200: Blood Abyss!

When Lu Chen took Nita and stepped into the Void Realm rift, there wasn't a single person left alive behind them when they escaped.

"Brother Lu Chen?"

"It's nothing, that person won't die, but it did remind me of something."

Lu Chen fell into thought, regarding this world, and also the other world.

The little girl, Nita, looked at Lu Chen, her eyes full of questions.

But since Lu Chen didn't say anything, she wouldn't ask.

Seeing Nita looking at him, Lu Chen smiled and said, "You know I'm not from this world, don't you?"

"Mm... that person seems to be, too."

"Not strange. This world has had people from other worlds before, right?"

"Mm, there have been many in history."

"No wonder!" Lu Chen pondered for a moment. "Don't worry, you'll know in the future. Let's go home first. We'll go to the guild tomorrow to see if there are any missions we can take. Dungeons are what you need most right now; I'll handle the rest!"

Three days later, Lu Chen and Nita accepted a mission.

A new dungeon had appeared.

Dungeons were special things in this world.

They would refresh randomly and spawn dungeons of different Rank.

This was the same as the Secret Realm in Lu Chen's world.

"Blood Abyss?" Lu Chen mused.

The guild staff member who posted the mission smiled and said, "The difficulty is a bit high; do you want to take it? The rewards are also very rich. As long as you retrieve what we need, just some Materials, we can give you a portion of those Materials as payment. We have already set up a camp at the entrance for you to use."

Lu Chen reached out and shared the mission from the electronic screen in front of him.

[Accept mission?] [Accept]

Lu Chen successfully accepted the mission.

He glanced at Nita, who was already eager to try, beside him.

He smiled and gently stroked her hair.

"Let's go, kid."

"Okay, Brother Lu Chen."

"Call me Master."

"Oh, Brother Lu Chen."

Blood Abyss dungeon entrance.

The bronze giant gate slowly opened under the entanglement of deep blue runes, and Lu Chen's scabbard scratched a semicircle of sparks on the ground.

He turned sideways to look at Nita behind him—the girl's pale fingertips were clutching the edge of her cloak tightly, and her crimson pupils, unique to the vampire race, reflected the sulfurous mist pouring out from the crack in the gate.

"Master... the smell of blood here is ten times stronger than the Tower of London dungeon." Nita stood on tiptoe, trying to peer over Lu Chen's shoulder at the scene behind the gate. The cross hanging on the silver chain around her neck swayed with her movements; this was a Holy Light suppressor that Lu Chen had specially crafted for her.

Lu Chen wiped his fingers across the green jade sword hilt at his waist, and twelve Talismanic Incantations swam onto the sword body like living creatures. He said, "Remember, the flow of time in the Blood Abyss Secret Realm is one-seventh of the outside world. Once we step through this gate, you must independently slay at least thirty Shadow Servants."

Before he finished speaking, the sword blade suddenly turned toward the Void Realm on the right. In the split air, three clusters of purple-black liquid burst open, and several fist-sized gargoyle cubs fell to the ground, screaming.

[Blood Abyss Antechamber · Bronze Corridor]

The world behind the gate overturned the Laws of physics. Countless inverted Gothic spires hung down from the magma layer overhead, and rusted bronze chains pierced through the entire space, with a weathered giant skeleton tied to the end of each chain.

As soon as Nita's pointed leather boots touched the ground, phosphorus fire ignited in the hollow eye sockets of those skeletons, and the sound of the chains colliding was like thousands of evil spirits grinding their teeth.

"Southeast Xun position, Shadow Binding Formation!"

Lu Chen's sword art stirred the blue bricks beneath his feet. Before Nita could see her Master's movements clearly, sixty-four strands of Sword Qi had already formed a Bagua Formation Diagram.

When three three-meter-tall gargoyles pounced from the shadows, they collided with the suddenly rising golden curtain of light, and the smell of scorching immediately permeated the air.

Nita took the opportunity to leap onto a rock pillar, her fangs faintly visible at her lips. "The left side is mine!"

She mimicked the Wind Control Art that Lu Chen had taught her, and two blood-colored daggers condensed at her fingertips.

The moment the gargoyle's wings snapped a stalactite, the girl swept over the monster's head like a blood-colored butterfly, and her dagger precisely pierced its third vertical eye—this was the weakness Lu Chen had repeatedly emphasized during their special training three days ago.

"Too slow." Lu Chen's voice came from ten zhang away.

He was walking along the chains toward the depths of the corridor; every time his green jade sword tapped the Void Realm, it triggered a rain of stalactites. "Remember, the vampire race's advantage is their regenerative ability. Next time, just use your collarbone as a shield."

The green blade cuts through the Nine Netherworlds, treading on chains like climbing steps of white jade. Sparks and lightning flash three thousand times, only then believing there is a True Immortal in the human world.

Lu Chen's free and easy manner made Nita's heart flutter with affection.

Nita wiped the monster's blood from her cheek and suddenly discovered that the severed limbs of the gargoyles were wriggling.

Lu Chen flicked a purple Talismanic Incantation onto her back. "Blood Abyss creatures will devour each other to evolve. You have twenty seconds to resolve this Fusion entity."

When the ten-meter-tall stitched monster stood up from the pile of corpses, the girl finally understood why her Master insisted on bringing her to this Hell-like place—!

Her newly awakened vampire blood boiled with fear and excitement, and the Talismanic Incantation behind her transformed into seventy-two light swords hovering in mid-air.

"Master, watch closely!"

Nita tore open her wrist and sprinkled blood onto the light swords; this was the Forbidden Art · Blood Sacrifice Sword Control Art, which Lu Chen strictly forbade her from using.

In the rain of swords interwoven with scarlet and golden light, the girl's figure was like a different person from the newborn vampire who had been curled up on the ground shivering three months ago.

Lu Chen turned his back to the battlefield and curled the corner of his mouth, his sword tip flicking away two Shadow Demons attempting a sneak attack.

He naturally noticed that Nita had secretly learned some secret arts, just as he had long known that the girl hid the sword tassel he had replaced under her pillow—.

The ancient runes on the walls of the Blood Abyss flickered on and off, reflecting a rare tenderness in Lu Chen's eyes.

"Continuing deeper, kid."

"Okay, Master."

At the end of the bronze corridor, thousands of blood waterfalls suddenly cascaded down. The water droplets flicked up by Lu Chen's sword tip condensed into ice crystals in mid-air, refracting the giant altar floating a hundred zhang ahead.

Twelve broken Roman columns surrounded a boiling blood pool, and a dried demon corpse with bone wings on its back was nailed to the top of each column. Their hollow eye sockets were aimed directly at the bronze coffin faintly visible at the bottom of the pool.

"The Dragon Spine Steel is in the coffin."

Lu Chen's sleeves were billowed by the foul wind, and the green jade sword reflected the strange reflection on the pool's surface.

The blood water actually condensed into countless twisted human faces, silently roaring as they crawled toward them.

Nita's fangs pierced her lower lip, and she grabbed Lu Chen's sword tassel. "Master, that blood... it seems to be poisonous!"

Before she finished speaking, the runes of the entire altar lit up with an eerie purple light simultaneously. Three skeletons wearing priest robes rose from the blood pool, and the tops of the scepters they held were embedded with Holy Crystals that were of the same origin as the cross around Nita's neck.

"What is this?" Lu Chen focused his gaze. "Blood Abyss Ecology · Mutation!"

Viscous blood plasma seeped from the cracks in the altar floor. These liquids seemed to possess independent consciousness, gathering into a vortex beneath Nita's feet.

Lu Chen flicked out five Lightning Talismans to seal the four directions, only to find that the paper was dyed blood-red the moment it touched the ground—the Law of this place was assimilating all external energy.