Chapter 1097: Storm Island

Storm Island

The crowd only saw Chen Ling casually flip over, and that Great Crimson Theatrical Robe sat steadily on the head of the Shadow Centipede. And this Fourth Order Calamity with a ferocious face enough to make babies stop crying, was currently lying on the ground like a quail, trembling as if its vibration mode was turned on.

Following its trembling, Chen Ling sitting on its head seemingly felt uncomfortable. He stretched out his index finger, knocking twice on its skull with his knuckle neither heavily nor lightly:

"Don't tremble."

The Shadow Centipede immediately stopped trembling, lying on the ground as if it were dead.

The air fell into deathly silence.

All the Fusionists, including Zhao Yi, were dumbfounded at this time... With just one slap, Chen Ling tamed a Fourth Order Calamity from the Ghost Mockery Abyss. Was this the deterrent force brought by a World-Ending Calamity?

Ever since eating a few members of the Audience raw On Stage, Chen Ling could feel that changes had occurred to himself. In terms of Aura, physical body, and even spirit, he was slightly different from before.

The most representative point was that now, separated by tens of meters, he could feel that faint broiler chicken aroma from the Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss...

"Crawl."

Hearing Chen Ling's slight lip-licking sound, the Shadow Centipede's Body Trembled first. Then hearing the command to "crawl", it frantically crawled forward without hesitation, deeply afraid that if it was half a minute slow, a large bite would be gnawed off its head.

"Eh... Chen Ling! Wait for me... Do you even know the way, charging so fast??"

Seeing this, Zhao Yi immediately flipped and rode onto Old Wolf's back. The latter also tacitly transformed into the skeletal pale wolf form, rapidly following up.

After riding on the Calamities, the crowd's speed directly crossed onto another level. The desolate earth of the Gray World rapidly retreated beside them. Occasionally they could see a few Calamities passing by, but perhaps because there was no human Aura on them, these Calamities fundamentally had no interest in them.

Because there was no clock, Chen Ling also didn't know how long they had traveled in the Gray World. But judging from the vague Realm map in Chen Ling's memory, they were now completely far away from all Human Domains, deepening towards the desolation that had never been recorded in this era.

Was the Integration Faction's headquarters actually in such a deep place in the Gray World...

The Great Crimson Theatrical Robe billowed in the Gray World. Unknowingly, a gust of cold wind swept over from the end of the horizon, blowing the tips of everyone's hair to fly about. At the same time, it was also accompanied by a slight sense of dizziness, making people unable to distinguish directions.

"This is..."

Chen Ling keenly felt that this wind wasn't quite right, frowning and looking towards the end of the lead-gray sky... Vaguely, he could see a gigantic and pitch-black cloud vortex slowly stirring in the air, looking from afar like a fortress full of oppressive feeling.

And at this time, that black cloud fortress seemingly was approaching this direction.

Chen Ling had never seen such a celestial phenomenon in the Gray World. As they approached, that terrifying storm was constantly striking all areas outside the black cloud. Bizarre black shadows swam in the cloud vortex like lightning. If one looked carefully inside, one could see a gigantic black shadow being wrapped amidst the storm...

Like an island.

"Crap... we can't go any further ahead, we need to detour." Old Wolf's voice immediately sounded.

"What is that thing?" Chen Ling frowned and asked.

"Storm Island."

"Island? An island in the sky of the Gray World?"

"[The isolated island nightmare of the slumbering storm, the bizarre ghost at the end of thoughts]." Old Wolf stared tightly at that floating island shrouded in the storm, his tone incomparably serious,

"That's the territory of another World-Ending Calamity, the 'Thought Calamity'."

"Thought Calamity..."

Chen Ling murmured this name to himself.

Under the lead of Old Wolf and the others, Chen Ling immediately turned around, detouring to the other side.

"Is that the legendary Thought Calamity?" Sitting on the skeletal pale wolf's back, Zhao Yi couldn't help but turn his head again to look at that Storm Island. "Its territory, why can it float?"

"Storm Island doesn't have a fixed location. Some say it advances with the storm, some say it moves following the 'thoughts' of the Thought Calamity, and some also say... when you think of Storm Island or the Thought Calamity in your mind, it can come to your side at any time."

As Old Wolf ran wildly, he broke out in a sweat, his entire person unprecedentedly nervous.

Not only him, but the expressions of the other Fusionists were also incomparably ugly. Even when facing the Silver King and the Adjudication Proxies in the Wuji Domain, they were far from this nervous.

"Damn it... how did we bump into Storm Island?"

"I don't know. The Integration Faction has survived in the Gray World for hundreds of years, and historically there haven't been many cases of witnessing Storm Island, let alone in the Human Domains... Such a low probability event, can it actually be encountered by us?"

"Don't panic, we just saw Storm Island from afar. Our actual position is very far from it, there shouldn't be any problem."

The cold wind overflowing from Storm Island swept through every corner between heaven and earth. After being swept by it, it was as if people's thoughts stagnated... Sitting on the Shadow Centipede's head, Chen Ling seemingly perceived a gaze in his eyes, subconsciously turning his head to look at the dark sky where the wind and clouds stirred.

The storm swept, and the black clouds pressed down on the city. Gradually, everything before Chen Ling's eyes was ignored and disappeared. Only that pitch-black isolated island remained, emitting a suffocating Aura in the storm.

The isolated island constantly magnified in Chen Ling's pupils...

Vaguely,

There seemed to be a pair of hollow eyes, silently staring at him from the isolated island.

Right at this moment, a touch of scarlet flashed across Chen Ling's eyes. Somehow he suddenly returned to his senses, immediately shifting his gaze away, no longer looking in the direction of Storm Island!

Something's wrong!

This route...

Countless thoughts flashed across Chen Ling's mind. He immediately opened his mouth, urging the Speaking character secret technique [True Word] to the extreme. His voice exploded in the air like thunder:

"Wake up!! We are approaching Storm Island!!!"

Zhao Yi, Old Wolf, and the others, who were sprinting straight towards Storm Island, were like waking up from a big dream. A trace of reason recovered in their hollow eyes... When they saw clearly the increasingly closer floating isolated island straight ahead, their expressions instantly became incomparably ugly!

In everyone's field of vision and cognition just now, they were clearly moving away from Storm Island, but actually they were sprinting straight towards the isolated island. It was as if in the unseen world, a pair of palms had blinded their thoughts.

If Chen Ling hadn't shouted to wake them up in time, they probably would have rushed to the center of the storm in at most a minute...

What would happen by then, no one knew.

"Run!!"

Old Wolf roared loudly, and everyone turned around at the same time, Risking Their Lives to run wildly outside the storm!

Except for Chen Ling, everyone's hearts were pounding wildly. Unknowingly, their backs were already soaked with cold sweat... They didn't know how many years it had been since they felt this kind of life-or-death sensation.

The densely packed thin legs of the Shadow Centipede were also fast to the extreme. Being a Calamity as well, it was also frightened heavily. But even as they were constantly moving away from Storm Island, Chen Ling sitting on its head could still feel a gaze, watching him from far behind...