Chapter 574
Abyssal World
Luo Feng was subjected to that astonishing suction force, continuously plummeting downwards. Whoosh! The air whistled piercingly in his ears. Luo Feng, transformed into an illusory Ice Bear, watched the surrounding rock walls and ice layers flash upwards like phantoms, his mind racing to figure out what to do. He had already tried every method to break free, but transforming into any shape was useless. And Babata had already told Luo Feng—"Luo Feng, the suction force is simply too immense. It's even more terrifying than the power that can erupt from a mechanical race spaceship's energy cabin. Even with a mechanical race spaceship, you wouldn't be able to fly out!" Luo Feng, in his Ice Bear form, looked down at the pitch-black, bottomless abyss. All he could do now was prepare himself and fight for a sliver of survival! Plummeting! Continuously plummeting! ... He plummeted for a long, long time, yet Luo Feng was still falling, which secretly startled him. "How deep is this abyss? It's much deeper than that giant pit in Xueluo World, probably hundreds of thousands of kilometers deep." The fierce wind howled in his ears as he continuously fell. Luo Feng couldn't resist the suction force and could only let himself plummet. The prolonged descent clearly made Luo Feng think of other things, and numerous images surfaced in his mind. "Mom and Dad, my wife, Pingping, Xiaohai, Ah Hua..." Luo Feng murmured silently in his heart. He looked down at the bottomless abyss, which remained a pitch-black expanse. "Why am I thinking of my family at a time like this? It seems even subconsciously, I believe I might die." Luo Feng knew very well that when Moluo kicked him into this bottomless abyss, especially when even his Demon Killer Clan clone couldn't break free from the gravitational pull, his heart had sunk to rock bottom. He understood... this time, the trouble was immense! This danger was far greater than anything he had faced in Xueluo World before! A death trap! Babata had long ago told him about some of the death traps in the cosmic secret realms; he was very aware of them... "The probability of surviving this time is probably very low." The Ice Bear Luo Feng took a deep breath, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes. Facing the crisis of death, Luo Feng felt no fear! Perhaps it was from the day he chose to become a warrior... Or from the moment he chose to perish with the Golden Horned Beast... Or from the time he gave up being a comfortable planetary lord and chose to embark on the path of a cosmic powerhouse... Luo Feng had long been prepared for death! "Among the endless warriors in the cosmos who fight desperately, perhaps one in a billion achieves 'Immortal' status!" Luo Feng gazed at the dark abyss below. "Once I embarked on this path, I was ready to fall. However—as long as there's a sliver of hope, I will struggle with all my might!" "Moluo!" Moluo's image flashed through Luo Feng's mind. "I truly didn't see you as a threat, nor an enemy. Firstly, I admired you, and subconsciously didn't want to be at odds with you. Secondly, I thought you wouldn't be so foolish as to attack me. Thirdly, I was confident, confident that you couldn't threaten me." Luo Feng sighed inwardly. "But now I understand a saying... 'A man's heart is separated by his belly,' you can't easily trust people, and you can't be too confident; excessive confidence is arrogance!" Yes. In Luo Feng's mind, Moluo's previous actions were incredibly foolish. Perhaps... Moluo used this method to eliminate Luo Feng, removing a genius who could threaten Moluo's position. This way, Moluo would have more time to secure his seat as a member of the Primal Secret Realm! But in Luo Feng's view, this was utterly foolish; it fundamentally shook his own state of mind. Because he cultivated his mind, Luo Feng understood this clearly. A powerhouse must have absolute self-confidence! Only with self-confidence can one stand at the absolute peak. If one doesn't even trust oneself, and instead relies on schemes and tricks to eliminate threatening individuals, how many can truly be eliminated? On the path to becoming a powerhouse, his competitors weren't just newcomers like Luo Feng, but also geniuses who were already at the peak of the Sector Lord stage, and billions of other races in the cosmos... How many geniuses could he eliminate? One must believe in oneself! Improving oneself, that is the path of a powerhouse! Eliminating opponents, that is truly foolish, it already affects one's conviction. Once conviction wavers... Then one is destined never to become a true powerhouse! "Moluo, if I don't die this time, you will regret it for the rest of your life." Luo Feng looked down. Whoosh! Luo Feng, transformed into the illusory Ice Bear, continued to plummet at an astonishing speed into the bottomless abyss. ... He plummeted for a very, very long time... "Luo Feng, rock and ice layers have appeared below!" Babata immediately informed Luo Feng telepathically. Boom! The Ice Bear that Luo Feng had transformed into was as fast as a meteor, covering twenty kilometers in less than 0.001 seconds. Its two thick, powerful feet slammed heavily onto the ice layer below, causing it to shatter with a thunderous roar, and the ice layers further away cracked. Beneath the ice, the thick black rock merely trembled slightly, showing no trace of damage. "Roar~~" "Wail!" Various piercing cries came from all directions. The Ice Bear, having plummeted rapidly and then landed on its rear, sat foolishly on the shattered ice, glancing around. In every direction, as far as the eye could see... there were illusory beasts, large and small, humanoid, bestial, or even plant-like in form, so numerous that they stretched beyond sight! Countless illusory beasts were on a winding ice mountain. The foolish Ice Bear slowly stood up, appearing clumsy, but inwardly utterly shocked. "My heavens, how many illusory beasts are there? Just on this endless mountain range before me, there must be tens of thousands!" Luo Feng trembled with shock. He hadn't expected the bottomless abyss to lead to a true illusory beast lair. "Right, how was that suction force generated earlier?" "Luo Feng! Be careful! The illusory beast 6.1 kilometers in front of you has an aura comparable to an Immortal being!" Babata warned him in a terrified rush. "An Immortal being?" Luo Feng jumped in fright. The foolish Ice Bear glanced around. "What illusory beast? 6.1 kilometers away? There are no other illusory beasts within 6.1 kilometers of me. In the distance, there's a mountain range, and it does have countless illusory beasts on it." The Ice Bear Luo Feng communicated with Babata. "Foolish! That ice mountain right in front of you is an illusory beast," Babata immediately said. "My heavens." Luo Feng's heart trembled. The foolish Ice Bear still maintained its clumsy appearance, casually walking on the ice like the other illusory beasts in this Abyssal World. Yet, its eyes were clearly fixed on the continuous, endless ice mountain before it. "The ice mountain is an illusory beast? This ice mountain, at a glance, must be thousands of kilometers long," Luo Feng muttered to himself. Damn. In terms of volume, this ice mountain was probably no smaller than Earth. But such an ice mountain was actually an illusory beast? ... The Ice Bear continued to advance through this vast Abyssal World. This Abyssal World was incredibly expansive, with illusory beasts likely numbering in the billions. If the first illusory beast lair Luo Feng discovered was a river, then the illusory beast swarm in this Abyssal World was a vast ocean! Illusory beasts, numbering in the billions! Sector Lord-level illusory beasts were frequently encountered. He even occasionally encountered gigantic illusory beasts with auras comparable to 'Immortal beings'! These illusory beasts comparable to Immortal beings were all enormous in size; the smallest were thousands of kilometers long, and the largest stretched beyond sight. Whoosh! An ice tree, hundreds of kilometers thick with a crown diameter of thousands of kilometers, suddenly had countless branches tremble, generating a terrifying suction force that caused some of the openings above to frantically suck in air. A long while later! A black-horned man plummeted down, immediately causing the surrounding illusory beasts to roar. Thousands upon thousands of illusory beasts roared and charged. "Ah!" A tragic scream rang out, and the black-horned man lasted only a few seconds before being trampled into a bloody pulp, deader than dead. Roar~~~~ Thousands upon thousands of illusory beasts roared excitedly, and among them was one roaring Ice Bear. "My heavens." The Ice Bear Luo Feng glanced at the distant bloodstain, his heart trembling. "Good thing I transformed into an Ice Bear before falling. If I had come down in human form, how could I possibly have survived being swarmed by countless illusory beasts?" Even a Sector Lord would surely die here! Luo Feng had only explored the Abyssal World for just over three days, yet he had already discovered billions of illusory beasts, with countless Sector Lord-level ones, and even over twenty colossal illusory beasts with auras comparable to Immortals! "Fortunately, I'm also an illusory beast now." The Ice Bear Luo Feng waddled his massive icy rear, slowly advancing among the countless illusory beasts. ... Luo Feng dared not do anything out of the ordinary, acting just like a regular illusory beast, because he didn't know... if there were other powerful beings lurking in this Abyssal World. "Be careful!" "Cannot be careless in the slightest." "Better to take more time and advance slowly than to act recklessly." Luo Feng thus ambled leisurely through this Abyssal World. Though he called it 'leisurely,' he could still cover a hundred thousand li in a day. ... In the blink of an eye, two months passed. Luo Feng had now lived in this Abyssal World for two months. "This Abyssal World is truly boring. There's only one type of creature, illusory beasts, and what's strange is... there's not even any demonic sound." The Ice Bear Luo Feng advanced helplessly. The Demonic Mountain was divided into Demonic Sound Mountain and Ice Mountain, and it was indeed strange that there was a vast area within this Demonic Sound Mountain that had no demonic sound at all. "What's that?" Luo Feng gazed into the distance. In the far distance, there was a faint golden glow. Because of the immense distance, Luo Feng couldn't see clearly. "Go!" Luo Feng continued to advance leisurely. After traveling several thousand li, Luo Feng, amidst the illusory beast swarm, looked up at the distant... floating palaces. The Ice Bear Luo Feng still appeared foolish on the surface, but inwardly he was utterly shocked. "Floating palaces? Palaces emitting golden light?" "This vast space the abyss leads to has countless illusory beasts, and now there are even floating palaces?" Luo Feng stared intently, immediately spotting about 32 floating palaces. Each palace was approximately tens of kilometers in diameter, and each one emanated a golden light. Approximately 23 of these palaces were also enveloped by a layer of white light on their surface, like a shield, completely covering those 23 palaces. "Roar!" "Wail!" Faint, subtle, and mysterious sounds emanated from the direction of the floating palaces. They had no offensive effect; instead, they made Luo Feng's soul feel incredibly comfortable.