The moment Han Shuo saw the man approach, an instinctive disgust rose within him. As the man arrived, a foul, fishy stench filled the surrounding air. Han Shuo sensed it carefully and discovered that the stench actually came from this sickly-looking man.
The man riding the enormous Ghost Face Spider looked somewhat different from Haimanna and Xierfu. He seemed boneless, giving an impression of weakness and frailty. His waist was slimmer than a woman's, and his blue-green face was covered in spots, making him look extremely ugly.
He wore a black iron badge on his chest, bearing the image of a hideous demon. The demon in the image held two bloody monster heads in its mouth. It looked lifelike, exuding a sinister, terrifying evil.
From Haimanna and Xierfu, Han Shuo had learned something about the divisions of strength in the Abyss Realm. The various Abyss Creatures differed greatly in rank. Low-ranking Abyss Creatures could only ever serve as cannon fodder or mounts; they were not entitled to any high-ranking privileges.
Leaving those low-ranking Abyss Creatures aside, higher-ranking Abyss Creatures were generally classified by strength as Abyss Guards, Destroyers, Rakshasas, and Demons. Each rank was further divided into three levels. Only higher-ranking Abyss Creatures who could join the guards of a city or faction qualified as the lowest-ranking Abyss Guards.
Their strength gradually increased through constant slaughter. Fighters of middling strength who distinguished themselves, such as Haimanna and Xierfu, advanced to Destroyer based on the number of enemies they killed and their own strength. Xierfu and Haimanna were both only first-level Destroyers, while Nanzhaluo, who had left earlier, was a third-level Destroyer.
Above them, powerful individuals who could secure a position of their own in a city or faction were called Rakshasas. Those who became Rakshasas through their strength could have