Kill Your Past Self

The God of All Machines' mechanical voice rang out at once.

"Command received."

"High-dimensional Dead Ash Energy leak detected. Strength: Half-Step Ancient Illuminating. Connecting to diversion channel."

"Channel connected. Target area: Number One Trial Plaza, Mid-layer Player Zone."

"Monster models generated."

"New expansion, 'Arrival of Dead Gray,' deployed to all servers."

Above the Abyss Core Hall, a giant screen flashed to life and split into countless smaller views.

In Number One Trial Plaza, the three hundred-odd Old Monsters who had just crawled out of the Resurrection Pillar of Light were still dazed when the sky split open above them.

Masses of dead-gray mist came crashing down.

The mist struck the ground, rolled a few times, and turned into Four-Armed Rotten Meat Monsters, dead-gray slime streaming from their bodies.

The system prompt exploded in their minds.

"Emergency mission: Kill the Dead Gray Derivatives!"

"Mission rewards: Massive True God Inheritance points and a direct infusion of Abyss Origin!"

Li Cangxu froze. His eyes instantly went red.

"Inheritance points?"

He gripped the Sword of Judgment that had just spawned for him and roared at the Old Monsters beside him. "We couldn't beat the big one, but you're telling me we can't cut down these little ones? Get them!"

The three hundred-odd Peak Fifth Step experts lunged at the Dead Gray Monsters like starving wild dogs.

Across the hundreds of Great Universes in the Abyss Mid-layer, the players erupted too.

Three years.

The new version they had waited three bitter years for was finally here, and monsters with deep-crimson Health Bars were everywhere.

Hundreds of millions of players grabbed swords and charged into the sea of monsters, wave after wave.

One batch died; another respawned.

The moment they crawled out of a Respawn Point, they cursed their way right back into the fight.

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