Chapter 1792: Early Return

Marquis Wei nodded without hesitation:

"Since it is you asking, I will certainly say all that I know, and say it without reservation."

"Then let me ask you." Chen Ling spoke faintly, "In this world, the next person to advance to a Demigod... who is it?"

Marquis Wei froze. He looked at Chen Ling in surprise:

"This question, a few years ago, I actually divined it in advance... and the final answer also exceeded my expectations."

"The next to advance to a Demigod... is actually a practitioner of the Path of the Arts."

Marquis Wei continued speaking:

"Looking across the Chengtian Dynasty and the eight major bastions, this era doesn't have an exceptionally talented powerhouse of the Path of the Arts. But the result of the divination indeed pointed to the Path of the Arts... This is the part I've been constantly puzzled over."

"I originally planned to divine the identity of that Path of the Arts practitioner, but there was interference in the other party's fate, so I didn't probe deeper."

Calculating the time, it indeed was about time for Yao Qing to advance to a Demigod. Actually, he could have advanced several centuries ago, but he spent all his energy preparing the Human Body Embroidery for Su Zhiwei. As for the interference in his fate that Marquis Wei mentioned... perhaps it was because of his own interactions with him.

This first question could be considered testing Marquis Wei's capability. Chen Ling immediately threw out the second question:

"Then can you divine, when will the Red Star return?"

Hearing this question, Marquis Wei's expression instantly became solemn:

"To tell the truth, I have already divined the time of the Red Star's return for more than half my life... But the Red Star itself is too eerie. The Path of Divination's precognition of it is restricted everywhere, and every time I divine it, I'll even suffer a backlash..."

"I'm ashamed to say, even until now I still can't divine a specific time... However, I do have a rough timeframe."

Marquis Wei paused for a moment, slowly spitting out a few words:

"As short as one year, as long as two years."

Chen Ling's brows slightly furrowed.

In the fifth-generation world, there was still at least two and a half years from the current point in time until the Red Star's Return... but Marquis Wei's precognition shortened the time to one to two years.

Chen Ling had already tested this Path of Divination practitioner twice consecutively. The other party indeed had a lot of capability. If his predicted time for the Red Star's return was correct...

Didn't that mean, this time, the Red Star's Return was early?

Was it because of the appearance of himself, this "variable" containing a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power?

Chen Ling was very clear in his heart that a major reason for the Red Star's Return was that a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power remained on Earth. This Aspiration Power didn't only come from the Nine Monarchs, but also from the Gray Realm World-Ending Calamities that had completely converged with Earth...

In the deductions of the Akashic Tower, Chen Ling also tried to guide all the Nine Monarchs to die right from the beginning, so that no Red Star Aspiration Power existed on Earth. But immediately after, the Gray Realm Convergence occurred, and humanity only lasted less than ten days under the impact of the Calamities before going completely extinct.

And his arrival in the sixth-generation world from the fifth-generation world undoubtedly added another large portion of Red Star Aspiration Power to Earth. It was also very normal to accelerate the progress of the Red Star's Return.

But the Path of Divination was after all only a divine path on Earth. Being able to vaguely sense the time of the Red Star's return was already pretty good. If a more precise time was needed, only the Lord of Tianshu could do it.

"The last question."

Chen Ling finished drinking the tea in his cup and slowly set it back on the tabletop, looking into Marquis Wei's eyes,

"Even if it's just fragments... everything you can foresee about the events of the Red Star's Return a year from now... tell me all of it."

...

Boom——!!

An earth-shattering loud bang came from the Inner Wall.

A surging tide of skeletons continuously impacted the final defense line of the Ruoshui Bastion. Hideous cracks spread across the wall surface at an astonishing speed. Under the intense tremors, even the Watchtowers directly snapped at the waist, rumbling as they fell towards the earth!

At the same time, a few skeletal vultures flew directly over the high wall, diving down like lightning toward the chaotic battlefield!

"Nine of Hearts!!"

"You madman!!"

The Nine of Spades, who was still considered calm just now, also rarely cursed in a low voice. His figure turned into numerous brushstrokes, struggling to twist and turn within the Calamity tide, and only then avoided the fate of being trampled into meat paste by the massive skeletal Calamities.

Not only Nine of Spades, but aside from the J and Q series, the other members were also plunged into difficult situations due to the appearance of a massive number of Calamities...

The good news was that the original garrison troops of the Ruoshui Domain had basically already completely become corpses in the ruins along with the crumbling Inner Wall Watchtowers.

The bad news was that they next needed to take the place of the original garrison troops to protect the Ruoshui Base amid the tide of Calamities.

The task Chen Ling handed to them was only to break through the Inner Wall and liberate the Ruoshui Base... not completely destroy it. After all, that Lord of Ruoshui was still inside, not yet fully awakened.

"This newcomer is just a madman! When we're done with this, I'm definitely going to teach him a good lesson!"

Ten of Hearts rode on Ten of Spades's back, her red hair fluttering in the wind. Her originally pale face had already become covered in dust, cursing angrily with puffed cheeks. She patted Ten of Spades's head, and the latter immediately turned into a giant black wolf Calamity over ten meters tall, crushing the nearest skeletal Calamity into fragments with a single swipe.

At this time, Li Shangfeng seemed to have also realized he had caused a major disaster, but he didn't look like he had any intention of repenting. Instead, he excitedly gathered his full strength, fighting the charging Calamities while laughing loudly.

"Refreshing!!"

The various weapons he had researched and developed over so many years finally had the chance to be activated at this moment. He seemed to transform into a war fortress, forcibly suppressing a swath of Calamities with extremely strong firepower, attracting the sideways glances of the other members one after another...

As for Eight of Clubs beside him, he was relatively much more low-key. He merely silently used his Paintbrush to outline traps one by one, laying them out in the places with the highest density of Calamities. Whenever the defense line was about to be breached, they would always trigger at exactly the right moment, stalling the Calamities for a set amount of time.

"No good... there are too many Calamities."

Queen of Diamonds stood aloft in midair riding the wind, his light cyan long hair fluttering in the wind. He looked down at the numerous members surrounding the Ruoshui Base below, frantically resisting the tide of Calamities, his expression incomparably solemn.

The Dusk Society's situation was difficult, not because the Calamities drawn by Nine of Hearts were really that many. With his strength, even if he went all out, how could he really draw Calamities capable of crushing the Dusk Society?

Queen of Diamonds's gaze looked into the distance. As time passed, the Gray Realm Convergence area within the Ruoshui Bastion was expanding at an astonishing speed...

The Gray Realm Convergence area growing larger meant more Calamities coming through the convergence, and the strength of the Calamities that could come in would also be stronger. This was the key reason why the Dusk Society found it difficult to resist.

After all, no matter how formidable they were, how could they face an entire Sighing Wilderness head-on?