Shrak!
Shrak!
Shrak!
“Aghh!”
Zayden shouted in pain as he finally reached the bottom of the abyss.
His body kept bouncing across the ground and only stopped after being dragged for hundreds of meters.
“Ughh.”
He grunted in pain.
His consciousness was becoming blurry again.
The pain intensified.
He almost fainted, but he continued to hold on.
Blood fell from his forehead and ran over his left eye, forcing him to keep it closed.
‘I have… to keep… awake…’
Zayden kept encouraging himself.
‘Aria.
Mira.’
He kept thinking about his little family, forcing himself to remain awake.
He kept remembering his revenge.
He needed to stay alive to make those people pay for their betrayal.
He unleashed his sword intent to its maximum and kept forcing himself to control his energy to prevent the poison from continuing to spread.
If the poison spread throughout his entire heart, dantian, and brain, then he would truly be done for.
There would be nothing he could do at that point other than accept his death.
After a few moments of adjusting himself, he finally managed to bring his body under control again.
He could finally faintly sense his surroundings.
He turned his head and looked to his right side.
Darkness.
He could not see anything at the bottom.
He then looked toward the surface.
He could still see the light from above.
With the vast mouth of the abyss, there was no way the light from the surface could entirely disappear from his sight.
He then turned to his left side.
Still darkness.
However, the moment he tried to look in the direction above his head, he finally saw the sole light at the bottom of the abyss.
That undying light.
The mysterious light whose mystery had never been solved.
The light appeared to be quite close to Zayden.
He was surprised that the light seemed much bigger now.
He did not realize how far he had moved using his movement technique.
It seemed that, without realizing it, he had kept moving toward the mysterious light.
His gaze trembled.
Suddenly, his curiosity rose again.
He had already reached this point and was still alive.
He wondered what the mysterious light was.
The light that had drawn countless cultivators since ancient times to come to this place.
‘Maybe I can find a treasure that can help me at this moment?’
Even if he could not find something useful for him, at least it would satisfy his curiosity.
But then he felt something strange.
‘I have already reached this place, but I don’t feel or find any danger.’
With the disappearance of countless cultivators in this place, he had thought that the bottom, or even the path before reaching the bottom itself, would be filled with something dangerous.
There could be dangerous and unknown powerful spiritual beasts.
Or there could be killing formations capable of killing ninth-stage cultivators.
But he did not see any of it.
The fact that he had reached the bottom in his current condition and survived showed how easy it was to reach the bottom.
‘But where did those people go?’
That was another question that appeared in his mind.
If they could reach the bottom, then where were they?
Zayden decided to push that question aside for a moment.
His gaze remained fixed on the light.
After thinking for a moment, he then started to move toward the light.
He used one of his feet to move his body.
The rain was still pouring heavily, making the terrain full of puddles and turning it muddy.
Added to his already wet body, this created another challenge for Zayden, who was already having difficulty moving.
Although each push only brought him forward no more than a few tens of centimeters, he did not give up.
He kept pushing himself while he was still battling the poison inside his body.
He kept reminding himself of his family and his revenge.
Time kept passing.
He did not know how much time had passed, but he kept moving until he finally saw something.
Something that had become the source of the light.
What Zayden saw in the light was the silhouette of…
A spear.
A long spear that was embedded in the ground, with its spearhead pointing toward the sky.
Zayden’s heart beat faster.
Although he felt extreme pain with the change in his heartbeat, he forced himself to stay awake and keep looking at the spear.
‘A spear?’
He continued to approach.
He kept pushing himself forward using his one foot.
But then he suddenly found his head hitting something.
However, because he could not use his hand to check, he could not make sure what the thing that hit him was.
But as he kept pushing himself forward, he finally saw what had hit his head.
Because of the light, the area nearby was no longer so dark, and he could perceive what was beside him.
He had actually hit a skeleton.
Zayden widened his eyes and then tried to look at the nearby area.
Although his vision was sometimes blurry, he could still see some bones and skeletons.
Many of them.
It made his heart tremble.
‘It’s those who came to this place!
All of them are dead!’
He then turned to look at the spear again.
Why were they dead?
How could they have died?
Was there a fight among them?
He did not know.
He just kept approaching the spear.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt as if someone was watching him.
The feeling was really subtle, so subtle that he thought he might be hallucinating.
How could there be another person here?
He kept approaching the spear until he finally could see it more clearly.
It was a golden spear.
Its spearhead was white.
There was an engraving on its long shaft that extended all the way to the base of the spearhead.
The engraving actually depicted a dragon.
A long eastern dragon.
It was engraved beautifully on the spear, and it gave off a mighty feeling.
Like a dragon soaring toward the heaven.
The other parts of the spear were also made with great attention to detail, as if the ones who created the spear wanted to make it as perfect as possible.
Cough!
Cough!
‘Shit, my body… almost at its… limit.’
He coughed up a mouthful of blood, and he felt his strength leaving his body.
In the end, after all of his struggles since earlier, he had to face one fact: his body had its own limit.
He might have a burning spirit.
His will might be as strong as the strongest rock.
But his body was still mortal, with its own limitations.
No matter how much he pushed it, it would eventually crumble.
Even though he kept fighting the poison inside his body, in the end, it was one of the most deadly poisons on the continent.
He had been fighting a losing battle since earlier.
The poison was still spreading, albeit much slower because he kept fighting against it.
Now, the poison had already spread to almost all of his body.
Zayden did not waste any time, and with the remnants of his energy, he kept pushing himself toward the spear.
His speed slowed down.
But Zayden kept forcing himself.
He did not give up.
He just wanted to reach the spear.
His consciousness was already almost slipping away.
His sight had already mostly darkened.
The light only entered his vision from time to time.
But Zayden could still see the blurry silhouette of the spear.
Finally, after using every bit of strength he had, he finally reached the spear.
He then gave up on moving his foot.
He could no longer feel it.
Now, he focused on one of his arms.
He forced himself to move it.
One of his arms was still not entirely poisoned, so he thought that he could force it to move.
Since earlier, he had only focused on moving one of his feet, but now he could finally focus on one of his arms.
After much difficulty and pain, he finally managed to move one of his arms.
With every bit of strength he had left, he dragged his hand, already bloody with his own blood, toward the spear.
Zayden’s hand finally touched the spear.
At that exact moment, all the remaining strength left his body.
His body instantly went limp, and he slumped.
His eyes already looked lifeless.
Yet his mind was still conscious.
He could still feel his hand touching the spear.
However, at this moment, he finally had to face reality itself.
‘It looks like I’m really going to die this time… I cannot change the outcome.’
He inwardly chuckled bitterly.
He really did not know what he had been thinking.
How could he fight the Northern Black Spider poison inside his body and win?
How could he survive after this?
His death was certain.
Moreover, what was he hoping to gain by reaching this treasure?
There was nothing the spear could do.
It was not some kind of treasure that could detoxify the poison inside his body.
It was not a treasure that could make him powerful overnight.
Plus, this was a spear, a treasure that he could not use.
He was a swordmaster.
What did a spear have to do with him?
But still, with every last bit of his consciousness, he hoped for a miracle.
He hoped for help to come his way.
‘To anything that can hear me, to the heavens, to any gods, to anyone!
My family…
My family…
is in danger…
I want the power to protect my family.
I want revenge.
I want to make sure those traitors pay for their betrayal.’
‘To anyone…’
His mind suddenly stopped.
His heartbeat was already so weak that anyone would have thought he was already dead.
It was beating so faintly that it almost seemed to stop.
But when his soul seemed to be almost leaving his body, the spear trembled.
It suddenly released a subtle yet powerful energy.
If any being on the continent were present here, they would feel an energy they had never felt before.
They would need to prostrate themselves in the face of this energy.
Even the appearance of this little bit of energy made the ground around the spear tremble.
The energy seeped into Zayden’s body, and at that moment, a blinding light consumed both his body and the spear.
Unfortunately, at this moment, there was no one standing on the edge of the abyss.
If anyone on the edge of the abyss looked at the undying light at this time, they would see the light growing brighter.
Its light would illuminate the large area at the bottom of the abyss.