Super God Academy: Kabuto

Lin Yu, clad in black, seemed to have remained motionless since time immemorial. Only his deep eyes pierced through layers of dimensional and legal barriers, like the most precise probes, striking at that abyss where even existence itself seemed blurred. There, at the very bottom of the void world, was the lair where "He" slumbered, and the ultimate source of all chaos and devouring.

Beside him, the colorful figure—Lingyue—was like a spectrum of countless flowing, harmoniously interwoven rays, without a fixed form, yet exuding an ethereal and curious aura that transcended all things. Her very existence seemed to be a gentle mockery and reorganization of the "rules."

"He is about to awaken." Lin Yu's voice, clad in black, broke the silence of the void, carrying an almost imperceptible solemnity. "The seal is loosening faster than expected. The stabilization of the Emerald Star rift is like the sounding of a dinner bell in the ear of a sleeping behemoth. The time left for 'us'... is running out."

"Do you have a way to suppress Him?" Lin Yu, dressed in black, asked the colorful figure beside him. His tone wasn't entirely expectant; it was more like confirmation of a known answer.

Lingyue's figure rippled like water, and her ethereal voice rang out, like wind chimes colliding on a conceptual level: "No. His 'existence'... is very ancient and very stubborn. The power system that seals Him is different from the laws of the 'worlds' I am familiar with and have traveled through. It's more like... some kind of more fundamental and tyrannical 'conceptual opposition' and 'power cancellation.' Forcibly intervening might shatter that fragile balance, causing Him to... 'squeeze out' even faster."

He paused, as if considering something: "You must have also explored the 'past,' trying to find the seal's weaknesses or ways to strengthen it, right?"

"Hmm." Lin Yu, dressed in black, nodded slightly, a hint of reminiscence and helplessness flashing in his eyes. "I've retraced that timeline, even risking getting close to the core of the seal. But there... it was shrouded in an incredibly powerful field of 'information erasure' and 'causal distortion.' I could only sense 'His' immense, despair-inducing 'presence,' like facing the dark side of the entire universe. The specific composition of the seal, who imposed it, why it could trap 'His'... all the details seemed to have been deliberately 'erased' or 'encrypted,' even the timeline itself seemed blurry there. All I know is that the seal is extremely ancient, so ancient that it may have existed since the beginning of this universe."

"A past that even you can't see through..." Lingyue's voice revealed a hint of even greater interest, "It must involve a very, very interesting story. Unfortunately, the current 'me' can't decipher those ancient 'pages'."

After a brief silence, Lingyue suddenly twirled around lightly, like a child who had discovered a new toy. Her ethereal voice rang out again, filled with obvious excitement: "By the way, Lin Yu! I found a really fun 'world fragment'! Do you want to come check it out with me? The 'rules' inside are fighting like crazy, like a bunch of different colored dots playing bumper cars, it's so interesting!"

Lin Yu, dressed in black, withdrew his gaze from the abyss and turned to look at the colorful light and shadow beside him, which seemed perpetually fascinated by everything. He was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, "Next time. I... have something I must do right now."

He paused, his gaze seemingly piercing through Lingyue's shifting spectrum, seeing something deeper: "And... Lingyue, you seem to have changed a lot? Compared to when we 'met' last time."

"Really?" Lingyue's figure seemed to freeze for a moment, then flowed and spun even more joyfully, various harmonious yet strange colors intertwining and changing. Finally, all the colors slightly subsided, coalescing into a clearer silhouette, resembling a human woman, yet still composed of flowing light spectrum. "Lin Yu, I have a name now! Lingyue, taught to me by a singing star in that fragment of world! Isn't it beautiful?"

"Lingyue..." Lin Yu, dressed in black, repeated the name, a barely perceptible curve appearing at the corners of his cold lips. "Pretty good. It suits you well."

Lingyue (we can call her that now) seemed even happier after receiving affirmation, her light and shadow dancing with joy: "Right? Right? I think it sounds good too! Lin Yu, that world fragment is really special. Although it's not big, the 'stories' inside seem endless, and the rules keep 'growing' and 'fighting' on their own... Really, why don't you come with me to take a look? Maybe we can find some inspiration to deal with that 'big guy'!"

He extended the invitation again, his ethereal voice filled with a pure, joyful anticipation.

Lin Yu, dressed in black, looked at Him. In his heart, the lake frozen by the threat of the abyss seemed to have a small, warm pebble thrown in, creating a faint ripple. But in the end, he slowly shook his head, his voice gentle yet firm: "No. The 'story' here has reached its most crucial moment. My 'world' needs me, and they... need me too."

The "they" he mentioned were clearly Keisha and Hexi from the Winter Cherry Blossom World.

Lingyue's light seemed to dim slightly, revealing a hint of disappointment, but it quickly regained its brightness: "Alright... then when you're done with your things here, you must come visit me! I can take you to lots and lots of interesting 'fragments' and 'crevices,' some places where time even flows backwards, it's so much fun!"

"It's a deal." Lin Yu, dressed in black, nodded, making a distant and vague promise.

"Well then, I'm going to play now! You have to do your best, Lin Yu! Don't let that big, dark guy break all your 'building blocks'!" Ling Yue's voice gradually faded away, and the colorful light and shadow flowed into the depths of nothingness like the receding tide, eventually disappearing without a trace, leaving only a faint, ethereal echo that seemed to come from the intersection of countless worlds.

The void returned to silence, leaving only Lin Yu, dressed in black, standing alone.

He turned his gaze back towards the abyss, the solemnity in his eyes not diminishing in the slightest by Lingyue's appearance. Lingyue's existence and the "fragments of the world" she mentioned, while revealing a broader and more diverse range of possibilities beyond the current crisis, also indirectly confirmed the level of threat posed by the "Lord of the Abyss"—even an existence like Lingyue, who could obviously traverse different dimensions and rule systems with ease, found "Her" seal troublesome and was even unwilling to touch it lightly.

"Fragments of the world...different rules...self-derived stories..." Lin Yu, dressed in black, murmured, pondering Ling Yue's words as his mind raced. Did these concepts share some common ground with the "world" he was guiding Lin Yu to build? Did resisting the "devouring" of the void require not only "solid barriers" but also "constantly growing, changing, and unpredictable 'stories' and 'possibilities'"?

He temporarily shelved these thoughts, like adding a warm-colored "note" full of question marks next to a cold strategic blueprint.

"The most urgent task is still to accelerate the formation of the 'world'." He gathered all his scattered thoughts, and his figure began to slowly fade. "The echoes of the abyss are becoming clearer and clearer... The time left for 'me' is really running out."

With one last glance at the now-stable void rift in the direction of the Emerald Galaxy, and the crumbling seal of the distant Divine River Ruins, Lin Yu, clad in black, completely merged into the void, continuing his unknown journey—a race against time and fate.