As they walked, Leng Yaozhu continued explaining the situation of the Blood God Legion to Xia Yi, saying, "The garrison at the Abyssal Passage rotates once a month. The Blood God Legion's combat force is made up of ten regiments, each with about 1,500 soldiers. That's the main battle unit. With logistics personnel, researchers, and so on, the total number usually stays between 25,000 and 30,000. Normally, when new recruits join the main combat units, they start in the reserves."
"With thousands of years of accumulated experience, casualties in the Blood God Legion when fighting abyssal creatures have greatly decreased compared to the past. Generally, new recruits go through a month of special training, followed by a year of reserve duty. Only after passing the reserve period can they be sent to the front lines. If someone performs particularly well, this period can be shortened. But since you're in the logistics department, you'll only go through a month of special training. Starting today, if nothing major happens, I'll bring you here to the Abyssal Passage every day to familiarize yourself with abyssal creatures."
They passed through three more checkpoints guarded by soldiers before truly entering the Abyssal Passage.
The light ahead was different from normal lamps—it shimmered faintly, like a soft halo appearing and disappearing.
"That's the light from the abyssal side of the passage. This C-class tunnel we're in shouldn't have overly powerful abyssal creatures. You'll be able to handle it. Just remember: fighting abyssal creatures is a life-and-death matter. You must never show mercy and strike with overwhelming force." After saying this, Leng Yaozhu's figure slowly faded and disappeared.
Xia Yi took a deep breath and continued forward.
After walking for about another kilometer, Xia Yi estimated that he and Leng Yaozhu had already traveled about seven or eight kilometers since entering.
Inside the Abyssal Passage, there was a strange energy fluctuation—almost as if the passage itself was a separate spatial dimension, not made of solid rock or earth. This was likely the reason the Abyssal Plane couldn't breach into other areas.
It was as if the Abyssal Plane had pierced through space using a tube that connected to the Douluo Continent's dimension, and only by crawling through that tube could abyssal creatures arrive.
Now that the main "pipe" had been sealed, the abyssal creatures could only attempt to enter through smaller branches, trying to reconnect to the main passage.
Xia Yi moved forward swiftly and silently, his footsteps making no sound.
Every so often in the Abyssal Passage, there would be a sort of "node" area—like a stone chamber, which was ideal for combat.
Suddenly, Xia Yi stopped in his tracks. With his peak Lingyuan Realm spiritual power, he quickly sensed the presence of a group of abyssal boars ahead—over a hundred of them, each more than two meters tall.
Without hesitation, Xia Yi summoned the Earth Cauldron.
Since he had encountered them, he had no intention of letting their energy return to the Abyss to revive them.
With the enhancement of his battle armor, Xia Yi was completely confident.
In an instant, he rushed toward the abyssal boars with the Earth Cauldron hovering above his head. Thanks to the invisibility vest he wore, the boars hadn't noticed him beforehand. It was only when he charged right into them that they reacted and rushed at him in unison.
Third soul skill: Absolute Zero.
In an instant, more than twenty abyssal boars were frozen solid.
"Shatter!" Xia Yi punched the ice, and with a cracking sound, the frozen abyssal boars shattered into pieces, their bodies turning into gray mist that quickly flowed deeper into the Abyssal Passage.
At that moment, the Earth Cauldron began to spin rapidly, precisely intercepting the gray mist and absorbing it all.
Having done that, Xia Yi willed it again—another twenty-plus boars were frozen.
His Absolute Zero wasn't a one-time burst—it was a sustained skill.
As long as he had soul power, he could keep casting it.
With another powerful punch, another group of abyssal boars exploded into fragments, and once again, all their energy was absorbed by the Earth Cauldron.
After repeating this four times, over a hundred abyssal boars were completely wiped out.
Xia Yi continued forward, heading into the next stretch of the Abyssal Passage. But just as he was about to enter, a sudden sense of danger surged.
With his Lingyuan-level spiritual perception, he sensed it clearly. Without hesitation, he unleashed Absolute Zero, sending a wave of freezing cold toward the tunnel entrance.
In a flash, the entrance was sealed with ice. But the next moment, a cracking sound echoed—cracks appeared in the ultra-cold ice.
A pair of horns broke through the ice, followed by a giant bull more than five meters tall.
"An upper-tenth-level juvenile Guardian Iron Bull? What is the Abyssal Plane planning?" Leng Yaozhu's expression changed in the shadows. Even as a juvenile, an upper-tenth-level abyssal creature was tremendously powerful.
She wasn't worried about Xia Yi—he could handle it. But the presence of such a high-level creature in a C-class passage was highly abnormal.
The Abyssal Plane clearly had another scheme.
As Leng Yaozhu was thinking, Xia Yi had already engaged the creature.
The Guardian Iron Bull lived up to its reputation—it had incredibly tough skin and muscle, and its horn attacks were devastating. Even Xia Yi didn't dare take a direct hit.
"Just a damn bull. You're pushing your luck." Xia Yi sneered. His right arm released his Darkgold Terror Claws, and with a swift motion, he slashed toward the bull.
The juvenile Guardian Iron Bull didn't back down. It roared skyward, its horns glowing with dark gray energy as it charged at Xia Yi.
At the critical moment, Xia Yi's arm transformed into a freezing, sword-like blade.
Ice God's Judgement Sword—a soul skill from the Titan Snow Demon's Right Arm Bone.
Crack! Crack!
Two crisp sounds rang out. The Darkgold Terror Claws and the Ice God's Judgement Sword struck the Iron Bull's head simultaneously.
A deep sword mark—half a meter deep—split open the bull's skull. Its brain matter was already beginning to leak out.
The creature gave Xia Yi one last disbelieving look before its body dissolved into gray mist, which was again absorbed into the Earth Cauldron.
Just as Xia Yi prepared to move forward again—
"Wooo, wooo, wooo!" Low howls echoed through the passage.
Accompanied by a fierce air current rushing toward him from the tunnel ahead.
"It's an Abyssal Tide! Go back and notify the garrison—I'll stay and scout its scale," Leng Yaozhu suddenly appeared beside Xia Yi, her beautiful eyes full of seriousness. She had a strong premonition that this Abyssal Tide was not going to be small.
"Got it!" Xia Yi didn't hesitate. With a powerful flap of his battle armor's wings, he transformed into a golden streak and shot back the way they came.
Since Leng Yaozhu told him to leave, staying would only hold her back.
"Wooo! Wooo! Wooo! Wooo!" The sound kept rising—closer and closer. Xia Yi felt as though a massive vortex of destruction was rapidly approaching behind him, ready to swallow everything.
The sheer speed of it indicated that most of the abyssal creatures in this tide were faster than he was.
Whoosh! At a critical moment, a flame shot out, instantly wiping out the eerie howling sounds.
But the silence didn't last long. The howling soon returned.
It was an Abyssal Tide, after all—it would never come in just one wave. Even if Leng Yaozhu wiped out the first one, more would quickly follow.
And each wave would only be stronger than the last.
At last, Xia Yi dashed into the initial area—the Blood God Legion's defensive zone.
"Abyssal Tide incoming! Everyone be alert!" Xia Yi shouted loudly to the garrison troops.
(End of Chapter)