I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 206 The Abyss
Half an hour later, when the three elders of the Joint Council and the man in blue armor appeared before the crowd, the entire group immediately began to move forward, heading straight for the massive wall that resembled a small mountain not far away.

For some reason, even though the walls were completely empty, the entire team did not fly directly over the giant walls, but instead stopped directly under one of them.

Then the man in blue armor walked to the front of the group, muttering incantations, and then suddenly pointed at the wall with one hand.

With a deafening roar, the surface of the giant wall facing the crowd shook, and amidst flashes of five-colored light, a pale silver magic circle gradually emerged.

Upon seeing this, the man in blue armor immediately opened his mouth and spat out a pale purple wooden plaque.

The wooden plaque shone brightly, and a purple beam of light shot out in a flash, disappearing into the center of the magic circle after a few blinks.

The silver magic circle suddenly hummed, and then disappeared abruptly with a strange light flowing through it, but a huge silver door appeared below the giant wall.

This gate, several tens of feet high, emitted a cold light and appeared extremely heavy, as if it were made of pure silver.

Without a word, the man in blue armor put away the wooden sign and flicked his sleeves at the giant gate.

Instantly, a burst of purple light shot out and crashed into the giant gate.

With a loud bang, the silver door slowly opened amidst the glow of the sunset.

A gust of gray, evil wind immediately blew in from outside the door. Wherever it passed, the holy sons suddenly felt a strange shiver, and the hairs on their skin stood on end as if someone were pressing a sharp blade against them.

"A spatial gate, a cross-dimensional passage stabilized by an array?"

Xiao Wuji wanted to explore the secrets of this formation, but under the watchful eyes of everyone, he couldn't use his Void Eye and Thunder Eye to investigate.

With the gate open, the entire group walked out of the silver gate without hesitation, and the scene behind the giant wall became immediately clear.

Not far behind the door was a vast expanse of black earth.

High in the sky, there was a sea of ​​grayish-white mist, exceptionally thick, with no edge visible when looking up, appearing incredibly dense.

The gap between the sea of ​​fog and the ground was only thirty or forty feet high, appearing extremely narrow, but the strange howling of the wind inside was continuous, as if it could devour everything.

"Alright, we've arrived. Except for the Holy Son, no one else may take another step forward. The Gate of the Abyss is ten thousand miles away, hidden in the mist," the old woman leaning on her cane suddenly said.

"Now that we're here, let's begin announcing the details of this trial. I'm sure everyone has been eagerly waiting for this."

"You will succeed in this mission if you bring back a spiritual object called the Netherflame Fruit from the Abyss. This spiritual fruit is different from other spiritual objects; it only grows in places where darkness and foulness are most concentrated. The fruit matures approximately once every five hundred years, and only one fruit grows on each tree. The Netherflame Fruit you bring back must be a mature fruit. The darkness in the first layer of the Abyss is insufficient, so this fruit cannot appear. Of course, if anyone doesn't believe it and wants to try their luck, they can search in the first layer. There might be a small number of Netherflame Fruits in the second layer, but we cannot guarantee that they will exist. The third layer of the Abyss will definitely have this spiritual object, and in considerable numbers. How you proceed is up to you. The trial will last for three months. After three months, regardless of how many people succeed, we will reopen this door to welcome you back. Listen carefully."

"Alright, now that I've told you all about the trial, you may depart. I hope to see most of you again in three months. The rest of you, go back. The Demon Sealing Gate will be closed again soon," the tattooed elder instructed in a deep voice.

Then, with a flick of his sleeve, he immediately walked towards the city gate behind him without looking back at all.

Seeing this, the other elders could only glance worriedly at their own clan's holy son and daughter before silently following behind.

Seeing this, Xiao Wuji could only purse his lips and leave with the Holy Maiden Bai Bilei Lan.

It wasn't that he didn't want to convert all these people, but that he simply lacked the ability to do so.

It wasn't that he didn't want to kill all of them, but the Tianpeng Clan couldn't afford the consequences.

...This was a flat space of unknown size, surrounded by strange black winds. The air was still filled with a low, gray mist, but it was over a thousand feet high and churning violently, quite different from the low and calm sea of ​​mist from before.

The once black earth was now empty, vanished without a trace.

Instead, there was an abyss of unknown depth, filled with floating black and gray mist, from which gusts of eerily cold black winds occasionally blew out.

"You don't need to get involved in what happens next!"

Xiao Wuji suddenly turned around and looked at the two of them, saying something that left them both completely baffled.

However, Xiao Wuji didn't give the two of them any chance to figure things out. He directly used the Golden Magnetic Heavy Light to suppress the two of them on the spot, and then quickly began to convert them.

Finally, they were thrown directly into the abyss. Then, with a flap of their wings, they plunged headfirst into the abyss.

Xiao Wuji plummeted rapidly, his eyes flashing with electricity, the mist having no effect on him whatsoever.

After a short while, Xiao Wuji's gaze pierced through the thin mist and revealed a slightly different scene.

A vast expanse of black and yellow land suddenly appeared before Xiao Wuji's eyes. The ground was lush and green, covered with exceptionally dense and enormous trees, and there were even several strangely shaped gray birds circling uncertainly in the low sky.

"This Rahu is truly special. He hasn't even become an immortal yet, but he's already able to create such a large space within his body!"

"I can only say, they truly are spirits born from heaven and earth! Each and every one of them is so unique!"

Xiao Wuji casually made a couple of comments, then continued flying deeper into the area. Luo Hou's stomach could only be described as an independent space similar to a caged world, but it wasn't quite a small world; it was equivalent to a Realm King in the realm of immortality, far from meeting his expectations.

The Realm King realm within Immortality is roughly equivalent, but the Immortality Method relies far too heavily on the Three Thousand Great Daos. Otherwise, it wouldn't be unable to even transcend the Gate of Immortality.

With a single thought, he killed the unicorn-like monsters that had surrounded him, then casually took out a jade tablet and began to connect it with his Dharma body.

"Huh? Helping the Bloodthirsty Old Monster refine puppets?"

……

In the fifth level of the Abyss, deep within the belly of a dark mountain, a two-headed, four-armed figure put down a jade tablet. His four large hands rubbed his temples in annoyance; though he felt nothing, he did it instinctively.

"Ah, the main body has finally arrived! I no longer need to create puppets!"

After arriving at this place, he took Yuan Yao and hid in various places. They hid well for the first few years, but fifteen years ago, when he went out to find resources, he unfortunately ran into the Earth Blood Monster, who was also out looking for materials.

Then he was captured and taken back. In order to avoid being dismantled by the Earth Blood Monster, who was bursting with research desire, he immediately handed over his "Spirit Treasure Body". He then used the theory of "flesh and blood are weak, and machinery can ascend" to win a little bit of trust from the Earth Blood Monster and became a puppeteer under his command, specializing in the refining of low-level puppets.

Of course, the Earth Blood Old Monster might also be eyeing that demonic artifact, so he would occasionally extract some of his true demonic energy to study it.

He learned some advanced puppet-making techniques from the Earth Blood Old Monster. If he had enough materials, he could easily make puppets comparable to those of a Void Refinement cultivator.

However, compared to the puppet, he gained something even greater...

(End of this chapter)