Chapter 1073: The Return of the World-Ender

Looking at Chen Ling's sincere and serious gaze, the Butcher was speechless for a long time.

"The Silver King, has he actually made a move again?" Ning Ruyu pondered with a feigned air of contemplation, "That makes things difficult... It's not easy to snatch something from the hands of the Silver King."

"Yeah, yeah..." Chen Ling nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Butcher: ...

"Mr. Chen, let's stop joking around," the Butcher said, biting the bullet. "If the Silver King had stolen it, why would he only take my blade... and the Silver King hasn't even appeared yet..."

Crack—!

Before the Butcher could finish his sentence, a sudden explosion erupted from the void.

Everyone looked up abruptly to see a rift tearing open in the void. Vaguely, one could see chessboard-like threads crisscrossing behind it, and a figure darted out like lightning!

"Is that the Silver King?!" The Butcher was stunned for a moment, then fury flared wildly in his eyes!

It wasn't just the Butcher; Tian Huai, the Scholar, the Farmer, and Red Sleeve all erupted with astonishing killing intent simultaneously. The Silver King had been playing with them from behind the scenes for so long—now that he had finally shown himself, how could they let this opportunity slip?

Red Sleeve charged at the forefront, spear in hand, like a black meteor surging with killing intent, flying straight toward the Silver King as he darted through the air.

"Get lost!"

The Silver King had no intention of fighting her. With a low roar, he raised his hand to steal the space, shifting away the moment he was about to collide with Red Sleeve, brushing past her in the air.

Red Sleeve hadn't expected the Silver King to dodge her so directly. Her brows furrowed, and she caught the scent of thick blood on the Silver King...

Is the Silver King injured?

The four Judgment Deputies followed closely behind Red Sleeve. Just as they surrounded the Silver King from four different directions, preparing for a life-or-death struggle, a white light flashed over the Silver King, and he vanished from everyone's sight.

The four Judgment Deputies were only at the Eighth Rank, after all. Faced with the Silver King's methods, they were caught off guard and unable to continue tracking his position... One by one, they paused in mid-air.

"What's going on? Is the Silver King really that cowardly?"

Jian Changsheng, who had been waiting to watch a massive brawl, had a look of confusion in his eyes, as did the other members of the Twilight Society.

The Silver King's layout had completely collapsed, and the Wuji Domain was under the control of the Twilight Society. With things having reached this point, he still chose to avoid the fight? Shouldn't he be fighting these people to the death?

Seeing the Silver King disappear from everyone's sight, a thought suddenly flashed through Chen Ling's mind, and his heart sank to the bottom!

"Oh no! He's coming for me!!"

Chen Ling shouted, and the auras of the four senior brothers and sisters around him erupted. While looking around with extreme vigilance, they simultaneously reached out toward Chen Ling...

However, just as their fingertips were about to touch Chen Ling, a white light suddenly flashed over him, and in the next second, his figure vanished without a trace.

"Not good!"

"Little Junior Brother?!?"

Exclamations rang out simultaneously, but Chen Ling's figure had already been stolen away through the air. Ning Ruyu's eyes erupted with unprecedented, chilling killing intent. Her almond eyes swept the surroundings, immediately locking onto the distance!

Atop a clock tower not far from them, the Silver King had Chen Ling firmly clamped in his grip, madness flickering in his eyes.

"Silver King, are you looking for death?!"

Ning Ruyu, Luan Mei, Wen Renyou, and Mo Jiao all surged forward at once. Their killing intent nearly tore through the firmament. The fury of the four actors burned across the entire Wuji Domain as they turned into four streaks of light and flew over!

At the same time, the five Judgment Deputies in the sky also locked onto the Silver King's figure and dove down without hesitation!

Nine Eighth-Rankers sealed off all paths of retreat, swarming toward the standing clock tower!

[Audience Expectation +5]

[Current Expectation: 49%]

At this moment, Chen Ling was completely restrained by the Silver King, watching helplessly as a palm pressed against the top of his head. The Silver King's blood-stained hem danced wildly in the wind, like a lone king driven to a dead end, about to make a final, desperate stand.

Light flickered between the Silver King's palms, and he spoke chillingly,

"I can't kill the Red King, but you can... You are the natural enemy of the Play God Path. As long as you release the Calamity of Mockery, you can finish off everyone here!!"

Chen Ling could not move, could not resist; he could only watch helplessly as the Silver King used the "Stealing Method"... He stared fixedly into the Silver King's eyes and finally spat out five words:

"...You will regret this."

Stealing [Self].

On the stage, Chen Ling, draped in a bright red theatrical robe, vanished instantly, as if he had never appeared at all.

The entire theater fell into a deathly silence. The full house of "audience members" watched the empty stage, their scarlet pupils erupting with blinding radiance. They rushed out from their seats as if they had gone mad, trampling over each other to charge toward the stage like a writhing wave of shadows!

The actor has vanished, the stage is empty, and next...

It is the audience's "carnival."

……

Boom—!!!

A scarlet aura erupted from the clock tower, surging into the sky like an eerie torch. The aura of "World-Ending" surged like a tidal wave, blasting away the several Eighth-Rankers who had already reached the clock tower!

The Butcher's figure flew like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the ground and cracking the earth with dense fissures... He stood up in a disheveled state, seeing countless red papers pouring out from all over the clock tower, astonishment appearing in his eyes.

"This is..."

"The Scarlet Sovereign of the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery, the Faceless King who mocks fate." The Scholar looked at this scene, his face deathly pale, "Damn it... That 'World-Ender' has been released!"

Red Sleeve stabbed her long spear into the ground to barely maintain her footing. Her investigator's trench coat billowed in the gale mixed with the aura of calamity. Her pupils reflected the figure gradually emerging from the red papers, and her heart sank to the bottom.

"Is this... the 'Calamity of Mockery'?"

It wasn't that Red Sleeve hadn't seen a World-Ending level calamity before. When they crossed the Forbidden Sea, they had caught a glimpse of that "Calamity of Taboo" from afar, but the pressure brought by the calamity before her was far beyond that of the Calamity of Taboo!

Amidst the red papers flying all over the sky, a "human" figure slowly took shape. It was a pitch-black shadow; although it had the outline of a human, it had no skin or facial features, only a pair of crescent-like scarlet pupils branded onto the black shadow...

"...Little Junior Brother."

Ning Ruyu and the others saw this scene, their expressions incredibly complex.

"So that's it... So that's it!"

Above the clock tower, the Silver King's figure emerged. He looked at the surging red papers below, as if he had discovered some earth-shattering secret, and laughed,

"I understand now. There was never any World-Ending Fusionist... From the very beginning, Chen Ling was the Calamity of Mockery! A World-Ending calamity that had transformed into human form!"