Chapter 263: Journey to the Secret Gate

Ji Chen looked at the portal slowly opening in the distance, the huge door frame like a behemoth swallowing the starry sky, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura.

Inside the door, it was chaotic, five-colored light intertwining and flickering, like a grand cosmic firework show, yet revealing unknown dangers that made one's heart palpitate.

He subconsciously gripped Ceng Yue's hand tightly, a warm current passing from his palm to her slightly cool fingertips.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." The short few words were like a reassurance, making Ceng Yue's originally somewhat uneasy heart gradually calm down.

The surrounding air seemed to have solidified, carrying a trace of heaviness, suffocatingly oppressive.

Ceng Yue couldn't help but lean toward Ji Chen, seeking a trace of security.

Just at the moment they stepped into the portal, a powerful suction suddenly dragged them in.

The two instantly lost their balance, their bodies rolling uncontrollably in the air, like two fallen leaves falling into a rapid vortex.

Heaven and earth spinning, five-colored light flashing crazily before their eyes, like ten thousand fireflies exploding before their eyes.

Ji Chen felt his internal organs were about to be torn apart by this force, but he still held Ceng Yue tightly, using his own body to shield her from this powerful impact.

"Hold on to me!" He shouted loudly, his voice appearing weak and powerless in the violent energy turbulence.

Ceng Yue grabbed Ji Chen's clothes tightly, her face pale, but she didn't let out a scream, just silently enduring all this.

The surrounding space flashed with increasingly strange light, like a danger signal, indicating that a greater crisis was about to descend.

"This power..." Ji Chen gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "Something's wrong!"

In the violent energy turbulence, Ji Chen's body was like a bottomless pit, crazily devouring the chaotic supernatural energy around him.

Those energies that originally made him feel torn were now like docile sheep, obediently pouring into his body.

His body emitted a faint golden light, like a god of war reborn from the fire, a powerful sense of strength filling his whole body.

"Damn, this feeling... it's simply too good!" Ji Chen secretly felt good, his originally tense muscles relaxed, and an indescribable confidence surged in his heart.

He felt as if he had opened up his Ren and Du meridians, his body light as if about to fly, the feeling of being on the verge of shattering just now had disappeared without a trace.

Outside his body, a transparent energy shield instantly unfolded, wrapping him and Ceng Yue tightly inside.

Those violent energy turbulences around him were like being blocked by an invisible wall, unable to get close in the slightest.

"This is..." Ceng Yue's slightly surprised voice came; she looked up at Ji Chen, the man who had just been in a sorry state, but now seemed like a different person, exuding a kind of indescribable light and confidence all over his body.

This powerful aura made even the always calm her feel a trace of shock and worship.

However, before they could carefully savor the changes brought by this power, the strange phenomena around them appeared again.

"Jie, jie, jie..." A hair-raising strange laugh sounded, like the sound of countless fingernails scratching glass.

Only to see strands of black mist drilling out from the void, rapidly condensing into ghost-like creatures.

Their figures were elusive, like black ghosts, their empty eye sockets flashing with heart-palpitating ghostly light.

These ghost creatures appeared, carrying harsh shrieks, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, making people shudder.

"Damn, still coming? Endless, right!" Ji Chen cursed secretly, thinking the threshold of this secret realm was too high, sending a wave of "greeting gifts" just after entering the door.

He held Ceng Yue with one hand, his figure dodging and moving nimbly in the ghosts' attacks like a ghost, while not forgetting to launch a counterattack.

He punched like a storm, his fists wrapped in golden energy, every bombardment making the ghost creatures' figures flicker.

Ceng Yue was not to be outdone; between her slender fingers, she condensed cold rays of light; wherever they passed, the ghost creatures were frozen into ice sculptures, then shattered into slag.

The two's coordination could be called seamless, like tacit dancers, shuttling freely in the ghosts' siege.

The whistling sound of battle, the collision sound of energy, and the shrieks of the ghost creatures intertwined into a chaotic and intense battle movement, constantly echoing in the space.

"These ghost things seem a bit difficult to deal with..." Ji Chen frowned; he discovered that although his attacks could hit the ghost creatures every time, the effect seemed minimal; those ghost creatures just flickered their figures, then pounced again, like cockroaches that couldn't be killed.

He didn't continue to attack strongly, but stared fixedly at those ghost creatures, a flash of doubt in his eyes...

Ji Chen frowned tightly, a flash of brilliance in his eyes.

These ghost creatures seemed to have strange regenerative abilities; every attack just made them retreat temporarily, but couldn't eliminate them completely.

He realized that continuing to fight hard was not a wise move, and he had to find a new way to deal with it.

"Come again!" Ji Chen roared secretly, the energy within his body operating rapidly.

He didn't continue to punch, but converted these energies into a special fluctuation; this fluctuation was like ripples, spreading out from his body.

When this fluctuation touched the ghost creatures, their movements instantly became sluggish, their originally fast-floating figures seemed to be bound by invisible gravity, their movements becoming clumsy and slow.

"The opportunity is here!" Ji Chen judged quickly, seizing the time to launch an attack.

He clenched his fist with one hand, held Ceng Yue's waist with the other, his figure flashed in the air, appearing in the center of a group of ghost creatures like a ghost.

His eyes were full of red light, his fists wrapped in golden energy, he punched out, like a storm, a powerful energy beam instantly released, piercing through the bodies of more than a dozen ghost creatures.

"Boom!" The impact of the energy beam made the surrounding space tremble slightly, those ghost creatures turned into nothingness under the impact of the energy beam, Ji Chen stood there like an invincible god of war, the surrounding ground also cracked because of the release of energy, dust flying.

"Beautifully done!" Ceng Yue praised, however, just at this moment, she suddenly felt the ground under her feet begin to become soft, like a piece of quicksand, her heart sank violently, and the ground under her feet instantly swallowed one of her feet.

"Ji Chen, fast!" Ceng Yue's voice carried a trace of panic; she struggled hard, but found herself sinking deeper and deeper.

Ji Chen reacted extremely quickly, grabbing her hand and hugging her tightly; the two began to sink constantly in the quicksand, and the dangerous aura around them permeated again.

Ji Chen gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, I'm here, no matter what, I won't let anything happen to you."

As soon as the words fell, they had fallen into a piece of darkness, the swallowing power of the quicksand becoming stronger and stronger, as if they were about to be completely swallowed. ===== CHAPTER 264 =====