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Chapter 125 The Transdimensional Seal Appears in the World, the Lord of the Abyss's Core is Locked Up
The moment Lin Ye opened his eyes, the golden seal patterns spreading to his shoulders suddenly lit up.
The light did not brighten gradually; it exploded directly from the surface of his skin, as if someone had ignited a pure golden star inside his body.
The clear starry sky above the Abyss Core, purified by the Cultivation God of Creation, was recolored a pale gold by this light, with every star edged in a thin halo.
He slowly raised his hands, which had been resting on his knees, palms facing upward.
Between his ten fingers, a fist-sized golden orb of light condensed. The orb was neither rotating nor expanding inside; it simply hovered there quietly, with layers of dense and complex seal patterns flowing across its surface.
The lines of each layer of the formation were of the same origin as the runes he had previously absorbed from the supreme energy of the three Creator Gods, yet they were older and simpler than those runes, appearing as the common starting point for all sealing arts.
When the Cultivation God of Creation saw that orb of light, the fingers holding the horsetail whisk loosened slightly. Its pale lips moved, speaking of the primitive sealing art of the ancient interstellar civilization, which had been lost for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.
Lin Ye lifted his hands, and the golden orb of light rose from his palms. When it reached a point directly above the Abyss Core, it hovered and began to spread seal patterns outward, using itself as the center.
The patterns were not drawn; they grew, spreading layer by layer like tree roots along the ground, rock walls, ruined stone pillars, and the edges of the rifts of the Abyss Core. Each time a layer was fully covered, it emitted a brief, intensely bright golden light.
The ancient sealed entity within the Lord of the Abyss sensed the approach of the seal patterns and, for the first time, exhibited a reaction akin to fear.
Previously, when he confronted the three Creator Gods, he had been calm and precise, each countermeasure accurate and powerful. But now, that grayish-white cold light began to shoot aimlessly in all directions, some striking the magic chains, some hitting the barriers of the gravitational beams, and more shooting directly at the spreading seal patterns in an attempt to burn them away.
It was useless. The moment the golden patterns made contact with the grayish-white cold light, that light was neither neutralized nor reflected; it was directly absorbed into the patterns.
With each wisp of grayish-white cold light absorbed, the color of the patterns grew brighter, and the speed of their spread increased.
The Lord of the Abyss let out a roar mixed with fury and terror. He had likely finally realized that the chaotic mirror energy released by the ancient sealed entity was not a weapon at all in the face of the primitive sealing art, but fuel.
The chains held by the Magic Creator God suddenly felt lighter. The grayish-white cold light that had been continuously eroding the runes on the chains was sucked away from the surface of the chains by the seal patterns. The deep purple magic runes lit up again, shining even brighter than when the battle had just begun.
She froze for a moment, then immediately realized that Lin Ye was absorbing the power of the Lord of the Abyss to reinforce the seal in reverse. She pulled all the chains taut simultaneously, and the restrained tentacles of the Lord of the Abyss could no longer move an inch under the dual suppression of the chains and gravitational beams.
Lin Ye stood up and raised his right hand high, his five fingers spread, palm aimed at the golden orb of light suspended above the Abyss Core, and chanted the seal mantra.
The mantra was short, so short that no one present had time to retrieve their recording equipment, but after those few syllables landed, the entire ground, rock walls, ruins, and rifts of the Abyss Core—every place covered by the patterns—lit up simultaneously.
A golden pillar of sealing light, piercing heaven and earth, shot straight down from the center of the orb, striking precisely at the deepest and widest sealing rift in the center of the torso of the Lord of the Abyss.
The pillar of light produced no explosion, nor any shockwave; there was only an extremely heavy pressure, similar to the sensation of the entire space being gently pressed down half an inch by a palm.
The massive body of the Lord of the Abyss was pierced through the center by this pillar of light, and the point of penetration was exactly the core node where the ancient sealed entity resided.
The sealed entity let out a final, piercingly shrill shriek, then was filled, ruptured, and crushed from within by the golden pillar of light, turning into countless grayish-white particles that were carried downward by the pillar, sinking all the way into the deepest depths of the earth's veins within the Abyss Core, merging with the earth.
After the sealed entity disappeared, the sealing rift left by the ancient interstellar civilization within the Lord of the Abyss began to close rapidly from the inside out, at a speed far faster than the progress Lin Ye had made when manually repairing it with the Decay Domain.
With each layer that closed, the massive body of the Lord of the Abyss sank an inch into the ground of the Abyss Core; the speed of sinking was not fast but unstoppable.
The Lord of the Abyss struggled desperately, lashing all his remaining tentacles simultaneously at the seal pillar, but the tentacles failed to create even a ripple upon the surface of the pillar.
He also attempted to concentrate all the remaining dark red crystalline energy within his body toward the center of his torso to resist the downward force of the pillar, but the moment the crystalline energy hit the pillar, it vaporized, skipping the melting process entirely and turning directly into a wisp of white smoke, swallowed by the night sky.
His body continued to sink; seven or eight of his ten tentacles were already broken and withered, and the remaining few twitched and retracted into his body, ceasing to struggle.
A layer of fine sweat seeped from Lin Ye's forehead, but his breathing was steady and his gaze calm. He maintained the posture of supporting the pillar with his right hand and pressed down with his left.
The golden orb of light hovering in the air slowly descended, and for every inch it descended, the Lord of the Abyss was pressed deeper.
The orb of light finally landed directly above the head of the Lord of the Abyss, perfectly connecting with the seal patterns on the ground to form a complete cross-dimensional seal array.
The outermost ring of the array was automatically inscribed with the runes of the Creator Gods from the three planes of magic, interstellar, and cultivation, while the inner ring consisted of a layer of deeper, primitive sealing inscriptions from the ancient interstellar civilization. The inner and outer layers interlocked to form a seamless seal array base.
The entire massive body of the Lord of the Abyss was firmly locked deep underground in the Abyss Core by this array base, leaving only the last piece of dark red crystalline shell on his back exposed half a meter above the ground, the surface of the crystal covered in slowly flowing golden seal inscriptions.
His cross-dimensional power was completely sealed, unable to mobilize abyss energy from any plane. His body, locked deep underground by the seal, remained motionless, with only extremely low and weak energy pulses occasionally leaking through the gaps in the inscriptions, as faint as a candle in the wind.
The moment the last pattern of the cross-dimensional seal barrier closed, the dark purple clouds covering the Abyss Core rapidly dissipated from the center outward.
The starry sky torn open by the Cultivation God of Creation expanded again, with starlight spilling over the devastated battlefield, shining on the fragments of broken magic chains, on the still-steaming empty shells in the Interstellar Behemoth missile silos, and on the scattered remains of abyss creatures lying quietly on the ground.
The tank classes in the front row slowly sat down, leaning on their shields, some lying flat on their backs on the ground, gasping for air. The healer classes stood in the back row, looking at each other; some stuck their staves into the ground, crouched down, and covered their faces, their shoulders shaking.
Tiebi Wujiang lay half-reclined beside the bunker where Su Qinghan had placed him, watching the remains of the Lord of the Abyss being completely covered by golden inscriptions and sinking underground, and said hoarsely, "We won."
The priest beside him was finishing bandaging his wounds, and upon hearing those two words, their eyes suddenly turned red.
Lin Ye withdrew his right hand and turned to face everyone on the battlefield. The three Creator Gods stood behind him, and the shadows and light flowing on the Magic Creator God's robe slowly returned to the unhurried rhythm from before the battle.
The Creator God of Interstellar returned the gravity generator from the overload setting to standby mode, and her adjutant reported with relief in the channel that the gravity system temperature was falling.
The Cultivation God of Creation looked down at its horsetail whisk, which had a broken strand of white hair, sighed softly, tucked it into its sleeve, and turned to look at the location where Lin Ye had sealed the Lord of the Abyss, remaining silent for a long time, its eyes filled with a complex sense of emotion.
After waiting for them all to recover, Lin Ye said calmly in the all-alliance channel: "The temporary seal is successful. Its main body is locked in the Abyss Core, its cross-dimensional power has been completely severed, and it can no longer invade any plane."
He paused for half a second and added, "Temporarily—the seal patterns are not yet fully stable, and it will take time to consolidate the seal. Furthermore, before the Lord of the Abyss was sealed, a sliver of independent consciousness fragment was hidden within the ancient seal remnant inside his body. It wasn't crushed along with the sealed entity; it must have detached from the main body at the very instant before the seal pillar closed and slipped into the depths of an Abyss Rift. Fatty Wang, take a team and thoroughly inspect all remaining Abyss Rifts within a few kilometers of the Abyss Core. If you find any rifts with residual energy reactions, mark them directly and send them to Ghost. Sword Venerable Qingming, you go too. The spiritual power on your sword is most sensitive to abyss energy. Synchronize the countdown for checking all missed rifts and residual energy; not a single one is to be missed."