All eyes, radars, and detection equipment were firmly locked on A'Ruheng, and in the next instant, the perspective inside the control center switched to that of the portable video recording device that A'Ruheng was carrying. On the screen, the scenery down below was rapidly flashing past, and a layer of faint golden light could also be seen.

Yu Guanzhi looked on with tightly furrowed brows. He was still reeling from the abrupt loss of the First Air Regiment. 

"Is he really up to the task?" Yu Guanzhi murmured to himself in a skeptical manner.

As the current Battle God Hall Master, Guan Yue was naturally also in the control center, and he made his way over to Yu Guanzhi. "If he's not up to the task, then no one is."

Yu Guanzhi turned to look at Guan Yue, whom he was not actually very familiar with.

Chen Xinjie was far too influential a figure, to the extent that he had become the face of the Battle God Hall, while everyone merely thought Guan Yue to be Chen Xinjie's sidekick.

Everyone knew that Guan Yue was a Limit Douluo, but there were many figures even among the top brass of the federal military who didn't even know what his martial soul was.

Following Chen Xinjie's resignation, he had used his own influence to promote Guan Yue to become the Battle God Hall Master despite fierce objections from all sides, and only then did Guan Yue truly appear in the public eye.

Thus, Yu Guanzhi didn't have much trust in Guan Yue. "Really now?"

Guan Yue smiled, and replied, "This man possesses the most powerful body out of anyone I've ever seen."

There was no need to offer any further explanation; A'Ruheng's actions would do the talking for him.

The human army was already situated on the border of the northernmost region, so it wouldn't take long to reach the core circle at supersonic speeds.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before A'Ruheng caught sight of the vast expanse of Abyssal Bomber Hornets in the distance.

These hornets were evenly distributed through the air, and from a distance, they were like countless black spots in the sky.

A wide grin appeared on A'Ruheng's face, and he made no effort to decelerate as he charged directly toward the swarm of hornets.

The Abyssal Bomber Hornets were already on autopilot, and they reacted as soon as they detected the rapidly approaching A'Ruheng.

The hornets closest to him were already flying quickly toward him while incinerating their own wings to achieve maximal acceleration.

For them, the meaning of life was that final spectacular explosion.

A'Ruheng chortled with glee as reddish-golden light flashed over his skin, and in the next instant, he was completely inundated by the oncoming hornets.

A string of deafening explosions rang out in rapid succession, and the large screen in the control center instantly turned completely white.

The thunderous booms also rang out within the control center through the audio recording equipment, making it sound as if the control center were also being bombed.

Yu Guanzhi couldn't help but slap a hand to his own forehead in dismay upon seeing this.

"Hold on, General Yu; let's keep watching," Guan Yue said with a smile.

Yu Guanzhi faltered slightly upon hearing this, and he quickly also realized that something was off. The explosions were still raging incessantly with no signs of abating. If that man were already dead, the explosions would've already ceased!

On the outskirts of the core circle, A'Ruheng was situated within a massive ball of fire from all of the explosions erupting around him, but this ball of fire was still rapidly advancing onward.

The surrounding Abyssal Bomber Hornets converged rapidly toward A'Ruheng to bombard him even further, but regardless of how many of them self-detonated, the ball of fire didn't pause even for a single moment; only wisps of grey mist were constantly billowing out of the fireball toward the abyss.

These wisps of grey mist acted as the perfect guide for A'Ruheng, directing him closer and closer to the abyssal passageway.

Under the Hornet Sovereign's command, the Abyssal Bomber Hornets continued to rush toward him in a frenzy, but all of their efforts seemed to be completely futile.

A short while later, so many hornets had perished that the fireball had transformed into a cloud of grey mist.

Within the abyssal passageway, each and every one of the Hornet Sovereign's compound eyes were flashing incessantly and independent of one another, making it appear as if there were countless stars in her eyes. She currently wore an astonished expression as it was completely inconceivable to her that a human's body could withstand this many explosions.

"How is this possible? How could there be a human with such incredible defensive prowess?"

Ghost Emperor was also quite flabbergasted to see this. "Could it be a four-word battle armor master? But even a suit of four-word battle armor would be damaged by such sustained bombing; they really are sparing no expense in this scouting mission."

"Let me see just how long he's going to last!" the Hornet Sovereign harrumphed coldly.

The Abyssal Bomber Hornet was virtually the most populous species in all of the abyssal plane, so she had no qualms sacrificing so many of her brethren. As long as their energy could return to the abyss, this rate of bombing could theoretically be kept up indefinitely with replenishment from the resurrected Abyssal Bomber Hornets on the eighth level of the abyss.

A single Abyssal Bomber Hornet wasn't much to fear, but there were simply too many of them!

Even more Abyssal Bomber Hornets had formed a series of massive swarms under the Hornet Sovereign's command, and they were speeding directly toward A'Ruheng like pillars of green light as their wings disintegrated.

However, no matter how many hornets were detonated, the only thing that changed was the size and the density of the dark cloud around A'Ruheng. He was still enshrouded within the grey mist, but that wasn't slowing him down in the slightest.

In fact, the abyssal energy around him had become so dense that the Hornet Sovereign was struggling to track him!

The explosions drew to a temporary halt, and at this point, the large screen in the control center was already completely grey without any discernible details.

Through the other long-range surveillance soul tools, it could be seen that an extremely dense cloud of grey mist was currently surging rapidly through the air.

It could be said that both sides were in a state of complete bemusement at what they were witnessing.

As A'Ruheng continued to advance, a series of figures finally rose up from the abyssal passageway to meet him. The abyssal creatures were unfamiliar with how humans waged battles, but the Holy Spirit Cult was fully aware of what was happening.

They knew exactly why the human army was so desperate to scout for their location, and what would happen once their location was ascertained.

As such, the strategy for the abyssal army from the very beginning had been to thwart all scouting attempts made by the human army.

They weren't in a hurry at all as the longer they stalled, the more abyssal creatures would be able to arrive in this plane. They were also waiting for an opportunity, and this battle was basically going to be decided by a single showdown.

Virtually all of the Douluo Federation's troops were already gathered on the northern front, thereby creating the strongest possible human army to oppose the abyssal army, but at the same time, if the human army were to be defeated, then the entire continent would quickly fall.

As such, both the human and abyssal armies were being very cautious, and neither side was going to reveal all of their trump cards unless they were absolutely confident in their ability to secure victory.

The ones who had emerged to oppose A'Ruheng consisted primarily of Demonic Enchantresses and Black Empresses, both of which possessed exceptional combat prowess and were particularly adept in aerial combat.

Several dozens of Black Empresses and Demonic Enchantresses had already converged around A'Ruheng, and a series of vortexes appeared in mid-air to quickly absorb the dense abyssal energy in the air. They had to locate their target first before they could begin attacking, and that required clearing away the obstructive abyssal energy.

Right at this moment, the dense cloud of abyssal energy, which had already reached several hundred meters in diameter, suddenly underwent a shift.

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