Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1228 - 1167: Return to the Mysterious Island
Inside the grand hall ahead, there were densely packed guards, each brimming with strength and sharp gazes.
They were well equipped, their armor shining and spears and halberds arranged like a forest, exuding fierce killing intent. At this moment, they were neatly arranged, forming military formations to tightly protect the general seated at a high throne at the end of the hall.
If ordinary players came here, they would need to lure these small monsters out one by one to fight, advancing slowly. If they were slightly careless and triggered the entire military formation, it would lead to total annihilation.
But Huang Yi feared nothing and charged in with Wrath of the Godslayer, knocking aside any soldiers who stood in his way.
Where he passed, limbs and armor were flung into the air, with no one able to stop him.
When he reached the center of the soldier phalanx, he immediately flapped the Wings of Death behind him!
"Whoosh!" A huge area around him instantly plunged into a raging sea of fire, with thousands of soldiers under attack, all rushing towards Huang Yi with a roar.
These soldiers were Level 290 top-level celestial realm experts, charging together with overwhelming momentum, the sound of killing shaking the heavens, knife and sword shadows dazzling the eye.
"Whoosh~" A golden Sacred Flame descended from the sky, washing over the speeding soldiers like a waterfall, the golden holy flame splattering everywhere, igniting anything it touched and impossible to extinguish.
This was the Sacred Flame of Little Dragon, who spiraled above the hall, its enormous body shining with golden light, wherever its Dragon’s Mouth pointed, a golden Sacred Flame engulfed it.
Huang Yi’s Wings of Death and Little Dragon’s Sacred Flame were both large-scale flame attacks, intertwined to rapidly burn down the health points of the thousand soldiers in range.
At this time, Xiao Chunzi, controlling Huang Yi’s clone, also flew over, likewise flapping the Wings of Death behind the clone.
In an instant, another sea of fire descended, overlaying Huang Yi’s sea of fire and Little Dragon’s Sacred Flame!
The entire area turned into a massive crematorium, soldiers falling in droves, burned to ashes, contributing a vast amount of experience points. Only some elite monster captains were struggling to hold on, shouting loudly.
The Barbarian God Simulacrum didn’t fly into the air but moved within the sea of fire, specifically targeting these elite monsters, simultaneously striking with the Bone Staff and replica God Hunter Whip, finishing them off in a few moves.
It took only a few dozen seconds for this whole area to be cleared. These were small monsters in five-person mode, more formidable than in single-player mode. A regular five-person player party might need over an hour, or even longer, to clear it out.
However, despite the death of so many monsters, Huang Yi’s experience bar didn’t budge. The experience he needed for upgrading was far too high, and leveling up in the Tower of Pantheons had long since become unrealistic. Even farming for one or two months wouldn’t guarantee a level up. His methods for leveling up could only rely on defeating super strong NPC experts above his level or using direct upgrade items.
Huang Yi adjusted the experience points distribution ratio, allocating all the experience points to Xiao Chunzi. Her level was only at the Primary Heavenly Domain Level, so her leveling speed in the Tower of Pantheons was quite considerable.
Next, Huang Yi continued his rapid advance, charging into the next group of monsters.
As he farmed monsters, he opened the world rankings to take a look—
1st place: God of Slaughter (Level 293, China)
2nd place: Zaisin (Level 285, India)
3rd place: Half the City in Summer (Level 285, Japan)
4th place: Heavenly Demon (Level 285, China)
5th place: Cannon Fodder Rabbit (Level 285, Malaysia) 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
6th place: Somali Bandit (Level 284, Somalia)
7th place: Uncle Mark (Level 284, United Kingdom)
8th place: Stephen Jinzhou (Level 284, United States)
9th place: Slightly Cold and Icy (Level 284, Singapore)
10th place: Ning Chichen (Level 284, China)
He still held the number one position, but the gap with the second place had narrowed to less than 10 levels!
Besides him, ranks two through nine were all pure common players of common races and common classes. The experience they needed to level up was only about 1/4 of what Huang Yi, with his divine class, required, and less than 1/2 of those with rare races and rare classes. Their rapid leveling speed somewhat made up for their racial and class disadvantages.
Huang Yi was an extremely rare exception, the world’s only divine class, the most difficult to level up, yet he had climbed to the top of the world rankings. If he were a regular player, with all the experience points he had gained, he would have long since reached the Level 300 cap.
Among these top 10, Huang Yi was most concerned about the 4th-ranked Heavenly Demon!
Heavenly Demon, after advancing to The Eighth Great Demon King and obtaining the Magic Dragon Wings, had made rapid progress in power, killing many experts dozens of levels above him, enjoying a bounty of over-leveled monster killing experience.
Moreover, with the privilege of the Demon King, he obtained many Demon Cores within the Demon Clan, bypassing the step of monster hunting, directly leveling up by consuming Demon Cores.
In a very short time, his level increased by dozens, rushing to the fourth place in the world, creating the fastest ranking improvement in the three-plus-year history of the virtual world’s opening; it was only a matter of time before he surpassed Huang Yi.
While the Heavenly Demon was rapidly leveling up, he also broke the corresponding Tower of Pantheons world records. Currently, the seven world records from the 220th to 280th floors all bear the name of the Heavenly Demon.
Compared to him, the Spirit Demon’s leveling speed was slightly slower. Being from a Rare Race and having a Rare Class, leveling up was more challenging for the Spirit Demon.
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In an endless stretch of ocean, there lies a mysterious small island, upon which stands a giant eye, as if gazing towards the edge of the sea.
This island is precisely the mysterious island Huang Yi had previously discovered. The giant eye organ on the island continuously absorbs nature’s spiritual energy and all treasures in the surrounding sea areas, and even contains Heroic Aura.
A while ago, Huang Yi sent Dao Feng over, and he absorbed the Heroic Aura from this gigantic eye, allowing Dao Feng to ascend as a hero.
In addition to this island, Thunder God had also discovered such a mysterious island with a giant organ and ascended to hero status.
Huang Yi further speculated that the Pope, Ice Queen Frozen Lemongrass, and Soul likely encountered such mysterious islands and became heroes by virtue of them.
These mysterious islands’ giant organs all contain a mysterious black hole leading to an unknown space. When Huang Yi first discovered this gigantic eye organ, he used the Eye of Time to see the mysterious python of Nasha entering the black hole.
At that time, he spawned a clone with only 1% of the attributes of the main body, intending to explore the black hole, but was instantly destroyed upon contact, forcing him to abandon the attempt.
Recently, when Dao Feng came to absorb the Heroic Aura, he also tried to investigate the black hole. But even with strength equal to that of Huang Yi, he couldn’t enter. The black hole seems to have some restrictions, allowing only certain people to enter, irrespective of one’s strength.
Later, after Huang Yi evolved into Nashash, he intended to explore this black hole again. But he was previously occupied with exterminating the Half-Beastmen Clan and couldn’t find the time.
Today, his Incarnation finally arrived here to explore this mysterious black hole!
After deeply evolving into the complete form of the Golden Holy Dragon, the Incarnation’s strength further increased, reaching 70% of the main body’s all attributes, and he could resurrect three times a day. Moreover, he could level grind independently, perfectly suitable for such life-threatening explorations, with no losses even if he died.
Huang Yi soared in front of the gigantic eye, examining it carefully once again, feeling shaken within.
This gigantic eye was lifelike, with twisted blood vessels resembling worms, squirming continuously as if alive.
The eye was bright and penetrating, exuding enormous pressure as though a giant were truly watching.
Huang Yi took a deep breath, choosing not to meet the eye’s gaze, instead moving to the back of the giant eyeball.
Behind the eyeball was the endlessly rotating black hole. It ceaselessly absorbed nature’s spiritual energy and all magic elements, even anything with sentience, like a greedy giant mouth devouring everything, insatiable.
Huang Yi’s Incarnation’s body flickered, immediately switching to Nashash’s form, legs together, turning into a soft snake tail, with countless tiny snake scales appearing on him.
Then, he extended a hand, slowly reaching for the black hole.
His fingertips first touched the vortex inside the black hole. The vortex felt like flowing water, with a moving force seemingly attempting to drag him entirely inside.
Huang Yi’s hand continued into the vortex’s interior, unharmed, allowing him to relax.
After evolving into Nashash, he shared a bloodline with the mysterious python and was no longer blocked by this black hole.
He immediately wriggled his snake tail, crawling entirely into the gigantic black hole, disappearing within the vortex’s depths.
Soon, Huang Yi’s Incarnation lost control, pulled in by the vortex’s overpowering force into the depths. An unprecedented dizziness suddenly hit, much like long-distance teleportation but dozens of times more intense!
His vision blurred into chaos, resembling a scenario during light-speed jumping in interstellar travel, with everything turning into indistinct confusion, time and space rapidly flowing around.
After several minutes, he was finally dragged to the deepest part of the space, where the vortex’s speed slowed.
At the end of his view appeared a narrow exit, with sights of azure seas and blue skies faintly visible, warm sunlight falling down, even hearing seagulls, and catching a hint of seawind’s tang.
Eventually, he was spun out from the vortex’s exit, landing on a brand new island.
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