Seiya, Shiryu, Ikki, and Shun witnessed Li Yu being fully struck by the Ophiuchus's ultimate technique.
While still in the air, Li Yu's eyes lost their light, and his body gradually became pale and withered.
Their hearts immediately felt as if they had fallen into a ten-thousand-year-old ice cellar.
The Bronze Saints had just entered this palace when they were knocked down by a mysterious Saint named Odysseus. Afterward, even though they wanted to ignite their Cosmo, they found that their bodies couldn't exert any strength.
They had initially thought that the appearance of the strongest Gold Saint, Li Yu, would bring them a glimmer of hope.
But they never expected that the first scene they saw upon waking was Li Yu being completely defeated!
All of them widened their eyes, their bodies trembling slightly, unable to believe the scene before them!
At the same time, warning boxes kept popping up in front of Li Yu.
[Warning: Hunter's life is in critical condition. Do you want to use the Time Hourglass immediately?]
[Warning: Hunter's life is in critical condition. Do you want to use the Time Hourglass immediately?]
Li Yu's body fell heavily to the ground, blood gushing from the wound on his chest, flowing along the patterns of the bluestone slab like a winding red stream.
Soon, his breathing completely stopped, and his body showed no further movement.
Only Asclepius's triumphant sneer and the suppressed gasps of the Bronze Saints remained in the Ophiuchus Palace.
In the last moment of his consciousness dissipating, Li Yu only felt his body lighten.
When he regained his senses, he found himself floating in a gray, dim void, his body light and helpless.
There was no green poisonous mist of the Ophiuchus Palace around, nor the sunlight of the Sanctuary; only boundless, chilling cold, eroding his soul!
"Is this the Underworld?" Li Yu murmured, trying to mobilize his Cosmo, but found that in his death state, most of his power couldn't be used. Only a faint divine light remained, quietly burning in the depths of his soul, resisting the erosion of the Underworld.
He looked down, and beneath his feet was a boundless black wasteland, covered with broken skeletons.
In the distance, a dark black river flowed slowly, with a dilapidated boat floating on its surface. The boatman was a skeleton in a black robe holding an oar, ferrying numb souls to the other side of the river.
The skeleton sensed Li Yu's gaze, looked up, and grinned with its skeletal mouth.
"Another Gold Saint? Go where you belong!"
Li Yu only felt an irresistible, immense suction force suddenly appear, and then he was involuntarily teleported into a huge void.
The ground of the void was covered with black permafrost, entwined with countless golden chains, each binding a transparent soul.
These souls varied in form; they lay quietly here, only able to expose parts of their heads, their bodies having completely merged with the permafrost!
In the air, a giant phantom hovered, its face unclear, but emanating a suffocating pressure.
As soon as Li Yu appeared, the phantom emitted a cold voice, like pronouncing a judgment.
"Those who dare to blaspheme the gods can only endure endless torment in the Ice Hell! Li Yu, I sentence you to imprisonment here for billions of years, never to reincarnate!"
Boom!
The entire Ice Hell instantly darkened, and a giant hand appeared out of thin air. It slowly descended, about to press Li Yu into the ice.
Li Yu was not flustered in the slightest. Before being struck by Asclepius, he had already crushed the Time Hourglass in his item space.
At this moment, the countdown in front of him was slowly approaching zero.
[Time reversal in progress, countdown... 8... 7...]
A faint mocking voice sounded.
"Hahaha, Li Yu... you've come too..."
Li Yu turned his head and saw Deathmask's soul, buried deep beneath the ice, with only his head exposed.
Even so, Deathmask's face was filled with deep mockery.
"Tsk tsk tsk, look who it is, it's Lord Li Yu, the strongest Saint of this era. Weren't you very impressive? Turns out you didn't live much longer than me..."
"Let me guess, was it my Sekishiki Meikai Ha that sent you here?"
When Li Yu returned to Cancer, Deathmask had already been sent into the void by Shiryu, so he hadn't seen Li Yu's return.
Therefore, at this moment, he naturally assumed that his Sekishiki Meikai Ha had killed Li Yu!
Thinking of this, Deathmask couldn't help but grin.
"I'm very happy that even in death, I could drag you down with me!"
Li Yu walked over, bent down, and stroked Deathmask's messy hair as if petting a dog.
"Little Deathmask, remember this: people are not all the same!"
"I came here only to verify some things and awaken the Eighth Sense along the way, but you are truly dead!"
Deathmask's smile instantly froze, then he sneered.
"Li Yu, still so stubborn even at this point? When I first arrived, I was like you, struggling to believe reality, but what good did that do?"
He looked up at the giant hand about to descend from the sky, a trace of schadenfreude mixed with terror flashing in his eyes.
"No one can resist the punishment of the Underworld! I'm waiting to see you cry and repent by my side in a moment!"
Li Yu smiled faintly, straightened up, the giant hand in the air was about to touch the top of his head, even the palm lines were clearly visible!
He looked up at the giant phantom in the sky.
"I remember you. You'd best pray that I don't find you in the years to come!"
"Hmph, every Saint is so arrogant when they arrive!"
The giant phantom paid no mind to Li Yu's threat.
In his view, Li Yu had only one outcome: to be completely frozen in this endless hell, like the Saints of the past millennia, receiving never-ending punishment!
The countdown in front of Li Yu had already reached 0!
Outside, in the Ophiuchus Palace, a golden hourglass phantom suddenly appeared on Li Yu's body. The hourglass slowly tilted, and golden Sands of Time flowed from one end to the other, emitting a warm glow.
A transparent phantom floated out of the hourglass and slowly merged into Li Yu's body.
The next second, Li Yu's body actually floated up from the ground on its own. The wound on his chest healed at a visible speed, and the spilled blood, like time flowing backward, returned to his body. His pale skin gradually regained its color.
The Bronze Saints' eyes widened, their mouths agape enough to fit a fist, filled with shock.
Asclepius's smile instantly froze, an expression of disbelief flashing in his eyes. How could someone completely killed by his divine power be resurrected?
Only one thought remained in everyone's mind: Is Li Yu truly human?
...Ice Hell!
The giant palm heavily struck the permafrost, and black ice shards shattered and flew, like a light black snowfall.
The souls of the Saints embedded in the permafrost were torn apart by the shockwave, but not long after, these souls reassembled under the power of the Underworld's rules, and the shattered ice surface quickly restored itself, as if the impact had never happened.
This was the Eighth Prison of the Underworld, the Ice Hell. Anyone who came here would be forever frozen in the permafrost, never to be reborn. Even if their souls were destroyed, they would constantly regenerate, enduring endless punishment.
As soon as Deathmask's soul recovered, he eagerly looked towards where Li Yu had originally stood, ready to enjoy his disheveled appearance.
"Li Yu, didn't you say you were just here to look around? And now? You're frozen, aren't you!"
He burst into laughter, but no sooner had his laughter faded than a low voice sounded beside him:
"Shut up, this generation's Cancer. The Li Yu you speak of has already left. As a fellow Cancer Saint, I am truly ashamed of you."
Deathmask suddenly turned his head. When he clearly saw the appearance of the person beside him, his pupils contracted sharply, and his voice trembled.
"Ma... Manigoldo-senpai?"
The speaker had wild, wine-red short hair, and while his face wasn't handsome, it exuded an untamed sharpness. It was Manigoldo, the Cancer Gold Saint from the ancient texts.
He curled his lips, looking at Deathmask with disdain.
"Don't call me senpai. I don't have a cowardly successor like you."
Deathmask opened his mouth, wanting to retort, but under Manigoldo's sharp gaze, he swallowed his words back.
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