Chapter 1236: Thought Calamity Fusion

Thought Calamity Fusion

Rumble—!!

Almost at the instant Chen Ling rushed out of the Mother Tree carrying Little Peach and Little White, a sun-blotting root smashed down with a bang, directly crushing the half of the Mother Tree that was already covered in cracks into powder!

Large pieces of tree bark mixed with shattered furniture collapsed like a mountain crumbling before their eyes, smashing heavily onto the Gray World earth and churning up a mighty expanse of smoke and dust.

Old Wolf, Zhao Yi, Sun Bumian, and a large number of Integration Faction members narrowly rushed out from the remaining half of the Mother Tree. Their bodies were covered in wounds and dust, looking incredibly miserable as if they had just fought a life-and-death battle with those densely packed roots.

"Little Peach, how are you?"

Chen Ling looked down at Little Peach in his arms, whose body was covered in bloody holes.

Chen Ling felt that the current Little Peach was frighteningly light, just like she had been hollowed out of all internal organs and bones, leaving only a pelt, weightlessly light. Holding her in his arms felt no different from holding a piece of white paper.

Hearing Chen Ling's voice, Little Peach's originally empty pupils regained vitality. The fur retracted beneath her delicate human skin, and the tail behind her vanished without a trace... The weightless Little Peach began to grow heavy, as if all the vanished internal organs had returned.

Chen Ling still wanted to say something, but the next moment, chaotic shouts rang out from the surroundings:

"How is it!! Is there anyone else who hasn't been saved??"

"Assemble by class!! Roll call!! Roll call!!"

"Class One is all here!!"

"Class Two is all here!!"

"Class Three... Class Three is still missing a few!"

"...Damn it..."

Panting heavily, Old Wolf and the others turned back to look at that teetering Mother Tree. Large swaths of tree trunks were falling under the grasping roots. Now, the inside had already become a pile of ruins, and they simply couldn't figure out where anyone could still be surviving.

"Teacher Ye! Teacher Ye still hasn't come out!!"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone's hearts instantly leaped to their throats.

Teacher Ye's significance to the Integration Faction was incredibly immense. If Teacher Ye failed to escape, the hearts of the entire Integration Faction would scatter.

"You guys stay here! I have a tough life! I'll go save him!" Covered in wounds, Zhao Yi gritted his teeth and was about to risk his life to charge toward the Mother Tree that was almost fully occupied by the Bitter Flesh Forest.

To Zhao Yi, the Integration Faction was as important as the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path had once been to Chen Ling. This place was not only where he lived, but his home... He couldn't just watch helplessly as the children he spent day and night with and Teacher Ye died at the hands of Calamities.

"You can't go!" Old Wolf violently grabbed his shoulder and shouted loudly,

"Didn't you see! The Mother Tree has already been occupied by those Calamities! If you go in, you won't be able to come out!!"

"Even if I can't come out, I still have to go!! I, Zhao Yi, have had nothing for a long time! I only have the Integration Faction!! Those children also only have the Integration Faction!! I'm not afraid of death!!"

Zhao Yi directly broke free from Old Wolf's arm.

However, just as he was about to risk his life and charge into the Mother Tree, another mysterious and terrifying aura erupted from beneath the roots of the Mother Tree!

Boom—!!!

A surging airwave swept across the Gray World.

At the instant this aura appeared, everyone's brains stagnated for a split second, as if a mental storm had swept across the world, and a dream-like sense of muddleheadedness surged into their hearts...

Even Chen Ling's mind wavered for an instant. He stared blankly at the direction the storm swept through, his pupils contracting in disbelief.

Others might be completely unfamiliar with that aura, but Chen Ling was different... He was too familiar with it. So familiar that he had even felt it in his sleep early this morning. That was a World-Ending aura, the same as his and the Calamity of Corruption's.

[The isolated island nightmare of the slumbering storm, the eerie ghost at the end of thoughts]

"Thought Calamity... How is that possible??"

Chen Ling stared blankly for a long while before suddenly sensing something keenly.

"No, that's not right..."

"Although this aura is the same as the Thought Calamity, its power is far weaker than it... What's going on?"

The moment the Thought Calamity's aura appeared, the dense roots tightly twined around the Mother Tree instantly stagnated, just like the crowd of the Integration Faction.

At the same time,

A loud bang exploded from beneath the roots of the Mother Tree!

A madly surging storm filled the heaven and earth. Amidst the flying dust, a figure wrapped in messy threads of thought slowly rose up...

"That's..." Zhao Yi rubbed his eyes. After seeing the figure clearly, he opened his mouth wide in shock.

"Teacher Ye??!!"

The hem of a plain shirt fluttered in the wind. Teacher Ye held a black bag filled with test subjects in one hand, while his other hand casually tossed an empty syringe aside. Behind the black-framed glasses, his pupils had already been replaced by black balls of thread constantly rotating disorderly.

Chen Ling had seen this kind of thread ball before. Back then on the trunk of the Mother Tree, it was this kind of thread ball that hypnotized Little Peach and the others into heading to the Scarlet Heaven Sect Branch...

This was the power of the Thought Calamity!

"Why can Teacher Ye use the power of the Thought Calamity???" Chen Ling asked in puzzlement.

"This is the Integration Faction. Teacher Ye is the founder of the Integration Faction, and also the first Integrator in the world..." Old Wolf looked at Teacher Ye's figure rising into midair and spoke slowly, "What he fused with was one of the Six Great Extinctions... the Thought Calamity."

"Teacher Ye fused with the Thought Calamity??" This was the first time Zhao Yi had heard of this. He spoke in pleasant surprise, "Doesn't that mean Teacher Ye has World-Destroying Tier combat power?!"

"How could that be... The Thought Calamity is a World-Ending entity, and Teacher Ye is just an ordinary person. Rather than saying Teacher Ye fused with the Thought Calamity, it's more accurate to say he fused with a fragment of the Thought Calamity's thoughts... Furthermore, he normally needs a Potion to suppress this Fusion and maintain his rationality, otherwise he would be assimilated by the Thought Calamity."

"Even if it's just a tiny fragment of thoughts, it can still be considered fusing with a World-Ending entity. This can already be called a miracle."

Sun Bumian was also shocked by this scene and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Aside from the Calamities of the Bitter Flesh Forest, even the Calamity of Corruption was stunned for a moment. Sensing the aura of the Thought Calamity from afar, it was clearly confused for a moment, and then, as if realizing something, it moved toward here even faster.

Teacher Ye floated above the Integration Faction, the balls of thought threads in his pupils constantly churning. He took a deep breath, and a massive clump of lines exploded around him like a storm!

As the thought lines swiped across the surroundings, those Calamity roots madly dismantling the Mother Tree suddenly stagnated. Then, as if they had gained their own consciousness, they directly ignored the control of the main body in the distance and instead began to encircle Teacher Ye...

Teacher Ye raised his hand, pointed at the ruins below, and spoke in a deep voice:

"Save them."

The densely packed plant roots simultaneously dove down, rapidly moving the heavy furniture and tree trunks pressing on top. One by one, the Integration Faction students pressed in the ruins were picked up like baby chicks and orderly transferred to the vicinity of Chen Ling and the others.