Chapter 822: Black Dark Beast

"Based on the laws of this world, such dark aura should not exist at all," Jasmine said, looking up. Even stranger was that this terrifying dark energy did not dissipate into the space more than three feet above.

It was as if something was firmly holding it captive in the world below, preventing it from escaping.

Yet, as Jasmine moved between these "two worlds," she felt no presence of any barrier or isolating force.

Two worlds clearly connected, yet with completely different laws and non-interfering auras!?

This in itself was incredibly bizarre—so bizarre that even Jasmine couldn't comprehend it.

The suction from below was extremely powerful, but not strong enough for Jasmine to be unable to resist.

After the initial shock subsided, Jasmine's eyes gradually grew cold. She spread her arms, and profound energy surged. A profound aura, powerful enough to shatter mountains and stir seas, burst forth from her, instantly nullifying the dark energy's suppression and weakening the tearing force from the abyss to a negligible level.

"Hmph, I want to see what monsters are hiding here!"

No longer hesitant, Jasmine yielded to the downward pull, plummeting faster than before.

As she descended further, the dark energy grew increasingly dense. After falling a thousand zhang, it was nearly twice as concentrated as it was initially. At this point, the airflow from below subtly changed.

This was...

Jasmine's mind focused, and her descent immediately slowed.

Thud!!

Jasmine's feet landed heavily on solid ground—the very bottom of this abyss, a place no one had ever reached alive!

Jasmine was enveloped in profound energy at the time, and she hadn't deliberately slowed her descent. Yet, as she landed, the ground beneath her showed no significant cracks; it was incredibly hard.

An intensely chilling aura instantly spread from beneath her feet throughout her entire body.

"What a pure dark environment," Jasmine murmured to herself, looking around. Such a pristine dark environment could not have formed in just a few thousand or tens of thousands of years; this strange world hidden at the bottom of the abyss must have existed for an extremely long time.

Jasmine extended her hand, and the red light emanating from her palm illuminated this dark world. Before her stretched an empty, flat expanse of ground, its extent unknown. Less than twenty zhang to her right was the cliff face she had descended, which was now completely black. The ground and the occasional protruding stones were also utterly black, without any hint of other colors.

Jasmine rose into the air, slowly searching this bizarre world that shouldn't exist. After a long while, she continued to see the same scene: eerie, dark, empty, and deathly silent.

It was as if it were a world of death, containing nothing but darkness and an abnormally dense demonic aura.

Jasmine stopped, seemingly no longer intending to explore further.

Just then, a dull roar suddenly echoed from far ahead.

"Howwww..."

The roar was extremely distant, seemingly from a thousand miles away, yet it was so heavy that it caused a faint ringing in Jasmine's ears. She abruptly looked up, staring straight ahead.

This was... a beast's roar!?

There were living creatures here!?

Living creatures capable of surviving in this level of darkness!?

Startled, Jasmine's hand flashed with red light, piercing the space ahead.

Rip!!

The dark space shrieked piercingly as it violently twisted, yet it did not tear apart, instead rapidly recovering amid the distortion.

"I... I can't even tear open the space here!" Jasmine realized that, besides the extremely dense dark energy, the spatial laws in this world were also extraordinarily advanced.

Jasmine immediately took flight, soaring towards the direction from which the roar had come.

The dark energy did not significantly impede Jasmine's aura. In a flash, she had traversed dozens of miles. At this moment, another colossal roar echoed through the dark world.

"ROAR!!!!!"

This time, the roar was no longer distant but close by. Jasmine abruptly stopped, her blood surging throughout her body from the sound. She fixed her gaze forward: illuminated by the red light on her person, the dark world before her revealed a blurry, dark silhouette.

This silhouette was dozens of zhang tall and clearly moving, not an inanimate object. More astonishing than its immense size was the distinctly palpable sense of danger it exuded.

She had always believed that all beings in this lower world, combined, could not pose even the slightest threat to her.

Yet, this dark behemoth, visible only as a silhouette, was actually making her feel a sense of danger!

What exactly was this...?

Jasmine was inexplicably shocked, but then she suddenly noticed two faint dark glows appearing above the colossal shadow. These dark glows were unmistakably aimed directly at her location!

The red light emanating from her was incredibly blinding in this dark world.

Roar!!!!!

With a roar that made the entire dark world tremble, the massive black silhouette lunged at Jasmine, like a mountain falling from the sky.

A heavy oppressive force bore down from above. This was the first time Jasmine had felt true "oppression" since arriving in this world. She used the Star God's Shattered Shadow to warp backward, but not too far.

Boom!!

A deafening roar shook the heavens as the pitch-black ground violently cracked. Using the red light to intentionally close the distance, Jasmine finally got a clear view of the colossal shadow's full form.

It was fifty zhang tall, with an extremely wide head, half-wolf, half-bear in appearance. Its limbs were thick, its body bloated, and dozens of stark white fangs were inverted on its head and all over its body, their tips shimmering with an eerie, soul-stirring glow. A long, pitch-black tail swung directly in front of it, its tip glinting with a blade-like cold light.

Jasmine: "!!"

The monstrous beast before Jasmine was utterly unknown and unrecorded in any realm, be it the Profound Sky Continent, the Azure Cloud Continent, or the Illusory Demon Realm. It was an an entirely foreign entity, beyond all comprehension.

However, this terrifying shadow violently triggered a memory within Jasmine's Star God inheritance, and a name escaped her lips in shock.

"Nine Desolation Devil Fang!"

An ancient devil beast from the primordial era, which coexisted with various devils in the Northern Chaos!!

However, according to common knowledge, shortly after the Divine and Devil Era ended, due to the extinction of the Devil God race, the aura of the Northern Chaos was gradually assimilated by the Southern Chaos, and dark elements grew increasingly scarce. This led to the extinction of dark devil beasts approximately fifty to sixty thousand years later, and they had never reappeared since.

Yet, this strange dark world inexplicably harbored devil beasts, like the Moon Slaughter Devil Monarch, that should have been extinct since the primordial era!

The red light Jasmine used for illumination was excessively dazzling in this world, an extreme irritant to a devil beast accustomed to darkness. Having missed its first strike, its enormous body lunged at Jasmine again. Despite its massive size, its speed was like lightning—

At least far exceeding Yun Che's speed in his peak state!

The immense dark pressure was enough to paralyze even the strongest experts of the Azure Cloud Continent with fear, making resistance impossible and even movement incredibly difficult.

"Ancient devil beasts... why do such creatures exist!"

Jasmine's heart was filled with immense shock and confusion. Her figure flickered again, causing the dark behemoth's attack to miss once more.

Rip!!

A violent spatial tearing sound echoed in the darkness as dozens of stark white fangs on the Nine Desolation Devil Fang suddenly grew explosively long, transforming into dozens of bone-sharp blades that furiously pierced towards Jasmine. Even the space that Jasmine couldn't tear apart was instantly riddled with holes.

Jasmine's expression grew solemn, and the red light around her intensified. The Star God's Shattered Shadow was utilized to its fullest extent, creating countless red afterimages as she flickered and weaved. After hundreds of consecutive blinks, a streak of red light shot out from her, passing through the gaps between the fangs and striking the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's ankle.

"Aow Rooaar!!"

A spray of blood mist erupted from the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's right foot. In excruciating pain, the Nine Desolation Devil Fang became utterly enraged. Dozens of fangs, like dozens of frenzied demonic beasts, attacked Jasmine relentlessly. The power contained in each fang was enough to instantly obliterate a ten-thousand-zhang mountain. Its long, pitch-black tail, which had been trailing behind, suddenly whipped upward as well...

Instantly, a chilling sense of danger came from above. Jasmine abruptly looked up. In the darkness, a dark pillar of light, several zhang thick, shot from the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's demonic tail, then transformed into hundreds of dark lightning bolts, striking directly towards her.

Jasmine's face darkened. She swiftly twisted her body, retreating backward at maximum speed, dodging both the dark light and the fangs. In an instant, she had withdrawn over ten miles, yet the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's speed was so extreme that she couldn't escape its relentless pursuit.

Crack!!

A dark lightning bolt, imbued with terrifying power, struck Jasmine. Her face paled, her body lost balance, and then she was fiercely impaled in the chest by a fang that pierced out of the darkness. Instantly, Jasmine was sent flying horizontally like a leaf caught in a hurricane.

Bang!!

Jasmine's body slammed against the pitch-black stone wall, then rebounded heavily to the ground. She stood up and looked at her chest. She herself was unharmed, but her Vermilion Embroidered Immortal Dress now had a bowl-sized hole.

"How dare it... destroy my favorite dress!" Jasmine's eyes flashed with a blood-red light as killing intent and fury erupted simultaneously from her chest. The power she had deliberately suppressed was now furiously unleashed.

The enormous black silhouette once again loomed over Jasmine. Each of the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's fangs had explosively grown to a hundred zhang long, tens of millions of times more terrifying than any weapon in the world. But this time, Jasmine did not dodge, allowing the terrifying fangs to pierce through.

A long red line diagonally streaked across the dark world, lingering for a long time.

The red line passed through all of the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's fangs. After a moment of deathly silence, all forty-nine of the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's deadly fangs cleanly snapped along the red line.

This nightmarish turn of events made the Nine Desolation Devil Fang let out a terrified roar. Meanwhile, Jasmine's figure appeared like a phantom behind it, her small hand encased in red light, mercilessly slamming into its back neck.

"I didn't want to kill you... but you insisted on seeking death!"

Following Jasmine's chilling voice, crimson lines rapidly spread across the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's body, originating from her small hand, like cracks forming on glass. In an instant, these red lines covered the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's entire massive torso and limbs.

"Hmph!" Jasmine slowly withdrew her hand, and then, with a flicker, she was several miles away.

Pitch-black devil blood sprayed wildly from the red lines covering the Nine Desolation Devil Fang's entire body. In just a few breaths, nearly half of its blood had gushed out, and its massive devil body finally crashed to the ground, shaking. The moment it fell, its demonic tail and all four limbs simultaneously broke off.

"This is bad..." Jasmine looked up, her brows tightly furrowed. To kill the Nine Desolation Devil Fang, she had been forced to use a significant portion of her power. Such a level of power carried the risk of being "detected."

If this were an independently existing world like the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm or the Golden Crow Lightning Flame Valley, she would have no worries. But this dark world at the bottom of the abyss, while seemingly independent, was also connected to the outside. Otherwise, she wouldn't have sensed its abnormality all the way from the distant Profound Sky Continent.

"The extent just now... it shouldn't be an issue, right?" Jasmine murmured, her brows relaxing slightly.

"Whooaarr..." The Nine Desolation Devil Fang's body writhed. Its powerful life force meant that even though Jasmine, in her fury, had almost turned its insides to pulp, it still didn't die immediately. From its mouth came a low, desperate roar.

"Aooo!!!"

"Howwoooh..."

"Chirp—"

"Hisss-aoww..."

Just then, from the distant darkness, several roars carrying immense oppressive power echoed. The Nine Desolation Devil Fang's final roar seemed to be a cry for help or a summons. In an instant, heavy roars, long cries, and howls rose one after another, making the trembling dark space shudder.

Jasmine's expression abruptly changed. In less than ten breaths, she had heard at least dozens of different roars. These were by no means ordinary animal cries; each one carried terrifying power, and more than half were no less powerful than the Nine Desolation Devil Fang itself!

Moreover, the sounds were getting closer, clearly approaching at an extremely high speed.

Discovering the existence of one ancient devil beast in this bizarre dark world was already an incredibly shocking revelation for Jasmine. But these roars from the distant darkness clearly indicated that the Nine Desolation Devil Fang was not the only ancient devil beast here!

Ancient devil beasts, long thought to be extinct, actually existed here in vast numbers, forming groups!!

"What on earth... is going on?" Jasmine was inexplicably shocked. More than understanding why ancient devil beasts, which should have been extinct, existed here, she couldn't comprehend why such a place existed on this planet!

Because this planet was created by the Heretic God, and it was also where he ultimately sealed the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Wheel and the Moon Slaughter Devil Monarch!

So why would such a place exist in a world created by a god? As the creator of this planet, the Heretic God must have known everything about it. No minuscule existence or change could escape his perception; he surely would have known about this dark world. Even putting aside its existence—why didn't the Heretic God obliterate this place that shouldn't exist before his demise?

Could it be... the Heretic God himself...?

The devil beasts of the Primal Chaos had all gone extinct. Yet, they existed here in large numbers... almost as if a dark world had been specially created to preserve them, in anticipation of their extinction...

These thoughts naturally arose in Jasmine's mind because, other than this, she couldn't find any other reason to explain the existence of this bizarre world. But immediately, she shook her head vehemently: "Impossible. The Heretic God is a god, and one of the highest-ranking deities among them. How could he possibly have intentionally created a world of devils..."

"Chirp—"

A sharp, prolonged cry tore through the darkness. A massive black silhouette, like a bolt of lightning, swept across above Jasmine. Simultaneously, Jasmine's gaze locked onto its presence.

"Calamity Glass Bird!"

Jasmine murmured its name softly—because this, too, was an ancient devil beast that had appeared in the Star God's memories!