Chapter 1832: Awakened Lion Paves the Way

Awakened Lion Paves the Way

Clang—— Clang—— Clang...

A domain train broke through the fierce wind, speeding rapidly along the earth of the Gray World!

Inside the quiet carriage, Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes. A pair of scarlet eyes emitted a deep faint light in the dimness. The red and black Markings on his Theatrical Robe intertwined intricately, extremely mysterious.

"Nine years... This day has finally come." He muttered to himself.

Chen Ling's gaze looked outside the train carriage. A distorted Path of the Actor extended continuously toward the firmament in his line of sight.

The eerie Divine Path Star hung high on the dark dome. The current Chen Ling was already standing on the eighth step.

The fierce wind howling high in the sky blew the hem of his Theatrical Robe wildly. Chen Ling's eyes gazed at that eerie Divine Path Star that was already close at hand, as well as that ninth step that was within reach. He took a deep breath...

Upon stepping onto the final step, he would completely master the power of the Calamity of Mockery, becoming a true Rank 9 Demigod... or in other words, a World-Ending Calamity.

Chen Ling looked down at his feet. A line of small text that had trapped him for nine years came into view again:

——[Under the witness of at least ten million people, complete the Divine Path Certification belonging to you].

This was Chen Ling's Rank 9 Advancement performance.

It was also the final shackle that made him stagnate for these nine years.

As early as when he completed the restart and obtained a massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power, Chen Ling had already reached the edge of the steps to step into Rank 9. With the Aspiration Power stored in his body now, not to mention stepping onto Rank 9, it was even more than enough to create another Calamity of Mockery...

Once he Advanced to Demigod, this massive amount of Red Star Aspiration Power would push his strength to a terrifying degree.

But the problem was, for these nine years, Chen Ling couldn't find a way to complete the performance.

Setting aside Divine Path Certification for the moment, just the prerequisite of ten million people witnessing was extremely difficult to achieve. After all, the population of a domain was only two or three million people. Even if Chen Ling performed Divine Path Certification in the Chengtian Domain with the largest population, the number of people would still fall far short of the standard.

And the opportunity for Divine Path Certification might only come once. Once there was an error in the number of people leading to failure, Chen Ling might never be able to complete this performance condition, trapped at Rank 8 for life. This was also the reason why he hadn't broken through to Rank 9 for nine years.

For these nine years, Chen Ling had been constantly looking for a way to satisfy the performance conditions...

And now, he had already found it.

"Nine years of layout, the sky of this era... is time for a change."

Chen Ling picked up a pen and gently wrote down the first name on the neat page on the desk:

[Sun Bumian].

...

Crack crack crack crack crack crack crack——

Lively sounds of firecrackers exploded on the streets of the Red Dust Bastion.

The smell of sugar and pastries from the roadside mixed with the scent of fireworks and drifted far away. The gongs and drums of acrobatics, the shouting of hawkers, and the laughter of tourists seethed with excitement.

Colorful lanterns were hung in every corner of the city. Children wearing new clothes chased each other through the streets.

They chanted the Colored Lantern Festival poem that came from an unknown source nine years ago, their laughter mixing with the sound of firecrackers, an extraordinary celebration:

"Theater lanterns illuminate the alleys, shadows form in pairs, on the Path, firecrackers resound, filling the hall."

"In the sky, colorful brocades flutter with the wind, joy fills the human world, the night has not yet ended."

"Hahahahaha!! Celebrating the Colored Lantern Festival! Eating candied haws!!!"

Firecrackers exploded, and curling smoke permeated the street. An exquisite red Awakened Lion suddenly darted out from the smoke, its eyes blinking lightly, vivid and lifelike.

"It's the Awakened Lion!"

"Happy Colored Lantern Festival! To the two big brothers performing the lion dance!!"

"..."

The children waved at the Awakened Lion one after another.

The Awakened Lion arrived beside them with nimble steps. After shaking its head and circling them once, an invisible aura of Good Fortune and Auspiciousness brewed from the fireworks and landed lightly on them.

Amidst the children's bursts of cheerful laughter, the Awakened Lion turned around and continued to leap toward the end of the street.

For every degree the atmosphere of the Colored Lantern Festival in the city became livelier, the aura on the Awakened Lion grew thicker by a degree. When the entire city lit fireworks at the same time, and thousands of brilliant lights bloomed in the air, an almost substantive aura of auspiciousness surrounded the Awakened Lion.

Its figure expanded rapidly, and the Inner Wall of the Red Dust Bastion rapidly magnified before its eyes...

"What is that?"

"...A lion dance?"

"Seems to be, looks quite festive."

The numerous guards on the Inner Wall also saw that red Awakened Lion bounding forward, but they didn't sense any danger. After all, in this extraordinarily lively festival, the appearance of an Awakened Lion wasn't a strange thing. They even stared at it quite novelly...

It wasn't until that Awakened Lion's speed got faster and faster, so much so that everyone couldn't even see its afterimage clearly, that their minds were shaken.

"This is the Inner Wall of the Red Dust Bastion!!"

"Advancing is prohibit..."

Boom——!!!

The Awakened Lion crashed head-first into the Inner Wall, and the earth shook with a loud boom!!

Dense cracks exploded on the wall surface. A Path of the Actor rapidly extended toward the sky amidst the billowing dust. The cinnabar-like Divine Path Star lit up among the clouds, and heaven and earth cast their gazes here...

"Divine Path Certification?!"

"Someone is actually starting Divine Path Certification at this time?!"

"Wait... is it my illusion?"

"How come that person seems to be undergoing Divine Path Certification... while walking forward???"

"Not right!"

"That looks like two people!!"

The hundreds of powerhouses from major bastions stationed on the Inner Wall were just about to act, but when they saw the Path of the Actor connecting heaven and earth, and two figures stepping onto the stairs at the same time, they were instantly dumbfounded...

One Path of the Actor, how could it be possible for two people to undergo certification at the same time??

Moreover, during Divine Path Certification...

They couldn't cause harm to the other party either, right?

This was like a person charging into a battlefield and activating an invincible state right away. No matter how many or how strong the enemies around were, they couldn't stop him in the slightest. They could only watch helplessly as he walked step by step toward the Red Dust Domain wrapped in layers of defenses.

The strict precautions and heavy defenses of the Red Dust Bastion, as steady as Mount Tai, were like nothing before a peculiar existence that could move while undergoing certification.

At the same time,

One illusory and one solid, two figures ascended the steps on the Divine Pathway.

The fiery red Awakened Lion slowly stepped onto the firmament.

"Phew..."

"Truly satisfying..."

The fifth-generation Sun Bumian looked at the helpless Red Dust garrison below, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curling up.

"It still has to be Chen Ling, this guy is too smart." The sixth-generation Sun Bumian's clothes flapped wildly in the wind, and he also chuckled lightly. "No matter how many people the Red Dust Bastion piles up, they can't break the state of Divine Path Certification... With the two of us leading the charge, we can tear open the defense line of the Inner Wall without blowing a speck of dust."

"If he hadn't woven the story of the 'Colored Lantern Festival' in advance nine years ago, there wouldn't happen to be such a rich aura of auspiciousness today for us to ascend to Demigod..."

"In these nine years, just how many things has he done secretly?"

"He is Hearts, after all." The smile at the corners of the fifth-generation Sun Bumian's mouth grew thicker. "What he is best at... is bringing surprises to people."

"However, I truly didn't expect that after so many Reincarnation Cycles, there would still be an opportunity to return to Demigod..." The sixth-generation Sun Bumian looked leisurely toward a certain direction,

"Being beaten to the punch by me, I guess that Path of the Actor in the Chengtian Domain who was Resurrected is probably about to go crazy from anger, right?"