Chapter 1654: Red Ark of Crossing Worlds

Red Ark of Crossing Worlds

As the rim of the Great Red Paper Umbrella was gently lifted, a pair of familiar and dangerous ruby eyes came into their view.

The crowd was stunned at the same time...

"Chen Ling?" Pu Xiachan looked at Tu Tian in astonishment. "I say, Tu Tian, is your brain short-circuiting? Outsiders don't know what kind of person he is, but are we not clear about it... Fight him? What for??"

"Shut Up!" Tu Tian glared at her. "Do you know what he's done..."

"Lord of the South Sea was assassinated, and Lord of Hidden Clouds also died by his hands!!"

"Just now, he single-handedly slaughtered nearly ten thousand people!! And they were all Ordinary Persons of the Hidden Clouds Domain!! He didn't even let off infants in swaddling clothes..."

As his voice fell, the others fell into bewilderment...

They actually didn't believe Chen Ling would do such things. Although he was rumored by the outside world to be a World-Ending Calamity and the Red King of the Dusk Society, this kind of city-massacring modus operandi didn't look like something he would do no matter how you looked at it. But Tu Tian was also absolutely not the kind of person to fabricate things out of thin air.

Tu Tian tightly gritted his teeth. He hugged the infant's corpse in his hands, traces of fresh blood flowing from the corner of his mouth...

"What he said is right." Chen Ling's calm voice came from ahead. "I killed all the people..."

Raindrops hit the rim of the Red Paper Umbrella, producing pattering sounds. He slowly took steps in the rain, not retreating but advancing, walking straight towards the group.

His voice rang out faintly:

"Since you've come... then none of you leave."

"Otherwise, when we get to the Spirit Void Domain, I'll have to kill you one by one again."

Once this sentence came out, it directly caused everyone's minds to crash. Pu Xiachan truly froze for a long time before recovering her senses.

"Wait... Chen Ling, what are you doing? Are you serious??"

The Young Sect Leader frowned tightly and took a step forward of his own accord.

"No..."

"I still feel that there might be a misunderstanding in this..."

Pfft—!!

Before the Young Sect Leader's voice even fell, a palm passed through his chest like a ghost. Scarlet fresh blood splattered in the rain. His pupils instantly widened, and he stiffly turned his head to look, his face written full of disbelief...

At some unknown time, that figure in the Theatrical Robe holding the Red Paper Umbrella had already arrived behind him.

"Sorry." Chen Ling's low murmur rang by his ear,

"...I disappointed you."

Chen Ling's palm directly crushed the Young Sect Leader's heart. The latter's vitality was extinguished in an instant. This genius of humanity's Way of the Puppet God, a child of destiny possessing a Celestial Star Position, just died in Chen Ling's hands without any resistance.

This scene directly shattered the minds of the other people. Pu Xiachan even widened her eyes, screaming piercingly for a moment:

"Little Meng?!!!!"

To be honest, before this, the crowd still didn't believe Chen Ling would do those things, always feeling there was a misunderstanding... But after witnessing Chen Ling kill the Young Sect Leader with their own eyes, their perception was completely shattered.

Expressionlessly, Chen Ling pulled his blood-colored palm out of the Young Sect Leader's body. Fresh blood bloomed drop by drop in the rain along his fingertips. Chen Ling could see the Young Sect Leader's Dying With Eyes Wide Open, and the incomprehension and astonishment in his gaze... He took a deep breath, calmly moving his gaze away.

Chen Ling actually quite liked this Young Sect Leader.

Back in the Heavenly Pivot Domain, he had a very good impression of this child. He was clearly lonelier and in more pain than anyone else, yet still willing to show goodwill to everyone... But Chen Ling still had to kill him.

Since the death knell of human destiny had already rung, the rebooting of the world was a foregone conclusion. Regardless of the situation in the Spirit Void Domain, Chen Ling would definitely Reverse the Era.

All life in this world would disappear with the rebooting of the world. Only by turning into a soul and stepping onto Chen Ling's Red Ark of Crossing Worlds would they have the possibility of transmigrating to the next world.

Even if Chen Ling told himself this, personally killing someone he didn't hate was still a kind of psychological torture...

Especially under the circumstances that the other party trusted him very much.

Chen Ling clearly saw the ghost of the Young Sect Leader Huai Meng float out from the corpse, and then gather towards the Red Paper Umbrella in Chen Ling's hand along with the other dead ghosts... They would peacefully and quietly survive this great calamity there.

But this scene, aside from Chen Ling, couldn't be seen by anyone else.

"Chen Ling!!!"

Tu Tian roared with a hideous expression, "I'll kill you... I will definitely kill you!!!"

Whoosh—!!!

The War Flag swept up again. Tu Tian could no longer care about anything else. All the power in his body surged doubly under some secret technique, and an unnatural bright red surfaced on his skin... At the same time, the surrounding raindrops seemed to be attracted by another force from the sky, turning and flying upwards towards the firmament!

The combat power Tu Tian burst out with at this time was even more terrifying than before. Simply discussing strength, an ordinary Rank 8 might not be able to parry it.

And at the same time, on the Clock Tower in the distance.

"He actually made a move to kill an owner of a Celestial Star Position?" The Farmer frowned, his expression extremely ugly.

"This is bad..." The Butcher knew what the Farmer was thinking and spoke in a deep voice. "The destruction of the Hidden Clouds Domain is a foregone conclusion. Chen Ling killing the citizens is also to end their suffering, which can be considered doing a good deed... But if he kills an owner of a Celestial Star Position, the nature is completely different."

"Those who possess a Celestial Star Position are all pillars of human civilization. Even if they are not in the Hidden Clouds Domain, they can still create value for the Spirit Void Domain or the Heavenly Pivot Domain... They are humanity's final strategic resources."

"We can't let it continue." The Farmer immediately responded, "No matter what, the owners of the Celestial Star Positions cannot die!"

The Farmer and the Butcher were just about to move.

In the next second,

Two palms rested on their respective shoulders.

"You two... are not allowed to go anywhere." A voice as gentle as jade rang out from behind them.

Wind and rain blew past the Clock Tower. At some unknown time, four figures respectively dressed as "Male Lead", "Female Lead", "Painted Face Role", and "Secondary Male Role" had appeared around the two like ghosts.

Four Theatrical Robes flew in disorder. The air temperature on the Clock Tower plummeted sharply!!

...

Boom—!!!

The War Flag tore through the air. A visible shockwave swept across the street, directly crushing a large number of empty houses into pieces.

This time, Chen Ling didn't use his fingers to forcibly withstand Tu Tian's War Flag. His figure was like a fluttering broken butterfly in the rain, accurately moving outside the attack range. Holding the Great Red Paper Umbrella with one hand, his footsteps were as steady as Mount Tai.

"Chen Ling!!" Pu Xiachan, holding a flashing lightning ball, landed lightly behind Chen Ling, her eyes red as she questioned,

"Why? Why did you do this?! Little Meng has always supported you the most... How could you personally kill him??!"

Chen Ling's gaze turned to look behind him. After a moment of silence, he spoke expressionlessly:

"The era will eventually reverse, the world will eventually reboot... Sometimes, death is the true new beginning."

"Never mind..."

"You guys, won't understand."