Chapter 30: The Abyssal Reckoning
The sky above Shen Liang's realm had turned into a battlefield of raw, clashing forces. The Abyssal titans had adapted, but so had he. As his warriors fought tooth and nail, the very fabric of his world shifted under his command. He would not let them claim even a fraction of what he had built.
The silver-flamed woman fought beside him, her fire lashing through the enemy ranks, but her voice carried urgency. "Their coordination is increasing. They're no longer mindless beasts—they're learning strategy."
The envoy's presence flickered beside him. "Then we give them a lesson of our own."
Shen Liang raised his hand, and the sky shattered. From the rupture, cascading waves of pure, unrefined energy flooded the battlefield. The land, the air, even the invaders themselves trembled under the force of his will.
[System Override: Absolute Domain Engaged – Battlefield Supremacy Achieved]
For the first time, the Abyss hesitated.
Shen Liang's eyes burned with cold fury. "You came here to break me? Then let me show you what it means to face a god."
The final phase of the battle had begun.
The battlefield groaned under the weight of Shen Liang's unleashed power. The very laws of existence bent to his will, forging new pathways, rewriting the rules of reality. The land beneath the warriors twisted, not in fear of the Abyss, but in defiance, rising and folding like a living entity obeying its creator's demand.
The abyssal titans hesitated, their formless bodies rippling as they struggled to adapt. Shen Liang did not give them the chance.
He stepped forward, and with a mere flick of his wrist, the sky itself became a weapon. Spears of pure energy descended like celestial judgment, striking through the monstrous horde, piercing through the very essence of the Abyss. The titans shrieked as their bodies destabilized, their essence burning away under the weight of an existence they could no longer control.
"This is not your domain," Shen Liang declared, his voice carrying across the battlefield. "You are intruders in a world that no longer welcomes you."
The envoy's golden-abyssal eyes glowed. "They know. But they will not retreat."
The silver-flamed woman unleashed another burst of celestial fire, her flames cutting through the shadows. "They've come too far. They would rather die than admit defeat."
The air cracked. A dark pulse surged from the remnants of the fallen titans, and suddenly, they did not die.
Instead, their fractured bodies began to merge, their lost essence flowing together like a corrupted river. From the abyssal remains, something new was forming. Something stronger.
[System Warning: Enemy Evolution Detected – Abyssal Entity Forming]
Shen Liang's fingers tightened into a fist. He had seen the Abyss adapt before, but this was different. This was not mere evolution—this was the Abyss abandoning its previous form altogether.
The sky turned black as the entity began to rise. Its body was neither solid nor entirely ethereal, shifting between states, rewriting itself as it emerged. It was not bound by the same limitations as the titans before it—it was something beyond them. A true will of the Abyss, forged from everything it had learned.
The battlefield froze. Even Shen Liang's warriors hesitated as the overwhelming pressure of the new entity settled over them. It did not attack immediately. It did not need to.
The envoy's voice was grim. "It's waiting."
Shen Liang exhaled slowly, his power surging. "It's testing its existence. Seeing if it is stable."
He did not intend to let it finish.
With a single command, he moved.
The sky above cracked once more, but this time, it was not from the Abyss—it was Shen Liang himself tearing through reality.
From the rift, an unimaginable force descended. Not a weapon, not an attack—but a rewriting of existence itself. The new abyssal entity shrieked as the force engulfed it, its body unable to adapt fast enough to the sudden, absolute rejection.
For a moment, it faltered.
Then, it fought back.
Darkness pulsed outward, slamming into Shen Liang with the force of a dying universe. The ground beneath him cracked, the laws of his world flickering. The Abyss had abandoned its old strategies—it was now trying to do what Shen Liang himself had done.
It was trying to become a creator.
The system pulsed with warnings.
[System Alert: Existential Threat Level Rising – Countermeasures Required]
Shen Liang clenched his jaw. "You cannot create. You only consume."
The abyssal entity laughed. A soundless, vibrating distortion that sent shivers through even his most powerful warriors.
Then, it spoke.
"We learn. We grow. And soon, even you will kneel."
Shen Liang's smirk returned. "Then let's see if you survive long enough to try."
He lifted his hand once more, and the battlefield became a forge.
The final war of creation versus destruction had begun.