Buffoon
Chen Ling could feel that this Dao Foundation divine treasure in his hand seemed to be a one-time use item.
And exactly because of this, once this Dao Foundation divine treasure was used, the suppressive force it exerted was far beyond what the other Dao Foundation divine treasures could compare to!
After the Principle of [Seating of All Living Beings] was triggered, wherever Chen Ling went, all living creatures would be forcefully pressed onto the Audience seats, just like watching a performance that permitted no interference... And the trio of Chen Ling, Jian Changsheng, and Sun Bumian, were the actors on the Stage receiving the attention of everyone.
"Let's go, quickly!"
Sun Bumian also saw the gradually cracking Markings on the token, and immediately spoke, "While this thing is still taking effect, we will charge all the way into the Gray World... Once we get there, they shouldn't be able to chase us over."
Chen Ling and Sun Bumian simultaneously stepped out with [Cloud Steps], their figures soaring into the air in the Old District.
"Wait... then what about me??"
Jian Changsheng watched helplessly as the two of them flew away. Anxious, he was about to bite his fingertip and use [Blood-Drop Spinner] to chase after them... But as Chen Ling flipped the token in his hand, a staircase of ethereal Cloud Steps was also outlined beneath Jian Changsheng's feet.
Jian Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief and immediately stepped on the void to chase after them. Just like that, the three figures rushed out of the edge of the Old District!
Watching the three escape, the eyes of the Dusk Society crowd were filled with pleasant surprise.
Like everyone else, they were locked in place by [Seating of All Living Beings]. Seeing that Chen Ling's trio actually successfully escaped, the corners of their mouths uncontrollably curled upwards...
But seeing that there were still personnel from the organizer's logistics department around, they didn't dare to truly laugh out loud. They could only use curses to cover up their uncontrollable smiles:
"What?? We actually let these little brats run away?!"
"My second aunt's eldest son died in Aurora City, it must have a lot to do with them... Let me go! I want to go find them for revenge! I want to smash their corpses into ten thousand pieces!!"
"We just let them run away so handsomely and freely?! Damn it! What are the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms even doing?!"
"Damn them! They truly deserve to die!!"
"The Dusk Society is worse than pigs and dogs!!"
"Let me go! I want to fight to the death with the vile thieves of the Dusk Society!!"
"..."
Hearing these people's cursing one after another, the complexions of the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms became increasingly ugly. They stared fixedly at the direction Chen Ling and the others left, their teeth almost shattering from gritting!
...
Jian Changsheng carefully stepped on the Cloud Steps, walking in the air.
This was Jian Changsheng's first time stepping on Cloud Steps. When he looked down, he saw the empty void and the distant city streets... This feeling of emptiness beneath his feet made him somewhat uneasy, and his speed was also slightly slower than Chen Ling and Sun Bumian.
"Hearts! I won't fall down, right?!" Jian Changsheng's face was somewhat pale.
"No."
"... But we're so high up now."
"What? You, a Path of the Soldier, are afraid of heights?" Sun Bumian raised an eyebrow. "This height is already very low, probably just a few dozen meters off the ground... With your physical fitness, even if you fall directly down, you wouldn't fall to your death."
"Who... who's afraid of heights?! It's just my first time flying, I'm a bit unaccustomed."
Sun Bumian couldn't be bothered to expose Jian Changsheng's "toughness". He turned his head to look at Chen Ling, "How is it, how much longer can this secret treasure last?"
"More than enough to last until we enter the Gray World." Chen Ling answered calmly.
"That's good."
Stepping on the void, the three traversed the edge of the Old District and arrived in the urban area of the Tianshu Domain.
The public, who were originally indignant, suddenly froze in place when they saw Chen Ling's trio walk out from the Old District... The shouts and anger that were rising one after another just now had all disappeared at this moment.
The crowded streets fell into a deathly silence.
Confusion, puzzlement, shock... Pairs of eyes watched Chen Ling's trio stepping out on the void, as if not believing what they saw.
One must know, the representatives of the Five Great Realms had just descended. Yet now there was no movement at all inside the Old District, and instead the people from the Dusk Society ran out?
What exactly were those domain representatives doing?!
Feeling thousands of gazes staring straight at him from below, Jian Changsheng felt uncomfortable all over... Hostility, fear, apprehension, it felt like ants were crawling all over his body, making his brows furrow tighter and tighter.
They clearly hadn't done anything wrong, yet they had to be looked at with such gazes, making him feel somewhat unbalanced in his heart.
Right at this moment,
Something was thrown up from the ground, swaying as it flew past beneath the trio, and then fell towards the ground.
The three were slightly stunned, because what flew past wasn't an attack or pursuers, but an egg... or rather, an egg that was already emitting a foul stench.
"Fuck you Dusk ghosts!!"
A figure resembling an uncle in the crowd, carrying a vegetable basket, was glaring angrily at Chen Ling's trio with wide eyes. "Others might be afraid of you! But our Tianshu Domain is not afraid of you! Roll back into your mother's womb!!"
In the deathly silence, the uncle's curse was extremely clear, even spreading across several surrounding streets.
The uncle's curse seemed to have aroused the hot blood and resentment of a portion of the people. Adding to the fact that they saw a steady stream of figures starting to charge over from the Tower to Heaven in the distance, seemingly to encircle and suppress Chen Ling's trio, for a time, their backs unconsciously straightened!
Relying on this hot blood and cohesion, more and more people started pointing at the trio in the sky and cursing:
"A bunch of vile thieves who only want to see the world in chaos!! You are the shame of humanity!"
"Executioners! Murderers!!"
"You are not worthy to set foot in the Human Domains!! Scram out!"
"A bunch of Buffoons, you won't be jumping around for long! The Five Great Realms will catch you all in one net!"
"You only deserve to live in the stinking gutter like rats! Tuck your tails between your legs and run away!!"
"..."
The surging public anger materialized into substance here. Countless rotten leaves, stones, and shoes were continuously thrown into the sky. But the strength of these Ordinary Persons was limited, fundamentally unable to touch Chen Ling's trio. However, this didn't affect their "morale" in the slightest.
Vicious curses were like feathered arrows, overwhelmingly surging towards Chen Ling's trio.
For a time, they became the target of Unanimous Condemnation.
"You actually still want to harm our young prodigies and lay your hands on the Heaven-Reaching Star Position?! What kind of things are you? Are you even worthy??"
A curse drilled into Jian Changsheng's ears, and his whole body shook.
He lowered his head, his fists silently clenching tight. Under the uncontrollable strength, his fingernails pierced the skin of his palms, and scarlet fresh blood dripped down along his knuckles onto the earth...
No one worked harder than Jian Changsheng.
How many life-and-death struggles, how many times reaching the limit. From the very beginning, Jian Changsheng had been seriously preparing for seizing the Heaven-Reaching Star Position... Aside from Kongwang, he was the one who killed the most people in the Old District, and also the one who was injured the most and the heaviest.
He gritted his teeth, fought a bloody battle all the way to the end, and just as he was about to obtain the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, he still stepped forward to defeat Kongwang and protect everyone...
Yet in the end, he only received the words "Buffoon" and "Are you even worthy".