Chapter 1340: Deep Abyss Predicament

Chapter 1341: Predicament in the Abyss

Sun Bumian was stunned. "He just jumped? Isn't he afraid of falling to his death?"

Before Sun Bumian's words faded, he saw Jian Changsheng twist his body in mid-air and grab the vertical cliff face with one hand. His fingers, like steel claws, dug directly into the hard rock. As faint rumbling sounds like thunder emanated from his fingertips, his descent speed immediately slowed to a controllable pace.

"...Alright, I overthought it."

With an Asura's physical constitution, let alone slowing himself with his hands, even if he truly fell directly from here, it might not be enough to kill him.

But Sun Bumian was not Jian Changsheng; if he truly fell from here, he would probably become a pile of mush. Fortunately, he had a more convenient method... Sun Bumian took a step forward, walking directly on the air as he descended into the abyss.

After walking a few steps, he seemed to realize something and turned his head to look at the top of the cliff.

Jiang Xiaohua was standing there awkwardly, at a loss.

A moment later, he seemed to make up his mind, stepped back a few paces, and prepared to jump directly down.

"Don't!" Sun Bumian hastily called out to stop him. "You're too heavy. If you really jumped down, the commotion would likely send the entire Ghost Mocking Abyss into a panic..."

Jiang Xiaohua looked at Sun Bumian pleadingly.

"...Oh, fine."

Sun Bumian took off the Awakened Lion pendant from his wrist, shook it lightly, and it transformed back into the lifelike Awakened Lion mask. He then raised a hand and pointed, and a small Awakened Lion, burning with multicolored flames, carried Jiang Xiaohua on its back.

Both the person and the lion, treading on clouds, rapidly descended deeper into the abyss.

Shhh—

As Jian Changsheng slid down the inner wall of the abyss, supporting himself with one hand, his figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, having completely lost all sense of distance and time.

The three didn't know how deep they had descended; the abyss before them was like a bottomless pit, deadly silent, with only the faint rustle of falling pebbles.

Meanwhile,

One by one, geckos perched on the cliff face quietly opened their eyes.

They were entirely black, crouching on the already dark cliff walls of the abyss, making them invisible to the naked eye. They uniformly turned their heads, looking down along the cliff face from where the rustling sounds came, their eyes in the darkness filled with vigilance.

These geckos immediately moved, some following the rustling sounds deeper into the abyss, while others turned directly towards the bottom, as if to report the news.

"We've been discovered."

Jian Changsheng sharply glanced into the darkness and spoke in a deep voice.

"With our method of infiltration, it would be strange if we weren't discovered, wouldn't it?" Sun Bumian looked at the Awakened Lion, burning with multicolored flames in the darkness, and shrugged. "But there's no way around it; without some means, we truly couldn't descend this Ghost Mocking Abyss."

Ordinarily, with Jiang Xiaohua's aura-shielding ability, the three could move freely in the Gray Realm, but only if they didn't actively reveal their presence. However, the Ghost Mocking Abyss was different from other disaster territories. Perhaps Jian Changsheng could climb down barehanded relying on his terrifying physical prowess, but Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua couldn't, and being targeted by the disasters of the Ghost Mocking Abyss was unavoidable.

"It doesn't matter. This is Red Heart's territory anyway, so nothing should go wrong."

Jian Changsheng, however, remained completely calm.

The three didn't know how long they had been descending in the darkness when finally, faint glows appeared around them. These points of light, like fireflies, intertwined to form a dimly lit underground kingdom, gradually revealing itself before their eyes.

"It's quite spectacular," Sun Bumian remarked, looking at the dim insect lair that stretched as far as the eye could see.

The Awakened Lion's paws landed on the floor of the abyss. Jiang Xiaohua and Sun Bumian dismounted one after another, while Jian Changsheng floated lightly down from the adjacent cliff face. He then fiercely shook his swollen, red fingers, grimacing in pain.

"That was too deep... I nearly wore out my fingers."

Sun Bumian was about to say something when a sudden clap of thunder, as if from nowhere, rang out from the dimly lit insect lair in the distance!

Boom—!!

Immediately after, a mountain-like giant shadow shot up into the sky, carrying with it a suffocating and terrifying pressure, and plummeted directly towards the three.

"Look out!" Jian Changsheng shouted, and the three scattered in different directions without hesitation!

Thud—!!!

The giant shadow crashed to the ground, the terrifying impact directly fracturing the earth into spiderweb-like cracks. The sweeping aftermath surged like ocean waves, making Jian Changsheng and the other two stagger and violently collide with the surrounding cliffs.

Only at this moment did Jian Changsheng and the other two clearly see the towering, massive silhouette...

It was a toad.

"An Eighth-Tier Disaster??" Sun Bumian sensed the opponent's aura, and his face turned incredibly grim.

They had just descended into the Ghost Mocking Abyss and already encountered an Eighth-Tier Disaster. Their luck was truly abysmal!

As the firefly-like points of light moved about, the three finally saw that besides the venomous toad chief directly in front of them, countless densely packed venomous insects had already surrounded them: venomous snakes, centipedes, scorpions, toads... like a black tide.

Jiang Xiaohua instinctively took half a step back and bumped into the hard cliff face. He looked up and found countless gecko eyes glowing eerily in the darkness.

They were surrounded.

These disasters of the Ghost Mocking Abyss seemed to not have seen humans for a long time, and excitement was revealed in their fiercely glowing eyes. At the same time, the mountain-like venomous toad chief's chin suddenly swelled, and the next moment, a deafening roar exploded in the ears of the three!

"Croak—!!"

"We're here to find Chen Ling!! We need to see your king!" Sun Bumian immediately shouted, seeing the situation was bad.

"Croak—!!!"

"What did it say?!" Sun Bumian turned to ask Jian Changsheng.

Jian Changsheng's eyes widened. "What's the point of asking me?! I'm not a toad! I can't understand it either!"

"Croak—!!!!"

At the toad's command, the surrounding venomous insects swarmed and rushed towards the three!

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng and the other two had no choice but to immediately move back-to-back towards the center, defending against the venomous insect attacks from all directions.

But the disasters of the Ghost Mocking Abyss were simply too numerous, and each was formidable and powerful. If they were truly allowed to wear them down like this, things would become truly troublesome... Jian Changsheng's peripheral vision remained fixed on the depths of the Ghost Mocking Abyss, and he couldn't help but shout directly:

"Red Heart!!! It's us!!! Make these venomous insects stop!!!"

Jian Changsheng's voice echoed within the abyss.

The underground palace remained completely silent.

Jian Changsheng's heart immediately sank.

"Oh no, has that Red Heart guy really run into trouble?!" Jian Changsheng muttered to himself.

"Could he not be in the Ghost Mocking Abyss?" Jiang Xiaohua suddenly asked.

"Isn't he the King of the Ghost Mocking Abyss? If he's not in the Ghost Mocking Abyss, where else could he be?"

"I don't know where else he could be... I only know that if we don't think of something soon, we're all going to die!" Sun Bumian kicked a shadow venomous snake away, his face incredibly grim.