I Am Not the God of Drama

Chapter 1306: Ghost Mockery Abyss

Ghost Mockery Abyss

"This is..."

"The Ghost Mockery Abyss?"

Chen Ling looked at the pitch-black abyss tearing through the earth before him, feeling somewhat surprised.

In his original impression, the Ghost Mockery Abyss should be a landform similar to a canyon. Compared to massive features like oceans, wildernesses, and mountain ranges, an abyss should appear shorter and more concentrated... But only after truly standing before the Ghost Mockery Abyss did Chen Ling realize that his understanding had been far too conservative.

In Chen Ling's understanding of Earth, the widest "abyss" should be the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. It was said that at its most extreme point, its width could reach a hundred kilometers. But the Great Rift Valley would look like a miniature toy in front of the Ghost Mockery Abyss... The width of the abyss before his eyes was at least three times that of the Great Rift Valley. It was as if the god of nature had forcibly snapped the continent in half. An endless, pitch-black darkness spilled outward from deep within the earth's core, making anyone who looked at it feel the urge to jump down.

Furthermore, as Chen Ling approached the Ghost Mockery Abyss, he could clearly sense a chilling and sinister aura drifting out from beneath the pitch-black depths.

Of course, this aura didn't cause any discomfort for Chen Ling; rather, it gave him a comfortably cool sensation.

As they neared the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the centipedes of the centipede legion, both large and small, became visibly excited. Even the small centipede that had just had one of its legs torn off seemed to have recovered its vitality, its remaining long legs swinging so fast they practically left afterimages...

They knew they were about to return home.

Wu Yi crawled to the edge of the abyss, but it didn't stop its movement. Instead, it crawled straight down the vertical cliff face. Chen Ling sat steadily on Wu Yi's back, allowing the surrounding darkness to swallow him.

One thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters...

Even on the vertical wall, the centipede legion moved as if walking on flat ground. Their shadows continued to plunge deeper into the darkness, effortlessly breaking past the ten-thousand-meter mark.

Even so, there was still no sign of the bottom. This abyss was like an endless black hole. During the descent, all perception of time and space seemed to fail.

Before he knew it, Chen Ling was no longer able to judge exactly how far away they were from the surface. Thirty thousand meters? Fifty thousand meters?

He only knew that the sunlight of the Gray World couldn't possibly shine down here. However, in the pitch-black depths below, tiny pinpricks of light began to appear. Only after getting closer did he discover that many plankton-like creatures emitting a faint blue glow actually lived in this underground area, drifting at the bottom of the abyss like jellyfish in the ocean...

And under the blurry illumination of these faint blue lights, a rugged and uneven underground kingdom finally appeared before Chen Ling's eyes.

This place looked like an underground mountain range. The rugged terrain rolled endlessly beneath the abyss. Scattered across these protruding or sunken rock formations and the cliffs on both sides were a scalp-numbing number of caves. In the faint light of the blue plankton, massive black snakes, scorpions, and centipedes could be seen crawling back and forth.

Chen Ling knew that he had truly arrived at the Ghost Mockery Abyss.

"Ji————"

At the same time, Wu Yi let out a sharp, explosive screech that echoed throughout the entire abyss.

Chen Ling could roughly understand its meaning:

—[The King has returned, come welcome him immediately]!!

The moment this sound rang out, all the Calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss froze.

They looked blankly toward the direction from which Wu Yi and the others were descending, as if they hadn't been able to react right away... But as Wu Yi let out another hiss, a long-absent, familiar, and oppressively heavy World-Ending aura swept out from that direction!!

At this moment, all the Calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss seemed to boil over.

Countless black snakes, scorpions, and centipedes frantically drilled out of their caves, rolling toward Chen Ling like a tidal wave;

On the seemingly empty cliff surfaces, perfectly camouflaged geckos suddenly opened their eyes and crawled rapidly toward him;

And at the very bottom of the abyss, those massive, unmoving shadows that looked like boulders also began to shake one after another. As the stone debris fell from the surface of their bodies, only then did it become clear that these enormous black shadows were actually toads!

From Chen Ling's perspective, he had merely released a sliver of his World-Ending aura, yet waves of shadow Calamities came flying over from all directions, blotting out the sky. Various bizarre and grating hisses echoed underground, almost tearing his eardrums apart!

Surprise, joy, excitement, curiosity...

Chen Ling could distinguish the emotions within the voices of these Calamities. The entire Ghost Mockery Abyss seemed to rejoice at his return.

The Ghost Mockery Abyss had been leaderless for far too long. The Calamities here had almost begun to doubt whether they had been abandoned by their King. After all, when their former King had been present, he had been moody and unpredictable. When he was in a good mood, he would drag them along to drink alcohol; when he was in a bad mood, he would butcher them, tear them into parts, and piece them together into twisted, eerie 'artworks' for his own entertainment... But no matter how unstable the King's emotions had been, he was still the King. During the time the Calamity of Mockery had been absent, the Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss hadn't suffered any less bullying from other Calamities.

Now that the other World-Ending entities were leading the Calamities of their territories to conquer the Human Domains, while only the Calamity of Mockery had yet to show his face, it was inevitable for these Calamities to think that their King had abandoned them and slipped away on his own...

Now that they felt the reappearance of their King's aura, they were naturally overjoyed.

Their King had not abandoned them.

One shadow Calamity after another clustered around Chen Ling, bowing down in submission. However, they tactfully didn't block Chen Ling's path forward; instead, they cleared a wide channel that stretched straight to the end of the abyss...

Chen Ling's centipede legion was also incredibly majestic at this moment, especially Wu Yi. It was now the King's mount. Although the Calamities were bowing to Chen Ling, it also bathed in the glory, straightening its body as it slowly crawled through the path cleared by the Calamities.

At this time, aside from respectfully welcoming Chen Ling's return, the Calamities were also curiously examining Wu Yi.

It should be known that regardless of their rank, the Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss were supposed to be pitch-black like shadows. Yet, Wu Yi's body actually displayed a hint of crimson... Retaining color in the Gray World was supposed to be a privilege reserved for the World-Ending tier!

Exactly what had it experienced during the time it followed the King?

Moreover, it wasn't just Wu Yi; the centipede legion following behind Chen Ling all bore a trace of red to varying degrees. Under the faint light of the blue plankton, they were shrouded in a veil of mysterious and powerful aura.

The centipede legion enjoyed the reverence and curiosity from the Calamities;

However, a hint of confusion flashed through Chen Ling's eyes...

Following his return, the Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss had indeed come to welcome him, but upon closer observation, one would find that the ranks of these Calamities were generally not high. They were at most Rank 7... So where had all the top-tier Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss gone?

In such a massive Ghost Mockery Abyss, it shouldn't be that there wasn't even a single Rank 8 Calamity present.

Just as Chen Ling was pondering this, from the depths of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, a massive toad shadow the size of a mountain came leaping forward rapidly!