CHAPTER 124 — Devourer of the Abyss
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1. The World Behind the Teeth
Darkness swallowed Lin Xuan whole.
But instead of crushing pressure or corrosive liquid, he dropped into—
—a sky.
A broken sky.
Black constellations flickered like dying fireflies.
Continents floated in spirals of shadow.
Rivers of viscous darkness flowed upward, not down.
Eyeless beasts formed from tar-like ooze, then dissolved into pools of corruption.
It was a world.
A domain.
A pocket reality.
The inside of the Hydra-King.
Lin descended gently, spear in hand.
His eyes narrowed.
"So this is a Hydra stomach-world…"
A low whisper vibrated through the void.
> "Welcome to your grave, World-Sovereign."
Hydra voices—all of its heads speaking at once—echoed across the broken heavens.
But Lin felt something else beneath the whispers.
A structure.
A pattern.
A world-like law trying to impose itself on him.
He pressed two fingers to his forehead.
And pushed.
Reality rippled.
Nothing happened.
Lin smirked.
"Nice try. My reality is stronger."
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2. The Realm Tries to Consume Him
The ground bubbled.
Abyssal tendrils burst upward, coiling around Lin's ankles, wrists, waist.
They whispered.
> "…new world…"
"…fresh universe…"
"…open your gates…"
"…let us inside…"
Lin flicked his wrist.
FLASH—!!!
A wave of solar flame erupted from his skin, burning the tendrils to ash.
"Temptation? Psychological corrosion? Weak."
He stepped forward as if strolling through a garden.
"Try harder."
The realm began to tremble—
As if insulted.
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3. The Truth of the Hydra Realm Revealed
Saint Shengyuan's voice echoed through Lin's inner world.
> "Be careful! This is not a stomach—it is a failed world."
Lin paused mid-stride.
"A failed world?"
Shengyuan continued, calm but grave.
> "The Hydra-King devours worlds.
When a world is too strong to fully absorb…
fragments remain. Twisted. Warped."
"Those fragments become its heads."
Lin exhaled.
"…each head is a dead civilization."
Lightly, almost reverently, he touched a floating stone tablet drifting through the air.
It showed ancient writing. A language not of this continent.
He brushed the dust away—
—and the tablet dissolved into ash.
Lin's jaw tightened.
"So that's how many worlds fell before you…"
He looked up at the starless sky.
His eyes hardened.
"…not anymore."
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4. Abyssal Beasts Swarm
The realm shuddered.
RRAAAAAAAARGH!!!
Dozens of abyssal monstrosities erupted from portals—
horrors stitched from shadows and bone.
Multi-limbed giants
Maw-faced serpents
Living shadow storms
Abyssal knights dripping corrupted armor
Lin steadied his spear.
Black lightning cracked across his shoulders.
"Finally."
He vanished—
FLASH!
—and reappeared behind one beast, thrusting the spear through its skull.
BOOM—!!
It exploded in a shower of corruption.
Another lunged.
Lin spun, solar flame bursting from his heel, kicking the creature in half.
A third tried to swallow him whole—
Lin stabbed upward.
KRAAAA—!!
A spear of tribulation lightning lanced through the entire creature, shattering it.
Every death released a burst of abyssal qi.
Lin inhaled.
His inner world drank it eagerly.
Binary suns brightened.
The world tree pulsed.
The vine-heart sapling glowed.
Lin rolled his neck.
"Good fuel."
He stepped forward—
—and the Hydra realm trembled.
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5. Hydra-King's Avatar Manifests
A crack appeared across the void.
From the crack crawled a colossal silhouette—
A dragon-like shadow made entirely of black law and abyssal intent.
Drakarth's voice thundered through the realm:
> "I am this head's master, little Sovereign.
Here… YOU ARE NOTHING."
Lin raised an eyebrow.
"That so?"
The avatar struck instantly.
A pillar of pure void-will shot toward Lin, enough to erase mountains.
Lin responded by raising his hand.
His binary suns manifested overhead—
and the void pillar evaporated.
Drakarth's avatar froze.
Lin smiled thinly.
"You're inside my body now."
He vanished again.
BOOOOOM—!!!
Lin's spear slammed into the avatar's torso, sending it crashing into a floating island.
A second blow shattered its right horn.
A third crushed its chest.
The avatar roared, reforming instantly.
Lin landed, spear at his side.
"So you regenerate too. Figures."
The avatar hissed:
> "You cannot win here!"
Lin's grin widened.
"Oh, but that's where you're wrong."
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6. Why Lin Can Break Abyssal Realms
Lin opened his palm.
His universe unfolded behind him like wings:
Binary suns burning like judgment
World tree reaching into the heavens
The Human, Beast, and Heavenly continents orbiting
The Vine-Heart Sapling pulsing divine law
Stargates shimmering with creation energy
The Hydra realm trembled violently.
The avatar recoiled.
> "W–What are you…?"
Lin's voice was low, resonant.
The voice of a universe.
> "A World-Sovereign."
He stepped forward.
> "Your Abyss corrupts and consumes…"
His spear rose.
> "But my world creates and purifies."
He moved.
The Hydra realm screamed.
Everything it tried to impose—
gravity, law, corrosion, soul pressure—
was overwritten by Lin's inner universe.
Just by his presence.
The avatar staggered.
> "Stop—STOP—YOUR WORLD—IT'S DEVOURING MINE—"
Lin's eyes burned with solar flame.
"Exactly."
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7. Devourer Becomes Devoured
Lin lifted his hand—
—and the world tree's roots erupted from the void.
They tore through islands.
Through sky.
Through the realm's laws.
And they began absorbing everything.
Corruption rivers evaporated.
Abyssal beasts turned to pure energy.
Mountains dissolved and became law-light.
The Hydra realm shrank.
And shrank.
And shrank.
The avatar roared in terror:
> "NO—NOT POSSIBLE—ABYSSAL REALMS CANNOT BE—"
Lin's spear pierced the avatar's core.
KRA-KOOOOOOM—!!!
The avatar shattered into shards of black law, which the world tree devoured eagerly.
Lin exhaled sharply.
He raised his head.
"This world belongs to me now."
The Hydra-King screamed in realspace.
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8. A Second Realm Awakens
As the stomach-world crumbled—
A new crack opened.
A second Hydra head's realm—
darker
older
hungrier—
began to form around Lin.
Lin tightened his grip on his spear.
His eyes glowed with twin suns.
"Round two?"
The Hydra-King's voices echoed:
> "YOU DARE DEVOUR MY WORLD?
THEN FACE THE NEXT—
THE KING'S CORE REALM!"
Lin smiled.
Lightning erupted across his body.
Solar fire ignited behind him.
His inner universe roared.
"Bring it."