Chapter 44: Forbidden Zone: Black Abyss (Please Keep Reading!!)

【Choupi Shi】 Self‑discipline Challenge Day 7 morning.

Port of Tanzanila Da City.

Two rows of soldiers in uniform stood in a straight line, upright as if awaiting an important figure.

After the resurgence of spiritual energy, every city in Tanzanila saw mutated creatures; the military was stretched thin, and this scale of reception was already the highest level.

A black elderly man in uniform and a young officer stood on the port.

They were the General and Colonel Kalam.

They gazed at the distant horizon, craning their necks in anticipation, as if awaiting something.

About half an hour later.

On the distant horizon, the outline of a warship appeared.

Seeing this, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The warship slowly docked at the port, and a dozen or so soldiers in uniform from Eastern Summer disembarked.

Leading them was a middle‑aged man with a square‑shaped face, carrying a broad sword over a meter long on his back, giving off a grim aura.

The other Eastern Summer soldiers also each had distinctive traits.

Their hair was mostly red or they were bald, clearly all fire‑type Awakened.

Beside them followed various fire‑type transcendent beasts.

A young girl was trailed by a fire fox whose tail blazed with flames; a bald young man had a red swallow perched on his shoulder; at the rear of the formation were a fire‑engulfed orangutan and two tabby cats and a police dog with flames rising from their paws. After being tamed, these fire‑type transcendent beasts came here with the main force.

The General and Kalam hurried forward to greet them.

"Instructor Wang!"

Kalam saluted the square‑faced officer.

Before the resurgence of spiritual energy, this "Instructor Wang" was their army's instructor.

"Thank you for traveling so far to help us."

The General smiled, extending his hand to shake theirs.

This Eastern Summer squad is Eastern Summer's Awakened unit, the Flame Dragon Squad.

Squad leader Wang Long is a high‑level Awakened who has already touched the Lord Barrier.

A little over a month ago, when the ancient secret realm of Great Snow Mountain first emerged, Tanzanila's leaders contacted Eastern Summer.

Eastern Summer also placed importance on the newly appeared secret realm and promptly dispatched an Awakened squad.

After sailing for over a month, they finally arrived at Tanzanila.

"Of course, the ancient secret realm hasn't formally arrived yet; fortunately we made it in time."

After shaking hands, Instructor Wang made a courteous remark.

Their visit wasn't solely to aid Tanzanila, but also for the soon‑to‑arrive Great Snow Mountain secret realm.

Both of Eastern Summer's ancient secret realms have formally arrived, entering the late stage of Phase One, and their strength cannot play a major role on the battlefield.

Thus they were sent here to seize some opportunity at the very beginning of the arrival.

"Instructor, you didn't encounter any risks on the way, did you?"

Kalam asked concernedly.

"Honestly, the road was treacherous! We almost couldn't make it."

Instructor Wang couldn't help but sigh.

Three months ago, a massive ancient secret realm—the Black Abyss Secret Realm—appeared in the Indian Ocean.

This ancient secret realm is the largest ever to descend, covering over 10 million square kilometers, larger than all of Eastern Summer's land area! By contrast, the Great Snow Mountain realm that descended in Africa spans only 450 000 square kilometers.

Satellite images show an immense black‑water vortex, its interior leading to an unknown destination.

After the realm's arrival, any life that approaches is captured by the vortex and mutates into black‑water monsters.

So far no life has entered the black‑water vortex and emerged alive. When nations dropped nearly a hundred nuclear bombs on it with little effect, the Black Abyss was declared an absolute forbidden zone! Because of the Abyss's "radiation," many nearby sea creatures mutated into Black Abyss monsters.

Compared with other transcendent beasts, those polluted by black water are more savage, stronger, and lack any reason.

Thus they took a long detour around the Pacific.

Even so, they still encountered many powerful oceanic mutated beasts; thousands of kilometers from Tanzanila, they faced a Black Abyss monster.

It was a Black Abyss giant crab that had touched the Transcendent Barrier.

Fortunately, the warship's firepower was sufficient, allowing them to reach Tanzanila safely.

As for the air route.

The sky is now unsafe; countless powerful birds dominate the air, treating aircraft like toys.

Even if ships are sunk at sea, they still have a high chance of survival.

If an aircraft crashes in the air, with their current level of awakening, survival is a one‑in‑nine chance.

"We won't waste formalities; time is urgent, General, please take us near Great Snow Mountain to test the spiritual energy concentration first."

Wang Long said.

"Alright."

Thus the party boarded a vehicle and headed toward the fringe of Great Snow Mountain's illusion.

In the vehicle, Kalam briefed Wang Long on the current situation in Tanzanila.

Naturally, the first person mentioned was Chen Mo.

"Instructor, a transcendent beast on the Great Plains has already touched the Lord Barrier."

"How could that be?!"

Instructor Wang frowned.

Kalam did not rebut, silently handing over the tablet.

There are two videos on the tablet.

They are respectively Chen Mo and the Ice-Armored White Rhinoceros, as well as the battle process of the Frozen Ice Eagle.

All of them are footage captured by drones.

In the video, an ice lion repeatedly roars, actually directly roaring to death a high-level supernatural Ice-Armored White Rhinoceros!

Nearby ruins were shattered into powder by the sound waves! "Impossible! How could a supernatural creature of this level appear at this stage!"

After watching the video, Wang Long was somewhat shocked.

That Ice-Armored White Rhinoceros should already be the pinnacle of ferocious beasts appearing at this stage; even their Flame Dragon Squad would need some time to hunt it down.

Because of their physical structure, supernatural beasts inherently possess far greater combat strength than humans.

But this ice lion completely overwhelmed the Ice-Armored White Rhinoceros in every aspect.

What's even more exaggerated is that, judging by its appearance, this ice lion is actually a cub! And after killing the Ice-Armored White Rhinoceros, a shocking scene unfolded——

Other supernatural ice lions dragged their prey over, all walking to the Lion King's side, bowing their heads and ears in submission.

This lion pride actually consists entirely of supernatural spirit beasts, and they are absolutely loyal to the Lion King!

"According to our previous communication with it, the Lion King possesses extremely high intelligence, and what's even more terrifying——"

Kalmu said with a slightly excited tone:

"It even knows Chinese! A wild lion actually speaks Chinese fluently!"

After saying that, he furtively glanced at Instructor Wang's expression.

Seeing Instructor Wang's shocked expression, Kalmu felt relieved inside.

Such an outrageous thing shouldn't have to be faced by me alone!

(End of chapter)