Old Demonic Abyss Site and Origin Concealment and Trace Erasure

Northeastern corner of Ling Province.

Evasion light descended onto a barren mountain ridge.

Ahead, the ground had collapsed into a deep pit several hundred zhang deep. Rock strata had overturned, and rubble piled around the rim. The bottom was unfathomably deep. Dense demonic qi surged upward, condensing into a thin dark-purple mist over the opening.

Old Demonic Abyss Site.

Dark Fiend Insight swept across the pit entrance, and the frequency and quality of the demonic qi entered Li Yuan's consciousness sea.

Li Yuan walked halfway around the pit and quickly found the seal. It covered the inner wall thirty zhang below, a vast net of dark-purple Spirit Patterns spanning roughly a hundred zhang. Three cracks ran across the Spirit Patterns, with demonic qi seeping out from within.

The traces of Tianyue Sect's reinforcement remained. A layer of spiritual power had been smeared over the outside of the cracks to plug them, but the technique was crude and could only temporarily suppress the leakage.

Li Yuan leaped into the pit and landed on a protrusion in the rock wall beside the seal.

Nether Realm Knowledge activated on its own, and the seal's structure unfolded layer by layer within his consciousness sea. Array Dao Pivot followed, cross-verifying its underlying veins against his knowledge of Fourth-Order formations.

A Fourth-Order composite seal, six nested layers, twelve core nodes.

All three cracks lay where the third and fifth layers connected, matching Tianyue Sect's survey records. The Spirit Patterns here had aged, and breaks had emerged in the spiritual power circulation. Given enough time, they had naturally split open.

Repairing them would not be difficult.

Li Yuan sent the Micro-Spirit Control Art into the first crack. Spiritual power seeped along the original Spirit Patterns and reconnected the break. Array Dao Pivot checked the direction of the