Chapter 671: Chapter 671: Core Area
The Blade of the Abyss once again condensed a contract scroll, this time, the scroll was clean without any decorative patterns or mysterious techniques;
Song Jian took the scroll, and this time the system did not give a “suspected fraud” prompt for the contract; a smile appeared at the corner of his lips;
If it were someone in the game, they might have fallen for the deception of the Abyssal Demon Lord, but Song Jian was a player, and for such transactions, the game would give prompts;
“Very well, I hope you will keep your promise!” Song Jian laughed, forced a drop of blood from his finger, and pressed it onto the contract;
Boom~
A flame rose from the golden contract scroll, and in a short time, it burnt up completely;
“Talking about keeping promises with an abyssal demon, Hehe~” Blade of the Abyss showed a mocking expression and muttered to itself.
“Alright, now you can tell me how to get you out of the Sealed Tower.” Song Jian laughed; he had received a system prompt that the contract was established. Without system assistance, not a single word from the Abyssal Demon Lord could be trusted, let alone a punctuation mark.
The Blade of the Abyss suddenly became excited, being imprisoned for thousands of years; although the seal of the Sealed Tower had loosened a bit, its current strength had been weakened to the extreme, so it had no way to escape on its own.
It seemed that whoever sealed it had already calculated this situation. With the failure of the Sealed Tower, it would lose all its power and be killed by the remaining power in the moment the Sealed Tower collapsed;
Rather than sealing it, it was more like using the power of the Sealed Tower to destroy this Abyssal Demon Lord;
The Blade of the Abyss understood this too. After thousands of years, it finally met Song Jian, an outsider who might help; it was afraid that Song Jian would just walk away;
“Enter the Sealed Tower, find the sealing core, and as long as you break it, I can escape from here!” Blade of the Abyss roared.
Finally seeing a chance to escape, The Blade of the Abyss became very excited;
Song Jian hesitated for a moment and then walked toward the black pyramid;
Chang Qinghe was right, dealing with abyssal demons was like striking a bargain with a tiger, like dancing on the tip of a needle, and any carelessness could lead to self-destruction.
But for the sake of completing the assessment missions, he had to take this risk.
Looking at the “Great Sun Golden Light Sword Array” made up of five Sword Stones in his inventory, a sense of security settled in Song Jian’s heart.
At the base of the black pyramid was a stone door wide enough for one person. After entering the door, there was only a two-person-wide passage. If one followed the passage straight, they could reach the core area where the Abyssal Demon Lord was imprisoned;
In the passage, numerous monsters emitting demonic energy lay on either side, their crimson eyes staring at Song Jian, looking eager and ready to pounce at any moment.
These were ordinary creatures transformed by the Abyssal Demon Lord using its own demonic energy after the seal had loosened. These monsters were all above level thirty, each possessing elite-level power. Although they were not genuine abyssal creatures, they were somewhat stronger than ordinary abyssal creatures;
If Song Jian had not reached an agreement with the Abyssal Demon Lord, he would have had to put up quite a fight to reach the core of the Sealed Tower;
After walking a few hundred meters, Song Jian saw a giant tree tens of meters tall. The thick tree was covered with purple-black, scale-like bark, and its branches and leaves were also purple-black, emitting a rich abyssal aura;
Upon seeing the tree, the Book of the Abyss in Song Jian’s body suddenly throbbed;
“A level 35 elite BOSS with first-order combat power?” Song Jian narrowed his eyes; this demon tree in front of him was different from the monsters he had seen before, and it was a genuine abyssal creature that had been transformed by the Abyssal Power for hundreds of years;
“Hehe, how is it? I haven’t been idle for thousands of years!” The voice of the Blade of the Abyss resounded in Song Jian’s ears, apparently very proud of its creation;
“How did you do it?” Song Jian asked curiously; If anyone knew that the person who sealed it in the first place, they would definitely not think that it could seal any other abyssal creature. Obviously, this Abyssal Demon Lord had used its own Abyssal Power to transform this Abyssal Demon Tree.
“The people who sealed me left a seed, and after I discovered it, I spent hundreds of years using my Abyssal Power to transform it into a demonic seed filled with Abyssal Power!” The Blade of the Abyss said proudly, “And then it took hundreds of years to grow into what it is now!”
Song Jian shivered; the demon in front of him was a deep schemer, just from an unintentionally left seed, it could play such tricks. No matter how careful he was, it would not be enough;
“It’s just a pity that although it has grown up, it can’t get any closer to the sealed area. Otherwise, I should have escaped by now!” The Blade of the Abyss sighed;
In fact, it had a great use for this Abyssal Demon Tree; at the last moment when the Sealed Tower lost its effect, there would be a final Sword Qi to wipe it out. By then, it would have been worn down by the Sealed Tower to the extent that it could no longer withstand the attack. It spent so much effort cultivating a seed into an Abyssal Demon Tree just to use it as a shield to bear the last Sword Qi in the end;
This was just its last gamble, as no one knew whether the final Sword Qi would strike it or the Abyssal Demon Tree. At most, it only had a 50% chance of survival, which was also the reason why it wanted to sign a contract with Song Jian.
As Song Jian passed the Abyssal Demon Tree, he carefully observed its attributes. This Abyssal Demon Tree was very powerful, having reached the peak of first-order combat power. With Song Jian’s current strength, it would be pitifully slim to kill it successfully without resorting to his trump card.
After bypassing the Abyssal Demon Tree, Song Jian arrived at the core area of the Sealed Tower. It was a hall with thousands of square meters of space. Around the walls of the hall sat stone statues. Song Jian glanced around and counted nineteen statues altogether, each of them pointing to the center of the hall, where a golden cage composed of Sword Qi was located;
Power was drawn continuously from these statues, merging into the golden cage, maintaining the sealed state of the cage, which contained a huge, slow-beating heart;
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