Chapter 1306: Ghost Mockery Abyss

"Is this..."

"The Ghost Mockery Abyss?"

Chen Ling looked at the pitch-black heavenly abyss that pierced through the earth before him, feeling quite surprised.

In his original impression, the Ghost Mockery Abyss should have been a canyon-like landform. Compared to large-scale landforms like oceans, wildernesses, or mountain ranges, an abyss would seem shorter and more compact... But until he actually stood before the Ghost Mockery Abyss, Chen Ling realized his understanding had been too conservative.

In the Earth Chen Ling knew, the widest "abyss" should be the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, which is said to reach a width of one hundred kilometers at its extreme. But compared to the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the Great Rift Valley was like a miniature toy... The abyss before him was at least three times the width of the Great Rift Valley. It was as if a god of nature had forcibly snapped the continent into two, with endless darkness spilling out from the depths of the earth's core, making one feel an urge to jump down just by looking at it.

Moreover, as Chen Ling approached the Ghost Mockery Abyss, he could clearly feel a chilling, sinister aura wafting up from beneath the pitch-black depths.

Of course, this aura didn't cause Chen Ling any discomfort; instead, it felt like a refreshing coolness.

As they neared the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the large and small centipedes of the centipede legion became visibly excited. Even the small centipede that had just had its leg torn off regained its vitality, its remaining long legs moving so fast they almost left afterimages...

They knew they were going home.

Wu Yi crawled to the edge of the abyss and didn't stop, instead crawling directly down the vertical cliff face. Chen Ling sat steadily on Wu Yi's back, letting the surrounding darkness swallow him whole.

One thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters...

Even on the vertical wall, the centipede legion moved as if on flat ground. Their shadows delved deeper into the darkness, easily breaking the ten-thousand-meter mark.

Even so, there was still no sign of the bottom. The abyss was like a bottomless black hole; as they descended, the perception of time and space seemed to fail.

Without realizing it, Chen Ling could no longer judge how far they were from the surface. Thirty thousand meters? Fifty thousand meters?

He only knew that the sunlight of the Gray Realm could never reach this place. Yet, in the darkness below, tiny specks of light began to appear. Upon closer inspection, he realized that quite a few bioluminescent plankton glowing with a ghostly blue light lived down here, drifting at the bottom of the abyss like jellyfish in the deep sea...

And under the dim reflection of these ghostly blue lights, a rugged underground kingdom finally appeared before Chen Ling's eyes.

It looked like an underground mountain range, with rugged terrain rolling beneath the abyss. Among these protruding or sunken rocks and the cliffs on both sides, there were countless caves that made one's scalp tingle. In the faint glimmer of the ghostly blue plankton, one could see massive black snakes, scorpions, or centipedes crawling about.

Chen Ling knew he had truly arrived at the Ghost Mockery Abyss.

"Zhi——"

At the same time, Wu Yi let out a sharp, explosive screech that echoed throughout the entire abyss.

Chen Ling could roughly understand its meaning:

——【The Great King returns, welcome him at once】!!

The moment this sound rang out, all the calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss froze.

They looked blankly in the direction where Wu Yi and the others had descended, as if they hadn't reacted for a moment... And as Wu Yi let out another hiss, a long-lost, familiar, and oppressive aura of world-ending destruction swept out from that direction!!

At this moment, all the calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss seemed to boil over.

Countless black snakes, scorpions, and centipedes crawled frantically out of their caves, rolling toward Chen Ling like a tidal wave;

On the surface of the seemingly barren cliffs, perfectly camouflaged geckos suddenly opened their eyes and scurried rapidly toward that spot;

And at the very bottom of the abyss, those giant shadows that had been as motionless as mountain rocks also began to stir one after another. As the stone debris fell from their bodies, it became clear that these massive black shadows were actually giant toads!

From Chen Ling's perspective, he had only released a bit of his world-ending aura, and waves of shadows were surging toward him from all directions, accompanied by all sorts of strange, grating screeches echoing from the depths, almost tearing his eardrums!

Surprise, joy, excitement, curiosity...

Chen Ling could distinguish the emotions in the sounds of these calamities. The entire Ghost Mockery Abyss seemed to be rejoicing at his return.

The Ghost Mockery Abyss had been leaderless for too long, and the calamities here were starting to wonder if they had been abandoned by their King. After all, when that King was around, he was temperamental; when he was in a good mood, he would drink with them, and when he was in a bad mood, he would slaughter them and take them apart to assemble twisted, eerie "art pieces" for his own entertainment... But no matter how unstable the King's mood was, he was still the King. During the time the Mockery Calamity was away, the calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss had suffered no shortage of bullying from other calamities.

Now that other world-enders were taking their own calamities to occupy human realms, only the Mockery Calamity hadn't shown his face, so these calamities inevitably thought their Great King had abandoned them and slipped away...

Now that they felt their Great King's aura reappear, they were naturally overjoyed.

Their King had not abandoned them.

One shadow calamity after another crowded around Chen Ling and knelt down, but they were sensible enough not to block his path, instead clearing a wide passage that stretched straight toward the end of the abyss...

Chen Ling's centipede legion was also looking majestic, especially Wu Yi. It was now the King's mount, and while the calamities were bowing to Chen Ling, it also basked in the glory, holding its body straight as it crawled slowly through the path cleared by the other calamities.

At this moment, the calamities were not only welcoming Chen Ling's return but also curiously eyeing Wu Yi.

You have to understand, regardless of their rank, the calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss should all be as black as shadows, but Wu Yi's body actually had traces of scarlet... Retaining color in the Gray Realm was a privilege reserved only for world-ending levels!

What exactly had it experienced while following the Great King?

And it wasn't just Wu Yi; the centipede legion following behind Chen Ling all carried a hint of red to varying degrees, shrouded in a mysterious and powerful veil under the faint glimmer of the ghostly blue plankton.

The centipede legion was enjoying the reverence and curiosity from the other calamities;

But a flash of doubt crossed Chen Ling's eyes...

With his return, the calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss had indeed come to welcome him, but if one observed closely, they would find that the ranks of these calamities were generally not high, at most seventh-rank... So where had the top-tier calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss gone?

In such a large Ghost Mockery Abyss, there shouldn't be a single eighth-rank calamity.

Just as Chen Ling was pondering this, a toad shadow as massive as a mountain leaped rapidly from the depths of the Ghost Mockery Abyss!