Doomsday Code

Chapter 924 The Power of Will

As Chen Cheng opened Black Demon's chest cavity, a stench of rotting corpse assaulted his nostrils. He frowned at the smell, then reached out and probed directly into Black Demon's chest cavity.

Reaching in felt like plunging into a black, foul-smelling ditch filled with a sticky substance. After rummaging through the chest cavity for a while, the hand pulled out a complete set of severely decomposed human organs.

The organs and the corpse decomposed at an exceptionally fast rate. The lungs, which were removed first, were now almost completely shredded, while the rest of the tissue had turned into bodily fluids.

At first, Kui Niu couldn't understand why Chen Cheng would do such a disgusting thing, but when he saw the rotten heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and other organs, he finally understood.

Chen Cheng used magic to remove the corpse fluid from his hands, and then used exploration magic on all parts of the corpse.

Do you know what lies beneath the abyss?

Kui Niu knew what Chen Cheng meant by asking this question, because judging from the dissection of this primitive black demon body, it was clearly a complete human corpse.

This speculation had been made before, but since the original Black Demons were a group of gray-black, severely decaying undead, no one would do any autopsy after killing them.

Moreover, the body of the Black Demon cannot last long after death; it will quickly decompose into bodily fluids, just like this corpse, leaving behind only a pile of scattered bones.

"No, the abyss is the end of the sky. I don't need to explain the environment here. It's impossible for any human to survive here."

What does "the end of the sky" mean?

Chen Cheng did not expect Kui Niu to answer him like that. In his understanding, this world was clearly an arc-shaped planet, not some superflat continent.

How can there be such a thing as the end of the sky?

"That's the end of the world."

Originally, His Majesty the First Emperor sought to cleanse the world of the destruction caused by the evil god summoned by the orcs, intending to hurl this destruction into the void at the ends of the heavens. However, he failed, resulting in the abyss we see today.

"So later, the Orcs were driven to the far north by His Majesty the First, and their entire race was used to suppress the Abyss and atone for their sins."

"Then, in order to prevent the orcs from leaving the far north and not to focus on suppressing the abyss, this Great Wall fortress was moved here."

Chen Cheng had never heard of this before; he never imagined that this world actually had an end.

At the same time, Chen Cheng was also puzzled. Since the Abyss was so dangerous, why didn't Thorn Flower I eliminate him back then? Instead, he sent the entire Orc race to suppress him and then spent so much money to move the Great Wall here.

Chen Cheng felt that something else must have happened.

The thought that this abyss erupted during his lifetime, coupled with the fact that other events related to Thorn Flower's past life also occurred at this time, made Chen Cheng truly suspect that these were all traps dug for him by his ancestor in this life.

Chen Cheng threw the completely decomposed corpse into the volcano's crater, watching it being swallowed by the lava. He then clapped his hands and said:

"Let's move forward. I've just checked, and there's no trace of magic energy on him. He shouldn't be a puppet life form powered by magic energy. Also, there's no zombie virus on him."

It seems I have to go down into the abyss; perhaps what's down there will be quite interesting.

Although he couldn't understand what Chen Cheng was talking about regarding the zombie virus, he did know about the magical puppet life form that Chen Cheng had mentioned earlier.

Their Great Wall Army has guarded the Great Wall for a thousand years and has encountered countless Black Calamities. When the Empire was still in power, they certainly studied the Black Magic.

However, they have never captured any true primal dark demons; most of them were orcs who had already been corrupted by demons.

However, through their research, although progress has been slow, it has been determined that these second and third generation Black Demons are not puppets, but rather more like corpses whose consciousness has been completely brainwashed and which only attack living beings.

The three traveled at full speed, dodging the flying black demons in the sky, and arrived above the abyss.

When he saw the earth crack that stretched for miles, Chen Cheng was suddenly overcome with sadness. An uncontrollable sorrow appeared on his face, and large tears streamed down his face.

At that moment, he felt like a loving mother and a strict father, and seeing the scars on his child's body, he felt an overwhelming sense of tenderness.

As his large tears fell, a severe earthquake struck the entire abyss. The mountain-like horde of black demons trembled and fell back into the abyss like dumplings.

Chen Cheng closed his eyes and entered meditation. Only when he saw the deity with closed eyes in the void of consciousness did the inexplicable sadness in Chen Cheng's heart stop.

At the same time, looking through the void, Chen Cheng could see that his body was like a silkworm cocoon, entangled by transparent threads with malice extending from the abyss.

Chen Cheng knew that he was being affected by the abyss below. Ordinary people couldn't feel it at all; only someone like him who had completed the ascension mission and become a god could sense it.

However, even the weakest deities have their own divine duties, so they can only feel these emotions without being moved to tears.

But he was different; he was like a bottle with capacity but no lid, containing only half a bottle of water that could easily get in and shake it.

Just as the abyss trembled, Sheli, who was with Chen Cheng, finally discovered the transparent thread extending towards Chen Cheng from within the abyss.

With pure and ultimate sword intent, all those malicious threads were severed by Sheli's single strike.

After being cut, the numerous silken threads resembling silkworm cocoons on Chen Cheng's body instantly disappeared, and he snapped out of his meditation.

"Thank you."

Chen Cheng thanked She Li.

Sheli held a butcher's knife in his hand, his eyes sharply fixed on the abyss below, and then spoke:

“It’s very dangerous down there. Young master, you should retreat first. I can use my sword intent to go down and scout ahead.”

Chen Cheng knew that the danger She Li mentioned did not come from those black demons, but from the transparent threads that had just wrapped around him.

As he just said, he's currently only a half-baked expert. He can handle those with lower inherent strength than him, but if he encounters a god-level power of equal quality, his half-baked ability won't be an obstacle. On the contrary, he'll be influenced or even controlled by the opponent.

But Sheli is different. He is an enlightened one, his intent is like the intent of a sword. He is a sharp sword that can move forward without hesitation. Anything that tries to affect him will be immediately shattered by his sword intent.

Therefore, when dealing with things like intentions that possess spiritual power, those who have attained enlightenment have a natural advantage.

This can be said to be the advantage of their enlightenment over the other two paths.