Abyss Core Layer.
Yang Yu rose from the Throne and walked over to the Big Black Fish floating in midair.
He reached out and rapped the black-and-white scales on Huang Yan's head. They gave a dull clang.
"Quit staring. This register is useful." Yang Yu beckoned. "Put it up on the screen. Let me see who else is on it."
Huang Yan flicked his broad tail.
He still wasn't used to his fish body. With one hard flick, he somersaulted in midair.
He opened his enormous mouth and blew a few transparent bubbles.
Then a beam of gray and red light shot from his forehead and struck the Abyss's System Light Screen.
Dense rows of names appeared.
At the very top, Yang Yu's name flashed bright red, like the lights on a police car.
Yang Yu skipped his own name and scanned downward.
"Li Cangxu, peak Fifth Step Path Severing Realm."
"True Lord Bone Wither, Fifth Step Path Severing Realm."
"Luo Yan, Half-Step Name Holding."
"Xuanhuang Mother Tree, Heterodox Enlightenment, Half-Step Name Holding."
The list filled three whole pages. From top to bottom, it held 341 names.
Even the weakest were at the early Fifth Step. Most were stuck at Peak Fifth Step, and more than a dozen were at Half-Step Name Holding.
In the entire Core Layer, the only sound left was people sucking in breaths.
Gu Shan rubbed his bald head, his eyes wide as bells. "Good heavens. This is ridiculous. We spent ages digging around that Divine Corpse's shell, and even with the Abyss's original crew, we barely scraped together our handful of Fifth Step fighters. And this register has hundreds?"
Xuan Jiu held his Black Sword and spoke coldly. "The Trial left by the True God is for Wanderers throughout the Depth of Hongmeng. Anyone it