Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1243 - 1180: Cell 29_2

"Thank you!" Huang Yi’s eyes lit up, and he immediately reached out to catch the feather.

Although the feather was fragmented, there was a mysterious aura coming through when he caught it.

Holding the feather, Huang Yi immediately walked through the door.

Stepping through the door, he arrived at the endless wilderness of white bones. Looking back, the prison door was still there, and the guardians were watching him from behind it.

But the door had no base, it appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness, and the other side of the door was also wilderness, like a solitary teleportation gate.

Huang Yi spread his wings at once and flew in a random direction, turning his head to search for criminals as he flew.

He flew very far, the prison door had disappeared behind him, but the front was still endless. The ground below was still covered with white bones, unchanged, as a cold wind continuously swept through.

Huang Yi simply descended from the air, landing on the ground full of white bones. These bones were all humanoid, aged and crumbled into fine bone powder under his step.

Huang Yi walked forward, paying attention to the surroundings as he moved.

After walking a distance, suddenly, his left eyelid twitched involuntarily, his eyeball unconsciously looked to the left front, as if sensing something.

Shocked, Huang Yi found his left eye automatically looking in a direction, beyond his control!

What change had occurred to his left eye?

Soon, he remembered his Eye of the Underworld!

Long ago, a Medicine Bottle produced a drop of Tears of the Underworld King, which he dripped into his left eye, granting it the ability of the "Eye of the Underworld."

The ability had only activated once, when he cooperated with Dao Feng, Sharp Sword, Dragon Spike, and Thunder God to fight desperately against a clone of the Queen of Agony. After death, they discovered the Death Space was the Underworld.

Now, his left eye was unconsciously looking toward the left front. This clearly indicated that something related to the Underworld was in that direction.

Once again, he flapped his wings and flew toward the left front, searching more carefully.

After a while, his left eye moved again, slightly turning left as if adjusting the direction.

Based on his left eye’s position, he also finely adjusted his flight path.

After a few subtle adjustments, his left eye stopped moving, seemingly reaching the target location.

Huang Yi looked down, the ground remained the same as before, covered with white bones, with nothing else in sight.

"Hm? That skeleton... it looks different!" Suddenly, Huang Yi spotted a skeleton that seemed different and immediately descended beside it.

It was also a humanoid skeleton, but inside it grew an emerald green vine plant!

The emerald vine entwines the skeleton’s ribs, passing through the chest cavity, extending to the skull, and finally emerging from the left eye socket forming a small white flower. Three tender green leaves surrounded the flower, each hanging with a crystal-clear drop of dew, full of vitality.

This was an extremely strange scene, the vine plant delicate and beautiful, seemingly a kind of Divine Flower or Herbal Plant, full of life force. Yet it grew within a skeleton, entwining death and life.

Huang Yi observed the vine plant for a long time, eventually unable to resist crouching down to touch the white flower.

Suddenly, the skeleton sat up straight, its skull just a few centimeters from Huang Yi’s nose, nearly face to face glaring at him.

Startled, Huang Yi quickly retreated, flapping his wings backward into the air before stopping to observe the skeleton.

At this time, the skeleton was looking around blankly, human-like it scratched its skull as if puzzled.

After a while, it slowly stood up, and the vine plant growing inside it followed its movements.

The little white flower in its left eye socket trembled slightly with its actions, and the dewdrops on the surrounding three leaves shimmered with crystal light, yet never fell, always clinging to the leaf tips.

"Who are you?" Huang Yi couldn’t help but ask.

Hearing Huang Yi’s voice, the skeleton raised its head to look at him in the air. Although its eye sockets were empty, it seemed to emit a tangible gaze onto Huang Yi.

"Is this... the Underworld?" The skeleton’s jawbone clattered, making a grinding sound.

"This is the Death God’s Heroes’ Prison." Huang Yi replied, gripping the feather tightly, watching the skeleton warily.

"Death God... Heroes’ Prison..." The skeleton murmured, finally recalling something, and said haltingly: "I remember, I am an Underworld King’s Envoy, ordered by the Lord of the Underworld to guide the souls of the Death God’s Temple... but the Death God refused me and imprisoned me in Heroes’ Prison... I should have been more careful, the Death God and the Lord of the Underworld never had a good relationship... I must have been asleep for a long time, I don’t know what era it is now? The Lord of the Underworld is still waiting for me to report back... I must have missed the time... The Lord of the Underworld will blame me..."

Towards the end, his tone grew slightly anxious, turning his head to look around helplessly.

"You are an Underworld King’s Envoy?" Huang Yi asked thoughtfully: "Who is the Lord of the Underworld?"

"The Lord of the Underworld is the Underworld Overlord, ruling over the entire Underworld. Even the souls of The Gods and Hordes of Demons are under his control after death. The Heaven Realm, Mortal Realm, and Underworld were supposed to operate according to the Creator’s order, with each realm having its responsibilities, but the Death God has long coveted the Underworld, always thinking he is the master of death... This is wrong... there must be order, there must be rules..." The skeleton mumbled to itself in the end.

"So, there’s such a tale?" Huang Yi suddenly felt as if he were touching deeper secrets.

The information about the Underworld was scarce, and throughout history, many didn’t even know where the Underworld truly was. Huang Yi had discovered by chance that the Death Space was the Underworld.

From the Underworld Envoy’s words, it seems there is a Three Realms myth.

The Mortal Realm is the foundation, with countless worlds and planes and countless mortal beings. Upwards is Divine Enthronement to the Heaven Realm, downwards is death leading to the Underworld.

In the Heaven Realm, there’s the Divine Realm where The Gods reside, and the Demon Realm where the Hordes of Demons reside. Whether gods or demons, after death their souls must descend to the Underworld.

The Underworld is the final destination for all souls, ruled by the Underworld King.

However, the specific layout of the Underworld was unclear to Huang Yi. He had only taken a brief look before resurrecting last time.

However, there’s one person who knows the Underworld intimately, which is Sharp Sword, who Huang Yi has always been wary of.

Recently, Sharp Sword has not appeared, even with the birth of two new Heavenly and Spirit Demon kings. It’s possible he’s in the Underworld, engaged in something unknown.

"What is your name?" Huang Yi asked, touching his chin, looking at the skeleton.

"I am Yi Mingfeng, who are you?" The skeleton stared intently at Huang Yi.

"I am the current Warden of Heroes’ Prison, my name is God of Slaughter." Huang Yi said, blinking his left eye: "You don’t need to see me as your enemy. In fact, I have some ties with your Lord of the Underworld as well. A drop of Tears of the Underworld King was once dropped into my left eye, giving it the power of the Eye of the Underworld. If you wish to become a Guardian of the Hero Empire, I can grant you freedom. I am also interested in the Underworld and may seek information from you in the future."

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This is still a four-thousand-word Chapter. I wanted to write six thousand words, but time’s up, and I need to go sleep.

The further the story progresses, the more high-level characters are involved, and more information about the Underworld will be gradually revealed.