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All around was a darkness so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, with gusts of eerie wind and strange noises occasionally reaching the ears.
Like the roar of beasts, the chirping of insects, the sound of scales rubbing together, the wailing of ghosts.....
A person descending continuously in this darkness, lower and lower, and lower.
Someone with a weaker mental fortitude would not be able to endure for long in such an environment before breaking down!
And this was merely the most basic 'hospitality' of the Extreme Abyss.
The Heaven and Earth Qi here was almost entirely filled with various Yin Sha Qi, making it an ordeal for Martial Artists cultivating Tao Foundations in Gold Attribute, Fire Attribute, Light Attribute, etc., and their combat power would be significantly affected!
Li Fei's [Mixed Element Heavenly Gold] is a Gold Attribute Tao Foundation, but it possesses a mixed element characteristic; furthermore, his first Martial Arts Divine Power is [Mixed Heaven Golden Palace], which can absorb any kind of Heaven and Earth Qi and convert it into any form of Heaven and Earth Qi.
So for Li Fei, who possesses [Mixed Heaven Golden Palace], he is a 'universal environmental adaptability walker'.
As long as there is Heaven and Earth Qi, no environment can restrain him.
This is one of the reasons Li Fei dares to descend into the Extreme Abyss alone.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, he entered Sword State·Invisible the moment he leaped into the Extreme Abyss.
Given his current Cultivation Realm, unless he encounters a Seventh Grade or higher Exotic Beast with Perception Divine Power, it would be difficult for him to be discovered.
He was like an invisible specter, continuously descending in the Extreme Abyss.
A moment later, after descending about a thousand meters, Li Fei's feet touched solid ground.
Seeing this, everyone on the 'Mirage', except for Chaganbayar, was surprised.
Wasn't it said that this Extreme Abyss leads straight to the heart of the world?
Only a little over a thousand meters to the bottom?
"As expected, the Northern Barbarians are just lacking in knowledge, boasting," Zhao Jingfeng couldn't help but say.
Chaganbayar turned his head to glance at him, a sneer hidden in his gaze.
He himself had descended into the Extreme Abyss before and knew a bit about the situation below.
At this moment, the ground Li Fei was standing on was not the bottom of the Extreme Abyss, but merely an extension layer jutting out from the cliff side toward the middle.
Such extension layers were numerous in the Extreme Abyss, creating the illusion that the abyss was divided into many layers.
Using these extension layers as markers, the Nether River Ancestor had once descended to over a dozen layers.
That depth was already extremely dangerous for a Top-level True Master just one step away from reaching the peak!
And Chaganbayar knew that today Li Fei would definitely not stop at over a dozen layers.
On the extension layer, Li Fei took out several Copper Coins with runes carved on both sides.
He quietly scattered these Copper Coins into the soil beneath his feet and applied a Concealing Technique before moving on.
Quickly, he arrived at the edge of the extension layer and leaped down.
Just like this, he continued downward, passing through one extension layer after another.
Some of these extension layers were vast beyond measure, some bizarre in shape.
There were jungles upon them, lakes, even mountains.
At each extension layer, he took out a few Copper Coins and buried them in the soil.
These Copper Coins were all one-time-use Magic Artifacts, expensive to produce and difficult to refine.
They were 'signal nodes', extending the range of this 'broadcast'.
Beyond that, these Copper Coins were 'landmarks', guiding Li Fei on his path.
According to invaluable information left by the Grand Ancestor Emperor, the deeper into the Extreme Abyss, the more space changes.
It's easy to lose one's way.
Becoming lost in the Extreme Abyss is actually more terrifying than encountering a Ninth Grade Beast!
With thorough preparation, Li Fei had brought many Copper Coins on this trip into the Extreme Abyss.
During this journey, he inevitably encountered some Exotic Beasts living in the Extreme Abyss, with some casting shadows as large as mountains!
However, none of these Exotic Beasts noticed Li Fei in his Sword State.
Time trickled by, and unknowingly, Li Fei had traversed through thirty-plus extension layers.
Using those Copper Coins for navigation, he could roughly determine he had already ventured over twenty thousand meters into the Extreme Abyss!
It was around this depth that the Grand Ancestor Emperor had encountered a Ninth Grade Beast in the past.
To be cautious, Li Fei didn't plan to go much deeper, intending to try his luck first at this depth.
He landed atop an extension layer.
The surrounding area was flat land, with distant mountain peaks faintly visible.
Li Fei took out a dark blue bead.
This was the Soul Attraction Pearl, a Magic Artifact refined by the Righteous Law Pavilion.
When activated, it can exert a deadly attraction on Exotic Beasts.
The higher the grade of the beast, the greater the attraction.
The Extreme Abyss was vast, and without detailed intelligence, looking for a Ninth Grade Beast purely by chance would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
So, the Soul Attraction Pearl was essential.
Li Fei infused a strand of True Power into the Soul Attraction Pearl to activate it, then casually tossed the bead aside, allowing it to land on the ground.
It rolled across the scorched gravel, its eerie light flowing like a living entity, a formless yet immensely domineering wave spreading like a massive stone cast into a stagnant pond, creating deadly ripples that ignored distance and obstacles, spreading wildly into the surrounding darkness...
Changes began to occur—
Li Fei first sensed the subtle trembling of the ground beneath his feet, followed by the wind.
The wind was no longer dead still, now laced with greed, savagery, and countless screeches, growls, and scraping sounds that made one's teeth ache, rushing forth from the distant place that seemed the end of the earth!
"Screech——!"
A shrill cry, not like a bird's call, but more like the metal scratching against bone, pierced the darkness.
From the outlines of distant mountain peaks, a dozen huge shadows soared up, rushing madly toward the blue light point at incredible speed.
The shadows closed in swiftly, their outlines clear in the darkness.
They had the skeletal outlines of birds, but their entire bodies were covered in hideous, slippery, scales reflecting the blue light from the bead, as if they had just crawled out of a filthy oil pool. Where a head should be, there were twisted, eyeless snake heads.
Their maws gaped open, jagged teeth glistening white, dripping with thick saliva, while six pairs of strange, varying size ears on either side of their snake heads vibrated rapidly in the air.
This was an Exotic Beast never before documented in the Da Lan Dynasty.
From the aura, all these dozen beasts had reached the Sixth Grade, possessing combat power close to the Dao Foundation Peak.
Their claws were outstretched, wings stirring foul winds, snake maws wide open, hungrily lunging towards the point of light on the ground.
Without warning, without trajectory, pure, immensely condensed Invisible Sword Qi abruptly emerged in the void.
The Sword Qi wove into a web of death.
"Pshh! Pshh! Pshh! Pshh!"
The dull sounds of blades slicing into flesh merged into one, as dense as rain pelting rotten wood.
Those fierce scale armors were as fragile as paper against the Invisible Sword Qi.
Scales shattered, resilient muscle fibers were easily cut open, and strong bones emitted a tooth-crackingly brittle snapping sound.
Death descended in an instant!
A dozen Exotic Beasts were dismembered mid-air by the Sword Qi, their stinking hot blood, mixed with shattered scales, broken limbs, and slippery innards fragments, crashed down from above.
Li Fei's figure remained standing where it was, as if surrounded by an invisible barrier, keeping the putrid rain of blood at bay.
Not far away, the blue Soul Attraction Pearl still lay quietly within the pool of blood and shattered flesh, its light flickering.
Using the Soul Attraction Pearl gave Li Fei a greater chance of finding a Ninth Grade Beast, but the downside was that before drawing in a Ninth Grade Beast, he might have to endure many battles!
This was also the difficulty of descending into the Extreme Abyss to slay a Ninth Grade Beast.
In the distant darkness, more roars, charging sounds, and the flapping of wings were being madly drawn by the blue light and intense scent of blood, like a tide of blackness surging from all directions of the boundless dark.....
Over twenty thousand meters below the Extreme Abyss, Sword Qi traversed the air, an incredible slaughter unfolded!
Not a single Exotic Beast could survive more than a second under the Sword Qi!
If the Extreme Abyss is the Yellow Springs, then standing at the center of this slaughter, sweeping away all the oncoming beasts from all directions with absolute calm,
Li Fei is the King Yanluo beneath this Yellow Springs!
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