This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!

Chapter 210 - 36: Abyss Plane - Lava Wasteland

Perhaps it’s the soul strength continuously enhancing under the effect of the Banquet, originally five years ago, it took more than a month to learn the Six-Ring Water Dragon Technique at the entry-level. Now, five years later, Udi learns the Otherworld Teleportation Technique, also a Six-Ring Spell, reaching entry-level only takes half a month.

This learning speed, considering Udi’s current Level 11 Caster level, is undoubtedly considered a genius.

It’s estimated that the learning speed of many Master-level Mages above Level 15 for Six-Ring Spells is not as fast as Udi.

"I’ve reached entry-level; now for mastery and Returning to Truth; they only require time to wear down." Udi thought leisurely.

He didn’t rush to immediately go to the Abyssal Plane using the newly learned Otherworld Teleportation Technique but continued to study and learn. After all, it’s a cross-plane spell; the skill level must be high enough; if there’s a mistake, it could cost a dragon’s life...

In this process, he would also learn Instant Teleportation Skill, a Six-Ring Spell, but the main research focus was still on the Otherworld Teleportation Technique.

Time passed.

Another three months passed.

Udi increased the skill level of Otherworld Teleportation Technique to entry-level 50%, and at the same time, successfully reached the entry-level for the Six-Ring Instant Transmission Technique.

"It’s enough; the more skill level increases, the more energy is consumed. To elevate the Otherworld Teleportation Technique from entry-level 50% to Master Level 0%, even with diligent and dedicated research, it would take at least half a year. Moreover, the current skill level is sufficient for stable use..."

Black Wing Nest, Dragon Pool.

The Black Giant Dragon slowly opened its eyes and then made a resolute decision.

The journey to the Abyss should begin.

During these three and a half months, Udi wasn’t entirely engaged in studying spells only; when he was tired and resting, he would take time to browse the memories about the Abyss in the Dragon’s Legacy.

The Abyss, endless and boundless.

It’s the combination of almost all negative entities in the Star Realm; it can be said as long as the Star Realm keeps generating all kinds of negative energy, thoughts, etc., the Abyss will continue to expand indefinitely.

And how many years has the Star Realm been born until now?

This is an answer even the oldest Divine Spirit cannot provide.

Just as no Abyss Lord knows the actual size of the Abyss or how many layers exist... because the Abyss cannot be described in terms of size.

However, as of now, there are concrete numbers - approximately 180 million publicly available Abyss Plane coordinates in the Star Realm.

But the records in the Dragon’s Legacy are dated back thousands of years, perhaps now it’s increased to 180 million and ten thousand? Twenty thousand?

Of course, it might be reduced to 179 million plus.

Because the Abyss Plane can be destroyed, can be devoured.

Abyss Lords often initiate Abyssal Blood Wars for the sake of expanding authority, allowing their controlled Abyss Plane to devour other Abyss Lords’ controlled planes, hence the number of Abyss Planes both increases and decreases at the same time, but the total number continues to grow.

It’s certainly impossible for the Dragon’s Legacy to record all publicly available Abyss Plane coordinates; estimating even the immortal Dragon God wouldn’t have had the long time and energy to visit all publicly available Abyss Planes.

In Udi’s Dragon’s Legacy, he only found a dozen Abyss Plane coordinates.—Once again mentioning, different Dragon Blood lineage lead to different Dragon’s Legacy knowledge; if an ancestor was affluent, a Dragon God might have left 100,000 Abyss Plane coordinates.

Evidently, Udi’s ancestors might not have been affluent, or perhaps they were affluent but that ancestor was too lazy to leave this knowledge.

Not all Giant Dragons are willing to leave inherited knowledge, especially the selfish Five-Colored Dragon. Nowadays, the knowledge of the Dragon’s Legacy of the Five-Colored Dragons has become vast and extensive because countless millions of years of idle Five-Colored Dragon ancestors accumulated it bit by bit.

Just by finding knowledge about the Abyss in Udi’s Dragon’s Legacy, he often ’swipes’ records of some Black Dragon ancestor boasting, such as in some particular year, a particular location, I Ulquiorra in some Abyssal Plane chopped off the head of a Legendary Balrog Flame Demon.

Such records are mostly useless, chaotic knowledge far exceed useful knowledge.

Udi found a dozen documented Abyss Plane coordinates in this ’gold panning in rubbish’ situation.

These dozen Abyss Planes, after screening, Udi finally selected three as the final candidates.

Udi’s selection criteria were simple, primarily being order and safety.

The Abyss is chaotic, but chaos also has order; in many Abyssal Planes, some regional lords establish small or large cities, castles. After all, unless the personal power is overwhelming that there’s no need to band together, otherwise forming a force is something most strong individuals are willing to do, especially in the Abyss where looting can lead to strength enhancement.

Number 9896, number 556246, number 1646466.

The above three are the relatively reliable Abyss Plane coordinates selected from the Dragon’s Legacy.

The three Abyss Planes have relatively small numbers, and smaller numbers indicate longer publicly availability of the Abyss Plane coordinates, and if the Abyss Plane has not been devoured by other Abyss Lords for such a long time, it means the Abyss Lord of that Abyss Plane must be strong enough.

In the Abyss, the strength of the Abyss Lord is what provides relatively stable order.

Weakness, in the Abyss, is the original sin.

"Let’s go take a look at the Abyss Plane number 9896," Udi made his decision after thinking for a moment.

He stuffed several spatial bags full of treasures into the crevice of his reversed scale, then transformed into a three-meter tall dragon-man form before starting to chant the incantation to release the Otherworld Teleportation Technique.

He didn’t use the giant dragon’s true form because it would be too conspicuous. Not only in terms of size, but dragons are also a relatively noticeable race in the Abyss, and being conspicuous often means being more dangerous.

The Abyss is different from the Tal Material Plane. On the Tal Plane, there might be many strong individuals who can defeat Udi, but if Udi truly wanted to escape or be cautious, there aren’t many strong enemies who could kill him. For instance, against a Legendary Warrior, even if Udi couldn’t win, he could fly far away, or if that didn’t work, a Teleportation Skill could get him out.

But in the Abyss, there are too many terrifying strong beings, and they have too many methods. Without being low-key, one might either be captured as a mount or have their whole body dismantled and sold off in pieces.

The red-and-white teleportation array slowly appeared under the feet of the dragon-man Udi, accompanied by a flash of light and a large amount of energy from the elemental crystals being extracted and turned to ash, the dragon-man Udi vanished from the Tal Plane.

....

Under the blood-red moon, the ground was a wasteland with various bizarre plants growing, and in view, a thousand-zhang-high active volcano was erupting with lava.

"Is this the Lava Wasteland?"

In his dragon-man form, Udi looked around, finding only a somewhat lively active volcano ahead, while in other directions, everything was dead silent.

After thinking for a few seconds, Udi marched forward directly. The Dragon’s Legacy only contained the coordinates of the Abyss Plane, not the specific cities within it, which Udi had to find on his own.

He released a Perception Spell, extending his spiritual power, constantly enveloping the range of several miles around.

Udi chose not to fly because in the Abyss, flying is the prerogative of strong beings and chaotic fools. The former fear nothing, and the latter, being chaotic fools, do all sorts of suicidal things as if it’s normal.

After walking a straight line for over a hundred kilometers, the erupting active volcano was finally within reach.

Udi also finally encountered his first Abyssal creatures... to be precise, a group of them.

A group of demon dogs with pitch-black fur, blood-red pupils, and ferocious fangs.

"Beast demons, Level 2 to Level 4." The information about these demon dogs appeared in Udi’s mind.

He glanced around and found no other creatures...

With a snapping sound, Udi’s form swiftly transformed, and in the blink of an eye, he reverted to his fifty-meter long black dragon true form, from which a terrifying suction emanated like the mouth of the abyss, instantly swallowing the dozen or so demon dogs that had eagerly rushed over.

With a flash of black light, Udi transformed back into his three-meter tall dragon-man form, touching his belly, which hadn’t changed at all...

"Not even enough to fill the teeth gaps."

As the dragon body continues to grow, even when Udi isn’t in a Banquet state, his daily intake has reached a very astonishing level, measured in hundreds of tons.

And the digestion is quick too.

For instance, of the dozen or so low-level demon dogs he just swallowed, two had already been digested by the time he took a few steps.

Next, the closer Udi got to the active volcano, the more Abyssal creatures he encountered.

But most of them were low-level beast demons, with very few middle-level beast demons.

The demon species comes in thousands of variants; generally, human-form demons have stronger potential and higher intelligence, while beast-form demons tend to have lower intelligence but are large-bodied and strong fighters.

Udi walked along, eating the self-service meal that delivered itself to him, and eventually stopped at the crater of the erupting volcano, giving a satisfied burp.

Huge amounts of lava poured continually from the volcano’s crater, painting the cracked massive mountainside with streaks of golden red.

Udi walked in the over-1000-degree lava, his legs completely submerged, yet he only felt a comfortably warm touch.

Although he was a black dragon, surprisingly, Udi did not dislike this scorching environment.

He looked down into the volcano’s crater, and his eyes lit up.

Numerous crimson ores were growing on the rocky walls inside the crater, and the treasure-savvy dragon instantly recognized what they were—Fire Element Ore Vein.

"No wonder I was drawn here from afar; there’s treasure here," Udi grinned.

The dragon’s treasure-hunting skills proved incredibly strong, once again demonstrated in practice.

After scanning the surroundings from the top of the thousand-zhang-high volcano and confirming there were no issues, Udi reverted to his black dragon true form and plunged into the volcano’s lava.

The Abyssal Dragon’s maw swallowed, devouring tens of tons of Fire Element Ore in one go. There was a slight glow from the spatial bag within the reversed scale, and all these Fire Element Ores were stored inside.

On the first day in the Abyss.

He ate his fill on a buffet and began mining as digestive exercise after meals.