Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The power of the abyss, like ink dripping into clear water, squeezed and assimilated the other energies that originally permeated the space.

Gollum, who was desperately dodging the watchdog's attacks, immediately sensed the change.

Her movements were as if she were trapped in an invisible quagmire. Every maneuver and every slash of her dagger required more strength than before, and the omnipresent power of the abyss also suppressed her.

She narrowly dodged a heavy, cross-shaped blow that was accompanied by a fierce wind. The massive weapon almost grazed her nose, and the resulting wind pressure stung her cheek.

He quickly touched the ground with his toes and slid back several meters, temporarily creating a small gap.

She couldn't help but glance at Lin Yi quickly. His eyes, which always flashed with bloodlust, were now mixed with a hint of incomprehensible confusion and a strong urge to complain.

Why would a good person who is clearly on the path of the Abyss go and learn gentle healing methods? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?
It's like a fire mage who is born to burn mountains and boil seas, but insists on struggling to create a water ball spell that has little to no destructive power. It's like taking off your pants to fart—completely unnecessary!
Wouldn't it be better to use that time to study how to make the power of the abyss erode faster and more severely?

But despite the complaints, the results are real.

The two monsters slowed their movements visibly, and the chilling oppressive aura emanating from them rapidly diminished like the receding tide.

The pale color on its body surface began to fade, and even fine, crack-like lines appeared, as if it had lost the nourishment of the source of living water and was drying up rapidly.

The power and speed of the attack were greatly reduced. Although the swinging cross was still powerful and heavy, the sound of the wind it generated was no longer as terrifying, and its threat level dropped sharply.

The monsters seemed unable to comprehend this dramatic change; perhaps confusion also lingered beneath their hooded faces, and their movements froze for a moment.

Immediately, driven by some lingering fighting instinct or a deeper command, the two monsters simultaneously abandoned their attack on Gulu and quickly moved closer to each other, as if magnets were drawn to each other.

Under Lin Yi and Gulu's watchful eyes, the two monsters' bodies, like melting wax figures, began to blur and merge at their edges, slowly merging together.

Their bodies, limbs, and even their tattered cloaks were all reassembled and reshaped under the influence of an incomprehensible force.

A moment later, only one complete monster remained standing in place. The holes pierced by Lin Yi's longsword and the scratches left by the Gulu dagger had disappeared, and its aura seemed to have stabilized considerably, roughly returning to the level it had when it first clashed with Lin Yi.

Clearly, without the continuous replenishment of external energy, maintaining two clones would be an unbearable burden for it. This fusion was a last resort, a way to concentrate its remaining strength for a final gamble.

However, its recovery rate is far slower than the rate at which the power of the abyss erodes it, and its condition continues to decline slowly and steadily.

opportunity!

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed, and Dark Soul Silk shot out, instantly wrapping around the watchdog's limbs, neck, and the huge cross that had just reformed.

The abyssal power attached to the Dark Soul Silk caused the watchdog to freeze abruptly. Its struggle caused the Dark Soul Silk to dig deep into its tough flesh, producing a teeth-grinding grinding sound.

Almost at the same instant Lin Yi made his move, Gulu understood immediately.

She endured the discomfort caused by the abyss environment and once again pushed her mental and physical limits.

"Hey!" she hissed, and the air behind her rippled as five clones reappeared. Although they were not as solid and agile as before, their killing intent was undiminished.

The main body and its clones, six petite figures, pounced fiercely from different angles.

puff!puff!puff!

A series of muffled thuds erupted as sharp blades pierced flesh.

Having succeeded in his attack, Gulu did not seek personal gain and retreated instantly with both his main body and clones.

The moment they stepped back, Lin Yi moved.

The long sword in his hand plunged downwards into the ground beneath his feet.

Om-!
Centered on the point where the longsword landed, the power of the abyss surged into the ground like a burst dam.

The next second, where the watchdog stood, countless hard spikes formed from the power of the abyss burst forth from the ground without warning.

Puff puff puff!
The rapid, piercing sounds were chilling.

Those black thorns burst forth, tore, and pierced through the monster's feet, legs, abdomen, chest, and even every part of its body.

The corrosive properties attached to the black thorns were frantically destroying its remaining vitality.

In an instant, the monster was riddled with holes, its body twisted into a bizarre and gruesome mess. The massive cross fell to the ground with a clatter and quickly vanished into wisps of black smoke.

With a slight pant, the five clones quietly dissipated due to exhaustion of energy.

This monster's vitality is beyond imagination.

The "health bar" above its head, representing its life points, still stubbornly retains a last sliver of health.

Just as Lin Yi was considering whether to deliver another blow to completely annihilate it, an extremely abrupt sense of threat suddenly emanated from that tattered body.

Gulu reacted even faster than Lin Yi. The hairs on her body stood on end instantly, like a cat with its fur standing on end. Without thinking, she retreated again, creating a distance of more than twenty meters. She held the dagger horizontally in front of her, assuming a defensive stance.

The tattered body stopped convulsing.

Its still relatively intact head struggled to lift itself up—if it could even be called a head.

The hood was already torn apart, revealing not facial features, but a pale white leather surface covered with a dozen or so large, wriggling, dark holes.

Those holes seemed to be greedily absorbing something intangible and intangible.

Its head slowly turned, "scanning" the oppressive environment around it, which was completely filled with and changed by Lin Yi's abyssal power, and then "looking down" at the black thorn that had pierced it.

Suddenly, on its pale, expressionless "face," the wriggling holes began to show extremely subtle, regular changes.

An indescribable sense of "understanding" was conveyed through those holes.

A sound, seemingly produced by vibration and friction through countless holes, suddenly rang out in the deathly silent hall, directly revealing Lin Yi's background: "Abyss Physician?"

Lin Yi felt a chill run down his spine, his scalp tingling.

It's happening again! He discovered that ever since he began to delve deeper into the existence related to the void, his identity as an "Abyss Physician" seemed to be seen through at a glance by anyone with a bit of experience and knowledge!
I really don't know whether this situation is a good thing or a bad thing.
The shock and solemnity that he couldn't completely hide on his face for a moment was undoubtedly the best answer to his question about the monster.

The monster did not attack again, nor did it struggle.

The wriggling holes slowly stopped moving, eventually converging into a shape that resembled "watching" Lin Yi.

The strange voice rang out again, calmly leaving behind a sentence, like a pronouncement destined to come true: "I will wait for you in the deeper realms."

Before Lin Yi could respond, the monster's battered body suddenly collapsed, turning into a wisp of pale smoke that quickly dissipated.

The black spikes that pierced it lost their target and collided with each other, making a crisp clicking sound.

All that remains is the pitted and broken ground, and the huge dent left by the long-vanished cross.

"The Deep Realm? What kind of place is that? What did that last sentence mean? Does it know you?"

Lin Yi slowly shook his head, his brows furrowed, his gaze falling on the spot where the monster had disappeared, then looking up at the silent statue of the "Lord".

"do not know."

The remaining believers around them had already been killed or wounded in the aftermath of the battle and the erosion of the abyss. For a moment, only the two of them remained in the hall, along with a mess and an overwhelming stench of blood.

Gulu pursed her lips, but didn't ask any more questions.

The two fell silent, like two shadows of death, moving efficiently and silently among the piles of corpses and ruins.

Their footsteps made a soft, smacking sound as they trod on the sticky pool of blood and bits of flesh.

Occasionally, a faint groan could be heard from the corner.

But their fates were exactly the same.

The two worked with remarkable efficiency and perfect teamwork, as if they were cleaning up a pile of useless garbage rather than ending lives. As they finished their final "cleaning" operation, the stench of blood in the hall became even stronger and more pungent. At the same time, the light emanating from the eerie statue in the center of the hall dimmed completely, the blood on its surface congealed and turned black, and the distorted faces seemed to lose their vitality, becoming like a poorly made stone carving.

Once it was confirmed that there were no more survivors, Gulu stopped.

She clapped her hands as if to brush away non-existent dust, and then took out a metal sphere about the size of a fist from an inconspicuous storage device on her body. It was completely black and covered with tiny energy circuits.

"Done. Last step, send this hellhole to the sky." She weighed the sphere in her hand, her tone relaxed. "Outside, this thing would at most blast a crater a few hundred meters wide, but here..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but just grinned, revealing a slightly amused smile.

This alternate dimension exists only because of the forced fixation and distortion by the power of hell. Its structure is extremely unstable and fragile, like a soap bubble that has been blown too big.

After their previous battles, especially the rampant erosion by Lin Yi's abyssal power, the already fragile spatial structure had become precarious, riddled with visible spatial cracks.

Then, at the core of this structure, a bomb specially designed to induce spatial disturbances is dropped, the effect of which is tantamount to smashing a final blow with a hammer into glass that is already covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

This will trigger a chain reaction of spatial collapse, with a destructive range far exceeding the power of the bomb itself.

Lin Yi nodded slightly, offering no objection.

The best option is to completely destroy this place and eliminate any potential future troubles.

He didn't want anything to crawl out again along these coordinates, or for some being to track everything that happened here.

Gulu skillfully activated the bomb, and the energy circuits on the surface of the black sphere instantly lit up with a ghostly blue light.

She calculated the time and distance, then swung her arm sharply, throwing the bomb precisely at the very center of the hall, the center of the magic circle with the most distorted spatial structure.

"go!"

The moment the bomb was thrown, Gulu let out a low shout and his figure sped towards the entrance they had come from.

Lin Yi started almost simultaneously with her, and the two of them transformed into two blurry shadows, leaving the main hall at top speed.

Just as their figures disappeared into the darkness at the entrance of the passage—

Behind them, there was no deafening explosion as expected.

First came an extreme silence, followed by a piercing, tearing sound that exceeded the limits of human hearing.

It sounded like tearing cloth, but a thousand times louder.

The entire alternate dimension suddenly contracted inward, and then an indescribable, terrifying energy erupted from its core.

The light distorted wildly, and everything in sight shattered and shifted like a broken mirror, then was sucked into the wildly expanding black void at the center by an invisible force.

The spatial turbulence raged like a flood bursting its banks, mercilessly tearing apart and devouring everything that remained—corpses, rubble, fragments of statues, and even the pervasive energy.

Neither Lin Yi nor Gulu turned around, but they could clearly feel the terrifying suction force behind them that was capable of destroying everything, as well as the heart palpitation brought about by the complete collapse of the spatial structure.

The two pushed their speed to the limit, and the passage shook violently, with rubble constantly falling. But they still managed to break through just before the passage completely collapsed!
……

The perimeter of the Vatican headquarters.

Spies from all sides remain lurking in the shadows, or using various surveillance technologies and tools to spy from afar.

Quite some time had passed since Lin Yi and Gulu entered, and there had been no movement at the entrance, which made the waiting people increasingly anxious and curious.

Suddenly, the distorted light curtain began to fluctuate violently, like boiling water!
All eyes that had been watching instantly focused on it.

The next moment, two figures shot out from the light screen almost side by side.

It was Lin Yi and Gulu.

They looked much more disheveled than when they entered. Lin Yi's robes were stained with large dark stains, it was hard to tell whether it was blood or something else.

Gulu, on the other hand, looked as if she had been pulled out of a pool of blood. Her petite body was almost soaked in dark red blood plasma, her short hair was stuck to her forehead, and her pupils still held the lingering bloodlust and violence.

More importantly, the palpable aura of killing intent emanating from them spread out without reservation.

Several people from different factions, who were confident in their strength and wanted to rush forward to test the waters, froze almost the instant they took their first step.

Their bodies instinctively issued the highest level of alarm; their hearts felt as if they were being gripped by icy hands, their blood seemed to freeze, and an uncontrollable chill ran down their spines.

The feeling was like two predators returning from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood; a mere casual glance from them was enough to make any beast go limp.

No one dared to take another step forward.

All the lurking spies subconsciously concealed their presence to the extreme, desperately trying to minimize their presence, wishing they could immediately blend into the shadows or become a lifeless stone, for fear of attracting the attention of those two evil gods.

After Lin Yi and Gulu rushed out of the passage, they simply stood still, adjusting their eyes to the relatively normal light outside, seemingly oblivious to the gazes hidden in the shadows around them.

Lin Yi raised his hand, seemingly brushing away non-existent dust from the corner of his clothes.

Gulu flicked the dagger, shaking off the last bit of congealed blood.

Then, as if they had just completed an ordinary walk, the two left in the direction of the hotel under the watchful eyes of countless people.

Only when Lin Yi and Gulu's figures completely disappeared around the street corner did the suffocating sense of oppression slowly recede like a tide.

The deathly silence lasted for a good ten seconds.

No one spoke, and no one even dared to breathe loudly.

Then, people cautiously peeked out from the windows in the distance.

They were all pale-faced, with cold sweat beading on their foreheads. Some even leaned against the wall and retched—physiological reactions caused by excessive tension and fear.

"Gulp." A burly man dressed as a mercenary, wearing light leather armor, swallowed hard, his voice unusually clear in the excessively quiet air.

He touched his neck, as if he could still feel the chill from the murderous intent that had lingered there.

"Those...those two...what kind of monsters are they...?"

“The aura of hell… has vanished.” Another person, dressed in tattered robes and seemingly a member of some sect, spoke in a trembling voice. The detection crystal ball in his hand was now dim and lifeless.

This news was even more chilling than the murderous aura emanating from those two individuals.

They knew all too well how long that hellish stronghold had been entrenched here, causing countless surrounding forces sleepless nights and utter helplessness.

No major power had ever imagined that they could eradicate it completely, but today, just two people went in and did it in less than half a day...?

"Quick! Report this immediately! Quick!" A man who looked like a minor leader was the first to recover from his extreme shock. His voice was urgent and hoarse, almost cracking, as he growled at his subordinates while frantically pulling out his communicator.

"Assess threat level... 'Catastrophe'! Repeat, threat level 'Catastrophe'! Hurry!"

Similar orders were quickly relayed among spies from all sides.

"Log: The two targets successfully eliminated the Hell stronghold. The method is unknown but extremely brutal, and it is suspected to have caused a spatial collapse."

"WARNING: Under absolutely no circumstances should you attempt to engage in any conflict with them! Repeat, all forms of contact and provocation are prohibited! Maintain a distance of at least 500 meters!"

Encrypted messages flowed at top speed to the power centers of this city and even further afield.

Each high-ranking member of the organization who received the intelligence was initially incredulous, but when multiple pieces of information from different channels, with highly consistent content, converged, they could not help but be shocked.

It is conceivable that soon, the desks of various organizations will be piled high with reports about this incident, and the core of all these reports will revolve around those two menacing figures.

Lin Yi and Gulu's physical characteristics will, in a very short time, place them at the very top of the "don't mess with them" lists of various powerful forces. (End of Chapter)