Chapter 123 - 107: Straight to the Celestial Abyss
A tremendous roar echoed from the dome above as rock and metal were torn asunder.
A massive fissure slowly yawned open.
Lin Ye sensed the entire machine activating, and alarm bells screamed in his mind.
He took another flying leap, vaulting from the top of the metal pillar and charging straight for the control console.
The Giant-Winged Demon shrieked. The doctor’s face, which had just taken form, dissolved back into a mess of flowing flesh and merged into its enormous body.
Lin Ye felt a foul, powerful gust of wind rush toward him.
Man and monster collided once more in this other battlefield, deep beneath the earth.
Except this time.
Lin Ye had already popped two elixirs into his mouth.
The Blood Burst Elixir!
The instant the elixirs entered his stomach, a searing torrent erupted within him.
His speed and strength instantly surged by thirty percent.
By now, Lin Ye had completely adapted to the rhythm of fighting such a behemoth.
He no longer met it head-on. His body flickered and dodged, a purple specter weaving around the Giant-Winged Demon’s massive frame at high speed.
The Giant-Winged Demon was frenzied, but blind on one side and completely outmatched by Lin Ye’s speed.
Each of its powerful, heavy-handed attacks struck nothing but air, stirring up violent gusts of wind.
Meanwhile, the purple crystal spear in Lin Ye’s hand always found an opening, carving one bloody, bone-deep hole after another into its body.
"Lin Ye!"
"I’m begging you! I’m human, too! I don’t want to... go to the Celestial Abyss!"
"Don’t force my hand!"
The doctor’s pained, twisted face suddenly surfaced on the Giant-Winged Demon’s back, issuing one last plea to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye’s response was an even sharper thrust of his spear.
SQUELCH!
The crystal spear pierced through the face, sending a spray of green blood into the air.
Just then, the entire underground base shook violently.
Lin Ye saw the ethereal blue light within the massive Source Crystal dimming at a visible rate.
At the same time, three massive, curved metal wings at the top of the three giant pillars snapped open in a radial pattern.
Blinding white lightning erupted from the wings, illuminating the entire subterranean space as bright as day.
BZZZZT—
Above, the slowly opening dome was now completely agape.
Lin Ye’s pupils contracted.
He saw grotesque Fusion Monsters panicking and tumbling down from the opening above, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
Then, he saw the all-too-familiar silhouette of a dilapidated building.
The inpatient ward of Dongjiang Province’s Third People’s Hospital!
Lin Ye understood instantly.
This massive underground base was hidden beneath the circular plaza of that abandoned hospital!
KRA-KOOM—!!!
Lin Ye’s vision was consumed by a pure white light, his ears filled with nothing but a deafening roar.
A terrifying white pillar of light, over ten meters thick, erupted from the center of the three metal pillars. It pierced through the hole in the dome and shot straight into the clouds.
After reaching an incredible height, this beam of light that connected earth and sky suddenly exploded.
Lin Ye didn’t see any fire or light from the explosion.
Instead, he saw... a spatial rift!
A colossal spatial rift, several kilometers long, stretched across the sky above the ruins of Dongjiang City!
Unlike the rift Lin Ye had seen before, this one didn’t vanish in an instant.
It was forcibly stabilized by the immense energy, like a giant eye to an unknown world suddenly snapping open.
ROAR—!!
Just as Lin Ye was reeling from the apocalyptic scene, the Giant-Winged Demon let out a defiant roar.
The next moment, its fleshy wings beat furiously.
Lin Ye’s vision blurred. A tremendous force seized him, yanking him off the ground and launching him tens of meters into the air in the blink of an eye.
The Giant-Winged Demon’s massive body bucked in mid-air, trying to throw Lin Ye from its back with immense force.
’It’s trying to escape!’
’Its target is the massive spatial rift overhead!’
’It wants... to return to the Celestial Abyss!’