Vol. 5The Abyss Beyond the Wound

Yang Yu transformed the Abyss into a force that fought the God Devourer, raided universes, and challenged the Shepherd’s network and the Polyhedron Council. He expanded the Abyss with the Divine Corpse, concealed it from higher-dimensional powers, and pursued Qiong’s vessels as Cang confronted Luo Yan at Hongmeng Ferry.

  • Yang Yu cleansed and armed the Abyss, then led its inhabitants against the God Devourer and the invading Polyhedrons.
  • Yang Yu defeated the God Devourer, accepted Moro’s loyalty, and carried the remains into the Chaos Sea after Moro warned that further damage could summon the Eternal True God.
  • Yang Yu turned the Abyss into a raiding force and uncovered the Shepherd’s operation harvesting World-Devouring Beetles from Jin.
  • Yang Yu opened the Hongmeng Exchange to rally Wanderers against the Shepherd and prepared to attack its network as his Dharma Aspect began to form.
  • Yang Yu broke through to the Order-Breaking Realm, defeated the Fifth Step Bone Guard, and revived Zhi Xing as the Abyss’s Fate High Priestess.
  • Yang Yu and the Players broke through the Polyhedron wall, where a Cleaner attacked them and a Giant Gray Eye appeared as a dungeon entrance.
  • Yang Yu harvested the Divine Corpse, expanded the Abyss, and hid it from Qiong and other high-dimensional beings.
  • Yang Yu sent Cang after Luo Yan, who reached the Sixth Step and fought Cang at Hongmeng Ferry.
Chapters 401–500 Read from ch. 401

Arc 17The Abyss Goes to War

Yang Yu consumed Chaos, cleansed the Abyss of implanted control systems, and turned its inhabitants into a force capable of fighting a colossal devourer and the Polyhedrons. After defeating the God Devourer and taking Moro into the Abyss, Yang Yu learned that further damage to the Zero-Point Dimension could summon the Eternal True God.

  • Yang Yu absorbed Chaos Qi with the aid of the Prehistoric Sniper Rifle, transformed into a Chaos Body, and refined the Abyss into a barrier that filtered Chaos while purging High-Dimensional Memetic Pollution.
  • Yang Yu stripped the Professionals Panels and Divine Spark Sequences from the Abyss’s inhabitants, cleansed their control codes in a Chaos High-Pressure Cooker, and replaced them with Abyss Marks and Chaos Trial Grounds.
  • When an immense presence attacked the Barrier, Yang Yu rallied the Abyss’s inhabitants to resist its formatting power, then discovered that the God Devourer had enveloped the universe and was digesting it.
  • Yang Yu turned the Abyss into a moving weapon and drove it through the God Devourer toward the Zero-Point Dimension, where Yi’s intervention briefly disrupted the creature’s assimilation before the Abyss crashed through the gate.
  • Yang Yu let the God Devourer attack the invading Polyhedrons while the Players fought Chaos Giant Beasts and harvested resources, then battled Moro and absorbed the Origin Matter of the fallen Polyhedrons.
  • Moro surrendered to Yang Yu and swore absolute loyalty in exchange for refuge, offering the Hexahedron’s Origin Matter as proof and invoking Eternal True God Jin in their oath.
  • Yang Yu reshaped the Abyss into an armored giant, split the God Devourer in two with the Ultimate Sword of Judgment, and stopped when Moro warned that more damage could summon the Eternal True God.
  • Yang Yu carried the God Devourer’s remains into the Chaos Sea for the Abyss to process and told Moro they would discuss the Eternal True God and his smuggling plan.
Chapters 401–425 Summaries Read

Arc 18The Abyss Hunts the Shepherd

Yang Yu turned the Abyss into a force that raided universes, survived Zangzhou, and uncovered the Shepherd’s cultivation and harvesting operation inside Jin. He built the Hongmeng Exchange to rally Wanderers against the Shepherd and ended the arc preparing to break the Shepherd’s network as his Dharma Aspect began to form.

  • Yang Yu launched the Fourth Calamity Project, and Li Qingcang led Abyss Players in stripping Cangxuan Realm and Tianwu God Realm of their resources and survivors.
  • Zangzhou attacked the Abyss, but Yang Yu convinced it that the Abyss was removing infected universes, earning a Chaos Heavenly Crystal before Daylight Judgment split Zangzhou in two.
  • Yang Yu fled toward Jin’s Skin Barrier, where he discovered World-Devouring Beetles feeding on Jin’s wound and deduced that a hidden party was farming them.
  • Yang Yu defeated Canaan and other Hongmeng Wanderers, then tore apart a Mutated God Devourer and used Jin’s Identification Tablet to awaken the Purge Program against the Shepherd.
  • Zangzhou answered the Purge Program, judged the Shepherd for cultivating Jin’s wound and harvesting beetles, and gave Yang Yu a Black and White Chip to investigate the Rancher.
  • Yang Yu connected the chip to the Abyss and opened the Hongmeng Exchange, recruiting Canaan and other Wanderers and drawing traders away from the Dark River Black Market.
  • The Exchange exposed a Shepherd outpost, rescued captive Wanderers, and recovered records linking the Shepherd’s network to Polyhedron Old Network, Black Ark, and Edge of Daylight.
  • Yang Yu rejected the Shepherds’ Bone Auction invitation, issued bounties for information and evidence, and sent a spy back with a threat as the Exchange surged and his Dharma Aspect began to take shape.
Chapters 426–450 Summaries Read

Arc 19Beyond the Bronze Gate

Yang Yu led the Abyss beyond the Wound Zone, defeated Jin’s Fifth Step guardian with the Abyss and its allies, and uncovered a deeper threat in the Polyhedron Council’s bone wall. The arc left the Players entering a dungeon revealed behind the wall as the Council sent a Cleaner and prepared further action.

  • Yang Yu completed his Third Step breakthrough, defeated Chi Kui in the Trading Hall, exposed Bones Ranch’s crimes, and crippled the Pasture’s operations.
  • Yang Yu left the Wound Zone with his companions and entered Hongmeng, where a giant fish swallowed them and carried them to the Crystal Plaza and Jin’s Bronze Gate.
  • Yang Yu and the other participants entered the Inverted Battlefield, where the Abyss Players helped him absorb its death energy and confront the Fifth Step Bone Guard.
  • The Abyss joined forces with the five experts to destroy the Bone Guard, and Yang Yu revived Zhi Xing as the Abyss’s Fate High Priestess.
  • Yang Yu received Jin’s Dharma Decree, refused a True God Name offered by a shadow claiming to be Jin, and ordered intelligence gathering on the Divine Body, Polyhedron, and Name Holders.
  • Yang Yu broke through to the Order-Breaking Realm and used his reserves to begin restoring Zhi Xing’s damaged future.
  • Abyss workers mined the Polyhedron wall, and Yang Yu learned it was stitched from cosmic wreckage before the Council dispatched a Cleaner to erase the affected area.
  • The Cleaner killed Players who repeatedly respawned, but Yang Yu shattered its core when it tried to erase one Player’s existence, and the wall opened onto a Giant Gray Eye identified as a new dungeon entrance.
Chapters 451–475 Summaries Read

Arc 20The Name and the Vessel

Yang Yu turned the Divine Corpse into an expanded Abyss, then resisted beings seeking Jin’s name and hid the Abyss from Hongmeng’s higher-dimensional powers. He made Huang Yan Jin’s mount to gain access to the Reception Register and pursued Qiong’s vessels, leaving Cang fighting Luo Yan at Hongmeng Ferry.

  • Huang Yan destroyed the Triacontakaihexagon and restored the Abyss after the One Outside the Door erased the being that had tried to claim Jin’s name.
  • Yang Yu harvested the Divine Corpse, freed its sealed universes, and defeated its Ultimate Immune Cell, then created a Chaos World before a Hongmeng Giant Fish arrived to offer him Jin’s Trial.
  • Yang Yu wounded the Giant Fish and called out that someone was trying to steal Shadow’s name, bringing the One Outside the Door into the fight before Yang Yu hid the Abyss from Qiong and other high-dimensional beings.
  • Yang Yu proposed that the Abyss claim Jin’s vacant mount name through recognition, and Huang Yan volunteered, becoming a Sixth-Step fish who inherited the Reception Register.
  • Yang Yu planned Jin’s Trial using Huang Yan’s register, then recruited a Pale Little Man whose forehead held Qiong’s Remnant Eye and helped him reject Qiong’s identity.
  • The Pale Little Man became Cang, absorbed Qiong’s High-Dimensional Core, and revealed a map of Qiong’s vessels, prompting Yang Yu to pursue Luo Yan.
  • Yang Yu sent Cang to confront Luo Yan at Hongmeng Ferry, where Luo Yan reached the Sixth Step by absorbing Transcendents and fought Cang inside Yang Yu’s Silent Shield.
Chapters 476–500 Summaries Read
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