Chapter 1765: Exterminate

By the time He Jing walked to the bedchamber, everything was already as deathly silent as usual.

He saw a pool of blood at the entrance of the bedchamber, and the corpses of officials lying messily in it, and froze slightly... The faces of those officials were filled with extreme terror, and deep incomprehension still lingered in their eyes that were dying with eyes wide open.

They seemed to not understand until death, why that person still had to exterminate them when they had clearly already emptied out their family foundations and paid double the embezzled supplies?

This astonishment only lasted for an instant before He Jing's expression restored its usual calmness. He walked to the entrance of the bedchamber and exchanged a glance with that Eunuch Zuo who stood calmly in the pool of blood.

"His Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time," Eunuch Zuo said slowly.

"Mm."

He Jing nodded and walked directly into the bedchamber.

This young registrar of the Taishi Division, who couldn't even be considered an official, actually came and went as he pleased in the Imperial Palace like this. He even stepped into the Emperor's bedchamber without needing to be announced, walking steadily in front of those thin and light curtains...

"Taishi Division's He Jing pays respects to Your Majesty." He bowed respectfully.

"The Alchemist Association... what is the situation?"

...

"My..."

"My lord!!"

"The Calamity of Mockery is already here!!"

On the corridor of the Taishi Division, a subordinate watched the red clouds slaughter through the entire Xuanwu Great Avenue, surging and charging straight toward the Taishi Division, so scared he couldn't even stand steadily.

Brand's face was also completely bloodless. He looked anxiously toward the direction of the Imperial Palace and muttered:

"What's going on with He Jing..."

"He's been gone for so long already, hasn't he been able to invite His Majesty to take action?!"

"Lord Brand!" The exclamation sounded again, "It's already right in front of us!!"

"Shut up! Trash! I can see it!!"

At this moment, Brand was both anxious and angry. He turned his head abruptly, only to see a mass of red clouds enveloping the entire Taishi Division.

That mass of bizarre red clouds was just wrapped outside the building like this. No matter which window one looked out from, it was a patch of scarlet outside, completely unable to see anything, making one's heart feel terrified.

"My lord, what should we do?!!"

Terrified voices sounded beside his ears. Brand's heart was also in a complete mess. A World-Ending Calamity attacking the Taishi Division, let alone him, even if Lord Chong was here, he probably wouldn't have the slightest method either. Just relying on them, could they still counter-kill a World-Ending Calamity?

But if he were to just die under the Calamity of Mockery's hands like this, how could he be willing? He had finally managed to reach this step with great difficulty, and was about to take charge of the entire Taishi Division and find the method to immortality...

Right at this moment, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

Brand was like a drowning person grabbing onto the last life-saving straw. He turned his head and charged toward the underground of the Taishi Division!

"My lord?"

"What are you going to do? My lord!"

At this moment, the subordinate's brain was completely blank. He subconsciously wanted to chase after him. Right at this moment, a Theatrical Robe figure slowly walked out from the surging red clouds.

Seeing that person, the subordinate was directly scared stiff in place. Without waiting for him to say anything, those ruby-like pupils cast a casual glance at him...

A red thread surfaced on his neck.

A terrified human head fell to the ground in response.

The Great Red Theatrical Robe withdrew his gaze, walking silently in the dark red-tinted Taishi Division, like a bizarre ghost situated in a nightmare world...

After him, a youth wearing a black vest was also spat out by the red clouds, stumbling and landing on the corridor of the Taishi Division.

"This is..." Li Laide's expression was somewhat blank.

When those experts from the major official residences started besieging Chen Ling and the scene plunged into chaos, two Red Paper tentacles had respectively swept him and Li Shangfeng into the interior of the red clouds.

In a melee of this level, with his and Li Shangfeng's strength, slightly lacking in caution would result in being shocked to death by the aftermath. The red clouds perfectly protected the two of them within, and through that bizarre eyeball, Li Laide also clearly saw what happened along the way.

This feeling was very strange, as if... Chen Ling was deliberately letting him witness all this.

"Follow me closely."

Chen Ling faintly threw down a sentence and vanished in place. That Theatrical Robe figure seemed to directly penetrate the floor slabs, sinking downward into another floor.

Li Laide froze for a moment, then cursed secretly in his heart, honestly sprinting wildly down the stairs.

No matter what, he had already been swept into this incident by Chen Ling, going from an ordinary wanted criminal to a "accomplice" of a World-Ending Calamity... Without Chen Ling, just relying on himself, it was impossible to escape the Chengtian Domain. Thus, apart from following Chen Ling closely, he already had no other choice.

While sprinting wildly in the blood-scented Taishi Division, the scene of the Great Red Theatrical Robe turning into a World-Ending Calamity surfaced in Li Laide's mind. An indescribable feeling surged in his heart.

He...

Was actually a Calamity?

How did a Calamity live in the domain like a human?

Wouldn't he be discovered by people, be ostracized, be questioned, be feared? Wouldn't he resent this era like himself?

A World-Ending Calamity... why would he care so much about a pair of human siblings, and why would he forcefully shake the entire Chengtian Dynasty for them?

Li Laide seemed to have parted some of the fog on Chen Ling's body, but immediately after, even more fog enveloped him within. Chen Ling was like a puzzle, a puzzle that could never be unraveled.

Li Laide very quickly arrived at the next floor. Scarlet pools of blood had already spread on the floor. Corpses were lying messily on the ground, every single one of them decapitated... Those bloodstained heads were scattered on the ground, with dense terror still lingering in their pupils.

Creak—— Creak——

Li Laide looked toward the direction the sound came from. Hanging on the ceiling by the window was an exquisitely crafted birdcage. At this time, the birdcage was already seeped full of bloodstains. Even the small colorful bird raised inside was split into two halves from the middle...

Not only killing people, even birds couldn't escape?

Li Laide's expression was somewhat strange, but when he looked closely, he discovered that there were no organs inside this small bird's body, only miniature versions of human heads the size of little fingers one after another... This didn't seem to be a normal creature, but an artificial product of alchemy.

Seeing this disgusting small bird corpse, Li Laide felt a surge of cold chills. He realized that it was right for Chen Ling to do this. This place was the Taishi Division, what normal creatures could there be?

Just as he was about to leave, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the corner of this birdcage setting, where there seemed to also be a round thing...

"...An egg?"

Li Laide's eyes narrowed slightly. Grabbing from a distance, he grabbed that thing in his hand.

That was indeed an egg. From its outward appearance, it didn't have any difference from an ordinary bird egg, and there was even a faint warmth remaining on the surface, seemingly having just been carefully incubated not long ago...

It seems, he also has times when he is negligent... Doing things not carefully enough, and also not ruthless enough.

Li Laide snorted coldly. Grabbing the bird egg, he shook it forcefully a few times, first shaking the yolk apart, then smashed it beneath his feet with a slap, and stomped on it viciously a few times.

Confirming that this thing had completely turned into a puddle of mush, Li Laide then hurriedly ran toward the next floor.