Chapter 1322: The Arrival of Delusion

Seeing the Great King lying dead drunk on the ground, the many centipedes looked at each other in dismay.

The commotion Chen Ling had just made had already disturbed quite a few calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss. A large number of poisonous insects were perched on the distant cliffs, looking over here and making rustling sounds as if discussing something. Soon, they dispersed as if nothing had happened, seemingly not surprised by Chen Ling’s drunkenness.

Wu Yi wanted to carry Chen Ling back to the palace, but remembering that Chen Ling had just told them not to touch him, it didn’t dare to make any extra moves...

After much hesitation, it simply stood guard beside the mud-like Chen Ling, intending to wait for the Great King to wake up.

Time passed second by second.

Chen Ling, who had previously shown signs of pain, gradually became peaceful. His chest rose and fell steadily, as if he had completely entered a dream.

……

Xuan Yu Domain.

On the busy streets, three inconspicuous, disguised figures quickly passed through the crowd, walking straight toward the edge of the domain.

“It’s a good thing the Xuan Yu Domain isn’t a turtle shell like the South Sea Domain, otherwise it would have taken us quite some effort to get out quietly,” Sun Bumian said, looking at the boundary line approaching in the distance.

Jian Changsheng shrugged, “If all else fails, we’ll just kill our way out.”

“……”

Sun Bumian was speechless, “I’m saying, you’ve been in the Gray Realm for half a year, is your killing intent a bit too heavy? Yesterday, when we were buying clothes, the guy overcharged you by a hundred, and you almost took a sword to him.”

“??? No, I was acting! And I was holding a plastic toy sword!” Jian Changsheng said, quite innocently.

“I know you were acting, but...”

“But you acted too realistically,” Jiang Xiaohua added silently.

Jian Changsheng: ...

“That’s because you told me to act fierce! So people wouldn’t see we were outsiders, making it easier to haggle?” Jian Changsheng muttered, “Just tell me if he gave us a discount in the end or not!”

“Fine, fine, fine. Next time, I’ll handle the haggling myself.”

Sun Bumian let out a long sigh.

After the three arrived at the Xuan Yu Domain, Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua found an inn, washed off the years of grime accumulated on their bodies, bought two new sets of clothes, and had a full meal... But just as they were preparing to get a good night’s sleep, that eerie nightmare, suspected to be Chen Ling, slapped them awake one by one.

Fortunately, the three of them had already rested, and upon discovering Chen Ling’s abnormality, they chose to set off immediately.

The three arrived at the edge of the Xuan Yu Domain. There were no walls here, only a circle of iron fences used for warning. After all, the Xuan Yu Domain covered a considerable area; it didn’t have natural barriers like the South Sea, nor did it have a large number of Power God Paths to pile up "black walls" like the Cang Yun Domain. They could only use these means to warn residents not to go any further.

Jian Changsheng and the others climbed over the iron fence and stepped out of the Xuan Yu Domain.

Just as they were identifying the direction and preparing to head straight to the Ghost Mockery Abyss, a series of rumbling sounds echoed from afar.

“...Is it an earthquake?”

Sun Bumian looked down at the ground, seeing small stones trembling gently, as if something was approaching.

Jian Changsheng frowned, sniffed the air twice, and then lay on the ground like a dog, listening to the sounds of the earth with his ears.

“What are you doing?”

“Don’t talk.” Jian Changsheng listened carefully for a while, his expression suddenly turning ugly,

“Damn it... it’s those bastards from the Delusion Mountains!”

Sun Bumian was greatly shocked, “You can tell that?!”

“It’s very simple. If it were the turtles from the Forbidden Sea, you could smell the fishy stench from far away, but there isn’t any here, so that’s ruled out first...

The bugs of the Ghost Mockery Abyss move underground rather than running on the surface, the green plants of the Bitter Flesh Turbid Forest move extremely slowly, the skeletal beasts of the Sighing Wilderness are fast but have very heavy footsteps, and the bastards of the Delusion Mountains have skin but no bones, so they are very light... The sounds these four types of calamities make when running on the ground are completely different.”

Jian Changsheng explained earnestly.

Just as the three were talking, the tremors beneath their feet became more intense, and under the distant sky, bursts of dust swept over like a sandstorm!

Sun Bumian wanted to say something more, but the next moment, dense, teeth-aching hisses erupted from the sandstorm!

Buzz—!!!

It was as if thousands of wild beasts were roaring at the same time, and a terrifying aura swept across the sky!

At the same time, the Xuan Yu Domain behind the three seemed to have sensed the abnormality, and figures flew up from the city one after another!

In front were the aggressive calamities of the Delusion Mountains, and behind were the Xuan Yu forces rushing to the battlefield to defend their home. The three were caught in the middle, their situation somewhat awkward.

“They seem to be coming for the Xuan Yu Domain...” Jiang Xiaohua said gloomily, “What do we do?”

“Hell, why did they have to attack just when we were about to leave??”

Jian Changsheng was a bit annoyed.

Now that the calamities of the Delusion Mountains were besieging the city, it wouldn’t be so easy for the three of them to kill their way out. After all, no matter how good the three of them were at fighting, it was hard to break through a prepared world-ending territory.

Sun Bumian looked at the many figures flying over rapidly from behind and said in a deep voice:

“It’s definitely not going to work to force our way into the Delusion Mountains now... We can only take shelter for a while. At least we have to wait for the Xuan Yu Domain’s forces to hold back their main army before we can find an opportunity to break through.”

Although Jian Changsheng was anxious, there was no other way. Sun Bumian’s judgment was the most accurate. Even if they wanted to force their way through, they had to wait for a suitable opportunity.

“I hope that guy Red Heart can hold on until we get there...”

He muttered to himself.

……

Ghost Mockery Abyss.

The bleak cold wind blew through the narrow abyss, making sounds like ghosts crying. The sand and stones on the ground were blown along the ground. In the pitch-black, deep centipede nest, a hideous giant shadow slowly opened its eyes...

It had been seven days since Chen Ling started Slaying Calamity.

And today,

was also the day the Centipede Poison Head challenged the "King."

Throughout the night, the Centipede Poison Head couldn’t sleep. Every time it closed its eyes, the image of that terrifying and crazy "King" playing with and dismembering centipedes would appear in its mind...

It was trembling, it was terrified, and it was so scared by the King’s shadow that it couldn’t sleep.

The Centipede Poison Head regretted it immensely. It should have challenged the King seven days ago instead of dragging it out until now. This wasn’t because it felt these seven days gave the King a chance to catch his breath, but simply because these seven days had been too agonizing... Compared to being tortured by fear, it would rather have been killed by the King right then and there.

After the torture of these past few days, when it finally faced this moment, its heart was surprisingly calm. The Centipede Poison Head’s massive body slowly crawled out of the cave. Its movements were slow and firm, like a prisoner about to head to the execution ground.

Today, it had to end everything.