Chapter 1241: South Sea Realm

On the barren gray earth, a red figure rode a centipede, speeding along.

Chen Ling had left the centipede army with the Fusion Faction, taking only one centipede as a means of transport to rush to the South Sea Realm... But because the Fusion Faction's location was so deep in the Gray Realm, even for Chen Ling, it would take a long time to arrive.

Chen Ling stood on the centipede's back, looking down at Xiao Tao, who was breathing heavily in his arms. The gravity in his eyes grew more intense.

Xiao Tao was still unconscious, and Chen Ling could clearly feel her body temperature rising. Her skin was tinged with an eerie purple, as if something was devouring her vitality beneath her flesh.

"King Chen Ling, Xiao Tao, she..."

Xiao Bai's worried voice came from the shadow.

Chen Ling pondered for a moment, raised his fingertip, and a faint starlight shone from the void. Following his guidance, it flowed bit by bit into Xiao Tao's body.

Although Chen Ling had many abilities, he didn't know how to heal. The only thing related to healing was the God-Sacrifice Dance, but he was different from Shen Nan. Chen Ling's God-Sacrifice Dance fused the aura of the Twisted Play-God Path and the God-Sacrifice Land, which could be considered a crazy version of Nuo. Once activated, he couldn't control the intensity, and the price he would have to pay was something he couldn't bear.

Therefore, he could only hope that Lu Xun's starlight could control Xiao Tao's condition.

As the starlight flowed into Xiao Tao's body, the faint purple under her skin was dispelled a little, as if it had been brought under control, and her body temperature stopped rising.

Seeing this, Chen Ling finally relaxed a little.

The toxin Xiao Tao was infected with came from a Calamity and also belonged to a part of "Evil." Starlight could suppress it briefly, but to cure her completely, more professional medical means were needed.

In a daze, Xiao Tao's eyes slowly opened...

"Chen Ling... Bro...ther?"

Xiao Tao's face was full of exhaustion, as if she had just experienced a brutal battle. She looked at the figure holding her in a blur and was slightly stunned.

"Xiao Tao, how are you feeling?" Chen Ling asked.

"I... I feel so uncomfortable, my whole body is in pain... I think I have a fever..."

"More than just a fever! Xiao Tao, you scared me to death," Xiao Bai's voice followed immediately. "If it weren't for King Chen Ling just now, I was afraid you would have directly..."

"Where... where are we now?"

"On the way to the South Sea Realm," Chen Ling said calmly. "You can sleep a little longer. When we reach the South Sea Realm, I will find someone to save you."

"South Sea Realm...?" Xiao Tao was a little worried. "But will the doctors in the human realms treat us Fusionists?"

Chen Ling’s brows furrowed slightly.

"Don't worry, with the King here, it will definitely be fine," Xiao Bai had full confidence in Chen Ling. "The King is a hero of the human realms. When we get to the South Sea Realm, someone will definitely help us."

"Oh..." Xiao Tao's voice was like a mosquito's, but she was clearly more at ease, shrinking weakly into Chen Ling's arms.

A hero of the human realms, huh...

When Zhao Yi made up these stories, he probably never imagined that one day the Fusion Faction would move to the human realms. Now, all the Fusion Faction children viewed Chen Ling as an omnipotent Red-Clothed God, the hope that saved them in the darkness...

But Chen Ling knew very well what role he played in the human realms.

After a long silence, Chen Ling still spoke:

"I'm not any hero; that's just a story Zhao Yi made up."

Xiao Bai was stunned, then replied, "King, don't be so modest. You are the King of the Ghost-Mocking Abyss. As a world-ending Calamity, you think for humans and even personally rescued us from the Jiang-Tian Sect... If you aren't a hero, who in this world is?"

Xiao Bai quickly seemed to realize something and nodded repeatedly:

"Oh, I know... The King wants to keep a low profile, I understand... I won't say anything more."

Chen Ling: ...

Xiao Bai had already fused with a Calamity from the Ghost-Mocking Abyss and had a natural worship filter for Chen Ling. Plus, Chen Ling had indeed helped the Fusion Faction many times, so the image of a hero was already deeply rooted... It wouldn't be easy to change their perception now.

Chen Ling wanted to say something more, but found that Xiao Tao, who had just woken up, had fallen asleep in his arms again...

He didn't speak again but continued on his way quietly.

I don't know how much time passed,

but at the end of the monotonous and barren land in the distance, some changes finally appeared.

The pitch-black earth was divided by some winding lines, and light gray waves surged on the horizon. Chen Ling had reached the end of this land; further ahead was the endless Gray Realm ocean.

It wasn't Chen Ling's first time seeing the Gray Realm's sea. On his way to the Military Path Ancient Treasury, he had crossed the Frozen Sea, but the sea before him was different from the northern sea. There were no biting cold winds, no surging ice blocks, only surging gray waves, rolling continuously.

"The South Sea Realm, so it really is on the sea..."

Chen Ling got off the centipede, patted its head, and signaled it could go back. After all, centipedes couldn't swim, and Chen Ling would walk the rest of the way himself.

As the centipede burrowed into the ground, Chen Ling held Xiao Tao, stepped on the Cloud Step, and leaped forward, crossing the sea.

This time he didn't need to follow the Realm Train tracks. After studying at the Fusion Faction for over half a year, if he didn't even know the coordinates of the Nine Great Realms, his studies would have been in vain...

After identifying the direction and traveling for a distance, Chen Ling saw a behemoth standing on the sea surface.

It was a mountain, a mountain like a turtle shell, like a steel dome crawling on the sea surface. Its height reached the clouds, and its area was no less than an entire province. Even from tens of kilometers away, its vastness made Chen Ling feel shocked...

And around this steel dome, one could see several thin lines penetrating the sea surface and connecting to its interior. It wasn't until Chen Ling got closer that he saw those "thin lines" were actually the tracks of the Realm Trains.

How did they lay the train tracks on the sea surface?

Chen Ling was very confused.

"Is this the South Sea Realm?" Xiao Bai was also seeing this scene for the first time and couldn't help but speak. "So big... it looks like a super-sized turtle shell."

Chen Ling stood under the lead-gray sky, pondering how to enter this steel dome. Both the sky and the ground were sealed by the steel dome; the only way in was to go through the gate...

But without an insider, walking through the gate openly would definitely be discovered by the South Sea Realm...

Just as Chen Ling was struggling to think, a roaring whistle came from the distance.

He saw a Realm Train slowing down along the sea tracks, heading straight for a small gate of the South Sea Realm. As the train approached, the small gate slowly opened.

Chen Ling's eyes lit up.