Abyssal Sovereign: The Demon's Dominion

Months passed as the day of Su Yiren's childbirth drew closer and closer.

"Last day?" Kai asked, pecking Su Yiren gently on the forehead.

With a soft smile, Su Yiren rubbed her belly while seated.

"Most likely," she replied as Kai nodded.

"Well, since we're both Immortal Emperors, it might not be today, don't you think?" Kai said.

Su Yiren shook her head. "Normally, yes. But with all the excessive resources you've been feeding me… it'll be tomorrow," she pouted, puffing her cheeks.

Kai laughed.

"Haha, the last day before the year ends—not bad at all." He nodded thoughtfully. He'd heard tales of others giving birth after two years, five years, or even a decade. But theirs was relatively short—twelve months. Tomorrow would mark the twelfth month… a full year of her pregnancy.

"What can I get you, darling?" Kai asked as he walked into the kitchen.

"Everything," Su Yiren answered, and Kai rolled his eyes with a chuckle.

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Elsewhere, at a familiar location.

Li Hai, Muchen, Foxytail, Mov, and the others were gathered. A total of fifteen peak Immortal Emperor experts stood in a circle, their auras suppressed but tense. This was it—the final plan to kill Kai.

This moment was everything.

Their last chance.

They had to strike the day Su Yiren gave birth. That was when Kai would be weakest—emotionally compromised, distracted. They could use her. Just for a moment. That was all they needed.

Because five years from now… Kai would awaken that thing again, and the entire Immortal World would be destroyed. But if they could kill him now—

"So… what's the plan?" one of the Immortal Emperors asked. His aura was sharp, oppressive—clearly someone of great reputation.

"First," Li Hai said, his voice hoarse from centuries of failure and reincarnation, "we wait until tomorrow morning. That's when Su Yiren goes into labor. That's our only window. The only time his focus will falter—and the last time it ever will."

Muchen gritted his teeth. "We've watched him across five hundred lifetimes. Every single time, we failed—burned, crushed, erased from existence. But always… Montel drags us back."

They all turned toward the obsidian crystal pulsing in the center of the table. Inside it, Montel's fractured soul flickered dimly—burning, fading… but still anchoring them across timelines.

"This is the final cycle," Foxytail whispered. "Montel's soul is spent. If we fail this time… there is no next."

Li Hai nodded grimly. "Then we don't fail. Tomorrow morning, we activate the Eternal Flashpoint Decoy—a shard of the Ruin World we recovered. It radiates the exact soul signature of Su Yiren. When she begins labor, it will trigger."

"Kai will notice," Mov said. "He always does. He won't leave her unless something's wrong—but if he senses a soul rupture, something only he can fix…"

"That's when it begins," Muchen added. "We don't touch Su Yiren directly. Instead, we unleash the Soul Mirror Wraith—it'll slip into the spatial chamber where Kai placed her, copy her soul imprint, suppress the defensive seal from within, and sever her connection to Kai."

"Then, the Voidshift Array pulls her into the Nameless Abyss," Foxytail continued. "A realm beyond Kai's reach. A space he can't trace or sense—unless we let him."

"And we will let him," Li Hai said. "We send a soul-laced echo into his divine sense—just a whisper of her pain."

"He'll chase it," Mov said quietly. "He always does. No matter the timeline, Kai always chooses her—before he becomes that, before he wipes everything out."

"And when he arrives…" Muchen's eyes gleamed. "…he'll step into the Ancestral Lockdown Domain—fueled by our fifteen peak Immortal Emperor souls, fused and bound to Montel's dying essence. A realm made for one purpose: to trap Kai and devour his core."

"This time, we don't fight fair. We don't fight with honor," Li Hai said coldly. "We ambush him with everything—Soul Annihilation Seals, Dimensional Collapse Chains, Eternal Core Suppressors."

Silence.

"And if that fails?" someone asked, their voice trembling. Five hundred lifetimes of planning, seeking forbidden techniques, bargaining with devils… and still unsure.

"Then we all die again," Muchen said flatly. "But this time… there's no coming back."

All eyes turned to the flickering crystal.

From deep within, Montel's voice whispered faintly—broken, fading… yet resolute:

"Win."

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It was early morning at around 1:am Kai's home ...

Kai sat by the window, eyes locked on the stars. His fingers tapped the armrest slowly, rhythmically. Behind him, Su Yiren slept peacefully, her breathing soft.

"Today…" he muttered, eyes narrowing. "It's finally today."

A year. Twelve full months.

That was how long she had carried their child. His child.

Kai rose and walked to her side, silent. He stared at her, feeling it.

The pull.

The beginning.

She was entering labor.

But something else stirred.

Something... wrong.

His brows furrowed.

He extended his divine sense—sweeping the courtyard, the valley, then the entire world in a breath.

Everything seemed normal.

Yet…

His eyes sharpened. Ruthless.

"This isn't it."

It hit him—a crack. Tiny. Almost invisible. But real.

A soul fluctuation.

Su Yiren's essence—crying in pain.

But it wasn't her.

Kai didn't move, but the space around him twisted subtly.

He reached out. There it was again. A ripple. Deep. Far beneath layers of folded space.

A realm hidden from existence.

"No one should know how to mimic her soul."

His expression remained unreadable.

He turned to Su Yiren and placed a hand over her belly. His aura seeped into her womb, reinforcing every layer of protection.

Then—he vanished.

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In the void—

Kai stood before a tear in space. A soul fragment hovered there—bleeding screams. Her voice. Her pain.

But it wasn't her.

He stepped forward.

The world shifted.

An explosion of force, gravity, and time folded into a black cage. Dimensional chains lashed out. Space was sealed. His connection to Su Yiren?

Gone.

He landed calmly in a realm filled with swirling abomination and devouring light.

Then—the voices came.

Li Hai.

Muchen.

Mov.

Foxytail.

And eleven more.

Fifteen peak Immortal Emperors cloaked in wrath, desperation, and madness.

Kai raised his head slowly. His eyes—calm. Still.

"…So this is it?"

A soft, cold laugh escaped him.

"You did all this... just for me? I'm impressed."

They surrounded him, forming a divine seal.

Li Hai stepped forward. "You're too dangerous. Too monstrous. We've died too many times. Lost too many worlds. You… must die."

Kai didn't respond.

He lowered his head…

And smiled.

A slow, terrifying smile.

"Then you'd better not miss."

His eyes turned black.

His voice dropped.

"Because if I survive…"

He raised his hand.

"…you won't get another life."

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Domain of Eternal Chains

Fifteen peak Immortal Emperors stood within a shifting celestial formation. The realm howled—space bent and twisted, sealed by ancient arrays powered by soul fragments and cursed essences drawn from hundreds of timelines.

Kai stood at the center.

Still.

Unmoved.

The first strike came.

Li Hai dashed forward, shattering space in his wake. A sword forged from Origin Flame tore through the void, aimed directly at Kai's heart.

Kai didn't move.

Clang!

The sword stopped a breath away from his chest, caught between two fingers.

A light breeze brushed past.

Then—

BOOM!!!

Li Hai was sent flying, coughing blood. The air around Kai remained still, untouched by the explosion that had just occurred.

The moment the first blow failed, the others moved.

Mov howled, his form expanding into a mountain of chaos flames.

Foxytail vanished into mist, warping around Kai, attempting to corrupt his soul with charm and illusion.

Muchen summoned nine divine clones, each casting spatial shackles and origin soul spears.

The others layered the sky with divine laws—time, space, death, silence, fate…

Their goal was not to defeat Kai.

It was to erase him.

Kai finally moved.

Just a step.

And in that single step ,dozens of attacks collided against his body.

No defense. No retaliation.

But when the light faded, he stood there… skin untouched. Eyes still.

Then, he spoke softly.

"…You've improved."

His hand moved, slowly. A flick.

CRACK!

Time shattered. One of the emperors vanished from existence. Erased.

Foxytail screamed. "NO—WHAT DID YOU—?!"

Kai's gaze shifted toward her.

"Stop struggling."

A wave of calm radiated from his body. The very realm they had created—their trap—began to tremble.

Yet Kai…

He seemed even calmer now. His expression unreadable.

Muchen shouted, forming a sword of compressed spatial law. "DON'T LET HIM THINK ,KEEP ATTACKING!"

They obeyed.

The sky split as they rained destruction upon him.

But Kai's mind wandered.

"So… it's this again."

A spear pierced his shoulder, divine poison melting through space. But he didn't react.

He looked down at his hand.

Blood. His own.

Strange.

He hadn't seen that in a while.

He touched it. Then chuckled faintly.

Another emperor lunged with a halberd forged from karma chains. It slashed into Kai's back ,divine law howling in joy.

Kai didn't turn around.

He sighed instead.

"…Is this the end again?"

The world shook. The emperors froze mid-movement.

His voice… was too calm.

"A hundred timelines… and it ends here. But why do you still fight?" ,His eyes met Muchen's.

"I keep giving you this chance… to show you that you can never beat me."

The realm cracked.

One of the Immortal Emperors screamed as his body combusted into light, unable to withstand Kai's presence any longer.

The others stepped back.

Too late.

Kai raised his palm—and everything stopped.

Light. Time. Sound. Thought.

All frozen.

His next words felt like laws spoken before the dawn of creation.

"Immortal Emperor? No. I've far surpassed that."

He took a slow breath.

"I don't even know what realm I'm in anymore."

He looked around at the collapsing space.

"…And all of this—will it break?"

Another long sigh.

Kai closed his eyes.

And when he opened them again, his pupils turned void-black. Reality bent beneath his gaze.

He vanished.

And this time—

He moved.

One breath. One motion.

And five Immortal Emperors vanished—without screams.

He appeared behind Muchen.

"It's not that you can't reincarnate anymore… it's that I can no longer patch this reality. It's reached the edge… and it will break."

Then he crushed Muchen's soul with a flick.

Foxytail tried to run.

She didn't even see what killed her.

Li Hai was the last.

On his knees. Bleeding. Shaking.

"Why… why can't we win?!"

Kai stood over him.

"…Because I stopped fighting for power a long time ago."

He raised his hand, then paused.

"I know you. Across timelines, I've watched myself fight you. Your last defense, your final plan… show me. I want to see it."

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