Trials of the Abyss-Chapter 627: Successful Passage!

"Xiao Hei!" Yu Xin cried in anguish, long eyelashes trembling as crystal-clear tears fell in shimmering streams.

She scoured the Fourth, Third, and even Second World in search of the Giant Abyssal Serpent, even retracing her steps back to Northern Qi in a desperate attempt to find him.

Unbeknownst to her, the Giant Abyssal Serpent had been avoiding her the whole time.

Thus, she eventually came to believe that her longtime companion, Xiao Hei, had perished.

She had grieved in silence.

Unexpectedly, she had found him once more, only to be forced to witness his imminent death.

Yu Xin simply could not accept it!

Although she knew her desperate cry would displease the Matriarch of the Celestial Race and possibly even jeopardize her standing within the Celestial Race, she still clung to the foolish hope that her voice would alert the Giant Abyssal Serpent.

She wanted the Giant Abyssal Serpent to survive!

Despair gripped her as ten blinding beams of light burst forth from the Sha Jia's immaculate wings.

The ten beams, infused with Sha Jia's insights into the Dao of Light, triggered an abnormal reaction in her bloodline, compelling her to kneel in reverence, sealing Xiao Hei's fate in this inescapable tribulation.

Her lips remained parted, but her sorrowful cries remained stuck in her throat. No matter what she did, it was meaningless. Xiao Hei was doomed to die.

The ten beams of light cleaved through the dark sky like divine swords of judgment, instilling fear in all the Fey Race across the Fey Spirit Continent as they descended upon the pool.

Their brilliance cut through the cold, dark waters.

The pitch-black waters suddenly turned crystal clear!

All traces of darkness vanished, taking the Giant Abyssal Serpent coiled at the bottom of the pool with it!

The blinding light blasted ten massive pits through the hardened rock of the pool.

These holes stretched deep into the center of the Fey Spirit Continent, shaking the ground for a thousand li. Any unfortunate Lesser Feys caught in the tremors ended up coughing blood and perishing from the aftershocks.

The blinding light illuminated the land from within, filling it with an astonishing brilliance.

The pool's surface gleamed with Sha Jia's divine power as she relentlessly scoured for the Giant Abyssal Serpent.

She found nothing.

Even the darkness and vast murky energy surging within the pool had mysteriously disappeared.

It was as if an unseen divine hand had reached into the pool and extracted all the energy essential for the Giant Abyssal Serpent's ascension.

"Ah!" Yu Xin gasped, covering her mouth as her eyes searched the now-clear pool.

The skeletons of Fey Kings, ten glowing pits, scattered stones, and aquatic plants could be seen at the bottom of the pool.

There was no Xiao Hei.

It was nothing short of a miracle!

Yu Xin's unsteady breaths stirred gentle waves beneath her flowing white robes. Her heart pounded furiously, as if she had been the one in a life-or-death ordeal.

Pang Jian!

His name was the first thought in her mind.

Once, a mysterious being had sent her Gold Obsidian and other rare materials through the Giant Abyssal Serpent, allowing her to glimpse the light even in the darkest times.

No one aside from the Giant Abyssal Serpent's master could have pulled him out of the pool!

Waves of dazzling light drifted across the Fey Spirit Continent.

Sha Jia, unwilling to accept the outcome, continued to search for any trace of the Giant Abyssal Serpent, even reaching out to Jing Sha of the Dark Shadow Race and Ah Man of the one-eyed giants to request their assistance.

Then, she noticed the expression on her Celestial Maiden's face shift from relief to contemplation.

"Yu Xin, do you know something?" Sha Jia asked, gaze cold and solemn. "If the Giant Abyssal Serpent advances to Rank Ten, he will transform into a dragon, likely a Black Dragon at that.

"I'm not confident I could defeat a Rank Ten Black Dragon if he chooses to oppose us in the future.

"And it's not just me. His very existence would exert an invisible pressure on the bloodlines of all the Celestial Race in the Abyss.

"Would you risk jeopardizing the Celestial Race because of a past bond? Because of mere companionship?

"Yu Xin, I personally chose you as the Celestial Maiden. If I one day fall in battle, sacrificing myself for our people, you and your brother will have to rise to the occasion.

"What will you do if that Black Dragon ascends to godhood and turns against our Celestial Race?" Sha Jia questioned, voice turning stern and unforgiving. "Will you doom the Celestial Race to extinction? Will you watch as your kin is slaughtered, all for the sake of a mere beast?"

Sha Jia's contempt shook Yu Xin's deep reverence for her.

"No! He's not a beast! He's intelligent, always has been!"

At that moment, Yu Xin realized that the Matriarch of the Celestial Race still viewed the Fey Race, the past rulers of the Abyss, as nothing more than untamed beasts.

The Celestial Race had never truly regarded the Fey Race as an intelligent race on equal footing, perhaps due to their inherently different appearances.

"I don't truly understand Xiao Hei, nor do I know where he has gone." Yu Xin's voice trembled as she lowered her head, nervously fidgeting with the hem of her robes. "Xiao Hei is intelligent. He always has been."

Sha Jia knitted her brows, fully aware that Yu Xin was hiding something, but unable to pry it from her.

"I will find and see that Giant Abyssal Serpent to his demise, no matter the cost!" Sha Jia declared.

***

At a frozen lake in the Resolute Expanse, Pang Jian stood in his physical body, holding out his bronze pendant. A radiant rift unfolded beneath the ice, as if carving out a space within reality itself.

The lake was saturated with darkness and murky energy.

A massive Giant Abyssal Serpent lay coiled at the bottom of the lake, its serpentine form stretching like a sprawling mountain range. The vast lakebed became cramped as the Giant Abyssal Serpent slowly uncurled.

His eyes remained shut, and his iron-black scales rippled as he absorbed the churning murky energy in the lake.

This won't be enough, the Giant Abyssal Serpent said telepathically. I need a lot of blood essence and murky energy to ascend to godhood.

I...

When the Giant Abyssal Serpent arrived at the Resolute Expanse, he decided he would forever stand on Pang Jian's side once he ascended to godhood.

The Giant Abyssal Serpent had previously resisted contact with Pang Jian due to the conflict between the Fey Race and the human race. However, this event had finally unraveled the knot in his heart.

At this critical stage of his ascension, he no longer rejected Pang Jian's aid, instead unhesitatingly stating what he needed with the expectation that Pang Jian would provide.

"This Black Dragon has matured," the black turtle said, emerging from the depths of the lake in his human form to stand beside Pang Jian on the lake's surface. "That Celestial Race powerhouse won't be able to find him anytime soon."

The black turtle clasped his hands behind his back, his narrowed gaze fixed on the darkness below.

The thick layer of ice atop the frozen lake completely sealed away the churning darkness and murky energy below.

The black turtle observed the Giant Abyssal Serpent beneath the ice and said, "The Black Dragon is right. You've teleported him from a land saturated with murky energy to the Resolute Expanse, where he cannot gather the energies needed for his ascension.

"You'll have to collect the murky energy for him and deliver it to the frozen lake below. As for the blood essence..." The black turtle briefly mulled it over. "I could probably find a way."

"I returned to the Abyss with my physical body for this purpose anyway," Pang Jian said. "I plan to go to the region most saturated with murky energy in the Fifth World and come into direct contact with it."

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A single glance was enough to make him smile.

After slaying the Nine-Headed Bird in Misty Swamp, its blood had seeped into the earth, enriching the land. This had ultimately paved the way for Pang Ling's breakthrough.

"My physical body has returned to the Abyss, meaning I can teleport freely across the various worlds within with the Gate of the Abyss," Pang Jian said, harmonizing with the Resolute Expanse to survey the land.

Li Yuqing, Li Jie, Wu Sujin, and some others had already left the Resolute Expanse, returning to Western Loam in the First World to break through their cultivation realm with the aid of the Divine Treasure Sect and the Pure Land Sect.

Qi Qingsong and Zhuang Yuyan had used the teleportation array to return to the Heaven Awakening Continent.

The remaining elders of the Sword Pavilion had rushed back to the Heaven Awakening Continent to reinforce the sect's defenses, having sensed that the Sword Pavilion was at risk before.

They left without hesitation, secure in the knowledge that a Rank Nine powerhouse, the black turtle, stood guard beneath the Resolute Expanse.

In addition to the black turtle, two other Rank Nine powerhouses also resided in the Resolute Expanse: the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and the White Lynx.

Even if a Rank Ten foreign race powerhouse from the Fifth World attempted to invade, they would not find an easy victory.

"Your sister has been taken to the Pure Land Sect in the First World," the black turtle informed. "You can rest assured.

"That Sovereign has trapped Zhu Ji, Li Wang, and Gui Mu using six artifacts. The True Gods are gathered just outside the Eastern Land, trying to find a way to rescue them.

"The Primordial Demon's whereabouts remain unknown, and that Sovereign has descended into the darkness of the Fifth World, seemingly in search of it," the black turtle reported.

Pang Jian pondered in silence for a long moment, then suddenly asked, "If you were to forgo spiritual qi and instead pursue ascension to godhood through the murky energy of the Fifth World, could you ascend once another Fey God seat opens up?

"I know your bloodline is deeply tied to the Dao of Earth. You stepped aside for the Rock Bear, allowing him to advance to Rank Ten in your place.

"However, if you were to descend into the Fifth World and temper yourself with murky energy, could you extract a cluster of energy from it and reclaim your place as a Fey God?"