Dracarys

Seeing Huadi, Xia Linyuan raised his eyelids slightly and said indifferently, "Nyarlathotep."

The moment he met those indifferent golden eyes, for some reason, an inexplicable sense of heart palpitations surged into Huadi's heart.

After sizing up Xia Linyuan back and forth for a good while, Huadi said, "Guests are welcome, I wonder what business brings you to the seventh layer of my Abyss Plane."

Hearing this, Xia Linyuan couldn't help but laugh, "What a 'guests are welcome'."

"When you invaded the Douluo Plane, you didn't have the mindset that guests are welcome."

Upon hearing Xia Linyuan's words, a flicker of light shone in Huadi's yellow eyes, "Are you a human from the Douluo Continent?"

"No, I am a creation of the Abyss."

Hearing this, a trace of anger flashed in Huadi's eyes, "Since you are a creation of the Abyss, why do you stand on the side of humans and slaughter my abyss creatures?"

Xia Linyuan said calmly, "I am indeed a creation of the Abyss, but I never said I was a creation of this Abyss Plane of yours."

Hearing this, Huadi's pupils shrank violently, "Then, then you are..."

"Heh." Xia Linyuan chuckled, "Are you even worthy of calling yourselves the Abyss?"

As soon as the words fell, a wicked light suddenly erupted from his golden eyes. As his gaze intensified, the next moment, a majestic and terrifying pressure instantly swept toward Huadi like a tidal wave.

A terrifying hurricane even whipped up across the entire seventh layer of the Abyss, causing the temperature of the already cold seventh layer to drop sharply once again.

The cold and desperate aura, like a sharp arrow, instantly pierced through Huadi's thoughts.

At this moment, Xia Linyuan seemed to have transformed into a high and mighty deity, looking down at him coldly and wantonly, making it impossible for anyone to even harbor a thought of resistance.

Facing those golden eyes that were devoid of any emotional fluctuation yet sucked at the soul like a vortex, Huadi shuddered, his expression changing drastically. At this very moment, he felt his entire soul trembling and wailing.

"Thump!"

Huadi's legs went soft, and he actually knelt on the ground, bowing his head until it struck the floor, unable to move a muscle.

He struggled to lift his head, but invisibly, it seemed as if a giant hand was pressing down on his head, and no matter how he struggled, it was to no avail.

Just how powerful had this guy who called himself Nyarlathotep become!

Huadi's yellow eyes were filled with horror.

Having lived for so many years, an emotion he had never felt before quietly surged into his heart, and this emotion was called: fear!

In the seventh layer of the Abyss, there was dead silence.

"If you hadn't touched my reverse scale, why would I have gone through the trouble of making this trip?"

Huadi knelt in a wretched state, his face pale and filled with unwillingness, cold sweat pouring down his body. He couldn't even lift his head, secretly lamenting, which idiot was so blind as to provoke this great master!

This time, Xia Linyuan was truly angry. Even he didn't know how long it had been since he was last angry; the last time he was angry was, well, the last time.

"Carlos!"

Carlos understood. With a flap of his wings, his figure instantly grew to over a thousand zhang, almost blotting out the sky. In the darkness, all that could be seen were those golden beast eyes thirsting for slaughter!

"I'll give you ten minutes to hand over the three Emperor-level abyss creatures that joined forces to besiege a human today. For every minute late, I will slaughter one layer of your Abyss. Get lost."

Having received Xia Linyuan's permission, Huadi dared not delay in the slightest. He was certain that what Xia Linyuan said about slaughtering a layer of the Abyss for every minute late was no empty threat; he would absolutely do what he said!

With a flash of his figure, he had already turned into a remnant shadow and disappeared into the boundless darkness in an instant.

After Huadi left, an indescribable pitch-black entity writhed behind the cold-faced Xia Linyuan, and he simply sat down on that mass of blackness.

Soon, Huadi dragged three bizarre-looking abyss creatures back into Xia Linyuan's line of sight.

Xia Linyuan said coldly, "Nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds. Congratulations, you've saved your life!"

Huadi was instantly drenched in cold sweat.

Glancing coldly at these three abyss creature monstrosities that were trembling like chaff, Xia Linyuan turned and left.

Seeing that Xia Linyuan had ordered him to bring these three abyss creatures within ten minutes, only to glance at them and leave after they were brought, left Huadi unable to fathom what Xia Linyuan was thinking.

But the very next second, Xia Linyuan gave Huadi the answer he wanted to know.

"Carlos, Dracarys."

Accompanied by roaring flames descending from the sky, those three abyss creatures were instantly burned until not even ashes remained.

Streams of gray energy drifted about, about to float toward the depths of the Abyss Plane, but suddenly! A black light escaped from afar, instantly crossing a distance of over a hundred meters, piercing through these gray energy streams, scattering them, and then annihilating them completely.

Huadi stared blankly at this scene, completely stunned.

Originally, he had thought that even if Xia Linyuan killed these three Emperor-level abyss creatures, their energy could still be recycled by the Abyss Plane and then give birth to other abyss creatures. He hadn't expected Xia Linyuan to be so ruthless, directly annihilating this portion of powerful energy.

These were three Emperor-level abyss creatures! Just like that, they were gone!

Although the Abyss Plane still had many top-tier combatants, and every Abyss Lord of each layer was at least at the level of a human Title Douluo, it was very difficult for abyss creatures to cultivate. To lose three Emperor-level abyss creatures all at once, it would be a lie to say that Huadi didn't feel the sting.

"Mom, I want to go to Dad's army to train."

At the dinner table, Xia Linyuan said to Zou Yihan with a serious face.

Zou Yihan frowned slightly and said, "Linyuan, you are still young. There will be plenty of opportunities for training in the future. The front line is at war right now; if you go, you will only cause trouble for your father. Be good."

"I won't cause trouble for Dad. I'm a Spirit Master, and I know that many people in Dad's army are ordinary people. If I go, I will only lighten the burden on Dad," Xia Linyuan puffed out his chest and said with feigned pride.

"Absolutely not! Even if you are a Spirit Master, what can a child like you possibly do to help? By then, your father would only be distracted having to look after you! Linyuan, you are a sensible child, so please don't add to your parents' troubles."

"It is precisely because I am a sensible child that I want to go to the army for training, to lighten the burden on you and Father!"

Wouldn't you lightening our burden be you not acting out?

Zou Yihan felt a headache coming on. Fearing she might dampen Xia Linyuan's enthusiasm, she couldn't bring herself to be blunt. After some thought, she said, "Linyuan, how about this: if you can break through to become a Great Spirit Master within a year and a half, I will agree to let you go train in your father's army, how does that sound?"

Breaking through to a Great Spirit Master in a year and a half—wasn't that simple?

"Deal!" Xia Linyuan agreed without a moment's hesitation.