CHAPTER 128 — The Abyssal Ancestor Descends
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1. The Tear in Reality Widens
Space didn't merely split—
It peeled.
Like wet parchment dissolving under acid, the sky melted away, exposing a churning abyss behind it. Waves of black-hole-like suction warped mountains, oceans, even the clouds above.
Every living creature for hundreds of thousands of li was forced to its knees.
The Hydra-King collapsed trembling, pressing its body flat against the ground—
a world-eater bowing in instinctive terror.
Dragon Bai's scales stiffened.
Inside Lin's universe, the Saint Shengyuan surged to his feet, face transforming with dread.
"Lin! Brace yourself—this aura… this is beyond Saints or Demigods…"
Outside, Lin felt his heart seize in his chest as a single finger—just a finger—pushed through the rift.
It was the size of a mountain range.
Black scales covered it, each plate carved with abyssal laws.
Behind that finger, a golden, pupil-less eye rolled open.
Its light alone erased a portion of the realm's sky.
> "MY MINION HAS SUFFERED DAMAGE."
The voice came from everywhere—
around them, inside them, below them, above them.
Even Lin's inner universe trembled.
> "WHO HAS WOUNDED WHAT IS MINE?"
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2. The Abyssal Ancestor Reveals Himself
More of the creature pushed through—
A head crowned with ten horns, each tipped with a dying star.
A jaw lined with thousands of teeth, each tooth forged from swallowed worlds.
Wings made of black holes, folding inward like gravitational blades.
It was—
A DEMIGOD.
A genuine, ancient Abyssal Demigod—a being whose presence warped the laws of the continent.
Lin's breath hitched.
Dragon Bai whispered:
> "Master… that is no mere Demigod. That is a… Primordial Demigod. One step beneath true Godhood."
The Hydra-King whimpered audibly.
The Abyssal Ancestor ignored everything except Lin.
The colossal golden eye narrowed.
> "YOU."
A force slammed into Lin—
not physical, not spiritual, but conceptual.
His soul shook.
His laws flickered.
His universe shuddered violently.
> "YOU BEAR A WORLD THAT HAS NOT YET FORMED ITS WILL."
The eye brightened, hungry.
> "A NEW-BORN REALM… RIPE FOR DEVOURING."
Dragon Bai roared in fury, lightning exploding outward.
But the Ancestor didn't even glance at him.
> "THE FLEDGLING DRAGON IS USELESS. THE WORLD CARRIED BY THIS HUMAN IS WHAT I WANT."
Lin gripped his spear.
"So… you want to feed on my universe to reach Godhood."
The Ancestor smiled, revealing a maw large enough to swallow continents.
> "NO—TO PERFECT GODHOOD."
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3. Lin's Universe Reacts — A Sovereign Under Pressure
Lin's inner world panicked.
The suns flickered erratically
World Tree trembled violently
Aurora collapsed to her knees
The Saint Shengyuan clutched his chest
The Vine-Heart Sapling shrank, curling its leaves
Dragon Bai's egg-shell nest shuddered
The heavenly continent cracked at its edges
Lin almost dropped to his knees.
The Ancestor's presence alone nearly crushed his universe.
This was the level of an entity that devours fully grown worlds, not infant cosmos like Lin's.
Lin clenched his teeth.
"No… No! I won't allow it!"
The Ancestor chuckled.
> "ALLOW? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ALLOW ANYTHING."
His hand extended downward—
A hand bigger than the sect, bigger than the Hydra-King, bigger than the entire battlefield.
He aimed to seize Lin—
and the universe inside him.
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4. Dragon Bai Intercepts — But Is Overwhelmed Instantly
Dragon Bai shot forward in a burst of lightning.
His roar ripped open the air.
But the Ancestor snapped a wing.
CRACK!!!
Dragon Bai was hurled back thousands of li, slamming into a cracked mountain. He fainted instantly, lightning sputtering.
"Bai!!!"
Lin tried to rush to him—
But the Ancestor's voice blocked him like a physical barrier.
> "THE DRAGON CUB IS NOT MY TARGET."
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5. Lin Attempts the Sovereign Second Form — and Fails
Lin raised his spear.
Solar runes ignited.
Universe Resonance surged outward.
Binary suns roared behind him.
He thrust—
[Sovereign Constellation: Second Form — Celestial Dragon Ascent!]
A solar dragon spiraled forward—
Only for the Ancestor's finger to flick it aside like dust.
The dragon exploded into harmless motes.
Lin was blasted backward, vomiting blood midair.
His spear nearly flew from his grip.
The Ancestor's laughter boomed:
> "INFANTILE. PATHETIC. AMUSING."
> "THIS IS THE LIMIT OF A MORTAL WHO HAS BARELY TOUCHED SOVEREIGN POWER."
Lin's legs shook.
His universe was fracturing.
He couldn't win.
He couldn't even survive long enough to fight.
And the Ancestor hadn't even truly tried.
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6. The Ancestor Makes His Move — The Hand That Devours Universes
The massive hand descended.
Every cultivator within a thousand li fainted.
Even the Hydra-King buried its head, refusing to look.
Lin tried to dodge.
He could not move.
Not from fear—
but because the laws of reality themselves froze him in place.
The Ancestor spoke calmly:
> "I CLAIM THIS WORLD."
Lin whispered:
"No…
No…
NO!"
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7. A Spark — Lin's Universe Refuses to Die
Deep in Lin's sea of consciousness…
…one star refused to dim.
It pulsed.
Once.
Twice.
Then exploded with golden radiance.
Aurora gasped.
"Lin!! Something is responding—something you've never tapped into before!"
The World Tree roared, rising skyward.
The suns aligned.
Dragon Bai stirred.
The Saint lifted his head, eyes glowing.
> "Lin Xuan! USE IT! THAT IS THE POWER OF A TRUE WORLD SOVEREIGN—THE RIGHT TO DEFY OUTSIDE DOMINATION!"
Lin's body ignited with cosmic light.
The Ancestor's hand paused.
Just a fraction.
But enough.
Lin roared, unleashing everything he had—
[SOVEREIGN CONSTELLATION: THIRD FORM — SOLAR ANNIHILATION STARFALL!!!]
But this time—
His universe roared WITH him.
A torrent of law-force surged forth.
Stars spun.
Suns erupted.
The tree's branches became constellations.
Dragon Bai's lightning fused with his technique.
Aurora directed the flow.
The Saint added Saint-level law.
A newborn cosmos struck a Primordial Demigod—
And the world exploded.
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8. A Voice Older Than the Ancestor
Dust.
Silence.
A crater that stretched beyond sight.
Lin gasped, struggling to stay upright.
The Ancestor lowered his claw.
A small burn-mark scarred its palm.
The Demigod stared at it in disbelief.
> "…You… wounded me?"
The universe froze.
The Hydra-King fainted.
Dragon Bai stirred in shock.
The Ancestor's pupils contracted.
> "UNACCEPTABLE."
He inhaled—
A devouring breath that ripped at the realm—
Until—
A THIRD VOICE echoed from beyond the heavens.
Cold.
Primordial.
Sovereign.
"ABYSSAL CREATURE. YOU OVERSTEP."
The Ancestor froze.
Lin's heart stopped.
Because this voice…
…it did not belong to anyone from the continent.
It came from the outer cosmos.
A new entity was descending.