266: The first person to die of old age

As the giant screen above the Star Abyss appeared, the contestants from the top eight guilds were all teleported to the waiting area. Similar to the individual waiting area, the arena was directly in front, but the guild waiting area and arena were a hundred times larger than those for the individual ladder.

The Guild Top 8 matches were also held one by one, and the system quickly announced the match schedule.

The first round of matchups is as follows:

Forbidden City Guild VS Illusionary Realm Guild

Hegemony Guild VS Endless Fire Domain Guild

Azure Sea Tide Guild VS Guardian Guild

Five Poisons Guild VS Thunder Guild

The first match between Forbidden City Guild VS Illusionary Realm Guild will begin in 10 seconds.

Huang Chen looked at the guild match arrangements, a smile unconsciously curving at the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe! We're matched in the first round!" Huang Chen turned to look at the Illusionary Realm Guild's area beside him; Cang Yue's entire face was ashen.

His previous harsh words didn't mean he truly believed he could defeat Huang Chen; even Tie Shengnan could break his Illusion Realm, let alone Huang Chen.

As the countdown ended, the members of both the Forbidden City and Illusionary Realm Guilds simultaneously disappeared from the waiting area, teleporting to the arena.

Ding! You have arrived at the Ladder Guild Challenge Top 8 Arena. There is no time limit for the match. Defeating the opponent's entire team or the opponent surrendering is considered victory. If both sides are ultimately annihilated, the team that dealt more damage wins. Now, the match begins...

The familiar prompt came to his ears, but Huang Chen was too lazy to listen, glancing at the opposing lineup.

Cang Yue chose a combination mainly of Fire Element Users and Earth Element Users, supplemented by Water Element users.

After all, his Illusion Realm needed to control so many people at once, which was extremely draining for him. Therefore, every match had to deliver maximum output in a short amount of time. And since participating, the Illusionary Realm Guild had not disappointed Cang Yue, ending every battle before the opponents could awaken.

As the match began, a wave of fluctuation emanated from Cang Yue's eyes, directly enveloping the entire Forbidden City Legion.

The entire Forbidden City Legion fell into a deathly silence after being enveloped by this fluctuation.

"It worked?" A look of joy appeared on Cang Yue's solemn face, and then he shouted to the members of the Illusionary Realm Guild: "Quick~ Attack quickly... They've fallen into the Illusion Realm!"

Huang Chen also stood still, allowing the soul fluctuation to sweep through his mind... "The power of the soul isn't very strong." Huang Chen shook his head and murmured. An attack of this intensity had almost no effect on him.

He then looked at Tie Shengnan and All the women, finding their eyes clear. Even many members of the Forbidden City Legion had broken free from the Illusion Realm.

However, facing the aggressive Illusionary Realm Guild, the Forbidden City Legion, having received no orders, remained standing still, looking as if they were controlled.

"Fight!" Huang Chen whispered to Tie Shengnan, then with a whoosh, appeared behind the running Cang Yue.

Although the entire Illusion Realm Legion was charging, Cang Yue's eyes were fixed on Huang Chen and Tie Shengnan's positions. As long as he could kill these two before they woke up, their Illusionary Realm Guild would win this guild war, and he would replace Huang Chen as the number one person of star abyss.

Thinking of this, the smile on Cang Yue's face grew wider.

However, in that instant, he found that Huang Chen had disappeared... and Tie Shengnan raised her mist shadow spear, its tip pointing forward, seemingly giving orders to the Forbidden City Legion.

"Not good!"

Seeing this, Cang Yue knew that their Illusionary Realm Guild had no hope of winning. He hesitated whether to fight a grand battle or surrender directly.

Recalling Huang Chen's gaze during the individual competition, Cang Yue felt a chill run down his spine.

"I'll just surrender directly!" For some reason, he felt a creepy sensation, just as the words "surrender" were about to leave his mouth.

Huang Chen's teasing voice came to Cang Yue's ears: "I wonder if the arena rules will replenish the soul lost in the arena match..."

As soon as the words fell, Cang Yue quickly turned around, just in time to see Huang Chen's playful smile.

Then... "Ah~~" A terrifying scream erupted from his mouth. Little Hu's stinger had directly pierced his temple.

He wanted to shout surrender, but his soul lost the ability to think and command his body due to the intense pain. His body twitched, desperately mobilizing his internal soul power to resist the gnawing of the ping-pong ball-sized 'bee' creature in front of him.

It must be said that he was born with powerful soul force, and under full mobilization, it still had some effect.

Just as he was about to recover, suddenly, a dense swarm of Soul Devouring Bee Swarm flew up behind Huang Chen... It looked like a dark, overwhelming mass, truly terrifying!

"I... sur... ah~~"

Cang Yue had just opened his mouth to surrender when Little Hu directly let out a Soul Shriek at his head.

Subsequently, hundreds of millions of sesame-sized Soul Devouring Bees buzzed and all attached themselves to Cang Yue, incessantly gnawing.

Cang Yue had completely lost control of his body at this point, only able to roll on the ground and wail.

And his Illusion Realm Legion, in these short ten-odd seconds, was instantly wiped out by Forbidden City, leaving only two or three stragglers.

Soon, Cang Yue's face visibly aged before the eyes of hundreds of trillions of Star Abyss spectators, until his hair and teeth fell out, only to be teleported out of the arena by the rules at the last moment.

However, the moment he appeared outside the arena, a wave of fear spread over all the Trial Takers.

Those members of the Illusionary Realm Guild whose vitality had been locked returned to the waiting area and recovered fully after one or two healing spells.

However, at this moment, Cang Yue, even after frantically consuming several five-flower jade dew after leaving the arena... still looked like he was on the verge of death. He had suffered a soul attack, so he hadn't lost any blood, and the five-flower jade dew had no effect.

"How could this be!!" Cang Yue felt that his current soul power had weakened to an extreme, like a flickering candle in the wind that could extinguish at any moment.

If he wanted to survive, he had to replenish the lost soul power, not necessarily to return to his original state, but at least to 50% of it.

He looked at Huang Chen in horror, opened his mouth, and several teeth immediately fell out onto the ground, "Spare... spare me~"

Cang Yue didn't want to die like this. He looked pleadingly at Huang Chen, but Huang Chen didn't even bother to glance at him.

After confirming that the rules wouldn't help the opponent recover soul power, Cang Yue was effectively dead in Huang Chen's eyes.

Cang Yue was unwilling and suddenly stood up, but due to exerting too much force, he actually... fractured a bone... "Ouch~"

He consumed a five-flower jade dew, and his vitality recovered slightly. At this point, he realized that his maximum HP had dropped from around 100,000 to 10,000... A surge of anger rushed to his heart, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and then slowly closed his eyes.

Thus, in the 31,415,926th Star Abyss Trial, Cang Yue of the Illusion Clan became the first person to die of old age in the Star Abyss!!

And with Cang Yue's death, the shadow of fear continued to spread and expand, making the entire live broadcast room more explosive than ever.