Chapter 120 The Lord of the Abyss Descends, and the Cross-Dimensional War Erupts

When the Lord of the Abyss arrived, Lin Ye had just placed his instant noodle bowl into the sink.

Before he could even turn on the faucet, the entire Unscrupulous Business Center suddenly shook. It wasn't the swaying motion of an earthquake, but rather like someone had struck a muffled drum with a giant hammer from deep underground. The vibration traveled up from the soles of his feet, causing the water in the sink to ripple with fine, dense waves.

Ghost's monitoring panel turned entirely red almost at the same instant.

His voice was a full pitch higher than usual as he said, "It's here. All four anchor points have completed energy injection, the arrival channel has opened, and the main landing point is at the Abyss Core in the game's main world."

Lin Ye tossed the dishcloth onto the edge of the sink, wiped his hands, and while walking, said to Su Qinghan, "Notify everyone to enter their respective combat zones according to the pre-planned scheme," before diving into the gaming pod.

The moment the holographic interface unfolded, the sky over Dawn City had already changed color.

The originally clear game sky was torn apart right down the middle by a massive dark purple rift. Liquid Abyss energy continuously seeped from the edges of the rift, and every drop that landed on the ground corroded a smoking pit.

A low rumbling sound emanated from within the rift. The sound was neither like a beast's roar nor thunder; it sounded more like some extremely massive metallic structure moving slowly in a very distant place.

A golden announcement popped up simultaneously in the system notification bar for all players across the server: "Warning, the Lord of the Abyss has broken through the cross-dimensional seal. Target coordinates: Abyss Core. All dungeons and main cities across the server have entered Abyss Invasion status."

Lin Ye did not go to the Dawn City plaza to assemble; he directly teleported through the cross-dimensional channel to the last safe coordinate point on the outskirts of the Abyss Core.

After landing, he looked up. Above the ruins of the Abyss Core, which had already mostly collapsed, hovered a dark purple form so massive it almost filled his entire field of vision.

The main body of the Lord of the Abyss was far larger than any World Boss he had fought before. In front of it, the Shadow Demon Dragon was roughly the size of just one of its wings, and the main cannon barrel of the Interstellar Behemoth was not even as wide as the diameter of one of its tentacles.

It had no fixed shape; its entire body was condensed from countless layers of constantly churning Abyss energy. Twisted faces continuously appeared and dissipated on its surface, as if the residual consciousness of all the life forms it had devoured were still struggling within.

Lin Ye only said one sentence in the alliance command channel: "All combat zones, proceed according to plan."

As soon as his voice fell, over a dozen rifts simultaneously split open in the ground beneath the Lord of the Abyss. From every rift, swarms of Abyss creatures poured out—there were the Abyss Scouts he had fought in the shopping center, larger Abyss Claw Monsters, and Abyss Corrosive Beasts he had never seen before, which melted even the rocks where they crawled.

The tank classes of the global guild coalition within the game had already formed a defensive formation on the outskirts of the Abyss Core, with the healers' auras layered dozens of rows deep.

The moment the Abyss creatures collided with the defensive line, the entire outskirts of the Abyss Core seemed to erupt with dozens of fireworks at once. The skill light effects and the dark purple shockwaves of the Abyss energy churned together, making it impossible to distinguish one from the other.

Lin Ye did not stay on the defensive line. He summoned the Shadow Demon Dragon, the Interstellar Behemoth, and the Sword Venerable Qingming from the cross-dimensional channel simultaneously.

As soon as the Shadow Demon Dragon landed, it spread its wings and took to the sky, sweeping a breath of shadow across the densest area of the Abyss creatures. The parts of the Corrosive Beasts hit by the breath were instantly vaporized.

The Interstellar Behemoth hovered in mid-air with all its back armor plates flipped open, its missile cluster locking onto the exits of the Abyss Rifts for a round of saturation bombing.

The Sword Venerable Qingming stood by Lin Ye's side, and ten thousand sword auras arrived through the air from the direction of the Lone Peak, spreading out a curtain of swords in front of the defensive line.

Lin Ye pushed the Cross-Dimensional Perpetual Decay Domain to maximum power. A black and gold energy wave rapidly spread outward from the core, and the entire Abyss Core was instantly covered by the domain.

The massive body of the Lord of the Abyss began to smoke the very first second it made contact with the domain. The constantly churning Abyss energy on its surface began to rapidly flake off and burn under the suppression of the Decay Domain.

The Lord of the Abyss let out a low roar, and the ground of the entire Abyss Core trembled violently with this roar, causing several Abyss Rifts to widen by more than double.

It was struggling, but the intensity of Lin Ye's domain, after the fusion of the supreme energies of the three planes, was no longer at the level it had been when he dueled the Sword Venerable Qingming.

The power of the Lord of the Abyss was being continuously decayed; its movement speed had visibly decreased, and the force of its tentacle strikes was not as fierce as when it had first arrived.

The Boss legions of the three planes followed closely and entered the battlefield. The Shadow Demon Dragon was responsible for air superiority; any Abyss flying units that tried to fly over the defensive line above the Abyss Core were beaten back by its shadow breath.

The Interstellar Behemoth guarded the southeast direction where the Abyss Rifts were most concentrated, its missile cluster bombing in turns to give no opportunity for new Abyss creatures to swarm out.

The Sword Venerable Qingming took command of the middle section of the defensive line, with a waterfall of sword aura continuously scouring the ground forces.

Under Sister Chen's command, the assault team of the Guardian Alliance cut in from the side, cleaning up the small Abyss Scout units that bypassed the firepower of the Boss legions.

The pressure on the front line of the global guild coalition was significantly reduced under the coverage of this three-dimensional firepower network, and the mana of the healer classes finally stopped its cliff-like drop and began to slowly recover.

Just as the battle situation was gradually tilting in favor of the Alliance, a signal that should not have appeared suddenly cut into Lin Ye's communication channel.

Qin Wentian, who was responsible for logistics and transport dispatch, suddenly let out a muffled groan in the channel. Then, the background noise on the other end of the communication suddenly changed from the sound of cargo handling in the logistics warehouse to a low, chaotic resonance of Abyss energy.

Qin Wentian's voice was intermittent, as if he were using immense willpower to suppress some kind of pain. He said, "Brother Ye, the Abyss energy that remained in my body seems to be going berserk; there is a force in the rift resonating with it."

Then came the dull thud of something falling over, followed immediately by the urgent voice of another team member on the logistics team's backup channel: "Team Leader Qin suddenly collapsed just now! The batch of dungeon synchronization equipment he was responsible for has been diverted from the inside toward the direction of the Abyss Rift exit. Someone has tampered with the logistics link!"

Lin Ye's pupils constricted.

He quickly made adjustments in the command channel—letting Su Qinghan immediately take over the overall logistics dispatch, and urgently transferring all equipment transport and dungeon synchronization permissions previously handled by Qin Wentian to the backup link.

Ghost immediately performed a cross-comparison between the timestamp of Qin Wentian's collapse and the operation logs of the tampered logistics system, locking the target onto an account that possessed both storage permissions and cross-plane transport permissions.

A moment later, Ghost spoke in the channel: "Found the operating account. It wasn't Qin Wentian's own account, but an operation submitted by a public terminal with intern-level permissions registered under her name. That public terminal just executed a set of completely unauthorized commands, changing the transport route of all the dungeon synchronization equipment to run toward the direction of the Abyss Rift, and it also released a directional communication signal to the outside."

He paused, "The encryption method of the communication signal is exactly the same as the positioning pulse sent by the Abyss Scout before it died."

While maintaining the domain suppression on the Lord of the Abyss, Lin Ye asked, "Can that public terminal still log into Qin Wentian's permissions?"

Ghost's typing speed was faster than at any other time as he replied, "Not only can it log in, it can bypass identity verification and directly access his biometric signature. To be able to do this, either the terminal was physically breached, or someone used Qin Wentian's biological characteristics to unlock the permissions."

He paused, his voice lowering again, "The residual Abyss energy in Qin Wentian's body is at the same frequency as the resonance fluctuation released by the Abyss Rift just now. His Abyss energy wasn't passively left behind—it was someone having implanted a trigger-type resonator in advance. That wave of Abyss energy going berserk just now was forcibly activated by a trigger command; he was completely unaware of it before he collapsed."

Meanwhile, the Lord of the Abyss took advantage of the brief fluctuation in the domain caused by the forced activation of the Abyss energy in Qin Wentian's body. It suddenly retracted all its tentacles into its body, and the dark purple energy on its surface began to rapidly compress, and compress again. The color changed from purple to black, then from black to red, finally condensing into a massive dark red energy ball hovering in front of its chest.

The space around the dark red energy ball was visibly twisting and shattering, and several Abyss Rifts nearby were directly torn wider and larger by the spatial distortion.

The deep voice of the Lord of the Abyss resounded throughout the entire Abyss Core: "Qin Wentian, you have my seed buried inside you, and you didn't even know it yourself. Last time, when you were being Abyss-ified at the edge of the Abyss Rift, I planted this inside you. Now, hand over all your permissions."

Lin Ye did not hesitate. He temporarily handed the domain suppression of the Lord of the Abyss over to the Sword Venerable Qingming and the Interstellar Behemoth to maintain jointly. He instantly turned back, slapped his palm onto Qin Wentian's chest, and poured the black and gold Decay energy through his palm, forcibly wrapping around the resonator inside Qin Wentian's body that was frantically releasing Abyss energy.

Under the continuous erosion of the Decay energy, the resonator gradually disintegrated and shattered from the inside out, and Qin Wentian coughed violently, being forcibly awakened from his coma.

When he opened his eyes, there was still a lingering, not-yet-faded dark purple strange light in them. The first sentence he spoke was, "Logistics link, intern public terminal, physically breached."

He still wanted to struggle and try to stand up, but Lin Ye pressed down on his shoulder, handed him over to the arriving Su Qinghan, and ordered in a deep voice to first send him away from the radiation range of the Abyss Core for proper placement, and to settle the accounts and deal with it after the battle.

Then he withdrew his hand from Qin Wentian's chest, turned to look at the Lord of the Abyss, and the black and gold domain exploded again with him as the center.

Under the rebound force of the domain suppression, a massive crack split the dark red energy ball in front of the Lord of the Abyss from the inside out. The dark red Abyss energy gushed out from the crack like a bursting flood, but it was all absorbed and converted by the Decay Domain into energy replenishment for Lin Ye himself.

The energy limit on his panel jumped up again in the background.

Lin Ye took a step forward, looked up and stared at the Lord of the Abyss, his tone as cold as if it had been quenched in ice: "You buried a seed in him—did you ask me first?"