Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Abyss (深渊) |
| Type | Place / interworld region |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | 76 |
Nature
The Abyss is a dangerous, resource-rich region created by a spatial misalignment between two Class Advancement Worlds. Its spatial rifts can connect Blue Star to an Abyss on another world, allowing passage between worlds under exceptional circumstances 100 192.
- Abysses are associated with dark-toned landscapes, spatial disturbances, mutated beasts, and valuable resource drops 93 197.
- Their rare resources may differ according to the world on the opposite side of the spatial connection. The otherworldly Abyss reached from Abyss-Border City produces pure mental-attribute resources 100 201.
- A spatial rift inside an Abyss may serve as a route to its corresponding otherworld, though such rifts are dangerous and can be considered “dead” by observers 100 105 107.
- Spatial Nodes are distinct from ordinary spatial rifts: they are stable, large-scale cross-realm passages whose ownership grants strategically significant passage rights 121 133.
- After obtaining the Spatial Node associated with the Peak of Space, Chen Ming gains the ability to access the Abyss-Border City Abyss through it 133.
- Chen Ming later learns of at least two additional Abysses within Alliance territory 192.
- A controlled Abyss is regarded as a treasure land because its resources replenish continuously; Abyss-Border City’s strength and status among Jiangnan Province’s leading cities are closely tied to the Abyss at its border 76.
- Chen Ming prefers entering otherworldly Abysses through their rifts rather than arriving above foreign cities through Spatial Nodes. This places him near the resources he seeks and reduces the risk of his Bone Demon army being mistaken for an invading otherworldly force 192.
- A later location called Sunken Abyss Space, or Abyssal Space, contains an Abyssal Heart and an Ancient Beast. Its structure is described separately from Blue Star’s wilderness Abysses; it is not established as another instance of the same two-world spatial-misalignment phenomenon 532 534 537 538.
Environment
The Abyss appears as a vast expanse of pitch-black land sharply divided from the surrounding Exotic Beast Forest. Its perimeter is enclosed by a faint, ethereal airflow barrier: invisible from afar, but increasingly visible and vision-obscuring at close range 93 197.
- Entrance — Access is possible through openings in the barrier, including canyon passages 93 197.
- Visibility — Its interior is dominated by dark hues, though it remains navigable enough for Class Changers to explore 93.
- External isolation — The situation inside an Abyss cannot be directly sensed from outside its barrier 93.
- Mental-power suppression — The Abyss uniquely suppresses mental power, severely reducing the range and precision of mental detection 93 94.
- Spatial instability — Intense disturbances, energy tides, spatial rifts, and Spatial Nodes can emerge within it 93 98 120.
- Energy tides — Energy tides can activate or alter Abyss conditions; one disturbance at Abyss-Border City was described as the most intense in history 93 110.
- Outer and inner regions — Abyss-Border City’s Abyss is divided into broad outer zones and an inner Energy Mountain Range. The inner region contains elemental peaks formed from highly condensed single-element energy 96 109.
- A vast expanse of ravines separates the outer and inner regions. The Energy Mountain Range is comparatively compact, with its far end visible to the naked eye 109.
- Elemental peaks — The elemental peaks continuously generate new resources and become especially active during an energy tide, making them important cultivation sites for high-level Class Changers 109 110.
- Their empowered state lasts roughly half a month. The initial surge is most suitable for Third Realm Class Changers above Level 40 and is too intense for weaker entrants to approach immediately 109 110.
- Energy surveillance — Abyss-Border City uses metal steles to monitor the elemental-energy values of individual zones. Since Abyssal beasts carry resource-bearing energy, abrupt fluctuations can signal either resource depletion or a potential beast riot 101 102.
- An increase of more than 5,000 energy points within a short period is treated as a likely sign of a beast riot requiring preventive measures 101.
- These readings also serve as an assessment mechanism: resources harvested in the outer regions are reflected in declining energy values and counted toward Provincial Selection rankings 102 131.
- Luo River City wilderness — This Abyss lies approximately fifty li east of Luo River City. Compared with the controlled Abyss at Abyss-Border City, its interior appears more primal, which Chen Ming attributes to less frequent disturbance by Class Changers 197 198.
Sunken Abyss Space
Sunken Abyss Space is a small, enclosed region reached through a twisted spatial passage associated with the apparent Level-53 Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast World Beast. Turbulent currents and chaos surround it like a rounded shell, whose surface is dotted with vortices leading to unknown locations 532 533 534.
Stone steps extend from the entrance toward a central platform. A round, crystal-like object—the Abyssal Heart—provides the interior’s only light. Delicate spatial links connect the Heart to nearby passages, including the route used by Chen Ming to enter, resembling blood vessels attached to a heart 534 537.
Hazards
- Abyssal beasts — Mutated and exotic beasts inhabit the region, including flying creatures and beasts capable of forming large-scale tides 93 199 200.
- Beast tides — Uncontrolled Abyssal beasts can threaten nearby cities, as seen when Chen Ming clears a tide to prevent casualties in Luo River City 200.
- Prolonged exposure — An unwritten rule limits stays to three days; remaining longer risks permanent mental-power decline and mutation 103.
- Entrants gradually experience worsening discomfort and an instinctive sense of rejection. These effects are more pronounced in lower-level Class Changers, even though the Abyss imposes no formal dungeon-style time limit 103.
- Spatial rifts — Rifts may transport entrants to another world, with no certainty of a safe return. The rift in Abyss-Border City’s Zone One was regarded as effectively fatal due to its extremely low safe-traversal rate 100 105 121.
- City Lord Xia gives its traversal rate as 0.01%, contrasting it with the large-scale, highly safe passage offered by a Spatial Node 121.
- Spatial disturbance — During an Abyss disturbance, internal space becomes highly unstable, requiring entrants to exercise particular caution even before an energy tide fully manifests 90 93.
- Cross-realm competition — The Peak of Space dungeon demonstrates that cross-realm Abyss phenomena can bring Class Changers from different worlds into the same challenge 121 123.
- Sunken Abyss defenses — The apparent Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast attacks with black thorns, crushing hands, and sound waves while protecting the Abyssal Space passage. Inside, a crystal barrier can withstand Saint-level attacks, though Chen Ming eventually breaks through it 533 536.
Resources
Abyssal beasts can drop rare materials upon death, making the Abyss a major destination for Class Changers seeking to improve their strength 93 197.
- Abyssal drop mechanism
- Even low-level Abyssal beasts can yield rare resources, unlike ordinary exotic beasts, whose resource drops are generally associated with powerful individuals 94.
- In Chen Ming’s initial Abyss-Border City sweep, slain Abyssal beasts dropped resources but did not yield beast cores 94.
- Abyssal resources are replenished through the inner region’s elemental peaks, which function similarly to resource veins 76 109.
- Recovery materials
- Cyan Crystal — recovery-type material dropped by a Shadow Black Cat 93.
- Spatial materials
- Phantom Void Horn Fragment — spatial resource obtained from a Nightbearer Horn Bull 96.
- Spatial resources are exceptionally scarce; Chen Ming finds only one in the Abyss-Border City Abyss during his large-scale sweep 104.
- During the Peak of Space’s final stage, spatial resources serve as bait for the Level-19 Shadow-Gliding Serpent. Consuming a resource makes the serpent’s illusory body solidify on a competitor’s platform, allowing it to be attacked 122.
- Chen Ming concludes that Dim Star’s spatial resources had already been harvested before his raid, explaining their absence from his otherworldly haul 122.
- General rare resources
- Streamer Amber — light-element agility resource dropped by a Dark-Patterned Leopard 94.
- Cloudmist Wood, Swordstar Grass, Seven-Colored Nectar, Flameheart Sand, Dawn Stone, and Bamboo Leaf Gold are among the materials gathered by Chen Ming’s Bone Demon army 98.
- Pure otherworld resources
- Aperture-Opening Jade, Spiritual Attribute (Pure) — increases spiritual potential 100.
- Ten-Year Lone Bamboo, Glazed Flower Heart, and Heart-Viewing Jade — pure mental-attribute resources obtained from an otherworldly Abyss 201.
- Chen Ming prioritizes pure mental resources because they increase mental potential. He regards other worlds’ pure attribute resources as enhanced rare resources, useful but less important to his immediate goals 192.
- Abyssal Heart
- A luminous crystal sphere found on the platform within Sunken Abyss Space. Its contents turn pale gold as their transformation approaches stability 534 536.
- The Heart holds ancient-beast essence blood collected by the Grand Void Juvenile Beast, which is still absorbing that blood during its evolution 538.
- Its spatial links must be carefully unraveled if it is to be removed without being destroyed. The beast warns that taking it before stabilization would waste much of its divinity, though Chen Ming suspects this warning also serves the beast’s attempt to delay him 536 537.
- Chen Ming later counts the unexpected Abyssal Heart among the gains that complete his mission on Desolate Star 541.
Known Abysses
| Location / Connection | Known Details |
|---|---|
| Abyss-Border City Abyss | A major Abyss bordering Jiangnan Province. It contains multiple zones, energy tides, spatial rifts, the inner Energy Mountain Range, and the Peak of Space large-scale dungeon 76 93 102 109 110. |
| Luo River City Abyss | An Abyss connected to the Black Dwarf Race’s side. Though not under Luo River City’s control, Class Changers enter it for its resources; Chen Ming later eliminates an emerging beast tide within it 197 200 201. It lies approximately fifty li east of the city and is less developed than Abyss-Border City’s controlled Abyss 197 198. |
| Otherworld Abyss | Reached when Chen Ming passes through a spatial rift from Blue Star’s Abyss. It contains resources with pure attributes and encounters involving the Black Dwarf Race 100 199 201. The Black Dwarf competitor encountered there is later identified as a Dim Star native 121. |
| Alliance wilderness Abysses | Two additional Abysses exist within Alliance territory but are not controlled by Alliance cities. One is a pitch-black Abyss within an Exotic Beast Forest; the world connected to the other was unknown to City Lord Xia 192. |
| Nether Sea Star connection | A separate Abyss connection revealed by City Lord Fei. Its opposite world recently suffered a beast tide, making it unsuitable for Chen Ming’s resource-gathering objective 202. The otherworldly Abyss had been suppressed and no Abyssal beasts remained; the Alliance learned this from news spread by Nether Sea Race Class Changers 202. |
| Sunken Abyss Space / Abyssal Space | A later, separately described enclosed space associated with an apparent Level-53 World Beast on Desolate Star. It contains a central platform, an Abyssal Heart, multiple vortex passages, and a Level-72 Saint Grade Grand Void Juvenile Beast. Its relationship to ordinary interworld Abysses is not established 532 533 534 538. |
Major Incidents
Abyss-Border City energy tide
A historically intense spatial disturbance produces an energy tide within the Abyss. City Lord Xia and Inspector Lin investigate after learning that the phenomenon has not caused the expected large-scale beast riot 93.
The tide activates the inner region’s elemental peaks and ultimately reveals the Spatial Main Peak, which becomes the Peak of Space large-scale dungeon 109 110.
Abyss-Border City’s authorities had concealed the energy tide’s existence. Visiting high-level Class Changers criticize their secrecy before rushing toward the peaks to exploit the initial surge, while the younger participants wait for conditions suitable to their strength 109.
Provincial Selection
City Lord Xia designates the Abyss as the site of the Provincial Selection after arranging for the participating Class Changers to reach Level 10. The disturbance’s abundant resources offer an opportunity to awaken skills beyond their ordinary rank or level, and better preliminary rankings grant more advantageous entry sectors 80 90.
Only the top team from each city is permitted to hunt in its assigned outer region, and Abyss-Border City’s people are instructed not to interfere. Morning Light Squad enters Zone One, while Golden Steel Squad enters Zone Two 101 102.
The exterior assessment counts harvested energy points, while the interior assessment reflects skill awakenings. Morning Light Squad leads both rankings, recording 27,850+??? exterior points and 10,600 interior points. Golden Steel Squad places second in the exterior ranking with 850 points 131.
Zone One depletion
Chen Ming’s Bone Demon army sweeps Abyss Zone One for resources, causing its monitored energy value to plummet. The zone’s energy ultimately reaches zero, indicating its resources have been depleted 97 102 103.
When the city’s experts inspect Zone One, they find its forests, plains, and other terrain devastated, with mangled Abyssal beast corpses throughout the region. A complete spatial rift is also present; the officials suspect it caused the beasts’ apparent sudden deaths, unaware of the Bone Demon army’s sweep 103 104.
Chen Ming conceals the scale of his otherworldly resource raid while claiming he eliminated berserk beasts to prevent a beast tide. He retains the dropped resources and subsequently enters the supposedly deadly rift again to retrieve his Bone Demons and spoils, returning unharmed and confirming that the other side contains another world’s Abyss 104 105 107.
Peak of Space and Spatial Node
During the energy tide, Chen Ming enters the Peak of Space’s “Climb the Highest Peak” challenge. At its final stage, he competes with Class Changers from Dim Star and the Elf Race for control of a Spatial Node 110 111 121 123.
The final stage places competitors in separate spaces represented by five platforms. They use spatial resources to lure Shadow-Gliding Serpents; defeating a serpent produces another step toward the summit, turning resource reserves into a major factor in the competition 121 122 123.
Chen Ming ultimately acquires the Spatial Node and its cross-realm passage rights, granting him a stable means of reaching the Abyss-Border City Abyss 129 133.
City Lord Xia had intended to destroy the dungeon if Chen Ming failed, and the passage between the Abyss and the Spatial Node was originally meant to be destroyed. Once the node belongs to an Alliance Class Changer, Xia leaves it intact. Abyss-Border City’s higher-ups consequently worry that Chen Ming can return to their resource-rich territory whenever he wishes 110 133.
Otherworld resource raids
Chen Ming uses spatial rifts to enter otherworldly Abysses and gather pure mental resources. During his return through the Luo River City Abyss, he deploys Bone Demons against an Abyssal beast tide and leaves the region devastated after exterminating the beasts 199 200 201.
Before crossing to the otherworld, he travels with Zhao Dahai’s Mystic Edge Squad, whose members know the location of a rift. He disables two mutated tigers for them using Spatial Severing, then proceeds to the otherworldly Abyss, where his Bone Demon army clears a beast tide. He withdraws through the rift when a Black Dwarf Race army arrives 197 198 199.
On Blue Star’s side, Chen Ming shelters the Mystic Edge Squad within an area sealed off by enormous Nether Gates while his army fights. After the battle, he allows them to keep the resources that fell into their protected area, giving them twenty-three rare resources and two high-grade resources 200 201.
City Lord Fei confirms that Chen Ming’s intervention prevents the Luo River City Abyss tide from developing into a wider disaster 201.
After leaving, Fei advises Chen Ming not to visit the remaining wilderness Abyss for resources: its Nether Sea Star counterpart has already been cleared of Abyssal beasts following a recent tide. Chen Ming abandons the additional trip because his primary resource-gathering objective has been fulfilled 202.
Sunken Abyss exploration
Following information supplied by Youye, Chen Ming investigates the Abyssal Space associated with the Level-53 Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast World Beast. Void Sight reveals that the enormous visible body generates no energy of its own; energy enters it from the sealed passage whenever it attacks. Chen Ming concludes that it is a puppet controlled by a hidden Ancient Beast 532 533.
Rather than destroy the puppet and risk losing access, Chen Ming waits for its stored energy to be exhausted so that the passage must open again. He then enters the vortex and reaches Sunken Abyss Space, where a small mist-like beast guards the platform and Abyssal Heart 533 534.
Chen Ming breaks through the crystal barrier and begins carefully unraveling the Heart’s spatial connections. Unable to stop him, the beast offers its mental origin and becomes his spirit pet. The connection identifies it as a Grand Void Ancient Beast, later revealed to be a Level-72 Saint Grade Grand Void Juvenile Beast 536 537 538.
The beast explains that it seeks protection from pursuing enemies and that the Heart contains essence blood needed for its evolution. Its sudden rush toward the supposedly stabilized Heart, without responding to Chen Ming’s mental command, leaves him suspicious of its motives. Nevertheless, Chen Ming later identifies the Abyssal Heart as one of his completed mission’s unexpected gains 538 541.
Trivia
- Abyss-Border City’s officials regard the Abyss as vital enough that abnormal changes to its energy value cause immediate alarm 102.
- Ordinary Class Changers still risk entering Abysses because the chance to obtain rare resources can change the prospects of low-rank classes 197.
- Before Chen Ming’s challenge, the Peak of Space was regarded as an undefeated large-scale dungeon centered on spatial laws 110 111.
- Abyss-Border City’s frontier walls and extensive defenses reflect the dangers of living beside an Abyss; its access to continuously replenished resources also helps it remain among Jiangnan Province’s top three cities 76.
- Although the Abyss’s sky and terrain appear black, details remain clearly visible. Chen Ming describes the faintly lustrous landscape as a kind of “colorful black” 93.
- In Luo River City, solo Abyss entrants are commonly regarded as Class Changers risking their lives on a final gamble. Zhao Dahai initially interprets Chen Ming’s solitary visit in this way 198.