The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

He screamed in pain!

Because Su Qi's slashing blade had once again pierced through his scapula, he laughed and said, "Sorry, you're too fat and bleeding too little."

"And..."

He looked at the man with glasses: "Four-Eyes, have anything to say?"

The man with glasses, with his deep-set eyes and pale face, stared fixedly at Su Qi and coughed, spitting out blood, yet with a grim smile: "We... will be watching you closely..."

"You... have no idea what you're about to face..."

"Your checkmate will be everywhere!"

Next.

The man with glasses actually used his last bit of Spiritual Energy! He manipulated the threads to come out.

And the obese man, seeing this, had a madness in his eyes as Spiritual Energy surged within him.

Threads suddenly pierced through the man with glasses' head.

The obese man's body suddenly inflated.

One chose suicide...

The other chose self-destruction...

"What horrible madness and resolve..." Butterfly murmured to herself.

Even if they faced a checkmate in the dueling ground, they wouldn't choose to end it this way.

Because... there was the option to surrender.

"Decisive and straightforward, truly worthy of the Abyss... faction," Su Qi murmured to himself.

Their allegiance clearly lay with the Abyss, taking a completely different path, opposite to the Present World.

At this moment, Bai Yilin had finished sketching the Runes and limped towards Su Qi.

"...Their words just now were not without aim," Bai Yilin said calmly, his speech straightforward as he gently began.

"Although you're a new player to Paradise, you should have some understanding of the Abyss Camp."

Su Qi: "I've learned a bit."

"The core of Abyss Camp is naturally the Abyss Church, and the rest are powers, organizations, and instance worlds with various tight connections to the Abyss Church... from the strongest to the weakest, from the highest layers to the lowest, they're almost as dense as splattered ink, long since murky beyond clarity."

Bai Yilin calmly looked at the corpse of the man with glasses: "And from what I understand, their organization has joined the Abyss Camp and is different from other peripheral organizations."

The majority of the Abyss Camp... have only Totems that provide them with Strength, and they don't even have the qualifications to contact the Abyss Church.

Having a tattoo means being a part of the Abyss, even if you are just an ant.

But once you grow, you have the qualifications to contact personnel of the Abyss Church.

"Their organization... has latched onto the Abyss Church, and not just that, they have latched onto one of its high-standing and terrifying members."

Su Qi paused, interested: "How do you know this?"

Bai Yilin spoke softly: "I have a friend... He's been collecting information on this."

"A terrifying existence?" Su Qi asked curiously: "How terrifying?"

But Bai Yilin paused, shaking his head: "I don't know... Everything about the Abyss is massive, the powers of the Ten Thousand Realms of the Present World are omnipresent, and what can be predicted is that the checkmate he just mentioned is not just alarmist talk..."

Su Qi could tell that Bai Yilin coming over to talk about this was to return a favor, he was a past genius, possessing a pride and dignity that could not be destroyed even by his fall.

So.

That's why he straightforwardly revealed so much secret information, to repay the favor for Su Qi saving his life just now.

But Su Qi wouldn't accept it.

This bit of information was of little value to him; he was an old hand in the Abyss.

"Anything else?" Su Qi asked gently.

Bai Yilin was silent: "If there is... any more information."

He looked at Su Qi: "I only know that the terrifying existence they are clinging to has a title."

Su Qi grew somewhat interested: "What is it?"

"They refer to him as... Venerable."

"..."

Bai Yilin had already limped back to his original place, cradling his injuries.

Whereas Su Qi, still unhurriedly tracing Runes, had a slight change in his eyes.

Quite a Venerable.

It must be said...

This piece of information was very useful to Su Qi; simply put, the Abyss Church had selected a lot of Venerables.

Like... disciples not yet grown, but who possess high potential.

Each one forming factions and attempting to fight their way out of competition.

Su Qi also slowly looked at the Totem on his arm; he had directly swallowed the Venerable's Totem, which actually contained special Strength that would evolve continuously with the Venerable's growth.

It was a joint product of Chaotic distortion and pollution.

At that time...

The so-called God of Chaos and the Evil God might leverage this strength through possession or projection to re-emerge in the human world.

Of course.

All of this was just Su Qi's speculation; he did not think it would directly break the Abyss's seal, but the possibility of the two old gods manifesting avatars in the present world in this way still existed.

"That situation would be quite terrible."

Although he spoke with seeming affection, after all, it was only online communication—meeting in reality would mean utter destruction.

Su Qi had never underestimated the power of any Abyss God.

Even if it was only a projection or an avatar.

It was an unimaginable terror.

Just like the Yellow-robed Master's Yellow Robe—merely a Divine Artifact... yet it possessed a terrifying might!

And at this moment,

As Su Qi finished the final stroke!

Everyone had completed the tasks Su Qi had laid out.

All the Runes were flashing in an eerie manner!

And spreading, gradually linking the only space not destroyed by the Black Rain!

"Did it succeed?" Rhythm's eyes widened, his finger cut.

"I thought Brother Su, you were just bluffing."

"You think that the temple only contains meat soup..." Su Qi also looked up.

Actually, there had been plenty of hints along the way: the incense box in the temple bore a pattern of the four directions, the various dilapidated buildings encountered all bore related shadows, and with the help of the question mark's hint, otherwise, this Easter egg would have been nearly impossible to complete.

And at the same time, to put it another way.

The more difficult the prerequisite... the more immeasurable value it would inspire.

Su Qi shifted his gaze away, slowly looking towards the black-haired young man in the center area.

The Black Rain was vibrating!

Countless raging auras were bursting forth!

The ground at the center of the black-haired young man was rippling again and again!

"What's wrong?"

"What's happening?"

The black-haired young man was silent, but the Black Rain around him seemed to form barriers, blocking everything!

The ground around him was continually hammered by the ripples.

Su Qi's eyes fixed on the black-haired young man, whose eyes were tightly shut, and the question mark above his head was materializing.

[An ancient will from the Old Days' taboo is descending...]

"So that's it..."

Su Qi looked around, "The Black Rain is not to destroy, but to prevent the descent of the other's will here."

"But it's still just a projection; why is the reaction so violent?"

The surrounding Black Rain was eerily similar to when Su Qi entered the Black and White Hospital and attempted to peep at the erased existence, the endless swarm of black and white monsters' reaction.

Too similar.

Su Qi couldn't help but take note.

Terrifying ripples were lifting everything within the Black Rain!

It was a scene that could not be described by a mere downpour! It was a black deep sea from below the Sky Dome!

They were at the very bottom of this black deep sea!

Everyone looked at this scene with shock, and Bai Yilin muttered to herself, "I've encountered projections of the Ancient Paradise before, but I've never seen such a display...."

"I must record this..." Silver Hand exclaimed joyfully.

But Su Qi was no longer concerned with the shock of the others, muttering to himself:

"Even if one approached just now, one would only be blocked on the outside, now this is the true projection of the Ancient Paradise..."

His gaze slowly shifted onto the black-haired young man. Although the others had not noticed, in fact, just now the entire area within twenty meters around the black-haired young man was completely still, as if time had stopped flowing.

Including the black-haired young man himself, the battle erupted by the glasses man, and the gusts of wind stirred up, were all stilled upon approach.

The so-called Fierce Beasts were dying as they pounced, simply being erased from existence.

And now.

Su Qi's eyes were fixed on him.

A strand of the black-haired young man's hair gently fluttered.

His time was beginning to flow again.