In the darkness, Chris's mood grew heavier.
All her colleagues who had entered the ancient ruins were dead. She no longer had the heart to think about any spiritual energy core.
In this dilapidated Tongtian Tower, she alone had no ability to open the seal in the depths of the Tongtian Tower's core!
"If I had known this job was so dangerous, I wouldn't have come in for the generous reward."
Chris regretted it, but it was too late for regrets. She could only brace herself and rush towards the depths of the Tongtian Tower.
Without intentionally stepping on traps and by moving at full speed, Chris quickly reached the core of the Tongtian Tower.
It was a vast space, with an abyss of unfathomable depth below. In the middle of the abyss stood a red altar of unknown age.
On the altar was a scarlet egg, as tall as a person.
Around the altar were several iron chains, connecting the altar to the sheer cliffs on all four sides.
Chris was now standing at the edge of a cliff, in front of a chain.
"Is that the seal mentioned by Hongchen Pavilion?"
Chris stood at the cave entrance, looking at the egg in the center of the altar in the abyss, a hint of shock flashing in her eyes.
Even without approaching the giant egg, she could still sense a powerful life form gestating within it.
Upon seeing the egg, Chris suddenly hesitated, beginning to doubt the true purpose of the mission given to them by Hongchen Pavilion.
The giant egg, by all appearances, did not resemble a spiritual energy core.
Chris felt a desire to retreat, but after glancing back at the deep, dark path behind her, she couldn't help but swallow and quickly dismiss the thought.
She had no idea what monsters lay in the passage behind her. Running back now would be hastening her own demise!
Without further hesitation, Chris leaped onto the chain, heading towards the altar.
On the cliff face directly opposite her cave entrance, there was another cave entrance, which might be the exit.
"Roar!!!"
The moment Chris stepped onto the chain, a soul-shattering roar erupted from the bottomless abyss, almost shaking her soul out of her body!
"Damn it... what kind of monster is hiding down there?"
Chris quickly crouched down, gripping the chain tightly to prevent herself from falling due to a moment of dizziness!
The roar from the abyss continued for a while before slowly subsiding, and the surroundings returned to darkness.
Before Chris could even breathe a sigh of relief, numerous points of light appeared in the surrounding cave entrances, revealing countless pairs of eyes.
"What is that now?"
Chris saw a large number of scaled, horned, rat-like demonic beasts crawling out from behind her. Her scalp tingled, and she couldn't bother with anything else, quickly fleeing to the altar.
Dense swarms of small demonic beasts poured out from the cave entrances around the space, crawling onto the chains and heading towards the altar!
"Were Lawson and the others killed by these stinking rats?"
Seeing the large number of rat-like demonic beasts approaching, Chris immediately summoned a white spear and swept out a golden light, knocking all the rat-like demonic beasts crawling on the chains into the abyss.
However, as soon as Chris cleared them, before two seconds passed, the chains were once again covered with a large number of rat-like demonic beasts, rapidly climbing towards the altar!
Seeing the demonic beasts approaching, Chris was filled with anxiety. She fiercely slashed at the chains connecting to the altar with her spear, but only sparks flew!
She couldn't even leave a white mark on the chains!
Then, Chris tried to ascend into the air, only to discover with despair that she couldn't fly after standing on the altar!
Unable to stop the approaching demonic beasts, unable to escape, the fear of death filled Chris's mind.
"Ye Ling, she's going to die too."
Feng Ke stood at the edge of the cave entrance, looking at Chris, who was constantly fending off demonic beasts in the center of the altar, and asked Ye Ling, "She's the last person from this batch of knights. Are we just going to watch her die?"
Ye Ling shook his head. "There's a not-weak aura contained within that fellow. She's far from her limit. Let's keep watching."
Ye Ling glanced down into the abyss again and said, "I have a feeling the Holy See was tricked by Hongchen Pavilion. Let's wait and see how things develop."
"Oh..."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Feng Ke nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
In the center of the altar, Chris was already sweating profusely. Although the low-level demonic beasts were swept away in large numbers, their quantity was endless. Chris, alone, had to defend all directions of the altar and was already struggling, her spiritual energy almost depleted.
"This won't do. I need to find a way to escape!"
Chris swept away the demonic beasts climbing onto the altar again, her mind racing to find a way out.
"Roar—!"
At this moment, another roar came from the bottom of the abyss. The violent roar swept over, and the demonic beasts climbing the chains were all stunned by the roar and fell from the chains into the abyss.
Chris covered her ears and watched as large numbers of demonic beasts fell from the chains. A thought suddenly struck her.
"As long as the monster at the bottom of the abyss roars, those demonic beasts won't be able to approach the altar, and I'll have a chance to escape!"
With this thought, after the roar of the monster at the bottom of the abyss ended, Chris took off the bracelet on her left wrist, released a flying camera from it, and threw it into the abyss. At the same time, Chris used her bracelet to project the images captured by the flying camera onto the altar.
The demonic beasts, after the roar from the abyss below ended, began to climb the chains again, moving towards Chris.
However, perhaps because of the roar, the demonic beasts were climbing much slower, giving Chris ample time to prepare.
The camera flew down for more than three hundred meters before capturing piles of demonic beast corpses and crisscrossing ravines!
On the stone walls at the bottom of the abyss, a large number of ancient Chinese characters were carved. Chris couldn't understand what they said!
"What is all this down here?"
Seeing the scene at the bottom of the abyss, a hint of confusion flickered in Chris's eyes. However, she knew it wasn't the time to satisfy her curiosity and immediately manipulated the flying camera to search for the monster at the bottom of the abyss.
Soon, Chris saw...
A scene she would never forget in her life.
A man, with his limbs chained to the wall, was holding the corpse of a rat-like demonic beast and continuously gnawing on it!
Blood flowed from the corners of his mouth onto his scarred body, dripping onto the ground.
Beside the man were many gnawed demonic beast corpses.
The gruesome scene made Chris feel nauseous, and she directly vomited.
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
At this moment, the rat-like demonic beasts on the chains had reached the altar and lunged at Chris!
Chris dodged frantically. The rat-like demonic beast lunged at her bracelet and directly bit it to pieces, causing the projected image to disappear!
"These beasts!"
Chris's face turned extremely ugly. She directly pierced the demonic beast with her spear and then swept all the demonic beasts that had climbed onto the altar into the abyss!
But more and more demonic beasts were climbing onto the altar!
Chris dared not hesitate any longer. She directly grasped her divine weapon, the Heavenly God's Spear, aimed it at the direction of the man at the bottom of the abyss, and hurled it fiercely!
A golden light pierced the darkness of the abyss.
Hiss!
The Heavenly God's Spear accurately pierced the abdomen of the man at the bottom of the abyss.
"Roar!!!"
A mournful roar echoed from the bottom of the abyss, and countless demonic beasts were directly shaken to death by the roar!
Cracks began to appear on the surface of the scarlet giant egg in the center of the altar!