Chapter 1355: Embers of Civilization

Even so, the range of the collapse did not shrink in the slightest; instead, it expanded outward even more violently!

Chen Ling turned his head to look at Wu Yi, who was also struggling in the void. The two were only a hundred meters apart, but to Chen Ling, its movements had visibly slowed down. Each centipede leg paddled as slowly as an oar on a rowboat...

Chen Ling knew this definitely wasn't Wu Yi slowing itself down... it was that their time flow rates had become different.

Only a hundred meters apart, yet the time flow differed by so much?

What kind of hellhole is this!!

With Chen Ling’s World-Ending Calamity physique, escaping this collapse shouldn't be a problem, but Wu Yi’s situation was more dangerous. Its body was massive, and if the collapse continued to expand, it might eventually be swallowed up...

Just then, a loud snap of fingers seemed to cross the distorted space-time, ringing out suddenly in the deathly silence!

*Snap—!!*

The ash-snow flying across the sky suddenly froze in place!

The terrifying gravitational pull continued to spread from the direction of the collapse, dragging even light and shadow along with it. At the edge of the gradually dimming sky, two massive gray wings slowly unfolded...

It was a figure with wings on their back.

The moment he saw that person, Chen Ling’s heart gave a slight jolt!

The person glanced toward here, flicked their wings lightly, and the next moment, the figure vanished into thin air. It all happened so fast that their existence felt like a hallucination... but Chen Ling knew very well that it was definitely not a hallucination.

Because at this moment, that blurry and massive six-winged black shadow had already obscured his vision.

"You... are the Sixth Generation?"

A man’s voice sounded calmly.

Immediately after, Chen Ling felt a palm grab his wrist, dragging him directly out of the collapsing gravitational zone!

After crossing a distance of several kilometers, Chen Ling, who had been stuck in the quagmire, was dragged directly to a "ground" area. The terrifying gravity became negligible. The black-robed figure stabilized himself in mid-air, turned, and dropped to the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dust and sand...

Chen Ling looked up, but he didn't see the six-winged figure again. Instead, a giant centipede shadow was also thrown out of the gravitational zone by something, flying precisely toward this spot!

*Boom—!!*

Wu Yi, having survived the ordeal, twisted its body in the air and stumbled into a building before finally coming to a stop.

It shook its head violently amidst the dust, terror still lingering in its gaze...

[Great King, what was that thing just now?!]

Wu Yi couldn't help but hiss.

"...How would this King know?" the black-robed Chen Ling replied irritably.

The black-robed Chen Ling did not revert to his normal state. His scarlet eyes stared vigilantly in the direction of the collapse, as if searching for that six-winged figure...

If nothing went wrong, that six-winged figure was the "Angel of Extinction" recorded on the Jiangtian Sect’s stone tablet.

He really was here!

But he seemed to have spoken to him just now... Is he really a "human"?

As Chen Ling pondered, the collapse zone that had trapped them suddenly expanded rapidly, releasing an extremely unstable aura as if it were about to explode. Immediately after, a blinding white light shot into the sky!

*Boom—!!!!*

The white light seemed to contain immense energy, exploding outward with a roar, but an invisible curtain scattering ash-snow seemed to surround the area, locking the explosion zone tight. The flickering light was almost enough to blind a person.

The explosion lasted for a full half-minute before the light slowly receded. The swirling ash continued to fall from the sky, and the city ruins fell back into deathly silence.

"...Is it over?"

Chen Ling’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Amidst the ash falling like snow, a six-winged figure flapped his wings and landed at the end of the road. He casually brushed the dust off his sleeves, and those massive gray wings retracted behind him, eventually disappearing without a trace.

Only then did Chen Ling truly see his face clearly.

He was a young man wearing a plain shirt, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. The whole person exuded a faint air of uninhibitedness, but those slightly narrowed eyes were as mysterious as an abyss.

The moment he saw him, an indescribable sense of danger surged into Chen Ling’s heart.

You have to understand, the only things that could make Chen Ling in his black-robed state feel threatened were World-Ending Calamities and human Demigods. But strangely, Chen Ling could neither sense the aura of a Calamity from him, nor could he sense any Divine Path. As for the aura of the Nine Monarchs, there was even less resemblance.

Is it some kind of special World-Ending power, or a Divine Path capable of hiding one's aura?

While Chen Ling frowned in thought, the man first looked at Wu Yi, then carefully sized up the pitch-black Chen Ling for a few moments...

His expression was somewhat subtle:

"You look... scarier than I expected."

The black-robed Chen Ling’s heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively wanted to start cursing, but his reason barely managed to control the impulse.

Seeing that the young man before him showed no killing intent, Chen Ling took a deep breath, trying his best to calm down. The black color on his body slowly faded, and his theatrical robes returned to vermilion.

"...Many thanks to you, Senior, for your help." The red-robed Chen Ling swallowed his insults and expressed his gratitude politely.

"You came too early."

"What?"

"In the past, they would only come here after becoming Demigods... You came too early, and your strength isn't enough yet." The man glanced at Wu Yi. "If I hadn't intervened, you and your subordinate would have died in the 'Civilization Collapse'."

"They?"

Chen Ling keenly caught onto something. "'They'? Who are 'they'?"

The man looked at Chen Ling with some surprise, as if he were shocked that he didn't even know this. He waved his hand and said indifferently, "That’s a matter between you all; it’s not convenient for me to disclose... Later on, someone will tell you."

The confusion in Chen Ling’s heart grew even thicker, but he was sensible enough not to press the issue, instead changing the question:

"Senior, what is this place?"

"This place never had a name. It is just a chaotic land forgotten at the end of the world, the final legacy left behind by a pathetic world pierced through by the Red Star... I call it the 'Embers of Civilization'."

"'Embers of Civilization'?" Chen Ling muttered the name.

The man watched Chen Ling for a while, then suddenly remembered something:

"What is your name?"

"Chen Ling."

"Which 'Ling'? The 'Ling' of 'lonely and desolate'?"

Chen Ling was stunned, not expecting this person to guess his name right away, as the character was quite rare in names.

"Yes."

"Chen Ling... Oh... So that's how it is..."

A strange emotion flashed in the man’s gaze as he looked at Chen Ling.

"Senior, you just said 'a pathetic world pierced through by the Red Star'... What does that mean?"

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