Boom—!!
Jian Changsheng only felt a shadow envelop him, and without hesitation, he flashed away continuously to dodge. The next moment, the foot of an architectural behemoth smashed down with a boom, smashing a giant crater tens of meters wide where he was originally standing.
Before he could even rejoice at dodging the attack, hundreds of scarlet paper strips wound around him from all directions like slithering snakes. These paper strips seemed to have seen through the ability mechanism of the Blood-Drop Spinner, completely predicting all of Jian Changsheng's movements and sealing off his retreat routes a step in advance.
Jian Changsheng's pupils suddenly shrank!
The scarlet paper strips quickly climbed up his body one by one, binding and restricting him like an execution. Jian Changsheng gripped the short sword in his hand tightly, trying with all his might to thrust the blade toward his own throat. Because only by piercing his main artery and making a large amount of blood splatter would he have a sliver of hope to escape alive.
However, just as he was about to raise his arm, those paper strips easily locked all four of his limbs. A paper strip wrapped around the surface of the short sword, effortlessly reducing it in dimension into a painted brushstroke on paper. No matter how much Jian Changsheng grasped at it, he couldn't pull it out again.
Feeling his body gradually losing control, an unconcealable despair surfaced in Jian Changsheng's eyes.
From the moment he started fleeing until he was caught now, less than ten seconds had passed. Under the gaze of that Sixth Stage eye, his everything seemed to be seen through. Trapped like a rat, even if he tried his best, there was nowhere to run...
"Damn it... This is really bad luck."
God seemed to be playing a joke on him. Every time he was in the most desperate situation, he would be given hope to live, and then just when the thought arose that everything would get better, he would be struck down into the hell of despair once more.
Just like now, Jian Changsheng couldn't understand even if he wracked his brain—why did that Calamity, which was like a Divine Being, specifically target an ant like him who was only at the Second-Tier??
A large amount of red paper intertwined, turning into a world-destroying scarlet palm that drooped down from the sky vault. Compared to the size of this palm, Jian Changsheng was like a tiny ant. He watched with his own eyes as the writhing palm rapidly enlarged before his eyes, and the howling wind it carried almost suffocated him!
Boom—!!!
The scarlet palm smashed onto Jian Changsheng's body, swatting him from midair into the earth. Amidst thunderous booms, this palm embedded deeply beneath the ground of the manor, and gully-like cracks spread wildly!
A visible airwave diffused in all directions. Under the swirling dust, a Meteorite Crater with a diameter of a hundred meters slowly appeared!
Above the surging paper clouds, that eye pupil resembling a red sun gazed at the dust-filled manor. As if noticing something, the pupil contracted slightly...
In the next moment, a cold and deep voice resounded through the clouds!
"—Calamity!!!"
Crack—!!
A dark red thunderbolt, like a long spear, pierced down from above the sky vault, instantly tearing open a gap in the churning red clouds and landing accurately in the Meteorite Crater swatted out by the giant scarlet hand!
At this moment, the sky and the manor were both illuminated in a blood color, as if returning to some ancient battlefield filled with grim Killing Intent.
Lightning wandered through the ruins. Countless electrical arcs, like long snakes, bit at each other with the scarlet paper strips. In the deepest part of the Meteorite Crater, Killing Intent that had condensed into substance suddenly shot up to the clouds like a giant pillar!
"The ancient Killing Intent from the Ancient Vault of the Military Path?" Seeing this scene from a distance, Chu Muyun's eyes once again revealed shock.
"How could it appear here..."
If the red paper monster that escaped from Chen Ling's body was still within Chu Muyun's expectations, then the sudden appearance of the ancient Killing Intent completely exceeded his scope of understanding... Could it be that some ancient existence buried in the Path of the Soldier had reappeared in the world?
In the battlefield where lightning and red paper slaughtered each other, a figure covered in blood slowly walked out from the sky-filling dust...
Jian Changsheng slowly raised his head. Those eyes swallowed by darkness were cold, as if they came from an abyss of Killing Intent.
With his appearance, the Killing Intent that seemed to come from ancient times swept out like a tide. A projection of the Divine Pathways leading to the endless void slowly extended under his footsteps. The clashing of weapons and the roars of slaughter could be faintly heard from within, as if coming from some period of history once remembered by this heaven and earth.
"The Calamity of 'Mockery', condemned by both heaven and earth."
A deep and hoarse voice came from his mouth, not belonging to Jian Changsheng. At this moment, he was like a completely different person. Every movement he made carried a heart-palpitating Oppressive Aura.
His palm slowly raised and grabbed into the nothingness above his head.
Crack!!
Another thunderbolt crashed down, transforming into a blood-colored long spear that landed precisely in front of him.
Under the flying dust, his palm slowly pulled the spear shaft out of the cracked earth... The moment the spear tip left the ground, electrical arcs danced madly across the spear body!
In the next moment, his figure launched into the air from the ground like a cannonball!
Ancient and fierce Killing Intent wrapped around him, making him look like a spear of slaughter from the Path of the Soldier, and what the spear tip pointed at was exactly the massive eye overlooking the mortal world!
His action enraged the eye above the red clouds. The churning cloud layer twisted abruptly, and tens of thousands of tentacles interwoven from red paper descended from the sky, charging at him overwhelmingly like countless red monsters!
The black-eyed Jian Changsheng gripped the spear shaft tightly and crashed headfirst into the endless red sea like a flash of lightning!
Countless monster roars drowned him out. After a brief pause, dark red lightning bloomed in the sea of paper like a blossoming blood-colored lotus. The arc swept by the spear tip opened up a vacuum area within, and all the paper pieces inside shattered inch by inch, fading into nothingness!
After this strike, a gap flashing with lightning appeared in the red clouds, but it was filled by endless red paper in the next moment. Yet, no matter how those red papers churned, the black-eyed figure gripping the long spear always stood tall and unyielding.
"It seems that ancient existence is also not in a complete state."
Chu Muyun stood on a roof to the side, looking up at the great battle in the clouds, deep in thought.
"However, to be able to fight against a semi-liberated World-Ending Calamity, that person's strength in their prime shouldn't be simple either... For two ancient existences of mysterious origins to appear simultaneously in a Stars Chamber of Commerce, is it a coincidence, or..."