Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 468 Son of the Abyss
The Abyss... Any entity bearing the title of the Abyss is inextricably linked to the bottomless abyss. Just as Mu Xiang said before, the title itself is a reflection of some kind of reality.

Throughout the multiverse, there are countless planes called Abysses, but ultimately, they are either projections of the Bottomless Abyss or parts of it. This is both the inevitable path by which the Bottomless Abyss participates in the cycles of fortune across countless planes and the law governing the operation of the multiverse.

The multiverse itself is neither good nor evil, good nor evil. Whether it is the bottomless abyss or the demons of the lower plane, it is all because the multiverse needs them to play such roles.

In this era, the Abyss has utterly declined. Its original gods and inhabitants, the first generation of Void Lords, were all slain long before the human era, leaving no trace. In the human era, the Abyss has retreated even further, surviving only through the inexplicable pity of the Primordial Heavenly Court, slowly encroaching upon other planes. If it were to affect the Primordial Heavenly Court's power, or even make a slightly larger move, it would face a crushing blow from the Primordial Heavenly Court!
Who exactly killed all the first-generation Void Lords? No one knows, but it must have been an extremely terrifying being. After all, even the weakest Void Lord was a high-ranking Saint; and Yhorm, as the strongest, most noble, and wisest, had even reached the Innate Saint rank.

However, they all vanished without anyone knowing who did it... It was as if they were nothing but ants before that being, and even their information was erased, with only a portion remaining in the plane information of the bottomless abyss, known to the second generation of Void Lords who later emerged.

And the Void Demons who should have witnessed this event... were unable to speak, either forgot, or were annihilated immediately after speaking.

The decline of the Abyss may simply be the result of a casual act by some great being, nothing more...

Born in this abyss, M'roshi was no ordinary Void Demon; his birth shook the entire Abyss. In human history, non-human races had almost no destiny, yet the Void Lords saw a surging destiny in him.

Although every Void Lord was a supreme deity, inspired by the will of the Abyss, a Void Lord finally intervened, nurturing Murrosh as a seed. His mastery of Abyssal power was unmatched by any other Void Demon. One day after his birth, he became a Lesser Lord; three days later, he advanced to Lord; and ten days later, he became a demigod Archdeacon, possessing the power to rule over one layer of the Abyss.

When he stepped into the Spirit Realm, the Bottomless Abyss naturally corrupted a plane that had already been captured, turning it into a layer of abyss that belonged to him.

This made the other Void Lords and Holy Void Demons take this little guy seriously. In Mroshi, they seemed to see the shadows of those powerful predecessors in the residual information at the bottom of the Abyss.

That's right, this little guy... truly is the chosen one of the Abyss, he will be the one to revive the Abyss!

The second generation of Abyssal Saints retained their precious rationality before Muroch's departure. The Abyssal Will gave birth to all kinds of creatures in the Abyss, yet it was also their greatest enemy, because the Abyssal Will was constantly shaping the inhabitants of the Abyss, and the murmurs derived from it would confuse the demons, making them become what they were meant to be.

Depravity, chaos, madness, irrationality...

The reason why the second generation of Void Lords and Holy Void Demons were able to maintain some rationality was twofold. First, their birth time was not long enough to compare with that of their first-generation predecessors, and the innate holiness bestowed upon them by the Abyss allowed them to better resist chaos. The second reason, however, was closely related to Muroshi, because after his birth, some voices contrary to the distortion and chaos appeared in the will of the Abyss!

This allows Mroshi to grow up safely, without being refined or killed by any Void Lords or Holy Void Demons. Even if some become so chaotic and insane as to be unreasonable, they will be attacked by the rest of the beings... This proves that Mroshi is indeed related to the future of the Abyss, and this bit of rationality is the benefit that the Abyss's will has shown to them.

Even a tiny bit of rationality, even intermittent bursts, is enough to allow beings of sainthood like the Void Lord to absorb or extract crucial primordial information in a more rational way, and to slowly comprehend it while in a state of rationality. This kind of progress is far faster than their original methods.

This is unbelievable...

After all, apart from the second-generation Void Lords born from the Bottomless Abyss who are born with high-ranking sainthood, and those sainthood Void Demons who are either remnants or newly born, there are no Void Demons who can reach the level of sainthood. And these sainthoods born in response to the fortune of the Bottomless Abyss have not undergone any qualitative changes in the countless years.

However, after the birth of Muroshi, their realms actually loosened and rose, and the strongest one has already reached the innate level!

Those who were far inferior in both number and strength to the first generation finally saw hope.

And Muroshi lived up to expectations. During the rational phase of the Void Lord and the Holy Void Demon, he received repeated teachings from his ancestors and finally stepped into the level above the fourth rank. That level was not the fifth rank, but it was countless times more precious than the ordinary fifth rank.

Arrival of the Holy One!

The Abyss Will was overjoyed, and soon after, the strongest Void Lord also stepped one foot into the Innate Realm, and everything was moving towards revival.

Then, the Primordial Heavenly Court descended… The Abyss's lingering existence was merely a measure of protection granted by a powerful being at Yhorm's request. But if the Abyss crossed the red line, even the Lord of War could not guarantee its safety.

For the bottomless abyss, merely surviving is a privilege bestowed upon them, while becoming stronger is an unacceptable mistake!
On that day, the Xuanhuang fleet, which had shrouded the entire abyss, descended, sweeping across everything from the layer closest to the material world to the endless bottom, which was closest to the lower dimensions and existed only in concept. The Void Lord who was about to ascend to the Innate Saintly position was brutally blasted apart by the concentrated fire of countless Xuanhuang cannons, and his Saintly Path, which was between the high-level and the Innate, was captured. The other high-level Saintly positions or Saintly Void Demons, those who defied him were also blasted apart, their Saintly Paths captured, and the rest either had their bodies destroyed or were severely injured and fell into a deep sleep.

As the innermost layer of the abyss was about to be annihilated, Mroshi, under the guidance of the abyss's will, made a decision... He fled.

He fled with the divine tomb prepared for him by the Bottomless Abyss, and with the Bottomless Abyss's last hope, because on this battlefield, a near-saint is nothing but fat meat!

This graveyard of the gods is the site where countless Titans perished in a great ancient war. Corrupted and preserved in the abyss, the corpses of these Titans gave rise to even more twisted beings. The strongest of these, even the ocean god of the Titan race, had a corpse that was crucial to the existence of this torn abyss.

Under the influence of the Abyss's will, this ocean god became a terrifying fifth-tier being. He was devoid of thought and consciousness, yet he provided much assistance to Murroshi. Even the parts that peeled off from his body were enough to grow into a mid-fourth-tier or even stronger twisted being, far surpassing the corpses of other Titans.

During his wanderings in this abyss, Muroch found the key to breaking the deadlock... to merge this abyss into other planes, usurp their cycle of fortune, and thus absorb them to become a complete plane. After absorbing several planes, orderly regions appeared in the abyss. Although they lacked energy compared to other places, they gave Muroch hope.

Chaos is not the future of the Abyss... The only way to rebuild the Abyss is to restore it to its original state of order, harmony, and beauty, as it was once legendary.

That's what the abyss should look like, or rather, it's where a plane can potentially develop.

So Muroch continued with his plan, and eventually, he found a world where civilization developed and planes ascended through the mutual influence of the fantasy and real worlds. After seeing the gods that only existed in those fantasy worlds, Muroch made his decision.

The abyss was sunk into a fantasy world... and then, according to the fantasy world's interpretation, the beings within the abyss became gods in the story. The twisted beings derived from the corpses of Titans became the Great Old Ones as known in this world; while those parts peeled off from the remains of the Ocean God became the legendary Outer Gods.

Other plane gods and powerful beings who were killed or captured by Muroshi and used as nourishment for the abyss then became the ancient gods of this world.

That's right, it's role-playing. This is how the abyss from outside adds itself to the cycle of destiny... In the apocalypse of many planes, the so-called appearance of gods and demons is actually the result of foreign invaders using people's legends and stories, and manifesting the power of disordered and chaotic faith.

But what Murrosh wants to do is not so simple. The path to ascension in this plane is quite interesting. Although it appears to be a world without magic at first glance, that fantasy world contains unlimited possibilities. If one were to rely on this plane, one could also seize the resources after the plane's ascension, which is far more efficient than simply absorbing them.

Having left the Abyss and only captured a fraction of its will, Mroshi not only struggled to improve but also became equally chaotic and insane. His solution was to use the will of the Abyss and the Ocean God to cut himself, merging the chaotic and distorted parts into the Ocean God's remaining body, while using the Ocean God's remaining authority to maintain the stability of his conscious and rational parts.

Although his strength was greatly diminished, this was the only way to survive... He had no other way to advance further from the Saintly rank. Only in this way could he slowly use the remains of the Titan Ocean God to master the power of the fifth rank.

His conscious part played the role of the chief of the ancient gods in this plane. The stronger the power from the abyss, the easier it is to lose control; and the conscious body that was cut off became a god-like existence in this plane by means of the authority extracted from the remains of gods.

The ordered part within the abyss slowly expanded through parasitism, eventually becoming a stable small plane of considerable size, within which relatively pure beings were being nurtured... While mixing this ordered part into the fantasy world itself, Muroch orchestrated the collision between disorder and order, thus directing the grand drama of the invasion from another plane and the resistance of this plane. In this process, both the abyss and Muroch continued to grow stronger by borrowing the fortune of the plane.

According to the pre-defined rules of this plane, Muroshi called the ordered abyss... the Dream Realm.

The Dream Realm will become the key to the purification and revival of the Abyss, and will also become the divine realm designated by this plane, eventually devouring the entire plane and ascending to become an even more powerful existence!
In this crucial step, the conscious part, now known as Nordens, discovered the other outsiders. Their individual strength was not a threat, but what lay behind them was something that even the real Murrohi couldn't understand, let alone Nordens.

However… when these visitors returned, they had reached the fourth tier, prompting Muroshi to decide to act once more. Something behind them had imprinted some kind of information on them, information that, if obtained, would be of great benefit.

Perhaps it was divine intervention... no, it wasn't divine intervention, because in every era, the multiverse has never sheltered the bottomless abyss!

This is an opportunity that Muroshi and the Abyss themselves earned!

Mroshi must make these outsiders nourish the Abyss, or corrupt them, or turn them into great demons... Let them become stepping stones for the Abyss's revival.

Is it not worth it to exchange a mere fourth tier for a new, more hopeful and vibrant abyss?
(End of this chapter)