Chapter 1561: Knock

Knock

Although Chen Ling had met Shen Qingzhu and had also heard some rumors about the Angel of Silence, he actually wasn't too clear about the specific strength of this visitor from another Candlelight World.

However, since the other party had heavily injured the Calamity of Delusion in his early years, his strength should be higher than the Lord of Wuji's... But the Lord of Wuji was currently immortal and indestructible, making him extremely difficult to deal with. He truly couldn't easily judge what the final outcome of the life-and-death battle between the two sides would be.

Of course, now wasn't the time to dwell on this question. Now that the Lord of Wuji had all of his energy tied down by Shen Qingzhu, it was the best time for him to break free from the Palace of Eternity.

Calculating the time, the progress of the script should also be about done...

Chen Ling's gaze looked at the street ahead.

"They're here."

He suddenly spoke to remind him.

Tian Xiaochen, who was currently lying on the floor tiles studying them carefully, froze and looked up blankly:

Just as Tian Xiaochen's words fell, a commotion was heard coming from the Knight Headquarters across the street.

Because the vast majority of Knights had now been dispatched to patrol the streets and evacuate the crowd, there was hardly any manpower retained within the Knight Headquarters... And accompanied by bursts of intense clamor, figures clad in prison uniforms suddenly swarmed out from inside. There were men, women, old, and young. Seeing the sunlight outside, unprecedented excitement surfaced in their eyes!

"We're out!!"

"We're out!!"

"We can finally go home... I wonder if my foolish son has been eating well these past few days..."

"Hurry and run before those Knights rush over!!"

"Don't gather together! Run separately!"

"..."

At the back of the crowd, there were still a few scattered Knights hurriedly chasing out from the headquarters. Gripping their weapons, anger and bewilderment surfaced on their faces upon seeing these prisoners running out from the Dungeon...

Everything was fine, how did these prisoners run out?!

"Catch them!!"

A Knight shouted loudly, then charged towards those few prisoners at the back with large strides. Immediately after, a thought streaked across the mind of a Knight beside him. He immediately pressed down the weapon in his companion's hand:

"The Lord of Wuji, My Lord said we cannot use violence against the prisoners on our own! Did you forget Shi Rui's end?!"

The moment these words came out, the Knight who was already halfway there instantly froze.

"Then... then what do we do?"

"We can't use weapons, just try our best to drive them back!"

"How the fuck do we drive them back??"

The Knight was speechless, but thinking of Shi Rui's tragic death not long ago, he still obediently tossed his weapon aside and chased after those prisoners fleeing in all directions bare-handed. At the same time, he continuously called out to the surrounding Knights, asking them to encircle, chase, block, and intercept together.

Prisoners fleeing crazily, Knights not daring to use force, countless figures running back and forth. In an instant, the entire street fell into noisy chaos.

Tian Xiaochen was dumbfounded.

"Lord Chen Ling... our luck seems pretty good?"

Tian Xiaochen completely didn't connect the chaos before his eyes with the Gomoku chess piece he just threw down. In his eyes, there was not a single dime of relation between the two. After thinking for a long time, he could only attribute it to "good luck."

"Luck?" Chen Ling shook his head. "No, you single-handedly brought this about... Did you forget about that Gomoku chess piece?"

"Me???"

"Alright, time is limited. Hurry to the Palace of Eternity."

Even if Tian Xiaochen racked his brains, he couldn't figure out exactly what kind of role he played in this. But under Chen Ling's urging, he still unhesitatingly rushed out of the Alleyway and ran forward along the chaotic street.

In the current street where prisoners were running around wildly, Tian Xiaochen, who was running in casual clothes, was somewhat conspicuous. But right now, all the Knights' attention was on those prisoners, and very few people noticed his existence...

"Kid!! Don't run around wildly!!"

A Knight took a step, wanting to chase after him. But in the next second, he was tripped by a prisoner who just happened to fall to the ground. Losing his balance, he rolled twice on the ground. By the time he climbed back up, Tian Xiaochen had already run very far away.

And similarly dramatic coincidences continuously played out around Tian Xiaochen.

When he was targeted by a Knight, there would always be a prisoner charging out at just the right time to draw attention for him; when his path forward was blocked by four or five Knights lined up in a formation, over twenty prisoners who wanted to go home would clash with them a step ahead of him; bodies of Knights in Armor or prisoners fell one after another behind him, and the figures blocking his path grew fewer and fewer...

And from beginning to end, Tian Xiaochen only did one thing... which was running.

All this was truly too wondrous, to the point that Tian Xiaochen suddenly had a feeling... As if he was currently the chosen one of destiny, the "Protagonist" of this world.

Wherever he headed, when meeting mountains, someone would clear a path; when meeting water, someone would build a bridge. All existences blocking his way would be pushed aside by the palm of fate, leaving him a broad and open avenue... And the end of this avenue was the Palace of Eternity.

Thus,

After a run of Turning Calamity into Blessing all the way,

He finally stepped onto the stairs before the Palace of Eternity.

When he raised his head and saw those two magnificent doors reaching up to the heavens and down to the earth, he was very clear in his heart...

He was never the Protagonist of this world. The person who truly guided him here, the mastermind behind the scenes who toyed with fate, was right behind this door.

That person was the source of all this.

Fluttering ash-like snowflakes fell silently from the sky.

Under the dim glow of the five suns, Tian Xiaochen arrived before the doors of the Palace of Eternity one footprint at a time...

"Kid!! What are you doing?!"

"Approaching the Palace of Eternity is forbidden!!"

The Knights who were on the street before the Palace of Eternity stopping those prisoners saw out of the corners of their eyes that someone had stepped onto the stairs of the Palace of Eternity, and their hearts all jolted. Although they didn't think a child could do anything to the Palace of Eternity, they still had to follow orders and stop anyone from approaching this place.

Seven or eight Knights simultaneously abandoned the prisoners they had already taken into custody and sprinted menacingly towards Tian Xiaochen in front of the door.

Sprinting with all his might the entire way left Tian Xiaochen sweating profusely. Standing before the door right now, his nervous hands were trembling slightly.

He heard the rising and falling shouts from behind him, but he still took a deep breath...

Then he raised his hand and yanked hard on the doors of the Palace of Eternity.

"..."

The doors didn't budge an inch.

How could the Palace of Eternity forged by the Lord of Wuji be casually opened by a child?

Seeing Tian Xiaochen's nonsensical and laughable action, the Knights behind him actually laughed out of anger for a moment. Their figures rushed up the stairs before the Palace of Eternity, their heavy Armor letting out muffled sounds as they ran.

Tian Xiaochen's face was deathly pale right now. He desperately wanted to pry open the doors of the Palace of Eternity with his bare hands, but no matter how hard he tried, the doors remained as motionless as welded steel.

Just as despair arose in his heart, Chen Ling's voice rang out again:

"Don't try to open the doors..."

"You, just need to knock on it."