Chapter 1289: Spreading the Taboo of the Boundless Ming Corpse

Spreading the Taboo of the Boundless Ming Corpse

In the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake.

The moment this sentence rang out, Chen Ling abruptly stopped his steps.

A cold breeze swept across the lake surface, blowing the hem of Chen Ling's Great Crimson Theatrical Robe upward... He blankly looked at the figure in front of him who was unwilling to even look him in the eye, and a surge of anger climbed into his heart!

On the way here, Chen Ling had thought a lot.

He recalled the details of his previous interactions with Chu Changqing. Although the two hadn't communicated much, he felt that Chu Changqing shouldn't be an ungrateful person. Therefore, he had also envisioned other possibilities to explain everything Chu Changqing had done up to this point.

Perhaps, he had suffered some extremely heavy injury? Causing his consciousness to not be clear enough, and could only rely on a blind man to pass out information?

Perhaps this blind man was passing false information, wanting to use Chu Changqing to seek benefits for himself?

Perhaps Chu Changqing was being coerced by someone?

Chen Ling had thought of many possibilities, but only when he actually arrived at the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake did he realize... how ridiculous his behavior of trying to find excuses for Chu Changqing was.

Although his temperament was completely different from what Chen Ling remembered, there was no difference in his appearance. Moreover, no matter what, that Aura unique to the Nine Monarchs was impossible to fake... The person before him was undoubtedly Chu Changqing himself.

What made Chen Ling angriest was still that moment of undisguised, disgusted gaze, and that cold and absurd sentence...

"Hello... Calamity of Mockery."

Chen Ling smiled.

"Calamity of Mockery... Hehe."

He draped himself in the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe, his smile carrying an indescribable anger and sorrow,

"Chu Changqing, are you not even willing to address me by my human name?"

"Does a human name have any meaning to you?"

Chu Changqing still had his back to Chen Ling. With one hand, he gently held a small fish tank, and with the other hand, he casually scattered fish food into it. Streaks of pitch-black small fish fry swam around his palm, competing to eat that small amount of fish food.

When the fish food was snatched up and finished, the remaining fish fry actually began to bite, swallow, and kill each other. Wisps of blood color floated up from the fish tank; only the most powerful fish fry could possibly survive.

Chu Changqing calmly watched this scene and continued speaking:

"The Calamity of Mockery is just the Calamity of Mockery. Teasing fate, toying with the common people. As long as you want to, you can even treat yourself as part of the fun... No matter how well you disguise yourself as a human, even if you've deceived yourself, it still can't change your nature.

In this era, there are actually people who still believe you've truly become a 'human'. If I hadn't awakened, perhaps they really would have been deceived by you.

What a pity...

I am not as naive as they are."

As his voice fell,

Chu Changqing slowly tilted the fish tank in his hand. Bloody water mixed with the eight most powerful fish fry that had survived were all poured into the lake water beneath his feet.

...

Thud——!!!

A dull thud sounded from the bottom of the deep sea. The Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's body trembled once again, its massive frame tilting visibly to the naked eye. If one sank to the seabed at this moment, they would see countless Calamities constantly ramming its bottom, seemingly wanting to overturn it on the sea surface.

The winged electric eel beside it rapidly dive-bombed, as if wanting to help carve out a bloody path. But as more and more Calamities withstood the electric current and climbed up its body along its dive-bombing tail, its movements became unsteady. Ultimately, truly unable to withstand the weight suppression, it plunged headfirst into the sea surface, was directly entangled and wrapped up by seven or eight Calamities, and dragged towards the deep-sea abyss...

The water spider and black fish were similarly surrounded by a large number of Calamities. Under absolute numerical suppression, they had no chance to support the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle at all.

At the same time, an extreme chill rose from the seabed. The entire sea area was actually freezing into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye. The giant turtle's already clumsy body found it increasingly difficult to maintain balance. Stuck by the surrounding ice layers, it had absolutely nowhere to escape.

Watching as more and more Calamities climbed onto the giant turtle's body, that massive three-eyed giant head slowly opened its large mouth on the seabed...

In the next moment, several massive giant shadows were spat out from its mouth!

One, two, three... seven, eight!

Eight bizarre creatures like the winged electric eel and the water spider charged into the battlefield in a timely manner. Their body sizes were each more massive than the last, and also more bizarre than the last. Some were giant crabs burning with flames, some were hideous monsters half-human and half-fish, some were pure white sixteen-armed octopuses...

The moment these Miracle Creatures entered the water, they helped the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle shatter the surrounding ice layers. Four charged in front to carve out a bloody path, and four began to wipe out the Forbidden Sea Calamities that had climbed onto the turtle shell. The Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's originally extremely critical situation had a Breathing Portal torn open just like that.

The Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's tilted body slowly regained its balance. Under the path-clearing of the several Miracle Creatures, it slowly moved forward.

The magnificent and heavy ice wall was crushed by its body, turning into countless floating ice lands. Amidst the bloody fighting of the other creatures, the outline of the horizon began to faintly appear in the distance...

At this moment, all members of the Integration Faction saw its intention:

It wanted to go ashore.

...

Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake.

After Chen Ling heard this passage from Chu Changqing, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"I don't understand." Chen Ling spoke in a deep voice, "Why are you so certain that I must be the Calamity of Mockery, and not Chen Ling?"

"...Why?"

Chu Changqing sneered.

He placed the empty fish tank aside and slowly turned around.

He once again looked directly at Chen Ling and took a step forward. His waterfall-like long hair brushed through the sea of flowers as he walked towards Chen Ling step by step...

Two figures, one red and one cyan, approached little by little in the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake. Even facing the Oppressive Aura of one of the Nine Monarchs rushing against his face, Chen Ling didn't show the slightest hint of fear, just looking at him coldly.

And those cyan pupils of Chu Changqing also shone with an indescribable chill, meeting Chen Ling's gaze.

Ultimately,

Chu Changqing stopped his steps in front of Chen Ling.

"Because, I understand the Calamity of Mockery better than you do." Chu Changqing spoke slowly.

"Impossible." Chen Ling resolutely retorted. "You haven't even been in contact with the Calamity of Mockery, how could you possibly understand it better than I do?"

Chen Ling had been dealing with the Calamity of Mockery for so long, had even performed Slaughtering the Calamity several times, and had grasped a portion of the Calamity of Mockery's abilities... In this world now, it was impossible for anyone to understand the Calamity of Mockery better than him.

"I haven't been in contact with the Calamity of Mockery?" Chu Changqing seemed to have heard something funny and sneered twice. Then he reached out his hand and slowly reached towards his own cheek,

"The reason why I, Chu Changqing, have today... is all thanks to you, the Calamity of Mockery... Isn't it?"

In the next moment,

A layer of skin from his face was personally torn off by Chu Changqing!!

As the thin facial skin dissipated in midair, Chen Ling's pupils abruptly shrank!!

Before Chen Ling's eyes was a pitch-black face, a face like a shadow... No facial features, no skin, only a pair of scarlet pupils close at hand. Below those pupils, a similarly scarlet corner of a mouth hooked up in a mocking arc.

This face, Chen Ling was too familiar with...

This was the face of the Calamity of Mockery.