When the Abyss Gazes Upon You, You Are Also Gazing Upon the Abyss

Is it even a wedding if you don't kiss the bride?

Does a wealthy woman not deserve to save face?

Can a pretty boy just disregard his integrity?

Lu Ya was a pretty boy with professional ethics. Since he had taken the money, joined the ranks of the immortals, and the wealthy woman had even built him a house, he had to provide the full service. How could he be the least bit ambiguous?

He would rather sacrifice his first kiss than fail to contribute to the sect!

Even if he had to suffer ten thousand arrows piercing his heart or a heavenly tribulation striking his head, he could not retreat!

This was the most basic requirement for him as a professional pretty boy.

Sigh, to live the life of a salted fish, he had to sell his looks and force himself to kiss an old hag three thousand years his senior.

It is truly too hard for me!

Liu Xuanye widened her eyes, her sword-like gaze freezing in the candlelight.

She stared straight at Lu Ya.

Strangely, the sword intent within her body showed no reaction, yet she could not detect any spiritual pressure or seals on Lu Ya.

Even at this distance, she still could not discern a single thing about him, as if she were a small boat adrift on a calm sea; she could see neither the edge of the ocean nor the abyss at its bottom.

All she could perceive was a faint, lingering warmth from Lu Ya's lips.

She did not blush, nor did she even know to close her eyes.

Stars flickered in her pupils.

An instant became a painting.

This was the first immortal wedding ceremony the immortal commoners below the stage had ever attended.

To the guests from afar, Lu Ya's actions were merely a simple embrace and kiss between a groom and a bride.

Although the movements were novel, the posture overbearing, and the atmosphere romantic, perhaps this was simply the style of immortals.

Caught up in the lively atmosphere of the wedding banquet, they gradually let go of their bitter pasts, drinking immortal beer and wine, eating meat, and clapping in cheers.

However, the local immortal commoners were suddenly stunned.

Only now did they realize that this man had not been tricked up the mountain by Tiger Immortal, but had truly caught the Sect Master's Xiuchiu.

Was the legendary fated immortal partner actually real?

They had witnessed a miracle and destiny.

They saw light and hope.

They had feigned joy in their despair, but upon seeing a glimmer of light, they became strangely quiet, even wanting to cry.

For over a thousand years, the stories of the Sect Master's husband-killing curse had been passed down from generation to generation in the village. They had expected the final chapter of destruction, yet suddenly, they saw a glimmer of hope...

It was as if this moment were eternity.

Far from the bamboo stage, on the edge of a cliff, atop a giant suspended gourd.

Wine Fox Immortal sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, watching the embraced Liu Xuanye with her divine sense.

Without the protection of bamboo slips, her divine sense recoiled violently, and blood suddenly flowed from her seven orifices.

Filled with envy, jealousy, and infinite hatred toward Lu Ya, she tumbled off the wine gourd, landing flat on her back.

Her face, usually so alluring, was now in a most unseemly state.

In her life, whoever she met usually ended up with bad luck.

The only time she met Liu Xuanye, she was the one who ended up with bad luck.

"So many years have passed, and it's still the same old crap..."

Wine Fox Immortal closed her eyes in melancholy.

At this moment, everyone's attention was on the bamboo stage, and no one bothered with her as she fell from the hanging gourd.

Muyu Feifei took the opportunity to step on her towering snowy peaks and leaped up onto the giant gourd.

One sat at the head of the gourd, the other at the tail.

Happily usurping the nest, they climbed high to look into the distance.

Watching Lu Ya's overbearing kissing posture on the bamboo stage, the two girls couldn't help but sigh.

"Humans really have so many positions..."

On the bamboo stage.

Ning Zhongzi's face was frozen in shock, yet at the same time, the heavy stone in her heart finally fell.

She had told Lu Ya to improvise, but she never expected that he, who usually prioritized his own well-being, would go to such lengths for the sect and the Sect Master!

Even if he were the fated one, who would dare to make an enemy of the Heavens?

Her willow-leaf brows furrowed slightly as Ning Zhongzi looked up at the night sky.

Dust billowed.

Clouds gathered in the wind.

A blood-colored gash tore open the pitch-black night sky.

A spatial rift!

Ning Zhongzi froze in sudden shock. Just as she was about to issue a warning, she lost all control over her body, as if her Immortal Platform had been seized by Gods and Devils.

A withered, pitch-black arm reached out from the blood-red rift, extending infinitely downward, clawing toward the bamboo platform.

Looking closely, one could see billions of dense, white eyes splitting open across its palm!

Carrying a sorrow as vast as the primordial wilderness and a silent, overwhelming pressure, the billions of eyes opened and closed in a bizarre rhythm, as if billions of universes were being born and dying simultaneously.

This exceeded the limits of what Ning Zhongzi could comprehend.

She could not feel any pressure.

Yet she knew clearly that this was aimed at Lu Ya.

She was powerless.

At this moment.

Lu Ya, who had been busy attending to Liu Xuanye, felt a chill run down his spine.

A giant hand, seemingly capable of tearing the universe asunder, was rending his Immortal Platform from across the void. Viscous, garbled, and eerie syllables struck his soul like the tolling of a bell by Gods and Devils.

Pulling away from Liu Xuanye's red lips, Lu Ya looked up at the night sky.

He looked at the blood-red gash that seemed to have pierced through infinite time and space.

He looked at the withered black arm that seemed capable of infinite extension.

He looked at the billions of dense, terrifying white eyes that resembled the birth and death of billions of universes.

Lu Ya was intimately familiar with the Nether setting in the game, which leaned slightly into Lovecraftian horror.

In the game Ancient Immortal Court, due to policy restrictions, demons and ghosts could not appear; thus, the natural enemies of immortals were defined as—

Nether.

Nether are a type of high-level Devil Race with no fixed form, equivalent to a xianxia or primordial version of Cthulhu.

This was the official explanation from the game developers.

However, according to the hidden lore Lu Ya had casually uncovered after reaching max level, the Nether might be fallen God clans—in a sense, Great Old Ones—existing as beings that could be killed but would always regenerate, impossible to eradicate completely.

Lu Ya had no interest in solving mysteries.

He had dedicated himself to grinding for power, believing that once one was invincible, all so-called secrets were merely pretentious posturing.

The Nether possessed both the sorrow of the primordial wilderness and the indescribable nature of Cthulhu, which was quite intimidating upon first encounter.

During his first two years in the game, Lu Ya had suffered greatly at the hands of the Nether, even falling victim to a certain humanoid Nether.

But once he reached max level, the Nether were nothing more than succulent experience packs.

The feeling was much like—

At first: When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Later: When the abyss gazes at you, you are also gazing into the abyss.

Now: You are too lazy to even pick up the experience packs...

Just as Lu Ya had guessed, the restriction within Liu Xuanye's body had indeed come from the hand of a high-level Nether.

As for why, Lu Ya was not interested; as long as it didn't hinder his life of leisure, the Nether could do whatever they pleased.

At this moment.

His gaze was gentle, calm, and carried an indescribable laziness.

He looked at the billions of white eyes, yet his pupils held no reflection of them.

His eyes still reflected the picturesque starlight within Liu Xuanye's sword-like eyes.

Even though he was no longer looking at her...

Suddenly, the withered black arm extending downward stopped.

In an instant.

The billions of white eyes on the palm reflected the starlight from Liu Xuanye's sword-like eyes, which were mirrored in Lu Ya's own.

The billions of stars flickered, resembling a brilliant, starry galaxy.

The indescribable abyss suddenly became incredibly poetic!

The withered black arm froze abruptly. If it had extended even an inch further, it would have lost its self, lost its abyss, and been dragged into a pair of eyes that spelled eternal doom.

For the first time, the abyss had been seen through by a human.

The billions of white eyes suddenly panicked. With a momentary tremor, they let out a silent shriek that sounded like the tearing of a soul.

The indescribable, withered black arm suddenly became as agile as a loach, recoiling with a jolt back into the blood-red spatial rift.

Lu Ya thought, Don't go yet. The rift snapped shut, vanishing into the night sky as if nothing had ever happened.

The silence that followed was the most awkward of all.

Lu Ya had only wanted to have some fun and see who this Nether was that had placed a restriction on Liu Xuanye, but he had ended up scaring the person away...

I didn't even do anything, did I?

Of course, the fact that the Nether had fled the moment they encountered Lu Ya proved that this particular Nether was already a powerhouse among their kind.

Meanwhile.

Liu Xuanye's slender, graceful frame trembled slightly. In the veil of night, she saw the stars, and she saw herself.

For a fleeting moment, she was struck by an illusion—

Perhaps this man was not her destined immortal partner, but simply so strong that he could suppress her restriction.

Not only had he remained unharmed by the Nether phenomenon that threatened her Immortal Platform and soul, but he had also frightened away a Nether from the primordial era with a single glance!

I'm overthinking it.

Perhaps his constitution was the exact mirror image of her own.

Perhaps in a past life, he was a powerhouse even the Nether feared.

Perhaps this was destiny.

Ning Zhongzi regained control of her body. As she looked at Lu Ya, she, too, began to believe in destiny; there was no other explanation.

The out-of-town guests continued to cheer and applaud.

The local immortals remained frozen in silence.

They were unaware of what had transpired in the sky.

Muyu Feifei stood with Lu Ya, looking up at the pitch-black sky, thinking she had hallucinated.

"Why did I see countless eyes of the Sect Master?"

"I think I saw a black loach..."

"Did you sneak a drink?"

"You're the one who's been drinking."

The Wine Fox Immortal remained unconscious, and four footprints still lingered on the snowy mountain.

Only then did Liu Xuanye realize she was still being held in a bridal carry by Lu Ya.

She finally felt a trace of shame.

In the flickering candlelight, a faint blush swept across her face, which was as beautiful as a painting.

With a wave of her hand, three thousand sword shadows descended from the sky, enveloping the two of them.

The sword shadows spun and circled, gradually dimming until they vanished into thin air.

Along with Lu Ya and Liu Xuanye, they disappeared from the bamboo platform in an instant.

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