Abyssal Plane
A few moments ago.
Fan Lin had attacked the Abyssal Saint King with his quadruple fusion soul skill attack.
His new attack was so strong that it impaled the Abyssal Saint King to the bottom of the so called void in a fraction of time.
Then it exploded in a bright pink light nearly blinding Fan Lin.
The attack wiped out 4/5 of the Abyssal Saint realm and Fan Lin was now able to sense the Abyssal Saint King once again.
"So you were right. I couldn't sense you due to the fact that the Abyssal plane was too big."
"Now that less than a 1/5 of it remains. It's really easy to sense you."
Fan Lin said to the void. He didn't know if the Abyssal Saint King can listen to him or not.
He didn't care about that as well.
He silently conjured two more cute looking Spears behind him and just calmly stared at the place where he sensed the Abyssal Saint King to be.
Fan Lin was indeed shocked by the strength of the quadruple fusion skill but on another thought, it wasn't that shocking, considering that dual fusion soul skills could produce power that was leagues above a Spirit Masters level.
And this was a quadruple soul skill fusion, so obviously it would be strong.
Imaginably strong.
With that thought, he calmly focused his all on the next attack.
A single attack of his destroy 4/5 of the Abyssal plane.
"Two more shots should be enough to wipe out the rest, right?"
"No, wait a second, I have to leave a place with the spatial passage to the Douluo world intact or how I am going to return?"
"Teleporting directly to the Douluo plane is impossible with my energy reserves. Heck even if I absorbed energy for months, I may not have enough to teleport to the Douluo planet from here."
"The Abyssal Saint King is still hesitating to attack me. Fear?"
"Good for me, I just now need to find a spatial passage that is connected to the Douluo World and attack from there."
"Hmmm, so he is coming at me now."
Fan Lin said out loud as the Abyssal Saint King appeared in front of him once again.
This time though, he was full on attack mode and used his strongest attack on Fan Lin.
"Die!!!!!!" [Abyssal Saint King]
The Abyssal Saint King attacked with his all and punched Fan Lin on the chest.
He knew that although Fan Lin had really high attack, Fan Lin's physique lacked a lot in comparison to him.
Fan Lin took the attack right on his chest. He looked at the Abyssal Saint King as there were on an eye to eye level once again.
[Active state : Damage
Passive Immunity : Destiny]
"Don't wanna." [Fan Lin]
Fan Lin nonchalantly stated in a calm manner.
Some time ago, he realised that just because the skill description mentioned that the skill granted him Immunity towards one thing, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is just one thing.
Fan Lin set the Immunity to Damage because he can.
He found a way to be immune to everything because he remembered a certain sentence from a certain Snow Empress.
He just needed to be immune to Damage and he will be immune to anything that is combat related.
This also dawned the realisation that the only thing limiting his ninth ring was his vocabulary.
[Onto the present]
He calmly took the hand of the Abyssal Saint King from his chest as the Abyssal Saint King looked in both shock and horror.
"Die." [Fan Lin]
He repeated the words of the Abyssal Saint King in his emotionless monotonous voice as the second spear pierced the chest of the Abyssal Saint King before Fan Lin even began to speak.
He let go of the Abyssal Saint King as he turned into nothing from the onslaught of the energy Spear.
Once again a bright pink light shone and nothing was left behind.
Except this time, nothing else except the Abyssal Saint King were destroyed.
The other things were out of the range of the attack because the previous attack destroyed everything that existed before.
And the second reason being that Fan Lin still has not found the spatial passage to the Douluo world.
"One more spear left and it would end. Where is the spatial passage?"
Fan Lin continued sensing the remaining of the leftover Abyssal plane to find a spatial passage but couldn't.
What Fan Lin didn't know was that the moment Fan Lin reappeared in front of the Abyssal Saint King a few minutes ago, he shut down all the spatial passages connecting to the Douluo world to stop Fan Lin from escaping again.
His followers in the Douluo world were going to open a new gateway in a week anyway and that would be enough time for him to absorb or at least find out the secret of Fan Lin.
So there were no spatial passages and Fan Lin was searching in vain.
The Abyssal Saint King was fortunate in that aspect that Fan Lin didn't know that he had closed the spatial passages or Fan Lin would have sent him crashing to the remaining Abyssal plane with the spear and ended the Abyssal plane then and there.
So as the Abyssal Saint King resurrected again in the core of the Abyssal plane, he was looking at the silent Fan Lin waiting for something.
The Abyssal Saint King immediately understood what Fan Lin was trying to do.
'He is trying to find the spatial passage but... I closed down all of them and I can't open another one for now.'
The reason being his weakened state after Fan Lin destroyed the Abyssal plane along with him.
"I know you can hear me." [Fan Lin]
"Where is the spatial passage?" [Fan Lin]
"I can't seem to find any and if I am struck here then just know, an hour later, I will be the only surviving person in here." [Fan Lin]
"So where are the spatial passage?" [Fan Lin]
Fan Lin questioned, completely disregarding the situation he was in and treating the Abyssal Saint King as a gopher.
Fan Lin was worried for realm now. If the spatial passages were gone then he might have to spend a lot of time to gather enough energy to teleport.
(I will tell you a way to the return, don't kill the Abyssal Saint King right now.)
A voice suddenly transmitted into his mind once again.
This time a female's.
'First of all, I need a way to stop this.'
"Why?" (Fan Lin)
(He is needed to play a part in the upcoming future and I am not saying that you should leave him for free, I will properly reward you.)
The mysterious voice replied.
(You want to create your own Divine Realm right? I will teach you how to. Don't be in a hurry to decline.)
The mysterious voice hurriedly said as Fan Lin was going to fire the spear on the remaining Abyssal Realm.
He stopped his attack and taking that as a sign, the mysterious voice continued.
(Just know that without any know-how, you can never create a Divine Realm in a short amount of time. Without my help, it might even take you centuries to barely create one and you might not even like that.)
(I will also allow you to become a God as you wanted.)
'Allow?' [Fan Lin]
Fan Lin's eyes turned serious when he got the last statement.
'You are the Planar Ruler.' [Fan Lin]
He said to the mysterious voice.
(Nope, I am related to the Planar Ruler though. Will you agree to my terms, if you do, you can start the creation of your Divine Realm by the end of today.)
The mysterious voice coerced Fan Lin.
'How can I trust you?' [Fan Lin]
(I will teleport you near the Douluo Planet. That should be enough for you to trust me.)
'Just one thing, is it somehow related to Tang San?'
Fan Lin asked. He sort of knew that literally everything big in the Douluo world was related to Tang San.
(It is related to San'er. The Abyssal Saint King will play a big part in the upcoming future that decides the fate of the Douluo world.)
'San'er?'
(He is like a son to me, You are as well.)
'Ohh.'
(If he dies now, the future of the Douluo world might be in trouble.)
'What trouble? I will deal with it.'
(You are the trouble. If you kill him now, the decisive battle of the Douluo world won't happen, nor could the Planar law ascend to a higher grade and soul beasts that you want to protect will wither as well.)
(Without my help, you will not be able to ascend to the Godhood and create your Divine Realm in the time frame that you want to.)
(And if you kill the Abyssal Saint King here, the Planar Ruler will make sure to put his all into making your ascension difficult in all aspects.)
'You are threatening me that if I interfered with your so called perfect future plan, you will wipe out the Soul beasts as a revenge and also make my apotheosis harder.'
'Are you guys sure that you have the strength to threaten me?'
(You are connected to the Douluo plane due to the fact that the body that you have now belonged to a resident of the Douluo plane.)
(You have faced the restriction of the Douluo plane but had always survived due to your other self that doesn't belong to the plane.)
(Just like you, the soul beasts and not just them but everything residing under the heavens of the Douluo plane belongs to the Douluo plane.)
(But unlike you, the others don't have any way of rejecting the Planar will/Heavens will of the Douluo plane.)
(So if the Douluo plane wants to, it can take away the soul beasts that you want to protect.)
'And you guys think that I will let you live after that?'
(If the perfect future isn't achieved, there would be no reason for the existence of the Planar Ruler or me. The upcoming event will decide the fate of the world and our plans. If a situation occur where we have to wipe out a single side by ourselves, just know that we will take everything from you as well.)
'Well, you don't know about me. I can recreate everything again, I won't even need to use this strength that I got in here as well.'
'And just as a reminder, don't threaten me, I may just let myself go, devour every bit of energy there is and devour you guys along with it.'
'If a situation occurred and the soul beasts die, I will tear you guys, your San'er and his colleagues all in front of your eyes.'
'So the lives of the soul beasts and the secret to create a Divine Realm for the life of this Abyssal Saint King and the Abyssal plane, right?'
Fan Lin asked at last.
(...)
( Yeah.)
The mysterious voice replied after a while.
'I hope we have a happy co-operation.'
Fan Lin thought and disappeared from the place.
But this time he didn't teleport but was teleported out of the Abyssal plane.
The Abyssal Saint King couldn't do anything but watch at Fan Lin disappeared.
He was now far weaker than he was, his Abyssal Realm was nearly destroyed and he was left on the mercy of Fan Lin.
He stood there quietly as someone interfered with Fan Lin's plan of firing the last Spear.
The Abyssal Saint King quietly watched him. What else could he do?
His attacks weren't working on Fan Lin.
His was weaker than before and the reason was Fan Lin as well.
He still can't believe the reality that he was nearly on the death's door, by the person he toyed just a day before.
"I should have killed him then and there."
The Abyssal Saint King slowly whispered as he looked at the leftover of the Abyssal plane.
"At least he didn't absorb any of the origin energy of the Abyssal plane."
The Abyssal Saint King said as he absorbed the remaining origin energy of the plan and restore the plane.
Fan Lin did destroy nearly 4/5 of the Abyssal plane but the remaining 1/5 was the most important area of the Abyssal plane.
It was the area that housed the layers 1 to 20 and actually contained the most important assets of the Abyssal plane.
The Abyssal Saint King had already told the residents of the lower layers to come to the upper layers and hence most of his forces were left as well.
The area Fan Lin destroyed contained less than a fourth of the Abyssal plane's total forces.
So Fan Lin's overall venture was in vain.
He came to kill the Abyssal Saint King and the Abyssal plane but didn't.
He wasted 80 percent of his energy reserves and now he might need more energy if he wanted to ascend to the Limit Douluo rank.
But if you look at the fact that now he had a step by step guide to guide in the creation of the Divine Realm and to become a God.
He was content.
And the added bonus of knowing that he actually had a lot more skills that he never paid any attention or just blatantly ignored is also a lesson for him.
So all in all, he compromised.