# Chapter 2: Return to the Extreme South Cold Land
Continuing to suppress the Abyss Hole, according to its estimation, in a few hundred more years, the Abyss Hole would gradually disappear.
This world held special significance for the Moon Wolf. It was here that the Moon Wolf clan encountered the Law Destroyers who came hunting ancient gods. Both parties were searching for that ancient god, and since they found each other tolerable, they acted together, which led to the covenant formed afterward.
The era of Law Destruction had ended, and only the Moon Wolf remained of its clan. It did not wish to see this place collapse.
It chose a compromise: its main body returned to suppress the Abyss Hole while its clone went to find that meteorite. The result was that its clone found the meteorite, but the thing inside had disappeared.
In the following days of searching, the Moon Wolf could not find what was hidden within the meteorite. All clues had been severed by some faction through cruel means.
The Moon Wolf's speculation at the time was that the thing hidden in the meteorite was either in the hands of the many kingdoms of the Southern Continent, controlled by the Athos Family, or obtained by the ruler of another continent, Emperor Tayatu.
Please do not think the Moon Wolf had a good temper. The thing hidden in the meteorite made the Moon Wolf sense danger. It approached the representatives of the kingdoms, the patriarch of the Athos Family, and Emperor Tayatu, inquiring about the whereabouts of that ominous object.
The result was that no one admitted to it. The Moon Wolf said nothing, and its clone returned to the Extreme South Cold Land. After that, its main body, at the cost of certain sacrifices, successfully suppressed the Abyss Hole completely, lasting about half a month.
For the Moon Wolf, half a month was enough. Since negotiation was ineffective, it would annihilate the rulers of the kingdoms, the Athos Family, and the Tayatu civilization. After these rulers died, a new batch of rulers would emerge. Fearing the previous power collapse, the new rulers would surely hand over that ominous object to protect themselves.
Before the Moon Wolf could act, what it feared most happened. Countless threadworms swarmed in. These threadworms absorbed the Abyssal Force drifting within this world that had not yet been absorbed by the world itself, and they besieged the Moon Wolf.
Those threadworms had a main body. In the end, the Moon Wolf crushed that main body. This was the ominous thing that descended with the meteorite.
The Moon Wolf guessed the origin of this thing. It was highly likely that in some world, someone had abused Abyssal Force, ultimately causing disastrous consequences. This allowed the main body of the threadworms to absorb a massive amount of Abyssal Force and then reproduce at a terrifying speed.
Before the main body of these threadworms came to this world, it had already devoured all living beings in many worlds, growing to this extent. This thing was attracted by Abyssal Force. Its difficulty level almost reached the level of mid-to-high-rank Void beings.
In the past, if the Moon Wolf had sought help, Law Destroyers would have come to this world, eliminated the main body of the threadworms, and killed everyone who had plotted this. Unfortunately, the era of Law Destruction had already ended.
In the end, the Moon Wolf eliminated this ominous thing, but it was too severely injured, nearly to the point of death. Coupled with the long-term suppression of the Abyss Hole, the Abyss Hole now brought backlash.
It was under these circumstances that Emperor Tayatu led his forces to attack. After besieging the Moon Wolf with human wave tactics for several years, the already severely wounded Moon Wolf died in battle here.
After that, Emperor Tayatu took away the large piece of ice that the Moon Wolf had used to seal the Abyss Hole, along with the Abyss Hole inside. In fact, it was Emperor Tayatu who had originally ordered someone to take the ominous thing from the meteorite, which was the main body of the threadworms, and fed it with his subjects to deal with the Moon Wolf.
Emperor Tayatu could not tolerate an alien existence that he could not oppose living somewhere in this world. It made him feel like a knife was at his back every moment. He feared that the power he had seized through tyranny would provoke the disgust of that powerful existence, leading to his own destruction.
This was a classic case of having done too many bad things. In Emperor Tayatu's view, the Moon Wolf's existence was an uncontrollable danger.
In name, Emperor Tayatu was eliminating an uncontrollable existence, but in reality, he was craving the Abyss Hole. That was unimaginable power. With that power, all living beings would kneel at his feet.
The ideal was full, but after the Moon Wolf died, the consequences came. Emperor Tayatu could not control the Abyss Hole. His empire collapsed within days. His subjects became savage, bloodthirsty, and violent. He himself would never dare to stand under the moonlight. That was unimaginable torment. The moonlight scorned him, as if pulling out every blood vessel, lifting his skull, twisting his soul, and tearing off his skin strip by strip.
The Athos Family, which had once cooperated with Emperor Tayatu, also tasted the consequences. Every infant born from their direct bloodline was a half-human, half-wolf stillborn. No matter what methods they used to save them, they could not remedy this consequence.
The Athos Family knelt down. They came to the Extreme South Cold Land in the most humble posture, erecting stone tablets one by one. They even tried to resurrect the Moon Wolf, but everything was in vain.
Within a few years, the Athos Family was on the verge of extinction. The last family member exhausted all his wealth to establish the Holy Knight Order, hoping that the Holy Knight Order would inherit the Moon Wolf's will, guard this world, and clean up the cursed objects, which were now called dangerous objects.
Even so, the Holy Knight Order was plagued by misfortune, experiencing internal division, civil war, and the defection of over half its members.
It was not until later that the Holy Knight Order split into the Third Research Institute and the Eternal Night Church, still bearing the consequences of that year.
After many more years, the Third Research Institute was renamed the Containment Institution, and the Eternal Night Church was renamed the Eclipse Organization. After multiple changes of rulers, they finally completely escaped the misfortune from the Holy Knight Order.
To this day, the Containment Institution and the Eclipse Organization have gone through many era changes and have no connection with the Athos Family. The name Eclipse Organization itself is a form of worship for the Moon Wolf. After the eclipse, only the moon remains.
If an ancient god appears in this world, the Containment Institution and the Eclipse Organization will definitely be the ones standing at the forefront, just like the Moon Wolf back then.
The Athos Family knelt down, tried various ways to make amends, and still went extinct. As for Emperor Tayatu, he initially had some regrets, but since things had reached this point, he simply went all the way. He erected a stone tablet in the Extreme South Cold Land to assert his authority as the dictator of the Tayatu civilization.
Emperor Tayatu appeared glorious, but in reality, to stabilize the Abyss Hole, he made the entire continent where the Tayatu civilization was located fall into barrenness. Only after fully understanding what the Abyss Hole was did he truly regret it from the bottom of his heart. However, he never showed it. In historical records, all deeds related to Emperor Tayatu were correct. He was the emperor who defeated the evil wolf and guarded the thing that could destroy the world.
After all, no one would let their past foolish actions be spread outside. Even knowing it was wrong, they would stubbornly insist on it.
What was even more chilling was that to this day, the offspring left behind by the threadworms after their death still existed on the continent where the Tayatu civilization was located, residing within every living being there.
Su Xiao's hand was still pressing on the hilt of the Moonlight Sword. He opened his eyes. The situation was basically understood. The current Emperor Tayatu was likely still alive, after all, the other party had absorbed Abyssal Force.
The Abyss Hole was with Emperor Tayatu. For Su Xiao, the situation was simple and clear. Go kill Emperor Tayatu.