Total Annihilation

The deepest canyon on Chenping Continent was the White Abyss, cleaved open beneath Floating Light Peak in the continent's northern reaches by True Person Bai Shang of Fengjian Valley forty thousand years ago. It plunged more than twelve thousand zhang.

But the enormous cavern that had appeared beneath Nanyu Lake, twenty-seven hundred li west of Du Cang Mountain, might be deeper still.

Bai Jinye had tossed a Superior Spirit Stone into it, and no echo had come back for a long time. That alone was enough to draw the conclusion.

After all, if he had thrown that Superior Spirit Stone into the White Abyss, a Wanhua Realm cultivator's keen Spiritual Sense and hearing would have caught the sound of it striking the canyon floor.

This cavern had to be at least twenty thousand zhang deep.

In other words, more than a hundred and thirty li.

Something was wrong with this enormous cavern.

Even as Wanhua Realm cultivators, Li Haowen and Bai Jinye had to summon all their focus and approach the gaping hole, dozens of zhang across, with caution.

Bai Jinye took another step toward the edge. A few pebbles shifted beneath his foot and rolled into the abyss.

"Whoa."

He gave Li Haowen a joking grin and turned toward him.

"That's pretty scary."

It was. Immortal Cultivators at the Qi Sea Realm and above could fly through the air at will, but faced with a lightless abyss whose bottom they could not see, they would still feel a little nervous.

Fear of the unknown was human instinct.

Immortal Cultivators were no exception.

But fear could, in the end, be overcome.

"Let's go!"

Bai Jinye's smile faded. Growing a little more solemn, he stepped forward again and leaped into the unfathomable cavern.

Li Haowen followed, taking two quick steps before