195: The Finale

Under the blood-red sky.

Lin Fan stood on a hill formed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, beneath his feet were the shattered heads of three ten-thousand-zhang tall Abyssal Demon Gods.

He shook the purple-black demonic blood from his hands, and with a swirl of Chaos currents, the filth was gone.

"That's it?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it spread across the entire battlefield.

Below, the million-strong alien army was silent.

Three minutes ago, they were still gathering, preparing for a massive invasion of Earth in a month.

Three minutes later, their commanders—three Late Stage Martial Venerable Abyssal Demon Gods—were blown apart bare-handed by a human who suddenly emerged from a spatial rift.

He didn't even use a weapon.

It was truly... bare-handed.

One punch for each.

Like smashing watermelons.

*Gulp.*

A Two-Horned Demon in the front row swallowed hard, the burning battle-axe in its hand trembling slightly.

It had participated in three hundred Plane Wars and slaughtered dozens of races, but it had never seen such an absurd scene.

Those were Demon Gods!

The rulers of the Ninth Layer of the Abyss! Beings that could crush stars with a single finger!

How did they... shatter?

Lin Fan scanned the field.

A million-strong army, various races: Two-Horned Demons, Corrupted Demons, Shadow Demons, Bone Dragons, Abyssal Behemoths... the weakest was at the Martial King cultivation level, with tens of thousands of Martial Emperors and over a hundred Martial Venerables.

On Earth, this army could sweep through everything.

But in his eyes—

"They're all experience packs."

He smiled.

"System, activate Group Battle Prestige Mode."

[Ding! Group Battle Prestige Mode activated! Enemies within range: 1,023,487!]

[For every enemy killed, prestige value is gained based on their strength!]

[Current Map: Ninth Layer of the Abyss · Crimson Wasteland]

Lin Fan cracked his neck, his bones popping.

"Well then—"

"Time to start farming points."

As his voice fell.

He moved.

No fancy Moves, no complex Laws.

Just the simplest and most brutal—

Collision!

Boom!!!

Lin Fan turned into a gray stream of light and crashed into the center of the million-strong army!

Wherever he passed, flesh and blood flew!

Two-Horned Demons? Smashed!

Corrupted Demons? Turned to dust!

Bone Dragons? Dragon bones snapped into pieces!

Abyssal Behemoths? Pierced through, leaving blood holes ten meters in diameter!

In just three seconds.

Lin Fan pierced through the entire formation.

Behind him, a blood-red path a hundred meters wide and dozens of miles long was left.

Within the path, there wasn't a single intact corpse.

Only shredded meat.

[Ding! Killed Martial King-level enemies × 12,384, prestige value +123,840!]

[Ding! Killed Martial Emperor-level enemies × 2,157, prestige value +215,700!]

[Ding! Killed Early Stage Martial Venerable enemies × 33, prestige value +330,000!]

The prestige value soared wildly!

"Mon... Monster!!!"

Finally, a demon broke down, threw away its weapon, and turned to flee.

A chain reaction.

The morale of the million-strong army collapsed instantly!

"Run!!!"

"He's not human! He's a Demon God! No, even more terrifying than a Demon God!"

"Back to the Abyss! Quickly, back to the Abyss!!"

The army scattered, surging like a tide toward a towering black castle in the distance—the teleportation array to the Eighth Layer of the Abyss.

Lin Fan didn't pursue.

He hovered in mid-air, watching the fleeing army, and suddenly spoke:

"Did I say you could leave?"

His voice was calm.

Yet it made all the fugitives freeze.

The next second.

Lin Fan formed hand seals.

Chaos Prototype at 85% was operating at full power!

"Chaos Manifestation Technique · Six Laws Returning to Origin—"

"Heaven and Earth Cage!"

Buzz!!!

The gray Chaos Domain expanded wildly, instantly covering a thousand miles!

Six Laws evolved and intertwined within the Domain—

The sharpness of Gold turned into billions of sword blades suspended in the air!

The vitality of Wood turned into vines locking down the Earth!

The continuity of Water turned into cold ice freezing space!

The violence of Fire turned into heavenly flames burning everything!

The heaviness of Earth turned into mountains suppressing all directions!

Finally, the speed of Wind turned into astral winds slicing through all things!

Six Laws combined into one, creating its own world!

Within a thousand miles, it became a dead land!

"No—!!!"

"Let us out!!"

"Fight him to the death!!!"

The desperate alien races began to counterattack, throwing all sorts of innate Divine Abilities, forbidden techniques, and secret methods at Lin Fan as if they cost nothing.

Lin Fan merely raised his hand and lightly clenched it.

"Extinguish."

The Six Laws rotated.

Sword blades slashed! Vines strangled! Ice froze! Heavenly flames burned! Mountains suppressed! Astral winds sliced!

The million-strong army was like being thrown into a meat grinder.

Screams.

Wails.

Begging for mercy.

Cursing.

The sounds lasted for a full ten minutes.

Ten minutes later.

The Domain dissipated.

The thousand-mile Crimson Wasteland went silent.

Only Lin Fan stood alone in the sky, beneath him was... an endless mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

A true mountain of corpses.

A true sea of blood.

The million-strong alien army was completely wiped out.

[Ding! Annihilated the main army of the Ninth Layer of the Abyss, prestige value +5,000,000!]

[Ding! Achievement "One Man Army" unlocked, bonus prestige value +1,000,000!]

[Current prestige value: 6,417,000!]

Six million four hundred and seventeen thousand!

Lin Fan's eyes lit up.

"System, exchange for 'Advanced chaos enlightenment pill'!"

[Ding! Consumed 5,000,000 prestige value, exchange successful!]

A Medicinal Pill swirled with Chaos currents appeared in his hand.

Lin Fan swallowed it directly.

Boom—!!!

This time, the insights were like a floodgate being opened!

The Chaos Prototype climbed wildly!

85%... 86%... 87%... finally, it stopped at 90%!

Just one step away from Chaos Prototype Perfection!

"Still not enough."

Lin Fan looked at the black castle in the distance.

There, the abyssal aura was even denser.

"Finished with the minions, time to fight the BOSS."

He took a step forward, crossing a thousand miles in an instant, and arrived before the castle.

The castle was ten thousand zhang tall, made entirely of abyssal obsidian, its surface covered in twisted runes.

The gates were tightly shut.

From inside the gates, a low voice came:

"Human... you've gone too far."

The voice was aged, but it contained a terrifying pressure.

Peak Martial Venerable!

Or even... Half-Step Martial God!

Lin Fan smiled.

"Too far? This is just the beginning."

"Open the door, or—"

He threw a punch.

"I'll tear it down."

Rumble!!!

The ten-thousand-zhang tall obsidian gate was smashed into countless fragments by a single punch!

The interior of the castle was revealed.

It was a great hall.

On the throne of the hall sat an old man clad in black robes.

The old man's face was haggard, his eye sockets sunken, and he held a white bone scepter.

Behind him stood twelve guards with terrifying auras—all Late Stage Martial Venerables!

And the old man himself... "Lord of the Ninth Layer of the Abyss, Mephisto."

The old man slowly stood up, and for every inch he rose, his pressure grew stronger.

When he stood fully upright, his pressure was comparable to an Early Stage Martial God!

"Human, you are very powerful."

Mephisto's voice was raspy:

"But you shouldn't have come to the Abyss."

"This is my Domain."

He struck his scepter.

The abyssal Laws of the entire Ninth Layer began to boil and converge, empowering him.

His aura surged again!

Middle Stage Martial God!

"Do you see?"

Mephisto opened his arms:

"Here, I am a god."

"You killed my million-strong army and destroyed three of my generals."

"Now, it's time to pay the price."

He raised his hand, pointing the scepter at Lin Fan:

"Abyssal Judgment—"

"Eternal Descent into Avici!"

The ceiling of the hall cracked open, and endless Abyssal Devilish Qi turned into a giant claw that blotted out the sun, grabbing toward Lin Fan!

This claw contained the Abyssal Origin Law.

An ordinary Martial God would die upon contact!

However.

Lin Fan just looked up.

"A god?"

He smiled.

A very mocking smile.

"With just this bit of Devilish Qi, you dare call yourself a god?"

He didn't retreat but Advanced, taking a step toward the demonic claw!

Chaos Prototype at 90% exploded with full power!

"Let me show you what true—"

"Chaos Heaven-Splitting is!"

Lin Fan's hands made a grasping motion, and Chaos currents condensed wildly, turning into a gray phantom of a giant axe.

On the axe's body, the Six Laws rotated, and time and space trembled.

"Slash."

One axe strike.

No sound.

No explosion.

The moment the demonic claw met the axe light, it was like snow meeting a blazing sun, silently... annihilated.

Not smashed.

Directly erased from the level of existence!

Mephisto's pupils shrank.

"Impossible! This is... Chaos Law?! You're just a human, how could you possibly master Chaos?!"

"Correct."

Lin Fan had already appeared before him.

"The reward is—"

"Death."

He threw a punch.

Simple and unadorned.

But where the fist passed, space collapsed, Laws wailed, and even the Abyssal Origin was retreating!

Mephisto roared, his scepter erupting with piercing black light, and the twelve guards attacked simultaneously!

Thirteen attacks converged, turning into a ten-thousand-zhang demonic Dragon that lunged toward Lin Fan!

"Trivial tricks."

Lin Fan's fist momentum didn't change.

The fist collided with the demonic Dragon.

Sizzle—!!!

Starting from the Dragon's head, the demonic Dragon disintegrated inch by inch!

The punch pierced through the Dragon's body, its momentum undiminished, striking Mephisto's chest!

Pfft!

The black robes exploded.

His chest was pierced through.

Mephisto looked down at the blood hole in his chest, his eyes full of disbelief.

"I... I am the Abyssal Lord... How could I..."

"Lord?" Lin Fan retracted his fist. "Not for much longer."

He raised his hand, and the Chaos Domain expanded, enveloping the entire hall.

"Chaos Returning to Origin."

Buzz.

The gray currents swept through.

Mephisto, along with the twelve guards, turned into the most primitive particles and returned to Chaos.

[Ding! Killed the Lord of the Ninth Layer of the Abyss, Mephisto (Half-Step Martial God), prestige value +2,000,000!]

[Ding! Killed Late Stage Martial Venerable guards × 12, prestige value +1,200,000!]

[Current prestige value: 9,617,000!]

Nearly ten million prestige value!

Lin Fan didn't exchange it immediately.

He looked behind the throne.

There was a door there.

From inside the door, an enticing aura emanated.

"A treasury?"

Lin Fan pushed the door open and entered.

Then, he froze.

Behind the door was not a treasury.

But an... altar.

On the altar hovered a gray crystal the size of a fist.

Inside the crystal, Chaos currents flowed, as if nurturing a miniature Universe.

[Detected rare item: Chaos Origin Crystal (Fragment)]

[Description: A crystal fragment manifested from Chaos Law, containing the purest Chaos Origin. Refining it can significantly increase the progress of the Chaos Prototype.]

[Warning: This item's energy is violent. Anyone below the Martial God level will surely die if they attempt to refine it.]

Lin Fan smiled.

"Anyone below the Martial God level will surely die?"

"Then I, this Martial Emperor, will have to try."

He reached out and grasped the crystal.

Boom—!!!

Violent Chaos energy instantly surged into his body!

Meridians exploded! Bones shattered! Internal organs shifted!

Anyone else would have died long ago.

But Lin Fan only let out a muffled groan.

Chaos Prototype at 90% operated wildly, assimilating, absorbing, and devouring!

Pain?

It was very painful.

But compared to the temptation of becoming stronger, what was pain?

"Refine... for me!"

Lin Fan sat cross-legged and focused on refining.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

Outside the altar, the entire Ninth Layer of the Abyss began to collapse.

With the Lord dead and the Origin seized, this layer was about to be annihilated.

The fourth day.

Lin Fan opened his eyes.

In his eyes, Chaos was born and destroyed, and the Universe went through Reincarnation.

Chaos Prototype—

Soared from 90% to 95%!

Only the last 5% remained to reach Perfection!

"Good stuff."

Lin Fan clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body.

Now, even without using the Chaos Manifestation Technique, relying only on his Physical Body and Chaos Prototype, he could go head-to-head with a Middle Stage Martial God!

If the Six Laws combined, even a Late Stage Martial God could be slain!

"Time to go back."

He stood up, about to leave.

But out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a line of small characters carved at the base of the altar.

It wasn't abyssal script.

It was... Chinese characters!

"To the successor: if you can see these words, it means you have refined the Chaos crystal."

"I am the ancestor of Earth, the Xuanyuan Clan."

"Thirty thousand years ago, we were forced to leave Earth and fight across the heavens."

"I left this crystal for the later generations."

"Beneath the nine layers of the Abyss, the tail of 'Earth's Dragon Vein' is suppressed."

"If you wish for Earth's Spiritual Qi to fully recover, you must retrieve the Dragon Vein."

"Remember, at the bottommost layer of the Abyss... there is a guardian of 'that thing'."

"Do not enter unless you are a Martial God."

The writing ended there.

Lin Fan's pupils shrank.

Earth's ancestor?

The Xuanyuan Clan?

Beneath the Abyss, Earth's Dragon Vein is suppressed?

Too much information.

But he quickly sorted out his thoughts.

"In other words, the reason Earth's Spiritual Qi is thin is that the Dragon Vein is suppressed in the Abyss?"

"If I retrieve the Dragon Vein, Earth's Spiritual Qi will fully recover, perhaps even surpassing ancient times?"

A sharp light flashed in Lin Fan's eyes.

"Then what am I waiting for?"

"The Dragon Vein, I'll take it."

"A guardian?"

He grinned:

"Just what I needed for practice."

He turned and walked into the depths of the castle.

There was a downward passage there.

Leading to the Eighth Layer of the Abyss.

And the path to Earth's Dragon Vein.

[Ding! Discovered Earth's ancestor's last words, triggered hidden mission: Retrieve the Dragon Vein]

[Mission Reward: Chaos Prototype directly reaches Perfection, prestige value +10,000,000, Earth's Spiritual Qi concentration increased by a hundredfold]

Lin Fan's footsteps paused.

One billion prestige value?

Earth's Spiritual Qi increased a hundredfold?

"I'll take this mission."

He no longer hesitated and stepped into the passage.

Before his figure disappeared, he left a sentence:

"Wait for me to return from the bottommost layer of the Abyss—"

"Earth will usher in its true golden age."

The passage closed.

The Ninth Layer completely collapsed.

And from deeper within the Abyss, an ancient sigh came:

"After thirty thousand years... has someone finally reached this step..."

"Xuanyuan, your descendant is even more... than you thought..."

"Arrogant."

The End