Smash It
"This secret treasure also can't last long. Once we break free from the restraints, it's not impossible to catch up to them."
"As for the public... we'll just say we intentionally let them leave, waiting for an opportunity to draw out the other Dusk Society members hiding within the Tianshu Domain... Anyway, there's always a way to explain it."
"That's right, what the public saw was just three Dusk Society members fleeing in panic. Public opinion is still in our favor."
The several representatives calmly pondered over the subsequent handling methods.
In the distance, the several Dusk Society members seemed to be tired of cursing, and sat leisurely on the chairs resting.
The current situation was the most perfect for them. Their own identities hadn't been exposed, and the three 6s also successfully used the secret treasure to escape the Tianshu Domain...
Although they bore some more unwarranted infamy, this was already commonplace for the Dusk Society.
Right at this moment,
The Dusk Society crowd, who had completely relaxed, caught a glimpse of those three figures from the corners of their eyes. Their expressions suddenly stiffened in place, their eyes wide open in disbelief...
What the hell?!!
Why did these three come back??
In an instant, the hearts of the Dusk Society crowd raised to their throats. They racked their brains but couldn't understand how these three 6s could launch a counterattack... Even as fellow Dusk Society members, they couldn't understand the brain circuits of Chen Ling and the others.
"They came back??" A domain representative seeing this scene also froze in place.
"How is it possible... Coming back at this time, do they want to throw their lives away?"
"No..."
Seeing Chen Ling's trio fly past above their heads, charging straight towards that magnificent pillar of starlight towering into the clouds in the battlefield, the Master of the Babel Tower suddenly seemed to realize something.
"They want to snatch the Heaven-Reaching Star Position!!"
"What?!!"
"Damn it, how dare they?"
"The Heaven-Reaching Star Position contains humanity's destiny, it's something prepared by the Five Great Realms to cultivate humanity's top-tier Combat Power... How can we let the people of the Dusk Society occupy it?!"
"Crazy... truly crazy! The entire city wants them dead, yet they still dare to turn back to snatch the Heaven-Reaching Star Position?!"
"..."
Detecting the intentions of Chen Ling's trio, all the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms present completely exploded!
If Chen Ling's trio had fled far away after restraining them, although it would be slapping the faces of the Five Great Realms, it wasn't unredeemable. After all, they "fled in panic";
But if Chen Ling's trio returned unhurriedly after leaving, snatching away the Heaven-Reaching Star Position in front of all the residents and higher-ups, what was the difference between this and nakedly humiliating the Five Great Realms?
This humiliation was direct, brutal, and unredeemable...
It was like a thief entering a house, rummaging around, leaving, and then swaggering back to slap the owner in the face twice.
"Six of Hearts!!!"
The higher-ups of the Five Great Realms were pressed onto the Audience seats, glaring angrily at Chen Ling's trio. Their bodies exerted force trying to break free from the restraints of the Path of the Actor, but couldn't shake it a single bit... Only leaving behind gazes capable of killing, wishing to cut Chen Ling into ten thousand pieces.
But to Chen Ling's trio, this was nothing...
If gazes could kill, they would have already been killed ten thousand times over the street just now.
"Flustered and exasperated, huh..."
Sun Bumian shrugged, speaking somewhat helplessly, "Indeed, I shouldn't have waded into this muddy water, now we've stirred up big trouble."
"From the moment we were exposed, we had already stirred up trouble." Chen Ling said indifferently. "To the Dusk Society, is there any difference between small trouble and big trouble? Anyway, in the end, we'll all be wanted and hunted down by others."
"That's true."
"However, don't try to actively attack them, otherwise the secret treasure will think we are inviting them to 'perform' together, thereby lifting the restraints on them... By then it will be troublesome."
"Understood."
Chen Ling's trio walked down step by step from the air, arriving straight at the center of the shattered battlefield. A black throne bathed in the pillar of starlight, magnificent and grand, stood majestically.
This was precisely the Heaven-Reaching Star Position that Jian Changsheng actively summoned using his Privilege when fighting Kongwang!
Amidst everyone's warnings and angry roars, the three stopped in front of the Heaven-Reaching Star Position.
"Go ahead." Chen Ling turned back to look at Jian Changsheng. "Go Defying Fate."
Jian Changsheng stared blankly at that black throne, feeling as if in a dream. He never thought that one day he would actually be able to come before this seat and welcome the opportunity to Defying Fate...
He took a deep breath, nodded heavily, and then stepped onto the throne step by step.
Everyone's gaze gathered on his body.
The blood-stained black windbreaker turned around in front of the throne, and then slowly sat down bathed in the starlight... Jian Changsheng's heart felt like it was going to jump out of his chest, visibly nervous.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Time ticked by minute by minute, second by second, yet no Anomaly occurred.
Chen Ling and Sun Bumian's brows furrowed tightly. Deep confusion also emerged in Jian Changsheng's eyes on the throne...
Why was there no reaction from the Heaven-Reaching Star Position?
"The Heaven-Reaching Star Position is the painstaking work of our Tower to Heaven. Without our permission, it won't be activated." A voice came from afar. The Master of the Babel Tower, who was pressed onto the seat, maintained a very calm expression throughout,
"If you thought that no matter who it was, they could get it just by sitting on it, that would be a bit too naive... Did you think our Five Great Realms couldn't guess that people with malicious intentions would sneak into the competition? Even if the final competition concluded and a winner emerged, we would conduct background checks on the winner, and only after confirming there's no problem, would we grant the position.
This design was originally made to prevent the Fire-Stealers or the Dusk Society from succeeding..."
Hearing this sentence, Jian Changsheng's face instantly turned pale!
Chen Ling's brows also tightly twisted together. He abruptly turned his head to look at the Master of the Babel Tower, his sharp gaze as if it could kill.
No one expected such an unforeseen event. Both Chen Ling and Jian Changsheng thought that as long as they sat on the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, they would obtain the corresponding buffs... But thinking about it carefully, this actually seemed more reasonable. After all, with the cautiousness of the Five Great Realms, how could they not take precautions against the Dusk Society?
Chen Ling even suspected that this competition for the Heaven-Reaching Star Position itself could be considered a disguised "bait". From the very beginning, the Five Great Realms had factored the Dusk Society into their calculations!
Right at this moment, Sun Bumian's unhurried voice sounded:
"Oh~ is that so?"
Chen Ling and Jian Changsheng simultaneously looked over.
Only to see Sun Bumian squatting in front of the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, gently pulling down the small Round Sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. The Awakened Lion pupils nested with colorful rings were sizing up the core of the star position.
In the perspective of those pupils, a mass of golden karmic luck was continuously surging deep within the seat.
"There is indeed a ray of starlight sealing that mass of karmic luck... But it doesn't look that complicated." Sun Bumian lazily stood up.
He pointed at the throne and spoke leisurely,
"Smash it."