CHAPTER 1248: CHAPTER 1178: ABYSS, OLD FRIEND (PART 2)

Of course, these restaurants and tea houses are not the ordinary kind you’d find in the mundane world; the ingredients here are all top-tier divine materials!

The city is filled with countless shops selling Divine Weapons and Treasures, as well as numerous purchasing stores specializing in acquiring strange items hunted from the Abyss.

There are also many areas designated for teams venturing into the Abyss.

"I’ve heard that the Abyss, which spans ten levels beneath the territory of Seven Phoenix City, is relatively safer. Many Divine Masters and those below that realm dare to explore there."

"However, going down further becomes dangerous, traversable only by powerful teams."

"And as for the very bottom, it’s rumored that not even the Star Lords have been able to explore its depths!"

Ye Chen strolled through Seven Phoenix City, gathering and verifying numerous bits of information about the Abyss.

However, when Ye Chen reached a massive square within the city, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Ye Chen exhibited a completely incredulous expression.

Because here, Ye Chen encountered someone he never expected to see!

This was a very young girl, extraordinarily tall, with exquisitely beautiful features, long and straight legs, habitually dressed in a crimson leather armor, a figure both elegant and alluring.

"Lin Jing?"

Ye Chen could hardly believe it.

This girl looked astonishingly similar to the tall girl he once teamed up with on the Barbaric Wilderness Continent, just a bit older than the girl from back then.

At that time, Ye Chen was still in the True Qi Realm. It was his first trip to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain with Lin Jing that later led them to a fierce battle with a Snake Demon at Silent Ridge, where they obtained a Sword Intent Fragment that allowed Ye Chen to enter the Thousand Lotus Cave Abode, gaining many secret inheritances from the Heavenly Saint Qian Ji, and even meeting Jiang Yao.

It’s fair to say that Lin Jing was one of the few people Ye Chen first became familiar with in his Martial Arts cultivation!

What Ye Chen could never have expected was that the Barbarian Wilderness, a mere normal continent among the 33 on the Celestial Spirit Star, which was under the jurisdiction of the Wanmu Mountain Divine Kingdom, would lead to this!

Leaving the Barbaric Wilderness Continent to head to the Wanmu Mountain Divine Kingdom was already extremely difficult.

And to leave the Wanmu Mountain Divine Kingdom for other universes was even harder still.

The notion that she could have come from the Wanmu Mountain Divine Kingdom to the Sea of Exile, meeting here by chance, seemed almost impossibly slight!

Ye Chen could hardly believe he was seeing Lin Jing here in the Exile Sea Abyss!

He was seeing the little girl, who, like him back then, was also just in the True Qi Realm!

"Could it be, it’s just someone who looks similar, and it’s not really Lin Jing?"

Unable to restrain himself, Ye Chen headed towards the direction where the girl was standing.

Ye Chen noticed that this girl was in the God King Realm. If she truly were Lin Jing, having cultivated to the God King Realm already would be remarkable, since others couldn’t be compared to Ye Chen. Despite Ye Chen’s quick path to the Divine Master Realm, to others, reaching God King Realm alone was already as challenging as crossing a Heavenly Moat!

However, at this moment, the girl’s situation wasn’t good.

She was with a Female Overlord, cornered in one section of the square. Six Dominators surrounded the two.

The Female Overlord was only a Middle Tribulation Dominator, but among the six surrounding them, there were four Middle Tribulation Dominators, and even a Greater Tribulation Dominator.

One of the Middle Tribulation Dominators among the six eyed the Female Overlord with malice, sneering, "Overlord Jialing, you’re really bold to venture into the Abyss with your little disciple!"

"Did you forget the Island Master’s edict for your Thousand Extremes Island?"

"For three thousand years, no one from Thousand Extremes Island is allowed to leave the island region, and you dare to sneak out, coming all the way to the Abyss here?"

"Obediently come back with me, prepare to receive your punishment!"

From their words, Ye Chen gleaned that it seemed to be a personal conflict between two factions.

Many were watching, but no one stepped forward to speak for the two women.

After all, this was the Abyss, a place of countless adventures by powerful beings, and involving oneself in matters unrelated could bring great misfortune, especially if accidentally offending a big shot.

However, someone quietly voiced their thoughts, saying, "This is a dispute between Thousand Extremes Island and Rageflame Island!"

"Those six Dominators appear to be from Rageflame Island, and the two women belong to Thousand Extremes Island."

"I’ve heard that Thousand Extremes Island used to be much stronger than Rageflame Island, but their Island Master was injured in a battle with a Sea Beast, weakening considerably, which allowed Rageflame Island to surpass them."

"Thousand Extremes Island is rumored to have many beautiful female cultivators, which Rageflame Island has long coveted. After suppressing Thousand Extremes Island, Rageflame Island constantly harasses them. Were it not for Thousand Extremes Island’s grand formation defenses, it might have already fallen into Rageflame’s hands."

"Unable to fully dominate Thousand Extremes Island, the Rageflame Island Master has ordered the island’s blockade, forbidding Thousand Extremes Island’s people from coming out, and arrogantly proclaimed that if Thousand Extremes Island does not submit to Rageflame Island, they will seal it for three thousand years!"

"To us cultivators, three thousand years is quite a long stretch indeed. The Rageflame Island Master, based on his realm, surely thinks that within three thousand years, he’ll break through from Peak Lord to the Cosmic Emperor tier, and then, it would be as easy as pie to overrun Thousand Extremes Island. Effectively, it’s a plan to gradually subdue and reclaim Thousand Extremes Island entirely."

"It’s unclear how these two escaped Rageflame’s blockade."

"A stroke of their bad luck, meeting Rageflame people here; they seem to have had a treasure to conceal themselves too, unveiled by Rageflame’s, hence revealing their true identities."

After some knowledgeable person explained the situation, others expressed their realization.

"So that’s it."

"Indeed, these two are unlucky."

"But truly, the women of Thousand Extremes Island are quite beautiful, that God King realm girl could be considered superior even here in the Exile Sea."

"Such a pity. If I had the strength of a Cosmic Emperor, standing up for them wouldn’t be a problem."

This was just a part of an ordinary square in Seven Phoenix City; Cosmic Emperors wouldn’t concern themselves with such conflicts.

After all, the Abyss is rife with struggles; they cannot oversee them all.

Most of the audience at the square were of lower realms.

At this time, even when surrounded by six Dominators, Overlord Jialing wasn’t flustered; she merely sneered at them, saying, "Do you think six of you are enough to trap my disciple and me?"

After speaking, Overlord Jialing whispered to the girl next to her, "Jing’er, you needn’t worry. Watch as your master deals with these petty miscreants."

Jing’er?

Upon hearing this name, Ye Chen’s heart stirred.

"Could it truly be Lin Jing?"

Ye Chen, standing among the crowd, directly sent a message to the young girl, "May I ask, are you from the Barbaric Wilderness Continent of the Wanmu Mountain Divine Kingdom?"

Upon hearing "Barbaric Wilderness Continent," the young girl’s eyes filled with disbelief; she lifted her head, searching to see who was addressing her.

Judging by her expression.

Ye Chen was immediately certain; it was indeed Lin Jing!