The sky tore wider as Li Sheng marched through the corpse-laden wasteland, his black cloak of mist trailing behind him like the wings of a fallen deity.
The Abyss itself seemed to retreat from him.
But deeper down, ancient things stirred — and watched.
Ahead, a jagged mountain range split the heavens, its peaks crowned with colossal thrones, each throne occupied by an unmoving, monstrous figure. Corpses of gods, kings, and abyssal emperors long dead, frozen in silent judgment.
And beyond them…
A city.
No, a graveyard wearing the skin of a city.
Fangxu: The Eternal Necropolis.
Its towers were spires of bone, its walls stitched from the flesh of forgotten titans. Black flames burned in the streets. Rivers of molten blood coursed through its alleys.
Above it all, a single bell tolled — slow and mournful.
The instant Li Sheng stepped closer, his System pulsed:
[ALERT!]
> [New Zone: Fangxu, City of Endless Thrones.]
Danger Level: Cataclysmic.
Advisory: Entities of the Primeval Abyss reside within.]
He smiled grimly.
"Perfect."
As he entered, ghostly figures watched from the windows — hollow-eyed remnants of ancient cultivators who had tried and failed to conquer the Abyss.
Among them, three figures descended to block his path — each radiating monstrous aura.
The Abyssal Lords of Fangxu.
1. Xun Mei, the Witch of Broken Mirrors — a once-great Daoist priestess, now a twisted horror of cracked porcelain skin and bleeding silver eyes.
2. Jinhai the Drowned King, clad in barnacle-crusted black armor, his weapon a harpoon forged from a dead sea god's spine.
3. Bai Lian, the Puppet Monarch, a ghastly child draped in silken robes, pulling invisible strings that controlled legions of stitched-together corpses.
Their voices overlapped, echoing in the ruined streets.
"You reek of arrogance, invader."
"You trespass where gods fell."
"You will serve... or perish."
Li Sheng didn't flinch.
His voice, deepened by abyssal resonance, boomed across the city:
"I have no master.
I will not kneel.
You, too, will fall."
The Abyssal Lords' auras surged, warping the surroundings into nightmare illusions. Reality itself bent under their power.
Li Sheng drew the Soul-Shear Blade, now almost a part of his arm — a living extension of his will.
And then all hell broke loose.
The Battle for Fangxu Began.
Xun Mei summoned a thousand shards of mirrored nightmares, each reflecting a distorted, vengeful Li Sheng. Each shard could cut through the spirit and body both.
Jinhai roared, the ground shaking, summoning tidal waves of blood and abyssal sea beasts from portals ripped open midair.
Bai Lian giggled, her corpse-army surging like an ocean of dead flesh.
It was three gods against one monster.
Li Sheng fought like a god of slaughter reborn.
Every slash of his blade devoured essence. Every movement left spirals of black death in the air.
He leapt skyward, dodging Xun Mei's mirrors — only to be skewered by a dozen invisible strings from Bai Lian. They sank into his flesh, attempting to tear him apart.
Li Sheng's blood boiled.
His System screamed:
> [Fatal Damage Detected.]
[Activate Abyssal Overdrive? Warning: May cause loss of humanity.]
He didn't hesitate.
"DO IT."
The transformation was instantaneous.
Black wings, ragged and bone-pierced, erupted from his back. His eyes became twin abysses. His blade dissolved into raw, writhing tendrils of death.
The strings snapped like twigs.
Li Sheng dove at Bai Lian first — a shadow descending — and cleaved her puppet body in half with a single strike.
The real Bai Lian, hidden among the corpses, screamed in fury — only to be consumed by a spiral of devouring resonance that pulled her soul into oblivion.
> [Abyssal Lord Bai Lian: Eliminated.]
[Devouring Soul Fragments… Strengthening Core.]
Jinhai bellowed, charging with his monstrous harpoon, but Li Sheng caught it barehanded — the harpoon sank into his palm — and Li Sheng only grinned savagely as he yanked Jinhai forward.
A pulse of abyssal resonance exploded from his body, reducing Jinhai's titanic form to rotting sludge.
> [Abyssal Lord Jinhai: Eliminated.]
[Strength Increased.]
Only Xun Mei remained.
The Witch shrieked, shattering her own mirrors, trying to trap Li Sheng in an infinite cycle of suffering.
Li Sheng's new form ignored the illusions.
He saw her true body hidden behind them — a hunched figure leaking despair — and tore through her with a black spiral claw.
The city shook as her death scream echoed across Fangxu.
> [Abyssal Lord Xun Mei: Eliminated.]
[Assimilating Broken Mirror Pathways… Evolution Complete.]
Fangxu fell silent.
The sky above it burned crimson.
Li Sheng stood alone atop a mountain of dead gods, breathing in the death of empires, the fall of legends.
The System chimed again:
> [Achievement Unlocked: Monarch of the Endless Thrones.]
[New Title: Abyssal King of Fangxu.]
> **[New Skills Acquired]:
[Mirrorfold Step.(Level 1).]
[Tidal Harpoon Manifestation](Level 1)
[Puppet Dominion.](Level1)***
But something else awakened, deep below Fangxu.
A new enemy.
Abyssal Sovereigns, old rulers even the Lords feared, rumbled from their tombs, sensing Li Sheng's ascension — and hating it.
From the deepest pit of the Necropolis, a voice like grinding tombstones whispered:
"Another false king rises.
Come, Li Sheng.
Face true annihilation."
Li Sheng, blood dripping from his wings, smiled coldly.
"Then I'll crush even the real kings."
And he plunged into the darkness beneath Fangxu — toward the Throne of Sovereigns.
[A/N]
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