Breaking the Inner World

Mist poured madly through the cracks of the collapsing world, devouring everything like a ravenous beast.

Centered on Ye Chuan, the vibrant reality of moments ago began to twist and fade like a melting wax figure—

The familiar streets turned into pale phantoms, the frozen Pacific Ocean transformed into flowing mist, and even the last traces of color on the girl in his arms were stripped away by the thick fog. Only a lingering, icy touch remained before she dissipated completely into the gray haze.

The mingled stench of rot and rust violently yanked Ye Chuan back to reality. He looked up to find himself standing amidst the ruins of Plague Town.

All around him, a dense swarm of aberrations closed in like a rising tide. Every entity he had previously slain stared at him with venomous gazes, looking as if they wanted to gnaw his very soul into oblivion.

A needle-like stinging sensation assaulted his body. Ye Chuan looked down to see his clothes were already tattered.

His body was covered in wounds of varying depths, along with countless tiny bite marks—traces left by the aberrations that had crawled up to tear at his flesh.

Blood dripped from his wounds onto the rubble, but under the self-healing power of the Indestructible Chaos Body, the injuries scabbed over and fell off at a visible rate, leaving behind only faint white scars.

"Hum—"

A soft green light suddenly burst from within Ye Chuan.

Wherever the light touched, wounds healed instantly. He slowly stood up and opened his palm. The phantom warmth from embracing "Luo Xi" still lingered there, but that warmth had long since turned bone-chillingly cold with the shattering of the illusion.

"I can't tell the difference..." Ye Chuan whispered, a violence he had never shown before surging in his pitch-black pupils.

"Luo Xi..."

The moment his voice fell, layers of halos began to emerge around Ye Chuan—strength amplification, speed enhancement, elemental affinity, chaos... Dozens of buff spells bloomed like fireworks, forming a dazzling cocoon of light around him.

As the power within him erupted completely, the entire Plague Town began to tremble violently. Remaining bricks fell from buildings, the ground cracked into spiderweb-like fissures, and even the thick fog in the air was shaken into a frenzy!

"Roar!"

The aberrations in the front row attacked first, but the moment they entered within ten meters of Ye Chuan, they were forcibly crushed by his terrifying aura!

Yet a second later, the black ash and fragments rapidly coalesced in the mist. The aberrations resurrected, roaring as they charged again.

Resurrect, crush!

Crush! And crush again!

"Resurrection?" Ye Chuan's gaze turned freezing cold. "I only hope you can keep resurrecting forever."

He took a step forward and stomped his right foot heavily onto the ground!

"Boom—!"

In an instant, terrifying energy exploded from beneath his foot. Centered on Ye Chuan, a ring-shaped shockwave of energy expanded across the entire Plague Town!

Wherever it passed, the ground shattered into countless stones and powder. The churning mist was blown away by the shockwave, revealing the deeper layers of black fog beneath.

Those newly resurrected aberrations didn't even have time to scream before the shockwave tore them into nothingness, leaving them no chance to reassemble.

However, the rules of the Inner World were still in effect. New aberrations soon drilled out of the black fog, their numbers even greater than before, trampling over the shattered remains of their kin as they lunged madly at Ye Chuan.

Ye Chuan raised his hand, condensing a mass of gray-white magical power in his palm.

Origin Magic.

Initially, the power was only the size of a fist, but after continuously absorbing the surrounding energy, it expanded into a gray-white sphere of light tens of meters in diameter. Space-distorting cracks writhed on the surface of the sphere, emitting a suffocating oppression.

Then, the sphere began to compress and collapse, finally condensing into an energy bead the size of a bean.

Ye Chuan released his hand, and the sphere fell to the ground.

The moment the sphere hit the ground, there was no earth-shattering boom. Instead, it transformed into countless threads of gray-white energy spreading in all directions.

Wherever the threads passed—whether aberrations, ruins, or thick fog—everything was instantly sliced apart and devoured. Even the space itself began to show signs of collapse.

"No—! We are your obsessions! You cannot kill us!"

Qin Tianya's roar twisted and warped within the energy threads. His body was entangled by the filaments, decomposing bit by bit into basic mist.

Ye Chuan's gaze held no fluctuation. He raised his hand and clenched it towards the sky. The space of the entire Plague Town began to shrink violently.

The bell tower, houses, streets... everything was squeezed and collided during the contraction, finally turning into a dense mass of black fog.

The black fog emitted a cry like an infant, actually coalescing into a human face that constantly shifted expressions.

"No, no!"

Meanwhile, the constantly resurrecting aberrations didn't even have time to reassemble during the spatial contraction before they were utterly crushed within the gaps of space.

"Obsessions?" Ye Chuan looked at the struggling mass of black fog before him, his voice icy.

"My obsessions have never been trash like you."

He tapped his finger. A shrill scream came from the black fog, and it began to dissipate rapidly like a deflated ball!

"Did I say you could die?" Ye Chuan's cold words rang out. He cast a healing spell, forcibly causing the black fog to condense once again.

Then Ye Chuan pierced through the black mist again, only to heal it once more.

"Cognitive Contamination."

The mist was inflicted with dozens of negative effects, but Ye Chuan also added a slow-healing spell to it, ensuring it felt the agony but could neither die nor move.

"Ah!!!!!" The black fog let out a wretched shriek, the infant-like voice laced with sobbing tones. "I hate it! I hate that you were able to escape!"

Ye Chuan watched its struggle with cold eyes.

The black fog seemed unable to endure Ye Chuan's torture any longer and actually began to self-annihilate!

"You dare to die?" Ye Chuan asked coldly upon seeing this.

"If I want to die, I'll die! Who can stop me!" the black fog roared.

Finally, the black fog self-destructed right in front of Ye Chuan, giving him no time to react!

As the black fog vanished, the Inner World of Plague Town began to collapse. The surrounding scenery peeled away piece by piece like a shattered mirror, revealing the true scene outside—

The Inner World was broken.

...

It was still the same dilapidated bell tower, only the surrounding thick fog had thinned significantly, and puddles of black slime were all that remained on the ground.

Tian Xiaotian was standing to the side, completely unaware of everything that had just occurred.

When she met Ye Chuan's gaze, Tian Xiaotian paused for a moment. "Boss, why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's nothing..." Ye Chuan withdrew his gaze and looked towards Plague Town again, only to find the surrounding mist was gradually fading.

"Huh?" This change surprised Tian Xiaotian as well. "The mist... it seems to be clearing up?"

"Mn." Ye Chuan glanced at the bell tower in front of them.

"Let's go. Time to deal with the guy inside."

"Okay."