Chapter 1564: Giant Collapse

Giant Collapse

"Chen Ling..."

As a human silhouette was outlined from the ground, the Lord of Wuji's low voice rang out along with it. "You... why do you have the authority of Material Science, just like me?"

The Lord of Wuji's voice didn't contain much anger. He was willing to accept his loss. Chen Ling being able to escape meant he truly had the ability, but he didn't understand... Chen Ling clearly wasn't one of the Nine Monarchs, so why could he use Material Reshape?

Naturally, Chen Ling wouldn't answer his question, only chuckling lightly:

"Guess?"

In the gap while the two were speaking, a hurricane swept away the surrounding embers and snowflakes, and a six-winged figure that blotted out the sun slowly descended, guarding Chen Ling's side.

Shen Qingzhu glanced at the Lord of Wuji who was currently undergoing Reshaping, and directly raised his right hand, as if about to snap his fingers again.

The Lord of Wuji's expression changed, and his soul was forced to escape and vanish once again!

Only when the Lord of Wuji's body turned into a stone sculpture did Shen Qingzhu withdraw his palm. After helplessly complaining a sentence, his gaze began to search for the other party's position again.

"Thank you," Chen Ling looked at Shen Qingzhu and spoke sincerely. "I was able to escape this time all thanks to you."

Shen Qingzhu waved his hand uncaringly:

"I've stayed in this Civilization Embers for a long time and was getting bored out of my mind... Having someone to fight with is pretty good. Even without you, I most likely would have fought him too."

"Then when I came back then, why didn't you fight me?"

"You were too weak back then."

"..."

With Shen Qingzhu saying he was weak back then, Chen Ling truly couldn't find an ounce of temper. After all, if Shen Qingzhu had really wanted to fight him back then, he probably could have crushed him to death with one hand.

Of course, if the Calamity of Mockery came out, that would be another story.

As if remembering something, Chen Ling took out two packs of cigarettes from his clothes and handed them over to Shen Qingzhu.

"Right, the cigarettes you wanted."

The moment these words came out, Shen Qingzhu's eyes instantly lit up. He didn't care about any Lord of Wuji anymore, directly lowering his head to pick up the cigarettes. He saw three large characters impressively written on the packaging:

——[Tower to Heaven].

Shen Qingzhu: ...?

"What's wrong?" Chen Ling was somewhat puzzled. "I don't know much about cigarettes. But this seems to be the best-selling cigarette in the Tianshu Domain... Isn't this what you wanted?"

Right, there shouldn't be Yellow Crane Tower brand in this era either... However, the outer packaging of this [Tower to Heaven] looked much better than Yellow Crane Tower.

"No, it's pretty good. As long as there are cigarettes, it's good."

Shen Qingzhu unpacked it without a second word, placed a cigarette in his mouth, and then gently rubbed his fingertips, lighting the cigarette tip with a wisp of flame.

The orange firelight silently lit up. Shen Qingzhu took a deep drag, and then slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke...

In the hazy shadow of the smoke, his expression was unprecedentedly relaxed and peaceful.

Finally...

Having stayed in this Civilization Embers for so many years, he finally got to take this drag.

Rumble rumble rumble——

Just as Shen Qingzhu's attention was drawn by the cigarette, the earth trembled. A massive, pitch-black giant shadow slowly climbed out from the ground... It was a sun-blotting giant, fully hundreds of meters tall. It stood tall beneath the five suns. Large swathes of crushed stones rustled and fell from its body, and six mysterious jewel-like Markings flickered silently.

Shen Qingzhu repeatedly interrupting the Reshaping seemed to have angered the Lord of Wuji somewhat. It was unknown what material the massive body was composed of, but it emitted a piercing cold light in the dimness. Veins that seemed to flow with corona-like energy wandered on its body. At the position of its chest, a super-reactor with a diameter of a hundred meters was churning.

Shen Qingzhu's gaze passed through the hazy smoke and looked at the super giant in the distance. Having gotten his wish, he was in excellent condition right now, his eyes as bright as stars.

"Truly... reckless of life and death."

Six gray feathered wings extended behind him, and the fluttering ash-like snowflakes danced wildly once again!

However, just as he was about to flap his wings and fly toward that giant, an unexpected change occurred!

The unstable space suddenly collapsed at this moment. Several continuous vortices were outlined in the air, attracting each other and rapidly triggering an even more intense collapse. A massive area resembling a black hole formed above the battlefield!

The scale of this collapse was larger than the previous few combined. Especially as the collapse superimposed and continuously expanded, it also swallowed several other collapses further away, forming a terrifying chain reaction. Just looking at the area alone, it was almost the size of an entire city!

Under this terrifying gravitational pull, Chen Ling's body almost instantly left the ground. Fortunately, Chen Ling's reaction was extremely fast. Half of his body directly turned into flying red clouds, utilizing the power brought by his Calamity Embodiment to resist the gravitational pull in the sky, thereby stabilizing his figure.

But the earth beneath them had already been directly cracked densely by this power. Then, large swathes of land rose out of thin air, flying toward the giant collapse in the sky...

Chen Ling's red paper Theatrical Robe fluttered loudly in the air. As if suddenly realizing something, he abruptly looked toward the other side of the sky.

He saw that the Eternal Domain, which had always been floating quietly in the air, was now also affected by the giant collapse close at hand. It rapidly tilted visibly to the naked eye, and then approached the direction of the collapse, like a spaceship grabbed by a black hole.

Bursts of terrified cries for help rang out from all corners of the Eternal Domain. Those residents who were already lying in bed and about to fall asleep only felt the world spin. Their entire persons fell directly from their beds, which were tilted forty-five degrees, crashing to the floor with a completely bewildered look.

The clattering sounds of objects hitting the ground rang out from every corner of the houses. The residents could only step on the tilted walls with both feet to barely stabilize their figures...

And the tilt angle of the entire Eternal Domain was still continuously expanding!

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, the Lord of Wuji, who was originally intending to vent his anger on Shen Qingzhu and Chen Ling, had his pupils contract slightly. Without hesitation, he abandoned the battlefield before him. His massive giant body struggled to run against the gravitational pull of the collapse. Every step down would trigger an earthquake-like roar.

As the super-large reactor erupted with terrifying energy, the giant charged directly to the edge of the Eternal Domain at an unimaginable speed. Those massive arms directly grabbed the bottom of the Eternal Domain, seemingly using all his strength in an attempt to drag it out of the range of the collapse.

As the Lord of Wuji's eyes erupted with piercing light, over twenty massive steel engines extended from the side of the Eternal Domain closest to the collapse. Scorching firelight surged simultaneously. Under the enhancement of terrifying power, he finally barely stabilized the Eternal Domain at the edge of the collapse.

However, it was only limited to this.

This was the deepest part of the Civilization Embers, and also the place where space was the most unstable. In front of this giant collapse, the Eternal Domain was like a ribbon tied to the middle of a tug-of-war rope. Even if the Lord of Wuji pushed his power to the extreme, he could only fight the gravitational pull of the collapse to a draw.

But the Eternal Domain was still too large. If not for the Lord of Wuji originally reinforcing it with materials of super-strong toughness and hardness, the earth of the domain, which received uneven force, would probably have already split in two under the wrestling of the two forces... But under the confrontation of the two massive forces, cracks still visibly surfaced on the exterior of the Eternal Domain.