Online Game: My Decay Drives the Entire Server Crazy

Chapter 114 Encountering a Sword Immortal in a Celestial Dimension, the Decay Debuff Breaks the SpellBefore the samples of star core steel were even finished being packaged, the cross-dimensional monitoring panel on Ghost’s side lit up again.

This time, it wasn’t an alarm or an invitation. The Immortal Cultivation World had opened the entrance to the cross-universe channel itself. It opened silently, without any system announcements or diplomatic statements from a World BOSS. It simply appeared in Lin Ye’s cross-dimensional management interface: a new entrance icon adorned with golden cloud patterns, labeled with four characters—Spirit Vein Treasure Land.

Ghost stared at the backend logs for a moment and said that this channel hadn’t been forced open, nor had it been automatically unlocked by the system. The trigger was that someone within the Immortal Cultivation World had used some kind of energy key to actively unlock the cross-dimensional access permissions from the inside. The encryption method for this key was unlike the Magic Creator God’s astrology or the Interstellar Behemoth’s energy core; it was a third, completely independent cross-dimensional communication protocol. It was more like a passive sensor-based door mechanism—someone had buried the mechanism deep within the Spirit Vein Treasure Land, and the Decay energy fluctuations generated when Lin Ye stepped into the Interstellar Warframe had been sensed by this mechanism, automatically triggering the door to open.

”The Creator God of the Immortal Cultivation World is waiting for him. Just like the Magic Creator God, they’ve been forced by the Abyss Council to start calling for backup.” Ghost pulled up the open beta data for the Immortal Cultivation World and scanned it quickly, her brows furrowing tighter. ”The strongest wild World BOSS in the Immortal Cultivation World is called Sword Venerable Qingming. He is set as a Tribulation Transcendence stage Sword Immortal who controls the Spirit Vein Treasure Land and wields a flying sword capable of slicing through space. This BOSS has never been killed in the Immortal Cultivation World. It’s not that players can’t defeat him; it’s that he simply refuses to fight them. Every player who enters the Spirit Vein Treasure Land is blocked by a sword qi barrier. Those who approach are knocked away, and those who draw their swords are knocked even further. People on the forums have calculated that since the server opened, not a single person has managed to even touch the hem of his robe.”

Beside them, Su Qinghan laid out the data for the Magic Era, Interstellar Warframe, and Immortal Cultivation World side by side on the table. After a moment, she offered her assessment: ”The Shadow Demon Dragon was an active invitation, the Interstellar Behemoth was a passively triggered alarm, and Sword Venerable Qingming likely buried a sensor mechanism in advance to wait for Lin Ye to arrive on his own. The methods of the three Creator Gods across the three planes are different, but the pace is becoming increasingly urgent. The expansion speed of the Abyss Council might be faster than they anticipated.”

Lin Ye stood up, zipped his jacket up to his chest, and walked over to the game pod to open the hatch. Before sitting down, he paused and turned back to ask Ghost: ”Can an energy detector for the Immortal Cultivation World be brought inside?”

Ghost said it was possible, but the detection frequency band needed to be calibrated to the spiritual power wavelength of the Immortal Cultivation World, which would take a few minutes. Su Qinghan had already pulled up the equipment compatibility checklist for the Immortal Cultivation World on her tablet and was checking the item lists in their three backpacks one by one. Without looking up, she added, ”I’m going this time too. If Sword Venerable Qingming really doesn’t actively harm people as the rumors say, then his sword qi barrier is most likely a threshold test for a gatekeeper rather than a malicious defense. Threshold tests require healing and support, not just DPS.”

Fatty Wang quickly unplugged the vacuum packaging machine, stacked the packaged star core steel samples in the corner, brushed the metal shavings off his hands, and followed them.