Chapter 1684: Absorbing the Fragment

Absorbing the Fragment

Civilization Embers, is shrinking?

Chen Ling clearly remembered that when he came before, the civilization wreckage here was scattered everywhere in the nothingness. But looking at it now, although those things were still embedded in the nothingness, the distance between them had become much closer.

It was as if deep within Civilization Embers, a giant vortex had already appeared, and the entire embers were constantly being sucked into the center of the vortex...

"What's going on here?" Chen Ling couldn't help but ask.

"This time, the Red Star is coming straight towards Earth." Shen Qingzhu paused for a moment. "The current situation of Civilization Embers is somewhat similar to 'tides'. As the Red Star continuously approaches, everything in Civilization Embers will collapse towards the center of the earth... If I leave here now, the out-of-control Civilization Embers will directly pierce through Earth just like it pierced through the former Gray World."

Chen Ling's gaze suddenly became incomparably grave.

Civilization Embers was the wreckage after the Gray World was pierced by the Red Star. Chen Ling didn't expect that with the approach of the Red Star, this gap was also continuously tearing at Earth... In that case, if Shen Qingzhu hadn't appeared in this world and stabilized Civilization Embers with his own power, humanity wouldn't even be able to hold on until the third descent of the Red Star?

Chen Ling originally thought that if Shen Qingzhu could take action to attack the Spirit Void Domain, with his strength, killing a heavily injured and dying Lord of Spirit Void should be a sure thing. But looking at it now, Shen Qingzhu should be unable to leave Civilization Embers...

Chen Ling took a deep breath:

"I understand... Is that Red Star Fragment still in its original place?"

"It is."

Chen Ling grunted an "en" and rapidly flashed towards the direction of that small piece of Red Star Fragment. Shen Qingzhu closely followed behind.

When Chen Ling came before the Meteorite Crater, he saw a familiar basketball-sized red meteorite, currently embedded in the center of the earth. A mysterious and terrifying aura drifted in the air...

The Theatrical Robe figure walked to the side of that meteorite, reaching out a hand to grab it.

Shen Qingzhu's hand fiercely grabbed Chen Ling's wrist.

"What are you going to do?"

Shen Qingzhu's brows were tightly locked, and confusion surfaced in his eyes.

"My current power is still not enough to defeat the Lord of Spirit Void." Chen Ling spoke in a deep voice, "I need to absorb more Red Star Aspiration Power... Even if it can only last for a very short time, I also want to possess the power to fight a Demigod."

"The threshold of a Demigod is not that easy to cross over... Moreover, you haven't completed the Divine Path Certification, which is equivalent to the ceiling being sealed shut. If you forcibly pour in too much power, you might burst from the pressure."

Shen Qingzhu's expression was incomparably stern.

"I am not human, my body will be a bit sturdier, it's not that easy to be burst... As long as I kill the Lord of Spirit Void before I am burst." Chen Ling paused for a moment,

"But if I don't do this, the world cannot be rebooted... I cannot accept that everything we have done up to now ends here."

Shen Qingzhu fell into silence.

He looked at Chen Ling's pair of resolute red pupils, and in a daze, it seemed to overlap with a certain figure in his memory... Back then, they also held this kind of determination of certain death and walked over step by step.

Shen Qingzhu didn't block him anymore, but gently let go of Chen Ling's wrist.

"Since your mind is made up, I won't persuade you..." A faint smile hooked up the corner of his mouth. "You, and the future of this world... are all in your own hands."

Chen Ling looked at Shen Qingzhu's eyes. For some reason, he could clearly feel the other party's... appreciation?

Chen Ling's gaze once again fell back onto the Red Star Fragment. He didn't hesitate. After taking a deep breath, he fiercely raised his hand and grabbed towards the surface of the fragment!

Boom——!!!

The instant that surging Red Star power drilled into Chen Ling's body, his brain roared for a moment.

This was still Chen Ling's first time coming into contact with such a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power. When the Calamity of Mockery originally obtained its power, his consciousness had not yet been born, so naturally he had no memory of it. In the Timeline Save File, he had also come into contact with Red Star Aspiration Power, but that was just a phantom in the save file, and didn't truly enter Chen Ling's body...

Prior to this, the coin-sized Red Star Aspiration Power that Chen Ling played with was continuous and long-lasting, allowing him to absorb it for a long time before it completely disappeared.

But right now, the Aspiration Power inside this Red Star Fragment was like a surging river tide crashing into a riverbank, rampaging wantonly inside Chen Ling's body. His Spiritual Power began to soar rapidly, and his body also泛起 a bizarre blood red!

Streaks of scorching magma-like Markings surfaced from the surface of Chen Ling's skin, as if a volcano about to erupt was hidden within his body, wanting to tear this body into pieces.

Intense pain filled Chen Ling's nerves, yet he didn't loosen his grip on that Red Star Fragment because of this. Instead, he directly clasped his fingers onto the fragment's surface, slowly grabbing it out from the Meteorite Crater...

Rustling dust slid off the surface of the Red Star Fragment. This meteorite fragment from beyond the heavens was pulled out of the earth artificially for the first time, exposing a deep and hideous Meteorite Crater to the air.

"What are you doing??" Seeing this, Shen Qingzhu spoke in surprise.

"Time... is running out... I cannot... slowly absorb it here..." While enduring the pain of the Red Star Aspiration Power tearing his body apart, Chen Ling gritted his teeth and spoke, "I'll set off first... towards the Spirit Void Domain... go..."

After saying that, Chen Ling directly activated 【Wall Breaking】. His figure turned into a shadow and disappeared into Civilization Embers.

Shen Qingzhu blankly watched the direction he left, and a touch of complexity surfaced in his eyes.

"I hope..."

"Everything goes smoothly."

...

Chen Ling felt that his body and head were about to explode.

Unprecedented abundant power spread all over his body, directly pushing Chen Ling's Spiritual Power, which had just stepped into Rank 8, to the peak of the mid-stage of Rank 8. And even more Red Star Aspiration Power continued to wash forward regardless of everything, penetrating deeply into every corner of Chen Ling's body.

If the original Chen Ling relied on Spiritual Power to fill this container of a body step by step, then what he had to do now was to fill the container with an excessive amount of water flow, and then still continue until the container was stuffed full and deformed... and even cracks surfaced.

But at least, the total amount of Spiritual Power in his body was indeed greater, even reaching a new level, completely exceeding the category of Rank 8.

If he continued to absorb like this, if Chen Ling's body could still withstand it, he really could rival a Demigod!

That was what Chen Ling hoped...

But reality was perhaps more difficult than he imagined.

Bang——!

Above the pitch-black earth, a cluster of blood mist suddenly burst out from a flat shadow!

A figure draped in a Theatrical Robe fell wretchedly to the ground as if forcefully squeezed out of the ground. His shoulder had already burst open with a hideous large hole at this time, and magma-like Markings covered the surroundings of the wound, beating violently like a living creature.