Chapter 1843 - 1421: The Mystery Beneath the Abyss! Playing Tricks!
Accompanied by bouts of dizziness and pain in his brain, Jiang Dali felt as if the interface was out of control, appearing and disappearing in his mind, much like a television with poor reception that sometimes flickers with static.
At the same time, his suddenly accelerated descent speed began to vary over time, becoming a uniformly accelerated motion. Almost every half-second, his speed increased by nearly ten meters per second, faster and faster... as if the strange black fog abyss he was in had no bottom.
Faced with this unreasonable state, Jiang Dali had no time to think it over and immediately endured the dizziness to focus his attention on the interface.
However, in the next moment...
The interface disappeared from his mind entirely.
Jiang Dali: "?"
He was initially shocked, but soon calmed himself down.
Even though the interface had disappeared, he didn’t feel any signs of memory loss or understanding regression of all the Martial Arts in his brain.
This indicated that nothing like the Four Great Family Heads discovering that he was a player disguised as an NPC had happened, thus using some special method to reset his abilities in this bizarre space.
Immediately, he attempted to access the Jianghu Forum again.
He found that even the forum had disappeared from his mind.
Confronted with this outrageous situation, Jiang Dali remained composed. This circumstance clarified another suspicion for him—that the unfathomable chasm he was currently in might be leading to the outside world.
Since it was leading to the outside, the interface naturally wouldn’t exist outside, because it was a tool developed by the Supreme Alliance specifically for the Mixed Martial Arts World. Perhaps due to some strange forces, the interface could only display within the Mixed Martial Arts World.
This explained why many players lost their interface upon leaving the Mixed Martial Arts World, and couldn’t master the Martial Arts as they did in the Mixed Martial Arts World. Only by learning some Martial Arts published by the Supreme Alliance could they grasp some Martial Arts skills.
Also, this was why Jiang Dali couldn’t master the Hua Mountain Swordsmanship he learned in the past life as a Hua Mountain player after being reborn as a Black Wind Village bandit in the Mixed Martial Arts World.
However, in this life, he had learned many Martial Arts through the interface. Yet, after countless battles, he had fully mastered all the Martial Arts he learned, even innovating and creating Martial Arts that better suited himself...
Therefore, even though the interface had disappeared now, his robust Martial Arts remained, instead of vanishing bizarrely along with the interface.
"Fortunately, my abundant Martial Arts are all acquired through my hard practice and diligence, not mere empty talk, unlike the players who only boast about adding points without any substance."
Jiang Dali quickly relaxed, understanding that even if he truly reached the outside world, he would not lose his power weirdly. No one could take away the power of Jiang Dali.
The only pity was that without the interface, the more than 60 million Cultivation Points and more than 80 million Potential Points he had accumulated couldn’t be used as a trump card and had suddenly become useless before he got the chance to use them.
So it goes, plans can never keep up with changes.
As the interface and Jianghu Forum vanished, so did the dizziness. With a strong Heart Realm, he kept his composure and calmed his mind, shifting his attention to the ongoing descent.
Due to previous disturbances, he had entirely neglected the perception of spatial changes around him and the duration of the descent.
Yet, based on subconscious sensory calculations and predictions, he had likely fallen for at least over five hundred breaths.
At this point, the descent speed accelerated again. Excluding the time of uniform slow descent, calculating by the natural fall speed squared at 9.8 meters per second, he should have fallen nearly two hundred kilometers, with his velocity continuing to accelerate, soon breaking the sound barrier.
Jiang Dali’s mind raced, countless pieces of massive information flowed and computed within his advanced brain. Through the comparison of calculated data against the massive information accumulated in his mind, he instantly deduced the current situation.
"It seems... I’m really heading straight toward the Earth’s core this time? Or even directly piercing through the Earth’s core to reach some place outside? The world from my past life has over six thousand kilometers from the surface to the Earth’s core. If penetrating the Earth’s core, it would take more than ten thousand kilometers."
"I wonder how far the distance is to the core if the Mixed Martial Arts World is also in a state of being a planet. If indeed heading to the core, I should soon sense the surging Earth Energy Qi Mechanism and high temperatures, yet why can’t I feel even a trace of Qi Mechanism apart from the black fog in the surrounding environment?"
He had long noticed that his Returning to Truth 9境 ability to sense Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism seemed to be blocked in this peculiar dark space, uncertain if it was the ’Earth Intent’ at play.
Moreover, as soon as the Primordial Spirit left the body, it would be eroded and corroded by the strange black fog surrounding the body. It even gave birth to inexplicable feelings of distress and suppression, creating various negative emotions, thus making even the Primordial Spirit hard to leave the body beyond a ten-mile range, unable to remotely probe and capture any useful information.
Just when Jiang Dali thought if he kept descending like this, he would inevitably reach the Earth’s core or directly crash to his death mid-fall, his descent speed mysteriously slowed again, turning into a state of uniform descent.
Meanwhile, the surrounding black fog grew thicker, the clusters striking his body made even his tough physique feel as though it was being corroded by poison.
Now, even without the Primordial Spirit leaving his body, his mood inexplicably started feeling irritable and oppressed.
Strange!
Jiang Dali began silently gathering the Essence Qi within him, which was recovering very slowly, while his spirit entered a serene, undisturbed primordial state of mind, striving to control every muscle, gradually shifting from a lying down position to the battle stance with head below and feet above.
This continued for over six thousand breaths, nearly four hours.
Even at a uniform descent, he judged he must have continued descending over more than a thousand kilometers.
Finally, the descent slowed, and the black fog was so dense that it blocked out the sky, making it almost impossible to see one’s fingers.
A sudden change in the space below was detected, as if a large landmass had emerged.
At that moment, his eyes couldn’t see, and the range of safety for his Primordial Spirit to leave his body and explore was less than a kilometer, yet his sharp sense of ’space’ remained.
Detecting the emergence of land below, he quickly summoned power to his eyes, releasing divine power from his eyes with a blinding golden light like the sun, melting away the dense fog, seeing clearly the approaching land—a terrain filled with ancient stones, countless black rough rocks scattered on the ground below, resembling crouching bears and tigers, as if drilled and chopped by giant tools, like an ugly bald head with scabs.
Not far from this bizarre rocky area, two cliffs stood, barren, with countless coarse lines as if hacked by knife and axe, straight up and down, towering steeply, stretching for hundreds of meters, like two fortress walls in ominous confrontation.
And on these two cliffs, there was shockingly a pile of simple stone palaces, resembling a pile of blocks humorously assembled by a child.
The massive black fog covered the sky like a giant cage, enveloping the land below completely.
The whole world felt oppressive, dark, with waves of violent, evil presence, as if devoid of any Heaven and Earth power, the atmospheric essence here was extremely chaotic, seemingly tainting any presence with lunacy as long as it existed here.
"Someone! I haven’t directly reached the outside world? Where have I reached?"
Jiang Dali was shocked, amazed, just about to split his Primordial Spirit to explore.
Suddenly, at that moment, a sense of alarm pierced his heart, an evil and icy voice spread through the fog.
"Hmm? An unexpected appearance of... a life form not belonging to the Heavenly Abyss... such fresh flesh, a new exile?"
The voice drifted, hovering in the fog like a ghost hidden within it, moving around with no pinpointed direction, its tone filled with fond remembrances, jealousy, greed, and... intense malice.
Whoosh!!——
Jiang Dali’s figure ’bang’ landed heavily on the ground, falling at a speed of over a hundred zhang breathlessly.
With his yet unhealed, severely injured body, he had to roll in place to buffer and disperse the massive impact, then quickly crouched slightly, crushed two huge black rough stones underfoot, his brows slightly furrowed, eyes shining with golden light glaring at the two stone palaces on the cliff: "Is this the Heavenly Abyss?"
Around him, the thick black fog still churned, dark and eerie, only the two solitary cliffs and simple stone palaces could be seen, with no sign of any human figure, unable to accurately sense any life presence in the world filled with chaotic madness.
"Crackle crackle~~~ Yes, this is the Heavenly Abyss, newcomer, you actually don’t know where this is? Apparently, you shouldn’t be here, life forms not belonging here, the best fate is—death!!!"
Buzz!——!
The fog suddenly vibrated violently, as if stirred by terrifying cries, spreading out in circles.
Jiang Dali’s eyelids dropped slightly, slowly standing up, twisting his ox-like thick neck with cracking noises, grinning faintly, "Playing tricks! As the village chief, I’m really interested to see what kind of ghostly form you take? Get out here!"
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(Requesting monthly tickets! The last day of the month requesting monthly tickets! The previous Chapter... Actually talked about the environment below the Earth Crystal Core leading to the Heavenly Abyss and set some foreshadowing, and also detailed the power of Shattering Void; because some readers previously asked, since Qin Shi Huang could freely use the power of Shattering Void level, doesn’t Dali’s muscle power seem laughable. The question is, what if Shattering Void doesn’t affect Dali? Does that mean we return to the contest of strength?)
