Chapter 1341: The Predicament Beneath the Abyss

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

Before Sun Bumian could finish his sentence, he saw Jian Changsheng twist his body in mid-air and grab the vertical cliff face with one hand. His fingers dug into the hard rock like steel, and as faint rumbles of thunder echoed from his fingertips, his descent speed immediately slowed and became controlled.

"……Alright, I was overthinking it."

With the physical constitution of an [Asura], let alone using his hands to slow down, he might not even die if he fell straight down from here.

But Sun Bumian was not Jian Changsheng. If he fell from here, he would probably turn into a puddle of meat. Fortunately, he had a more convenient method... Sun Bumian took a step forward, walking directly onto the void and heading down into the abyss.

After taking several steps, he seemed to realize something and turned to look at the top of the cliff...

Jiang Xiaohua was standing there, looking awkward and at a loss.

A moment later, he seemed to have made up his mind, took several steps back, and prepared to jump down.

"Don't!!" Sun Bumian hurriedly called out to stop him. "You're too heavy! If you really jump, the impact will probably trigger the entire Ghost-Mockery Abyss..."

Jiang Xiaohua looked at Sun Bumian with pleading eyes.

"……Sigh, fine."

Sun Bumian took off the lion dance pendant from his wrist and gave it a light shake, transforming it back into the lifelike lion dance mask. He pointed a finger, and a small lion dance figure, burning with seven-colored flames, picked up Jiang Xiaohua.

The man and the lion both stepped on clouds, quickly descending into the depths of the abyss.

Rustle—

As Jian Changsheng supported his body with one hand, sliding down the inner wall of the abyss, his figure was gradually swallowed by the darkness, and he had completely lost the concept of distance and time.

The three of them didn't know how deep they had descended. The abyss before them was like a bottomless pit, deathly silent, with only the sound of crumbling rocks falling...

Meanwhile,

Geckos dwelling on the cliff face quietly opened their eyes.

They were pitch-black, crawling on the already dark cliff of the abyss, invisible to the naked eye. They all turned their heads in unison, looking down along the cliff where the rustling sound came from, their eyes in the darkness filled with vigilance.

These geckos immediately set off; some followed the rustling sounds down the abyss, while others turned and scurried toward the bottom, as if to report the news.

"We've been discovered."

Jian Changsheng scanned the darkness sharply and said in a low voice.

"With the way we're infiltrating, it would be strange if we weren't discovered, right?" Sun Bumian looked at the lion dance figure burning with seven-colored flames in the darkness and shrugged. "But there's no help for it; without using some methods, we really couldn't get down into this Ghost-Mockery Abyss..."

Logically, with Jiang Xiaohua's aura masking, the three of them could move freely in the Gray Realm, provided they didn't actively leak their presence. However, the Ghost-Mockery Abyss was different from other Calamity territories. Perhaps Jian Changsheng could climb down with his terrifying physical constitution, but Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua couldn't. Being targeted by the Calamities of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss was inevitable.

"It doesn't matter, anyway this is Red Heart's territory, nothing should happen."

Jian Changsheng was incredibly calm.

The three of them didn't know how long they had been descending in the darkness when faint lights finally appeared around them. Those light spots, like fireflies, intertwined into a dim underground kingdom, revealing itself to the three of them bit by bit.

"It's actually quite spectacular." Sun Bumian couldn't help but say as he looked at the dim insect cave that stretched to the edge of his vision.

The lion dance's feet landed on the ground at the bottom of the abyss. Jiang Xiaohua and Sun Bumian followed, and Jian Changsheng leaped lightly from the cliff nearby, then shook his red, swollen fingers, wincing in pain:

"This is too deep... I almost wore my fingers off."

Just as Sun Bumian was about to say something, a thunderous boom suddenly erupted from the dim insect cave in the distance!

Boom—!!

Immediately after, a giant shadow like a mountain soared into the sky, carrying a suffocating, terrifying pressure, and crashed straight toward the three of them!

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

Thud—!!!

The giant shadow slammed into the ground, the terrifying impact cracking the earth like a spiderweb. The sweeping shockwave, like a tidal wave, sent Jian Changsheng and the others reeling, slamming them hard against the surrounding cliffs.

Only then did the three of them clearly see the towering, massive silhouette...

It was a toad.

"An Eighth-Order Calamity??" Sun Bumian felt the opponent's aura, his face turning incredibly ugly.

They had just arrived in the Ghost-Mockery Abyss and had already run into an Eighth-Order Calamity; their luck was truly at its worst!

As the firefly-like light spots moved, the three of them finally saw that besides the toad poison-head in front of them, a dense swarm of venomous insects had surrounded them—venomous snakes, centipedes, scorpions, toads... like a pitch-black tide.

Jiang Xiaohua subconsciously took half a step back, hitting the hard cliff. He looked up and found countless gecko eyes glowing with a ghostly light in the darkness.

They were surrounded.

These Calamities of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss seemed to have not seen humans for a long time; their fierce eyes were filled with excitement. At the same time, the chin of the mountain-like toad poison-head suddenly bulged, and the next moment, a deafening roar exploded in their ears!

"Croak—!!"

"We're here to find Chen Ling!! We want to see your King!" Sun Bumian saw the situation was bad and shouted immediately.

"Croak—!!!"

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

Jian Changsheng widened his eyes. "Why the hell are you asking me! I'm not a toad! I don't understand it either!!"

"Croak—!!!!"

At the toad's command, the surrounding venomous insects swarmed toward the three of them!

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng and the others had no choice but to stand back-to-back, fending off the attacks from all directions.

But there were simply too many Calamities in the Ghost-Mockery Abyss, and each one was fierce and powerful. If they kept being worn down like this, they would be in real trouble... Jian Changsheng's peripheral vision remained fixed on the depths of the abyss, and he couldn't help but roar:

"Red Heart!!! It's us!!! Tell these bugs to stop!!!"

Jian Changsheng's voice echoed within the abyss.

The underground palace remained deathly silent.

Jian Changsheng's heart sank to the bottom!

"Damn it, don't tell me that guy Red Heart really got into trouble?!" Jian Changsheng muttered to himself.

"Could it be that he's not in the Ghost-Mockery Abyss?" Jiang Xiaohua suddenly asked.

"Isn't he the King of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss? If he's not here, where else would he be?"

"I don't know where else he could be... I only know that if we don't think of a way, we're all going to the afterlife!" Sun Bumian kicked away a shadow-venom snake, his face looking terrible.