Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

By demon blood the living are judged, by flesh and blood the heavens are appeased. In the abyss a shadow lurks, by which all things are traced!

He formed a profound and mysterious Seal with his hands.

The dark red flesh and blood of the Demon Fiend, teeming with vibrant life force, floated in the center of the Jade Plate, emitting waves of light.

"Brother Shen, this is the Demon Shadow Tracking Disc. Place an item from a Demon Fiend upon it, and it can detect the aura of other Demon Fiends." Ye Xuantian hovered in the void, his robes fluttering and his eyes profound, as he held a hexagonal, prism-shaped Jade Plate and spoke calmly.

"Excellent. With this, I’d like to see just where these Demon Fiend bastards are hiding!" A flash of killing intent crossed Shen Qing’s eyes. His voice was so icy that the temperature of the surrounding world seemed to plummet in that instant, becoming utterly frigid.

Afterward, the two of them began a systematic, sweeping search through the Silent Extinction Celestial Abyss—a dim and profound chasm, crisscrossed with ravines, seemingly bottomless, and stretching for tens of thousands of miles.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Within it, violent gales born from the endless abyss ravaged the landscape, and tyrannical air currents churned like a tsunami.

...

Meanwhile,

The sky was just beginning to lighten, and white clouds drifted by.

CHIRP!

A White-Plumed Spirit Bird spread its wings and soared across the sky before diving straight down. It let out a whistling sound of Powerful Qi as it tore through the air, heading toward the mountains and forests below. It finally landed atop a massive, ancient tree, tilting its head from side to side as it surveyed the world with sharp eyes. Every so often, it would bob its head inquisitively.

A closer look revealed that the White-Plumed Spirit Bird had Profound Mysterious Inscriptions carved onto its body, as if it were under someone’s control.

In a valley lush with herbs, a river flowing through it, and dense with trees, a figure sat cross-legged in mid-air. He was dressed in a black shirt, his face grim and vulture-like, and his eyes long and narrow. A majestic aura of True Yuan emanated from him, causing the very space around him to tremble faintly.

With his fingers forming a seal and his eyes closed, he was somehow able to see through the eyes of the White-Plumed Spirit Bird perched on the ancient tree thousands of miles away, observing the surrounding world.

Clearly, the man was controlling the White-Plumed Spirit Bird, using some kind of Secret Technique to share its vision.

’Born of scorching fire, a star falls from the sky.’

’Old Zhang said a great opportunity would appear near the Silent Extinction Abyss around this time. Why haven’t I even seen a shadow of it?!’

’Don’t tell me I got played?!’ the middle-aged man in the black shirt thought, slowly opening his eyes and cursing under his breath.

He was a True Disciple of the Beast Taming Sect from Cang Province. The Sect had long since fallen into decline and currently lacked even a single Tongxuan True Monarch. However, thanks to its Sect Leader’s True Martial Ninth Layer Peak Cultivation, it was still considered a sect of some standing throughout all of Cang Province.

He had come to the Silent Extinction Abyss, a place that was practically a forbidden zone for him, because he’d heard a rumor that a great opportunity was about to appear. It was said that fortune favors the worthy, and that this opportunity could allow one to break through to the Tongxuan Realm.

For someone like him, who had been in the True Martial Realm for over a century and whose Cultivation had reached the True Martial Seventh Layer, such news was incredibly tempting. True or not, he had to come and see for himself.

However, he only lingered on the outskirts of the Silent Extinction Abyss, not daring to actually step foot inside.

That place, it was said, had claimed the lives of more than one Tongxuan True Monarch. What chance would he have?

’Dammit, don’t tell me it’s *inside* the Silent Extinction Abyss?’ The heart of the middle-aged man in the black shirt sank at the thought.

Going in there was no different from gambling with his life. Unless he received concrete information, he would not dare venture in rashly.

At the same time, several other groups were also roaming the surrounding area.

Two figures flitted through the sea of mountains and ancient forests. One was a beautiful female Cultivator in a red dress, her figure slender and stunning. The other was a handsome young man in a Fiery Red Battle Robe, his posture as straight as a pine, with a long saber hanging at his waist.

These two were disciples of the Red Flame Sect from Yun Province, and they too had come near the Silent Extinction Abyss, drawn by the rumored opportunity.

"Senior Brother, you don’t think this ’opportunity’ is just a hoax, do you?

We’ve been searching all this time and haven’t found a thing," the beautiful female Cultivator in the red dress said, her tone tinged with complaint.

"Junior Sister, let’s keep looking.

I’d hate to go back empty-handed after all this.

If we obtain this peerless opportunity and step into the realm of a Tongxuan True Monarch, it will be time for our Red Flame Sect to rise!" the young man in the Fiery Red Battle Robe said, his voice laced with excitement.

At this very moment,

Speeding across the highest heavens was a young man in a white Profound Robe. His posture was as straight as a pine, his long hair danced in the wind, and his handsome face was set with profound eyes. A hazy, soft glow wreathed his body, and he exuded a terrifying Dao Rhythm. From time to time, a Thunder Arc imbued with the ultimate Dao Rhythm would flicker, tearing and collapsing the space around him, releasing an immeasurably vast aura.

Gu Yun’s brow furrowed slightly as his Divine Sense swept across an area thousands of miles in radius.

’This place isn’t far from the Silent Extinction Abyss.’

’Why are there so many True Martial Realm Cultivators wandering about?’

’Of all the places I’ve passed, this area has the highest concentration of True Martial Realm Cultivators. Could something unexpected be happening?’

But soon,

Gu Yun chuckled in understanding.

’My destination is the Silent Extinction Abyss. Although this place is close, it’s still tens of thousands of miles away.’

’Our paths are unlikely to cross.’

With this thought, Gu Yun took a step, sending out layers of ripples through the air as he prepared to continue on toward the Silent Extinction Abyss.

But just then, his brow twitched, and the corners of his mouth lifted into a slight smile. As if sensing something, he turned his head, his gaze piercing through layer after layer of space to look in a certain direction.

There, in a lush valley thick with trees, something was growing at the tip of a vine. It was crystal clear and emitted a hazy, fiery glow. Faintly, one could see what looked like roiling clouds and a scorching phoenix floating within it. It pulsed with an extremely powerful energy!

"Th-this is... the Phoenix Feather Vermilion Fruit!!"

A tall, thin man in a gray robe with sharp eyes, his body exuding a powerful aura of True Yuan, said with a trembling voice, as if he had just witnessed an unbelievable divine object.