Chapter 286

"Thank you, my lord! To guide you is my humble honor!"

The Electro Abyss Mage bowed respectfully, speaking with fawning flattery.

Done!

Jiang Yan's heart immediately bloomed with joy.

To be honest, the identity of Purple Lightning, this Abyss Chanters, is truly effective.

290 As long as he doesn't encounter an existence one rank higher than himself, like an Abyss Baptizer, Jiang Yan's identity naturally fears no one!

Afterwards, the Electro Abyss Mage walked ahead to lead the way for Jiang Yan.

And Jiang Yan followed behind the Electro Abyss Mage.

Along the way, through Jiang Yan's subtle probing, he finally figured out what the Tide-Calling Ritual actually was.

Specifically, the Tide-Calling Ritual is a ceremony the Abyss holds once every thousand years.

According to the Electro Abyss Mage, when the ritual begins, the one who communicates with the power from beyond the world can raise the energy contained within the subterranean Abyss by at least one tier.

And this energy is precisely the opportunity for everyone to advance to the next stage.

Abyss Mages will evolve into Abyss Envoys due to this energy, Abyss Envoys will evolve into Abyss Chanters, and Abyss Chanters will evolve into Abyss Baptizers.

But this matter carries a certain failure rate; once it fails, the entire person will be utterly annihilated.

Yet even so, vast numbers of Abyss demons still go to attend the ceremony.

This is their only opportunity to climb upward.

And not long after the last Tide-Calling Ritual, the Demon God War began.

It has now been exactly one thousand years since then.

Jiang Yan felt secret delight in his heart.

Truly, arriving early is not as good as arriving at the perfect moment!

The Tide-Calling Ritual, the energy from beyond the world, even that mysterious "Lord" will appear in Abyss City.

Perhaps upon seeing that so-called "Lord," all of Jiang Yan's inner doubts will be resolved.

I don't know how long they walked; this stretch of road truly gave Jiang Yan visual fatigue.

Along the way, there were all sorts of pillars supporting heaven and earth; of course, there were also many Abyss Mages and Abyss Chanters traveling to Abyss City alongside them.

This made Jiang Yan feel no panic at all, maintaining his own arrogant posture.

After all, the surrounding Abyss Chanters all possessed this same feeling of arrogance, coldness, and taciturnity.

Then naturally, Jiang Yan could not let his true colors show!

Who can't act cool?

When it comes to acting cool, Jiang Yan is a professional!

After walking for another while, as the gathering of Abyss demons around him grew larger and larger, Jiang Yan finally saw the so-called Abyss City mentioned by the Electro Abyss Mage.

Before him, a purple city appeared in Jiang Yan's view.

In the very center of the city was a huge pool, and a Gao Ta stood quietly in the middle of that pool.

It looked as if that pool was like a moat, firmly encircling the Gao Ta within.

Upon the Gao Ta, a huge black energy sphere stood there.

The more Jiang Yan looked at that thing, the more it resembled the energy sphere he had formed from the resentment of Demon Gods and the aftermath of the Demon God explosion.

But the Cosmic Perception clearly told him it was not.

Because around that energy sphere, black qi was mysteriously gathering.

And the source of that black qi came from the pool beneath the pitch-black energy sphere, which resembled a moat!

The pitch-black liquid in the pool continuously emitted black smoke slowly; Jiang Yan felt a strange palpitation just from looking at it a few times.

It was as if this thing did not originate from this world.

From Jiang Yan's perspective, the entire city was emitting a faint purple luminescence, illuminating that pitch-black sphere in the city's center.

Bizarre and inexplicable.

"This is... Abyss City!"

Jiang Yan murmured to himself in his heart.

The shock Abyss City brought him was even far greater than the countless pillars Jiang Yan saw when he first emerged.

If nothing unexpected happens.

The Abyss City before his eyes is the core of the entire subterranean Abyss.

But Jiang Yan kept staring at that pool containing the pitch-black liquid.

What exactly is this thing?

Why do I feel this palpitation?!

Pondering in his heart, Jiang Yan descended into the city along with the crowd of demons.

Inside the city at this moment, Abyss demons from other places had already gathered in great numbers.

Here, Abyss Mages were as common as dogs, and Abyss Chanters walked everywhere.

Indeed, Jiang Yan could meet an Abyss Baptizer just by taking two steps.

One could see just how many demons had gathered in Abyss City.

Jiang Yan even felt that if this were in a game, with one round-trip by Kazuha followed by a sigh of "Leaves fall, drifting down," he could easily wipe out a whole group of demons.

That scene, 啧啧啧...

Super stress-relieving.

"My lord, this humble one will take his leave now."

"I must go report on the situation of the ritual."

The Electro Abyss Mage who had originally been guiding Jiang Yan spoke to him respectfully.

"Mm, you may go."

Jiang Yan's hoarse voice rang out from behind his mask.

"Thank you for your understanding, my lord!"

The Electro Abyss Mage bowed deeply to Jiang Yan, then quickly took his leave.

"Well then, I'll wander around a bit too — looks like it's still a little early."

Jiang Yan surveyed his surroundings, and just as he was about to stroll about, he heard a voice ring out beside him.

"Purple Lightning!"

A loud shout rang out, and Jiang Yan turned his head to look.

He saw Yuanhuo waving at Jiang Yan, trotting over to him with a swagger.