Whatever the Alligator Dragon General's character might be, once Lu Feng fell into his hands, many things would no longer be his to decide. Rumor had it that plenty of people possessed secret arts that could keep others from dying even when they wanted to.
He had only just managed to escape the High Priest's clutches. How could he possibly repeat that mistake? Hardening his resolve, Lu Feng used the Rusty Sword to cleave through the true qi laid down by the Alligator Dragon General. With rainbow light beneath his feet, he charged toward the pillar of blood without a backward glance.
Whatever lay ahead, at least he would still have a chance.
The Five Directional Banners could withstand the uncanny power in Deadwater. That power seemed to share the same source as the power here, so perhaps they could withstand this as well.
"You..." The Alligator Dragon General was aghast. He had never expected Lu Feng to be so unyielding, preferring death to surrender.
The sinkhole before them was the infamous Blood Sea. Legend held that it had formed from Pangu's navel when he died after Pangu Splitting Heaven and Earth. It was the gathering point for all the foul qi between heaven and earth, one of the most terrifying forbidden lands in existence, as notorious as Hell, another deadly place in the Abyss.
There were even rumors that the Abyss's terrain and environment differed from everywhere else on the Primordial Continent precisely because of these two extraordinary places, the Blood Sea and Hell.
It was the Blood Sea's foul qi and Hell's boundless death qi that had transformed the entire Abyss into its present state, shrouded in demonic qi and fraught with peril.
Whether that rumor was true was unknown, but everyone knew the saying that living souls