Star Cluster Activated
Jian Changsheng caught the miniature silver Scabbard, still not having recovered his senses for a moment.
Chen Ling pondered for a moment, raised his hand and grabbed that Scabbard over. Little Jian stared blankly at him, neither stopping him nor asking... It wasn't until Chen Ling used [Reshape] to conjure a silver necklace to string the Scabbard and stuffed it back into Jian Changsheng's arms that he stopped.
"Wear it. Your fate, we have changed it for you." Chen Ling spoke calmly.
Jian Changsheng looked at the necklace in his hands, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably...
Jian Changsheng hadn't expected that the Heaven-Reaching Star Position would ultimately come to his side in this manner. Not only him, even the Five Great Realms, even the Tower to Heaven, the pinnacle of the Path of the Artisan, couldn't have thought of it or done it... But only Chen Ling and Sun Bumian, they did it.
Jian Changsheng's fate was rough and tragic. By himself, it was absolutely impossible to accomplish all this. Chen Ling and Sun Bumian were like two large hands of light extending from the darkness, forcefully dragging him out of the quagmire of fate, and even slapping fate twice in the face!
Sun Bumian was right, he owed a massive favor for this.
Jian Changsheng silently put on the necklace. His gaze looked at the two before him, his expression incomparably complex...
"Thank you."
"Now is not the time to say thanks." Chen Ling looked down at the [Seating of All Living Beings] token in his hand full of cracks, his expression somewhat solemn, "We should hurry up."
"What are we waiting for?! This time we really have to run!"
Without another word, Sun Bumian stepped on the [Cloud Steps] and with a swoosh, flew into the clouds. The composure of an old artist originally on him had already disappeared. His legs moved rapidly, as if he would be caught by the grim reaper if he were any slower.
The effective time of [Seating of All Living Beings] was inherently limited. If Chen Ling's trio hadn't turned back just now, it would have been enough to protect them charging all the way out of the Tianshu Domain.
But they chose to charge back to the Old District, and spent a large amount of time on the Heaven-Reaching Star Position. Now the time limit of this Dao Foundation divine treasure was already extremely tight. Whether it could protect them as they left was still an unknown...
And right now, the five domain representatives seated, as well as the high-Rank members of the Tower to Heaven, had been thoroughly enraged. Once Chen Ling's trio retreated a bit slower, the outcome went without saying.
"Let's go!"
Chen Ling also quickly stepped into the void, transforming into a long red streak chasing towards the horizon.
Jian Changsheng also couldn't care whether he was afraid of heights or not. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and charged forward. His right hand tightly clutched the Scabbard Necklace, as if praying to heaven to grant them the good luck of Turning Calamity into Blessing.
The three figures rushed out of the Old District one after another. The public in the Tianshu Domain, who had finally caught their breath with great difficulty, saw the three coming and going freely here, and once again cried out in terror!
"They actually really smashed the Heaven-Reaching Star Position!" The complexion of a domain representative was incomparably ugly.
"The five of us acted simultaneously, plus the encirclement and suppression of the Tower to Heaven, yet we still let the three of them enter and exit the Tianshu Domain as if it were an uninhabited land... If the events of this time were to spread out, it will inevitably cause a massive panic."
"We absolutely cannot let them leave the Tianshu Domain just like this..."
"Damn it, how much longer until this thing loses its effect?!"
The several domain representatives crazily resisted the effects brought by [Seating of All Living Beings]. Dense cracks spread on the ground beneath the wooden chairs. The Master of the Babel Tower watched the trio go far away. Right at this moment, the six Heaven-Reaching Star Positions distributed all over the Old District began to bloom with piercing starlight!
The starlight was like a blazing torch, shooting straight into the clouds, its might several times grander than before. A Demigod Tier Oppressive Aura took these six pillars of starlight as carriers, crazily expanding to the surroundings!
At this moment, everyone in the Old District couldn't help but look up. Between the intertwined starlight, one could vaguely see a phantom figure standing in mid-air.
Lord of Tianshu!!
Seeing this scene, the hearts of the several Dusk Society members skipped a beat.
As Dusk Society members, they naturally had many intelligence channels, and had also heard that there was a foundation within the Tianshu Domain capable of activating a trace of starlight power left by the Lord of Tianshu before his slumber. Within a short period of time, it could exert Demigod Tier lethality, almost equivalent to a full-force strike from the Lord of Tianshu!
They originally thought this foundation was prepared to resist a World-Ending Calamity Invasion. Who would have thought it would actually be activated now?
Wait...
Resisting a World-Ending Calamity Invasion... Mm, it seems there's nothing wrong with that either.
But were they really planning to use such a grand lineup to deal with three Fourth Order young men? Even if they used such a method to kill Chen Ling's trio, it would consume the Demigod foundation once. It was A Pyrrhic Victory!
Are three 6s really worthy of such treatment??
At the same time, a voice came from the Walkie-talkie in the Tower Master's embrace:
"Tower Master, the 'Star Cluster' is ready, do we still need to use it?"
The several domain representatives exchanged a glance. At this time, they instead calmed down, as if earnestly weighing the pros and cons... In the eyes of the public outside, those were vile thieves of the Dusk Society who could come and go freely in the Tianshu Domain, but they were all very clear that those were merely three Fourth Order ants. No matter what, consuming the "Star Cluster" once for them, the price was truly too great.
But if they didn't do this, humanity's morale would once again be damaged, and it would be too difficult to make up for it.
At this time, everyone looked towards the Master of the Babel Tower. After all, this was the territory of the Tianshu Domain, he was the person who truly made the decision.
The Master of the Babel Tower was silent for a long time. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he heavily spat out one word:
"Use it."
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[Audience Expectation Value +3]
[Current Expectation Value: 34%]
When these two lines of prompts floated up before Chen Ling's eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and the speed of his [Cloud Steps] became even faster!
Although he didn't know where this Expectation Value came from, something that could make the Audience expect at this point in time was absolutely not a good thing... An ominous premonition welled up in Chen Ling's heart.
Boom—!!!
A deafening roar came from behind the three.
A Nine Sovereign Tier fluctuation, centered on the six Heaven-Reaching Starlights of the Old District, swept out in all directions. The surging air waves almost directly knocked the three out of the air!
On the streets closer to the Old District, the crowded public was even swept to the ground by the violent wind, blankly looking up at the sky...
"That's..." Jian Changsheng looked back, his face instantly incomparably pale!
Resplendent starlight rushed into the clouds. Stars connected into lines, and hazily, they seemed to outline a phantom of a human figure stepping on a Star Cluster. That person faced the direction of Chen Ling's trio and slowly raised a palm...
"It's the Lord of Tianshu?!" Sun Bumian's heart also sank. Before the Aura fluctuations of a Nine Sovereign Tier, they were like firewood before the scorching sun, fragile and insignificant... Sun Bumian gritted his teeth, the slightest trace of calmness and playfulness could no longer be seen on his face, as he spoke in shock,
"They actually used the power of the Lord of Tianshu just to kill the three of us Fourth Orders?!!"