Chapter 1772: Getting Old?

The dawn's radiance slowly lit up from the end of the horizon.

This domain that had experienced a nightmare-like long night finally recovered its former peace. Sleepy-eyed workers complained while putting on their clothes to prepare for work; the school bell rang on time, and students still excitedly discussing last night's grand battle reluctantly walked toward the classroom; the first Realm Train slowly started up amidst a roar, traveling along the steadfast tracks toward other Human Domains, fully loaded with supplies and passengers, and would also bring the news of the World-Ending attack...

In the ruins of the maintenance factory that no one paid attention to, a figure in red stepped silently onto the earth like a ghost walking out from the wall.

Behind him, a youth wearing a black vest also stumbled out from the wall.

"Just like this..."

"We escaped?"

Li Laide looked around at the peaceful Chengtian Domain in the early morning, seeming to still be somewhat in a daze... Everything from last night seemed like a nightmare, making it somewhat hard to distinguish for a time.

Li Laide originally thought that he would probably never be able to walk out of Xuanwu Great Avenue again. He didn't expect that world-destroying Starry Sky Fist to actually suddenly turn into endless petals. The instant the petals obscured his vision, a palm grabbed his collar from behind...

And then, he traveled through the chaotic streets with a bizarre perspective, as if he had turned into a shadow on the wall.

Chen Ling, draped in the Theatrical Robe, calmly brushed the dust off the hem of his clothes. The originally cracked markings on his skin were all healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating back into the mark between his eyebrows.

Looking at this calm, peaceful, elegant, and mysterious red-clad Thespian before him, Li Laide found it very difficult to connect him with the Calamity of Mockery that overturned the Chengtian Domain last night...

"He..."

"Is really getting old?"

Chen Ling looked in the direction of the Imperial Palace, muttering to himself.

Chen Ling had a clear understanding of the strength he could exert. Below a Demigod, no one in the world was his opponent. If facing a Demigod-level enemy, he would open a corner of the seal, and relying on the Red Star Aspiration Power, he could also have the strength for a battle...

But Ying Fu wasn't an ordinary Demigod. He ruled over the entire dynasty, and had more than one Demigod Combat Power under his command. Therefore, he himself could also rule over multiple Demigod paths... For him like this, if he went all out, it wouldn't be difficult to suppress a World-Ending Calamity in a one-on-one fight.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Ling wouldn't be stupid enough to clash head-on with Ying Fu right now. His goal was only to wipe out the Taishi Division, therefore he only mobilized the Red Star Aspiration Power to briefly exchange blows with Ying Fu before taking Li Laide to retreat.

However, it was this brief exchange of blows that made Chen Ling faintly perceive that Ying Fu's state might really not be too optimistic... That Starry Sky Fist of his last night seemed to have massive momentum, but compared to the strength of Ying Fu in Chen Ling's expectations, it still fell quite a bit short.

However, Ying Fu was deeply scheming and far-sighted. Perhaps this was just a trap of showing weakness to the enemy, it was hard to say.

Regardless, Chen Ling didn't plan on fighting Ying Fu now. If Ying Fu really didn't have many days left, then quietly waiting for him to die of old age was undoubtedly the safest choice.

Chen Ling raised his hand and tore at his cheek, and his figure turned into Lin Yan wearing a brown coat, extremely low-key.

"Are we... not running?"

Li Laide held it in for a long time, and still asked.

One must know, they had turned the Chengtian Domain upside down last night. Now having just escaped from the Emperor's hands, they were actually still standing here like nothing happened?

Shouldn't they immediately flee, the further away from the Chengtian Domain and the Emperor the better?

Chen Ling cast a glance at him, "No one can recognize me... why should we run?"

"..." Li Laide's mouth twitched slightly,

"Then... what about me?"

"What does that have to do with me?"

"???"

Li Laide was momentarily speechless, forcefully unable to speak even half a word.

However, fortunately Chen Ling caused too big of a commotion last night, and fundamentally no one paid attention to him on Xuanwu Great Avenue. Later on, those people who saw him in the Taishi Division had all died as well, and...

Li Laide cast a resentful glance at Chen Ling, silently raising his hand to wipe his face, and his facial features also instantly turned into another person.

Fortunately he was smart and kept a trick up his sleeve.

When he was in the Taishi Division, Li Laide had thought about how to escape. He secretly stole the "faces" of a few corpses as backups... He didn't expect them to come in handy right now.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Chen Ling's mouth hooked up into an imperceptible smile.

He seemed to have discovered something and turned his head to look outside the factory ruins. He only saw that in the golden radiance of the early morning dawn, Li Shangfeng, whose entire body was covered in injuries, was currently carrying a young girl with a cast on her leg, walking toward here step by step.

"Li Shangfeng! You big idiot!"

"Who told you to leave me behind alone, and turn around to leave by yourself!!!"

"Do you know how scared I was there alone?!"

"Hate you hate you hate you hate you..."

The young girl's hands crazily knocked on Li Shangfeng's back like swinging a mallet. Fragrant words poured out from her mouth like flowing water. Li Wanhua seemed to be extremely angry, her small face flushed red with anxiety.

Li Shangfeng just chuckled foolishly, letting his younger sister pound his back, still walking steadily toward home like a mountain.

Li Laide also watched this scene in the ruins, and was just about to say something to Chen Ling when the latter spoke first:

"Let's clean up."

"Been busy all night, let's eat a meal together in a while..."

"Right, throw those dirty things away... it brings bad luck to carry them on your body."

After speaking, he proactively walked toward the Li siblings.

Li Laide froze in place for a moment, and only then seemed to remember something, lowering his head to look at his right hand...

A bloody heart had already stopped beating.

That was Brand's heart.

Li Laide cast a disgusted look at it, casually tossing it into a trash can at the side. At the same time, he took off that bloodstained vest, only wearing a pure white shirt with beautiful frills, appearing bright and elegant under the sunlight.

He followed behind Chen Ling, walking outwards.

...

Gray World.

A Realm Train was currently traveling rapidly across the desolate earth.

This Realm Train seemed to be a special express train departing from the Chengtian Domain, and there was only one passenger on it... Lord Chong sat by the window, watching the Gray World earth speeding past outside. For some unknown reason, he felt somewhat uneasy in his heart.

He reached into his clothes, taking out that imperial handwritten secret missive, and slowly opened it...

Four small words entered Lord Chong's eyes.

——[South Sea Prison].

That night, Eunuch Zuo found him with this secret missive and said nothing, just simultaneously giving him a special express ticket heading to the South Sea Prison... Lord Chong still remembered the look Eunuch Zuo gave him now.

That was an extremely complex look. Lord Chong couldn't say well what he was thinking, but combining it with his own identity, the four words on this secret missive, and the recent rumors regarding His Majesty's situation...

A bold thought naturally surfaced in his mind.