Trials of the Abyss

"Luo Yuan!" Li Yuanchen screamed, scalp tingling.

It was none other than the Sword Pavilion outer disciple he had impersonated!

Li Yuanchen had maliciously altered his features to resemble Luo Yuan because of the deep impression he had left on Ye Fei.

He never expected the real Luo Yuan to appear on the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom's warship!

As his mind was thrown into chaos, turbulent waves surged through his spiritual sea, and sudden disturbances erupted within the divine soul in his sea of consciousness.

Li Yuanchen found himself on the brink of cultivation deviation!

Rip! Rip! Rip!

Strands of silver divine sense unraveled like cotton being pulled apart.

The small silver head Li Yuanchen had painstakingly formed collapsed due to his shaken mind.

His path of refining his divine soul was instantly set back to its original state, causing him to suffer an immediate backlash.

Splurt!

Li Yuanchen spat out a mouthful of blood, face as pale as paper.

"How dare you sabotage my advancement to the Spirit Condensation Realm!" he roared.

"So, you were the one impersonating me on the Sword Boat?" Pang Jian asked, standing upright in mid-air like a sharp sword.

He did not summon any of the spirit artifacts Li Yuanchen had seen earlier such as the Startling Slaughter Spear, the Star Crushing Umbrella, or the Nine Suns Cauldron.

Standing empty-handed, he gazed at Li Yuanchen with eyes filled with indifference.

"I am Luo Yuan, an outer disciple of the Sword Pavilion. I came across that Sword Boat, met with my Senior Brother Qi and Senior Sister Zhuang, and learned of your deeds. Li Yuanchen, do you realize the consequences of impersonating me?" Pang Jian questioned coldly.

Li Yuanchen was startled. "You weren't on the Sword Boat?"

This outer disciple of the Sword Pavilion was rumored to possess one hundred and twenty-eight strands of divine sense.

Ye Fei regarded this man, the Lightning Chaser in Cloud Lightning, as the most talented cultivator in the Second World.

The mysterious and low-key Luo Yuan had now tracked him down, and he even mentioned that he had not entered the bizarre mist alongside the Sword Boat.

Luo Yuan was more dangerous than Li Yuanchen had anticipated.

Li Yuanchen asked uneasily, "If you weren't on the Sword Boat, where were you before?"

"I've been drifting in the bizarre mist for quite a while," Pang Jian replied coldly.

Li Yuanchen's sense of dread deepened.

Luo Yuan was undoubtedly extremely dangerous.

"How did you enter the bizarre mist? And how have you survived all this time?" Li Yuanchen continued to question, discreetly swallowing a dark red pill. 𐍂ＡN𝖔ʙЕs

After a moment of hesitation, he retrieved the Mystic Heaven Thunder Hammer from above his head and used his secret arts to merge the icebergs into a single, frigid glacier.

Li Yuanchen stood atop the glacier with the silver Mystic Heaven Thunder Hammer in hand.

He had completely abandoned his attempt to advance to the Spirit Condensation Realm and was prepared to deal with his opponent directly.

Pang Jian did not answer his questions.

When he saw Li Yuanchen stop trying to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and prepare to fight to the death, Pang Jian added, "I devoured the silver strands of divine sense you released and attached to their earlobes.

"Each strand contained divine consciousness and was quite...nourishing." Pang Jian smirked mockingly.

Li Yuanchen was horrified. "How could you see them?"

Pang Jian chuckled mysteriously before secretly activating the Gate of the Abyss.

He vanished into thin air before Li Yuanchen's eyes!

"Teleportation!"

Li Yuanchen's mind was in turmoil, nerves frayed, and he was left feeling both stifled and frustrated.

This guy's teleportation skills surpass mine. If he can disappear like that, he can just as easily reappear. How can I concentrate on refining my divine soul with this hanging over my head?

His opponent had even devoured his silver strands of divine sense, which contained divine consciousness.

Thus, he dared not extend his divine sense to search for Luo Yuan's whereabouts.

Infuriatingly, Luo Yuan refused to stay put and fight him to the death on the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom's warship, leaving him with no outlet to vent his pent-up frustration.

This guy is just going to keep watching me! No matter where I go, he'll be watching me!

Li Yuanchen was troubled and distressed.

He racked his brains, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not think of a solution.

This Luo Yuan is truly damnable. I won't be able to focus on refining my divine soul until he reappears. But I don't have the confidence to kill Zhuang Yuyan, Qi Qingsong, and the rest until I advance to the Spirit Condensation Realm.

The more Li Yuanchen thought about it, the more frustrated he became.

He deeply regretted hiding in Xu Jie’s body after discovering the Sword Boat and acting so sneakily.

What would have happened if I had just shown up openly and revealed my identity upon boarding the Sword Boat? Would this Luo Yuan still be targeting me? he wondered.

Damn it! My ancestors reached the True God Realm. How can I, a member of the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom, cower before a mere outer disciple of the Sword Pavilion?

I'll just go somewhere else to refine my divine soul!

With that thought in mind, he flew away on the grayish-blue smoke vortex with the Boundless Sky Spirit Gathering Array.

That should be enough, he thought after flying for about an hour.

Li Yuanchen once again threw out the Mystic Heaven Thunder Hammer and unleashed the icebergs from the square seal.

I don't even know where I am. I'm lost. But that means Luo Yuan won't be able to find me either.

Swallowing a Soul Nourishing Pill and a bucket of blood from a Rank Seven Vicious Beast, he quietly composed his mind.

After that, he once again attempted to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.

Several hours later, as he refined a small silver head within his sea of consciousness using his silver divine sense, a chaotic sea of violent energies materialized in the sky!

A storm of lightning and thunder broke out, stars and moons collided, suns clashed with frozen rocks in great explosions, and a torrent of fiery meteors crashed down with a deafening roar!

The terrifying sea of energy seemed ready to destroy the heavens and split apart the universe.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The silver hammer's lightning vortex collapsed and the icebergs shattered one after another.

Li Yuanchen let out a muffled groan as blood flowed from his seven orifices.

Runes appeared on his mirror-like golden battle armor and helped him withstand the violent assault.

"Who is it? Luo Yuan? Or Pang Jian?!" Li Yuanchen roared furiously at the sky.

Although the terrifying sea of violent energies dissipated, neither the enigmatic Luo Yuan nor Pang Jian appeared.

The sea of violent energies bore the same sword intent as Pang Jian's earlier attacks on the Sword Boat.

Thus, he suspected the mysterious Luo Yuan had found Pang Jian in the bizarre mist, and the two had launched a surprise attack while he was attempting to break through.

Li Yuanchen seethed with rage, practically jumping up and down in fury as he itched to settle the score.

"Luo Yuan! Pang Jian! Stop lurking in the shadows like cowards!" he bellowed, blood still flowing from his nose and mouth. "Come out and fight me if you have the guts!"

Finding a safe place to advance to the Spirit Condensation Realm was impossible once he knew he had not shaken off Luo Yuan even after leaving the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom's warship.

He resolved to go all out against Luo Yuan and Pang Jian!

Buzz! Buzz!

A golden bee appeared in the endless bizarre mist.

The golden bee looked at him with its cold, sinister compound eyes before turning away and flying off.

Lost and unsure of how to find his enemies, Li Yuanchen was akin to a drowning man, and the golden bee was his lifeline.

He chased after it without hesitation.

It did not matter what the golden bee was or who controlled it, as long as he found the person behind it.

Li Yuanchen's mind and body had suffered severe injuries after failing to refine his divine soul twice, and he no longer dared to attempt it again.

For him, the golden bee was a potential direction.

As he pursued the bee, he consumed pills and gulped down Vicious Beast blood, trying his best to recover to a combat-ready state.

After flying for a long time, he saw a massive skeleton of a mystical bird.

Pavilions and palaces rested on its wing bones, and on its smooth forehead sat a man.

"Again?" The handsome man snorted coldly with a frown.

His eyes filled with rage as he watched the golden bee appear and vanish.

This was the sixth time!

The sneaky golden bee had repeatedly provoked him, but every time he tried to chase it, it would slip into the bizarre mist and disappear without a trace.

When he gave up and returned, the golden bee would reappear, just as he was about to sit down.

The bee's repeated provocations and hidden surveillance had become an endless annoyance for him.

Therefore, when the golden bee reappeared for the sixth time, he could no longer be bothered to get up and give chase.

He knew the golden bee was as fast as lightning within the bizarre mist and it was futile for him to try and catch it.

So, he just allowed the golden bee to hover before him, planning to ignore it.

Soon after, Li Yuanchen appeared behind the golden bee, expression wild as he stood on the swirling grayish-blue smoke vortex, silver hammer in one hand and square seal in the other.

"The master has finally shown up!"

"Vile scum! You've finally revealed yourself!"

The two cried at the same time.

Anger surged in both their hearts. Each thought the other was the master of the golden bee.

The handsome man shot up.

As he opened the divine eye hidden in his forehead, rays of intense spiritual light burst from his pores, coalescing into the towering form of an ancient god's Dharma Idol that was a hundred zhang tall!

The Dharma Idol sat on a lotus platform, hands forming seals at its chest as it bathed in raging karmic flames.

The man locked onto Li Yuanchen with the divine eye on his forehead and shouted, "Die!"

The hundred-zhang-tall Dharma Idol sat like a towering pillar supporting the heavens and commanded the lotus platform beneath it. It drove the vast sea of karmic flames to pour down on Li Yuanchen in a deluge of overwhelming force.

"Rise!"

Li Yuanchen summoned a lightning vortex with the Mystic Heaven Thunder Hammer, only for the massive lotus platform blotting out the sky to strike it down in a scattering of lightning.

Boom!

The lotus platform crashed down, distorting the silver hammer.

The frigid icebergs and the prismatic-shaped Boundless Sky Spirit Gathering Array shattered instantly.

Li Yuanchen's square seal exploded, turning his left hand into a bloody mess.

Hastily activating a secret escape technique, he dove into the rapidly shrinking smoke vortex. As the lotus platform dissipated the outer layer of mist, it revealed a grayish-blue iron funnel.

Whoosh!

The iron funnel disappeared.

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