Abyssal Distortion Files

"My physical body has reached the Illuminating Light level?"

Li Yang looked at his hands. He didn't feel much different, only subtle changes in his body.

"It's not just the physical body."

"From the first moment I saw you, I could tell that your physical body and spirit had reached the threshold of the Illuminating Light level."

"The spiritual medicine you just consumed provided a considerable boost."

"In the process of you killing the giant snake, it helped you break through to the lower level of the first-order Illuminating Light level."

"But I should have told you that breakthroughs of the mortal body do not greatly enhance our ability system."

"If you want to seek qualitative change, you must abandon this body of flesh and blood and bone."

"Sect Leader, I am at the lower level of the Illuminating Light level, so where is the Ancestral Serpent?"

"Lightless level, middle level."

"You want to subdue the Ancestral Serpent on your own?"

Li Yang looked up at the ruins created by the giant snake's rampage. Human power could not stop this monster unless at any cost.

"Li Yang,"

"Do you know that the snake you killed was only a lower-level Weak Light existence, and cannot be compared to the Ancestral Serpent at all."

"With your lower-level Illuminating Light ability, even if you can restrain snakes, have you forgotten the principle I taught you?"

"Strong fire can also burn water."

"The gap between you and the Ancestral Serpent is like a chasm. Using your strength to shake the Ancestral Serpent is like an ant trying to move a tree."

"First-order Illuminating Light, second-order Weak Light, third-order Lightless, fourth-order Deep Sea."

"Each of these levels is further divided into upper, middle, and lower three spans, and you and the Ancestral Serpent are separated by a full seven spans. This is something that ability cannot compensate for."

Li Yang nodded, "I know, I'm just preparing for the worst-case scenario."

"You know that's good,"

"Now, bring back the snake egg."

Li Yang looked at the mysterious yellow oval crystal in his hand. According to the Precursor, this thing is very beneficial to their ability system.

However, the premise is to abandon the physical body, so this thing is useless to Li Yang now.

……

The giant snake's body just lay there.

Pressed on the lid of the septic tank's top exit, no one noticed that there was a worker cleaning the septic tank below.

Let's go back to six hours earlier in the morning.

Heavy rain washed over the rusty anti-theft windows. Wei Jing squatted in the corridor of the tenement building, smoking a cigarette.

When the cigarette butt burned his fingers, he heard the sound of bowls breaking upstairs—his mother was sick again.

"Xiao Jing… medicine…"

A hoarse groan mixed with a rotten smell seeped out from the crack in the door.

Wei Jing reached into his pocket, and there was only a crumpled overdue notice, "Tumor department is 7 days overdue, stop the medicine immediately."

The phone suddenly vibrated. It was a text message from the night shift supervisor, "The substitute fee is canceled. Today, you are responsible for cleaning the septic tank."

Wei Jing smiled at the screen. This was the third 'temporary scheduling' this month, just because he ran into the supervisor hugging a female intern in the warehouse last week.

"Mom, wait for me for a while."

Wei Jing threw down the cigarette butt and rode a shared bicycle into the city hospital in the heavy rain.

At the intersection, a luxury car drove by and splashed him with mud.

A woman's coquettish voice floated out of the car window, "Drive faster, the charity gala tonight will be attended by big shots, we have to go early to get acquainted."

Wei Jing wiped the mud off his face and continued to pedal his shared bicycle to the hospital.

……

Wei Jing rushed into the emergency room with wet clothes, but the head nurse stopped him, "You can't get painkillers without paying."

"Can't you make an exception for half a day?!"

"My mother will die in pain…" Wei Jing pleaded bitterly, but the head nurse just rolled her eyes.

"It's better to die in pain than to default on the bill."

Speaking, the head nurse directly dialed the security room and asked someone to drag him out.

Wei Jing's gaze swept across the diamond necklace on the head nurse's chest, which was exactly the same as the necklace their supervisor gave to the female intern.

……

After being kicked out by the security guards, Wei Jing gritted his teeth and went to the company anyway.

The biogas in the septic tank made his eyeballs congested. Even if he blocked his nostrils, he still couldn't cover up the smell that went straight to the top of his head!

At this time, the sound of the supervisor's leather shoes came from the iron sheet above.

"Work hard, and I'll give you a bonus at the end of the month."

Wei Jing clenched the shovel in his hand, looked at the mechanical operation below, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, supervisor…"

Time passed by minute by minute. Wei Jing didn't know what time it was now. He only knew that he was suffering from severe abdominal pain.

But at this moment, there was a sudden loud noise from above!

Boom!

The huge tremor caused the entire septic tank to tremble, and Wei Jing almost fell down. "What happened?"

He climbed up the ladder and tried to push the iron door above, but found that no matter what he did, he couldn't push the iron door, as if something was pressing on it!

"Hey… are you kidding me?"

Wei Jing's hands kept knocking on the iron door, but the thing on the door was hundreds of times heavier than giant rocks and iron balls!

"Hey!"

"Is there anyone there?!"

"Open the door, open the door!!"

Wei Jing roared hysterically, but there was no response.

Gradually, black blood began to seep down from the cracks in the iron plate above.

These blood droplets dripped on Wei Jing's face, and a black gas generated by burning flesh instantly surged up!

"Ugh!!"

The pain penetrated his nerves, and Wei Jing fell directly off the ladder, slamming heavily on the thick stone slab!

However, the blood was still dripping continuously on his face!

"Ugh ah ah!!"

"My, my face!!"

Wei Jing could feel the flesh on his face and body being corroded, as if someone had poured a basin of sulfuric acid on him!

"Why is this happening… why?!"

"Child, I understand your pain,"

"I also just lost my child,"

"We are pitiful people who share the same fate. Others treat us like worms, crush us under their feet, and trample on us at will,"

"They think that they can crush our spines, destroy our will, and kill our rebellious souls!"

"They are wrong!"

"They are terribly wrong!"

"Humiliation cannot extinguish the fire of hatred in our hearts. The more they want us to die, the more we must live!"

"We must forever take root in their hearts, become their nightmares, and gnaw at their nerves every night!"

"First destroy their consciousness, then build an altar with their bones, immerse the cesspool with rotten meat, and baptize our sharp teeth with blood!"

"Let them know that this is the price of provoking us!!"

Wei Jing's eyes were blood red, "Who are you… who are you?"

"Hahahaha!"

"I am your savior, your antidote!"

"I can give you the power to take revenge on everything!"

"You just need to answer me, do you desire power?"

"I… desire!" Wei Jing, whose face was corroded and exposed bone, roared!

"Then repeat after me!"

"The spiral lord wrapped around the earth's core, the embodiment of the yellow spring rot, knock on the gate of the present world with nine rings, measure the realm of reality and illusion with a headless skull!"

"With the blood of my son as a contract, my scale ring as a key, you insignificant…"

"Act on behalf of the Ancestral Serpent's will!"