Chapter 1137: Danger of Body Explosion

Bang—!!

Amidst the dancing red pythons filling the sky, a mangled figure was struggling frantically, his black-furred feet constantly using the edges of the red paper to gain leverage and leap into the air.

In the process, countless tiny paper scraps had riddled his body with holes, but as the Red Star wish power circulated, his vitality remained locked within his body, like a tireless, immortal beast.

The bone staff whistled through the sky, tearing a small gap in the red cloud.

I can live!

If I shatter that eye, I can live!!

The Archbishop's eyes were filled with a longing for life. He was like a trapped beast pushed to the edge, burning his last bit of strength for a final struggle...

For some reason, the red cloud in the sky was getting smaller and smaller, and the aura of the Calamity of Mockery was getting weaker and weaker. The monster that had been so oppressive just moments ago seemed to have been drained, its attacks becoming soft and powerless. This undoubtedly gave the Archbishop confidence!

As his feet stepped heavily on the incoming red paper, the Archbishop's figure shot directly into the clouds, and that hollow, massive giant eye magnified rapidly before him!

The Archbishop's roar was like thunder. He used all his strength to swing his staff at the giant eye!

Rip—

Under the Archbishop's desperate strike, the massive giant eye was like red cloth torn by scissors, ripped open by force. The red paper dancing in the sky began to dissipate and vanish, and the red cloud covering the village simply extinguished into nothingness bit by bit...

The Archbishop smiled.

His cracked lips curled to his ears, exposing uneven, dark yellow teeth to the air. Just as he was immersed in the joy of a counter-kill, a slender hand reached out from behind the shattered giant eye...

It was a figure draped in a red-and-black theatrical robe.

Like an actor parting the curtains, reborn from the ruins, the person fell from the wreckage of the giant eye along with the Archbishop, the bone-cleaving knife in his hand turning gently!

The Archbishop felt his body completely inverted. His vision blurred, and before he could react, a sharp pain pierced his chest!

The wind roared in their ears. The Archbishop widened his eyes in shock; a palm had already sunk deep into his body, and before his eyes, a ferocious Nuo mask flickered with a chilling shimmer...

The person pierced the Archbishop's body with one hand and gently removed the ferocious Nuo mask from his face with the other, revealing a familiar face to the Archbishop.

"...We meet again." Chen Ling smiled slightly.

The Archbishop's expression froze instantly.

Following that, his expression was gradually replaced by shock and terror, his gaze at Chen Ling as if he had seen a ghost!

Not long ago, he had just killed Chen Ling, and later a monster releasing the aura of the Calamity of Mockery had crawled out of Chen Ling's body... He had finally killed that monster, only for a perfectly intact Chen Ling to crawl out of the corpse...

The Archbishop felt he had likely fallen into some kind of nightmare loop, and even now, he couldn't recover.

The two figures fell rapidly from high altitude, but the Archbishop was already severely injured and had no strength left to fight Chen Ling. Most importantly, as Chen Ling's palm sank into his body, the Archbishop could clearly feel that the power within him was being drained frantically!

Chen Ling's chest heaved violently. Unprecedented Red Star wish power was continuously rolling into his body, but he seemed unsatisfied. Seven or eight red pythons crawled out of his body, simultaneously piercing into various parts of the Archbishop's body, wriggling like breathing...

"Is this the Red Star wish power of an Archbishop level?"

Chen Ling felt the almost inexhaustible Red Star wish power, his whole body swelling like a balloon. His skin began to turn into red paper and stretch, and scorching air currents surged throughout his entire body.

The two figures streaked across the sky like meteors, crashing into the center of the village, into the faint bonfire!

Bang—!!

The stone pile surrounding the bonfire was smashed to pieces, and the already weak torchlight scattered. Embers flew into the sky, falling like fire rain across the ruins of the village...

The surging hurricane made Jian Changsheng and the others cover their faces simultaneously. As red papers danced in the center of the bonfire, the aura covering the village was swallowed and dissipated.

"The power suppressing the divine path has disappeared?!"

Sun Bumian felt his body regaining its strength, no longer in the withered and fragile state from before, and surprise appeared in his eyes.

Just as he was about to say something more, a fit of urgent coughing came from the side!

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Jian Changsheng suddenly hunched over, and bursts of ancient killing intent mixed with blood foam were coughed out of his mouth. A pure blackness spread in his eyes, but it was forcibly controlled by his own eyes, and the rank on his body fluctuated uncertainly.

Sometimes fifth rank, sometimes sixth rank, sometimes even soaring to the seventh rank... It was as if another soul was active in Jian Changsheng's body, and the surrounding killing intent became increasingly thick.

"Spade, what's wrong with you??"

"Cough, cough... I don't know... I didn't feel it when the divine path was suppressed just now, but now that I'm in contact with the Calamity aura on Heart... I feel like there's a killing intent fighting me for control of my body..." Jian Changsheng frowned, breathing deeply, seemingly struggling against that killing intent with his own will.

Jack of Diamonds saw this scene, his brows furrowing tighter, and he suddenly asked:

"Are you also a fusionist?"

"Me?" Jian Changsheng shook his head immediately. "No, I'm not..."

"True, there is indeed no aura of calamity on you... but your situation..." Jack of Diamonds looked at the ancient killing intent constantly drifting from his body, hesitating to speak.

Just as they were speaking, the bonfire embers in the distance exploded again!

The Archbishop's withered corpse was tossed aside casually. A figure with red paper drifting all over his body rose slowly from the residual fire, Chen Ling's expression twisted and painful.

At this moment, Chen Ling was like a glutton who had eaten ten bowls of rice. The Red Star wish power filling his body was so strong it was almost bursting. If Chen Ling hadn't already mastered the ability to Calamity-ize, he would likely have exploded and died just like in the Red Dust Domain.

Now, his audience expectation value wouldn't support dying again... If he exploded and died here, that would be a truly ridiculous way to go.

"Damn it... I have to find a way to disperse the excess power."

Chen Ling endured the pain of impending explosion while his brain raced. He suddenly raised his head and roared at the pitch-black cliff in the distance:

"All of you, come here!"

The next moment, the dead-silent cliff seemed to come alive. A large number of shadow centipedes crawled out, surging toward Chen Ling's direction like a tide.

Without the restriction of the bonfire, these calamities could move freely within the village. Sun Bumian and the others saw the surging wave of calamities and immediately hid behind the houses, avoiding being swept up by the shadow centipedes.