By killing world bosses, more and more players unlocked the abyssal lord function, built territories, began farming, and sacrificed offerings to summon undead armies. Then they continued hunting world bosses, forming a virtuous cycle.
Ever since the two mighty Abyssal Emperors, the Abyssal Ant Emperor and the Abyssal Locust Emperor, had fallen before the players' onslaught, the players had begun growing much faster. In just six months, they had led their undead armies on a frenzied sweep, wiping out every abyssal creature living in the 103rd Plane and the 76th Abyssal Layer. Without even waiting for the new week's world bosses to respawn, some players had already begun expeditions into neighboring Abyssal Planes.
The 108th Plane, 107th Plane, 106th Plane, 105th Plane, 104th Plane, 103rd Plane, 102nd Plane, 101st Plane, and 100th Plane had become hunting grounds where new players ran wild. An endless stream of newcomers bought virtual helmets and entered Abyss World Online, steadily growing stronger in the beginner villages built by veteran players. The abyssal creatures that had lived there for countless years were plunged into deep water and scorching fire. Whenever they woke up, they would find hundreds of new players charging them in a howling mob, eyes gleaming, to hack them into countless chunks of meat. Calling their fate miserable hardly did it justice.
Under the covert manipulation of Yang Ming, the mastermind behind the scenes, the lower-ranked Abyssal Emperors fell one after another. Large numbers of Abyssal Plane Seeds dropped from their corpses. Following his usual practice, he used genesis authority to shatter the seeds into countless fragments, keeping the larger pieces for himself and leaving the smaller ones for players to unlock the abyssal lord function.
The Six Paths Reincarnation World devoured these Abyssal Plane Seed fragments. As small gains accumulated into a