Chapter 151: The dark abyss
Han Ji was solely responsible for protecting Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou. They were the only hope for the city. If they were killed on their way to the Dark Abyss, the whole city would die with them.
They had reached An Yuan Gate. The golden barrier was a lot dimmer than it was before, the gold edged with brown. They could clearly see waves of foul breaths unleashed by the countless undead like raging tides, striking the barrier and the inner walls.
The walls never stopped shaking. The golden barrier swayed violently as wave after wave of undead crashed against it.
The presence of the undead was overwhelming. Even inside the barrier, people felt as if they would be crushed apart by sheer death aura alone.
Mo Fan took a deep breath as he looked ahead.
This was the path they had to cross.
“Strange… why are there civilians here?” Zhang Xiaohou frowned.
A massive crowd approached under the dim night sky, their expressions dull, their movements slow. They looked like people walking toward their own execution.
Mo Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“They’re not going with us,” he said.
Zhang Xiaohou turned to him.
“They’re creating a path.”
Understanding hit instantly.
The ground outside the barrier trembled as the small eastern gate opened.
A Super Mage charged out first, lightning tearing through the undead and forcing open a temporary gap. Battlemages followed, unleashing spells as they pushed forward.
Then—
The civilians moved.
They stepped out into death.
The moment their presence spread, the undead surged toward them like a tidal wave, completely shifting their focus.
Mo Fan clenched his jaw.
He didn’t look away.
He couldn’t.
This path…
Was being bought with lives.
Zhang Xiaohou’s fists tightened, wind swirling faintly around him, but he remained still.
No hesitation.
No complaints.
Only resolve.
Mo Fan exhaled slowly, forcing his emotions down.
“We move now.”
No escort.
No protection.
Just the two of them.
The undead ahead had already begun shifting away, drawn toward the overwhelming presence of living humans at the gate.
This was their window.
Mo Fan stepped forward first.
Zhang Xiaohou followed immediately at his side, wind and earth quietly stabilizing their path.
Behind them—
Screams.
Blood.
Chaos.
But neither of them turned back.
Because both of them understood the same thing.
If they failed here—
All of it would be meaningless.
Ahead of them, through the thinning tide of undead…
The Dark Abyss waited.
The tower on the walls was crowded with Magicians. Hunters, students, Battlemages, Imperial Magicians… every element lit the battlefield in chaotic brilliance.
“Vanguards, charge!” Han Ji’s voice echoed across the battlefield.
Four Super Mages surged forward, their wings blazing with overwhelming light as they tore into the ocean of undead. Their power split the tide apart, carving temporary paths through the endless black mass.
Flames soon followed.
Sky Flame Funeral descended.
The land ahead turned into a burning sea, undead reduced to ash as fire rained from above.
But Mo Fan didn’t move with the main force.
He didn’t enter any formation.
He didn’t wait for protection.
He stepped forward on his own.
Zhang Xiaohou moved instantly beside him.
No signal needed.
No hesitation.
Wind gathered around Zhang Xiaohou, while the ground beneath their feet hardened and stabilized. The combination of wind and earth created a controlled path through the chaos, allowing them to move with precision instead of relying on brute force.
They cut forward.
Fast.
Efficient.
The burning field ahead cleared much of the weaker undead, but beyond it—
The skeleton army emerged.
Dense.
Organized.
Lethal.
Bone weapons rose into the air, slashing, piercing, crashing down like a storm.
Mo Fan’s eyes sharpened.
“Stay tight.”
Zhang Xiaohou nodded, his wind already accelerating around them.
The first wave of skeletons lunged forward.
Mo Fan didn’t stop.
Fire erupted from his body, compressing instantly before detonating outward, blasting apart the incoming skeletons. At the same time, Zhang Xiaohou’s wind sliced through the remaining gaps, while the earth beneath disrupted their footing.
They weren’t holding a line.
They were breaking through.
A Skeleton Official roared from deeper within the army, commanding the skeletons to converge.
More poured in.
Faster.
Stronger.
Zhang Xiaohou’s expression tightened slightly as he felt the pressure increase, but he didn’t slow down. His wind became sharper, more focused, cutting down anything that came too close, while his earth element reinforced their path step by step.
Mo Fan stepped forward again—
More aggressive.
More direct.
He didn’t care about conserving strength anymore.
Everything in front of him—
Had to be cleared.
The battlefield behind them was still filled with Magicians fighting for survival.
But ahead of them—
There was only one direction.
Forward.
Toward the Dark Abyss.
And no one was coming with them.
“Well done, Elder Ling Xi!” yelled Han Ji in excitement.
It had been a while since Han Ji had participated in a thrilling battle against demon creatures; basically ever since he was promoted to the president of the Clock Tower Magic Association. The endless demon creatures in their surroundings and the fearless comrades at his side reminded him of the battles he had once fought against the sea creatures at the shorelines of the nation.
“For the Ancient Capital!” The shadowy figure turned out to be a glamorous woman. Her waist was tied with a blue silk cloth. Both her drifting hair and the silk illustrated her determination to kill. She must have been quite a talented beauty back in the days.
The woman was the Elder of the Hunter Union, Ling Xi. Her status was higher than a Senior Hunter. Even though she was on the list of authorities that were initially going to be executed, it did not stop her from having the resolve to clear a path for the sake of the Ancient City.
That spell was the real ultimate of the Wind Element. Zhang Xiaohou’s primary Element was Wind, too. It was his first time experiencing the strength of a Super Wind Spell. The deadly formation consisted of a thousand wind blades, and the Slaughtering Wind Slash had almost slashed the ground in half. Zhang Xiaohou always thought Wind was more about utilizing its agility to harass his enemies, but after witnessing the attack, he could not help but have a new understanding of the Wind Element!
A real Wind Magician would leave nothing alive within several hundred meters. The wind blades would simply cut apart every single enemy within their range!
Zhang Xiaohou was utterly impressed by that strength. His eyes were filled with the anticipation of achieving the Super Level.
“Protection on both sides, full speed ahead!” Han Ji’s voice came into everyone’s ears.
Squads of Magicians with different magical glows appeared on both sides of the Imperial Magicians. Perhaps they were not strong enough to kill hundreds or thousands of undead with a single Spell, but when their Star Orbits and Star Patterns combined together, the storm of Spells they cast could still match the strength of a Super Spell as they blasted the lines of undead coming from both sides!
The place ahead was covered in bones. The Imperial Magicians continued to press forward. Elder Ling Xi had cleared a long path ahead, allowing the Imperial Magicians to advance smoothly.
“Stop it!” yelled Han Ji.
If the Mountain Zombie caught up to the Magicians, the consequences would be unbearable. Han Ji was mainly responsible for the safety of Mo Fan and his crew. He would not allow the Black Vatican do any harm to them in the midst of chaos. He believed that the Black Vatican would risk their lives to kill the people that were able to enter the Dark Abyss after learning their plan.
Han Ji was unable to lend a hand. He had to protect the two descendants of the Ancient King. It would be the end if they died!
Luckily, they had quite a few Super Magicians in the Ancient Capital. The number of Advanced Magicians was also enough to form a large squadron. They had brought more than half of the Magicians in the upper class with them. Otherwise, it would be impossible to clear a path through the army of undead.
“Zhu Meng, Ling Xi, Shi Zheng, Yao Ting, Lu Xu, Li Jia, Li Yujian... take two squads of Imperial Magicians and one squad of Hunter Masters with you and stop the Mountain Zombie at all costs! We can’t let it reach the path we’re heading to. Fight it to death!” As the highest commander, Han Ji immediately made a decision.
He had decided to send out seven Super Magicians, two squads of Imperial Magicians and a squad of Hunter Masters, each consisting of around thirty people, and twenty other Advanced Magicians. It was basically a troop of over a hundred Magicians!
A troop of over a hundred Magicians who were all Advanced Level or above; it was definitely a strong force in any battle, yet it was formed just to stop a single creature!
Soon, many of the figures on the ground and in the sky split from the formation and headed for the Mountain Zombie!
The colors of Elemental Magic were the most common among the Magicians. Every Advanced Magician had three Elements, thus it went without saying that multiple Magicians would possess the same Elements. However, different Magicians had different levels of control over the Elements. Even the most common Element, Fire, was represented in different colors, let alone the damage output of their spells!
The Sky-Flame Funeral was the most splendid among the spells. The rain of fire falling from the sky would instantly set a large number of zombies aflame, clearing the obstacles around the Mountain Zombie.
Even though the troop was mainly made up of Advanced Magicians, it did not mean they would only cast Advanced Spells. The process of constructing Star Constellations was fairly complicated. Intermediate Spells were still commonly used by the Magicians. The sky was full of bursts of flames flying across like meteorites. Meanwhile, one Fiery Fist after another exploded on the ground, clearing the darkness and blasting the limbs and bodies of the undead away!
The Mountain Zombie was domineering, too. It did not bring a single Corpse Official along with it, even though all the Corpse Officials were under its command. It had come alone, not paying any attention to the destructive Advanced Spells that were randomly blasting its mountain-sized body. The Spells looked like tiny fireworks trying to scratch it, providing it some relief from an itch it had!
The Advanced Spells were already quite powerful, but the Mountain Zombie’s body was too sturdy. The scratches and marks left on its body were no more than nail scratches...
“Icebound Coffin!”
As some Advanced Magician finished channeling the Spell, an ice coffin slowly descended from the sky, with frost and ice crystals dancing in the surroundings. The combination of the powerful Ice Spell and a Soul-grade Ice Seed could easily freeze a Commander-level creature inside the coffin...
However, the Mountain Zombie glanced at the Spell coldly and raised its hand all of a sudden. It simply grabbed the enormous Icebound Coffin and crushed it to pieces!
The enormous Icebound Coffin was nothing but a little ice cone in its eyes. It completely broke into pieces and fell away between the gaps of the Mountain Zombie’s fingers!
After letting the Magicians attack it at will, the Mountain Zombie suddenly held its arms together and waved them at the space ahead.
The space began to crack like a spider web before breaking into pieces.
A black gap spread rapidly. The Ice Magician with the Soul-grade Ice Seed had obviously become the Mountain Zombie’s main target. As the cracks spread across his figure, the talented Ice Magician was immediately shattered into pieces...
The cracks spread further away. The Wind Magicians in the air immediately fled for their lives. They had no idea how to resist the space cracks. They would simply be torn apart once they were caught in them!
The Mountain Zombie had stunned the Magicians with a single attack, killing and tearing apart the elites among them with ease!
“Don’t panic, the space will produce ripples before the cracks appear. Use the ripples to dodge the cracks. Don’t lose your ground!” yelled Commander Yao Ting.
As a Super Magician with the Space Element, his understanding of the principles related to the Space Element was better than most people’s. The people who were appointed to deal with the Mountain Zombie were knowledgeable elites, too. They immediately calmed down and watched for the ripples when they heard Yao Ting’s reminder.
As Yao Ting mentioned, the unpredictable space cracks did produce ripples before they appeared. It was difficult to resist them with defensive Spells, but as long as they were able to tell where the cracks would appear, they could still dodge the attack with movement spells, preventing them from being torn into pieces...
“Hey you, you have lived long enough!” shouted Commander Yao Ting coldly. The brilliance of his Stars immediately appeared, surrounding him as the Star Patterns were joined together. The Star Constellations were constructed in just a few thoughts.
A moment later, a Star Palace with mysterious energy was built. Its brilliance was quite different; it was a dark silver, with a vague, uncatchable light of the sky, gorgeous like a galaxy...
The Star Palace only appeared for a brief moment. Suddenly, Commander Yao Ting’s figure began to twist, and he disappeared in the following second!
A man in blue coat appeared without a sign between the eyes of the Mountain Zombie. The man flung his coat open and stared into the Mountain Zombie’s eyes!
The Mountain Zombie did not understand why the human dared to appear right before it. Its terrifying eyes suddenly emitted a black glitter, before they fired two rays of light at the man in the blue coat.
The man’s figure twisted again. He instantly vanished into thin air before the rays of light could reach him. He was so quick that his afterimage was left behind like a ghost!
The Mountain Zombie was enraged. Its senses were utterly terrifying, too. It immediately raised its palm and swung it toward its shoulder!
The man in blue coat was already floating behind the creature. It all happened within an instant. He was so quick that there were now two Commander Yao Tings!
Commander Yao Ting was as impressive as the Mountain Zombie. He did not stay more than a second behind the creature. His figure turned illusionary once again. The Mountain Zombie’s swipe split the clouds in half, yet it did not even touch Yao Ting’s clothes!
He appeared once again!
Yao Ting continued to appear and disappear in different locations by either floating, appearing in a flicker, or showing up in a vague form. However, it all occurred within a few seconds!
Finally, Yao Ting appeared in the air right in front of the Mountain Zombie. He spread his arms, his pupils reflecting the dull sky as his hands were lifting some invisible force into the sky...
“Space Compass: Axis of Death!”
Commander Yao Ting looked up and stared at the Mountain Zombie.
When he uttered the words, a silver light suddenly erupted at the locations he had appeared at before. The silver light merged into a silver compass hanging in the air, extending from the Mountain Zombie’s forehead to its chest!
Commander Yao Ting performed one last teleportation, but this time, the people clearly saw a black trail running through the center of the compass!
The black axis was parallel to the ground. Before Commander Yao Ting’s afterimage in front of the axis thoroughly disappeared, the real Yao Ting had already moved through the compass and the Mountain Zombie. A shocking death axis appeared on the end, and on the Mountain Zombie’s back, too!
The sound of a string snapping echoed in the air. The death axis had frozen the Mountain Zombie completely for a few seconds, before blood jetted out from both sides of its neck. It turned from a little string to a bursting spring!
The blood poured down like a stream from the sky, dying the whole are red.
The Mountain Zombie uttered a raging roar, yet the death axis had punctured the section between its throat and its chest. The roar simply increased the amount of blood spraying through the air, a spectacular sight!
The Mountain Zombie had been perfectly unharmed even after it was struck by countless Advanced Spells. As a result, the dispirited Magicians immediately regained their morale when they saw Commander Yao Ting’s attack finally inflicting damage on the enormous creature.
The Mountain Zombie was not invincible! The experts among the humans still had a chance to kill it!
“As expected of the Space Element Super Spell!” The rest of the Super Magicians began to draw Star Palaces when they saw Yao Ting taking the limelight.
Only Super Spells were able to inflict real damage on the Mountain Zombie. However, if they were able to break down its steel-hard skin, or leave a clear wound on the Mountain Zombie’s body, they could also focus their Advanced Spells on the vulnerable spot to inflict damage to the creature effectively
However, the attempts to break through its sturdy defense or leave a wound could only be done by Super Magicians!
The Space Compass: Axis of Death had sealed the Mountain Zombie in place for a few seconds, giving the Super Magicians a chance to construct their Star Palaces...
One after another, Star Palaces were constructed. Their brilliance alone almost cleared the dull clouds in the sky.
“I’ll go first!” Zhu Meng’s deep voice sounded. His lightning armor was surrounded by mysterious lightning talismans and dancing runes.
The lightning talismans appeared on Zhu Meng’s palm in an orderly fashion, before transforming into a long spear. The talismans and runes he had summoned accumulated at the tip of the spear...
“Lightning Punishment Formation: Prohibition of the Nine Disciplines!”
Zhu Meng tightened his grip on the lightning spear. Countless ashen-gray lightning chains burst out from both sides in an exaggerated manner, scattering across the air. From afar, it looked like a man surrounded by lightning was grabbing a bunch of lightning bolts in his hand for a weapon!
Zhu Meng launched the lightning spear into the air. The people could barely see its flight path. It suddenly stopped as it reached its highest point and split into nine spears, while growing in the process!
The nine lightning spears hung in the air surrounding the Mountain Zombie, forming a formation with wild lightning flickering within it...
The lightning formation was magnificent, comparable to the tip of a mountain. The Mountain Zombie was about to step forward and stomp furiously on the humans that were causing it to bleed. However, it simply had no chance to move, as the lightning runes around the spears suddenly emitted a blinding glow, summoning countless lightning strikes to land on it!
Only the Super Lightning Spell was able to entrap such a huge creature. Once the formation successfully restrained the creature, the other Super Magicians would follow up and inflict serious damage to it!
The people felt like the Mountain Zombie was right in front of them, even though it was still around two kilometers away. Even the energy ripples from the Super Spells were shocking the Magicians.
The Magicians watched the seven Super Magicians executing their ultimates and attacking the Mountain Zombie from different directions. Ignoring the ground that was trembling from the impacts, Mo Fan was so caught up in the fight that he completely forgot the danger surrounding him.
“Now is our chance, to the Dark Abyss!” ordered Han Ji.
The Imperial Magicians constructed the Wind Tracks once again. There were so many of them that it simply built a wind raft carrying them forward rapidly.
The enormous green beast was as eye-grabbing as usual ahead of them. However, Du Xiao was no longer standing on top of the beast, there was no sign of him, yet they could see a bunch of zombies falling to the ground.
The Mountain Zombie was the biggest threat to the army, yet the seven Super Magicians and the troop of Advanced Magicians had managed to hold it off for now. Their main goal was not to kill the Mountain Zombie, nor was it to fight the countless undead. They were already getting closer to the Dark Abyss!
“President, a huge number of Corpse Generals and Corpse Officials have appeared around six hundred meters ahead. We won’t make it through!” Imperial Magician Zuo Feng came with the information in the midst of chaos.
Standing beside Zuo Feng was Yao Nan in his usual coat. There were simply too many people participating in the operation. Mo Fan had only seen Yao Nan just now. Both of them were well-known figures among the Advanced Magicians. They were clearing the path ahead together with Du Xiao and three other Super Magicians.
“We’re almost at the Dark Abyss, we can’t stop here!” said Han Ji.
“But we are having trouble...” Zuo Feng was just about to describe how tough the situation was when he saw Han Ji’s gaze sharpening.
Zuo Feng immediately fell silent as he understood his superior’s intention. In fact, he somehow was looking forward to it.
“Continue forward,” said Han Ji to the Imperial Magicians around him.
Han Ji had been controlling the formation of the Imperial Magicians. When these Advanced Magicians whom he had fostered with utmost care were in the square formation, their combined strength even surpassed that of a Super Magician...
As the core of the army, the formation was not only responsible for protecting the people within it, it was also required to provide assistance to their comrades in the surroundings with spells!
Han Ji knew the Imperial Magicians were approaching their limit. He was already constructing his Star Constellation while commanding the wind raft!
It was a green Star Constellation. Mo Fan did not even detect the presence of magic until Han Ji finished channeling the Advanced Spell in the following second!
The glow was not as stunning as the brilliance of the Super Spells, yet Han Ji had simply flicked the glow between his fingers forward in an indifferent manner. Mo Fan saw the seed summoned from the Star Constellation floating off into the distance before landing among the army of undead ahead.
Around two seconds later, Mo Fan stared at the enormous black flower that had appeared on the battlefield all of a sudden!
The flower was as huge as a small hill, its petals forming a bloody mouth. The flower was beautiful as it blossomed, but when the petals unfolded, it immediately turned into a monster tearing at the zombies!