Performance and Red Carpet
[Detected loss of actor connection, performance interrupted]
[Audience Expectation Value -50]
[Current Expectation Value: 24%]
Thump— thump— thump...
Spotlights were like blindingly bright sharp swords, turning on one after another on the dark Stage, the dull sounds like thunder.
Chen Ling groggily opened his eyes. Seeing the bright light source above, he knew he had succeeded... After going through untold hardships, he had finally completed a rebirth within the Old District!
He slowly climbed up from the Stage, glanced at the few lines of small text on the screen, and just as he was about to make a move, the surrounding environment suddenly began to change!
The environment of the Stage gradually faded away. A Twisted Divine Path leading to the sky appeared in front of Chen Ling. Scarlet Audience pupils crowded both sides of the divine path, all staring straight at him. The exaggeratedly raised corners of their mouths seemed full of teasing and expectation.
Chen Ling looked down. On this heaven-reaching divine path, he was already at the middle stage of the fourth flight of stairs.
It actually hadn't been long since Chen Ling stepped into the Fourth Order, but ever since he "ate" those Scarlet Heaven Cultists in the Red Dust Domain last time, his Spiritual Power had grown rapidly. Not only did it directly push him into the Fourth Order, but there was also a massive amount of remainder after the Advancement...
It was precisely relying on the remainder from that time that Chen Ling could progress so fast in a short time. Only when the energy of those Scarlet Heaven Cultists was exhausted did he finally arrive at the middle stage of the Fourth Order.
Chen Ling's gaze fell on the small text before his eyes:
[Under the watchful eyes of the public, walk a grand and complete 'red carpet']
Walk the red carpet??
Seeing this requirement, Chen Ling was stunned... Although every performance would bring him surprises, walking the red carpet was an angle he hadn't thought of no matter what.
In his impression, those who could walk the red carpet were all Famous Actors and big shots. He had only seen the grand scene of a galaxy of stars walking the red carpet on TV before the Great Cataclysm.
He never expected that now, as a "Thespian", he also had to walk a "red carpet"?
But how exactly was this red carpet supposed to be walked? He could understand "under the watchful eyes of the public", but what would be considered "grand and complete"?
Chen Ling had no clues, and temporarily had no time to think about it either. After the surrounding environment changed back into The Theater, he immediately looked towards the stage curtain behind him;
Through the image on it, Chen Ling could clearly see the situation outside.
The melee in the distance was earth-shattering. Kongwang seemed to be relying on his own power to suppress the joint forces of numerous prodigies... But Chen Ling didn't care about this. His attention right now was entirely on that "himself" missing half a head, staggering up from the ground.
The half a head was silently repairing. The originally missing arm had already fully grown back. A bizarre and chilling aura floated out from "himself", and those eyes had already turned into the scarlet of The Audience!
"This... is the Loss of Control upon Advancement they spoke of?" Chen Ling muttered to himself.
Chen Ling knew that every time after Advancement, he would experience a Loss of Control, but during past Loss of Control processes he was unconscious, as if he woke up from a sleep and forgot everything...
But this time, perhaps because the Loss of Control upon Advancement was bugged by the emergence of Calamity of Mockery, he was able to see the entire process of "himself" losing control with his own eyes from this perspective on the reborn Theater Stage.
"My consciousness has not intervened, The Audience has not left their seats, and The Original is even more so not inside the body... Then what is it that is controlling my body now?"
Chen Ling muttered to himself.
...
Boom—!!!
Amidst the earth-shattering explosions, Tu Tian's figure was like a kite with a broken string, successively crashing through several buildings, and finally barely coming to a stop amidst a pile of broken walls and ruins.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
Scarlet fresh blood slid down the corner of his mouth. He stared fixedly at that [Fudi] soul proudly overlooking him, his fists clenching tighter and tighter.
Under the enhancement of a massive amount of souls, the intensity of the Path of Force Kongwang could release had already exceeded the original Fudi. Under a head-on clash, even Tu Tian, who was also of the Path of Force, couldn't withstand it...
Originally, Tu Tian hadn't wanted to take action.
In his original plan, snatching the Heaven-Reaching Star Position was naturally the primary goal, but Kongwang's existence had already threatened the lives of everyone here. Moreover, there was still some time before the final Heaven-Reaching Star Position locked in, so he still hurried to the battlefield.
Rumble—
Pu Xiachan in the distance spread her hands and floated towards the sky, her black hair dancing in the wind...
Her lips continuously opened and closed, as if recounting something. Heavy clouds began to stir in the sky. Following the frequency of her words, dense thunderclaps continuously interweaved into various complex Markings!
As Pu Xiachan raised her hand and pointed, a giant lightning dragon, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression, pierced down from high above, charging straight towards Kongwang on the ground!
Roaring thunder pierced through the earth, and escaping electric arcs roamed in the air. In the center of the scorched black earth, Kongwang held a massive "Rock" character single-handedly, forcefully withstanding this strike from Pu Xiachan.
"Go." Li Shengmen stood on a boulder, speaking indifferently.
Following the opening of a Domain, a mark similar to a "bullseye" appeared on Kongwang's body. In the next moment, all the electric arcs drifting in the air were instantly frozen, and then shot from all directions towards Kongwang in the center!
A secondary thunderstorm roared in the ruins. This time, Kongwang fundamentally didn't have time to defend. Following the release of Ghost Dao Divine Abilities, his figure turned into Yin and Yang auras, instantly being reconstructed hundreds of meters away.
This was the instant teleportation method he used to dodge Chen Ling's guaranteed-kill strike earlier!
"You can't escape." Li Shengmen's eyes narrowed slightly.
Immediately after, all matter within the range of the Domain, including dirt, fresh blood, and rocks, seemed like metal affected by a super magnet, sweeping towards Kongwang in the center!
Under this all-around "throwing" with no blind spots, Kongwang's figure was instantly sealed by dirt and stones. Moreover, they piled up more and more, and in the blink of an eye, it became a massive rock moon with a radius of three to four hundred meters suspended in a deep crater in the earth!
"These guys are somewhat capable..." Sun Bumian saw this scene in the distance, seemingly a little surprised.
But following a rippling fluctuation, Sun Bumian's expression changed again!
"Oh no!!"
A black current burst out from deep within the rock moon, instantly blasting a gap in the rock moon. At the same time, it pierced through the confident Li Shengmen standing not far away along with it!
This was not over yet. The black current swept across in an extremely short time, drawing a slanted arc, directly cutting Pu Xiachan and the Young Sect Leader in half at the waist, and finally blasting onto the earth in the distance!
Boom—!!!
Ghost Dao Divine Ability, [Finger of Breaking Delusions]!
Kongwang's trump card that Chen Ling once risked his life to stop was finally activated again at a critical moment. The apocalyptic aura pierced through the entire Old District. After instantly taking the lives of three people, it evaporated the earth into nothingness!