<h4>Chapter 571: Exploration</h4>


    As soon as Surnamed Li said so, Heavenly Dog became in contact with the ck fog inside the abyss, and like he had been electrocuted, he spasmed and went still, falling toward the abyss.


    War Tiger quickly yanked the white cloth and jumped backward. Heavenly Dog fell to the ground after getting pulled out.


    “Ah...ugh...”


    He rolled around in great pain. It felt as if countless bugs were devouring his flesh and blood.


    War Tiger went up to him to see Heavenly Dog’s chest covered in countless small and insidious ck sigils, which were spreading toward his neck and was going to im his whole face.


    Qing Ling syed her right hand to call her ck Gold dart. “Gao Yang’s blood will cure him!”


    Vermilion Bird quickly took the dart and made a cut on Gao Yang’s palm, letting out blood. As soon as War Tiger rushed over with Heavenly Dog, she grabbed Gao Yang’s hand and pressed it to Heavenly Dog’s neck.


    “Aghhh!”


    Heavenly Dog’s pain doubled, but the ck sigils disappeared in three seconds, and Heavenly Dog stopped crying out. He took a breath with difficulty before closing his eyes.


    Now that Heavenly Dog was cured, Vermilion Bird took Gao Yang’s cut hand with both hands, and the wound on his palm healed.


    Everyone was in shock, and they became even more convinced that Green Snake hadn’t lied.


    Gao Yang was the Divine Scion. His blood was the only thing that could counter the Malediction’s curse. Although the Malediction had died, the curse power it left behind was still formidable.


    “Fucking hell.” War Tiger smacked his lips and reached out to Heavenly Dog, troubled. “You okay?”


    “...Yeah.” Heavenly Dog was feeling better. He took War Tiger’s hand and stood up.


    “How’s your body?” Vermilion Bird asked.


    “I don’t know.” Heavenly Dog shook his head. “My energy was sealed as soon as I touched the ck fog. Then it felt like bugs were nibbling me.”


    Qilin thought about it with a serious expression. Then he turned to Azure Dragon. “Call ck Fish.”


    “Will do.” Azure Dragon took out his phone.


    Qilin turned to War Tiger. “If possible, call Mischievous Monkey from your organization here.”


    “Sure.” War Tiger made the call and didn’t ask what it was for.


    Surnamed Li was thest one Qilin turned to. “Madam Li, the Heavenly Way may not be able to properly clean up the whole mess tonight. We have to take matters into our own hands.”


    “Of course. Leave it to the Hundred Rivers Union.” Surnamed Li nced at Goldthread. “Call Chen Ying. Have everyone lock down the Green Lotus Park.”


    “Understood.” Goldthread took out his phone too to make the call.


    They waited around the Abyss. Qilin, Surnamed Li, and War Tiger asked Qing Ling more questions to find out more details. During the time, five elite monsters had been drawn by the earlier chaos, but were swiftly dealt with.


    About twenty minutester, a wild, piercing sound of an engine rang out, and they all turned to look at the source.


    <i>Vroom</i>. A ck bike flew over the crater, the rider dressed in ck leather and wearing a ck helmet like a dark rider.


    Three secondster, the bikended, making a dramatic slide to the side beforeing to a steady stop.


    The rider stopped the bike properly, taking his helmet off with his left hand and tucking it under his armpit, making a salute by moving his forefinger and middle finger from his temple. “Guildmaster Qilin, Elite ck Fish, report to duty!”


    Qilin nodded in response.


    Qar Tiger narrowed his eyes. The man had short, spiky ck hair, blue eyes, and a longer face. His smile was bright and confident with a re of dramatics.


    War Tiger had heard about him while ck Fish was on his way here. ck Fish was Azure Dragon’s subordinate. His Talent was irvoyance, serial number 98, Buff-type. It gave him an incredible sight that could see everything within one kilometer with rity, and he could see through obstacles to some degree.


    Some time ago, he acquired Spider Venom and got promoted to an Elite, changing his name to ck Fish.


    His mundane identity was a stunt rider.


    “What can I help you with, Boss?” ck Fish ced his helmet on the head of his bike and went up to Azure Dragon.


    Azure Dragon pointed at the abyss. “Look what’s inside. Be careful not to get too close. The ck fog is dangerous.”


    “Yes, sir!” ck Fish had long noticed the strange ck abyss. He tamped down his curiosity and didn’t ask further.


    He went up to the abyss quickly and leaned slightly forward, looking down at it. Before he could activate his Talent, Qilin stopped him. “Wait.”


    ck Fish turned to him. “Yes, Guildmaster?”


    “Close one eye.”


    ck Fish understood after a beat. “Yes, sir.”


    He covered his right eye and activated irvoyance.


    His blue left eye immediately lit up and shot a ray of blue light into the abyss below. It was blocked by the ck fog inside, but soon pierced through it and reached somewhere further down.


    The others waited quietly.


    ck Fish was no longer seeing in the regr sense from his left eye; it felt more like looking into a telescope with a narrow focus. As theser shot through increasingly thicker ck fog, his mind started to wander, and he felt like his left eye was a sensor plunging toward the mysterious and unknown deep sea.


    His senses of himself and his sight blurred. Then everything seemed so much more vivid that it was as if his soul had been sucked into the deep sea sensor, bing one with it as it sank deeper and deeper down the abyss.


    The thick ck fog started to thin, and ck Fish saw with more rity that the abyss was circled by smooth, dark green stone walls, covered in ck symbols.


    ck Fish would like to memorize a couple of them, but the symbols kept changing like wavering shadows cast by candlelight. There was no pattern to it, and he couldn’t memorize any of them.


    ck Fish stopped getting hung up on that. He continued downward until he reached the bottom.


    Hended after however long it had been.


    Under his feet was a textureless ck. It wasn’t rock, nor was it soil. It was soft, and his steps made quiet creaks.


    It felt like stepping on snow.


    ck snow? Why would there be ck snow?


    ck Fish focused his mind. What little rationality remained reminded him that he wasn’t actually at the bottom of the abyss. It was merely an illusion he got while his irvoyance scouted out the abyss.


    Still, it must have stemmed from the clues his Talent had detected. He decided to remember everything he could remember about the bottom of the abyss. Then he would report everything.


    ck Fish moved his fake presence forward. Soon, he saw the only thing in the abyss.


    A door.


    It was an old-fashioned metal door painted in green, and the paint had been peeled off by the long years, revealing brown rust. On the door were numerous ads and flyers, for lockpicking, piping, AC maintenance, security window panels, real-estate agency, training courses, gyms, free bandwidth for topping up mobile phones, and many more.


    ck Fish was taken by surprise. Strange, why would there be a door at the depth of the abyss?


    And it was just a door. Nothing more.