"I want you to prove to me with your actions now whether you truly possess the resolve to take revenge on the Abyss."
Having said this, the old man raised his mahogany cane and gave it a wave.
Swish, swish, swish.
Under Mu's control, the outermost vines of the tidal wave of vines immediately began to disintegrate and separate on their own.
Once the tidal wave of vines had completely shed the outer shell woven from its own vines, a spindle-shaped prison cage, layered and woven from countless vines, appeared before Ye Chen.
It was slightly larger than Ye Chen's body. Although its interwoven vine surface was riddled with tiny holes, every one of them was tightly sealed by dense Auling Power.
Ye Chen peered through those openings into the cage, and spotted a jet-black stone sphere the size of a human head within.
The enormous stone sphere pulsed faintly like a heart. Its surface was covered in a dense web of nerves and blood vessels, as well as ** and tentacles that writhed incessantly like maggots.
These biological tissues were attempting to split and grow outward under the impetus of a black power, only to be continuously scorched and burned by the surrounding Auling Power, leaving the entire stone sphere utterly unable to regenerate properly.
Ye Chen recognized the true nature of both that black power and the black stone sphere at a glance.
The former was Abyss Power, unique to the Abyss race.
The latter was the Abyss Core of an Abyss creature.
The youth's face instantly filled with shock and bewilderment.
"What!?"
He had never imagined that the tidal wave of vines he had ridden these past several days had been imprisoning the Abyss Core of an Abyss creature all along!
And without a doubt, its true