Deep inside the devouring blackness.
A streak of golden light shot out.
That golden light was like thunder cracking open the dead of night—instantaneous, blazing. In a blink, everyone heard a blood-curdling scream rip through the air.
The moment that scream rang out—
The endless darkness suddenly shrank and snapped back to one spot, instantly morphing into its original form.
It hovered less than a hundred meters in front of Evan Lynn. The cluster of darkness kept swelling and shrinking, with icy howls echoing out every so often.
"What just happened right now?"
"No clue..."
"Master Lin from Seacrest... he really survived?"
Everyone stared at what just happened, completely floored.
Everyone had assumed...
Everyone thought that after Master Lin from Seacrest was swallowed by the darkness, he'd have no strength left to resist. But no one expected that the terrifying black mass would be torn open by him in such a short time!
And looking at it now, that black mass seems seriously injured!
How is that possible?!
From within the darkness, a chilling voice full of rage and brutality resounded.
Nothing's impossible.
Evan Lynn shook his head: "I just figured it out. Figured out what you really are."
You're not an Immortal Lord, but you seem to exist with Heaven and Earth, you know all sorts of things, and you were born from that Great Bronze Sarcophagus.
I thought about it, and suddenly remembered something I saw in the ancient records—a thing called "the Abyss."
Evan Lynn spoke in a calm, flat voice.
As soon as Evan said that, everyone present was stunned.
The Abyss?
Their eyes all turned to the black mass.
Inside that darkness, there was no sign of any person—just pure blackness.
"So... there's actually no one inside that thing?"
Azure Dragon frowned.
He only half-understood what was going on.
But over in the darkness, after hearing Evan Lynn's words, there was a brief silence.
"The Abyss, huh. Ha."
That chilling voice rang out again, this time with a cold, mocking laugh: "You could say that. Back in my prime, I swept across ages—there were barely a handful who could stand against me."
The darkness, which had been surging toward Evan Lynn in a siege, suddenly sharpened with a piercing, icy voice.
All the blackness rushed back toward its origin point, condensing into an ultra-dense dot of pure darkness.
That dot shot off like a bolt of black lightning, tearing through the sky and racing straight for the Great Bronze Sarcophagus!
The sudden change made everyone’s faces twist in shock.
They had no clue what was even happening!
But over there, Evan Lynn just stood in place, lightly tracing the air with one hand. A searing streak of light burst from his fingertip, spiritual qi boiling inside it like a raging sea!
"Just shattered a Golden Core, and it runs that fast?"
Evan spoke indifferently, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth—but he didn’t care at all.
Golden Core, shattered!
The Golden Core he got from the Upper-Grade Lynn Clan was already just a broken remnant!
It was always on the verge of shattering.
And this thing in front of him, the Abyss, was the condensed dark side of the old Immortal Martial Continent.
You couldn’t even call it a living thing—it just gained a sliver of intelligence when the world changed, and took on a form of its own.
But with the Heavenly Dao of Immortal Martial dead, who knows what kind of disaster happened back then—Immortal Lords fell, all races were wiped out, and as the darkness of that era, the Abyss went into hiding and never showed itself again.
Now it shows up in front of Evan Lynn, and with his current cultivation, there's no way he could truly finish it off.
But once the Golden Core shattered—
The sea of terrifying spiritual qi inside the Golden Core instantly went berserk inside Evan Lynn’s body!
Shattered Golden Core.
There are two ways to do it in Immortal Martial.
One is to force your Golden Core out before you die, blow it up in an instant, and use that blast of spiritual qi to kill your enemy—even if it means dying on the spot yourself.
The other way is to use the instant your Golden Core shatters to turn all that erupting spiritual qi into your own power, boosting your strength like crazy.
But the damage to your body is brutal.
You might not die from blowing up your core, but the spiritual qi bursting inside you can wreck your organs and leave you in pieces.
Evan Lynn picked the second option.
He could feel the power of that terrifying spiritual qi the moment his Golden Core shattered inside him.
Right now, just standing there, Evan Lynn’s light was enough to rival the sun!
"You can't escape."
Evan Lynn stared coldly at the Abyss, which was speeding toward the Great Bronze Sarcophagus.
He tapped his fingertip in midair again.
The moment he tapped—
In a flash—
A streak of golden light condensed into a sword, shooting forward, ripping through time and space at lightning speed.
The golden sword blazed brilliantly. Wherever it went, the ground shook itself to dust, and an unstoppable pressure filled the air.
Everyone present instinctively lowered their heads.
They couldn’t even look straight at the golden sword’s light!
"Terrifying!"
"I don’t even have the guts to look at it!!"
"Just how many tricks does Master Lin from Seacrest have?!"
"Cut it down, cut it down!"
Countless people watching the livestream held their breath, staring at the scene.
The golden sword had already pierced through the air, standing behind the darkness. Its force was terrifying, but its move was simple—just a single thrust.
"No! No!"
A chilling, desperate scream tore out from the darkness.
Everyone saw a hand suddenly shoot out from the darkness, gathering monstrous power to smash at the golden sword.
But the golden sword was unstoppable.
Its momentum didn’t slow at all. With one thrust, it pierced straight through that hand!
And it kept going.
Wherever the sword tip pointed, flames surged, golden light flooded the sky—like gods and Buddhas descending from above!