Chapter 68 - The Abyss’s Hunger

Beneath a sky bruised purple by twilight's retreat, the Ye Clan estate stood as a fragile bastion, its walls etched with the ghosts of battles past. The air hung thick, heavy with an unspoken dread that clung to the stones like damp moss. Beyond the gate, where the earth split into a jagged maw, the rift shuddered—a wound in the world's flesh, exhaling a darkness so deep it seemed to drink the stars. The Deep Abyss, the thirty-first force, stirred within, its boundless void of infinite power curling outward, a hunger that sought not to destroy but to consume, to swallow whole the light of will itself.