Chapter 1338: Angel of Annihilation

"The Seventh World-Ender?"

Hearing these four words, Chen Ling was slightly taken aback.

Aren't there only six world-enders in total? How could there be an extra one?

[Audience expectation value +3]

[Current expectation value: 24%]

With the sudden jump in audience expectation value, Chen Ling's eyes lit up slightly. He grabbed the follower by the collar and pointed to the stone tablet, saying:

"Translate it for me word for word... I can't read the dog-scratch writing your Jiangtian Sect wrote."

Jiangtian Sect follower: ...

Under Chen Ling's coercion, the Jiangtian Sect follower translated the text on the stone tablet bit by bit.

What was recorded on the stone tablet was a mysterious existence that appeared after the Great Cataclysm. According to the description of its appearance, it was a gray six-winged angel suspended high in the sky. Because its appearance was usually accompanied by a large-scale "dead silence," it was called the "Angel of Annihilation."

The space around it seemed to have extreme instability, performing space jumps without rules or signs. Perhaps it was over a certain realm one second, and the next second it disappeared without a trace, arriving at a corner of the Gray World that no one cared about, or even in a certain world-ender territory...

At first, it was active during the period after the Great Cataclysm. Human cities at the time witnessed its appearance more than once, but its behavior usually didn't have a clear purpose; it just appeared abruptly and disappeared quickly. Coupled with the fact that the human realm had already initially come into contact with the concept of "world-ender," some people directly classified this non-Earth species into the ranks of "world-enders."

However, they later discovered that this Angel of Annihilation had never attacked humans, so they stopped paying too much attention to it. Moreover, as time passed, the frequency of its appearance became lower and lower, until it finally disappeared completely from the human realm... Eventually, people gradually forgot about its existence.

After three hundred years of changes since the Great Cataclysm, there were no records of the Angel of Annihilation in the human realm. Only a very small number of people passed down some legends from their ancestors, still insisting on believing in the existence of the Angel of Annihilation, even worshiping it as a god who would save humanity.

And the reason the Jiangtian Sect left this stone tablet, recording information about the Angel of Annihilation, was because... they knew the Angel of Annihilation hadn't disappeared.

Humanity's cognition of it was limited to human society and realms, but the Jiangtian Sect was rooted in the Gray World and witnessed more of its deeds.

According to the records, during the Great Cataclysm, the Angel of Annihilation once appeared in the Falsehood Mountains without warning and fought fiercely with the Calamity of Delusion. After beating the Calamity of Delusion to a near-death state, it disappeared abruptly...

Even the Jiangtian Sect's main branch witnessed its appearance.

However, the Angel of Annihilation just stood above the main branch for a while, then flapped its wings and left, disappearing into the depths of the Gray World.

Hearing this, Chen Ling immediately remembered that Shen Nan had mentioned to him before that when he had just performed the God-Sacrificing Dance and attracted the attention of the Gray World, Shen Nan's consciousness had accidentally seen a six-winged angel in the depths of the Gray World...

If nothing went wrong, what Shen Nan saw at that time was the "Angel of Annihilation" recorded on the Jiangtian Sect's stone tablet.

"Angel... does such a thing really exist in this world?" Chen Ling murmured to himself.

Chen Ling thought for a moment, then asked:

"So your Jiangtian Sect kept this stone tablet just to record its existence?"

The Jiangtian Sect follower hesitated before speaking:

"Our sect leader believes that this Angel of Annihilation might have a connection to the source of the Supreme Jiangtian Salvation Sovereign..."

Chen Ling frowned... The Supreme Jiangtian Salvation Sovereign was the Red Star that the Jiangtian Sect followers believed in. This Angel of Annihilation was actually related to the source of the Red Star? What exactly was the source of the Red Star??

Chen Ling walked to the back of the stone tablet. It seemed to be a map, but it was drawn very sloppily, only marking a direction among a piece of calamity territory.

"What is this?"

"The direction the Angel of Annihilation went after leaving the main branch back then... Our several archbishops all believe that it might be hiding there, because that was the last time it was witnessed."

Seeing the direction of the arrow on the stone tablet, Chen Ling's eyebrows raised slightly...

The location marked on the stone tablet was not far from the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery, or rather, it was in the deeper part of the Gray World behind the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery. It was just a general direction, not a detailed location.

This was somewhat unexpected for Chen Ling. Could it be that in the Gray World behind the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery, there really was a mysterious angel hidden that no one knew about?

After going back this time, he must find time to explore it...

This was a good way to increase audience expectation value.

"You did well." Chen Ling turned to look at the Jiangtian Sect follower in his hand. "In return for translating for me, you can choose a piece of tableware you like."

Jiangtian Sect follower: ???

A red paper tentacle clung to the back of Chen Ling's hand, flicking its tongue like a venomous snake.

"Say the name of a piece of tableware." Chen Ling spoke again.

"Fork... fork... fork?"

The moment the Jiangtian Sect follower's voice fell, the red paper tentacle pierced his throat.

As scarlet blood sprayed out, Chen Ling raised his hand gently, and a fork was pinched between his fingertips. After the soul was infused, the fork immediately trembled, jumping back to the ground in fear, rolling around.

[Audience expectation value +1]

[Current expectation value: 25%]

Chen Ling took one last look at the towering stone tablet, turned, and walked toward the center of the chaotic village. With a flick of the bright red opera robe's sleeve, a boning knife flew out automatically. After drawing an arc in the air, it rushed toward the stone tablet like lightning!

Boom—!!

The boning knife pierced the stone tablet, instantly shattering it to pieces.

Chen Ling had already memorized the route on the stone tablet, so naturally, he had to destroy it to prevent others from passing through the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery to find the traces of the Angel of Annihilation.

At this time, the Jiangtian Sect branch was already in complete chaos due to Chen Ling's appearance. Many followers had left the range of the torch and wanted to flee into the Gray World, but they would never have thought that what awaited them would be a Tier 8 poison head and an entire scorpion legion.

This was the main reason Chen Ling brought Xie Yi and the others here... Letting any Jiangtian Sect follower leave here alive was a waste of Red Star Willpower.

Amidst the hissing of poisonous insects in the distance, the screams of Jiangtian Sect followers rose and fell. They seemed to realize that this was simply an inescapable trap and began to retreat to the village in a sorry state...

The bright red opera robe strolled through the chaotic village;

In the direction of the raging torch, a group of Jiangtian Sect followers, bishops, and even archbishops turned their heads toward Chen Ling's direction at the same time... Among them, two archbishops glared at Chen Ling, holding bone weapons, as if they had made up their minds, roaring and charging toward here like a desperate gamble!

The brilliant firelight of the torch illuminated those countless figures fighting to the death, and Chen Ling slowly stopped in his tracks.

His opera robe began to be visibly stained with a touch of black!