Scabbard
Smash it.
These three understated words fell into the ears of the numerous domain higher-ups, making them stun.
Chen Ling didn't hesitate in the slightest. He lightly brushed his fingertips on the ground, and jumping electric arcs roamed on the surface. A black, heavy Bone-Stripping Knife was slowly pulled out from the earth by him!
[Reshape]!
At the same time, a Domain rapidly expanded with him at the center!
The Oppressive Aura unleashed by the [Tribunal] blew Chen Ling's Great Crimson Theatrical Robe fluttering. Holding that Bone-Stripping Knife wreathed in electric arcs with one hand, he walked towards the Heaven-Reaching Star Position expressionlessly.
"Spades... step aside."
Chen Ling spoke indifferently.
"Six of Hearts! What do you want to do?!" A Tower to Heaven higher-up saw this, veins popping on his neck. "You dare to smash the Heaven-Reaching Star Position?!"
"Do you know how much painstaking effort one Heaven-Reaching Star Position cost us?!"
"Human Luck is illusory, apart from the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, there's nothing that can contain it!! Even if you smash it! You won't get anything!!"
"We gave our all just to forge seven Heaven-Reaching Star Positions! There wasn't any in the past, and there won't be any more in the future! By smashing one! Humanity will forever lack a trace of karmic luck!"
"Shattering and depriving Human Luck! You will definitely be condemned by heaven!!"
"..."
The angry roars coming from all directions didn't affect Chen Ling in the slightest.
Just like that, holding the knife, he arrived step by step before the magnificent black throne. The power of the Tribunal converged on the blade as he slowly looked up at the starlight towering into the clouds...
"Condemnation by heaven?" Chen Ling smiled slightly. "In my mind, there's already the most terrifying heavenly condemnation in this world."
He slashed the Bone-Stripping Knife in his hand forcefully towards the throne!!
Boom—!!!
An earth-shattering explosion resounded through the Old District.
The moment the blade touched the throne, the electric light of [Reshape] lowered the destruction limit of its material to the minimum. Coupled with a slash accompanied by [Judgment], the magnificent throne was instantly covered in dense cracks, and then forcefully split open from the center under the immense force!
Shattered stones splashed in all directions carried by the strong wind, the flying dust instantly obscuring the earth!
The Heaven-Reaching Star Position collapsed with a bang in front of the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe. That starlight towering into the clouds also shattered inch by inch as the knife light flashed by, dissipating in the air...
"Holy crap..."
The Dusk Society crowd who saw the entire process from afar stayed in place like stone statues, their eyes filled with shock. "Are these young Juniors... all this fierce?!"
Looking at it this way, Jin Fugui really didn't die unjustly... After going back, they'd have to complain about him a bit less.
At the same time,
A blurred ball of starlight floated up from inside the throne, seemingly about to dissipate in the air immediately.
"Diamonds." Chen Ling spoke in a deep voice.
In fact, before Chen Ling could even speak to remind him, Sun Bumian had already moved.
A Domain silently expanded, and the two auras of auspiciousness and inauspiciousness respectively wreathed Sun Bumian's palms. He lightly plucked at that starlight, and the latter stopped dissipating to the surroundings as if wrapped and locked by something, but instead silently hovered in the air.
That trace of Human Luck, capable of making one Turning Calamity into Blessing and finding fortune in disaster...
In Sun Bumian's eyes, it was one of the "Great Auspiciousness" in the world.
But perhaps due to it being related to the entire Human Luck, even Sun Bumian couldn't quite control it while holding this "Great Auspiciousness". A ball of gold was gradually peeled off from beneath the starlight, faintly trembling in the air.
"Go."
Sun Bumian raised his hand, pointing at Jian Changsheng.
Under Sun Bumian's control, that mass of golden karmic luck flew straight towards Jian Changsheng...
Jian Changsheng watched that karmic luck arrive before him, somewhat nervous and somewhat delighted. But before it could completely merge into his body, an ancient Killing Intent surged on his body, directly blocking the golden karmic luck outside!
Jian Changsheng: ???
"What's the situation?" Chen Ling frowned and asked.
Seeing this, Sun Bumian gave Jian Changsheng a complex look and shook his head,
"No good. His fate is too fierce, the karmic luck can't merge in... Extreme Great Auspiciousness and Great Inauspiciousness can't coexist in the same space and time."
Jian Changsheng froze in place.
He blankly stared at that mass of golden karmic luck close at hand, a burst of sorrow welling up in his heart...
"Forget it, Hearts... forget it." A trace of a smile squeezed out from the corners of Jian Changsheng's mouth,
"I should have realized it long ago. From the moment we stepped into the Old District, everything has been going wrong... Being crazily hunted down at the start, then a Kongwang popped up. After finally killing him with great difficulty, being hunted down by the Five Great Realms again. Turning back wanting to snatch the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, but it needed to be activated, so the throne was smashed. In the end, the karmic luck couldn't merge in...
In the unseen world, there has always been something hindering me, preventing me from getting this trace of karmic luck...
My fate cannot be changed."
Jian Changsheng was already tired. This world gave him hope time and time again, yet continuously crushed that hope. His mood went up and down like a roller coaster, and he was truly exhausted by now.
"Having already reached this point, you think you can just say forget it and it's forgotten?" Chen Ling spoke in a cold voice.
Chen Ling didn't care whether Little Jian was tired or not. He only knew they had walked to this point with great difficulty. If they fell short at the final step, then everything would become a joke.
"Diamonds, is there no other way?"
Sun Bumian pondered for a moment, "They can't merge inside his body, this is certain... But if this karmic luck is kept outside his body long-term, the superposition of the two auras should also be able to take effect, it's just that the effect wouldn't be as good as merging into his body."
"That works too. What should be done?"
"I need a container. The shape and material don't matter, but it must possess the 'form' of a container."
Seeing this, Chen Ling casually picked up a piece of steel fragment from the ground. After thinking for a moment, he activated [Reshape], and electric arcs flashed on its surface.
A moment later,
A thumb-sized silver Scabbard appeared between his palms.
Chen Ling threw this Scabbard to Sun Bumian. The latter continuously kneaded it with both hands, as if kneading dough, kneading that trace of golden karmic luck into the shape of the Scabbard, and stuffed it into the Scabbard bit by bit.
This process looked extremely difficult. Even Sun Bumian was exhausted to the point of sweating profusely. When that karmic luck was completely stuffed inside, a crisp resonance sounded from within the Scabbard!
Ding—!!
A wave of air swept out from inside the Scabbard. That trace of Human Luck had been completely locked. The silver Scabbard seemed to be covered in some kind of mysterious veil, emitting an indescribable luster.
After finishing all this, Sun Bumian seemed to be drained of energy, his face turning pale.
With a casual toss, he threw this Scabbard to Jian Changsheng, and then while wiping the sweat from his face, he grumbled:
"Damn it, if I had known I wouldn't have come to be this coolie, it's really strenuous... Spades, you owe me and Hearts a massive favor!"