Chapter 1904: Consciousness Assimilation

Consciousness Assimilation

Chen Ling sneered:

"You seem to really want me to take the initiative to leave?"

"Is it because after my consciousness leaves, only an empty shell is left... That's true, my body is also part of the Red Star's power, right? This is also why among the successive generations of Red Kings, only I could board the Red Star with a body..."

"As long as my consciousness leaves, you can naturally snatch back that part of power without any effort."

"But if my existence is so important to you, why didn't you immediately obliterate my consciousness, forcibly swallow my body, and snatch back this power? Instead of going to great lengths to induce me to leave here?"

"In my consciousness... is there something you are wary of?"

Chen Ling's eyes slightly narrowed.

Chen Ling didn't have the slightest intention of leaving. On the contrary, he had already begun to speculate the Red Star's weakness.

"...Self-righteous ant."

That massive scarlet figure melted away little by little on the earth. As it disappeared, the corridor outside the door violently stirred like a living creature!

The entire scarlet infinite world seemed to turn into an ocean. The surging seawater directly poured in from the doorway, drowning Chen Ling along with the four silhouettes around him, and that towering Gate of Many Mysteries, completely within it!

This world was originally formed by the Red Star's consciousness. Previously when the Red Star's consciousness tried to guide Chen Ling to leave, it was naturally calm and tranquil. But now Chen Ling refused to leave, the entire world turned into hostility targeting Chen Ling, sweeping in from all directions.

At this moment, Chen Ling had no way to dodge.

As his figure was drowned by the scarlet ocean,

In the real world, that unconscious Thespian embedded in the flesh and blood of the Red Star, who was gradually being fused and assimilated, his hollow pupils violently trembled.

...

Endless scarlet occupied Chen Ling's mind.

He was like a fallen leaf swept up in the ocean current, crazily tumbling. Extreme dizziness and upside-down feeling filled his mind, everything blurring and fading in the chaos...

At the same time, massive amounts of consciousness fragments that didn't belong to him surged up in his memory!

In his trance, he seemed to have turned into a shuttling meteor.

He came from a place extremely far away, so far that it exceeded the boundaries of all time and space. He saw worlds overlapping layer upon layer, infinitely extending from a faint light source, like light emitted by candlelight in the dimness, concretized in the dust.

The candlelight swayed, and the Myriad Worlds of Candlelight continuously fluctuated between deathly stillness and flourishing. Some of them were similar, some were completely different, from city civilizations lined with high-rise buildings where special abilities lay dormant, to the middle ages where curses and witchcraft became mainstream, to the peak of technology driving super starships roaming the universe, to the cultivation legends lined with immortal sects flying on swords... Among these, there were even Q-version worlds completely made up of lines and color blocks, like cartoons and comics.

At this moment around him, there were also a large number of meteors, approaching the edge of the Myriad Worlds of Candlelight together with him.

And their target... was exactly that candlelight source continuously projecting worlds.

They streaked past the edge of one world after another, then crashed into a certain world. To them, the vast majority of worlds were like fragile paper, easily pierced through with a light crash...

But there were also some worlds that were exceptions.

Chen Ling consecutively crashed through seven or eight worlds in one breath. Under his power, the "civilizations" bred by those worlds all collapsed with a bang, ultimately becoming food absorbed by him. And the worlds that lost their civilization foundation were all stirred into vortices under his wake, completely annihilated into dregs.

Until he arrived at a certain world. Here seemed to exist some powerful existences. Although he ultimately still pierced through it, those powerful existences joined hands and not only knocked numerous fragments off him, but also forcibly chopped a corner off his core.

He saw his fragments respectively crash into the sea, mountains, wilderness, forests, and the depths of nothingness... But the most core piece crashed into a bustling human city.

His power was depleted too much in this world. Although he ultimately pierced through it, when he arrived at the next world, he had already become slow and fragile.

This world, adjacent to the previous world, seemed to also not be a pushover. Here he sniffed out an extremely special existence. He didn't know what method he used, but actually forcibly trapped himself in a bizarre cycle. For a time, he actually couldn't break it open, nor could he pierce through this world...

He could sense that the wreckage of the previous world retaining his core power was overlapping with this world. That monster bearing his core power seemed to have born its own will.

He knew that unless he recovered his lost power and crucial core, it would be very difficult for him to break free from this cycle. But every time he was about to destroy the civilization here and recover the power and core, he would fall into that damn cycle again...

But looking at it now, the key to this cycle lies in Wen Ruoshui...

An uncontrollable anger rose in Chen Ling's heart. He didn't expect the source of the cycle trapping him was actually extended from his own power.

So in the final analysis, as long as he forcibly obliterates these humans who absorbed his power, and recovers this portion of power, making the residual power on Earth insufficient to support Wen Ruoshui completing the reboot, then he can break free from the cycle and completely pierce through this world.

Or, he can directly let Wen Ruoshui die after the next reboot, and directly recovering this portion of power will also work...

Wait!!

In the endless scarlet, a trace of clarity rose in Chen Ling's consciousness.

At this moment, a touch of panic rippled in Chen Ling's heart... He suddenly realized that his consciousness seemed to be being assimilated by the Red Star, and all the clues regarding the reboot he grasped had already been known by the Red Star... Moreover, the Red Star was still using his train of thought to reversely find a way to break the cycle!

Imperceptibly, he had already lost himself and became a part of the Red Star's consciousness?!

In the scarlet ocean, Chen Ling's consciousness was like a fragile and tiny fallen leaf. Having just floated to the surface for a moment, it was swallowed by a wave again.

Bewilderment and hollowness once again climbed into Chen Ling's mind. The Red Star's consciousness continued to assimilate him. Everything he knew about Earth was becoming weapons for the Red Star to deal with Earth.

Just at the instant the scarlet tide was about to drown Chen Ling,

A touch of apricot red once again rippled from the corner of Chen Ling's eyes.

[Painting the Vermillion Face]!!

With the activation of [Painting the Vermillion Face], Chen Ling's body that was supposed to be swallowed by the scarlet seawater finally floated up slightly, and his consciousness once again regained clarity!

Damn it...

I absolutely cannot continue like this.

The Red Star's consciousness is truly too massive. Chen Ling knew that even with [Painting the Vermillion Face], he couldn't hold on for too long... If his consciousness really was completely occupied by the Red Star, then his physical body would also be fused by the Red Star.

And the Calamity of Mockery itself was transformed by that chopped-off corner of the Red Star core. If he let the Red Star really swallow him and complete this piece of core, then Wen Ruoshui's reboot, I'm afraid, wouldn't be able to take effect on the Red Star again.