CHAPTER 125 — The Core Realm of the Hydra-King
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1. The Dark Gate Opens
The world around Lin Xuan shattered like glass.
One moment, the lesser Hydra-world crumbled into motes of dissolving corruption as his inner universe devoured it.
The next—
—a massive eye opened.
Not a physical eye.
A dimensional one.
A slit of impossible depth cracked open in space, and from it spilled a pressure so ancient and oppressive the void around Lin froze solid like crystallized time.
A single thought pulsed through everything:
> "ENTER."
Lin's vision darkened—
and the world forcibly shifted.
He didn't resist.
If the Hydra-King wanted him inside its core?
Perfect.
He would break it from the inside.
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2. The Core World: A Graveyard of Realities
The ground beneath him steadied.
Lin stood on the surface of an impossible landscape:
A desert made of broken laws
Skies swirling with collapsed timelines
Stars shattered like glass
Faint silhouettes of entire dead worlds drifting like ghosts
This world wasn't just a realm.
It was the burial ground of universes the Hydra-King had devoured.
Lin took a step.
A ripple of sorrowful whispering passed beneath his feet.
He knelt, touching the ground.
A fragment of memory—
A child laughing beneath twin moons.
A world singing in harmony.
Then—
A shadow swallowing it whole.
Lin closed his fist.
"…I'll free you."
A pulse of solar flame purified the memory-fragment, letting it dissolve peacefully.
The realm shuddered.
As if insulted.
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3. The True Hydra-King Reveals Itself
A voice, deeper and older than mountains, echoed:
> "Little Sovereign… you dare interfere with my harvest?"
From the broken stars above, a shape descended.
Not a beast.
Not an avatar.
But something between a deity and a calamity.
A Hydra head—
colossal, obsidian-scaled, with six horns made from shattered constellations—
descended slowly.
Its eyes contained the death of worlds.
Lin spun his spear.
"And you must be Drakarth's true head."
The Hydra's tongue of abyssal lightning lashed out—
Lin swatted it aside with his spear.
The impact cracked the desert of laws beneath them for a thousand li.
The Hydra paused.
As if confused.
Lin smiled.
"You're wondering why the pressure of your realm isn't suppressing me."
His eyes flashed gold-white.
"My world eats suppression."
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4. The Will of the Core World Activates
The entire realm roared.
Not the Hydra.
The world itself.
Broken worlds fused, forming temporary guardians:
A moon-sized skeletal serpent
A titan formed from compressed planetary cores
Wisps of the last memories of fallen civilizations gathering into battle-shades
A sky-spanning abomination stitched from fallen laws
All of them charged Lin.
Lin didn't move.
Behind him—
—his universe unfolded.
The Human continent.
The Beast continent.
The Heavenly continent.
Binary suns blazing.
World tree branches cracking through the sky.
Vine-heart sapling pulsing like a newborn cosmic heart.
Dragon Bai's egg-nest shimmering with tribulation lightning.
Saint Shengyuan's human tribe beginning to flourish.
Aurora guiding the first generation of inhabitants.
The entire inner world manifested like a phantom galaxy.
Lin's voice was quiet.
> "Suppress."
The guardians froze mid-charge.
Cracks raced down their bodies.
Lin lifted his spear.
Solar fire spiraled around him like a burning galaxy.
He swung once—
and the guardians dissolved into particles of purified law.
The Hydra-King bellowed in fury.
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5. The Hydra's True Intent
The Hydra lowered its head until one titanic eye filled the sky.
> "Your world… is flawed. Unripe. Incomplete."
"You should submit to me."
Lin snorted.
"That's what they all say before I absorb them."
The Hydra's laughter shook the realm.
> "Foolish child."
"Do you know why your world is so attractive?"
Lin remained silent.
The Hydra continued:
> "Newly-made worlds have no will, no self.
They cannot resist being consumed."
"Your inner universe is perfect nourishment."
"It alone can push me into—"
"True Demigod."
Lin's eyes narrowed.
So Saint Shengyuan had been right.
If the Hydra-King ate his world, it would evolve into a calamity-class existence.
Lin raised his spear slowly.
"And that," he said quietly, "is why I'll kill you here."
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6. Hydra-King Opens the Abyssal Conduit
The ground cracked.
Space tore.
A massive portal opened—
Abyssal qi poured in like a tsunami.
The Hydra-King lowered its heads (for it now grew more than one).
Each chanted abyssal runes.
> "ABYSSAL CONDUIT: ACTIVATE."
The sky turned black.
The ground liquified.
A flood of abyssal law streamed toward Lin—
not to attack—
but to swallow his universe.
Lin twirled the spear once.
Solar fire spiraled upward like a blooming sun lotus.
He whispered:
> "You want to devour my world?"
Lightning exploded along his arms.
Solar flares burst from his back.
The Vine-Heart Sapling released purifying waves.
Dragon Bai's egg hummed with dragon might.
Saint Shengyuan's Saint Realm will vibrated through the inner continents.
Lin took a single step forward.
> "My world devours back."
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7. Lin Activates His Universe Devouring Art
Lin pressed his left hand forward.
His binary solar system expanded—
—two suns became two supernovae.
Their gravitational fields twisted the Hydra's realm.
The world tree's roots pierced through space.
Every planet's law-circuits shone like constellations.
A cosmic chant rose:
> "World Devouring Art—
Sovereign Heaven Manifestation."
His universe reached out—
—and began eating the abyssal conduit.
The Hydra-King screamed.
Corruption dissolved.
Abyssal qi reversed direction.
Entire fragments of the core realm were pulled into Lin's universe.
The sky cracked.
The earth buckled.
Stars imploded under the pull.
Lin's eyes shone like twin suns.
He whispered:
> "This realm belongs to me now."
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8. The Hydra Reveals Its Final Card — Its True Body
The entire realm shook violently.
Not from Lin.
From something far larger.
The Hydra's core head hissed:
> "You leave me no choice… Sovereign."
The ground split—
—and the true Hydra body emerged.
Titans would tremble before it.
Saints would kneel.
Demigods would flee.
A body the size of a small world.
Hundreds of heads.
Each wearing a crown of dead stars.
All eyes locked onto Lin.
> "BEHOLD. MY TRUE FORM."
"THE ONE WHO HAS EATEN NINE WORLDS."
"PREPARE TO JOIN THEM."
Even Lin felt the pressure spike.
But he wasn't afraid.
Instead, he smirked.
"Good. I was hoping you'd take this seriously."
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9. The Hydra Charges
The Hydra roared.
A world-ending blast of abyssal annihilation surged from its mouths.
Lin planted his feet.
His universe roared behind him.
Binary suns flared.
World tree erupted skyward.
Dragon Bai stirred in his egg-nest.
Saint Shengyuan's Saint realm will resonated.
The continents glowed with formation-light.
Aurora raised her hand, channeling creation law.
Lin raised his spear.
Solar lightning spiraled.
A universe faced a monster that had devoured nine worlds.
Lin's voice was calm.
> "Come."
The Hydra charged.
The universe behind Lin ignited.