Chapter 1568: Shen Qingzhu's Fury

Shen Qingzhu's Fury

Shen Qingzhu seemed to possess a certain innate temperament that made people unconsciously trust him and open up to him... At least Chen Ling felt that this person was worth befriending deeply.

"Thank you, Brother Shen."

"Don't call me Brother Shen, it's too distant." Shen Qingzhu waved his hand. "My brothers all call me Cool Bro."

"...Cool Bro?"

Chen Ling didn't quite understand this address, but still didn't ask much. After saying another thank you, he bent down to pick up that small piece of fragment on the ground.

And before picking up the fragment, Chen Ling still conservatively used Reshape to wrap a layer of the surrounding ground over its surface, reducing the contact area between the fragment and his fingers, making it look like a gray-and-red coin.

The moment Chen Ling held this coin in his hand, he felt a surging Red Star Aspiration Power flow into his body along the red part of the coin, causing his Spiritual Power to continuously grow...

Chen Ling's Spiritual Power, which had just reached the middle stage of Rank 7 not long ago, loosened again under the scouring of the Red Star's power and began to grow steadily. This effect was like killing a Scarlet Heaven Cultist every three minutes to absorb the Red Star Aspiration Power within their body.

As Chen Ling toyed with the coin, he looked at Shen Qingzhu doubtfully:

"Have you never tried absorbing it? With your power, you shouldn't be blown up by it, right?"

Shen Qingzhu shook his head. "My power comes from the K-series Meteor that invaded my world. And this one of yours is a Y-series Meteor. Meteors of different series are incompatible with each other."

"So that's how it is..."

This was still Shen Qingzhu's first time mentioning matters of his world. Chen Ling couldn't hold back from pressing further:

"You said last time that the destruction method corresponding to a K-series Meteor is... Mythical Invasion?"

"Strictly speaking, Mythical Invasion is only one of the multiple manifestation methods of a K-series Meteor."

"Since the meteor in your world has already been dealt with, then... why did you come to our world?"

"..." Shen Qingzhu hesitated for a long time, and still sighed.

"Our Captain told me to come."

"Captain?"

"Yes, he is the one who resolved the K-series Meteor in our world." Shen Qingzhu looked into his eyes. "I should have mentioned it to you last time. Currently, there are only two people who have successfully counter-killed a meteor... He is one of them."

"Is he even more formidable than you?"

Shen Qingzhu smiled.

"Our Captain is much more formidable than me."

In Chen Ling's cognition, Shen Qingzhu was already outrageously powerful. If he wasn't restricted to the Civilization Embers, he could probably turn the Human Domains outside upside down all by himself... Yet the "Captain" he spoke of was actually even stronger than him?

Is this the existence capable of blocking a Meteor Shower among the Myriad Worlds of Candlelight?

"If there's a chance in the future, I'd really like to meet him," Chen Ling spoke sincerely.

"I haven't seen him for a long time either. Let me think, the last time I saw him, it should have been in..."

Hearing this, Shen Qingzhu seemed to have remembered something. The hand he was about to use to take out a cigarette trembled slightly.

His expression instantly became strange.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Ling asked doubtfully.

"...Nothing, it's nothing."

Shen Qingzhu lowered his head, silently placed a cigarette in his mouth, lightly rubbed his fingers, and a wisp of flame silently ignited the cigarette tip...

...

Shen Qingzhu's memories returned to the past.

That was when he was still rejected by this world, being randomly teleported around the Human Domains like a headless fly.

He remembered that at the time, he was just about to walk to a store in a domain to buy cigarettes. Just as he stepped into the doorway of the store, his entire person was teleported away by the disordered space... By the time he opened his eyes, he had already arrived above a gray mountain range.

In the mountain range, there were many Calamities that looked like mere skins. Upon discovering him appearing out of thin air, they seemed extremely shocked, and immediately scrambled to pounce toward him.

The Shen Qingzhu of that time had no idea where this was, nor did he know what these monsters were. However, with his strength, a casual wave of his hand wiped these small fries perfectly clean.

And then...

From the other side of the mountain range, a piece of skin flew over.

Shen Qingzhu remembered very clearly that there were many eyes on that piece of skin. After they stared at him for a long time, it descended directly. Then that bizarre skin folded and flipped directly, ultimately actually turning into a figure draped in a dark red cloak...

That was an ugly, clumsy, and quite disgusting Imitator Human. But through some of its details, Shen Qingzhu could tell who it was trying to imitate. He was directly stunned at the time, forgetting to move for a moment.

Subsequently, that Imitator Human looked at him, and using that extremely familiar voice, walked toward him while shaking its head back and forth:

"Cool Bro..."

"You are too weak..."

"Weak and with no background. The Nightfall Team doesn't need a team member like you... Go to that world by yourself and stay there alone until you die... I'm going on vacation with Jia Lan. Bye-bye..."

Shen Qingzhu: ?????????

...

Shen Qingzhu remembered very clearly that on that day, he leveled the entire mountain range and even tore that ugly skin into three pieces.

If it wasn't for the fact that at the last moment, he was once again teleported away by the disordered spatial power, leaving that damned skin with its last breath, it should have already been made into a pair of leather shoes and stepped under his feet for who knows how many years now.

Shen Qingzhu lightly exhaled a mouthful of smoke, temporarily tossing that infuriating memory to the back of his mind, and looked at Chen Ling again:

"Do you still need something?"

"No."

"If you don't, then hurry up and leave." Shen Qingzhu pointed beneath his feet. "This place is the very core of the Civilization Embers, and the flow of time is extremely fast. Staying here for an hour is equivalent to several days outside... If you don't leave now, I'm afraid you will miss a lot of things."

"What???"

Chen Ling knew the flow of time here was faster than outside. Last time he stayed inside for only half a day, but Wu Yi waited outside for almost a week. But now, at the location they were at, the time flow difference seemed even more exaggerated. One hour was equivalent to several days??

Chen Ling did some calculations. Since he entered the outer perimeter of the Civilization Embers and gradually went deeper until now, almost 30 hours should have passed. Factoring in the time flow difference... Although there was no way to calculate exactly, at least a month should have passed outside no matter what.

"Thanks for the reminder!" Chen Ling was just about to turn and leave when he saw the Red Star Fragment on the side out of the corner of his eye. He hesitated for a moment,

"Cool Bro, I'll leave this fragment with you to watch over for a period of time first... I'll come back to get it when the need arises."

Shen Qingzhu nodded. "No problem."

Chen Ling didn't delay any more time. With a turn of his body, he swiftly flew toward the outside of the Civilization Embers. At the same time, Shen Qingzhu seemed to have remembered something again, and shouted loudly:

"Next time you come, bring me a few more packs of cigarettes!"