Chapter 872 The Sixth Day (1/2)

Time pa.s.sed by. It was the fifth day since the monster horde broke out.

Throughout the past five days, the combat strength of the monsters that had been gus.h.i.+ng out of the abyss was increasing day by day.

It was just monsters on the beginner-stage mortal transformation-level on the first day, but there were intermediate-stage mortal transformation-level monsters beginning to appear on the second day. On the fifth day, there were already intermediate-stage ascendance-level monsters appearing, which combat strength was equivalent to immortal-level rank-4 to rank-6 monsters.

To Tan Lang and the rest, the pressure increased day after day.

On the fifth day since the monster horde broke out, most of the Heaven Alliance members could no longer take the pressure and had to retreat back to Enlightenment City.

Even Tan Lang returned to Enlightenment City when the city door closed on the fifth night.

As soon as he returned to the inn, Tan Lang gathered the people from the Heaven Alliance. He glanced through everyone, all members were there while Lin Huang was the only one missing.

”Didn't Lin Xie come back?” Tan Lang asked while frowning a little.

Chan Dou had a.s.signed Tan Lang a mission which was to take care of Lin Xie's safety. He was a little worried when he noticed Lin Xie's absence.

”He didn't. We haven't been able to contact him via the communication ring.” Shen Tao shook his head. He had tried contacting Lin Huang a couple of times yesterday, but his attempt was futile.

They could not use the communication system in their Emperor's Heart Ring there, but it worked for the local communication ring. The function was nothing less than the Emperor's Heart Ring. For convenience, all of them had one of their own.

However, since Lin Huang had been in the gully for the past few days, the communication ring could not receive any reception outside of the abyss.

”He didn't reply the messages?” Tan Lang asked again.

”No. I've sent a few messages to him, asking him to contact me as soon as he sees my messages, but he didn't reply since yesterday. I'm guessing that he's somewhere that has no reception.”

Tan Lang said nothing and used his communication ring to call Lin Huang directly. However, the call did not connect.

Since the call was not connected the first time, he called again, but it was the same result.

”It can't connect…” Tan Lang frowned.

”It shows that he might still be alive,” Tang Ning comforted, ”The communication ring here is different from the Emperor's Heart Ring whereby the communication ring's reception won't be affected when the person is dead. You can still call, just that n.o.body will pick up.”

”What if the person is dead and the communication ring is broken?” Tan Lang glared at Tang Ning. He knew not having any reception did not mean that Lin Huang was dead.

All of a sudden, Tang Ning fell silent. If Lin Huang was dead and his body was trampled by the monsters, there was a high chance that his communication ring was broken. A broken communication ring would have the same no-reception mode just like what happened when they attempted to call.

”I'm not worried about Lin Xie. Remember that he killed so many monsters on the Stairway Tree?” Shen Tao comforted Tan Lang while wearing a smile.

”There'll be advanced-stage ascendance-level monsters coming out of the abyss tomorrow. Do you think he has the ability to kill monsters that are equivalent to immortal-level rank-7 to rank-9?!” Tan Lang shook his head helplessly. ”Even I would have to avoid them if I encountered monsters of such a level!”

Even though Tan Lang had an ability comparable with imperial-level crimson gold-ranks, he dared not guarantee that he could kill all of the advanced-stage ascendance-level monsters alone. The reason was that being attacked by monsters of such level would cause severe damage to him.

”Perhaps Lin Xie has a way of his own. n.o.body saw exactly how he killed the monsters on the Stairway Tree earlier.” In reality, Li Jia was very curious about how Lin Huang managed to obtain such a high score on the Stairway Tree.