1397 Entering the Heavenly Abyss
Cao Xiaowu and Cao Xiaoliu looked at each other with worried expressions.

“Let’s go, the general said to return to the camp and get ready with the armor,” Gongsun Yangjin said in a low voice, leading the others back to the thatched hut.

As they gathered around, he emptied the bag in his hand.

Five two-foot-long iron boxes fell, each with a name on it.

What is this?

They all took a look and picked up the iron boxes with their names on them.

“Well—”

“Hiss—

Cao Xiaowu let out a low cry.

His iron box was heavy, and when he opened it, he found a black combat armor, a folded long spear, a longbow, ten long arrows, a short crossbow, and six black crossbow bolts to match.

There was also a long sword, a short knife, a waist token, and five small jade bottles. They were all labeled.

Healing pills, pills that could temporarily increase one’s combat strength, pills that could replenish one’s blood essence…

“I—I said I was good with long spears…” he whispered as he looked at the folded long spear.

Across from him, Cao Xiaoliu, who was skilled with battle axes, found a gold-gray long-handled battle axe in his iron box.

Gongsun Yangjin’s iron box contained several jade discs.

“Formation, communication, positioning, defense… each of these jade discs is probably not cheap,” Gongsun Yangjin collected the jade discs and took out the black armor, infusing it with divine energy.

“Boom—”

A formidable power emanated from the armor, making his eyes widen.

“This, this is a high-grade spiritual treasure!

Not only was the armor, battle spear, sword, crossbow, and even the foot-long short knife were inferior-grade magical treasures.

Although these weapons were not infused with spirituality, every one of them was an incomparably precious treasure.

With careful nurturing, each of them had the potential to become sentient.

When all five of them had donned their armor, and their weapons were in hand, they looked at each other and burst into excited laughter.

“Haha, wearing this, even if I die in battle immediately, it’s worth it!” Cao Xiaoliu shouted.

Not far away, there were laughter and cheers coming from the other barracks.

Let alone this full set of armor, just one piece of it could buy the lives of all five of them.

On the first floor of Ten Thousand Magnificence City, the lives of cultivators were the least valuable.

“Hurry and refine them. I can’t wait any longer,” Gongsun Yangjin shouted in a deep voice, then his entire body flashed with immortal light.

The others exchanged glances and quickly infused their weapons with immortal energy.

With these armors, their combat strength would increase at least a hundredfold!

One day later, the sound of a melodious horn resounded.

Cultivators dressed in black armor walked out of their barracks, heads held low, and fists clenched as they made their way to the training ground.

They all exuded a divine radiance and a strong battle intent, their eyes shining brightly.

“Cough, uh, you should all put away your armor and weapons for now.”

“Are you going out to complete a mission or to attract trouble?” Zhao Chen said, covering his forehead with his hand in exasperation.
One sentence sparked laughter throughout the training ground.

The group quickly stored their armored weapons in the iron boxes on their backs.

Even with their weapons stored away, their aura had already changed completely from before.

They now had an added sense of a battle formation’s momentum.

“Not bad.” Yunduan, who was wearing a green Daoist robe and had tied up her long hair, nodded and said, “Although we are far from the Mystic Sun Guards, we still have some foundation.”

There was a glint of light in Huang Zhihu’s eyes as she spoke, “Let’s go, get more practice, and kill a few more times.”

“The time for the mission assembly has arrived.”

With that, she took the lead and walked out of Phoenix Forest Stronghold.

The cultivators with iron boxes on their backs followed in formation.

Three hundred miles later, in a valley, thousands of cultivators had gathered haphazardly.

Here, there were immortals, demons, monsters, and even gods.

Among them, the most powerful were about seven or eight peak Void Refinement Heaven Immortals stood in the front.

“The people from the Phoenix Forest Stronghold are here.” A one-eyed man in his thirties in a silver-white robe grinned and said, “I heard that Bai Shi of Phoenix Forest Stronghold was defeated and a woman became the Fort Master.”

This remark made everyone around burst into laughter.

On the large green rock, everyone watched as Yunduan and Huang Zhihu led their group to arrive and stand alone.

“Hey, new Fort Master of Phoenix Forest Stronghold, come over and let us take a look.” A bald man standing on the green rock said with a big smile, pointing towards Bai Shi, who was following behind Golden Fire. “Chief Bai Shi, I heard you were defeated by a woman?””

“Clang—”

The response to the man was a sword’s ring.

The 10,000-foot-long sword light crossed and slashed down onto the green rock.

The bone-chilling aura emitted from the immortal-grade sword instantly froze the green rock.

“Boom—”

The hundred-foot-foot green rock shattered into pieces.

The Heaven Immortal Void Refinement Realm experts standing on the green rock had no chance to resist under this single sword strike and were turned into nothingness.

She killed eight Heaven Immortal Void Refinement cultivators with one strike!

As the sword light dissipated, Huang Zhihu slowly sheathed her sword.

The whole valley fell into a state of shock.

Their own village chief, the leader, had just fallen like that?

More than 10 cultivators from the mountain strongholds had gathered here. With one sword, each mountain village had lost its leader.

“Anyone who speaks disrespectfully to the head of Phoenix Forest Stronghold will be killed without mercy.” Huang Zhihu held her sword and looked around. Her voice was icy.

“Kill without mercy!”

Behind her, more than 300 Phoenix Forest Stronghold cultivators shouted in unison, their voices resounding in the sky.

The momentum was so overwhelming that the cultivators from the other villages nearby quickly retreated.

Not retreating meant being accidentally harmed.

For a moment, retreating cultivators bumped into each other, causing chaos.