Counterattack into the Abyss

Huo Zhenshan stared blankly at Su Yu’s absurdly youthful face.

The image of the Demon Flame Emperor exploding into a sky full of ash replayed in his mind again and again.

Two shots.

Without using any qi and blood.

Pure martial will.

An Emperor who had unleashed a forbidden technique and doubled his combat power had simply been annihilated.

Huo Zhenshan’s breathing suddenly grew rapid and labored.

His chest heaved violently, and an unprecedented, terrifying light burst from his murky old eyes!

A thought bold enough to overturn the entire history of the human race began spreading wildly through his mind like weeds.

“Su Yu…”

Huo Zhenshan swallowed, his voice trembling violently with overwhelming excitement.

“If…”

“If the Demon Emperors who have tormented humanity for over ten thousand years are already helpless before you…”

Huo Zhenshan clenched his fists until they crackled.

“With such a perfect opportunity…”

“Why don’t we just… launch an all-out assault on the Abyss and wipe those bastards out completely?!”

Counterattack the Abyss!

For the past ten thousand years, humanity had never even dared to imagine those four words.

Simply holding the defensive line and keeping the flame of humanity alive had already exhausted every last reserve the human race possessed.

But now…

Huo Zhenshan looked at the monstrous eighteen-year-old standing before him.

He felt that humanity’s time to counterattack had finally arrived!

Su Yu was slightly taken aback.

He had originally only planned to go to the Abyss and seize an ore vein so that his money-printing machine could operate at full capacity.

He hadn’t expected this old man, Huo Zhenshan, to have even greater ambitions than him.

He wanted to wipe out an entire race?

Su Yu rubbed his chin, a thoughtful look flashing through his deep eyes.

Destroying the Abyssal demons would not only provide him with endless mineral resources, but also an enormous supply of demon cores.

However he calculated it, the deal was profitable.

“No problem.”

Su Yu nodded, his tone as casual as if he had just agreed to buy a cabbage at the market.

“However…”

His tone shifted, and he looked straight at Huo Zhenshan.

“War is physically demanding.”

“If you could give me a little more money…”

“I’d be even more motivated.”

Money!

At a time like this, the kid was still asking for money!

Huo Zhenshan was so furious that he laughed.

But at this moment, so long as the Abyss could be destroyed, he would gladly give Su Yu not only money, but even his own life.

“Money is no problem!”

Huo Zhenshan gritted his teeth and immediately offered a price so astronomical that the Great Xia Ministry of Finance would have vomited blood on the spot.

“As long as you can kill them!”

“The Great Xia military will pay one hundred trillion dragon coins for every Demon Emperor!”

“How about it?!”

One hundred trillion!

When Su Yu heard that number, his eyes lit up instantly.

One hundred trillion for a single Demon Emperor!

That was far more profitable than his money-printing machine, which produced fifty trillion a day!

How many Demon Emperors were there in the Abyss?

If he could kill eight or ten of them…

That would be an earth-shattering fortune worth over one quadrillion!

It would be enough to raise his qi and blood several more times!

“Deal!”

Su Yu agreed without the slightest hesitation.

“Elder Huo, you’re straightforward.”

“You point the way. I’ll do the killing.”

“I’ll take the job.”

Seeing how readily Su Yu agreed, Huo Zhenshan trembled with excitement.

Without the slightest hesitation, he pulled out the specially designed communicator that represented the highest level of classified information in Great Xia.

He took a deep breath.

Then he pressed the emergency button that simultaneously called the two Guardian Martial Emperors stationed at the northern border.

Beep—beep—

The call connected.

Two deep-blue holographic projections suddenly appeared above the ruins.

Overturning-Seas Martial Emperor, Qin Fuhai.

Space-Rending Martial Emperor, Chu Zhan.

The two pillars supporting humanity were currently stationed in full battle gear above the Suppression Abyss Great Wall.

Their expressions were exceptionally grave.

“Old Huo?”

Chu Zhan’s brows furrowed tightly, a trace of urgency in his voice.

“How are things at the Ten Thousand Mountains?”

“The monitoring station says the Ghost Gate Pass rift is showing Emperor-level fluctuations. Can you hold out over there?!”

Qin Fuhai immediately followed up.

“Do you need us to send people over to reinforce you?”

“No need.”

Huo Zhenshan waved his hand, forcibly suppressing the excitement surging in his heart.

“The fluctuations have already subsided.”

“That Demon Flame Emperor who forced his way across realms is dead.”

The moment those words were spoken, the two Martial Emperors in the holographic projections froze simultaneously.

“Dead?”

Chu Zhan’s eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

“A Demon Emperor crossed realms. How did you kill him alone?!”

“Old Huo, don’t tell me you self-detonated your origin and took him down with you!”

“Bullshit!”

Huo Zhenshan cursed irritably.

“I’m alive and well!”

“It was Su Yu who killed him!”

“The eighteen-year-old freshman I told you about!”

At the mention of that name, the expressions of the two Martial Emperors instantly became extraordinarily complicated.

Of course they remembered that name.

Given their authority, they also knew that Su Yu was actually Su Yuan.

Just last night, that kid had cleaved open the Black Heaven Demon Emperor’s palm from across the air with a single shot, forcing three Demon Emperors to retreat.

“He went to the Ten Thousand Mountains?!”

Qin Fuhai sucked in a sharp breath. His holographic face was filled with overwhelming shock.

“Last night, he only forced them back with an attack from afar. Today, he actually killed a Demon Emperor whose true body crossed realms?!”

“This kid… has he really become this powerful?!”

Chu Zhan, standing beside him, was equally moved. After recovering from his shock, he hurriedly asked,

“Old Huo, how is Su Yu doing right now?!”

“To kill a Demon Emperor alone, he must have paid an unbearably heavy price, right?!”

“Did he burn his qi and blood origin? Or use some forbidden technique that drained his life force?! How badly is he injured?!”

In the eyes of the two Guardian Martial Emperors, in a life-or-death battle between opponents of the same level, completely killing a Demon Emperor with its terrifying vitality usually required a human Martial Emperor to pay with half his life—or even suffer a fall in realm!

Qin Fuhai’s expression was solemn, and his voice carried unprecedented respect.

“No matter how great the price he paid, an eighteen-year-old killing a Demon Emperor alone is an unprecedented miracle in humanity’s ten-thousand-year history! It is the greatest blessing our race could have received!”

“Old Huo, listen carefully!”

“Stabilize his injuries at all costs! Use any Emperor-level medicine in the military treasury as you see fit. Even if we have to empty the national treasury, we must preserve his martial foundation!”

Listening to his two old comrades solemnly imagining Su Yu lying gravely wounded and on the verge of death, Huo Zhenshan’s expression instantly became indescribably strange.

Paid a price?

Gravely wounded and dying?

Emptying the national treasury to save him?

The corner of Huo Zhenshan’s mouth twitched. He took a deep breath and directly interrupted their tragic reflections.

“Save his ass!”

“I contacted you because I’m not asking for medical expenses!”

Huo Zhenshan spoke each word distinctly, his voice exploding beside the two Martial Emperors’ ears like thunder.

“I’ve decided…”

“To mobilize the army immediately!”

“Counterattack the Abyss!!!”

“Wipe out the demons!!!”

Silence.

The two ends of the communicator fell into deathly silence.

Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan stared blankly at Huo Zhenshan’s holographic projection.

It was as though they were looking at a madman.

It took more than ten seconds before Chu Zhan finally came to his senses and immediately began swearing.

“Huo Zhenshan! Have you lost your damn mind?!”

“Counterattack the Abyss?!”

“Just the few of us?!”

“Do you have any idea how many monsters are lurking in the Abyss?! There could even be a legendary Demon God down there!”

Qin Fuhai’s expression turned grim, and his tone grew especially stern.

“Old Huo, I know Su Yu is powerful.”

“But one person’s martial prowess cannot make up for the disparity in strength between entire races!”

“You’re gambling with the fate of Great Xia, with the lives of every one of us!”

“If we venture deep into the Abyss and are surrounded by the demons…”

“If the two of us Martial Emperors die, the human defense line will collapse at once!”

“When that happens, all of humanity will become meat on the chopping block, helpless before the Abyss!”

The two Martial Emperors were resolute.

This concerned the survival of the human race.

They absolutely could not let a moment of rashness destroy ten thousand years of hard-earned foundations!

Huo Zhenshan listened to the two Martial Emperors’ reprimands.

Yet instead of getting angry, he laughed bitterly in exasperation.

“This old man is gambling with humanity’s lives?”

“You two old fools have no idea what you’ve missed!”