99: Chapter 99 Violent Demolition: Abyss Lord, Your Household Registration Has Been Cancelled
Second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, Restricted Book Area.
The air seemed to freeze. The ink bottle, now stamped with a bright red [Illegal Construction] Seal, was trembling violently. Inside the bottle, the sliver of the Abyssal Lord's True Spirit had transformed into a giant blood-red eye, staring fixedly at Li Mo with eyes full of disbelief and fury.
"Mortal... how dare you..." "I am the Dominator of the Abyss... I am the rules... how dare you use such a ridiculous stamp to humiliate me?!"
With its roar, the bottle shattered. A terrifying storm of black energy erupted instantly, attempting to break through the roof of the Scripture Pavilion and pierce the clouds. It wanted to reshape this space and turn it into its "Abyssal Palace."
However, at the very moment the black storm was about to take shape, a piercing, ear-grating roar that seemed to come from the depths of Hell rang out. It wasn't the wailing of ghosts or the howling of wolves, but— Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!
It was the sound of a jackhammer striking the ground.
[System Announcement: Illegal Construction detected (Abyssal Palace · Unfinished Version).] [Enforcement Team is in position.] [Execution Plan: Explosive Demolition.]
In the Void Realm, no golden-armored Divine Beings appeared. Instead, several translucent, giant... yellow excavators and bulldozers appeared out of thin air. These were the manifestations of "Rules."
"What are these things?!" The Abyssal Lord was stunned. Its Divine Sense swept over those excavators, only to find they were covered in Great Dao Runes it couldn't understand (which were actually the "Urban Planning Law").
"Demolish!" Li Mo stood behind his desk and coldly spat out a single word.
Boom! The bucket of the first excavator, carrying unparalleled "Administrative Power," slammed down fiercely. This shovel strike didn't care about physical damage; it only cared about "Demolition Logic." The logic: since it's an Illegal Construction, it must disappear.
"Ahhh—!!!" The Abyssal Lord let out a miserable scream. Its newly condensed black storm was like an illegal awning encountering the Urban Management Team, instantly shoveled into pieces. "Bastard! My Domain! My Law!" It tried to repair it, but for every bit it fixed, the bulldozer leveled it.
"Stop! I am willing to negotiate!" The Abyssal Lord finally panicked. This power was too bizarre; it felt its True Spirit being forcibly "formatted," compressed, and sliced.
"Negotiate?" Li Mo picked up his teacup and blew on the foam. "I'm sorry, the Forced Demolition Order has already been issued. The process is complete; it can't be stopped."
He pointed above his head: "Also, don't forget to pay the 'Fine for Obstruction of Public Thoroughfare'."
As soon as he finished speaking, a giant iron ball (specifically for wrecking buildings) fell from the Void Realm. Bang! This time, it hit that blood-red eyeball dead center.
Before the Abyssal Lord could even utter its last threat, its entire True Spirit was crushed flat by this arrogant and unreasonable force. The terrifying energy that had been spreading began to rapidly collapse and solidify under the compression of the "Demolition Rules."
Three breaths later. The storm subsided. The excavators dissipated. On the desk, there was no longer an ink bottle, nor an Abyssal Lord. Only a... square, shiny black brick remained.
Li Mo walked over, picked up the brick, and weighed it in his hand. It had a good weight and felt excellent. On the back of the brick, the pattern of that blood-red eye was faintly imprinted, though now it looked more like an anti-counterfeit logo.
[Congratulations on obtaining a Legendary Item: Abyss Foundation Stone.] [Description: Forged under high pressure from a sliver of the Abyssal Lord's True Spirit. Indestructible and comes with a "Deterrence" aura.] [Usage: Guaranteed to knock someone out when used to hit them; used to protect the house and ward off evil when building; used to prop up table legs... a bit of a waste.]
"Tsk tsk, what a pity." Li Mo sighed. "I originally wanted to make it into a specimen, but the Enforcement Team was too heavy-handed and pressed it directly into building material."
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Meanwhile, outside the Scripture Pavilion.
The Righteous Path Cultivators' "Script Kill" was still ongoing. Although the brief energy eruption on the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion had been suppressed, the sliver of aura that leaked out still caused the sky outside to change color. Dark clouds gathered, and lightning flashed.
"Look! That is the Devil King's death struggle!" Emperor of Great Zhou Emperor of Great Zhou (part-time stagehand) was quick-eyed and quick-handed, pointing at the sky and shouting, "The Saint is having the final decisive battle with the Devil King!"
"How terrifying! This aura... I feel my Soul trembling!" The Sect Master of the Haoran Sect (VVIP extra) clutched his chest. Although he saw nothing, it didn't stop him from imagining an epic cross-dimensional duel.
Just then, the second-floor window opened. Li Mo's figure appeared at the window. Holding the black brick in his hand, he waved to Butcher Xiao below.
"Director Xiao! Catch!" Li Mo tossed it casually. The brick traced a parabola and landed precisely in front of Butcher Xiao, hitting the ground with a dull "thud."
Dead silence filled the field. Everyone stared at that brick. It emitted a heart-palpitating dark aura, as if a peerless Vicious Beast was sealed within.
"This is..." Butcher Xiao swallowed hard.
Li Mo's voice came calmly: "The Devil King has been suppressed." "This is its... Sarira (Brick Version)." "Lay it at the very bottom of the mountain gate as the first foundation stone. Use it to warn the Abyss: if you want to enter, ask this brick if it agrees first."
Boom! The crowd erupted. "We won! The Saint won!" "Heaven blesses the Righteous Path! To actually refine the Devil King into a foundation stone! What dominance!" "I want a photo! I want a photo with this brick! I'll pay five thousand Spirit Stones!"
Butcher Xiao picked up the brick, feeling the trembling residual will inside (the Abyssal Lord was still doubting his very existence), and his awe for Li Mo broke through the heavens. Was this a Saint? This was practically the Ancestor Master of the Demonic Path! Refining a Lord into a brick and letting people step on him every day? Too brutal! He loved it!
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Northern Border, Abyss Entrance.
The mosaic screen that had been hanging in the sky suddenly went black. Bzzzt— [The other party has gone offline.]
On the other side of the Abyss, the Abyssal Lord's main body let out an earth-shaking roar. "Ahhh!!! My True Spirit! My eye!" "That Mortal! That liar! He turned me... turned me into..." It couldn't say it. The dignified Dominator of the Abyss had been made into a brick; if word got out, how could it ever show its face in the Abyss Matchmaking Corner again?
"Retreat! Quick, retreat!" The Abyssal Lord clutched its still-bleeding eye socket (its main body had suffered a backlash) and roared at the army of demonic creatures still queuing for teleportation. "It's a trap! That's the blackest black shop in the Universe!" "Lock the coordinates! List this plane as an absolute forbidden zone! No one is allowed to go!"
With the Lord's command, although the pink crack (one-way valve) in the sky was still producing suction, the Abyss side had completely cut the connection. It was like pulling out the network cable.
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Heavenly River Sword Sect.
Li Mo looked at the red warning that had finally disappeared from the System backend and breathed a long sigh of relief. "Phew, finally some peace and quiet."
He glanced at the Cultivators all over the mountain who were still reveling and celebrating the "victory," as well as the "Abyss Brick" that was being treated as a tourist attraction for social media photos.
[Side Quest Completed: Repel the first wave of Abyss probing.] [Evaluation: SS-Rank (Extremely Wicked).] [Reward: Administrator Privilege Unsealing Progress +10%.] [Unlocked New Building Blueprint: 'The Cultivation World's First Vocational and Technical College'.]
"A college?" Li Mo was stunned for a moment. He looked at the big shots of various sects who still seemed unsatisfied now that the "Script Kill" had ended. The Sect Master of the Haoran Sect was pulling the Emperor of Great Zhou to ask about the principle of "Light Refraction"; the Sect Master of Divine Beast Mountain was chasing Butcher Xiao, wanting to learn "how to raise pigs to be so delicious"; and there were those female Cultivators of the Hundred Flowers Valley, crowding around the entrance of the Restricted Book Area, wanting to read "The Overbearing Demon Lord Falls in Love with Me."
Li Mo suddenly smiled. "It seems that just collecting entrance fees is still too low-end." "Since everyone is so eager to learn..." "Then let's open a cram school."
He picked up a pen and, on a brand-new piece of white paper, wrote down his future plans: [Heavenly River Sword Sect Transformation Plan 3.0] [Goal: Build this sect into the only 'Higher Education Institution' in the entire Cultivation World.] [School Motto: Read more books, read more newspapers, have fewer kids, and sleep more.] [Admissions Prospectus: For the first term, let's recruit three thousand people!]
As this paper fell, the curtain of the first volume, "The Unspeakable Horrors in the Scripture Pavilion," slowly closed amidst this absurd revelry. Meanwhile, a new storm (or perhaps a new form of torture) was brewing.