Chapter 1316: Revenge

The black-robed shadow’s gaze fell upon these dense light spots.

The number of these light spots was simply too vast—about ten million. The vast majority were dim, representing people who had heard the name "Chen Ling" and established a faint connection with him. A small portion were slightly brighter, about a thousand; these were existences who had seen "Chen Ling" with their own eyes or had real-world intersections with him... If the former’s connection to "Chen Ling" in this thought storm was like a thin spider thread, the latter was like a sturdy, thick rope.

And the black-robed shadow only had to lift his hand slightly, and these "thick ropes" circled around him, with over a thousand different thoughts entering his vision.

Most of these people were located in the South Sea Domain, and some were in the Heavenly Pivot Domain. Although other domains had them, they were few and far between...

Looking at these thoughts that had established a connection with him, the corners of the black-robed shadow’s mouth curled slowly...

His smile was as hideous as a demon’s!

"Those who bullied me..."

"Will all..."

"Pay the price!!"

……

South Sea Domain.

"Hey, Boss Zhang, tell me what you need!"

“……”

"The order signed today? Oh, this order is a bit special. The supplier has had large-scale factory shutdowns due to the attacks by the Calamity of Mockery and the Calamity of Taboo, and they are requesting to delay the payment cycle. I was thinking..."

“……”

"Yeah, right, right, right. I'll communicate with them properly tomorrow... I'm heading off work now."

A figure carrying a briefcase pushed open the office door and walked straight into the hallway. It was evening, and the cold wind poured into the hallway from the open window, making him shiver violently.

Ever since the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle died, the perfect environment of the South Sea Domain had been completely broken. The drafty turtle shell rolled the cold wind from the sea into the city, and the temperature of the entire domain dropped significantly, making life miserable for these residents who were used to living comfortably.

The man, already harboring resentment in his heart, frowned and cursed in a low voice:

"Damn it, those idiot Calamities..."

"They ran away riding a centipede with their tails between their legs, leaving us with a pile of messes. They really are damnably cursed!"

In his mind, the scene of him hiding in his apartment complex and seeing that red opera robe fall to the earth from afar resurfaced... He had seen the appearance of that Calamity of Mockery clearly. Although it looked no different from a human, thinking about it now, it was really cheap and punchable.

Dissatisfied with his life, he had been the one to lead the first shout of "He is the culprit!", and then he had cursed several more times, as if blaming all the dissatisfaction in his life over the years on that red opera robe. After a hearty rant, he felt much better.

Just as he was absent-mindedly preparing to go downstairs and head home, an inexplicable drowsiness surged into his mind, as if he had taken a nap while walking.

The next moment,

A black-robed opera shadow appeared at the end of the hallway.

The man froze. After seeing the person’s appearance clearly, a chill surged from the soles of his feet to his scalp!

The pitch-black opera robe danced in the cold wind, a pair of eerie, hollow pupils stared coldly at the man, and the hideous smile under the flickering lights was like a demon.

It’s it!!

How is this possible?!!

It actually returned to the South Sea Domain?!!

He would never forget that face. The curses he had just shouted were now stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say a single word. He just stared at it in terror, then let out a scream and turned to run wildly in the opposite direction!

The next second, his body was tripped by something, he lost his center of gravity, and most of his body flipped out of the open window!

The drowsiness from a moment ago vanished instantly. The man looked at the end of the hallway in astonishment, but there was no black-robed shadow there anymore, as if it were just a hallucination after his exhaustion... But now, it was too late.

Because he was overly frightened, he had used all his strength to run, and as a result, he rushed straight out of the open window. One had to know that their company was on the fifth floor of this building. By the time the man came to his senses, he was already falling uncontrollably in mid-air, and the ground was rapidly enlarging before his eyes...

Bang—!!

A heavy body, head-first, slammed into the concrete floor.

Screams erupted from both sides of the street, passing residents retreated in terror, and large patches of scarlet blood spread across the road...

But the shadow of death did not stop.

Almost simultaneously,

A person driving a car suddenly dozed off, dreaming that a black-robed shadow appeared out of thin air in front of them, then slammed the steering wheel, crashing into an open coffee shop, killing four people instantly;

At a construction site undergoing post-disaster reconstruction, seven or eight figures simultaneously stepped into thin air from the scaffolding, falling to their deaths one after another, turning into meat paste;

A housewife making a barbecue dinner at home subconsciously closed the open window as if her brain had short-circuited, and the fiery red coals burned silently, causing the family of five to suffocate and die from poisoning;

A pedestrian walking on the road tripped and hit the sharp corner of a flower bed;

A resident sleeping at home sleepwalked and fell from a great height;

A thirsty farmer mistook pesticide for cold water;

A physician performing surgery pierced a patient’s heart with a knife...

All kinds of bizarre deaths erupted within a single minute. Thousands of residents died tragically at the same time, as if the Grim Reaper had crawled out of purgatory and, with a gentle wave of his blade, harvested the lives of an entire street in one go.

……

"This is..."

Inside the toy factory, Teacher Ye suddenly seemed to sense something and looked sharply out the window!

In his field of vision, a storm that ignored the constraints of space had already swept across the world. A pitch-black theatrical robe extended infinitely across the firmament of the South Sea Realm. "Chen Ling" looked like a giant demon from beyond the realm, bowing his head to overlook the entire territory, his massive face twisted with cruelty and malice!

"Chen Ling?!!!" Teacher Ye’s eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

Teacher Ye knew this ability all too well. He knew that Chen Ling himself was not actually here; he had merely used a Thought Storm to drag a group of people into it...

But how could Chen Ling possibly possess the ability of the Calamity of Thought?

Teacher Ye immediately closed his eyes, extracted his own thoughts from his body, and plunged headlong into the storm.

At the same time, the outline of an isolated island was sketched out from the other end of the Thought Storm... On that island, a ghost with eyes full of confusion floated up in silence.

[The Nightmare of the Isolated Island in the Storm of Eternal Sleep, the Bizarre Ghost at the End of Thought].

The Thought Storm could ignore space. Even though the Black-Robed Theatrical Shadow, Teacher Ye, and the Calamity of Thought were located in the Abyss of Ghostly Derision, the South Sea Realm, and the Stormy Isolated Island respectively, they were now gathered together through the link of a single storm.

But at this moment, both Teacher Ye and the Calamity of Thought were stunned.

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

The savage, wild laughter of the Black-Robed Theatrical Shadow erupted from the center of the storm. Teacher Ye looked sharply toward that direction.