The woman tried desperately to retreat, her feet leaving white marks on the stone wall, but her strength was no match for the two mature cultivators, and she was finally pushed hard inside.
“Ah!”
A shrill scream sounded from the gap, but it only lasted for a moment before it disappeared completely, as if swallowed by darkness.
The crack remained silent, without any movement, as if nothing had happened.
The three guardian monks stood in front of the crack, remained silent for a moment, then turned and left.
Their backs seemed slightly hunched, their faces expressionless, only a faint heaviness hidden within their eyes.
After the three of them walked away, David slowly got up from the Yinling Grass.
He walked into the fissure, staring at the dark abyss below, and his purple eyes churned with anger and confusion.
The woman’s scream just now could be heard clearly in his ears.
However, not any sound of resistance could be heard from the gap, and no breath came out, as if it was a bottomless black hole capable of swallowing all life and sound.
David reached out and gently touched the edge of the crack with his fingertip.
The cold touch felt like touching thousand year old ice, causing his fingertips to tingle slightly.
At the same time, a faint, almost invisible, and sinister aura entered his body through his fingertips.
This aura was neither yin energy, nor divine power, nor immortal spiritual power. It carries a decaying, violent, and devouring power, creating an ethereal resonance with the power of chaos.
“This aura” David’s heart stirred, and he immediately activated his Chaos Power to envelop the strange aura and inspect it carefully.
However, that aura was too weak and very cunning. Once enveloped by the power of chaos, the aura immediately disappeared, leaving only a faint trace.
David frowned. This aura was indeed as the Underworld Elder had described it—unrecognizable, but carrying a familiar feeling, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
David returned and explained the situation to Jiang Xuelan and Xuanzhenzi.
Then the three of them quietly left the cave and headed for the gap along the remote suspension bridge and stone steps on the cliff.
The night wind howled in the ravine, and the suspension bridge swayed gently beneath our feet.
David walked in front, his steps were very light, every step landed exactly on the support points of the suspension bridge, almost silently.
Jiang Xuelan followed behind him, suppressing the piercing blue chill to the extreme, leaving only a thin frost flowing around her fingertips.
In the end, Xuanzhenzi held a luminous pearl in his hand and a blade of withered grass in his mouth, but his expression was more serious than before.
The crack stood still at the junction of the seventh and eighth floors, as black as hardened ink, with edges as smooth as a mirror.
The light from the luminous pearl shone into the gap, but the light seemed to be absorbed, unable to illuminate the interior at all.
David stood in front of the crack, his purple eyes reflecting the dark light from the crack.
“Let’s go,” he said quietly.
He stepped into the gap. Jiang Xuelan followed closely, and Xuanzhenzi took a deep breath and was the third to step in.
Darkness suddenly enveloped everything.
Upon entering the fissure, David felt a very strong falling sensation, as if he was falling into an abyss.
The darkness around him was so dense that it almost felt real, suffocating his limbs and chest, making it almost impossible to breathe.
Chaos power circulated automatically within his body, and the gray light created a small space, which was barely able to withstand that devouring power.
The fall lasted for about a dozen breaths before his feet suddenly hit the ground.
He calmed himself down and looked around.
Before me stretched a dark and gray space, without sky and earth, only gray mist swirling all around.
Beneath my feet lay dark black soil with a fine, sandy texture, like a dry river bed.
An ancient and musty smell filled the air, like stagnant water that had not flowed for millions of years.
“Here……”
Jiang Xuelan’s voice came from behind, “I can no longer feel the outside world. The laws of space-time are distorted here.”
Xuanzhenzi rubbed his sore bottom and got up, looking at the gray mist around him: “Gosh, this place feels scarier than the Underworld Abyss?”
FAQ Novel
Q: What is special about the chasm?
A: The chasm is incredibly deep and absorbs all divine sense, making it impossible to investigate its depths or nature.
Q: Why is the young woman being sacrificed?
A: She is being sacrificed to the chasm as a ritual to maintain peace, a practice the clan resorts to out of desperation after a past incident caused widespread death.
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