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Chapter 619 The Abyss at 20,000 Meters

Above the abyss, a cold wind rustles the withered grass.

It was midday, and the sun was blazing.

But as the scorching sunlight approached the abyss, it seemed to be suddenly swallowed up by an invisible black hole, losing all its heat.

"Xiao Fei."

Li Tianyu pursed her lips, looking at the golden robe on the altar.

She remembered what Li Fei had told her on the 'Mirage': although there were ninth-grade exotic beasts in the Abyss, they definitely wouldn't encounter them during this Alliance of the Desolate Gods.

You really can't touch it unless you actively try to.
Why is the Abyss also an extremely dangerous place for top-tier experts?

Because you can't be sure what you'll encounter down there.

Perhaps it's an extremely dangerous environment, or perhaps it's encountering several ninth-grade exotic beasts at the same time!
Or perhaps, it's an endless tide of beasts.
Moreover, although ninth-grade beasts are not as powerful as peak-level beasts, their survivability is stronger than that of most peak-level beasts.

You can defeat a ninth-grade beast, but it's very difficult to kill it.

How difficult it would be to completely conquer the northern barbarians!
Li Fei sensed Li Tianyu's gaze, turned around to meet her eyes, and smiled:
"Don't worry, even if I can't win, I can still protect myself."

Li Tianyu sighed.

She was already a qualified general; her short military career had taught her at least one thing—

Once the head coach gives an order, your job is to execute it, not to question it.

Li Tianyu quickly led the Imperial Guard soldiers back to the 'Mirage'.

Then the 'mirage' continued to rise into the sky, disappearing completely into the clouds.

With Li Fei gone, 'Mirage' has lost its strongest combat force, and security must be taken into consideration.

Although it's unlikely that the Northern Barbarians will suddenly turn on you and attack, we should still be on guard.

Inside the 'Mirage', a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe, with a hint of sharpness between his brows, sat cross-legged.

From Lanling City all the way to this Abyss, this person has never shown his face.

Apart from the Emperor and Li Fei, no one else knew he was on this 'mirage'.

Because his name is Ji Yiheng, and he is the only prince-level powerhouse in the Great Blue Dynasty.

Located in Lanling City, with the help of the Sword Tower and the nation's fortune, he was even able to briefly contend with top-tier experts!
Wenren is currently guarding the Western Regions, while Li Fei is far away in the Northern Barbarian Lands.

The only defense force in Lanling City is the Sky Blue Iron Cavalry.

If people find out that Ji Yiheng is also gone, it could have serious consequences!

However, on the one hand, these young talents on the 'Mirage' represent the future of the Great Blue Dynasty.

Secondly, the emperor was also worried about Li Fei's safety.

So after much consideration, we decided to send Ji Yiheng instead.

At this moment, Ji Yiheng was in charge of the array center of the 'Mirage', activating the 'Mirage's' invisibility spell and adding a layer of spell of his own.

Unless someone from the Northern Barbarian tribes possesses magical skills superior to his, it would be difficult to pinpoint the true location of the 'Mirage'.

On the other side, after the 'Mirage' completely disappeared, Li Fei turned around, glanced at Wu Yana and the others, and then leaped into the Abyss!

This journey to the northern barbarians is related to my enlightenment.

If the path to enlightenment could be aided by others fighting and killing on the sidelines, it would be far too simplistic and underestimate the significance of this step towards the summit.

So from the very beginning, Li Fei knew what he would be facing this time.

He forced the Northern Barbarians to agree to the Alliance of the Wild Gods, led his troops to victory in the Alliance, and then personally killed the ninth-grade beast to solidify the alliance and conquer the Northern Barbarians for the Great Blue Dynasty.

This is the true meaning of bringing peace and tranquility to the world!

This is only the first step Li Fei takes towards attaining enlightenment!
He once faced a ninth-rank mythical beast.

On the first floor of the Royal Library, there is a stone inscribed with the words, "Is there any magic in the world that is invincible?" (See Chapter 40 of Volume 3 for details)
This is Emperor Taizu's own handwriting.

This stone is a bone from the ninth-grade mythical beast, the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Flood Dragon!
Li Fei entered an illusion through this stone; it was the illusion where the founding emperor fought the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Flood Dragon.

In fact, the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Flood Dragon was a ninth-grade beast that the Great Ancestor personally killed in the Abyss for the sake of the Alliance of the Desolate Gods.

Before setting off, Li Fei made a special trip to the Royal Library again, once more entering the illusion where the founding emperor and the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Flood Dragon were fighting.

But this was just an illusion, unfathomable to the former Li Fei, who could continuously absorb energy with the Myriad Blood Pearl.

For him now, he can break through this illusion with just a thought.

The combat power of a ninth-grade beast perceived in this way is still too one-sided.

On the 'Mirage', a group of young people remained on the deck.

A huge, semi-transparent water mirror floated in front of everyone.

Through this water mirror, everyone can see what's happening inside the Abyss.

This is Li Fei's own perspective!
"They can actually see it?!"

Everyone was surprised and delighted.

What lies beneath the abyss has always been a mystery.

There are too few people who have the ability and the courage to go down and explore.

Now that everyone can follow Li Fei's perspective to explore the Abyss, and even have the opportunity to witness him slay a ninth-grade beast, it is undoubtedly a great opportunity!
At the central array point inside the 'Mirage,' Ji Yiheng was also responsible for maintaining this 'live broadcast.'

This water mirror technique, created using magical artifacts, was not merely intended to broaden the horizons of the prodigies atop the 'Mirage'.

It was also to record information about the Abyss, and more importantly, to be able to know Li Fei's situation at any time.

In the event of a real emergency, none of the people on this 'mirage' will have time to go down and help Li Fei, but Ji Yiheng's flying sword will!

Taking heads from a thousand miles away is no longer a legend for Ji Yiheng, who now possesses the combat strength of a prince.

The surroundings were pitch black, with a chilling wind blowing and various eerie sounds constantly reaching my ears.

Like the roar of a beast, the chirping of insects, the rustling of scales, the wailing of a ghost.
The person continued to descend in this darkness, descending, falling.

Someone with weaker mental fortitude would collapse after just a short time in this environment!

This is just the most basic 'hospitality' of the Abyss.

The spiritual energy here is almost entirely filled with various kinds of Yin energy. For martial artists who cultivate the Dao foundation of metal, fire, and light, staying in this environment is a torment, and their combat power will be severely affected!
Li Fei's [Hun Yuan Tian Jin] is a metal-based Dao foundation, but it has the characteristics of Hun Yuan. Moreover, his first martial arts divine ability is [Hun Tian Jin Que], which can absorb any kind of heaven and earth energy and transform it into any kind of heaven and earth energy.

Therefore, for Li Fei, who possesses the [Hun Tian Jin Que], he is a 'fully adaptive walking device'.

Wherever there is the primordial energy of heaven and earth, there is no environment that can restrain it.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Fei dared to go down to the Abyss alone.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, he entered Sword Form: Shadowless and Formless the moment he jumped into the Abyss.

With his current cultivation level, he would be difficult to detect unless he encountered a seventh-grade or higher beast with sensory abilities. He was like an invisible ghost, constantly falling into the abyss.

A moment later, after descending about a thousand meters, Li Fei's feet touched the ground.

Everyone on the 'Mirage' except for Chaganbayar was surprised to see this.

Wasn't it said that this Abyss leads directly to the heart of the world?

It's only a little over a thousand meters to the bottom?
"As expected, the northern barbarians are ignorant and just bragging."

Zhao Jingfeng couldn't help but say.

Chaganbayar turned his head and glanced at the other person, his eyes filled with sarcasm.

He had been down into the Abyss before and had some understanding of the conditions there.

At this moment, the ground Li Fei was standing on was not the bottom of the Abyss at all, but an extension layer that stretched from one side of the cliff towards the middle.

There are many such extended layers in the Abyss, making it seem as if the Abyss is divided into many layers.

If we take this extended layer as a marker, the Styx Ancestor descended to more than ten layers back then.

That depth is extremely dangerous for a top-tier expert who is just one step away from reaching the summit!
Chaganbayar knew that Li Fei would definitely not stop at the dozen or so floors today.

On the extended layer, Li Fei had several copper coins in his hand, each engraved with runes on both sides.

He silently scattered the copper coins in his hand, burying them in the soil beneath his feet, and cast a concealment spell before continuing to move.

Soon, he reached the edge of the extended layer and jumped down.

And so he continued downwards, passing through one extended layer after another.

Some of these extended layers are incredibly vast, while others are strangely shaped.

There are jungles, lakes, and even mountains on it.

At each extended level, he would take out a few copper coins and bury them in the soil.

These copper coins are all one-time use ritual objects, which are expensive to produce and difficult to refine.

They are 'signal nodes' that allow this 'live broadcast' to travel further.

In addition, these copper coins are also 'landmarks' that can guide Li Fei in the right direction.

According to the valuable intelligence left by the founding emperor, the deeper one goes into the Abyss, the more drastic the spatial changes become.

It's easy to get lost.

Once you completely lose your way in the Abyss, it's actually more terrifying than encountering a ninth-grade beast!
Li Fei was well-prepared for this trip to the Abyss, carrying a lot of copper coins with him.

During the descent, you will inevitably encounter some strange beasts living in the abyss. Some of these beasts cast shadows as large as mountains!
However, none of these strange beasts noticed Li Fei in his sword form.

Time passed little by little, and before he knew it, Li Fei had already passed through more than thirty extension layers.

Based on the location provided by those copper coins, he was able to roughly determine that he had already penetrated more than 20,000 meters into the abyss!
Emperor Taizu encountered a ninth-rank mythical beast at roughly this depth.

To play it safe, Li Fei didn't plan to go any further and decided to try things out at this depth first.

He landed on an extended layer.

The surrounding area was flat, with undulating mountain peaks faintly visible in the distance.

Li Fei took out a dark blue bead.

This is the Soul-Guiding Bead, a magical artifact crafted by the Righteous Dharma Pavilion.

Once activated, it can exert a deadly attraction on exotic beasts.

The higher the grade of the mythical beast, the greater its attraction.

The Abyss is too vast, and without detailed information, trying to find a ninth-grade beast by relying on luck is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, the Soul-Guiding Bead is essential.

Li Fei channeled a stream of true energy into the Soul-Guiding Bead to activate it, then casually tossed the bead away, letting it fall to the ground.

It rolled onto the charred gravel, its eerie light flowing like a living thing. An invisible yet extremely domineering wave, like a deadly ripple stirred up by a boulder thrown into a stagnant pool, ignored distance and obstacles, spreading wildly in all directions of darkness.
Changes began to appear—

The first thing Li Fei sensed was the slight tremor of the ground beneath his feet, followed by the wind.

The wind was no longer deathly still, but swept in from a place that seemed to be at the very edge of the horizon, carrying greed, violence, and countless teeth-grinding hissing, growling, and scraping sounds!

"Wow—!"

The shrill sound, unlike a bird's cry, was more like the piercing scream of metal scraping against bones, tearing through the darkness.

Above the distant mountain peaks, a dozen enormous shadows suddenly rose into the air and rushed madly toward the location of the dark blue light with astonishing speed.

The shadow rapidly approached, its outline becoming clear in the darkness.

They possessed the skeletal outline of birds, yet their entire bodies were covered in grotesque, slippery, jet-black scales that reflected a ghostly blue sheen, as if they had just crawled out of a filthy pool of oil. Where their heads should have been were twisted, eyeless snake heads.

Its split mouth revealed gleaming white fangs dripping with viscous saliva, and six pairs of strangely shaped ears of varying sizes vibrated rapidly in the air on either side of its head.

This is a strange beast that the Great Blue Dynasty had never recorded before.

Judging from their aura, these dozen or so strange beasts had all reached the sixth rank, possessing combat power close to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.

Their claws were outstretched, their scales billowed with a foul stench, and their mouths were wide open as they greedily pounced on the points of light on the ground.

Without warning or warning, countless pure, condensed, invisible sword energies suddenly appeared in the void.

Sword energy intertwined to form a web of death.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

The dull thuds of sharp blades piercing flesh blended together, as dense as a torrential downpour beating rotten wood.

Those ferocious scales were as fragile as paper in the face of the invisible sword energy.

Scales shattered, tough muscles were easily cut open, and thick bones emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

Death can strike in an instant!

More than a dozen strange beasts were torn apart by sword energy in mid-air. The stench and scalding blood rained down from the sky, mixed with broken scales, severed limbs, and slippery fragments of internal organs.

Li Fei's figure remained standing in the same spot, as if an invisible barrier surrounded him, keeping the filthy blood rain out.

Not far away, the dark blue Soul-Guiding Bead still lay quietly amidst the pool of blood and mangled flesh, its light shimmering.

Using the Soul-Guiding Bead gives Li Fei a greater chance of finding a Rank 9 Beast, but the downside is that he may need to go through many battles before attracting the Rank 9 Beast!
This also explains the difficulty of killing a ninth-grade alien beast in the Lower Abyss.

In the distance, from the darkness, even more roars, rushing sounds, and flapping wings were frantically drawn by the eerie blue light and the pungent smell of blood, surging in like a black tide from the boundless darkness in all directions.
Twenty thousand meters below the abyss, sword energy crisscrosses, and an astonishing carnage unfolds!

No beast could survive for more than a second under the sword's aura!
If the Abyss is the Yellow Springs, then at this moment, standing at the center of the slaughter, it sweeps away all the strange beasts rushing in from all directions with an absolutely calm demeanor.

Li Fei is the King of Hell in the underworld!
(End of this chapter)