Chapter 1719: Outside the World

As the extreme radiance shrouded Chen Ling's field of vision, a smear of strange dark blue wrapped his entire person within it.

Chen Ling felt like he was being pulled by some kind of power, shuttling through the boundary between reality and virtuality. He saw endless light and shadow flashing past his eyes. If one looked closely, those were things he had experienced in the Timeline Save File.

From entering the save file for the first time and pushing open the toilet door, to later participating in the Nine Monarchs' exploration, getting acquainted with each of the Nine Monarchs...

The traces he left behind in the Timeline Save File were overwriting reality little by little. That was no longer a virtual "save file", but had truly become history.

At the same time,

A dense burst of crimson power exploded from his body!

Chen Ling didn't even know what happened. A volcano was like erupting in his chest. His body wrapped in blue light collapsed more than half in an instant, like a blood-colored kite with a broken string, drifting uncertainly.

What is this?!

At this moment, Chen Ling's mind went entirely blank. He completely didn't anticipate this sudden change happening. He didn't know why his body would explode during the reboot process. This feeling was as if he had swallowed too much Red Star Aspiration Power...

Red Star?!

A thought suddenly crossed Chen Ling's mind.

Chen Ling remembered... in the Timeline Save File, when he explored Shennongjia with the Nine Monarchs, he also absorbed a portion of the Red Star Fragment.

At the time, he still found it somewhat strange. Why was it that similarly absorbing Red Star Aspiration Power, the nine scientists became the later Nine Monarchs, but he didn't have the slightest reaction? Later Chen Ling guessed, perhaps because the save file itself was fake, the Red Star Aspiration Power inside it was naturally also fake.

Fake Aspiration Power could not truly bring Chen Ling power; but right now the fake world was replacing reality, and those phantoms of Red Star Aspiration Power that Chen Ling had absorbed were also transforming into reality!

He really absorbed genuine Red Star Aspiration Power together with the Nine Monarchs back then!!

This portion of Red Star Aspiration Power was much larger than the piece Chen Ling took out from the Civilization Embers. With such a massive amount of Aspiration Power suddenly stuffed into his body, his body naturally would collapse and explode...

No, this was already not as simple as collapsing and exploding.

Every second, Chen Ling's body was continuously squeezed to the point of exploding by the Red Star Aspiration Power, and then rapidly reorganized using red paper. If Chen Ling hadn't forcefully absorbed that small fragment in the Civilization Embers and his body hadn't developed a certain resistance to Red Star Aspiration Power, he probably would have exploded completely at the first moment and died directly.

But Chen Ling already had experience with repeated collapse and reorganization. His body was already the "flesh body" most capable of bearing Red Star Aspiration Power in this world. Even though a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power was suddenly stuffed in at this moment, Chen Ling didn't die suddenly, but was on the edge of "life" and "death".

Chen Ling's consciousness rapidly blurred once again. He felt as if his body broke away from restraints, continuously floating upward, like a box injected with air in the deep sea.

He could feel that as he floated upward, the surrounding "pressure" was constantly undergoing changes. Toward the end, it was as if he was placed in nothingness. Whether time or space, everything could not be perceived anymore.

And then, he seemed to touch something...

In front of him.

Hard, pliable, like some kind of extremely high-density "membrane", or rather, some kind of barrier?

It extended infinitely in the nothingness, impossible to bypass from any direction. Chen Ling's consciousness was already blurred, unable to see clearly what this thing looked like, but he could feel that this was absolutely not something on Earth.

Under the flooding of a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power, Chen Ling's body couldn't help but continue "floating upward". Little by little, he was squeezed against the surface of this layer of "membrane", and then like a fine needle, continuously pierced inward...

At this moment, a conversation with Shen Qingzhu suddenly surfaced in Chen Ling's mind for no reason.

That was the first time he saw that Red Star Fragment in the Civilization Embers, and was about to reach out his hand to touch it...

"Don't touch..."

"Why?"

"You're not the Nine Monarchs of back then. Right now, there is already a large, complete piece of Red Star Fragment in your body... You have already reached the critical point of this world. If you rashly absorb so much Red Star Aspiration Power in one breath, there will only be two outcomes." Shen Qingzhu's tone was very serious.

"Either, be directly burst open; or just like me back then, exceed the critical point of this world and become an existence repelled by it."

Chen Ling seemed to have suddenly understood something.

The Calamity of Mockery was born precisely because it swallowed a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power; and the Chen Ling at this moment had another portion of Red Star Aspiration Power of the same magnitude as the Nine Monarchs stuffed into his body...

The total amount of Red Star Aspiration Power in his body had already exceeded the limit of this world. His body that had been forged through a hundred temperings didn't immediately shatter, but under the rules of the world, he would still be forcefully repelled.

The "membrane" he was currently in right now was most likely the World Barrier.

"No..."

"Cannot..."

"The world just rebooted, there are still many things I have to do... I want to go back... I want to go back!!"

Chen Ling's originally blurred consciousness erupted with intense unwillingness at this moment. His entire person sank deeper and deeper in the World Barrier. He struggled madly, wanting to break away from here, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't change the reality of being repelled by the world.

Even Shen Qingzhu couldn't go against the rules of the world and could only stay behind in the Civilization Embers. How could he, who was on the verge of death right now, do it?

Chen Ling could only watch helplessly as he sank deeper and deeper in the "membrane"...

And then,

Only hearing a soft sound,

His body abruptly broke through the limit of the "membrane", his whole body feeling light.

This was an indescribable feeling. If Chen Ling felt like he was in the deep sea just now, then at this moment, he suddenly arrived in the cosmic void... No gravity, no rules, no air. He felt as if he was in a world that fundamentally didn't exist, silently floating in the dead silence.

Bursts of blood mist explosively blew out from Chen Ling's body madly;

Under the tearing of a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power, his body was once again covered in cracks, and the speed at which the cracks spread this time was far faster than the last time.

A figure draped in a theatrical robe with a red background and black patterns silently bloomed blood mist in the nothingness, seemingly about to completely dissipate before long.

Chen Ling perceived that he had already been completely squeezed out of the original world, his heart turning cold immediately. In addition to his body having already reached its limit, his entire person was irreversibly heading toward destruction. The consciousness that could originally be forcefully supported by unwillingness rapidly blurred.

Right at this moment, he vaguely seemed to have perceived something. With strength coming from nowhere, he forcefully propped his eyelids open a slit at the end...

Deep in the nothingness as pitch-black as a curtain,

One gorgeous meteor after another lightly streaked across the sky.

Every single one of them was like the Red Star, exuding an indescribably terrifying power. Purple, crimson, black... Hundreds upon thousands, brilliantly radiant, like an extremely grand meteor shower!

The instant he saw this scene, Chen Ling's pupils abruptly contracted...

In the next second,

His consciousness went completely pitch-black.