The Fork

Seeing the two people beside him looking as if they were facing a formidable enemy, he curled his lip and then let out a soft snort.

Buzz!

The "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture" within the body began to operate spontaneously without needing to be activated.

A pale golden halo gently spread out from him, instantly enveloping the three of them.

"Sizzle"

That invincible, chilling, corrosive power, upon contact with the golden halo, was like ice and snow under a scorching iron, emitting a faint sound before being instantly evaporated and purified.

Furthermore, a wisp of extremely pure energy was forcibly refined by the "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture" and integrated into Chen Fan's body.

The pressure vanished instantly.

Shen Xuan let out a long sigh, gently waving his folding fan, a wry smile on his face, "Chen Fan, your technique... it's practically the nemesis of all negative energy."

Chen Fan glanced at him and smiled.

"You guys are too weak."

Before he finished speaking, he didn't linger. He took the lead, his figure like a stone thrown into a deep pool, leaping into the bottomless, dark Abyss without the slightest hesitation.

Shen Xuan and Su Qingyue exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes, and then jumped down as well.

The interior of the Abyss is not entirely silent.

The dim light, the twisted black crystals scattered all around, and the eerie fungi emitting a faint glow made the place seem like Ghost Domain.

"The Myriad Laws Origin Power here is very chaotic; my Mental Power perception range has been compressed to less than a hundred meters."

Su Qingyue's cool voice rang out, tinged with a hint of wariness.

The instant she finished speaking.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several jet-black, ghostly shadows shot out silently from the shadows of the crystals on either side. They seemed to blend into the darkness, their sharp claws tearing through the air with a piercing whistle, aiming straight for the vital points of the three people!

"Snort!"

Shen Xuan was prepared. With a cold snort, he spun his folding fan open in a flash.

A condensed cyan sword light shot out from the fan ribs, striking one of the approaching black shadows with perfect precision.

Pfft!

The dark figure was instantly cleaved in two by the sharp sword light, its form mostly disintegrating into billowing black smoke, but it did not annihilate as expected.

"Roar!"

The severely wounded shadow seemed to feel no pain, nor did it know what fear was. It let out a non-human roar, and the billowing black smoke condensed again, rushing over with an even more ferocious posture.

"This little thing is so noisy."

Chen Fan grew impatient; he didn't even bother to look at it properly, simply flicking his finger casually.

Laugh!

A wisp of Golden Qi and Blood, refined to its utmost, pierced through the core of the dark figure in an instant, like a miniature laser beam.

This time, the shadowy figure didn't even have time to roar before it was completely evaporated under the purification of the golden light, leaving not even a trace of black smoke behind.

Chen Fan's gaze swept over the remaining few dark figures, a thoughtful look appearing in his amber eyes.

"They have no soul, nor are they living beings."

A glint of light flashed in Su Qingyue's icy blue eyes. She quickly scanned the fearless black shadows charging towards her with her Mental Power and swiftly drew a conclusion.

"They are more like pure energy aggregates, puppets. Deep within their energy cores, there is an extremely faint thread of will, the source... deeper still in the Abyss."

Puppet?

Energy aggregate?

Upon hearing these words, Shen Xuan and Su Qingyue felt reassured.

Chen Fan's eyes suddenly lit up.

His gaze towards those dark figures instantly changed.

They weren't looking at the enemy, but at plates of steaming hot, freshly cooked... experience packs!

"You should have said so earlier! Oh, it's time to eat!"

Chen Fan grinned, no longer holding back in the slightest.

He didn't even bother to use any special techniques. He simply activated the "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture," and his entire being shone like a small sun as he proactively faced the shadowy puppets that kept emerging from all directions.

"Bang!"

A shadow puppet comparable to the Late Organ Refining Realm was instantly blasted into the purest Origin Power, and then swallowed whole by the illusory Great Furnace behind it.

"Bang!"

Another punch.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

For a moment, the silent Abyss passage was filled only with the dull thud of fists hitting flesh and the satisfied chewing sounds of Chen Fan.

Shen Xuan and Su Qingyue have completely given up on making a move.

The two stood behind, watching the ten-year-old child, like a young War God, rampage through the endless tide of puppets, slaughtering everyone in his path, turning all the puppets into nourishment for his cultivation technique.

This isn't a perilous situation, it's a free buffet extravaganza!

After an unknown amount of time, when Chen Fan had finished off the last shadow puppet and let out a satisfied burp, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

A colossal underground cavern appeared before the three of them.

At the end of the cave, there were three dark and deep passages leading to unknown destinations, each exuding an even colder and more eerie atmosphere than before.

Even more strangely, the distress signal from Senior Xiao's natal jade pendant seemed to be interfered with by some mysterious force, and it was transmitted weakly from all three channels at the same time, making it impossible to discern its true location for a moment.

"That's interesting."

Faced with three completely identical, pitch-black passages that seemed to have been copied and pasted together, a hint of curiosity flashed in Shen Xuan's eyes.

After all, he was once the Prodigies in the Jiangbei Region, and he had his pride.

He simply pointed his fingers like a sword and made a light slash in front of him. A wisp of condensed, almost tangible, azure Sword Qi shot out silently from his fingertips and disappeared into the passage on the left.

However, the expected feedback from the scouts did not come.

That Sword Qi, which was powerful enough to easily pierce through the protective barrier of an ordinary Late Organ Refining Realm Martial Artist, was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, not even causing the slightest ripple before being completely swallowed and dissolved by the deep darkness.

"No," Shen Xuan shook his head, his expression grave. "The power within this passage is very strange; it can decompose Qi and Blood."

"I'll give it a try."

Su Qingyue stepped forward, her icy blue eyes gleaming like two condensed starry skies.

Her immense Mental Power, far surpassing that of her peers, transformed into three invisible tentacles, cautiously probing into the three passages simultaneously.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths later, Su Qingyue abruptly withdrew her Mental Power, her beautiful brows furrowed tightly, and her pretty face turned slightly pale.

"How is it?" Shen Xuan asked with concern.

"Behind the three passages, it seemed, lay a connected, chaotic, and distorted space. When I probed into it with my Mental Power, the information I obtained was completely chaotic and indistinguishable."

Su Qingyue shook her head, her voice tinged with frustration.

Seeing the two of them looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, and then suffering setbacks one after another, Chen Fan, who had been standing by watching the show, lazily yawned and rubbed his eyes.

"I said, why make it so complicated?"

His voice carried a languid quality.

"Just pick any one and go in, right? If you go to the wrong one, just break through the wall and switch to the next path."

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