Chapter 1044: Former Old Friends?

Former Old Friends?

Seeing the familiar Twisted Divine Path before his eyes, a trace of complexity flashed across Chen Ling's eyes.

The past Chen Ling only felt that his Divine Path was different from the rest. But after knowing the whole story of everything, his view of this path had undergone a change... Every step he took on this path was mastering the power that originally belonged to the "Calamity of Mockery".

But since things had come to this, he could no longer stop his footsteps. If he wanted to survive in this chaotic world, he had to become stronger!

He couldn't always be an "Emperor" who needed others to come to his rescue. Whether it was the power of the Divine Path or the power of Mockery... only by making it his own power could he gain a foothold in this era.

Chen Ling took a deep breath, his gaze looking toward the performance conditions for Advancement to the Fifth-Tier...

[Share the stage with former old friends, and complete an exciting return performance]

Seeing this line of small text, confusion surfaced in Chen Ling's eyes.

Chen Ling had already realized that the performance conditions every time were a certain direction chosen by the Audience... That meant to say, the performance conditions every time were not shooting arrows without a target.

In the current Wuji Domain, where would there be former old friends?

Jian Changsheng and the others? Or his fellow disciples from the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path? Time-wise, it should be very difficult to call them "former old friends".

Carrying his confusion, Chen Ling's consciousness gradually returned to his body.

Opening his eyes again, they had already shaken off almost all the Fire-Stealers. The edge of the Wuji Domain was getting closer and closer, and the surroundings became spacious and desolate.

"We really charged out?" Jian Changsheng's eyes lit up. "The seniors of the Dusk Society are truly capable!"

"Don't be happy too early."

Recalling the performance conditions just now, an ominous premonition arose in Chen Ling's heart. "I feel like things shouldn't be this simple..."

"Hearts, you jinx, say a few less words!"

"I'm serious, I always feel..."

Before Chen Ling's voice fell, Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua by his side simultaneously exclaimed in alarm. Several afterimages suddenly swept out from behind them, charging straight toward Chen Ling!

Those charging over were not some hidden weapons, nor were they enemy attacks, but the four limbs that originally belonged to Chen Ling.

Chen Ling, who had originally been dismantled, instantly became whole with the return of his four limbs. Jian Changsheng only felt his back sink, and then a powerful foot directly kicked him to the ground from behind, causing Jian Changsheng to tumble for a while under the force of inertia.

"No! Hearts, what the fu..."

Before the final curse word could be said, the trio of Jian Changsheng immediately froze in place.

They saw that Chen Ling, having completed assembly, actually directly turned his head and ran back. His legs whirled into afterimages on the ground, his speed incomparably fast!

Of course it was impossible for Chen Ling to kick Jian Changsheng down and then run toward the Wuji Domain himself. But at this moment, his four limbs were already completely out of control, as if they had a mind of their own.

Chen Ling reacted extremely fast. He immediately turned his head and shouted:

"Quick! Kill me!!"

"Ah?" Jian Changsheng looked bewildered. "Didn't you just say you wanted to live just now?"

"It doesn't matter, even if you kill me now, I won't die... Only by killing me can I seize back control of my body!"

Jian Changsheng and the others had seen Chen Ling's bizarre nature before. Since things had come to this, they naturally didn't hesitate in the slightest. After exchanging glances with each other, they pulled out their trump cards and aggressively charged toward Chen Ling one by one!

Jian Changsheng was the most excited. He even directly hacked himself several times consecutively, his speed spiking up by a large margin, looking as if he was bound to kill Chen Ling by his own hands.

Bang——!

The next moment, the earth between the three of them and Chen Ling trembled violently, and a black shadow abruptly popped out!

Sun Bumian furrowed his brows. He immediately reached out to block Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua. The three of them braked sharply in front of that black shadow, a cloud of dust and smoke flying up from beneath their feet.

Amidst the hazy dust, a dilapidated Coffin over two meters tall stood silently on the ground. Its entire body was pitch-black, emitting a nauseating stench of corpses... The instant it appeared, the surrounding temperature rapidly dropped.

"This is..."

Sun Bumian's brows furrowed tightly.

A pitch-black man wearing a Straw Hat slowly walked out from behind the Coffin. He leisurely glanced at Chen Ling, who was frozen not far away, and the trio of Sun Bumian, whose faces were full of shock, a smile curling up at the corner of his mouth.

"Where do you guys want to take this kid?"

Seeing that person, Chen Ling's gaze instantly turned cold.

"... Huang He."

This Thief Saint, who had been completely missing since the great battle began, actually appeared here at this time... One must know, this place was already close to the edge of the Realm. Whether it was the Fire-Stealers or the members of the Dusk Society, neither could rapidly rush over.

"Today, you cannot leave."

Huang He didn't waste time entangling with the trio of Jian Changsheng. His goal seemed extremely clear; he came precisely to kill Chen Ling.

He casually raised his hand, and that Coffin behind him suddenly exploded open. A female corpse was displayed within it as if alive...

As that female's hands pressed against the earth, the aura of a Rank 7 began to spread in the air. The space where Huang He and Chen Ling were located rapidly peeled away from the world!

"What's the situation?!!"

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng's face showed great alarm. Without hesitation, he charged toward the Thief Saint Huang He, as if wanting to interrupt this process.

But during this process, the figures of Chen Ling and Huang He became increasingly blurry, as if moved by some kind of power, until they thoroughly disappeared in front of the trio of Jian Changsheng.

Jian Changsheng grabbed with his palm, but only grabbed thin air.

"Where is Hearts????" Jian Changsheng anxiously looked around. "We've already reached this step, and he was snatched away by the people of the Fire-Stealers again??"

"Don't panic." Sun Bumian spoke in a deep voice. "That Thief Saint just now should be of the [Corpse Stealing] Path... He can briefly recreate the power of the deceased before they died by collecting corpses. It's similar to Kongwang whom we met during the Celestial Star Positions, just that one uses the soul as a medium, while the other uses the corpse as a medium."

"Then where did he make Hearts disappear to?"

"That woman just now was of the Path of Strategy, and her Path was quite ancient and rare... If I remember correctly, it should be the [Hide and Seek] Path."

"What? [Hide and Seek]? This can also be a Path?"

"Aren't those guys from the Path of Strategy all like this? Their abilities are more abstract than the last... and they're all quite tricky." Sun Bumian rolled his eyes. "That Thief Saint should have used [Hide and Seek] to stuff himself and Chen Ling into a certain spatial interstice. That kind of place, ordinary people simply cannot find it."

Jian Changsheng instantly became anxious. He looked at Sun Bumian, who seemed to know a bit about everything, as if grabbing onto a life-saving straw,

"Ordinary people can't find it, but you should be able to?"

Sun Bumian rolled his eyes. "I'm just a lion dancer, what do I know about hide and seek?"

"Isn't a lion's sense of smell very good?!"

"Then why don't you say you are a [Military Dog]???"

"I feel like we need to speed up..." Seeing that the two of them were about to start fighting, Jiang Xiaohua suddenly spoke muffledly, his expression unprecedentedly serious,

"I felt it just now... that Thief Saint seems to really want to kill Hearts."