Although Xue Wuchang's chest was heaving with anger, he still didn't dare to act rashly, because he knew that if he took action, he would most likely be outnumbered two at once with no one to help him.
I looked at Su Youran and Tong Xiaoyao with a gloomy expression: "Where exactly is this place?"
Su Youran sighed and said, “It’s okay to tell you now. This is where Hell Gate imprisons the traitors of the Heavenly Dao. The corpse over there is a certain generation of the Half-Life Nine Sons.”
"What did you say?" My heart was suddenly filled with turmoil.
Su Youran continued, "The legend of the Nine Half-Life Sons wanting to change their fate is well known in the art of magic. Although most people regard it as a joke, there are also people who firmly believe it. In the hearts of those who believe in half-life to make a living, changing their fate is their hope. This is why the Nine Half-Life Sons can continue to exist."
"The first generation of the Nine Half-Fates failed in their attempt to defy the will of Heaven and died. The nine who had the greatest hope of changing their fate, Ning Nitian and Zhan Wuxiang, were defeated by fate before they could even try to defy the will of Heaven. The nine became exiles and their whereabouts are unknown."
Su Youran pointed at the corpses in the corner and said, "They are also from a certain generation of the Nine Half-Life Sons. I don't know which generation exactly. It is said that the Nine Half-Life Sons of that generation were extremely low-key. Although they are not well-known in the art of magic, they are the nine sons with the strongest destiny cultivation. As far as destiny is concerned, they have already reached the pinnacle. If the nine sons of this generation join forces, the chances of changing fate will be even higher than that of the first generation."
"However, before they could make a move against the heavens, they were all captured by the Hell Gate at that time. Including the tribesmen of Jiuzi at that time, they were almost all killed and slaughtered. Only a few people escaped the disaster."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "Why did the Hell Gate kill Jiuzi at that time?"
Su Youran said, “The Heavenly Dao will not allow anyone to constantly challenge its majesty, so every time the Nine Sons gather together, they will create a life-threatening disaster for them. That time, it was said that the Lord of Hell felt the will of the Heavenly Dao and led his masters out in full force to encircle and suppress the Half-Life Dao.”
"That time, Hell Gate's plan was very careful. Not only did they send out all the masters under their tutelage, they also invited all the top masters of destiny except the Half-Life Dao to work together to conceal the secret and prevent the Half-Life Dao from sensing the calamity."
"According to the situation at the time, the Half-Life Sect should have been uprooted, but somehow something went wrong with the Hell Gate and the news leaked out. This led to a group of Half-Life Sect elites breaking out of the encirclement and launching a frenzied revenge on the Hell Gate."
Su Youran said this and turned to look at Xue Wuchang: "You probably don't know why the Hell Gate headquarters turned into a ghost town, right?"
Xue Wuchang was startled: "Was it Banmingdao who did it?"
“Yes!” Su Youran’s lips curled up into a smile. “The Hell Gate razed the three tribes of the Half-Life Dao, and the Half-Life Dao brought about the Hell Gate’s life calamity, which destroyed your lair. The elites of the Hell Gate, who were once known as the best in the art of magic, were completely destroyed and became homeless. They wandered for more than a hundred years before gradually recovering their vitality. However, to this day, they dare not reveal the real reason for the great calamity at the headquarters, which shows how terrifying the Half-Life Dao was at that time.”
Xue Wuchang was unconvinced and said, "No matter how terrible it is, it doesn't matter. I am still imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, unable to live or die."
Su Youran shook her head and said, “You are wrong. The Hell Gate built the Heavenly Prison to imprison the Nine Half-Life Sons instead of killing them because they were afraid of revenge from the Half-Life Sons.”
Su Youran said, “After Hell Gate captured the Nine Half-Life Sons, they did not retaliate immediately because at that time, all the descendants of the Half-Life Sect were on the run and could not seek revenge at all. Given that, Hell Gate did not dare to kill the Nine Half-Life Sons easily, so they spared no expense to build the Heavenly Prison here.”
Tong Xiaoyao suddenly interrupted and said, "If you ask me, they built the Heavenly Prison to lure the remaining descendants of the Half-Life Dao into the trap. I heard that the pillars outside were full of corpses of the descendants of the Half-Life Dao, and no one was spared, young or old, male or female."
Su Youran’s face darkened and she said, “Xiaoyao, now is not the time for you to play a role. It’s better not to say certain things.”
I looked at Su Youran and asked, "Could it be that the legend you mentioned contains your own speculations?"
Su Youran said, “What I said is the secret that our sect has recorded. Xiaoyao’s statement is just speculation.”
Normally, Su Youran shouldn't have a disagreement with her companions at this time. However, Su Youran not only interrupted Tong Xiaoyao, but also scolded her in public without any shame. This behavior was somewhat puzzling.
Su Youran continued, “After Hell Gate spent all its resources to build the Heavenly Prison, the Half-Life Sect’s descendants never launched a violent attack on the Heavenly Prison, and never even approached this sea area.”
"It's not that the descendants of Half-Life Dao don't want to rescue Senior, but they have entrusted the rescue mission to us, Yaomen. Yaomen also promised to do their best to help once."
Su Youran said, “At that time, Senior Yao Men tricked a large number of pirates into besieging the Heavenly Prison. He also personally sneaked into the Heavenly Prison City to meet the Half-Life Nine Sons, but unfortunately he was unable to rescue them.”
I frowned and said, "Just now I heard that angry judge say that the Heavenly Prison had been breached before. Since the prison has been breached, why didn't the Nine Half-Life Sons escape from the Heavenly Prison?"
Su Youran said, “This is the most interesting, or perhaps the most terrifying, part of the Heavenly Prison. In fact, it’s not that the Heavenly Prison cannot be opened from the inside. The only way out is right there.”
Su Youran pointed to the Buddha statue embedded in the wall and said, "As long as everyone in the Heavenly Prison works together to push the Buddha statue, the prison door can be opened. However, as long as one of the nine of them has selfish motives, the prison door cannot be opened. Do you understand what I mean?"
Xue Wuchang couldn't help but gasp: "You said this is a nine-man prison?"
I looked at Xue Wuchang and asked, "What is a nine-man prison?"
Xue Wuchang explained with a sad face: "The Nine-Man Prison imprisons not only people, but also their hearts. Let me put it this way! I don't know if you have heard of the theory of 'others are hell'. This theory was first proposed by a Western philosopher. The general meaning is that when people always divide everything into 'I' and 'him', over time, they will set themselves against the world around them. This opposition makes it impossible for people to trust each other, care for each other, and tolerate each other. They start to attack, curse, and hurt each other, which is to create hell."
"Although Hell's Gate doesn't have a specific theory, it has a similar idea, which is the Nine-Man Prison. They put nine people together who couldn't possibly be tied together, and then left them with a seemingly viable chance of survival."
"Nine people all want to live, but they are suspicious of each other. No one is willing to fight to the utmost. They can only wait for death. This is the most terrifying thing about the Nine-Man Prison."
When Xue Wuchang said this, fear appeared on his face.
I couldn't help but gasp.
The gate of hell is indeed the gate of hell, and the punishments they come up with are also bizarre, like hell. People who have not experienced the nine-man prison cannot understand the fear. But I can fully imagine what kind of torture we will face.
Think about it from another perspective. When people are hungry, not being able to find food to fill their stomachs and seeing delicious food but not being able to eat it are two similar but completely different feelings. The former is torture, and the latter is hell.
We are now like a group of hungry ghosts who can see food but cannot put it into their mouths.
Tong Xiaoyao's face turned extremely pale: "I... I was just talking nonsense..."
Su Youran couldn’t help but shook her head.
Tong Xiaoyao just said that the Heavenly Prison was a trap, which was equivalent to conveying a message to everyone, that is, there was no way out in the Heavenly Prison. Just imagine, who would leave an exit for the prey to escape when setting a trap
Her first words were enough to arouse suspicion in these people's hearts. Among the eleven people present, as long as one person gave up escaping in despair, none of us would be able to get out of this prison.
But what I am thinking about now is not how to get out of the Heavenly Prison, but how the Nine Half-Life Sons could all be trapped in the Heavenly Prison. According to common sense, the Nine Half-Life Sons are from the same school, and it should not be difficult for them to work together to escape from the Heavenly Prison in a difficult situation. What happened that trapped them to death in the cell? Could it be that the traitor that Zhan Wuxiang has always been afraid of is not a person, but a branch of the Nine Half-Life Sons
I couldn't help but walk towards the corpses piled in the corner.
The heads of the nine people were chopped off and neatly arranged in a row; the headless bodies should have been piled up like firewood, but now they have long since decayed into a pile of broken bones.
None of the nine human heads had any teeth preserved intact. The least had only three or four teeth left, and the rest were all broken into pieces - those people either experienced unbearable torture before they died, or they were extremely angry, otherwise they would not have bitten off their own teeth.
At this time, I heard Ye Jin say, "Su Youran, didn't you just say that a master from Rumor Sect once sneaked into the Heavenly Prison? How did he get out?"
Su Youran said, “I don’t know either. The Rumor Sect’s Secrets only recorded the process of the Rumor Sect’s prison break, but didn’t mention how the Rumor Sect’s ancestors escaped from the Heavenly Prison. Perhaps, Master should know…”
I shook my head and said, "Your master never thought about breaking the Nine-Man Prison. He was only responsible for sending us in and trapping us to death here."
Tong Xiaoyao said sternly, "You are talking nonsense! Even if Master wanted to trap you to death, he would never send us in."
I turned to look at Tong Xiaoyao: "The reason why you came in was just an accident. If the person he was looking for hadn't been able to get out of the Heavenly Prison in time, would he have taken the risk of pushing you in?"
Tong Xiaoyao's face suddenly turned even paler. (To be continued)