Chapter 1701: Crimson Descent

Chen Ling stumbled as he climbed up from the ground. Right at this moment, a cold touch came from his fingertips.

He looked down, only to see a polished, perfectly round small stone quietly lying in his palm...

The moment he saw this small stone, Chen Ling froze in place.

He recognized this small stone.

"Fifth Senior... Brother?"

A trace of confusion flashed across Chen Ling's eyes. He looked forward, only to see two lines of crookedly written small text imprinted on the ground.

[Be good, Little Junior Brother]

[Senior Brother will go kill people for you]

At this moment, Chen Ling's pupils violently contracted!

It was his Fifth Senior Brother who had carried him on his back all the way across the Ash Realm. While he was unconscious from the severe pain, it was his Fifth Senior Brother who went to kill the Lord of Spirit Void for him!!

Chen Ling abruptly looked up toward the Spirit Void Domain not far away.

The current Spirit Void Domain was quiet and dead silent. How was there even the slightest appearance of a chaotic battle... Moreover, Chen Ling could clearly feel that the Lord of Spirit Void's domain was still protecting every corner of this domain.

This intact Spirit Void Domain before his eyes had already clearly laid out the result of everything before Chen Ling's eyes...

"Fifth Senior Brother!!!!!"

Chen Ling's pupils instantly turned completely red!

Why!?

He didn't even have time to give his Fifth Senior Brother the poison, didn't have time to bid him farewell... If his Fifth Senior Brother died in battle, then he was truly dead and could not go to the next world either.

An unprecedented self-blame surged in Chen Ling's heart. If he had withstood the pain of the Red Star Fragment bursting his body, if he hadn't fainted, then perhaps none of this would have happened!

Blobs of blood mist exploded from Chen Ling's body. His body, which was already nearing its limit, became even more engorged with blood under the augmentation of his anger... After the crazy bodily explosions and fainting just now, Chen Ling's physical endurance toward the Red Star Aspiration Power had gone up another level. He stared deathly at the Spirit Void Domain and continued to absorb the Red Star Fragment in his hand!

Bang, bang, bang, bang—!!

Chen Ling's body was torn to pieces by the continuously exploding blood mist. Soon, his human form could no longer be seen clearly. He seemed to have once again turned into that Black Ling covered in cracks, except the difference was that this time, he still retained his own colors and his own consciousness.

The Red Star Aspiration Power that Chen Ling truly could not absorb was turned into densely packed red papers by him, fluttering out from his crack-filled body. Under the surging of the wild wind, it wrapped around the surroundings like a crimson tornado.

The theatrical robe with a red background and black patterns infinitely extended under the power of the Red Star, like a bizarre black and red tide, submerging the earth bit by bit.

Chen Ling's aura madly climbed!!

"Wu... Tong... Yuan!!"

Chen Ling almost gritted his teeth as he read out this name. Within his ruby-like pupils surfaced a pure and ferocious killing intent akin to a wild beast!

With Chen Ling's willpower, ordinary pain fundamentally couldn't make him faint. And after experiencing the destruction and subsequent rebuilding just now, Chen Ling had already become the creature most capable of enduring Red Star Aspiration Power in this world. Even though his own Ninth-Tier Shackle had not yet been opened, under the accumulation of the endless stream of Red Star power, his aura was already infinitely approaching a Demigod...

Red papers flew at extreme speed in midair. The two colors of black and red gradually submerged the earth. A terrifying giant shadow, half-human and half-calamity, slowly moved toward the Spirit Void Domain.

...

"They..."

"Failed?"

On the streets of the Spirit Void Domain, Han Meng and Black Spades J waited for a long time but could no longer sense a single trace of battle fluctuations. Their hearts instantly plummeted to the bottom of the valley.

One must know that the Rank 8 auras that erupted on Mt. Lingxu just now numbered a full six or seven, and the killing intent appeared extremely suddenly. It should have been a direct assassination attack on the Lord of Spirit Void...

Could it be that even like this, they failed to kill him?

"They were dragged into that world again." Han Meng immediately picked up a piece of glass and carefully looked around.

"This is too perverted," Black Spades J couldn't help but say. "Dragging all the enemies into that world at the slightest disagreement... What difference is this from cheating?"

Han Meng didn't reply immediately. He held that piece of glass and rapidly shuttled through the streets, as if carefully searching for something.

The battle between several Rank 8s and the Lord of Spirit Void was far less intense than the previous internal war between the three Nine Lords, so it was very difficult for Han Meng to directly find the location where the battle erupted... When he found the battle location corresponding to that world, only a few mutilated corpses remained on the street.

Han Meng's expression was incomparably ugly.

At the same time, Black Spades J also saw the scene through the reflection, and his brows tightly furrowed.

The two of them just remained silent like this for a long time. Suddenly, Han Meng turned around and walked toward the direction of the Spirit Void Ancient Temple ruins...

"What do you want to do?" Black Spades J immediately spoke.

"They all died in battle... Next, it's my turn," Han Meng replied calmly. "We cannot give the Lord of Spirit Void time to recover."

Black Spades J subconsciously wanted to say something, but then silently closed his mouth.

Those seven extremely strong Rank 8s joined forces and still died in the Imaginary Number World. On what basis could you, all alone, fight with the Lord of Spirit Void?

Have you never thought that perhaps the person you are waiting for will never come at all? If he was going to come, shouldn't he have arrived long ago?

Black Spades J didn't say these words out loud... because Chen Ling was the Red King of their Dusk Society.

To tell the truth, Black Spades J hadn't seen Chen Ling many times and wasn't familiar with this newly advanced Red King either. He also inevitably felt somewhat disappointed in his heart right now. After all, he had clearly risked danger to send him a message long ago and revealed all the information in full detail, yet they had waited for so long and still hadn't awaited the arrival of the Red King...

Just what in the world was he busy with??

"Let me go with you," Black Spades J took the initiative to speak. "Although I am only Rank 7, my ability is considered somewhat special. I can hold on a bit longer."

"No." Han Meng shook his head without hesitation. "Someone has to tell him about our discovery just now... When he arrives, perhaps this can become the key for him to break the deadlock."

"But..."

Han Meng gently raised his hand, and a defendant's seat directly manifested from the void, imprisoning Black Spades J, who was preparing to follow, within it. Under the power of the Pathway Chief of [Judgment], even Black Spades J couldn't easily break free.

Han Meng didn't look back. He took a deep look at the Spirit Void Ancient Temple not far away and took a step forward...

The black Enforcer trench coat fluttered silently.

With every step he took, the killing intent in his eyes would become a bit denser. However, right at the instant he was about to step into the ruins' boundary, a sudden change occurred!

Rumble—

The earth trembled, as if some extremely heavy and terrifying existence was little by little approaching here.

Han Meng's footsteps paused slightly. Just as he was puzzled, an earth-shattering explosion sounded from outside the domain. The moment he turned his head, endless crimson, like a giant curtain blotting out the sun, shrouded the sky above the entire Spirit Void Domain!!