342: Take the initiative and venture into the multidimensional universe!

Pangu Continent, Perimeter Defense Line.

The '404 dimensional wall' that had protected Earth Civilization for a full ten thousand years was now slowly becoming transparent.

This was not a failure of defense.

This was a proactive deactivation.

Like a long-slumbering tiger, it had personally unlatched its cage.

"Is this what the outside smells like?"

Ye Qingcang stood on the deck of the spaceship name and took a deep breath.

Pure oxygen filtered by the air circulation system entered his lungs, but he felt as if he could smell the nauseating scent of blood and decay in the void.

"It really stinks."

The Old General spat, but the fierce light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"But, I like it."

Behind him...

...were a thousand ten-thousand-meter-tall Xingtian Divine Mechanism Guards.

They were no longer as still as statues; all had activated combat mode. Golden divine fire burned on their hulls, and the Law Axes in their hands hummed with a thirst for blood.

And even further back...

...were hundreds of millions of drone swarm spaceship names, as well as the Dimensional Reduction Strike groups loaded with Two-Dimensional Foil matrices.

This was the foundation Lu Chen had built up over ten thousand years.

An iron torrent sufficient to level any god-level civilization.

"Commander Lu."

Zhao Feng's voice trembled slightly, not from fear, but from excitement.

"The entire army is fully charged."

"Coordinates locked: Abyss Core—[City of Sin]."

"Ready to... board at any time."

"Board?"

Lu Chen sat on his Void Throne, playing with the black stone tablet fragment inherited from Universe No. 0001.

He smiled.

The smile was somewhat cold, somewhat wicked.

"Zhao Feng, your vision is too narrow."

Lu Chen stood up, his black trench coat fluttering behind him.

His gaze was like lightning, scanning the massive fleet about to set out on the expedition.

"We aren't going there to board ships like bandits."

"We are going there to..."

Lu Chen suddenly waved his hand, pointing toward the deep, dark Abyss filled with the unknown and terror.

"...do some cleaning!"

"That place is too filthy."

"So filthy it makes me sick."

"Since no one is looking after it, I will."

"heavenly craft!"

"Present! Father!" heavenly craft's figure manifested in the void, her battle skirt fluttering like a Valkyrie's.

"Deactivate stealth!"

"Tear open the barrier!"

"Tell that Augustus..."

In Lu Chen's pupils, the gold and silver lights merged instantly, turning into a ball of chaotic flame capable of incinerating the heavens.

"...that his debt collector..."

"...has arrived!"

Rumble—!!!

Following Lu Chen's command...

...the '404' wall spanning the void collapsed instantly.

Immediately after...

...an indescribably massive golden torrent, carrying ten thousand years of a civilization's accumulated fury, forcibly smashed through the boundaries of dimensions!

Space shattered.

Time flowed backward.

When vision cleared again...

...they were no longer on the Pangu Continent.

Before them was a dark red, distorted starry sky filled with madness and chaos.

Normal physical rules did not exist here.

Stars were square, planets were liquid, and even light was curved.

This was the Abyss.

The junkyard of the Multiverse, and the carnival grounds for all fallen civilizations.

"This is the... Abyss?"

Wang Peng looked at the bizarre planet outside the window that had eyes and was chewing on a meteorite, the fat on his face trembling in fear.

"Is this freaking hell?"

"That is hell."

Lu Chen walked to the very front of the bridge.

He could feel that the moment they arrived, countless greedy, malicious divine senses filled with inquisitive desire swept over from all directions.

Like a sheep walking into a pack of wolves.

"Oh, a newcomer?"

"Such a fresh aura... which Novice Village did this fat sheep run out of?"

"Rob him! Kill the men, keep the women!"

The public channel was instantly filled with all sorts of foul language and crazed roars.

Hundreds of 'pirate fleets' composed of different races, like sharks smelling blood, came howling out of various meteorite belts.

They surrounded the spaceship name on all sides.

Energy cannon muzzles of various colors flickered with dangerous light.

"Fat sheep?"

Ye Qingcang looked at those tattered, patchwork pirate ships, his mouth twitching slightly.

"Commander Lu, these people... are they blind?"

"They aren't blind."

Lu Chen looked at the fools who didn't know they were facing death, his eyes showing no ripple of emotion.

Like an elephant looking at ants by its feet.

"They just... haven't been beaten yet."

"Since we're here to do some cleaning..."

"...let's start with the sweeping."

Lu Chen raised a finger and pressed it down lightly toward the pirate fleets.

"Clear the area."

No nonsense.

No testing the waters.

Voom—!!!

The thousand Xingtian mechas that had been silent moved simultaneously.

They didn't use any fancy moves.

They simply raised their giant battle axes in unison.

And then...

...they swung down.

"Heaven Splitting!"

Boom—!!!!

That wasn't a thousand attacks.

Those were a thousand 'Law Rifts' capable of slicing through dimensions!

Space was 'cut open' in a physical sense at this moment.

The pirate fleets clamoring to rob them didn't even have time to scream before they and their ships were neatly sliced in half!

Not just the ships.

Even the meteorite belts behind them, and even that bizarre planet with eyes... all were cut into neat slices by this single volley!

Like a hot knife through butter.

Smooth and lethal.

One second.

Just one second.

The originally noisy, chaotic, and malicious outer reaches of the Abyss...

...became quiet.

Only the wreckage floating everywhere and the energy sparks that hadn't yet dissipated remained to tell of the terror just now.

*Gulp.*

In the distance, several high-level civilization scouts who had intended to observe for amusement swallowed hard.

They looked at that silent, cold, Reaper-like fleet, their very souls trembling.

This is a fat sheep?

This is clearly a Tyrannosaurus Rex in sheep's clothing!

"This is... a greeting?"

Wang Peng looked at the radar display that had cleared in an instant and wiped his cold sweat.

"Brother Chen, aren't we being a bit too high-profile?"

"High-profile?"

Lu Chen withdrew his finger and adjusted his cuffs, which weren't even messy.

"Wang Peng, remember this."

"In this place where the strong prey on the weak..."

"...being low-profile is for the dead."

"Only by breaking their bones and pulling out their teeth..."

"...will they learn..."

Lu Chen looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing through layers of the Abyss to look directly at Augustus, who sat at the end of the darkness.

"...how to speak properly."

"Continue advancing!"

Lu Chen's voice was as cold as iron.

"The objective remains unchanged."

"Drag that man named Augustus out for me!"

"Ask him..."

"...that debt of mine..."

"...what he intends to pay it back with!"