Entering the enemy's lair [1]

Plummeting into the dimensional gate, Zhu Zhiying braced both his arms beside his face and prepared himself into a squat position. Heiyuan wrapped himself securely around his master's right arm, unable to maintain a steady grip due to the pressure of their fall.

Zhu Zhiying was siphoned into a cylindrical space which stretched for miles, formed from dark swirling shades of energy. Eventually, at the end of the space, General Zhu's body was thrust out into an open rocky area underground.

The moment Zhu Zhiying's left foot graced the ground, the surge of demonic energy spiralling through his meridians triggered an alert on the premises. Up ahead, several miles in the underground space, a smaller chamber confined within walls of rock lay.