Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 620 77: Sacrifice of the Abyss

In this fragment of memory, Su Ziyu's gains were immense.

This memory completely recorded how the second generation of Obiris demons initially invaded and occupied this place, transforming it into the Bottomless Abyss. Storm Lord-Bachard leveraged the Domain Law he mastered to thoroughly transform a layer of this Plane, constructing an eternal eye of the hurricane over his former territory.

This eye of the hurricane serves as a source of magic power for the Mage, allowing him to draw endless energy from the Elemental Plane.

Su Ziyu's mastery of the [Storm] domain instantly leaped to nearly 80%, with roughly two-thirds being parsed by the Space-Time Monitor System, and the remaining one-third dependent on Su Ziyu's comprehension of Bachard's operations through his own ability and with the aid of the Divine Format and Divinity, gradually understanding the mastery over the [Storm] domain. His past growth relied more on the abilities of the Space-Time Monitor System, which was a necessity of the Inspector system, as Space-Time Inspectors need to traverse other worlds and do not have time to learn and master things slowly.

However, when reaching a certain height, as his own strength approached the limits of what the Space-Time Monitor System could enhance, the amplification provided by the system gradually weakened, and Su Ziyu had to learn to find his own path.

If he hadn't encountered the Space-Time Guardian-Stephen, he might have needed to experience several more worlds to understand this.

But fortunately, the Space-Time Hub found him ahead of time.

The complete Space-Time Hub is composed of two systems, the Space-Time Guardian serving as territorial overlords, with space-time travelers acting as bridges connecting them, and only travelers holding the Hourglass of Time possess the ability to cross the Crystal Wall Element and consolidate the powers of the territorial overlords.

The Pantheon operates in a similar manner, in that only a supreme deity can open the barrier of the Crystal Wall Element, and other deities, regardless of their strength, can hardly cross the Crystal Wall Element. Forcing a crossing would mean abandoning the Divine Realm they painstakingly built over a long period within the original Crystal Wall Element.

This memory was exceedingly long.

Though the passage of time outside was fleeting, Su Ziyu took a while to return to his senses, skipping over those dim starlights to focus on the final gray, blood-tinged nebula.

This was the fall of Storm Lord-Bachard.

Su Ziyu took a deep breath, his spirit plunging directly into this nebula, which recorded the end of an era, one of the signs of the termination of the Ancient God Era. After many Ancient Gods gradually succumbed and retired to the background, the second generation of Obiris demons, once their enemies, also met their era's end.

——"Death God-Yeager!..."

Just as he entered this nebulous memory, Su Ziyu heard a low whispering voice, sounding both like a sigh and admiration, seemingly crossing the river of time to softly echo beside Su Ziyu's ear.

Knowledge not belonging to the memory of Storm Lord-Bachard surfaced in Su Ziyu's mind.

This seemed to be left by a visitor from long ago, an exceptionally powerful being who visited the memory of Storm Lord-Bachard and left their sigh at this position.

And it felt as though Su Ziyu gained some kind of recognition from this entity, unveiling ancient secrets in his mind.

The Nether River was brought by an Ancient Death God named 'Yeager'.

He was among the first-born Ancient Gods, the most powerful Death God within this Crystal Wall Element, and once close to becoming a supreme deity. After growing weary of his divine duties and foreseeing the future of Death, he chose to relinquish his divine office, distributing death to three mortals, directly elevating them to become the formidable 'Three Gods of Death'.

However, these were later developments. At the end of the Ancient God Era, Death God-Yeager was not yet a complete record keeper of death and still performed his duties, spreading the Power of Death to all Planes.

Yeager crafted the Law of Death in the Bottomless Abyss, and he also had his own schemes, for he brought human souls to the Bottomless Abyss.

Aside from Death God-Yeager, no one else in this Crystal Wall Element could decide where human souls should go.

The Obiris demons believed their failure stemmed from their incapability to control the ambitions of Tanali demons, but they were unaware that everything was destined to happen. From the moment human souls appeared in the Bottomless Abyss, Obiris demons had already become the prey of Ancient Gods, this being the last trivial gift the Ancient Gods prepared for future successors.

Tanali demons created from human souls would never submit to the subjugation of the second-generation Obiris demons; likewise, they would not surrender to Primordial Demons from the True Void.

Tanali demons inherited all human traits.

With boundless desires and ambitions, they would never allow life in this universe to terminate, for that would mean their own return to the Void, where desires and ambitions could no longer be satisfied, leaving only sheer destruction.

In a sense, the human souls were polluted by the Bottomless Abyss.

Yet, in a sense, the Chaos Power of the Bottomless Abyss was also pilfered by human souls, with all souls entering the Bottomless Abyss stealing its power, devouring everything and transforming it into the foundation for their own ascension, leading to the emergence of one Demon Lord after another.