Chapter 725 - 69: Rotting Abyss Bloodbath

The Rotting Abyss Frontline.

After the Blood Abyss was destroyed, the city occupied by Chi You was moved to the Rotting Abyss, which was once rumored to be the remnants of a Divine Dynasty that later joined under the banner of Lord Huang Jun.

Previously, it was the Saintess who wrought slaughter here, and now that the Saintess has gone to the Void Battlefield, Chi You has conveniently come to this place.

At this moment, it is enduring the fiercest assault since its establishment.

The prior destruction of the Blood Abyss made the remaining Abysses realize they certainly couldn’t keep retreating.

This Monk Abyss, after being transformed into Dao Realm territory by Chi You and the Human Emperor Palace, has now become the primary target of the Abyss’s counterattack.

The sky is no longer the clear or deep starry sky familiar to the Dao Realm, but is covered by the roiling, tar-like poisonous clouds of the Rotting Abyss and the twisted, writhing dark curtain of the Shadow Abyss.

Though Lord Huang Jun’s true form hasn’t arrived, his towering hatred and will have descended through the arrival of the two Abyss Lords, like a massive hammer, pounding mercilessly on the minds of every defender.

"Roar!"

A deafening roar ripped through the sky. The vanguard from the Rotting Abyss is an "Abscess Giant Demon" resembling a moving mountain of rotting flesh.

It stands a thousand feet tall, with yellow-green pus that exudes a nauseating stench and frightful corrosiveness flowing down its surface. Every step it takes corrodes the ground, barely stabilized by the Dao Realm Law, into smoking giant pits.

The torrent of pus it spews strikes the City Defense Array of Jiuli City like a waterfall, creating a terrifying sizzle, causing the resilient array light screen to fluctuate violently, its brilliance rapidly dimming.

Working in conjunction with it are the eerie entities from the Shadow Abyss.

"Faceless Dark Nightmare."

They have no fixed form, like flowing ink, darting and leaping through shadows, sometimes coalescing into sharp Shadow Blades to cut the array bases, sometimes transforming into invisible mental screams impacting the Divine Souls of the defending troops.

More frightening is their ability to briefly merge into the shadows of allies or comrades, launching deadly backstabs that are nearly impossible to defend against.

What truly pushes Jiuli City to its limits is the presence in the sky of three figures exuding the terrifying aura of the Profound Immortal Level.

A massive, pulsating mass dripping with the Origin of Abyssal Pus, its core a giant bloodshot eye coldly overlooking the battlefield.

Wherever it passes, the space corrodes into black holes.

A Ghost Knight formed purely from the Shadow Law, wielding a huge scythe, rides a Nightmare Warhorse burning with black flame. Silently, each swing of the scythe takes away a swath of the defending troops’ spiritual light and shadows.

While Soul Return Music from the Jasper Pool faces it in a stalemate.

A fearsome beast, bone wings sprouting from its back, its entire body covered with dark gold demon markings, emanates an annihilating aura akin to Lord Huang Jun’s own.

It’s responsible for commanding the overall situation; with a swing of its formidable claws, it can tear apart space, dealing devastating blows to the City Defense Array.

The coalition of the three Abysses surged like a black tide of death, fearlessly assaulting the city walls. Each move made by the Profound Immortal Commander brought the City Defense Array to the brink of collapse, with large swathes of runes on the city walls dimming out.

The reinforcements sent by the Human Emperor Palace and Gouchen Palace fought valiantly, but under the suppression of the Profound Immortal Level beings and the endless Abyssal Army, could barely maintain the battle line from collapsing, suffering heavy casualties.

"Lord Chi You. The left wing array base is more than thirty percent damaged. The corrosive poison is seeping in," shouted a Human Immortal General bathed in blood, half of his body corroded to the point of exposed bones, while the power of Shennong continuously worked to heal his wounds.

"The Shadow Nightmares have infiltrated the inner city. They’re sabotaging the Teleportation Arrays."

Standing on the highest point of the city wall, Chi You, with his demon body like a mountain.

His dark gold vertical pupils scanned the brutal battlefield, a fury so violent mixed with icy killing intent boiling in his chest.

"A bunch of... ignorant wretches." Chi You’s voice was deep like the Nine Nether Cold Wind, yet it clearly overshadowed all the clamor on the battlefield.

He forcefully thrust the Tiger Soul Demon Saber, which had drunk deeply of Abyssal blood, into the city wall beneath his feet.

"In my name, summon your souls. Rotting Abyss... the unspent power, heed my call."

The might of [Abyss Lord Chi You] erupted with a thunderous roar.

Whoom—

The entire Jiuli City, and even the broader territory once part of the Rotting Abyss, transformed by the Dao Realm, shook violently.

Countless streams of dark red light, laden with profound resentment and unyielding battle intent, surged from the earth’s cracks, the remains of fallen Abyssal Creatures, and even stones soaked in Abyssal Power for millennia.

These light streams were fragments of Abyssal Origin left behind after the Rotting Abyss’s conquest, not yet fully purified.

Infused with the residual soul will of countless fallen Abyssal Creatures and Dao Realm warriors, and forcibly refined and commanded by Chi You’s own [Demon Prison Profound Embryo Scripture] and the leyline power of the Rotting Abyss.

Now, under the compulsion of Chi You’s [Abyss Lord] authority coupled with the [Path of the Human Emperor].

These violent, chaotic, and destructive forces were forcibly gathered and subdued.

The dark red light, like a living creature, instantly enveloped the entire city wall of Jiuli City, surging into every defending warrior still fighting.

"Ugh!" The defending warriors let out cries of pain.

Dark red demon markings appeared on their skin, their muscles bulging, their strength, speed, and defense—along with their resistance to Abyssal corrosion and mental invasion—all skyrocketed.

The corrosive poison invading their bodies was forcibly suppressed, even expelled by the demon markings.

The mental screams of the Shadow Nightmares, crashing against this blood-red shield, met an impenetrable barrier.

The city walls themselves seemed to come alive, their damaged array bases forcibly repaired and reinforced with dark red energy, even forming massive spikes burning with blood-red Demon Flame that impaled and incinerated the climbing Abyssal Demons in vast swathes.

Chi You’s own aura surged. He drew forth the Demon Blade, its blade entwined with the boiling power of the Rotting Abyss and Annihilation Demon Light.

He stepped off the city wall, his immense demon body standing tall against the heavens, dark gold vertical pupils locked onto the three Profound Immortal figures in the sky, especially the minions of Huang Jun.

"Thinking of pushing back! Better ask my blade first."

Chi You roared, advancing proactively to meet the descending Annihilation Giant Beast.

The Tiger Soul Demon Saber, roaring with the wrath of the Rotting Abyss, tore through space and slashed fiercely.

Boom!

The clash at the Profound Immortal Level erupted above the city wall, a terrifying energy storm sweeping across all directions.

Chi You, with his True Immortal Body, clashed fiercely against the Profound Immortal Commander and surprisingly managed not to fall behind temporarily.

He had marshaled all the remaining power of the "Rotting Abyss" to augment himself, fighting as if bearing a world’s will upon his shoulders.

The defenders of Jiuli City, under Chi You’s [Abyss Lord] augmentation, unleashed an unprecedented combat prowess, holding back the coalition’s tide with sheer tenacity and pushing the wall-climbing enemies back down.

The three Abyssal Profound Immortals never expected that after deploying so much power to engage the other forces’ Profound Immortals, leaving the three of them free to act, they still couldn’t deal with Chi You.

No wonder Lord Huang Jun personally decreed that this existence must be killed!