Douluo Star.
Beyond the atmosphere.
The once dark, fathomless curtain of stars suddenly twisted into a vortex.
Space resembled silk being wrung by an invisible giant hand. Purple-black fissures radiated from the vortex's center, and a rotten stench of sulfur filled the air.
"So soon?"
Xiao Hongchen had been idly fiddling with his fingers, but his gaze flicked beyond the warship. A potent aura of devouring faintly emanated from the black vortex.
There was no doubt about it. This was the Abyss Plane A Cheng had mentioned earlier!
"All hands, battle stations!" Xiao Hongchen's voice rang throughout the fleet through a level-nine Amplifying Soul Tool. Standing on the flagship's command platform, he released nine Soul Rings that slowly rose from beneath his feet: one purple, five black, and three red. The three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings radiated an eerie crimson glow.
The spatial vortex abruptly expanded tenfold, and the first Abyssal Creature thrust out a sharp claw. It was a centipede-like monster over ten meters long, its carapace covered in barbs and every segment of its body bearing bizarre patterns resembling human faces.
It let out a shriek like an infant's wail, its sound waves shaking the surrounding space until faint cracks appeared.
Then came the second, the third... Thousands upon thousands of Abyssal Creatures poured out like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
Schools of piranhas with bat wings, spider women with bloody maws splitting open across their abdomens, colossal elephants pieced together from white bones...
Most hair-raising of all was the aura they exuded. Even the weakest rivaled a human Soul King, while the three snake-haired gorgons leading them, bone wings sprouting from their backs, unmistakably radiated Titled Douluo-level pressure.
They were the Abyss Plane's advance force, launching its first battle against Humanity.
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