The throne room still dripped with blood, the air heavy with charred flesh and shattered spirit.But Li Sheng did not rest.
The Abyss itself was alive, reshaping before him — corridors of black crystal and decaying statues twisting into new shapes, pulling him deeper into its throat.
The Abyssal Monarch System pulsed inside him.
> [Warning: Approaching New Sovereign General.]
[Designation: Lord of Shadows — General Mor'Zhul.]
[Power Level: High Sovereign Tier.]
Li Sheng's lips curled into a savage grin.
"Another corpse for my throne.
From the churning darkness emerged a figure —
General Mor'Zhul, clad in robes woven from the blackness of existence itself.
He stood twice the height of a man, wielding a jagged, serpentine blade that seemed to drink the very light.
His eyes were voids.When he spoke, it was a whisper across a thousand graves."Li Sheng... little Monarch...
You feast on crumbs.You dare face true darkness?"
The floor beneath Mor'Zhul melted into a sea of living shadows, tendrils writhing like worms.Each tendril could tear apart souls.
[Master of the Art of Darkness.]
[High Sovereign General.]
This would be a battle unlike any other.Mor'Zhul moved like a phantom.
One moment still, the next — dozens of shadow-clones erupted from the walls, ceiling, and floor, all attacking simultaneously.
Li Sheng snarled, blade flashing.He cleaved three apart, but their corpses turned into black smoke and reformed elsewhere.From the mist, shadow-blades raked across his flesh, drawing blackened blood.Even with his Iron Devourer Body, these wounds seethed, resisting healing.This was not just an opponent.This was a walking manifestation of Death itself.Li Sheng knew he couldn't win by strength alone.
He roared, triggering one of his newly fused abilities:
> [Fallen Devourer: Target Locked - General Mor'Zhul.]
An invisible pull yanked at Mor'Zhul's essence — trying to drag his soul into Li Sheng's maw.But the Sovereign resisted with a storm of darkness, forcing Li Sheng to fight harder.The Abyssal Twin-Halberd appeared in Li Sheng's hand, glimmering with void power.Sovereign Cleave!Chainbreaker Step!Bone Reforging to heal mid-battle!Li Sheng unleashed everything.He danced between life and death, trading blows, letting shadows slice him open so he could strike deeper into Mor'Zhul's true body.The throne room became a maelstrom of shrieking shadows and blood.Walls collapsed.
The sky above cracked open.
Spectral corpses rose from forgotten graves to feast on their masters.Mor'Zhul, desperate, gathered every last shred of darkness around him into a singularity of death.A forbidden technique —"Abyssal Eclipse."One blast to erase everything within a hundred miles.
Li Sheng roared, pouring every last ounce of his Resonance, his new Abyssal Monarch Core into a single, devastating strike:
Abyssal Sovereign Cleave: Thronebreaker!The two forces met.The resulting explosion tore the world itself —The impact crater swallowed mountains, oceans, and sky.Silence.Mor'Zhul's body cracked like old porcelain.He staggered and Li Sheng plunged the halberd into his chest"You were darkness.I am the abyss."Li Sheng activated his devouring ability fully.
Mor'Zhul's screams echoed across eternity.Tendril by tendril, ability by ability —Li Sheng devoured the Lord of Shadows.His cultivation.His techniques.His forbidden arts.All torn from him.All absorbed.
> [General Mor'Zhul: Slain.]
[Abilities Devoured.]
[Cultivation Essence Absorbed.]
[New Level: 10!]
[Bronze Tier: Completed!]
[Promotion: Silver-Tier Initiate!]
New Skills Acquired:
> Art of True Darkness: Manipulate, weaponize, and consume darkness itself.
Shadow Sovereign Domain: Create a personal dark domain where you are invincible within.
Spectral Resurrection: Raise shadows of fallen enemies to fight for you.
Black Star Body Refinement: Body reinforcement with abyssal darkness — increased speed, strength, regeneration.
Li Sheng dropped to one knee, gasping, black mist bleeding from his mouth.
His soul was evolving again, reshaping itself into something not quite human anymore.
> [Congratulations: Devoured a Sovereign of the Abyss. You are now recognized as a minor Sovereign Entity.]
[You may now challenge Abyssal Thrones for full Sovereign Ascension.]
Above him, carved into the endless night sky, new constellations burned:A broken crown.A bleeding sword.A throne of bones.Marks of the Abyssal Monarch.Li Sheng rose.Stronger.Darker.Hunger gnawing at his core.And he knew this was only the beginning.
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