Ch. 501The Abyss Seal
Director One revealed that the Consortium had used people from the Sandbox Universe as energy to seal the Abyss, then sacrificed himself to open the seal. Lin Feng rescued the prisoners and escaped the collapsing Eternal Fortress, but the Abyss Dark Tide swallowed the fortress and began spreading toward the Great Thousand World as he fell unconscious.
- Director One told Lin Feng that the Consortium had created the Sandbox Universe to extract souls and life force to power the seal on the Abyss, and Lin Feng rejected his justification.
- Director One destroyed himself to undo the Abyss seal, unleashing the Dark Tide beneath the Eternal Fortress as Lin Feng's Burning Mode began to expire.
- Lin Feng freed the million prisoners on the fifth level, opened a breach in the fortress wall, and directed Su Li to rescue them with the ship's tractor beams.
- After Lin Feng's Burning Mode ended, the Dark Tide broke through his barrier, but the tractor beam pulled him aboard before the fifth level was swallowed.
- The Eternal Fortress collapsed into a black vortex that devoured thousands of Consortium warships, while Scarface ordered the Free Star Alliance to retreat.
- Su Li escaped to the Sandbox Universe with the unconscious Lin Feng as an enormous Abyss claw emerged and the rift continued spreading toward the Great Thousand World.