Chapter 1899: Seventh-Generation Red King

Seventh-Generation Red King

Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path.

Divine Path aura agitated from the void. Under Liu Qingyan's lead, Li Qingshan's feet stepped on the mirror-like calm lake, stirring up bursts of ripples.

This was Li Qingshan's first time entering the Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path. He looked around, seeming somewhat curious about everything here.

"What are we doing here?" He asked.

Liu Qingyan didn't answer. She just silently raised her hand and pointed to the center of the lake.

A cinnabar-colored coffin was lying quietly there.

Li Qingshan's pupils slightly shrank.

After hesitating for a moment, he still stepped forward and lifted a corner of the coffin... The heaviness in his eyes suddenly turned into astonishment.

"Normally speaking, it should be like this." Liu Qingyan slowly stepped forward,

"After the past Red Kings ascended to heaven, their corpses would all appear on Earth... But this time, it's a bit different..."

"His corpse didn't appear."

Li Qingshan immediately reacted, "Then does that mean... maybe he didn't die at all?"

"I don't know either..."

Liu Qingyan shook her head, "But no matter what, the Dusk Society is currently leaderless. According to past traditions..."

Liu Qingyan took out a playing card from her embrace.

A red [JOKER].

Before Chen Ling left, he didn't leave any will, nor did he designate who would serve as the Seventh-Generation Red King of the Dusk Society. Since that was the case, according to tradition, Six of Hearts would take over the Red King's position, leading the Dusk Society to Reverse the Era and Reboot the World.

Li Qingshan complexly looked at that playing card symbolizing the Seventh-Generation Red King, letting out a long sigh in his heart...

Just as he prepared to raise his hand to take it,

A flash of white light streaked by,

The playing card in Liu Qingyan's hand disappeared into thin air!

Li Qingshan was stunned, his extended hand directly pausing in mid-air...

Liu Qingyan seemed to have noticed something. Her brows instantly furrowed, a burst of anger climbing into her eyes. The Oppressive Aura of a Courtesan Path Demigod explosively erupted. The endless blood color seemed to be connected with the entire Ancient Vault. The originally placid lake surface instantly turned crimson!!

On the lake surface less than a hundred meters away from the two, at some unknown time, a figure wearing a black Fedora appeared.

He was playing with a playing card between his fingertips, his expression cold as an iceberg.

"Li Leider." Liu Qingyan spoke in a deep voice, "Are you crazy?"

"Hehe... Me crazy?"

Li Leider sneered. Those deep blue eyes just looked at Li Qingshan like this, not disguising his contempt at all.

"You are the ones who are crazy!"

"This guy is just a measly Rank 7 of the Path of the Actor, an unknown ant! What qualifications does he have to replace him, to Reverse the Era and Reboot the World?!"

"Just him... is he worthy of being the Seventh-Generation Red King?!"

As Li Leider's voice grew deeper and lower, the Oppressive Aura of a Thief Path Demigod suddenly erupted, directly shaking the entire lake until water splashed everywhere, and also suppressing Li Qingshan until he couldn't catch his breath.

Li Leider made it clear that he was targeting Li Qingshan. His Oppressive Aura suppressed Li Qingshan's shoulders, that gaze wishing it could directly crush him into pieces.

Li Qingshan was ultimately just a Rank 7, while Li Leider was already standing at the peak of the world. The disparity between the two was truly too great. In front of Li Leider, Li Qingshan couldn't even move a single step, let alone resist.

Right at this moment, another Demigod aura erupted from beside Li Qingshan, forcibly bearing Li Leider's Oppressive Aura for him.

"Whether he's worthy of being the Seventh-Generation Red King or not, it's not up to you to say." Liu Qingyan's black hair danced wildly in the fierce wind. Cold Killing Intent was like a glaring sharp knife, slicing bit by bit across Li Leider's cheek, leaving a faint bloody scratch on it,

"Or rather..."

"You want to fight me in my Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path?"

Li Leider didn't care about Liu Qingyan's threat at all. Pinching that red [JOKER] between his fingertips, he sneered:

"My word doesn't count, so what?"

"He is already gone. Now in the Dusk Society, who can stop me?"

"You?"

"Or that undying old geezer Awakened Lion?"

"So what if the rest of you in the Dusk Society are unconvinced? So what if you don't acknowledge it? I am going to steal his identity, I am going to be the Seventh-Generation Red King!"

"Even if it's just me alone, I can do better than all of you! I can also..."

"Reverse the Era, Reboot the World."

A touch of madness surfaced in Li Leider's eyes!

Liu Qingyan stared blankly at him. After a long time, she finally recovered from the shock:

"...Crazy... you are really crazy."

Li Leider, personally trained by Chen Ling, was truly too strong. Even though it was her home turf now, Liu Qingyan had no confidence in defeating him. Moreover, as a Thief Path Demigod, wanting to snatch back the Red King's Card Face from his hands was even harder than ascending to heaven.

Li Leider lightly flicked the brim of his hat with his fingertips. The blue ribbon originally tied on it instantly turned into bright red, like an exquisite Stagecraft trick.

He pinched the Red King Card Face with one hand, and elegantly took off his hat with the other...

Giving a slight bow to the two of them:

"The Seventh-Generation Red King of the Dusk Society..."

"Greets everyone."

The next second, Li Leider's figure disappeared without a trace.

The Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path instantly fell into deathly stillness.

Li Qingshan quietly stood in place, having watched the whole process.

Only after Li Leider completely left did he slowly turn his head, look behind him, and speak between laughter and tears:

"Mister... what should we do about this?"

In the void behind him, the silhouette of a figure draped in a red-based, black-Marked Theatrical Robe gradually outlined!

He looked at the direction Li Leider left, a faint smile hooking up at the corner of his mouth:

"No need to mind him..."

"Whatever he wants to do, just let him be."

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[Audience Expectation Value +5]

[Current Expectation Value: 94%]

In the scarlet world, a pair of pupils slowly opened a slit.

That was a pair of hollow eyes. Although opened, consciousness hadn't recovered, like a puppet devoid of spirit.

Perhaps because the Audience Expectation Value flashed in his field of vision, those hollow pupils barely recovered a trace of clarity. But immediately following, was an even more hollow bewilderment...

Blood vessel-like earth veins pulsed rhythmically in the dim world. At this moment, if one broke away from Chen Ling's field of vision, they could see that his whole person seemed to have been embedded into a wall of flesh, fused into one with the pulsing earth veins, with only half a head exposed outside.

At the same time, bursts of faint murmurs entered his ears.

"Sixth generation..."

"Chen Ling..."

"Wake up..."

"Old Six..."

The moment the last two words appeared, Chen Ling's consciousness was like a kite floating in the sky suddenly grabbing a fine thread. His originally drifting consciousness gained a crucial anchor point!

A touch of clarity climbed back into those hollow pupils. His originally wooden and stiff expression began to reveal a struggle!