Chapter 1453: Red Umbrella Absorbing Souls

Red Umbrella Absorbing Souls

"Hoo——Hoo——Hoo..."

The aurora submerging the earth gradually dissipated.

Amidst the whimpering cold wind, Chen Ling, bleeding from his seven apertures, staggered on his feet, half-kneeling in the snow.

Scorching breath exhaled from his lips, instantly freezing into fine ice mist. Chen Ling greedily panted the air of surviving a disaster, as if wanting to release all the pressure accumulated in his heart during this period of time to his heart's content.

He won the gamble.

From the southernmost to the northernmost, from the South Sea Domain to the Aurora Domain, from a complete Calamity of Mockery to At One's Wits' End, ultimately he still completed an impossible performance on this Unregarded Stage... using his Rank 7 body to obliterate the Thought Calamity.

This was the first World-Ending Calamity truly killed by humans so far.

The one who killed him wasn't Chen Ling,

But if the Thought Calamity hadn't chosen to undergo Fusion with the Ancestor of the Pu Family, relying on his own power and trickery, even if they repeated this journey of fighting and gambling, ultimately the Lord of the Aurora's residual thought couldn't have killed the Thought Calamity so easily.

From this perspective, it wasn't Chen Ling who killed the Thought Calamity, nor the Lord of the Aurora... but his arrogance and greed.

Chen Ling looked up at the sky.

At this time, the sky full of flowing aurora had already become incomparably dim. The backup plans left by Yang Xiao had all been completely consumed. Those millions of resident souls that had once been engraved on the sky also began to gradually dissipate...

They had once witnessed everything, but now, they would eventually leave.

The aurora was about to disappear.

Chen Ling's chapped lips parted slightly, his heart incomparably complex...

He was the one who brought the Thought Calamity here, he was the one who called the Lord of the Aurora to intervene. Even if obliterating the Thought Calamity together was the decision of these souls themselves, Chen Ling still felt guilty in his heart. After all, they had existed here for so long, but ultimately it was him who guided them towards the ending of dissipation...

No...

Wait!

Chen Ling suddenly seemed to think of something, a glimmer of light shining in his dim eyes.

He raised his hand, grasping towards the nothingness beside him, an unprecedented seriousness emerging on his pale face...

A moment later,

Petals of vermilion flowers gathered out from the nothingness!

These petals swirled in Chen Ling's hand, rapidly outlining and reconstructing. Within just a few seconds, a large Red Paper Umbrella formed of petals was gently held in his palm.

This was the ability Chen Ling obtained after stepping onto Rank 7.

This seemed to be the exclusive weapon of the Calamity of Mockery.

During the two previous times he completely released the Calamity of Mockery, Chen Ling had seen this Red Paper Umbrella in the images projected on the curtain. It possessed the ability to contain an infinite amount of souls, and in battle, it could also erupt with terrifying destructive power in an instant by consuming the souls contained within... Moreover, the more souls there were, the stronger the destructive power. Theoretically speaking, there was no upper limit.

Not long ago, the Calamity of Mockery used this umbrella to contain a large number of Calamity souls, frightening away the Calamity of Taboo with a single strike.

But setting aside the attack characteristic of "consuming souls", wasn't this large Red Paper Umbrella the unique soul shelter in the world?

Chen Ling carefully sensed the ability of this Red Paper Umbrella. Just as he thought, the space inside it was infinitely large, and as long as Chen Ling wanted, he could manifest anything within it. Chen Ling even found a large number of "purgatory areas" for torturing souls inside... The former Calamity of Mockery relied on this large Red Paper Umbrella to become a nightmare in the hearts of countless living beings.

This also made Chen Ling understand why it was said that dying at the hands of the Calamity of Mockery was far more terrifying than death itself.

"The Lord of the Aurora protected you all for so many years, I can't let you dissipate into thin air because of me..."

"If you trust me, then temporarily live in this umbrella."

"In the future if there's a chance..."

"Perhaps, you can still Reappear in the world."

Amidst the frost-churning ruins, that Thespian wearing a Theatrical Robe slowly opened the red umbrella, like a bright red flower blooming in this dead silent world.

In the next moment, that sky full of aurora that had originally dimmed and dissipated seemed to receive some kind of guidance, gathering towards that large Red Paper Umbrella like a vortex. A massive sea of souls swarmed and drilled into the space inside the umbrella.

Chen Ling held the umbrella and looked up, only to see that tiny glimmers of light had already lit up beneath the inner surface of the umbrella, like a sky full of stars adorning the inside of the umbrella.

After all the souls merged into the umbrella, Chen Ling slowly closed it, turning it into petals and hiding it in the nothingness.

"Goodbye... Aurora City."

Chen Ling took one last look at the city in the ruins and muttered to himself.

He turned and left.

Even though more than half of the Forbidden Sea's territory had already been completely destroyed by the passing Red Star, that piercing coldness still filled the world. Chen Ling staggered forward step by step along the devastated earth. As far as the eye could see, there were chaotic suspended Gray World fragments everywhere.

At this time, Chen Ling's vision was already blurred. After such a long period of high-intensity pursuit and escape, coupled with extreme overdrawing of Spiritual Power, and just forcefully opening the Rank 7 ability to contain the souls of Aurora City...

His insignificant figure staggered in the Gray World, teetering unsteadily like a drunkard. If a Calamity were to casually pop out right now, it could probably take his life.

Chen Ling's legs moved mechanically, his consciousness gradually sinking. Ultimately, he didn't know how long he persisted in walking before his vision went black...

"Crap..."

The last thought in Chen Ling's mind right now was praying that no Calamities or humans approached.

He didn't trust Calamities, nor did he trust humans. If he fainted in this desolate northern wasteland completely defenseless now, it was equivalent to completely entrusting his life to heaven. But no matter how unwilling he was, there was nothing he could do. His body had already reached its limit.

Thud——

Chen Ling planted headfirst onto the ground.

The whimpering cold wind echoed. The corners of the red-based, black-patterned Theatrical Robe fluttered silently in the wind...

At the end of the horizon, a Calamity that had just routed from the Tianshu Domain was walking dejectedly on the shattered earth. Immediately after, it seemed to catch the scent of fresh blood, its head abruptly turning towards a certain direction not far away.

It was somewhat puzzled, yet also somewhat pleasantly surprised, carefully approaching that blood-colored figure collapsed on the ground.

Right at this moment,

A wisp of red thread instantly streaked across the sky.

The Calamity was still maintaining its forward walking state, but its head had already rolled onto the ground with a thud. Blood splattered on the ground. The pupils of its severed head still held residual confusion and terror!

Everything before its eyes was gradually shrouded in blackness. Just as it was about to breathe its last, it saw a young girl wearing a black dress, tightly clutching a red thread, slowly walking towards here.

The red thread swayed gently in the nothingness. The other end of the red thread in the young girl's hand was connected precisely to Chen Ling, who had fainted on the ground in the distance.

She stopped her steps in front of Chen Ling.

"Master... I found him." Liu Qingyan's voice sounded in the wind.

Behind her, a beautiful figure draped in a gray robe slowly walked out. A touch of complexity flashed in her gaze as she looked at that figure collapsed on the ground.