Chapter 1708: True Ability

As the power of Judgment slashed across the sky.

That massive glass trophy was immediately erased by the invisible Deconstruction Power. It was not an explosion, not a shattering, but a complete and utter disappearance... Not even a tiny glass shard was left behind.

And the instant Han Meng erased the glass trophy, that "sun" continuously exuding light in the Imaginary Number World also disappeared along with it.

Endless darkness shrouded the Imaginary Number World. All paths of light leading to this world were cut off. Here was like a sealed black box, where one couldn't even clearly see their hand right in front of them.

When the world plunged into pitch-blackness, the Lord of Spirit Void's pupils slightly contracted...

Even though he was already trying his best to suppress it, his breathing still became slightly heavy. The formulas that were originally repeatedly applied to Chen Ling disappeared for an instant along with the brief blankness of his brain.

It was this brief interval that let Chen Ling precisely grasp the opportunity. He vaulted into the air in an instant. Within that pair of ruby-like eyes, it was as if the last trace of light in this world was flowing.

The disappearance of light also caused all formulas distorting light to fail. Relying on his senses, Chen Ling slashed a knife upward!

In the next second,

Chen Ling knew he had bet correctly...

He didn't know how much this knife injured the Lord of Spirit Void, but this was undoubtedly the first time Chen Ling had injured the other party since the start of the battle.

After a muffled groan sounded from above, the intense pain seemed to awaken the Lord of Spirit Void's rationality. With a rub of his fingers, a massive fireball immediately bloomed from the darkness. Like a temporary sun, it released light and heat.

Under the light of the fireball, Chen Ling finally clearly saw the Lord of Spirit Void's current state. Only a blood-colored slash mark was seen extending all the way from his shoulder to his ribs on the other side. The bloody knife wound overlapped with the Embroidery Nail wounds, and gurgling fresh blood continuously flowed out from them, soaking the monk robe.

Not only that, but under the effect of the toxin Chen Ling prepared in advance, a smear of black began to spread from the wound. However, the Lord of Spirit Void seemed to have guessed this point, instantly stagnating the blood flow speed in that area, not letting the toxin spread.

"How could you know..."

Beneath the burning fireball, the Lord of Spirit Void's appearance was obscured by shadows. But in those pupils looking at Chen Ling, undisguisable astonishment surfaced.

What he was surprised about was not that Chen Ling's knife could slash him, this was purely Chen Ling's good luck in the darkness... He just didn't understand, it seemed Chen Ling had already colluded with the people outside before entering here to seal off the light here.

How did Chen Ling know he was afraid of the dark?

Subsequently, he seemed to have realized something:

"So that's how it is... It seems the me of the next world... trusts you very much."

"The you of the next world is much more reliable than the current you," Chen Ling spoke indifferently.

Landing a slash, Chen Ling didn't slack off, but grasped the opportunity. While holding the knife rushing toward the Lord of Spirit Void, he let a massive amount of red paper extend from his body, turning into a sun-and-sky-blotting giant hand, grabbing toward that burning fireball!

Without the continuous light source shining in from outside, relying solely on these fireballs for illumination was always temporary. Chen Ling had to once again create an opportunity like just now to distract the Lord of Spirit Void. After all, the Lord of Spirit Void was truly too strong. Only by finding flaws could he truly injure the other party.

But the Lord of Spirit Void had already realized this point, how could he easily let Chen Ling have his wish. In the instant the Red Paper Giant Hand was about to touch the fireball, the fireball combusted again, and the extreme high temperature directly annihilated a massive amount of red paper into nothingness...

At the same time, another burning fireball burst forth from the darkness.

Two figures shuttled through the Imaginary Number World one after another. Scorching suns erupted beside them, black and red like a tide seeming to submerge everything... Rule formulas were continuously created and negated. This was a peak duel exclusively belonging to order and disorder.

However, Han Meng and the others could no longer see the battlefield at this moment. Having lost all light sources, they also couldn't observe everything in the Imaginary Number World, and could only pray for Chen Ling in their hearts...

"Pfft——"

Whether it was the Embroidery Nails, the radiation, or because of the knife wounds and toxin, the Lord of Spirit Void's body seemed to have already reached its limit. After violently spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, his speed visibly slowed down by a large chunk.

Chen Ling's figure seemed to cross dimensions, shuttling extremely fast in the shadows of fireballs continuously bursting and annihilating. Gripping the Bone-Stripping Knife, he was like a ghostly red butterfly, instantly slashing a knife toward the Lord of Spirit Void's neck from behind!

The Lord of Spirit Void's consciousness was already somewhat blurry, but battle instincts still made him falsify the speed formula at the first moment, simultaneously twisting his body to slap toward Chen Ling's knife blade...

It was only then he discovered that at this time Chen Ling's blade edge was less than a millimeter from touching his neck. In this peak duel, even just the slightest trance would brew extremely terrifying consequences. The Lord of Spirit Void's margin for error had already been lowered to the minimum!

Several fireballs burned in the void world. Under the swaying firelight, Chen Ling and the Lord of Spirit Void's figures were closer than ever before. Following the nearby firelight, Chen Ling vaguely saw that at the tip of the Lord of Spirit Void's nose, there seemed to be a sesame-sized...

White ash?

The instant he saw this smear of white ash, Chen Ling blanked slightly.

At this moment, that smooth and round small stone in his embrace trembled gently, as if reminding Chen Ling of something.

Buzz——!!

The Lord of Spirit Void slapped out a palm. Multiple formulas were created and destroyed in his hand. Chen Ling negated them one after another again. But under the state of distraction coupled with over-exhaustion, in the end, a line of electromagnetism-related formula leaked past Chen Ling's negation.

A mass of dark blue lightning light exploded in the Imaginary Number World. Chen Ling's figure was wrapped in a huge ball lightning, flying extremely fast backward into the distance!

The red paper making up Chen Ling's body was a burnt black patch at this moment, and his entire person emitted an unspeakable scorched smell. If it were Chen Ling in an ordinary state, he would probably be dead by now... but the massive surplus of red paper brought to him by the Red Star Aspiration Power shared a lot of the damage for him, therefore his main body was only heavily injured.

Densely packed red paper began climbing onto his body, replacing the flesh and blood destroyed by the ball lightning. But before he could completely finish repairing, a figure draped in a bloodstained monk robe appeared in the sky above him.

The Lord of Spirit Void at this time was also weak to the extreme. He lowered his head and looked down at Chen Ling, slowly speaking:

"Even if you know my past weakness, so what?"

"The current me is no longer the me of the past... Do you think you can defeat me relying solely on the darkness? That the moment it gets dark, I would be so terrified as to beg you for mercy?"

"Stop dreaming..."

"If you want to kill me, you have to bring out some true ability."

The Lord of Spirit Void raised his hand and pointed toward the void above. His voice sounded again:

"Before that, I can let you witness first... my 'true ability'."

In the next second,

A completely pure white tall tower, sculpted from countless perfect linear formulas, appeared out of thin air from the Imaginary Number World!