Chapter 1123: The Nutritious Archbishop

Chen Ling could feel a surge of Red Star Willpower flowing into his body along with his red paper tentacles. The efficiency was far higher than when he had eaten them raw in the Red Dust Realm last time; not a drop was wasted, and the method was much more elegant.

The Red Star Willpower was swallowed and converted by this body. Immediately following, his Fifth Rank mental energy, which had been growing slowly, began to climb visibly, as if he had consumed some kind of tonic, making Chen Ling feel refreshed all over!

He closed his eyes, enjoying the power brought by devouring the Red Star Willpower, as a scorching current drifted from the corners of his lips...

"Hoo..."

Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes.

Although he didn't know why, these Jiangtian Sect members containing Red Star Willpower were indeed a great tonic for him. Other humans didn't seem to feel this; otherwise, if eating Jiangtian Sect members could increase mental energy, the high-level figures in the human realms would have long since united to frantically hunt them down, rather than treating them like rats in a gutter.

Looking at it this way, Red Star Willpower was only a great tonic for the Disaster of Mockery... or perhaps, only for the World-Ending Disaster?

Chen Ling couldn't figure out the reason, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Whatever the principle behind it was, Chen Ling just wanted to devour more now. These three ordinary Jiangtian Sect members were at most an appetizer for him.

Chen Ling just glanced indifferently at the three dried corpses on the ground, then pushed the door open casually, transformed back into the appearance of "Zheng Ye," and walked straight toward the opposite house.

Creak—

The sound of the Grim Reaper pushing open a door rang out once more.

"Zheng Ye? Is something the matter?"

"You guys come over, I'll show you something good..."

Pfft—!!

The red paper monster opened its hideous fangs, frantically devouring the lives and blood of the three Jiangtian Sect members. The pale light of dawn rose in the sky, reflecting on the desperate ground, leaving behind trails of frantically waving tentacles.

A few minutes later, Chen Ling, draped in a red robe, came out of the room swaying, licking his lips...

Like an elegant diner strolling through a buffet.

One house after another was slaughtered by Chen Ling. In the dead silence that no one noticed, the number of Jiangtian Sect members was rapidly decreasing. By the time the sun had fully risen and Chen Ling came out of the sixth house, the original forty-five Jiangtian Sect members had plummeted to twenty-seven.

Just as Chen Ling was about to enter the seventh house, a rapid sound of beating pottery echoed throughout the village.

Chen Ling, who had just taken half a step out, quickly retracted his foot and closed the door behind him.

"Discovered?"

Chen Ling frowned slightly.

Chen Ling felt his movements had been fast enough, but these Jiangtian Sect members lived scattered, and killing everyone silently wasn't easy. Chen Ling had considered this; after killing, he had compressed their dried corpses and hidden them in the corners of the rafters to delay the time until the bodies were discovered. But as long as these Jiangtian Sect members started searching, finding the bodies was only a matter of time.

In the worst-case scenario, Chen Ling would have to face the entire village's Jiangtian Sect members alone.

But soon Chen Ling noticed something strange. As the pottery-beating sound rang out, many Jiangtian Sect members walked out of their rooms, but they didn't go to the houses that had been slaughtered; instead, they swarmed toward the village entrance.

Chen Ling hid in the house and looked toward the village entrance through a crack in the window.

Dim sunlight projected from above the cliff. Between the narrow roads, several figures were walking toward the village...

The "person" in the lead was as tall as an ape, carrying a withered plant of unknown origin on his back. Its thick roots and petals were dragged on the ground like trash. Behind him followed two Bishops in red robes, one dragging Jiang Xiaohua's body, leaving a groove in the ground, and the other dragging two unconscious figures with both hands, walking slowly forward.

"An Archbishop? Usually, isn't it the Bishops who come for worship? Why did an Archbishop come this time??"

"One Archbishop, two Bishops... this lineup is rare, isn't it?"

"It must be because of the two Fusionists reported the night before last. I guess the main branch attaches great importance to it, so they specifically sent an Archbishop... After all, if it really is the work of the Fusionist faction, things are quite troublesome."

"What are they dragging in their hands? Are those offerings brought by the main branch?"

"Don't know... looks like a Disaster."

Whispers spread through the crowd. As the Archbishop and his party approached, these ordinary Jiangtian Sect members knelt down on the spot, their foreheads pressed to the ground, extremely respectful.

Behind the window crack, Chen Ling saw the Archbishop walking at the very front and froze in place...

The next moment,

Crystal-clear saliva slid uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth.

Chen Ling had never smelled such an alluring scent. It was like all the dishes of a grand banquet condensed into a single drop of perfume. Just a light sniff made Chen Ling ravenously hungry... After a long time, he realized he had lost his composure and wiped away the saliva silently, but his gaze toward the Archbishop remained filled with longing.

When Chen Ling was in the Red Dust Realm, he had only tasted the flavor of Bishop-level beings. Just the Red Star aura contained in those two Bishops exceeded the sum of all the Jiangtian Sect members at that time, causing Chen Ling's mental energy to break through by one and a half ranks.

And the Archbishop in front of him, who wore no clothes, had an even richer concentration of Red Star Willpower than the two Bishops! If ordinary Jiangtian Sect members were snacks and Bishops were meat and fish, then the Archbishop in front of him could be considered a ginseng-level tonic!

Chen Ling had a premonition that if he devoured the Archbishop, the increase in his mental energy would likely be enough to support him in reaching the Sixth Rank, or even higher.

At this moment, only one thought remained in Chen Ling's mind:

Eat him!

No matter what method it takes, eat him!

Chen Ling restrained the longing in his heart as much as possible and glanced at the unknown object on the Archbishop's shoulder, then looked naturally toward the back... When he saw the few people being dragged by the two Bishops, a look of astonishment flashed in his eyes.

"How is it them??"

Chen Ling never expected to run into Jian Changsheng and his companions here. You have to know, this was a Jiangtian Sect branch deep in the Gray Realm; the number of humans who could come here could be counted on one hand...

Shouldn't the three of them be in some human realm, executing a mission for the Twilight Society?

While Chen Ling was completely baffled, many Jiangtian Sect members couldn't help but ask:

"Archbishop, Bishop... what are you dragging..."

The Archbishop didn't even look at them, carrying Square J and the bone club as he walked straight ahead. Only when the Bishop behind passed by did he open his mouth:

“@！&*&……#￥*&￥……”

"So that's how it is." The leading Jiangtian Sect member suddenly realized.

Chen Ling: ???

Chen Ling didn't hear any human language, only a mess of sounds like ape cries, but these Jiangtian Sect members seemed to understand, nodding one after another, their gazes toward Jian Changsheng and the others becoming extremely subtle.