My Crazy Upgrade System

Chapter 321: Chapter 320: Underground Mine

"Level this place before you leave?" Ye Qingxuan said hurriedly. "The Divine Runes of the Netherworld Prison are incredibly difficult to break. If you can’t break the Divine Runes, you can’t destroy the Netherworld Prison at all. Besides, what will you do if General Long arrives?"

Worry filled Ye Qingxuan’s eyes. ’Yi Tianyun is just asking to die!’ She knew his cultivation was strong, but wasn’t charging in alone simply courting death? If he were to be surrounded inside, escape would be impossible.

"You think I can’t escape?" Yi Tianyun said with a calm smile. "As long as this Netherworld Prison stands, it will continue to imprison Cultivators. I know that destroying the Netherworld Empire is the true solution, but razing this Netherworld Prison first will deal a heavy blow to the Empire’s morale!"

"As for the Divine Runes, you don’t need to worry. I can destroy them. I believe you already know that."

He was a Divine Rune Master, after all. Combined with the memories Ye Qingxuan had given him, he had no major issues understanding the Divine Runes here.

"But..." Ye Qingxuan was still worried for his safety, afraid that he wouldn’t make it back.

"If this young friend wishes to go, then let him..." The Spirit Race Ancestor extended a finger, a faint light glowing at its tip. He then touched it to Yi Tianyun’s forehead. "This is a Divine Rune Memory I am giving you. It will allow you to easily break through those Divine Runes. I hope it will be of some help to you."

"Thank you, Ancestor!"

As Yi Tianyun absorbed the memory, he discovered it was different from the one Ye Qingxuan had given him. This one was focused entirely on the method of breaking Divine Runes—specifically, those that functioned like Arrays.

After saying this, Yi Tianyun nodded to Ye Qingxuan, turned, and left.

"I’ll wait for you to come back!" Ye Qingxuan called out after him.

A jolt went through Yi Tianyun. The familiar scene reminded him of Shi Xueyun; she had said the very same thing to him. He immediately turned his head and broke into a smile. "I will. I’ll definitely make it back!"

With that, he flew off. Without a moment’s hesitation, Ye Qingxuan immediately commanded the Earth Dragons to carry them away from the area. If they stayed, they would be discovered sooner or later. Propelled by the Earth Dragons’ furious pace, they quickly vanished over the horizon. Though the Earth Dragons could not fly, their speed on the ground was by no means slow.

Yi Tianyun flew directly back toward the Netherworld Prison, gripping the Ice Divine Bow as he returned for the kill. When the guards in the distance saw him charging back, they were scared witless.

"What’s going on? That Godslaying is back!?" The guards who had rushed back as reinforcements saw Yi Tianyun and scrambled to close the main gate, but the door was far too thick and heavy to be shut so easily.

The gate had barely begun to close when a massive Ice Arrow materialized in Yi Tianyun’s hand. A blue light glinted in his eyes. "Fury of Ice!"

He aimed squarely at the great hall and fired. A pillar of blue light lanced out, finally detonating violently inside!

BOOM!

It was as if a furious blizzard had exploded inside, leaving all the guards within Frozen. In an instant, they were turned to ice sculptures. Even if the ice were to thaw quickly, it would be pointless; the men were already dead, Frozen solid. From head to toe, even the marrow in their bones had been Frozen by the extreme cold. They couldn’t be any deader.

"Ding! Successfully killed guard. Gained 170,000 Experience, 2,300 Madness Value, and 100 Sin Value. Obtained Martial Arts: Cloud Heaven Palm, Cloud Heaven Step. Obtained Items: Profound Iron Sword, Recovery Pill."

"Ding! Successfully killed guard. Gained Experience..."

"Ding..."

With that one arrow, all the guards were slain, dropping a large amount of Experience and Sin Value. Their Sin Value was shockingly high, even higher than many of the elders he had killed before. It was easy to imagine the sheer number of vicious deeds the guards here had committed. Even if they were only following the Netherworld Empire’s orders, the sin was still theirs to bear.

In the blink of an eye, Yi Tianyun had successfully charged into the Netherworld Prison. A large swath of the area was already Frozen, but he didn’t spare it a glance as he continued to rush deeper inside. He glanced at the Divine Rune on the wall, and his hand immediately began to glow with a dazzling light. He leaped up and jabbed at the Divine Rune furiously, each strike packed with power.

After more than a hundred frenzied jabs, the defensive Divine Rune on the wall immediately dissipated. This was the method of destruction given to him by the Spirit Race Ancestor. The Ancestor himself had inscribed all the Divine Runes here, so how could he not know their inherent flaws? Therefore, breaking them wasn’t difficult. More importantly, the Ancestor’s own skill was astonishing; otherwise, even one who knew the breaking method would not be able to destroy these Divine Runes so easily.

After destroying the rune here, he quickly rushed to another spot, delivered another hundred frenzied jabs, and that Divine Rune also vanished. For a Cultivator of his level, the time it took to strike a hundred times was nothing; he could easily destroy a Divine Rune in under a few seconds.

His speed was therefore quite astonishing. If any members of the Spirit Race had been there to witness it, they would have been shocked. Such clean, decisive movements were a rare sight to behold.

"Go!"

After landing, Yi Tianyun swiftly drew his Ice Divine Bow. He aimed at the wall where the Divine Rune had been, pulled the bowstring taut, and unleashed a rapid volley. Three Sharp Arrows shot forth, blasting the wall apart. Without the Divine Rune’s reinforcement, the wall, though sturdy, still crumbled under such a powerful assault!

RUMBLE!

He had demolished half of the main entrance, much to his satisfaction.

’Excellent. Without the reinforcing Divine Runes, this place is as fragile as tofu!’

Yi Tianyun didn’t linger to destroy it further, instead charging deeper inside. Along the way, he obliterated the reinforcing Divine Runes with abandon. They shattered with a simple touch; it was incredibly easy. He was a Divine Rune Master, after all. Now that he knew the proper way to dismantle them, the task was naturally a breeze.

As he charged forward, a steady stream of guards poured out, seemingly from beneath the Netherworld Prison. Clearly, the prison had an underground level! This was something Ye Qingxuan and the others were unaware of. It must have been excavated at a later date; otherwise, they couldn’t possibly have not known about it.

"What’s the situation outside? What in the world is happening?"

Guards rushed up, only to be met with Ice Arrows that turned them into ice sculptures. Yi Tianyun carved a path straight through, soon arriving at a wide, spacious staircase leading underground.

’There’s an underground passage here. I didn’t know about this before. I wonder what’s down there...’

Without a moment’s hesitation, Yi Tianyun rushed down. He soon burst into the subterranean area, and an extremely vast space opened up before his eyes—it was a giant mine!

’I didn’t expect to find a mine here...’ Yi Tianyun recalled how, when he had used Stealth to sneak in earlier, he’d overheard them sending some Cultivators to a mine. So this was the mine they were talking about—an underground one, not one on the surface!