Chapter 1289: The Ming-Vast Corpse Spreading Taboos

On the Lake Pavilion.

The moment these words rang out, Chen Ling stopped abruptly.

A chilly breeze blew across the lake, lifting the hem of Chen Ling's bright red opera robe... He stared blankly at the figure in front of him who refused to look at him properly even once, and a surge of anger rose in his heart!

On the way here, Chen Ling had thought a lot.

He recalled the details of his previous interactions with Chu Changqing. Although they hadn't communicated much, he felt that Chu Changqing shouldn't be an ungrateful person, so he had imagined other possibilities to explain everything about Chu Changqing up to now.

Perhaps he had suffered some extremely severe injury? Leading to a lack of clear consciousness, forcing him to rely on a blind man to pass information?

Perhaps this blind man was spreading false information, wanting to use Chu Changqing to seek benefits for himself?

Perhaps Chu Changqing was being coerced?

Or perhaps, the current South Sea Lord was not Chu Changqing, but someone else in disguise?

Chen Ling had thought of many possibilities, but when he actually arrived at the Lake Pavilion, he realized... how ridiculous his attempts to make excuses for Chu Changqing were.

Although his temperament was completely different from what Chen Ling remembered, there was no difference in appearance. And no matter what, that aura unique to the Nine Lords could not be faked... The person in front of him was undoubtedly Chu Changqing himself.

What made Chen Ling most angry was the undisguised look of disgust in that instant, and that cold and absurd...

"Hello... Calamity of Mockery."

Chen Ling laughed.

"Calamity of Mockery... Heh."

Draped in his bright red opera robe, his smile carried an indescribable anger and sorrow.

"Chu Changqing, are you not even willing to call me by my human name?"

"Does a human name have any meaning to you?"

Chu Changqing remained with his back to Chen Ling. He held a small fish tank gently in one hand, while the other hand casually scattered fish food into it. Tiny pitch-black fish fry swam between his palms, competing to gnaw on the meager amount of food.

When the food was snatched and eaten, the remaining fry actually began to gnaw and devour each other. Wisps of blood floated up from the fish tank; only the strongest fry could possibly survive.

Chu Changqing watched this scene calmly and continued:

"The Calamity of Mockery is the Calamity of Mockery. You tease fate and toy with the common people. As long as you want, you can even treat yourself as part of the fun... No matter how well you disguise yourself as a human, even if you deceive yourself, you still cannot change your essence.

In this era, there are actually people who believe you have truly become a 'human.' If I hadn't awakened, perhaps they would have really been deceived by you.

Unfortunately...

I am not as naive as they are."

As his voice fell,

Chu Changqing slowly overturned the fish tank in his hand, and the bloody water, mixed with the eight strongest surviving fish fry, was poured into the lake beneath his feet.

……

*Thud—!!!*

A dull sound rang out from the bottom of the deep sea, and the three-eyed giant turtle's body shook again. Its massive body tilted visibly. If one were to sink to the seabed at this moment, one would see countless Calamities constantly colliding with its underside, as if trying to flip it over on the sea surface.

The winged electric eel nearby dived rapidly, as if wanting to help carve out a bloody path, but as more and more Calamities withstood the electricity and crawled onto its body along its diving tail, its movements became precarious. Eventually, unable to bear the weight, it crashed into the sea surface, was directly entangled and wrapped by seven or eight Calamities, and dragged toward the deep-sea abyss...

The water spider and the black fish were also surrounded by a large number of Calamities. Under the absolute numerical suppression, they had no chance to support the three-eyed giant turtle.

At the same time, an extreme chill rose from the seabed, and the entire sea area was frozen into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye. The already cumbersome giant turtle's body became even harder to maintain balance, stuck by the surrounding ice layer, with nowhere to escape.

Seeing more and more Calamities climbing onto the giant turtle's body, that large three-eyed giant head slowly opened its mouth on the seabed...

The next moment, several massive giant shadows were spat out from its mouth!

One, two, three... seven, eight!

Eight strange creatures like the winged electric eel and the water spider rushed into the battlefield in time. Their sizes were larger than the last, and each was stranger than the last. Some were giant crabs burning with flames, some were hideous monsters that were half-human and half-fish, and some were pure white sixteen-armed octopuses...

The moment these miracle creatures entered the water, they helped the three-eyed giant turtle shatter the surrounding ice layer. Four rushed to the front to carve out a bloody path, and four began to clear the Calamities of the Forbidden Sea climbing on the turtle's back. The three-eyed giant turtle's extremely critical situation was thus opened with a breathing hole.

The three-eyed giant turtle's tilted body slowly regained balance. With the miracle creatures clearing the way, it moved forward slowly.

The magnificent and thick ice walls were crushed by its body, turning into countless floating ice lands. Amidst the bloody fighting of other creatures, the outline of the horizon began to loom in the distance...

At this moment, all members of the Fusion Faction saw its intention:

It wanted to go ashore.

……

Lake Pavilion.

Chen Ling's brows furrowed tighter as he listened to Chu Changqing's words.

"I don't understand." Chen Ling said in a deep voice, "Why are you so certain that I must be the Calamity of Mockery, and not Chen Ling?"

"...Why?"

Chu Changqing sneered.

He placed the empty fish tank aside and turned slowly.

He faced Chen Ling again, took a step, and his waterfall-like long hair brushed through the sea of flowers. He walked toward Chen Ling step by step...

The two figures, one red and one cyan, approached each other on the Lake Pavilion. Even facing the incoming pressure of the Nine Lords, Chen Ling showed no fear, just looking at him coldly.

And Chu Changqing's cyan pupils also radiated an indescribable chill as he met Chen Ling's gaze.

Eventually,

Chu Changqing stopped in front of Chen Ling.

"Because I know the Calamity of Mockery better than you do." Chu Changqing said slowly.

"Impossible." Chen Ling retorted decisively, "You haven't even been in contact with the Calamity of Mockery; how could you possibly know it better than me?"

Chen Ling had been dealing with the Calamity of Mockery for so long, had even beheaded the Calamity of Evil several times, and had mastered part of the Calamity of Mockery's abilities... In this world now, it was impossible for anyone to know the Calamity of Mockery better than him.

"I haven't been in contact with the Calamity of Mockery?" Chu Changqing sneered twice as if he had heard something funny, then reached out and slowly moved toward his own cheek,

"The reason I, Chu Changqing, am where I am today... is all thanks to you, Calamity of Mockery... isn't it?"

The next moment,

A layer of skin was torn off by Chu Changqing himself!!

As the thin skin dissipated in the air, Chen Ling's pupils contracted sharply!!

In front of Chen Ling was a pitch-black face, a face like a shadow... No facial features, no skin, only a pair of scarlet pupils close at hand. Below those pupils, a similarly scarlet corner of the mouth curled into a playful arc.

Chen Ling was too familiar with this face...

This was the face of the Calamity of Mockery.