Ying Fu
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Lines of deep green characters flashed before Chen Ling's eyes. At this moment, the 【USB Drive】 was inserted into the ground in front of him, and mysterious 【Markings】 were frantically spreading across the room.
The next moment, his consciousness began to plummet.
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Boom——!!!
The instant Chen Ling opened his eyes, an earth-shattering explosion rang out behind him!
Fortunately, the current Chen Ling had already mastered 【Cloud Step】. With a single step in the empty air, he temporarily stabilized his body. He nimbly swept past the core region of the explosion and stopped his footsteps high above a forest several hundred meters away.
Chen Ling turned his head to look, only to see malevolent ravines and cracks spreading across the earth. A 【Golden Spear】 was pierced into the center of these cracks, sparkling radiantly under the sunlight.
Seeing that 【Golden Spear】, his previous memories from within the 【Timeline Save File】 surged into his mind.
Before he went offline last time, that mysterious 【Path of the Sovereign】 practitioner had used 【Sky Wolf】 to lock onto his figure. At the same time, he pulled a 【Golden Spear】 from the earth with one hand and threw it towards him with astonishing power... It was also exactly that spear that almost caused him to die on the 【Dusk Society】's broken-down little tractor.
"What a powerful destructive force." Chen Ling narrowed his eyes, looking at the cracked earth before him, and murmured to himself.
The good news was that, perhaps because he had gone offline halfway, the "【Sky Wolf】" lock originally attached to his body had already disappeared. Right now, he had returned to his peak condition, and there wasn't the slightest wound left on his body.
At the same time, amidst the flying dust, a figure slowly walked out from the cracked earth.
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Deep green text flashed past in the nothingness in front of him. Inky brows sharp as swords, corners of the eyes swept up like a phoenix, unconsciously exuding a sense of majesty and indifference.
"To think you're still only at the 【Third Tier】..." That person gave a cold snort.
Chen Ling's 【Great Crimson Theatrical Robe】 fluttered in the air. He gazed at that person and spoke in a deep voice:
"Who exactly are you?"
That person stopped in front of the 【Golden Spear】. Hearing this question, a profound glint flashed through his eyes.
He remained silent for a long time before speaking slowly:
"【Ying Fu】... 'Ying' as in the surname, 'Fu' as in subversion."
"【Ying Fu】?"
To tell the truth, when he heard the surname "Ying", Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat. After all, a certain emperor with this surname was truly too famous... If the person in front of him was truly that 【First Emperor】 【Ying Zheng】, Chen Ling was afraid he would instantly break apart.
Moreover, thinking about it carefully, since 【Bai Qi】 existed in the 【Ancient Vault of the Military Path】, it wasn't completely impossible for a 【Ying Zheng】 to pop out of the lost 【Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path】... Therefore, upon hearing the name "【Ying Fu】", Chen Ling still let out a deep sigh of relief.
"I've never provoked you, why do you want to kill me?"
"A single world does not need two differing ideals." 【Ying Fu】 spoke calmly. "The era does not need to be reversed, history can only move forward... If we want to sweep away humanity's declining trend, we must possess a bone-breaking, flesh-cutting conviction, and a fearless courage for slaughter! Only when the world is unified, gathering the power of tens of millions of people, can humanity carve out a path to survival.
...Since you of the 【Dusk Society】 are unwilling to submit to me, you are naturally my enemies."
Chen Ling was stunned for a long while before he barely managed to understand 【Ying Fu】's meaning...
If the 【Dusk Society】 was the conservative faction whose ideal was to "【Reverse the Era】, 【Reboot the World】", then the 【Ying Fu】 before him was the absolute radical faction... He believed that history didn't need to regress. As long as the power of all humanity was assembled to complete unification, they could carve out a path to survival.
And in this process of unification, the 【Dusk Society】 was the stumbling block to 【Ying Fu】's ideal...
This ideal was simply too overbearing.
Chen Ling glanced at his own 【Audience Expectation Value】 and then turned his gaze back to 【Ying Fu】. He didn't have time to argue with this guy here about the fate of humanity or the right and wrong of their standpoints. Once his 【Expectation Value】 dropped below 64%, it would be troublesome to try and escape later.
"Let me leave." Chen Ling, draped in the 【Great Crimson Theatrical Robe】, spoke in a deep voice in mid-air.
"Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite."
"I will not let you leave."
【Ying Fu】's slender palm slowly gripped the 【Golden Spear】 in front of him. His 【Domain】 expanded once again. A magnificent and overbearing palace rose from the ground out of thin air, and dense purple qi tumbled ceaselessly within his pupils!
"Since you actively returned to this era seeking death... I shall grant your wish."
Bang——!!
As the 【Golden Spear】 was pulled from the earth, the surrounding mountain range trembled slightly.
Dense electric arcs coiled around the spear shaft. As the tip of the spear was raised, a wolf's eye opened in the empty air, its icy killing intent locking onto Chen Ling in mid-air from a distance!
【Way of the Soldier God】, 【Sky Wolf】.
The instant he was locked onto by the wolf's eye, a familiar sense of powerlessness began to surge into his heart. He knew that making peace was already impossible, and his eyes narrowed slightly...
He reached into his pocket and grasped the 【Handgun】 he had previously taken from the military personnel. Pressing it against his own chin, a crazed look flickered in his eyes.
"I don't care if you're the 【Path of the Sovereign】 or whatever else... It won't be that easy to kill me."
Whoosh——!!
【Ying Fu】 forcefully whipped his palm, and the 【Golden Spear】 swept across the earth like a golden lightning bolt. The terrifying sonic boom uprooted the trees along its path, and the hurricane winds blew Chen Ling's clothes, making them flutter loudly!
In Chen Ling's pupils, the rapidly approaching spear tip was reflected. Without the slightest hesitation, he pulled the trigger!
Bang——!
The bullet pierced through Chen Ling's head, blood spraying in mid-air. The next moment, his body was penetrated by the 【Golden Spear】, and more than half of his body was 【Annihilation】d into powder in an instant...
Fine electric arcs roamed across the sky. Half of a blood-stained head slowly fell, a single blood-colored pupil still staring fixedly at 【Ying Fu】's figure in the distance.
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【【Audience Expectation Value】 -50】
【Current 【Expectation Value】: 15%】
【Warning! Warning!】
【【The Audience】 is beginning to intervene in the 【Performance】!】
Boom——!!
Countless pieces of 【Red Paper】 bloomed from the half of the head, like a grand and magnificent firework display. In an instant, it spread across the sky for a radius of several hundred meters. A terrifying 【Aura】, not the slightest bit inferior to 【Ying Fu】's, erupted boomingly!
"That is..."
【Ying Fu】's brows furrowed slightly. His figure rapidly retreated in mid-air. The next moment, the blooming 【Red Paper】 swept over the position where he originally stood like a tidal wave, with vague roars transmitting from within!
As the 【Red Paper】 covered most of the sky, they began to converge at an astonishing speed. Just like the coiling tentacles of an octopus, they gathered together in a ball at the location of Chen Ling's corpse!
Looking from afar, a bizarre red sun made of paper was standing erect atop the vault of the sky.