Chapter 1423: The Abyss Spreads

The Abyss Spreads

Rumble, rumble, rumble——

Low rumbling sounded from outside the Tianshu Domain.

The crowd, who were relying on the arrangements of the Tower to Heaven to frantically resist the tide of Calamities from the Sighing Wilderness, only felt the earth beneath their feet vibrate violently. Even the buildings within the domain swayed intensely, as if they were going to collapse in the next moment.

Although tremors would also occur when the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness trampled the earth previously, the violent shaking right now was fundamentally not on the same magnitude as what the Sighing Wilderness caused. It was as if there was an earth dragon twisting and shuttling underground, easily about to turn this domain upside down.

"What's going on?? An earthquake??"

"I haven't heard that the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness could also cause an earthquake of this level?"

"Is it my misconception? Why do I feel the epicenter is moving?"

"Wait..."

"..."

The craftsmen of the Tower to Heaven seemed to have realized something. They immediately brought out a giant telescope from the top of the tower. After adjusting the direction, they looked towards a certain direction outside the Tianshu Domain...

In the next second, the crowd was frozen in place.

"That... that is..."

Rolling dust and smoke rose from the earth outside the Tianshu Domain. Like a giant tsunami of sand and stone, it surged forward amidst the rumbling sounds, filling every corner of heaven and earth.

Countless scalp-numbing abyssal cracks were frantically spreading across the earth. It was as if something underground was piercing through from the north, just brushing past the edge of the Tianshu Domain like this, charging straight towards another direction!

And that abyssal crack merely brushed past the Tianshu Domain, yet the vibration it caused nearly led to the collapse of over a thousand buildings. Even the Tower to Heaven became shaky!

That was the doomsday of the earth, that was the roar of the abyss;

The craftsmen of the Tower to Heaven had never seen this kind of spectacle.

"The Scarlet Sovereign of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the King of No-Phase who Mocks Fate." Inside the Tower to Heaven, an old man muttered to himself, "The final Calamity territory that has always remained dormant has finally moved after all..."

"The Ghost Mockery Abyss is also going to join the battlefield?? Then do we still have a way to survive?" Everyone's hearts felt like they had plunged into an ice house.

"No, its target isn't us."

"... Then what domain is their target?"

The old man looked along the direction the earth was cracking and froze slightly.

"Strange..."

"In that direction, there should only be left..."

...

The South Sea Domain.

"Damn it..." Pu Xiachan dragged her exhausted body, stumbling along the devastated streets.

Her gaze fell upon the two sides of the street, those corpses of the Pu Family members that were already mangled and covered entirely in taboo curses. Her face was incomparably pale...

The Pu Family members who had broken out of the encirclement together with her not long ago had already died in battle one after another under the endless Calamity attacks. There were truly too many Calamities from the Forbidden Sea. Every time they passed a street, they had to go through two or three great battles. By now, even Pu Xiachan was nearing exhaustion.

She looked at the South Sea Domain before her, which had completely devolved into a paradise for Calamities, and was somewhat in a daze for a moment.

She grew up in the South Sea Domain since she was young. Her feelings for this place had long since been unable to be expressed in words. Now, watching helplessly as this homeland turned into ruins while she could do nothing, anger, powerlessness, and bitterness surged into her heart one after another.

Swoosh——!!

Right at this moment, a red signal flare rose from afar, shooting into the clouds.

The instant she saw that signal flare, Pu Xiachan froze slightly, her fists clenching tightly in silence... Struggle surfaced on her face.

During the brief moment Pu Xiachan was lost in thought, a black shadow leapt up from the mirror-like frost reflection. A completely pitch-black spiked long fish covered in curses, like an assassin hidden beneath the water's surface, charged towards the back of Pu Xiachan's neck at an astonishing speed!

By the time Pu Xiachan sensed the chill, it was already too late. She turned her head in shock, but the Calamity's spikes had already arrived right before her eyes!

Pfft——

A soft gunshot sounded from afar.

The Deconstruction bullet instantly annihilated the spiked long fish into nothingness. It wasn't until that cold wind mixed with a fishy stench brushed past Pu Xiachan's cheek that she recovered from her shock in hindsight...

Her gaze looked behind her.

The Enforcer windbreaker fluttered in the cold wind. Han Meng held a black handgun he had scavenged from the corpse of a South Sea police officer, his gaze looking at the burning signal flare in mid-air:

"The signal flare has risen, meaning the final domain train is already ready... It's time for us to leave."

"Leave..."

Pain surfaced on Pu Xiachan's face, "... I don't want to be a deserter!"

"Leaving now doesn't count as being a deserter."

"No! You don't understand, this is being a deserter!" Pu Xiachan's eyes were red, "I grew up here since I was young. This is my home... Now my home has been occupied by Calamities, and the friends I grew up playing with have also been killed by them. I can't just walk away like this!!"

The whimpering wind and snow brushed past Han Meng's cheek. He fell into silence.

Not knowing how long had passed,

He looked at Pu Xiachan's breaking down eyes and spoke softly:

"I understand..."

Pu Xiachan froze slightly.

She looked at that Enforcer windbreaker dancing in the wind and snow before her eyes and finally remembered something, her gaze incomparably complex.

Yes... In this world, perhaps no one understood this feeling better than Han Meng.

The same Forbidden Sea, the same bone-piercing freezing cold. When the Calamities charged into the land of the Aurora Domain, everything he had once protected was trampled to pieces right before his eyes... The same thing, he had already experienced it once.

"Abandoning companions and the populace to leave when there is still hope to be seen, that is called being a deserter..." Han Meng paused for a moment,

"Now the South Sea Domain has already become a dead city, and you have already tried your best. Even if you stay behind and risk your life to kill one or two more Calamities, what difference does it make?

Don't forget, you are an owner of a Celestial Star Position, the hope of humanity's new generation. There are so many people pinning high hopes on you. If you die here, then everything they've done will be completely wasted...

If you don't have a way to perish together with this group of Calamities, then preserve your own life first, and wait to find an opportunity for revenge in the future."

Pu Xiachan lowered her head. After struggling in her heart for a long time, she ultimately nodded.

Han Meng didn't say anything more. He took Pu Xiachan and rapidly hurried towards the direction where the signal flare had risen. It was unknown how many surviving combat forces were still left in the South Sea Domain now, but Han Meng estimated that the number capable of reaching the domain train's location was extremely few.

Fortunately, both Han Meng and Pu Xiachan had solid strength. By coordinating with each other, they broke through the heavy encirclement of several streets.

"Wait."

Seeing that they were about to arrive at the domain train's location, Han Meng's peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of something, and he stopped his footsteps.

Pu Xiachan followed Han Meng's gaze and saw that in a patch of collapsed ruins, a palm was exposed. The half a sleeve of a wanderer's robe made Han Meng feel somewhat familiar...

Han Meng walked forward and directly lifted the heavy stone wall pressing down on top. The unconscious Zhao Yi entered his vision.