Natural Enemy and Natural Enemy
Chen Ling: ?
Looking at this bloody, terrifying, and incomplete head, not knowing what it had experienced when alive, Chen Ling couldn't connect it with the word "Meeting Gift" no matter what.
"He was a Scarlet Heaven Cultist who tried to summon the Gray Realm Convergence opposite your Theater House, and was killed by me." Liu Qingyan explained softly.
Hearing this, the gaze Chen Ling looked at Liu Qingyan with grew increasingly astonished.
He knew before that Liu Qingyan had awakened a Divine Path, but he didn't expect that after not seeing each other for half a year, she had actually grown to this extent... For an ordinary Divine Path Possessor, a Scarlet Heaven Cultist wasn't something you could just kill easily.
"So it was you." Chen Ling asked back in doubt, "How did you find me?"
"I can see the silk threads between Faiths, so I followed them here."
"What does this have to do with finding me?"
Chen Ling froze. He frowned as he looked at Liu Qingyan in front of him, and found that the latter's eyes were full of devotion and sincerity, without any sign of lying... This reminded him of the conversation this young girl had with him, the "Golden Society Special Envoy", half a year ago.
[...It was he who redeemed this little girl from purgatory. Whether he is good or evil, this little girl is willing to become his sword.]
Chen Ling couldn't quite understand the "Faith" Liu Qingyan spoke of. In his view, he merely conveniently helped this girl resolve a few scumbag judges. Perhaps it could be considered a favor, but it shouldn't have reached the so-called level of "Faith"... Chen Ling always believed that this term would only appear in religion, and only targeting "Gods".
Therefore, in Chen Ling's understanding, Liu Qingyan's "Faith" might just be a deeper expression of "gratitude".
"This Meeting Gift is very precious... If it weren't for you, I'm afraid the Theater House would have already been breached by Calamities." Chen Ling accepted this half head, "In short, thank you."
The corners of Liu Qingyan's mouth rose unconsciously. She lifted her skirt hem with both hands and bowed respectfully:
"You don't need to thank me, this is what this little girl should do."
"It's too dangerous outside right now. You haven't been on the Divine Path for long, and your Rank shouldn't be high. It's more appropriate to hide first." Chen Ling reminded her kindly, "You can go to the Jinghong Theater. There's a 'good Samaritan' guarding there now, so it's relatively safe."
Liu Qingyan resolutely shook her head, "I won't leave."
"Why?"
"I'm here to share your burdens." Liu Qingyan glanced at the two mangled corpses in the pharmacy. "You want to deal with the Scarlet Heaven Cult, I can help you... Although I might not be their match head-on, I can find them."
"You can find Scarlet Heaven Cultists??" Chen Ling was incomparably surprised.
"Lord Chen Ling, I told you... I can see [Faith]."
Liu Qingyan blinked her eyes gently. Threads of silk extended from the half head, entangling with the silk threads of the two corpses in the pharmacy, connecting into nothingness... At the same time, a large number of silk threads rose from another direction in the Red Dust Main City. Some of these silk threads were as thin as those of the two in the pharmacy, while others were thicker, weaving into a giant rope and disappearing into the air.
In Liu Qingyan's eyes, the Scarlet Heaven Cultists who believed in the "Supreme Crimson Sky World-Saving Exalted One" were like prominently marked targets in the Red Dust Domain, with each person's location incomparably clear.
Liu Qingyan's Divine Path would indeed be affected by the Scarlet Heaven Cult, but from another perspective, wasn't she another form of natural enemy to the Scarlet Heaven Cult?
"You can really locate the other Scarlet Heaven Cultists?" Chen Ling's eyes lit up. "Where are they now?"
"Except for a few, the others' locations are very concentrated... Probably in that direction."
"...Very well, Qingyan, you did very well."
Chen Ling said sincerely.
Liu Qingyan's appearance was too timely for the current Chen Ling, simply as if preordained in the dark... Chen Ling could guess that this was in all likelihood the effect of the [Imperial Fate]. This passive skill, which always had a low sense of presence, could always play a crucial role at critical moments.
Hearing Chen Ling's words, Liu Qingyan's figure trembled slightly. She lowered her head, and beneath her calm and cold exterior, her heart was already incomparably joyous... That was a satisfaction of one's own existence being recognized. In her past dozen years of wandering and destitution, this was perhaps something more precious than life.
"Come with me. If a fight breaks out, hide far away."
"..." Liu Qingyan didn't respond to these words, but instead asked back softly, "If we go over like this, they will have their guard up, right?"
The gathering of Scarlet Heaven Cultists was definitely different from acting alone or in pairs. If they rashly went over like this, it would indeed be very difficult to approach... Chen Ling lowered his head in deep thought.
Right at this moment, from the corner of his eye, he saw a Shadow Centipede with a very familiar shape winding out from the nearby Gray Realm Convergence Point. A massive head was looking around, seemingly searching for the Aura of the Sighing Wilderness.
He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"——Hey, meat chicken."
He suddenly shouted in a deep voice.
Seemingly hearing the sound coming from Chen Ling's side, that Shadow Centipede slowly turned its head. When it clearly saw the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe on Chen Ling, its body violently jolted, and it subconsciously retreated backwards...
Seeing this, Chen Ling instead forced his way towards it step by step, a faint smile hooking the corner of his mouth.
"Come, come here..."
"Don't worry, I won't eat you... I just have some business with you."
...
Clack——clack——clack...
The body of the giant skeletal beast shattered bit by bit. A figure dressed in white, holding an eight-foot ink brush, calmly stepped over the corpses of Calamities scattered all over the ground, as the tide of ink wash slowly gathered beneath his feet.
Wisps of white breath drifted from the corners of Lü Liangren's lips, and his calm eyes swept across the surroundings.
At the same time, the two Sixth Stage skeletal Calamities that were still observing from not far away were scared by his single glance into constantly retreating... as if seeing some even more terrifying monster.
"Truly... endless." Lü Liangren frowned deeply.
He tightly gripped the eight-foot ink brush in his hand, and was just about to slay these two Calamities, when he suddenly seemed to sense something and turned his head to look in a certain direction.
"This is... Ghost Mockery Abyss? How could this be?" Lü Liangren froze, "Is there a traitor within the Scarlet Heaven Cult?"
A Ghost Mockery Abyss suddenly popping up amidst a group of Sighing Wilderness territories, Lü Liangren found it hard to imagine what other possibility there was besides a traitor appearing within the Scarlet Heaven Cult. Moreover, as that touch of gray spread madly, the silhouettes of several shadow monsters were rapidly approaching here!
Seeing this, the murderous intent in Lü Liangren's eyes grew even more chilling.
"Seeking death."
The ink wash tide beneath Lü Liangren's feet opened up again. Just as he was planning to fight another great battle, those few shadow monsters actually directly swept past his side, madly slaughtering the two skeletal Calamities on the opposite side!
Lü Liangren: ???