Night.
A wild wind swept across the ground.
Eight horn-scaled horses tore through the night.
Su Chen suddenly yanked the reins.
The horses' hooves kicked up dust that filled the sky.
The seven people behind him reined in their horses at the same time, their movements perfectly synchronized.
Qian Renxue stopped half a body-length to Su Chen's right and glanced at his cold, stern profile.
Su Chen raised his right hand.
The phantom of the Void Throne flickered behind him, and the nine Spirit Ring slots emitted a low hum.
Suddenly, Ye Linglong bent over and clutched her eyes tightly.
Blood streamed through the gaps between her fingers.
"Captain... something tore through my senses."
Ye Linglong's voice trembled with fear.
"Extremely dangerous."
Su Chen closed his eyes.
His consciousness instantly linked to the sky above, sharing the vision of twenty circling Purple Lightning Thunder Eagles.
"The sky is clear."
He opened his eyes, dismounted, and walked over to Ye Linglong.
"Take your hands away. Look at me."
Ye Linglong tremblingly lowered her hands.
Her crimson eyes were now filled with spiderweb-like blood vessels.
Su Chen's brow split open.
The [Evil Eye Core] suddenly lit up. His spiritual power became an invisible spike and forcibly connected to Ye Linglong's Void Annihilation Eyes.
His vision pierced through the soil.
Through the rock layers.
Straight down a thousand meters underground!
An immensely vast underground cavern abruptly unfolded before him.
Grim metallic glints formed a deadly array in the darkness.
More than a thousand massive cylinders stood in neat rows, their casings branded with the Sun Moon Empire's vicious twin-winged emblem.
Fifth-Level High-Explosive Shells, Sixth-Level Armor-Piercing Shells, Seventh-Level Incendiary Shells... every one of them radiated the aura of destruction.
At the center of the cavern stood a black stone altar.
Upon the altar rested