First Entry

The ripples of the battle surged through space, but they did not last long before returning to calm.

He did not linger, tossing the three heads aside before flying away.

Chen Beixun hovered in mid-air, gazing at the opening before him. A frigid wind howled and surged madly from the hole, carrying a thick, musty stench toward him.

Inside the opening lay a narrow, long passage, bottomless and deep. Stepping into it, one was swallowed by endless darkness.

Chen Beixun sprinted through it, pushing forward against the suffocating cold wind. The wind sighed with an ominous tone, as if mourning or issuing a warning.

"Pavadode! Please respond!" Chen Beixun tried to make contact as he ran.

Gradually, the wind ceased, and Chen Beixun reached the end of the passage.

He entered an unknown room. It was about 90 square meters and completely empty. The walls were white, but under the dim light, they appeared grayish-white, and the entire space was filled with the smell of moldy rice.

Chen Beixun walked to the center of the room and looked around. The moment he stepped inside, the exit behind him slammed shut.

"Chen Beixun, come save us quickly!" An Changyan's weak voice came through Chen Beixun's communication light-brain.

Beep-beep!

Chen Beixun quickly raised his arm, projecting a floor plan. Two points were blinking incessantly on the map, marking An Changyan's exact location.

"Damn it!" Chen Beixun furrowed his brows, hacking and striking at the walls with his long blade.

Boom! Boom!

Chen Beixun carved a crack into the wall with his blade, then raised his left hand, from which several thin tentacles sprouted and burrowed into the fissure.

Suddenly—

Those thin tentacles expanded violently, prying the crack open into a 50-centimeter-high hole. Chen Beixun crawled toward the opening and peered out at the world beyond.

Behind that room lay a massive hall filled with radiance.

Looking from bottom to top, the ceiling was a dome-like structure covering the hall.

The height of the dome was beyond imagination; even with Chen Beixun's telekinetic detection, he could only perceive the lower reaches of the architecture.

Hold on! Chen Beixun thought to himself, flying rapidly toward An Changyan's direction.

Swish!

Chen Beixun flew out of the hall's archway and entered a world composed of black metal. It was an endless metal road, roughly 2,000 meters wide.

On both sides of the metal road lay an abyss filled with golden light. Above, rows of bridge-like structures spanned the entire road, extending from the abyss on one side to the other.

"Almost there!" Chen Beixun's eyes were like lightning as he flew at top speed, leaving trails of white light in his wake.

As Chen Beixun drew closer, the clanging of metal grew louder. Through his telekinetic coverage, he grasped the situation.

An Changyan and his group had likely triggered a mechanism, awakening the Metal Guards within the golden abyss.

Chen Beixun focused his gaze on the group locked in a desperate battle.

"C6-grade metal?" The Heng Divine Weapon behind Chen Beixun released countless small white swords. Under his control, the blades converged into a single long white sword, striking at the Metal Guards blocking his path.

Swish! Swish!

The long white sword moved like a wild horse, cutting through the air with abandon.

In the distance... 21 guards had surrounded An Changyan, with more Metal Guards swarming in like a tide.

"That is!" An Changyan turned his head to look. His face was deathly pale, but his eyes held a glimmer of excitement as his lips moved: "He's here!"

Suddenly—

"Wait, where is Pavadode?" Chen Beixun looked puzzled, but the current situation allowed no time for such thoughts.

Chen Beixun gripped his long blade and leaped from the Gold Cloud Shuttle.

The moment his alloy boots touched the metal floor, endless water vapor surged out, instantly solidifying into a white, frigid mist.

Extreme Cold Domain!

Under the shroud of the mist, the Metal Guards' movements were severely restricted, becoming sluggish and slow.

Chen Beixun manipulated the long white sword to pierce back and forth through the swarm of Metal Guards, each strike hitting the core of a guard and erupting in a blinding white glare.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The cores of the Metal Guards shattered and exploded, sending scorching shockwaves and metal shrapnel hurtling toward Chen Beixun.

Chen Beixun waved his hand lightly, and a towering wall of ice rose from the ground, blocking the blast.

Behind the ice wall.

Under Chen Beixun's control, the long white sword dispersed into countless smaller blades.

"Hoo—" Chen Beixun took a deep breath, precisely maneuvering the small swords to form a crescent-shaped blade of light.

The surface of the light blade shimmered with phosphorescence, and endless cold air poured from it.

Chen Beixun gritted his teeth, pushing the blade to its limit. With his telekinetic amplitude at 43, the blade suddenly surged several times in size, its speed becoming eerily fast.

It swept across the field with the force of an autumn wind scattering fallen leaves.

The crowd locked in the fierce battle in the distance suddenly felt a cold wind; it wailed and shrieked, pouring in like a torrential flood.

The Metal Guards that had been besieging them turned in unison and headed toward the source of the wind.

The crowd was shocked.

"This!"

"Could it be that he alone can wipe out these Metal Guards?!"

An Changyan supported his frail, battered body and stepped forward.

"Damn it all," An Changyan cursed, then pushed through the crowd, intending to leave.

"Your Highness!" Several guards hurriedly pulled An Changyan back.

"Quick, a few of you come with me to provide support!" one guard shouted.

Immediately, several figures flew off at high speed.

Chen Beixun felt the strain as the Metal Guards continued to pile up.

Within the attack range formed by his white longswords, Metal Guards were gradually breaking through.

At first, it was manageable, and he could deal with them using the long blade in his hand.

There are too many. Should I deploy the Demon Island Vine? Chen Beixun pondered.

But these Metal Guards were practically endless; if they were equipped with ranged weapons, there would be no way to fight at all!

There were simply too many; for every Metal Guard that fell, a steady stream of replacements poured in.

"Your Highness!" Moluo shouted from afar, his goal to draw some of them away to alleviate the pressure on Chen Beixun.

Moluo gripped his battle axe, hacking at the surging Metal Guards like a madman.

"Demon Island Vine!" Chen Beixun shouted, extending both hands.

Hundreds of thin, scarlet vines surged from Chen Beixun, eventually detaching from him.

The scarlet vines spread across the ground, continuously extending and expanding outward.

"Devour! Devour them all for me!" Chen Beixun commanded.

Upon receiving the order, the scarlet vines erupted in an instant, their crimson hue filling the entire metallic world.

"Good heavens!" Moluo exclaimed, looking up at the scarlet sky.

The others were mostly gripped by panic and trembling. A plant lifeform at the Domain Lord level was enough to wipe them out thousands of times over.

"Devour everything here!" Chen Beixun murmured, admiring the Demon Island Vine.

Countless vines reached out from the crimson mass, wantonly grabbing the Metal Guards on the ground.

As soon as one batch was dealt with, another crawled out from the Golden Abyss.

Chen Beixun frowned slightly and approached the Golden Abyss. He stood at the edge of the abyss, gazing down at the golden light below.

"So deep. My telekinesis can't even reach the bottom!" Chen Beixun exclaimed in surprise.

At this moment, his telekinesis felt like a single drop of water falling into a vast lake—utterly insignificant.

Suddenly—

A sound resembling a record player needle skipping on a disc emanated from the Golden Abyss.

Chen Beixun looked toward the source of the sound, but his telekinesis still couldn't discern anything.

"This World Lord... is quite idle!" Chen Beixun complained before turning away.

"Chen Beixun!" An Changyan was being supported as she walked; that "buzzing" sound kept looping in her mind, as if branded there. It left her restless, unable to fully utilize her Yan God Weapon to face the enemy.

An Changyan's face was deathly pale, and her alloy armor was covered in countless fine scratches.

Chen Beixun flew through the air, exchanged a few brief words with Moluo, and then sped toward An Changyan. He had many questions that needed answering.

Clang!

His alloy combat boots struck the metal ground with a sharp sound.

Chen Beixun landed in front of An Changyan. His gaze was calm as he asked in confusion, "Where did Pavadode go?"

"What is the situation with these Metal Guards?"

"What are the combat casualty numbers?"

Chen Beixun fired off questions in quick succession while a dose of 'High-Efficiency Sedative' appeared in his hand. He uncapped it and injected it into An Changyan's neck.

"Hoo, hoo~~" An Changyan gasped for air.

Before long, she recovered, and the "buzzing" in her head temporarily vanished.

"Can you answer me now?" Chen Beixun asked.

An Changyan waved her hand, signaling those supporting her to let go.

An Changyan coughed a few times before speaking, "Pavadode went ahead to scout the path and told us to wait here. Then, he just vanished into thin air."

"As for those Metal Guards, I have no idea where they popped out from," An Changyan said, shaking his head weakly with a slight motion. "Six of our members were sacrificed in total."

Chen Beixun nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "You all should enter my World Ring first." With a wave of his hand, Chen Beixun took everyone into the World Ring.

Chen Beixun glanced at the World Ring on his index finger, then communicated with the Demon Island Vine, "How is it? Are these things still crawling out of the Abyss endlessly?"

"Yes, there are too many!"

"Master, I feel that if I keep devouring for a few more months, I will be able to break through!" the Demon Island Vine replied.

"Heh! Heh!" Chen Beixun chuckled softly. "You glutton, time is limited right now, let's leave quickly!"

He then lightly raised his hand and retracted the Demon Island Vine.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Metal Guards were crawling out continuously from both sides of the metal path.

A strange feeling suddenly sprouted in Chen Beixun's heart.

How can there be so many! Chen Beixun thought, a sense of unknown fear toward the world beneath the Abyss rising within him.

"Go!" Chen Beixun stepped onto the Gold Cloud Shuttle and flew away at high speed. Behind him, the Heng Divine Weapon released eighteen white blades as thin as cicada wings, forming two long white swords that swept across the enemies in front.

Within a few breaths, Chen Beixun flew to a bronze-colored gate. He looked back and saw a swarming mass of Metal Guards pressing in like a dark cloud looming over the horizon!

"Damn it! Why are there even more than before!" Chen Beixun's pupils dilated in shock, thinking to himself, There must be tens of thousands of them! If I get trapped by this lot, I'm done for!

He manipulated the long white swords to first slash through the dozens of Metal Guards lunging at him, then struck the Bronze Gate with all his might.

BOOM!

A large hole was blasted directly into the Bronze Gate.

Chen Beixun flickered, flew into the hole, and immediately took a Fire Crystal from his spatial ring and tossed it onto the ground.

Whoosh!

Chen Beixun moved with incredible speed, flying far away in an instant. He also commanded the Demon Island Vine to form a vine shield, hiding behind it to mitigate the explosive force of the Fire Crystal.

This was a tactic Chen Beixun had used countless times in his early years to slay many enemies. Back then, he was only at the Stellar level and used explosives far less powerful than a Fire Crystal.

By now, Chen Beixun had flown a considerable distance, completely escaping the tracking range of the Metal Guards.