Chapter 466 - Prison (2/2)

*Guuurgle*

The strange sound came again, like fast-flowing water moving through a small opening.

Hao Xuan put the book back into the storage space and got up. His wounds had closed for the most part and even though they weren't completely healed, it was enough for him to move around with spurting blood everywhere.

He took a step forward but stopped. Turning back around towards the oval-shaped black water screen, he placed his hand over it and pushed, but nothing happened. He tried punching, kicking, yelling random words and circulating Qi through it but nothing worked.

*Sigh*

”I guess I can only go forward,” Hao Xuan muttered under his breath, exasperated.

If he ever got his hands on that damned trader, there would be a show to see.

With no other choice, Hao Xuan took every little object he could take from the roach guard corpses and stored it away. He couldn't identify some of the things so they might be worth a decent bit to someone out there.

The place he was standing on was a dark, empty corridor decorated only with thick stone pillars every 8 meters or so.

There were some engravings on the stone pillars but through the miracle of time, they just looked like random scribbles now.

Just these stone pillars were probably thousands of years old.

Still using Nidhora's power, he was covered from head to toe in what looked like black clothes that moved without any wind.

He walked along the empty corridor for over half an hour before it connected with a giant staircase. Each step was at least three meters wide and one meter tall. Whatever it was made for was much bigger than humans like Hao Xuan. The stairs got wider and wider the higher he went until finally, he couldn't even see the left and right sides in this darkness.

He picked up his pace but it still took him over ten minutes until he reached the final step.

A massive golden door blocked his path. It was at least 50 meters wide and so long that he couldn't even see the top. There was a giant face engraved on the door. It wasn't human, but something he had never seen before.

The face looked...strange. It obviously wasn't human with its bull-like nose, thick ugly eyes without any brows and a slightly protruding triangular mouth with sharp fangs, but it gave off an aura of sophistication.

To any normal human being who's standard of beauty was set by his fellow humans, this face would strike fear in them. But for some reason, Hao Xuan's blood boiled as he looked at the nonchalant face.

As Hao Xuan got closer he saw a line of words etched along the door's borders. He recognized them at first glance. It was a language used among the more intelligent creatures of the universe.

The words read:

”We pay homage to the 734th God of War. Here lies his majesty's 103rd Imperial Prison!”