Chapter 1138: Seeing the Calamity of Thought Again

A red shadow streaked across the sky. Chen Ling, whose body was swollen to the limit, didn't say a word and pressed a palm onto the head of the largest centipede!

The overflowing Red Star wish power drilled into the shadow centipede's body. The latter immediately hissed in pain, its dense centipede legs waving frantically, its slender body curling on the ground, and its pitch-black surface glowing with an eerie luster as if burned red.

Chen Ling knew this centipede had reached its limit, so he rushed to the next one. But he soon felt this was too slow, so countless red papers grabbed these centipedes, large and small, and rolled them all toward himself!

Hundreds of centipedes layered over each other, submerging Chen Ling's figure, standing tall like a pyramid. An eerie scarlet, like a red-hot iron ball, spread faintly from the deepest part of the centipede tower...

"Cough, cough..."

Black killing intent intertwined around Jian Changsheng. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to that dream in the mire...

He saw himself sinking deeper and deeper into the mire, and not far from him, a figure became increasingly clear. The former Jian Changsheng hadn't noticed his existence, but after the events in the Infinite Domain, he began to be able to perceive the changes happening within his body.

"No matter who you are... this body, I'm the one in charge!!"

Jian Changsheng dug his ten fingers into the earth, as if his whole body was struggling and exerting force. Gradually, the killing intent intertwined around him began to dissipate, and after a few minutes, it vanished without a trace.

Beads of sweat the size of peas slid down Jian Changsheng's cheeks. He sat on the ground, staggering, and let out a long sigh of relief...

"How is it? Are you feeling better?" Jiang Xiaohua leaned beside him and asked worriedly.

"...I'm fine."

Jian Changsheng looked down at his palms and muttered, "Damn it, this killing intent is fierce, but it actually backfires..."

"That's not a backfire; you just don't know how to use this power yet. If you don't control it properly, you'll hurt yourself." Jack of Diamonds spoke slowly. "Although I don't know where your killing intent comes from, it's all external power. Converting external power into your own is not that simple..."

Jack of Diamonds paused for a moment and looked back at the centipede tower.

"Of course, with the exception of certain monsters..."

At this moment, deep inside the centipede tower, the mysterious red light was no longer being released. Large, ferocious centipedes crawled down from the outer perimeter, while the centipedes closer to the inside had surfaces glowing with an eerie scarlet, their bodies several times larger than before.

The large centipede that had carried Chen Ling at the beginning was now entirely scarlet, and the centipede legs it had broken off itself had regrown, and they were as sharp and hard as blades...

As the other centipedes scattered, this curled-up centipede finally stretched out, its body length reaching over a hundred meters. Its massive body stood upright, comparable to a skyscraper, and the aura on its body had soared from the original sixth rank to the seventh rank, making one's scalp tingle just by looking at it.

And in the center of this Calamity Legion, a figure draped in a theatrical robe stood up slowly.

"Hoo..."

Chen Ling let out a long breath, the wounds on his skin gradually healing. He brushed back his messy hair, his eyes emitting a scarlet shimmer.

Eating a super-supplement almost hurt himself...

Due to the existence of the sixth-rank performance, Chen Ling couldn't be promoted directly, but most of the Red Star wish power had accumulated in his body. Once he completed the performance, the converted mental power would still allow his rank to skyrocket. As for the excess parts, they were dispersed into the bodies of these shadow centipedes.

And perhaps it was just his imagination, but ever since Chen Ling shared the Red Star wish power from his body with these shadow centipedes, he seemed to have established some kind of connection with them... a closer connection that transcended "King and Servant."

Just as Chen Ling intended to study this connection more deeply, a sudden change occurred!

A storm that seemed to come from the void suddenly swept past Chen Ling's ears. He turned his head and saw three young girls standing around the bonfire, each holding a withered skull, their eyes completely hollow...

"Xiaotao?!"

Chen Ling's brows furrowed instantly.

Logically speaking, these three girls should have been under Xiaobai's supervision at the bottom of the well, but they had appeared here without anyone noticing... And they were each holding the skull of a Cardinal. Xiaotao was even holding the Archbishop's skull directly, her hands prying it open with force!

Snap—!!

The three delicate girls, not knowing where the power came from, actually pried open the three withered skulls, revealing the slightly shriveled brains inside...

At the same time, mysterious and obscure words began to spill from their mouths, as if they were performing some kind of mysterious ritual.

The bonfire embers, which were almost extinguished, suddenly danced again, as if swept by a storm, surging from around Chen Ling into the clouds... Chen Ling had heard this ritual incantation before. In the Red Dust Domain, those Jiangtian cultists had used this ritual to summon the Ghost Mockery Abyss from afar!

"They want to summon some world-ending calamity?!"

Jack of Diamonds was the first to react, his figure about to rush out, but it was too late.

A storm from the depths of the soul blew out from the chaotic lines occupying Xiaotao and the others' eyes, directly wrapping around Chen Ling's figure!

Everything happened too fast, as if it were a layout prepared long ago. The chaotic storm swirled around Chen Ling, and the aftershocks blew the debris all over the ground...

The brains in the three girls' hands turned to ash at a speed visible to the naked eye. But perhaps because the Red Star wish power in these brains had already been mostly absorbed by Chen Ling, the three brains combined only supported the ritual for less than two seconds.

The moment these brains dissipated, the line bundles in Xiaotao and the others' eyes also vanished, and they rolled their eyes and fainted to the ground.

"Xiaotao!! Miaomiao!! Linglong!!!"

A pitch-black boy's figure rushed over from the distance. Seeing this scene, he turned pale with fright and immediately stepped forward to check their breathing. Fortunately, none of the three were in any life-threatening danger.

"Who are they? Remnants of the Jiangtian cult?" Sun Bumian asked with a frown.

"I don't know..." Jack of Diamonds shook his head. "From their aura, they are fusionists. They should be hostages captured by the Jiangtian cult... Maybe they are from the Fusion Faction, but I've been away from the Fusion Faction for too long, so I'm not sure who their members are now."

"The biggest problem now is Heart, right?! He seems to be trapped by something!" Jian Changsheng looked at the figure submerged in the storm and spoke with a frown.

"No, he's still here... It's just that his thoughts have been led somewhere else."

Jack of Diamonds looked at the flying ash on the ground, his expression somewhat relieved.

"Fortunately, the Red Star wish power of those three bishops was drained. Even if they launched a summoning ritual, they could barely maintain it for an instant, almost having no effect... But just now, the aura of a world-ending calamity did indeed flash by."

"Which world-ending calamity is it?"

"Storm Island, the Calamity of Thought."