Strongest Scammer: Scamming The World, One Death At A Time-Chapter 798: Gazing At The Abyss

WHOOSH

The Ice Spirit qi droplet shot forward through Han Yu's meridians like a blade.

Han Yu clenched his teeth.

The pain was sharp and brutal.

The droplet tore through his meridian pathways like a razor slicing along delicate threads. Every inch it traveled left behind waves of burning cold that made his muscles tremble.

But he endured it.

Pain was no stranger to him.

Compared to some of the trials he had survived before and the deaths, this suffering was manageable.

The droplet continued rushing through his meridian network until it finally reached its destination.

His Dantian.

The moment it entered the crimson space of his core reservoir, Han Yu began circulating the Qi according to the cultivation pattern of the Freezing Abyss Glacial Art.

The droplet trembled.

HUMMM

For a brief moment it shone brilliantly, glowing with pale blue light as the technique began activating.

Then the light faded.

The droplet dimmed.

Something else was happening.

From the depths of Han Yu's Dantian, a strange energy began to stir.

Pitch black, thick, and... Hungry.

It rose slowly like smoke emerging from a deep abyss.

Then suddenly...

HONG

It lunged.

The dark energy swallowed the Ice Qi droplet in an instant.

Like a starving beast devouring its prey.

Han Yu's entire focus narrowed to a single point the moment the change occurred inside his Dantian.

The instant the black energy rose and swallowed the droplet of Ice Spirit Qi, he recognized it.

Dark Spirit Qi.

He had encountered it before while cultivating the Sooty Sky Mystic Art. Darkness was not unfamiliar to him, nor was the strange stillness that often accompanied that element. Yet what he was witnessing now was entirely different from anything he had experienced previously.

The dark energy within his Dantian was not passive.

It was not quiet.

It was violent.

The moment it devoured the Ice Qi droplet, the energy condensed and twisted in on itself. What had initially looked like a cloud of darkness transformed into something far more terrifying.

A vortex.

Not merely a spiral of Qi, but something deeper.

The darkness began rotating slowly at first, then faster and faster, forming a miniature whirlpool of pitch-black energy inside his Dantian. The deeper he looked into it, the darker it became.

It was not the ordinary darkness of night.

It was an abyss.

A darkness so profound that even his spirit sense struggled to penetrate it. The center of the vortex looked like a hole in reality itself, as though something from beneath the nine hells had stretched upward and opened its mouth inside his body.

Han Yu's breath almost stopped.

For a brief moment, his heart skipped a beat and an inexplicable dread crawled up his spine.

It was not a physical threat.

Nothing was attacking him.

Yet the mere act of gazing into the abyssal vortex made his mind tremble. A dense, suffocating fear surged toward him without warning, as if the darkness itself wished to swallow his consciousness whole.

The sensation was overwhelming.

An ordinary cultivator might have panicked immediately.

But Han Yu's reaction was different.

His soul cultivation reacted instantly.

SHUA

The Eight Emotions Lotus within his soul space stirred faintly, stabilizing his mind like a massive anchor buried deep within his consciousness. The waves of fear that tried to invade his thoughts were intercepted before they could fully take hold.

Han Yu immediately understood what was happening.

"This is the technique's test," he realized.

The fear was not real.

It was a mental trap.

The Freezing Abyss Glacial Art was not merely a cultivation technique, it was also a trial of will. The abyssal vortex existed not only as a mechanism for gathering Ice Qi, but also as a psychological barrier.

Anyone who gazed into it without sufficient mental stability would fall into despair.

The illusion of infinite darkness would convince them that they were facing an unstoppable force. Fear would spiral out of control until their mind collapsed.

Once that happened, the cultivator would lose control of their Qi.

Qi deviation.

And in the case of this technique, the consequences were fatal.

Han Yu exhaled slowly.

His expression remained calm.

Without his soul cultivation, this might have been extremely dangerous. The fear was subtle but incredibly powerful. It did not attack directly, but instead seeped into the mind like poison.

But with the Eight Emotions Lotus stabilizing his thoughts, the illusion lost much of its effect.

"Just a mental trick," Han Yu murmured inwardly.

The vortex continued spinning inside his Dantian.

Now that he understood the nature of the test, Han Yu carefully examined it again.

The vortex pulsed slowly, its dark energy rotating in endless circles. The more he observed it, the more he recognized the principles behind the technique.

According to the Freezing Abyss Glacial Art, this vortex was the gateway.

The guide.

It was the first manifestation of the path he had chosen.

The cultivator had to confront the abyss directly.

They had to gaze into it.

And continue gazing until the fear disappeared.

Not because they forced it away, but because the darkness itself became familiar.

Until it felt… cold.

That was the next stage.

The cultivator would eventually begin feeling the cold emanating from the abyss.

But this cold was not ordinary.

It did not come from Ice Qi.

It did not freeze the body directly.

Instead, it manifested as a sensation.

A creeping chill that originated from nowhere and spread through the cultivator's entire being.

The technique described it clearly.

It was the cold of the abyss.

The stillness of absolute darkness.

And the cultivator had to endure it. Not for seconds or minutes, but until the cold became unbearable. Until the abyss felt like it would freeze their existence completely.

Only then could the final step begin.

At the moment when the cold reached its fatal limit, the cultivator had to break through it.

That was the most dangerous moment of the entire process.

Countless cultivators in the past had failed there.