614: Chapter 614 Avici Hell, Doomsday City

Woo-woo-woo——

The space at the edge of the vortex continuously collapsed inward, only to be reorganized in an instant.

The central area was crimson like blood, resembling a beating visceral organ.

A massive gravitational pull emanated from the depths, frantically stirring the surrounding airflow.

The dust and dry bones on the ground were swept into mid-air, and the moment they touched the edge of the vortex, they silently vanished into fine powder.

Fang Cheng raised his brow slightly, feeling a trace of surprise.

It seemed that the trigger mechanism of this mechanism did not care whether you kowtowed with your head or stepped on it with your foot; it only needed to reach a certain level of physical vibration or energy resonance to be activated.

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng followed that suction force and peered into the bottomless blood-colored passage.

He tried to see the scenery deep inside the vortex, but gained nothing.

After observing carefully for a moment, Fang Cheng lowered his line of sight slightly, landing on the dozen-meter-tall dilapidated Buddhist pagoda.

The top of the pagoda was shaped like a lotus platform, and the precious pearl in the center of the lotus platform pointed directly at the exact center of the vortex.

The distance between the two was a mere half a meter.

Fang Cheng nodded inwardly.

So the true function of this Buddhist pagoda was to act as a stepping stone for later generations to step into the entrance.

Naturally, Fang Cheng did not need such trouble.

He slightly moved his wrists and straightened his back.

The vital energy and blood within his body boiled, circulating endlessly.

The Hunyuan True Domain shrouding his entire body not only did not contract, but its light became even more blazing, with fierce flames burning intensely.

After getting ready, Fang Cheng slightly bent his legs, his thigh muscles tensing up.

His military boots stepped on the black stone ground, suddenly exerting force.

Bang!

A wave of air instantly exploded.

His entire body, like a launched rocket, soared into the sky and crashed straight into that scarlet vortex.

The moment he entered, an intense feeling of weightlessness instantly enveloped his entire body.

Heaven and earth seemed to turn upside down, and his body kept falling.

But the direction of the fall was not downward, but straight upward.

Or rather, the concepts of up, down, left, and right had been completely erased in this place.

Fang Cheng was like being thrown into the zero-gravity Universe Void Realm.

The light around the passage was pulled at extreme speed, transforming into slender colored ribbons of light that rapidly receded backwards.

The scenery before his eyes began to twist violently.

On the scarlet inner walls, blisters bulged like boiling water, revealing countless blurry black shadows.

These black shadows, like hungry ghosts smelling a living person, lunged forward with claws and fangs bared, desperately crashing against the six-meter-wide golden light domain.

Layers of ripples spread across the surface of the protective barrier, and the light flames flickered like tongues of fire.

The moment the black shadows touched the domineering True Sun Fire, they were sizzled and burned, twisting into faces of people wailing in agony.

Sharp wails mingled with hysterical wild laughter, turning into tangible sound waves that drilled straight into his mind.

Fang Cheng did not even blink his eyelids, turning a blind eye and deaf ear to these mental contaminations.

He let the gravity drag him along, rapidly shuttling through the turbulent currents.

Relying on Absolute Control over every inch of his muscles and vital energy, his feet were rooted like trees, and his figure stood tall and unshakable.

In such a weightless environment, he still maintained a stable posture.

After a few seconds, or perhaps a long few tens of minutes.

The shrill ghost wails and wind howling by his ears came to an abrupt halt.

Bang!

The soles of his feet suddenly sank heavily.

The heavy military boots landed on the solid ground, crushing a large area of charred debris.

A gravitational pull nearly twice that of Earth instantly pressed down on his shoulders like an invisible mountain.

His internal organs were violently dragged downward by this sudden gravity, and even the blood surging in his blood vessels experienced a brief stagnation.

Fang Cheng slightly frowned, the muscles of his waist and back suddenly bulging and tightening.

His spine emitted a series of "click-clack" bone-grinding sounds, and against this doubled pressure, he forcibly straightened his body.

His heart throbbed boomingly like a heavy-duty pump, and the internal circulation instantly maxed out.

The vital energy and blood increased their surging speed and energy capacity, scouring through his limbs and bones all over again.

In a mere two seconds, he had completely adapted to the environment and regained control of his body.

Fang Cheng steadied his mind and quickly scanned his surroundings.

That scarlet vortex was hanging upside down on the dome a dozen meters high, slowly rotating.

Just now, he had fallen from there.

Beneath his feet was a circular, dilapidated altar, its surface engraved with vague array patterns worn smooth by time.

This was an exceptionally spacious cave.

The surroundings were pitch dark and silent, and the air was as turbid as stagnant water.

Golden flames danced in the depths of Fang Cheng's pupils.

Relying on his extraordinary vision, he quickly saw the specific scenery inside the cave.

The rough rock walls around were unexpectedly carved with intricate murals.

In the pictures, they were all evil spirits and fierce gods with distorted limbs and hideous faces.

Some had six arms, and some stepped on piles of skeletons, devouring human internal organs alive.

The carvings were crude and the lines were sharp.

There were even blackened dark red pigments remaining on the rock walls, resembling dried blood stains.

The style was similar to Buddhist sutra stories of ancient Esoteric Buddhism, exuding an indescribable sense of bloodshed and mystery.

Scanning his surroundings and confirming that there were no dormant living creatures, Fang Cheng's mind stirred.

The Hunyuan True Domain, which had expanded to a full six-meter range, rapidly contracted inward, transforming into fine golden light that seeped back into the pores of his skin.

He proactively withdrew the protection, attempting to expose his Physical Body directly to the air of the different world.

His chest swelled slightly, and Fang Cheng took a deep breath.

The scorching airflow poured into his nasal cavity, like inhaling a mouthful of sandpaper, and even carried a strong smell of sulfur.

A slight stinging sensation then came from the surface of his skin.

That was the high-dimensional radiation energy free in the air, attempting to erode his cells.

But with his inhuman Physique attributes, this level of radiation could at best be considered a rough exfoliating treatment, causing no substantive harm whatsoever.

"Aside from doubled gravity and excessive radiation, there are basically no major problems."

Fang Cheng muttered to himself, giving his evaluation.

Then he strode forward, walked down the stone steps in front of the altar, and walked outward along a pitch-dark, narrow passage.

His military boots stepped on the hard stone slabs, and the echo reverberated back and forth inside the empty mountain body.

Walking forward for about several hundred meters, the darkness at the end of the passage was forcibly torn apart by a hint of dark red halo.

That was clearly the exit.

Fang Cheng quickened his pace and walked toward that light.

The moment he stepped out of the cave entrance, a scorching and blazing violent wind swept toward him head-on.

His vision was no longer blocked by anything, suddenly opening up.

The spot where he stood at this moment was unexpectedly the edge of a cliff hundreds of meters high.

Fang Cheng paused and stood, slowly raising his head to survey this brand-new world.

The sky presented a dark red color like blood stasis.

Thick black volcanic ash clouds pressed low overhead.

Deep within the clouds, thick purple lightning crawled wildly like a spider web, tearing apart the dome.

The temperature in the air was extremely high, and visible hot air currents caused the distant horizon to present distorted water ripples.

But what shocked Fang Cheng the most was not this harsh natural environment, but the remaining scenery on the earth.

Looking as far as the eye could see, it was scarred and devastated everywhere.

There were no immortal mountains and pavilions from myths and legends here, nor were there primitive jungles from the barbaric era.

In the crimson scorched earth underfoot, thick rusted steel bars were haphazardly stuck vertically and horizontally.

In the distance were patches upon patches of collapsed concrete load-bearing walls, as well as ruins of skyscrapers with only metal skeletons remaining.

The violent wind whipped up the ashes on the ground, passing through those riddled modern-style architectural remains, emitting a wailing cry.

At the end of his line of sight, several huge active volcanoes were erupting violently.

Billowing thick smoke mixed with dark red magma soared into the sky, reflecting half of the sky as scarlet as blood.

There was not a trace of life's greenery here, nor did there seem to be any trace of human life.

It was simply like the Avici Hell described in Buddhist scriptures.

Hoo——

The violent wind whipped up the ashes on the ground, whistling and pouring backward from the bottom of the abyss, blowing his clothes fluttering loudly.

Fang Cheng reined in his thoughts, lowered his gaze, and quickly scanned the terrain below.

He did not look for the buried mountain path, but took a few steps forward, the edge of his heavy military boot stepping on the weathered rock at the cliff's edge.

Rustle—rustle—

Several gravel stones could not bear the force, peeling off and rolling into the abyss.

The next second, Fang Cheng's thigh muscle groups suddenly tightened and exerted force.

Facing the violent upward airflow, his entire person leaped down from the cliff hundreds of meters high.

The whistling wind instantly became extremely sharp, crazily pouring into his ear canals.

The double gravity pulled at his torso, and the falling speed was unimaginably fast.

Fang Cheng's expression was calm, his eyes slightly narrowing in the fierce wind.

In the air, the vital energy and blood within his body surged boomingly, and his limbs suddenly stretched outward.

His wide sleeves were instantly inflated by the strong upward airflow.

Utilizing the lifting force of this violent wind, like a giant predatory fierce bird, he traced a smooth arc under the dark red canopy of heaven, deftly defusing most of the downward momentum.

Bang!

His heavy military boots stepped firmly on the crimson scorched earth, kicking up a circle of flying scorching dust.

Fang Cheng's legs sank slightly like hydraulic shock absorbers, and then he channeled all the residual physical impact force through the soles of his feet directly into the ground.

He straightened his body and casually patted away the volcanic ash stained on his clothes.

His gaze crossed the barren plain and cast toward the massive city ruins a few kilometers away.

Without hesitation, Fang Cheng took big strides and walked straight toward the direction of the ruins.

On the wilderness along the way, there was only cracked red soil and scattered gravel.

The scorching violent wind rolled up the ashes, shuttling across the plain without any obstruction, emitting a low wail.

As his pace continued to advance, that massive wreckage composed of steel and concrete gradually magnified in Fang Cheng's field of vision.

The collapsed skyscrapers stood silently under the dark red firmament like giant black tombstones.

The air distorted by high-temperature radiation made the outline of the entire city appear somewhat blurry and shaking, exuding an aura of death.

After walking for about more than half an hour.

Fang Cheng lifted his leg, stepped over a completely fractured remnant of the ring overpass, and officially stepped into this dead city ruins.

The once wide streets had long been completely buried by thick black ashes and cracked gravel, making it completely impossible to distinguish the original asphalt road surface.

On both sides were dilapidated building remains.

Thick rusted steel bars broke free from the shackles of the weathered concrete, stabbing horizontally and vertically into the soil and mid-air like a monster's distorted bone spurs.

The surroundings were extremely oppressively quiet.

There were no car horns, no clamor of pedestrians.

In the huge space, only the sound of the wind passed through the hall, whistling loudly.

And the "creak" sound made by Fang Cheng's military boots crushing pebbles echoed in the empty street.

"Crack."

His right foot stepped over a thick, rusted steel pipe half-buried in the soil.

That high-strength steel, which was originally sufficient to bear several tons, at this moment actually emitted a fragile sound like weathered dead wood.

Then, it directly shattered into a pool of reddish-brown iron powder under the soles of his shoes.

Fang Cheng stopped his footsteps and lowered his head to glance at the steel that had turned into powder.

The tip of his shoe gently brushed away a layer of floating dust covering it.

The Masked Man had once mentioned that when he entered that Ancient Civilization Ruins in Xishan, it was empty inside with ruins all over the ground.

Now seeing these dilapidated skyscrapers with his own eyes, Fang Cheng deeply realized the weight within them.

This so-called "ancient civilization" was clearly a modern civilization that was once highly developed.

Only in the long years, it was completely erased by some unknown catastrophe.

Time had left the most cruel scars here.

After thousands or tens of thousands of years of scouring, it was enough to turn steel into mud and reset civilization to zero.

Just as Fang Cheng crossed a collapsed load-bearing wall.

In the shadows of the ruins ahead, a sound of carapace friction suddenly came.

Several multi-legged arthropod insects over half a meter in length and covered all over with black scales were alarmed by Fang Cheng's footsteps.

Waving their sickle-like forelimbs, they quickly burrowed into a fractured underground drainage pipe.

Clearly, the creatures here had long undergone a mutation under extreme radiation and gravity.

Compared with those on Earth, every single one of them was bizarrely shaped and didn't look like friendly beings.

Yet perhaps only by being this way could they survive in this harsh environment.

That was the so-called "survival of the fittest".

Fang Cheng withdrew his gaze, just preparing to step across the concrete slab under his feet.

From the tilted building skeleton above his head, a few pieces of fine gravel suddenly dropped.

Fang Cheng's footsteps paused slightly, and the corner of his eye instantly locked onto the upper left.

Accompanied by a roar, a massive black shadow pressed against the fractured load-bearing column, smashing down toward him like a cannonball out of its chamber.

That was a mutant giant beast nearly three meters in length.

Its appearance closely resembled a skinned hound, its muscles knotted all over its body, and its back covered with a layer of grayish-white exoskeleton.

The double-gravity environment endowed it with an extremely terrifying initial falling speed.

Four thick sharp claws tore through the air, heading straight for the throat of the prey, Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng did not make the slightest panicky dodging movement.

His legs were firmly rooted in the scorched earth like a hydraulic press.

Immediately afterward, his waist violently twisted, channeling the reaction force of the ground step by step along his spine.

The muscles of his right arm bulged high, and his major tendons snapped and rebounded like bowstrings.

Boom!

Facing the mutant giant beast pouncing to kill, Fang Cheng punched out wildly.

Pure Physical Body strength superimposed with fierce golden True Qi completely detonated the instant his fist edge contacted the giant beast's skull.

Under double gravity, the surrounding air density was relatively higher.

And with this punch thrown out, it actually compressed a naked-eye-visible translucent wave of air in front of his fist.

The hard exoskeleton exploded instantly like thin ice.

The giant beast didn't even have time to issue a wail before its entire upper body exploded into a cloud of blood mist dancing all over the sky under Fang Cheng's destructive strike.

Its mutilated lower half flew backward, heavily smashing into a concrete wall a dozen meters away.

The massive kinetic energy directly crashed through the remaining wall, kicking up a large amount of dust.

(End of Chapter)