Facing the Abyssal Sage King

The Extreme North.

The Abyssal Sage King pursed his lips, his gaze fixed on the familiar figure radiating blood.

You... are not him!

"I am him."

The Abyssal Sage King's gaze swept over those behind him: Sea God Tang Wulin, Plane Master Tang Hao, Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, and countless Titled Douluo. Finally, his gaze settled on him once more.

"You are nothing but an incarnation of his, and he... chose to betray me!"

"Actually, from beginning to end, we never chose you. To put it bluntly—we were only after the Super Divine Artifact, and your Super Divine Artifact did indeed belong to us."

"Bastards! I'm going to kill you all!"

The voice of the Abyssal Sage King resounded high in the Far North.

The sound was like the simultaneous howls of hundreds of Abyss creatures, carrying a distorted resonance that did not belong to the human world.

"All troops—attack!"

At the command of the Abyssal Sage King, the dark purple energy at the bottom of the rift, which should have been suppressed by the sealing patterns, suddenly surged.

All the seals embedded in the walls of the fissures lit up at the same time, their silvery-white patterns flashing wildly, as if they were trying their best to suppress the riot. But the patterns crumbled one by one, and rubble fell off the walls, with the aura of the Abyss gushing out from every crack.

The Evil Corpse stood at the edge of the crevice, the ice beneath its feet melting at a visible rate.

It glanced down and saw dark purple Abyssal Energy emerging from beneath the melting ice. The energy writhed like a living thing, rising from the seabed.

"Release the restrictions, let him descend," said the Evil Corpse.

Tang Hao turned to look at him, "Are you sure?"

"The meaning of 'the original substance'."

Tang Hao took a deep breath.

The power of the Plane Master condensed in his palm into a semi-transparent ball of light, which was the embodiment of the origin of the Douluo Planet plane. Countless fine lines flowed within it, each line maintaining the spatial structure of the entire planet.

He glanced down at the crack beneath his feet.

The dark purple pillar of light was expanding violently, and the Abyssal Sage King's laughter came from the deepest part of the abyss, twisted and mad, carrying a frenzy that had been suppressed for ten thousand years and was finally erupting.

He clenched his five fingers.

The sphere of light shattered.

The invisible barrier, constructed from the very essence of the plane, that shrouded the Abyss rift completely vanished in that instant, and the air over the entire Far North Ice Plains suddenly sank, as if a corner of the sky had collapsed.

The Abyss rift exploded.

A dark purple beam of light shot into the sky from the bottom of the crevice, shattering the ice, sending shards of rock flying, and whipping snow mist into the air.

The beam of light shot up to a height of a thousand meters before stopping, and then split open in the middle.

One foot stepped out.

When that foot stepped into the void, the entire ice field sank an inch.

Dark purple Abyssal Energy spread from beneath that foot, turning the ice surface into dark red scorched earth wherever it passed, and the melted snow water instantly evaporated into white mist.

Then there's his entire "person".

He stood in the void, looking down at the earth beneath his feet.

"Finally."

He raised his hand, palm down, and dark purple energy poured from his palm, pressing down onto the ground.

A dark purple torrent crashed against the ice field, like a tsunami overturning the land.

Then a halberd came slashing down from the side.

A dark red light sliced through the dark purple torrent, and the blade of the halberd burned with the cold flames of Yin Force.

The Evil Corpse corpse gripped the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd with both hands, and its entire body was almost slid backward by the force of the halberd's recoil, sliding more than ten feet, its boots carving two deep furrows in the ice.

It steadied itself, raised its head, and could not hide the fury in its eyes.

"Yun Jingheng, you're just sending a clone with my weapon to deal with me?"

"That's enough!" Gu Yuena shouted.

A silvery-white tornado, carrying the eternally frigid air of the Far North, crashed violently towards the Abyssal Sage King.

The Abyssal Sage King raised his left arm, and his dark purple armor took the blow head-on.

The Ice and Snow Storm exploded on his arm armor, scattering shards of ice. Several fine cracks appeared on the dark purple armor, but the ice didn't penetrate.

With a backhand flick, he unleashed a dark purple whip of Abyssal Energy at Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena flapped her wings and retreated, her silver dragon wings sweeping across the ice surface, leaving behind a trail of shattered ice crystals.

"A severely injured First-Level God? Not bad, the chilling aura is impressive."

A vortex swirled within the Abyssal Sage King's rift, "But the Abyss Plane has no temperature; your ice cannot freeze me."

"What about this one?"

The Evil Corpse attacked from the side.

The Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd swept across, its blade aimed directly at the rift in the face of the Abyssal Sage King.

The Abyssal Sage King tilted his head, and the halberd blade grazed his forehead, slicing off a piece of skin. The skin fell to the ground and smashed into a smoking crater on the ice.

The Abyssal Sage King grunted, his right hand forming a claw, dark purple energy condensing into an extremely compressed energy ball in his palm, which he then slammed towards the Evil Corpse.

The Evil Corpse parried with its halberd, but the energy ball exploded on the halberd, causing the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd to fly out of its hand. The Evil Corpse was sent flying backward, rolling more than a dozen times on the ice before coming to a stop.

"Evil Corpse!" Gu Yuena shouted.

"It's nothing." The Evil Corpse crawled up from the ice, its mouth covered in blood, but its eyes were even more ferocious.

It raised its right hand, palm facing outward, and crimson Yin Force surged from its body, condensing into three crimson Moonlight spears at its side.

"Go."

Three spears were fired simultaneously.

The Abyssal Sage King dodged the first blade, smashed the second, but the third blade pierced through the gap in his armor under his ribs.

Dark purple blood spurted out from the crevice. The Abyssal Sage King roared and slapped the air in front of him, creating a sonic boom cloud.

But the Evil Corpse was no longer there.

It appeared behind the Abyssal Sage King, holding a sword made entirely of Moonlight in its right hand, the tip of which precisely pierced the seam of the Abyssal Sage King's shoulder armor.

The dagger pierced three inches deep, and dark red Yin Force poured into the carapace, violently clashing with the Abyssal Energy within.

The Abyssal Sage King's armor bulged from his shoulders, as if something was about to burst out from within.

"You--"

"The power of the Abyss and the Yin Force converge, which is why we can absorb the Abyss. Similarly, this is why I can suppress you so tightly."

It suddenly drew its sword, and a dark red light exploded from the wound.

A large chunk of the armor on the Abyssal Sage King's shoulder shattered, revealing the churning dark purple flesh and blood inside.

He staggered backward, cracking the air beneath his feet.

Just then, more lights appeared on the ground of the Far North Ice Plains.

The Titled Douluo of the Blood God Legion have arrived.

They withdrew from the northern front, covered in blood, but not a single one fell behind.

The Soul Ring under the feet of the leading Titled Douluo lit up simultaneously—seventh, eighth, and ninth rings—the various colors of Soul Power shimmering across the icy plain.

"Blood God Legion, seal off his retreat!" the leading Titled Douluo roared.

More than a dozen pillars of Soul Power rose from the ground simultaneously, forming a massive Soul Power sealing array around the Abyssal Sage King.

The array patterns spread across the ground, linking one after another, peeling away the dark purple energy beneath the Abyssal Sage King's feet layer by layer.

The Abyssal Sage King looked down at the sealing array beneath his feet, the vortex within the crack spinning wildly.

"Ants."

He stomped his foot.

A dark purple shockwave exploded from beneath their feet, shattering the array patterns of the sealing formation inch by inch. The three closest Titled Douluo were thrown away by the shockwave, spitting out blood in mid-air. After landing, they struggled to their feet and returned to their positions.

"Continue!"

The leading old Titled Douluo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, "His true form has just descended, and his foundation is unstable. Don't give him time to catch his breath!"

The array patterns broke and were repaired, then broke again.

The Abyssal Sage King was temporarily trapped in place, but his power was recovering, and with each breath, the dark purple energy grew stronger.

The Evil Corpse knew it couldn't hold out for long.

It turned its head to look at Tang Hao.

Tang Hao stood at the edge of the icy plain. He had already exhausted most of his power Plane Master, but he did not retreat.

He crouched down, placed his palm on the ice, and the translucent dimensional power seeped into the earth from his palm, spreading along the ley lines towards the sealing array.

He had to make sure the Abyssal Sage King didn't escape to the Far North.

"Wulin."

Tang Hao, without even looking up, said, "Go into the Abyss and cause destruction."

Tang Wulin hesitated for a moment.

"Here--"

"Here are me, Yun Jingheng's clone, Gu Yuena, and the entire Blood God Legion."

Tang Hao raised his head, Plane Master eyes leaving no room for negotiation, "Go to the Abyss to weaken his power!"

Tang Wulin gripped the Sea God Trident tightly.

"Hold on!"

Tang Wulin took a deep breath, turned around, and flew towards the Abyss rift.

A golden Sea God's Light flashed at the entrance of the rift, and his figure disappeared into the dark purple Abyss.

The Evil Corpse withdrew its gaze and gripped the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd tightly once more.

The Abyssal Sage King was struggling within the sealing formation. More and more cracks appeared on his carapace, and dark purple energy surged out from the cracks. Each impact caused several of the formation's patterns to shatter.

Three of the Titled Douluo of the Blood God Legion have already fallen, and the rest are still holding on, but everyone knows they can't hold on for much longer.

The Evil Corpse stood directly in front of the sealing formation, with the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd held horizontally in front of it.

The hidden wounds on its body from a year of fighting on the northern front are recurring, and the Abyss crystal in the piercing wound on its left arm is starting to ache again.

But it stood very straight.

"Gu Yuena."

"Um."

Are you afraid of death?

Gu Yuena glanced at it, its silver pupils reflecting a dark purple light.

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid I won't see him again."

"I'm scared too," the Evil Corpse said, "But I won't die."

"Why?"

"Because I am Evil Corpse, as long as my original body lives, I can be reborn."

Gu Yuena was silent for a moment.

So you're going to go and self-destruct?

The Evil Corpse rolled its eyes at her. "It's not that bad. Even though I'm an avatar, I still feel pain. What I mean is—"

You cannot die.

The Evil Corpse said, "If you die, the Silver Dragon King will be gone, and his true form will blame me."

Gu Yuena paused for a moment, then smiled softly, a smile that seemed particularly fleeting in the frigid winds of the Far North.

"You're much better at talking than he is."

"I am, after all, a part of him."

The Evil Corpse gripped the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd tightly, and the dark red Moonlight reignited on its blade. "The evil part, but one thing is true."

"What?"

He loves you.

She took a step forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Evil Corpse in front of the sealing formation. Silver dragon breath gathered in her palm, and her silver hair gleamed coldly in the moonlight.

"I know."

The Abyssal Sage King raised his head within the formation, and the vortex within the crack witnessed this scene.

"Touching."

His voice whispered like a thousand Abyss creatures, "But it's no use."

He slammed his fist into the barrier of the sealing formation.

A large section of the array pattern shattered.

The Titled Douluo of the Blood God Legion coughed up blood, but none of them retreated.

The Evil Corpse and Gu Yuena rushed forward at the same time.

The dark red of the Heaven Saint Rift Abyss Halberd and the frosty white of the Silver Dragon Breath intertwined on the icy plain, colliding with the surging dark purple mass.