously as it struck the ground, closing in on something. Wherever it went, mountains crumbled, and forests were effortlessly flattened by its brute force.

Huang Yi opened his Third Eye to take a closer look and discovered an old man skillfully dodging in front of the giant monkey. The old man had white hair and a white beard, with a hunched body carrying a medicine basket. Despite being tiny in comparison to the monstrous monkey chasing him, nearly like a mouse to its hulking size, he narrowly escaped each of the monkey’s attacks, barely avoiding them with no chance to do anything else.

"I see a white-haired, white-bearded old man with a medicine basket, running this way. Could that be your master?" Huang Yi turned to the little boy and girl and immediately asked.

"Yes, that’s our master!" the little boy nodded vigorously, his gaze fixed on the rapidly approaching beast, his face filled with panic, "Master is being pursued by a beast? What do we do now!"

"Idiot! Master left behind a bottle of Sleeping Potion! Go get it from the house!" the girl quickly regained her composure and spoke.

"Oh, the Sleeping Potion! The Sleeping Potion!" the boy shouted as if grasping a lifeline and rushed into the house.

By this time, the giant monkey was very close, its roars sending nearby birds into a frenzied flight. The mountain seemed to tremble with the monkey’s thundering pace, and pine needles from the trees above Huang Yi rained down like a shower.

A storm was brewing; a great calamity was upon them!

If the giant monkey made its way here, it would likely destroy the entire mountain peak!

Quickly, the little boy dashed out of the house clutching a gourd tightly, as if it contained something life-saving, with all their hopes pinned within.

"What does this Sleeping Potion do?" Huang Yi immediately asked the little girl, his hand gripping the Bloodstained War Halberd tightly. He was set on helping them through this crisis, repaying the favor for the Spirit Grasses the dragon had enjoyed.

"The Sleeping Potion is a secret concoction made by Master using various Poisonous Herbs and Demonic Beast Bone Powder from Top-level Holy Domain Beasts! It has a strong hypnotic effect on Magical Beasts below the Advanced Holy Domain rank! As long as that giant monkey isn’t an Advanced Holy Domain Beast, the potion should be very effective. But this monkey looks so ferocious, I’m afraid it’s quite powerful!" the girl replied urgently, turning to Huang Yi with a teary voice, "Big Brother, can you save my master?"

"I’ll give it a try, but I need to use the Sleeping Potion!" Huang Yi nodded, snatched the gourd from the boy’s hands, then leaped off the cliff with a single bound, wings unfurling as he rushed towards the direction of the giant monkey.

The boy and the girl watched the approaching giant monkey with concern while holding onto hope for Huang Yi, wishing for him to show his might and drive the beast away.

As Huang Yi and the giant monkey closed in on one another, the creature’s form grew startlingly clear and savage. Its sinewy muscles bestowed upon it the power to split mountains and sunder the earth. A single strike would leave most people reduced to nothing more than a pile of flesh, not even a whole body would remain.

The old man was finding it increasingly difficult to escape the monstrous ape’s frenzied pursuit, clearly running on fumes and unable to hold on much longer!

As Huang Yi flew, he opened the gourd, and instantly a supremely foul and fishy stink rushed out! Huang Yi wrinkled his brow, held his breath, and peered inside.

Inside the gourd was a black liquid, just like ink. He immediately sprinkled the liquid onto the Bloodstained War Halberd in his hand, endowing the weapon with the effects of the liquid, the same way he had previously applied the Demon Clan’s Blood.

After applying the Sleeping Potion, Huang Yi swung his arm with all his might, and the Bloodstained War Halberd immediately flew from his hand, speeding towards the ferocious giant ape far away in a rapid attack! The speed of the Flying Axe was much faster than his own, able to strike the giant ape before him!

The maximum Attack Range of the Flying Axe is 20 times the Level of the wielder in meters. Huang Yi, now at Level 132, could therefore launch the Flying Axe Skill to a distance of 2640 meters, a range no other attack skill of Huang Yi’s possessed!

The Flying Axe flies at a hundred meters per second! And since the giant ape was about two thousand meters away, it would take the Flying Axe a considerable time to reach it. Normally, hitting an enemy from such a distance would be tough, as the enemy could easily dodge by changing position. However, after Huang Yi’s Reform, this skill had gained the ability to automatically track the target, making it impossible for the enemy to dodge!

As seconds slipped by, Huang Yi’s Bloodstained War Halberd, carrying all his Hope, tore through the air at a breakneck pace, creating a deafening whooshing sound as it closed in on the giant ape.

"Boom!" Just then, the giant ape swung its arm once again, smashing down towards the old man with brute force!

In an instant, soil splattered, and several trees were snapped by the sheer Barbarian strength! The old man, unable to dodge, was hit by the aftershock of the battle and was sent flying, coughing up blood!

The giant ape quickly caught up and raised its thick paw, viciously smashing down towards the old man!

The enormous shadow, like death itself, engulfed the fallen old man, the sharp claws etched deeply in the old man’s eyes! In despair, he watched the approaching giant claw, feeling as if he would soon become part of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, nourishing the new grass sprouts in the coming year!

Time froze at that moment, and the sunlight leaking through the leaves was so faint, flickering in his eyes, fragile as life itself!

"Thud!" At that critical moment, he suddenly heard the sound of a sharp weapon hitting flesh!

Subsequently, the paw that was growing ever larger in his field of vision, quickly receded and left his sight!

The old man’s life had been snatched back from the brink, and he immediately scrambled to his feet, not even bothering to pick up the medicine basket he had dropped, and fled madly into the distance!

"Don’t be afraid, I’ here!" Just then, he suddenly heard a man’s voice coming from the high skies in front, and soon he saw a man with black wings flying towards him.

That person was unmistakably Huang Yi. His Flying Axe had struck the giant ape before him, repelled it at the most critical moment, preventing that final lethal strike from being delivered.

Not only that, but the Sleeping Potion smeared on the Flying Axe had also smeared onto the giant ape, making it staggering, stumbling, and seemingly about to fall asleep. However, after shaking its head, it regained consciousness and resumed its normal pace.

At that moment, Huang Yi’s heart sank, knowing that he was completely no match for the giant ape!

The ape’s Level was a staggering 170! This was genuinely an Advanced Holy Domain Beast’s rank, and its strength was intact, unharmed, Huang Yi would be no match for it even if he summoned his actual body to fight.

"I’ll take you away!" Huang Yi made a split-second decision, stopped fighting the giant ape, and immediately picked up the old man, flying quickly into the high sky.

"Young man, thank you for saving my life!" Having narrowly escaped death, the old man seemed to deflate like a punctured ball, his tense state giving way to one of exhaustion as if he had been drained.

"Roar!" Just at that moment, the giant ape saw Huang Yi rescuing the old man, and let out a skyward roar towards Huang Yi! The violent roar swept towards Huang Yi, carrying a fishy stench!

Afterward, it continued to chase after Huang Yi furiously, as if no matter where the old man fled, it had to pursue him to the end without giving up!

"Why is it constantly chasing you?" Huang Yi frowned and asked in confusion.

"Because I stole something from it." The old man said as he shakily took something out of his bosom and handed it to Huang Yi.

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