A host of Martial Immortals "fell" from the clouds. Though it seemed slow, it was actually swift, and in the blink of an eye, they reached the passage entrance.
Yun Heng raised a hand, signaling everyone to hover in place.
They instinctively swept their eyes around, their thoughts rippling faintly.
The scene before them was enough to make anyone with an unsteady will collapse.
Around the edge of the five-kilometer-wide pitch-black rift, there was no longer merely distortion and fragmentation.
There, countless grotesque abyssal monsters swarmed densely, layer upon layer, climbing upward along an invisible "cliff."
They shrieked and collided, merging into a terrifying, pitch-black torrent.
Yun Heng paid them no heed. Instead, he spread out his mental power, sweeping through the void and even across the earth.
Four or five seconds later, disappointment appeared on his face.
There was not a single high-order abyssal being in sight.
He had intended to sweep away a batch of high-order abyssal beings before entering the passage, reducing the pressure on humanity while he was at it.
But Master Beiku had evidently thought of this as well.
At that moment, everything surging out of the passage consisted of mindless, fearless low- and middle-order monsters.
Since Eternal Night had joined forces with Master Beiku, the abyss's high-order combat forces had presumably received the protection of Eternal Night's authority.
In a place like the passage entrance, where the laws were twisted and space was fragmented, finding them would probably not be easy.
And by now, the Abyss's Ninth Orders had already crossed the passage's midpoint under Eternal Night and Master Beiku's leadership.
He had no time left.
"Whoosh—"
Yun Heng took a deep look at the Northeast Sector, then at the Dragon Tooth Bunker cluster where Li Wei was located, and slowly exhaled a mouthful