Chapter 1733: The Fifth Final Chapter

This night, the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path was brightly lit.

The dense aroma of food scattered in the air, and vague laughter transmitted from under the eaves where colorful flags flew.

Whether it was guilt, responsibility, or regret, Chen Ling temporarily put down everything. It was as if he had returned to that grassland in the 5th generation world, chatting and eating to his heart's content in his Senior Brothers' home, carefree and without worries.

It wasn't until they finished picking up the last plate of food, incidentally stopping Wenren You who was still preparing to continue cooking, that this grand feast of eating until full finally entered halftime.

"Third Brother, the amount of food is a bit too much, we truly can't finish it..." Mo Jue said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Where is it a lot? It's always been this amount of food in the past."

"True... when Fifth Brother was around in the past, what he ate alone was more than all of us combined."

"But at this time, Fifth Brother probably hasn't been born yet, right?"

"Sigh..."

As soon as this sentence came out, the crowd at the dining table fell into silence.

Chen Ling slowly placed the chopsticks in his hand on the tabletop.

"No... he is right here."

The crowd looked at Chen Ling with some confusion.

Chen Ling raised his hand and beckoned. A Red Paper Umbrella opened in the nothingness, and a ghost slowly drifted to the ground.

That was a child with white ash smeared on his nose. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Ling and his several Senior Brothers, instantly letting out a pleasantly surprised "yi ya", opening his hands and excitedly throwing himself toward them...

But in the next second, his figure floated lightly through between Ning Ruyu and the tables and chairs. And the several Senior Brothers and Senior Sister didn't seem to have noticed his existence, only looking at Chen Ling in incomprehension.

The Clown stood blankly in place, tilting his head, seemingly extremely puzzled.

Chen Ling sighed softly in his heart.

In the previous world, the Clown's ghost was kept behind by the Lord of Spirit Void, and later smoothly followed his Red Paper Umbrella to this world... It's just that, the current him was a ghost after all. Ordinary people couldn't see or touch him. Even if the Clown was right here, aside from Chen Ling, the other Senior Brothers and Senior Sister couldn't interact with him.

Moreover, ghosts also couldn't move around in the human world for long periods.

With Chen Ling's abilities, bringing them over from the previous era was already the limit of what he could do right now. He also wanted to resurrect these people, but currently he fundamentally didn't know what to do...

The Clown was like this, the other Dusk Society members were also like this. They finally managed to arrive in this world, yet could only be locked inside the Red Paper Umbrella. If there was a way to let them move freely outside even in a ghost state, that would be great.

Wait...

At this instant, Chen Ling's mind suddenly recalled that young girl named Jiang Er he met when he was outside the world.

She was precisely an extremely special kind of existence. Aside from not having a physical body, there didn't seem to exist any restrictions. She could be seen, could exist long-term, and could even emit sounds through electronic devices...

"Are you very surprised... Her ability is somewhat special, capable of letting souls exist continuously in a stable form... Moreover, it doesn't just work on herself oh."

Chen Ling clearly remembered that when An Qingyu said the last sentence, he deliberately raised his tone.

Chen Ling originally thought this was him feeling proud for his lover... But thinking about it now, it seemed it wasn't just that? His tone and gaze, it was as if he was... reminding him of something?

But... how could this be possible?

When this thought emerged in his mind, Chen Ling couldn't maintain his calm anymore. He immediately stood up from his seat:

"Senior Brothers and Senior Sister, you guys eat first. I'm going out for a bit."

The theatrical robe figure hurriedly walked out of the room.

At the dining table, the several Senior Brothers and Senior Sister looked at each other in dismay...

Only the Clown in his ghost state seemed to have discovered the joy of playing hide-and-seek, waving his hands and bounding around in front of the Senior Brothers and Senior Sister, yi yi ya ya, playing to his heart's content.

...

Deng deng deng deng——

The spotlights successively lit up from above the stage. Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes.

He ignored the quiet Audience below, walking straight to the bookshelf. At this moment on the bookshelf, there were already several more scripts.

[The king living in isolation, returns in wrath]——"Return of the Red King".

[On an unregarded stage, complete an impossible performance]——"When the Stars Shine".

[Under the witness of at least fifty thousand people, complete the first world-ending performance]——"Wind and Rain in Hidden Clouds".

These three scripts were all completed before Chen Ling rebooted the world. He advanced all the way from the 6th-rank to the 8th-rank, making the originally somewhat empty bookshelf become increasingly complete and full.

And as Chen Ling walked to the table again, a brand new script had already taken shape:

"Congratulations on completing the Play, 'The Fifth Final Chapter'."

"Highest Audience Expectation Value of this Play: 94%"

"You obtained one designated gacha draw right."

"After use, you can designate a certain role from all the appearing roles in this Play, and randomly draw the other party's ability. The probability of drawing rare skills is related to the comprehensive Audience Expectation Value of this Play."

The length of this script was very long. As Chen Ling flipped to the second to last page of the script, after he reversed the era and rebooted the world, a blank page bizarrely appeared in the script... Chen Ling had completed so many plays, this kind of situation was still the first time.

It should be because he was forcefully squeezed out of the world halfway through his reboot, touching outside the world?

When Chen Ling flipped to the last page, his meeting with An Qingyu and Jiang Er was recorded on it in an intermittent manner, as if some kind of power was affecting the play. It wasn't until Chen Ling returned again that this play was considered completely ended.

Seeing this last page, Chen Ling also felt somewhat nervous in his heart.

Up until now, the abilities of this Theater hadn't disappointed him yet. Aside from humans, he could even draw the abilities of World-Ending Calamities... If it was like this, since Jiang Er's name also appeared in the play, perhaps she could also be used as a draw target?

Having completed the performance of advancing to the middle stage of the 8th-rank, up until now, there were altogether still two gacha draw opportunities that could be used.

Chen Ling picked up the pen. After hesitating for a moment, he first used the draw count of "The Fifth Final Chapter", solemnly writing a name on that piece of paper:

——Jiang Er.

When Chen Ling looked up again, in the nothingness, several bizarrely shaped card faces were rapidly sketched out!

There's a chance!

Chen Ling rejoiced in his heart.

Different from the card faces of all previous draw targets, Jiang Er's card faces were translucent, as if between existing and non-existing. Moreover, the instant these card faces appeared, they seemed to be affected by some kind of power, stirring violently!

Under Chen Ling's astounded gaze, those card faces annihilated themselves into nothingness one after another!

At this moment, Chen Ling's heart sank to the bottom. He knew he had most likely failed. Abilities from outside the world should exceed the Theater's drawing range...

Just as he was disheartened, the last card face didn't dissipate, but was missing a corner, quietly floating in mid-air.