CHAPTER 118 — The Shattering of Limitation, the Birth of a Sovereign
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Snowpeak Mountain quaked as abyssal pressure gathered like a collapsing star.
The Shade General hovered above the ruined peak, black wings spread wide, six burning eyes fixed on Lin Xuan.
The sky dimmed.
Snow turned to drifting ash.
The wind screamed like a dying world.
Yet Lin was silent.
Still.
Centered.
He wasn't staring at the General.
He was staring at his own trembling hands.
Hands that had held back.
Hands that had clung to fear.
Hands that had shaped a universe—
yet doubted themselves like a mortal clinging to the illusion of limitations.
Mu whispered, voice trembling:
"Lin…? Are you alright?"
Wen stepped closer, sensing something monumental shifting around Lin's presence.
Dragon Bai shrank into a half-human form, watching Lin with reverence—and instinctive dread.
Shengyuan, reborn saint, simply bowed his head.
"World Sovereign… your moment has come."
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1. "Is that air… you're breathing?"
Lin closed his eyes.
The Shade General's laughter echoed like thunder.
> "You are a child holding a world too large for his hands.
You fear it.
You fear yourself.
Come, let me free you from it—"
Lin inhaled.
And for the first time since awakening his inner universe—
he realized he didn't breathe air.
He breathed law.
He breathed potential.
He breathed infinity.
He opened his eyes.
Two suns burned within his pupils.
> "No," Lin whispered.
"Not anymore."
And then, softly—
remembering a movie from Earth that once stirred him—
> "Is that air… I'm breathing?"
The Shade General's smile cracked.
Shengyuan straightened.
Bai's draconic aura surged.
Mu and Wen instinctively stepped back.
Lin lifted his hand.
The entire world responded.
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2. The Abyssal Qi Consumption
A pulse of cosmic resonance burst from Lin's body.
WUUUUUM—!!!
The vortex above Snowpeak trembled.
Abyssal qi that had been flooding the mountain…
STOPPED.
Then reversed.
The abyssal tide—
a force that corrupted everything it touched—
suddenly RUSHED toward Lin like water down a drain.
The Shade General screamed.
> "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
THAT ENERGY BELONGS TO THE ABYSS—"
Lin extended his hand toward the sky.
"Not anymore."
Black rivers of abyssal energy shot toward him—
monstrous, corrosive, endless.
Mu cried out, "LIN NO! That energy—!"
"It will devour you!" Wen shouted.
But Lin didn't flinch.
He opened the gates of his inner universe.
Twin suns flared—
the binary stars of creation.
The vine-heart sapling rooted itself deeper into his world and shone with divine green light.
The draconic egg pulsed, drawing abyssal force like food.
Saint Shengyuan, watching from within the inner earth, whispered in awe:
> "He is using all life within his universe to refine corruption into creation…"
Lin opened his inner world fully—
a sovereign inviting the cosmos to feed.
The abyssal flood poured into him.
And his universe…
EXPANDED.
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3. Upgrading the Solar System — Cosmic Evolution
The binary suns ignited into miniature supernovas.
Planets shifted, growing, stabilizing law formations.
The "Earth" plane Shengyuan lived on expanded into continents.
Seas formed.
Atmospheres thickened.
The vine-heart sapling burst into a towering world tree whose branches touched the skies of the inner universe.
Dragon Bai's dormant egg in the inner world—
its scales flared gold—
and the baby dragon roared in its sleep, evolving rapidly.
Saint Shengyuan's cultivation soared—
late Soul Transformation—
peak Soul Transformation—
and then…
Void Transformation realm.
The saint dropped to one knee inside Lin's world.
> "World Sovereign… thank you."
Outside—
Mu and Wen staggered back from Lin's aura.
Bai (the human spear-wielder) felt his spear spirit awaken from sheer proximity.
The Shade General watched in horror.
> "This is impossible…
You are absorbing abyssal power faster than the Abyss Ancestor himself…!"
Lin whispered:
> "You were right.
My world was young.
Incomplete."
He raised his hand skyward.
His aura burst upward like a cosmic detonation.
> "So I will complete it."
Space cracked above Snowpeak Mountain.
The entire continent felt the shockwave.
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4. The World Sovereign Ascends
The last drop of abyssal qi vanished into Lin's cosmos.
His body glowed with blinding starlight.
His cultivation soared:
Golden Core Peak → Nascent Soul (early) → Nascent Soul (mid) → Nascent Soul (peak)
It didn't stop.
→ Soul Transformation (early).
Snowpeak Mountain trembled.
Shengyuan gasped from inside the inner world:
> "He's overtaking realms that take others centuries…"
But Lin kept absorbing.
His inner universe expanded until it dwarfed previously known pocket realms.
Mu murmured in shock:
"Lin…
Lin is becoming…
something beyond human anymore."
Wen whispered reverently:
"He's becoming a sovereign."
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5. The Abyssal Portals Collapse
As Lin's power reached its peak—
The abyssal portals—
the open wounds in space—
began to quiver.
Then—
CRACK.
One shattered.
Then another.
Dozens.
Hundreds.
The abyssal tide across the continent trembled and—
VANISHED.
Lin had consumed their anchor.
The Shade General screamed in primal rage.
> "YOU DARE CONSUME THE POWER OF THE ABYSSAL ANCESTOR?!"
Lin pointed his spear at him.
Cosmic lightning wrapped around the tip.
> "I dare."
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6. Lin Xuan, Untethered
The Shade General lunged.
Abyssal blades tore reality.
Lin didn't move.
He simply looked up.
Storm clouds gathered overhead.
Heavenly will stirred.
Thunder responded to his call.
A tribulation?
No.
Something worse.
A mixture of celestial lightning and abyssal power—
purified and united within Lin's inner universe—
formed on the tip of his spear.
Lin whispered:
> "Tribulation Lightning… Art:
Sovereign's Judgement."
He thrust.
KRRRRAAAAAAAACK—!!!
The world split in half.
The Shade General was erased—
not slain—
erased from existence.
When the light faded, Lin stood alone atop the ruined Snowpeak.
The battlefield was silent.
Mu, Wen, Bai, and Shengyuan (projected from the inner world) approached him with reverence.
Mu whispered:
"Lin… you… you've become…"
Lin lowered his spear, eyes calm.
"I've merely stopped shackling myself."
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7. Lin's New Path
He closed his eyes.
He felt his universe.
He felt its suns, its world tree, its oceans.
He felt the saint regaining strength.
He felt Bai's egg evolving.
He felt the vine-heart sapling solidifying its laws.
And he felt something else—
A whisper from the deepest part of his world.
The first hint…
of a will of the world beginning to form.
Lin opened his eyes.
"We return to Cloudsky," he said.
"And then…"
His gaze turned east.
Toward the deepest region of abyssal corruption.
Toward where the Abyssal Ancestor was beginning to stir.
> "…we take the fight to the abyss."