Chapter 165: Princess of the Night Elves! Black Flames!

Lin Yan ignored the subterranean creatures and continued burning his way through the cave spider nest.

The flames spread too quickly; by the time the cave spiders noticed, it was already too late to escape.

Not long after, Lin Yan burned his way to the edge of the black hole.

Then he plunged straight down.

Inside the black hole, the air was especially icy.

Lin Yan was in a state of furious combustion, consuming substantial energy points; once inside the black hole, his energy consumption increased even further.

But this level of consumption was still within Lin Yan's capacity.

Lin Yan descended, burning every cave spider along the way.

The number of these cave spiders was simply too great.

Half the cliff wall inside the black hole was covered in cave spiders.

Burning inside the black hole, Lin Yan's energy point income barely matched his consumption.

But his evolution point gains were substantial.

So Lin Yan directed his flames to ignite half the cliff wall of the black hole.

"Whoa, this flame is terrifying!"

Above the black hole, in the underground cavern, various subterranean creatures let out startled cries.

From their perspective, Lin Yan's flames had instantly lit up the entire black hole!

This sight was truly horrifying.

Some subterranean creatures turned pale with fear.

They had never seen anything like this before.

Many were terrified, believing it to be divine punishment meant to burn the underground city to ashes; they prostrated themselves, bowing their heads repeatedly.

"Princess Chenxi, come quick!"

Inside a house in the underground city, a sweet-looking woman with two pointed ears rushed in and shouted.

"What's wrong, Qing Luan?"

Inside the room, a woman dressed in a pale green long dress, also with two pointed ears, spoke.

This woman's beauty surpassed Qing Luan's by a margin.

Their appearance resembled the elves of the Gods' Continent.

But their skin tone and aura differed significantly from those of elves.

Their skin was slightly darker—not black, but like night itself, possessing a mysterious, alluring quality.

"Fire! Flames have ignited in the Demon Abyss!"

The woman called Qing Luan said.

"Fire? The temperature inside the Demon Abyss is extremely low, and its laws differ greatly from those of the Gods' Continent—how could fire ignite there?"

Upon hearing this, Princess Chenxi followed Qing Luan out of the room and arrived at the edge of the underground city.

But when she leaned forward to look, the flames on the cliff wall had already extinguished.

"The flames went out so fast—just a moment ago they were so terrifying, and all the cave spiders were burned to death."

Qing Luan was frustrated for not having let Princess Chenxi see the flames.

Princess Chenxi speculated: "The Abyss passage is about to open. These cave spiders live within this passage and are actually afraid of the Abyss's aura. They reproduce too quickly—likely preparing to surface in search of resources. Judging by this, they probably angered some powerful magician."

Qing Luan murmured, "Princess, after the Abyss passage opens, you really intend to enter? It's too terrifying—even a powerful magician can retain less than half his strength inside."

Princess Chenxi nodded, her small face resolute: "We are cursed by the God of Darkness, forced to live only in night or in places where no sunlight reaches. But the blood of the Abyss Lord can lift this curse—if the curse is broken, we can return to our original forests."

Qing Luan's face showed worry: "Princess, killing the Abyss Lord in the Abyss is too difficult. I hope the Silver Moon Bow you brought will be effective."

Within a short time, all the cave spiders on the cliff wall were burned to nothing.

Then Lin Yan discovered an underground world at least ten kilometers from the black hole's mouth.

This underground world was entirely filled with cave spiders.

Lin Yan showed no mercy—he charged in and burned every cave spider to ash.

"You killed a Fifth Rank cave spider. Evolution points +2000."

At this moment, the system's notification chimed.

Among these cave spiders, there had been one Fifth Rank.

Not a bad haul.

The evolution points gained from burning different Fifth Rank lifeforms varied.

When Lin Yan burned a Fifth Rank Lava Giant, he gained five thousand evolution points.

But this Fifth Rank cave spider yielded only two thousand.

Hmm, though Sixth Rank Aldington was killed by the tiger Winnie, his corpse was also burned by the flames summoned by Meng Ying's prayer—Lin Yan gained eight thousand evolution points from it, nearly equal to burning Aldington directly.

This underground world wasn't very large—it was the cave spiders' nest, now completely incinerated by Lin Yan's fire.

"These creatures lived here just fine—why did they try to surface?"

After burning all the cave spiders, Lin Yan wondered.

After thinking it over, Lin Yan condensed his flames; as an immortal fire, he now consumed virtually nothing.

Lin Yan exited this underground world and continued falling.

He hadn't fallen long before reaching the very bottom of the black hole.

The black hole appeared vast, but in truth, it wasn't very deep.

Just a few dozen kilometers deep.

Lin Yan drifted aimlessly at the bottom of the black hole.

Suddenly, he felt as if a crack had opened in the ground beneath him.

Then, a black flame rose up out of that crack.

A black flame!

Lin Yan had never seen such a flame before.

When it burned, it seemed formless and intangible — any other human or creature would be completely unable to see it in the dark.

But Lin Yan, being a flame himself, could sense it.

"This flame is a bit unusual."

Lin Yan didn't stand on ceremony — he rushed over at full speed and swallowed that black flame that had just risen from the ground in one gulp.