"[Cut]"
The black current jumped silently from the crevices of the shattered earth, like a burning flame surging towards the sky.
The Assassin hiding around the rock moon waiting for a guaranteed-kill strike, and Sun Bumian standing in the air, were both caught off guard and blasted flying while spurting blood by the aftermath of [Finger of Breaking Delusions]!
The sudden turn of events stunned Tu Tian and numerous other "participants". They had thought [Finger of Breaking Delusions] would have immense destructive power, but didn't expect it to be this fierce. And this was under the circumstance where Kongwang specifically swept across to kill people. If he had directly poured it into the earth from the start, perhaps the Old District would have thoroughly evaporated to nothingness.
But even so, one-third of the Old District's area had already been melted away by the black current!
Just as Tu Tian was about to retreat, a ghost-like figure instantly appeared behind him, and countless chains were grasped in Kongwang's palm.
"[Quake]."
Taking advantage of Sun Bumian still being blasted flying by the aftermath of [Finger of Breaking Delusions], Kongwang directly utilized Soul Shock. In the next moment, Tu Tian, who was swinging his banner preparing to fight him, was caught off guard and frozen in place.
As Kongwang raised his hand as a "knife" and dropped it, Tu Tian's head was chopped open, fresh blood splashing in the void.
Kongwang held the character "Knife" in his hand, fiercely turning around, and fought together with the rapidly charging Jian Changsheng. After the two clinked and clanked chopping successively a few times, Kongwang directly waved his hand and dissipated the "Knife" character, transforming to use the Path of Force descending from the sky, slapping Jian Changsheng, who was temporarily in the air relying on inertia, down into the abyss with one palm!
All this happened too fast. From Kongwang releasing [Finger of Breaking Delusions] to three deaths and three injuries, a total of only four seconds had passed...
The originally excellent situation under the joint siege of the prodigies was directly overturned following that apocalyptic strike, also proving that there indeed existed an insurmountable chasm between Kongwang and this group of young people!
What they were facing was a Sixth Stage Path of Ghosts who had opened the ghost gate and gone completely berserk!
Kongwang's figure floated silently in the void. Using [Finger of Breaking Delusions] twice in a row caused fatigue that was difficult to conceal to emerge in his pupils. The chains seizing the numerous souls also faintly became somewhat lightened and ethereal.
Maintaining the opening of the ghost gate for so long, Kongwang was also somewhat unable to hold on. Fortunately, the overall situation was now set, and the remaining heavily injured individuals and rabble fundamentally couldn't amount to anything...
"Ghost gate, close."
As Kongwang formed a hand seal in front of him, the ghost gate behind him began to slowly close.
Right at this moment, among the army of souls entwined by chains, a young figure draped in a gray jacket silently and slowly opened his eyes...
Purple double pupils were exposed to the air, mysterious and sharp. As he backhandedly grasped the snow-white chain on his wrist, a surge of power crazily surged out from the ghost face on his collarbone!
The closing ghost gate suddenly seemed to be held open by a pair of invisible giant hands, forcefully frozen in mid-air!
Kongwang's pupils abruptly contracted. He fiercely turned his head to look behind him, meeting those purple pupils... The Original floated in the air, calmly overlooking Kongwang, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curling up.
"Thank you for your gift... If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would only be weak enough to suffer an Annihilated Soul..."
The Original yanked those chains, abruptly exerting force. An aura spread from the ghost face on his collarbone to all the chains... What that aura connected to was the World-Ending Calamity of Taboo in the deepest part of the Forbidden Sea, and the Land of Divine Rituals inside its belly that had already been lost for hundreds of years!
In the next moment, as if some kind of witchcraft had been triggered, all the surrounding souls gradually withered as if drained, and continuously drilled into The Original's body in a steady stream!
"How is this possible?!!" Kongwang spoke in disbelief. "A soul, how can it counter the Path of Ghosts!?"
"I'm merely swallowing a bit of soul nutrition. Don't worry, I'm a soul, I can't cause substantial harm to you." The Original raised his hand and pointed into the distance. "Compared to me, you'd better worry about him..."
"He, is the real monster."
Kongwang was stunned, following The Original's fingertip to look. He saw that in the void of the shattered Old District, a dash of scarlet was stepping on the void, slowly walking over!
A Great Crimson Theatrical Robe danced amidst the flying dust. Chen Ling's pupils were hollow like an abyss. Half of his skull was shattered and missing, still slowly squirming to repair itself. At this moment, one could even see the squirming blood vessels and brain matter inside...
He was slow and stiff step by step, like a zombie from the netherworld, and like a sleepwalking ghost. He looked absolutely hair-raising!
"That... what kind of monster is that?!"
The Assassin, who was blasted flying to the distance and heavily injured near death, saw Chen Ling in this state, and unprecedented terror emerged in his eyes!
The "participants" to the side were also mentally shaken when they saw this!
"It's him! It's definitely him!"
"It really is as the rumors said... Resurrection, but also terrifying to the extreme!"
"Is this the oppressive feeling of a World-Destroying Tier?? How satisfying!!"
"???"
"The aura of the Calamity of Mockery isn't as massive as imagined, it shouldn't be the arrival of the World-Ending calamity... He is still Chen Ling."
"Then his appearance..."
"..."
Kongwang stared fixedly at the Chen Ling before him, as if facing a formidable enemy!
The first time he performed Soul Seizing, he seized an inexplicable Path of the Witch God; the second time he wanted to directly beat him to an Annihilated Soul, but the result was that he still didn't die... He didn't know what kind of monster this guy before him was, but right now he indeed sensed an extremely dangerous aura from the other party!
At the same time,
Chen Ling, whose eyes were hollow as an abyss, slowly张开双唇, and ambiguously and obscurely spat out a word:
"[Cut]."
In the next moment, everything around was abruptly frozen!
It was like time had stagnated, and like space was frozen. In short, all matter and creatures except Chen Ling in the Theatrical Robe stopped their movements at this moment.
Dust hovered in the air. The lingering terror remained in everyone's eyes. Kongwang's expression was heavy. Jian Changsheng, who was struggling to climb the cliff in the abyss, stepped out with one hand and one foot, like an incredibly lifelike sculpture...
Immediately after, a second word was spat out from Chen Ling's mouth:
"[Retake]."
Everything around began to rewind, just like a video with the rewind button pressed. The dust flowed backward into the distance. Everyone's expressions changed from terror to solemnity. Kongwang flew back towards the sky again. Jian Changsheng first uncoordinatedly crawled backward back into the abyss, and then followed a large pile of rubble to float back to the sky together...
At the same time,
Lines of ethereal text resembling The Script began to scroll beside Chen Ling.
[Action: Kongwang turns his head to look back]
[The Original (Calmly) (Raises hand pointing in a certain direction): "I'm merely swallowing a bit of soul nutrition. Don't worry, I'm a soul, I can't cause substantial harm to you. Compared to me, you'd better worry about him... He, is the real monster."]
[Kongwang (In disbelief): "How is this possible?!! A soul, how can it counter the Path of Ghosts!?"]
[Special Effects: The Original swallows souls, chains are entwined by witchcraft Curse Runes]
[Action: The Original slowly opens his eyes]
[Kongwang (Fatigued): "Ghost gate, close."]
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