High-level martial arts: Long spear with black flames to suppress demons.

Before long, two figures passed through the barrier and arrived at the entrance of the rift.

Inside the barrier, below the entrance where the Night Guard troops are stationed.

The man who had just let Shen Chang'an pass frowned slightly as he looked at the two people who had suddenly appeared in front of him.

Both of them were dressed in black and masked, and their bodies emanated powerful spiritual energy fluctuations.

"Who are you people?"

He gripped the weapon at his waist.

The leader of the men in black didn't speak, but silently took out a piece of mutton-fat jade with the same ancient seal script character "Zhao" carved on it from his pocket and handed it over.

He took the jade token and examined it, confirming that it was genuine. Although he found the group's behavior somewhat suspicious, as an ordinary garrison commander, he couldn't interfere too much in the affairs of aristocratic families.

He waved his hand: "Let them through."

The man in black retrieved the jade token, silently dissipated the spiritual energy beneath his feet, and rapidly ascended into the air along with the reverse-flowing seawater, disappearing into the enormous, dark crack.

......

"Bang."

As the slight feeling of weightlessness subsided, Shen Chang'an's feet landed firmly on a hard, dark brown ground.

He glanced down at the tactical watch on his wrist, the one-eyed old man's gift. The screen lit up, displaying not only the distance and depth: 0 kilometers, but also precisely marking the coordinates of his current "initial entrance" on the map.

"It works quite well."

Shen Chang'an nodded in satisfaction, chose a higher location, and began to move forward.

The Cloud-Shattering Spear instantly appeared in his hand. Its heavy, metallic texture gave him a sense of security.

He carried a long spear and ventured deeper into the interior.

He walked until his watch showed a depth of "five kilometers" before stopping to carefully examine the legendary inner world of the abyss.

The scene here is like a bizarre and fantastical alien painting.

Far behind, the pitch-black rift was still clearly visible, like a terrifying scar hanging in the sky, forcibly connecting two completely different worlds.

In this world, the sky is not blue, but rather a somber purplish-red. Above, two suns, emitting a dim red light, hang high in the sky, illuminating the desolate, dark brown earth in an eerie, twilight-like light.

The monsters that the Night Watchers must guard against in the outside world are as common here as stray dogs on the roadside.

Shen Chang'an tried to take a deep breath, and his brows immediately furrowed.

"It lacks spiritual energy."

To his astonishment, he discovered that the air in this space contained not even a trace of spiritual energy! This meant that once a cultivator consumed their spiritual power here, apart from taking medicine or absorbing spirit stones, they could not naturally recover through meditation and breathing exercises as they could in the outside world!

No wonder the outside world says this place is a death trap with a nine out of ten chance of survival. The inability to recover spiritual power alone is enough to kill most high-level cultivators.

"Is it irreversible...?" Shen Chang'an stroked his chin.

He suddenly remembered the words left by the dark figure in his dream, using flames.

"Give it a try."

He immediately opened his left hand. With a thought, a wisp of black flame quietly ignited in his palm.

He carefully controlled the wisp of black flame, trying to touch the faint abyssal demonic energy drifting in the air.

"laugh--"

It's like a spark falling into a gasoline drum.

The originally highly corrosive dark gray demonic energy melted and burned away instantly upon contact with the black flames, like a snowflake encountering a branding iron! And where the demonic energy was completely burned away, a wisp of completely transparent spiritual energy slowly emerged like a bamboo shoot.

"Holy crap, it actually works!"

Sensing the faint but pure spiritual energy, he couldn't help but mutter, "This entire crack is filled with demonic energy. If I were to unleash my full power and burn it indiscriminately, wouldn't this become an ultimate cultivation sanctuary with limitless spiritual energy for me?!"

Just do it.

Shen Chang'an suddenly raised his hands, and the spiritual sea within his body surged wildly.

"boom!"

Black flames erupted from his body instantly, transforming into a black sea of ​​fire with a diameter of over ten meters, completely engulfing his entire body.

The raging black flames, like a greedy beast, frantically devoured the terrifyingly dense abyssal demonic energy in the surrounding air.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss—"

The sounds of intense burning blended together. A vast amount of demonic energy was instantly incinerated, followed by surges of immense and pure spiritual energy!

Shen Chang'an closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The extremely pure spiritual energy instantly surged into his limbs and bones, rushing wildly through his meridians into his spiritual sea.

The exhilarating feeling of devouring spiritual energy without restraint was even more intense than when he absorbed those thousand spirit stones!

In this world ruled by monsters, this vast and pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth that appeared out of nowhere was like several buckets of fresh blood being poured into a shark tank.

"hiss--!"

"roar!"

After a brief silence, a series of chilling roars suddenly erupted from all directions in the wilderness!

Shen Chang'an suddenly opened his eyes and stopped devouring.

Within his sensory network, the monsters within a radius of several kilometers, like sharks attracted by the smell of blood, surged toward his location from all directions!

The ground was shaking, and the air was thick with a suffocating stench of blood and carnage.

"They came so fast."

Shen Chang'an licked his lips, his eyes showing no fear whatsoever, but instead burning with a fierce fighting spirit.

"Perfect timing... I've been itching to fight these past few days since school started. It's been too long since I've slashed a real monster without having to worry about its life or death."

His divine sense quickly swept across the entire area.

"There are about a hundred of them at the third and fourth realms, and... three at the fifth realm."

Shen Chang'an gripped the Calamity Cloud Spear tightly in his hand.

"Buzz—!"

With a flick of his wrist, he twirled his spear in mid-air.

"Let's clear the area first."

Shen Chang'an let out a low shout, and the black flames that were originally surrounding him instantly surged outward like a volcanic eruption!

The terrifying black sea of ​​fire transformed into ferocious fire dragons, which swept outwards in concentric circles from him!

"Roar!"

Those low-level demons of the third and fourth realms who were at the forefront didn't even have time to utter a complete scream. As soon as they were slightly touched by the black flames, their hard demonic scales and flesh were instantly burned to ashes!

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the beast tide consisting of hundreds of low-level demons was cleared out, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burning and the pure spiritual energy left behind after the demonic energy was burned.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three figures, exuding terrifying pressure, defied the aftershocks of the surrounding black flames and violently charged into Shen Chang'an's vicinity!

Those were three fifth-realm demons, each over five meters tall!

One was a giant, two-headed wolf covered in sharp bone spurs. Another was a bizarre creature with the lower half of a spider but the upper half of a human female. And finally, there was a heavily armored rhinoceros demon, like a mobile fortress!

"bring it on."