Chapter 1431: Pursuit and Escape

Tian-Shu Domain.

BOOM—!

A pitch-black spear of killing intent pierced through the surging tide of calamities, instantly tearing open a bloody path. A large number of skeletal calamities were swept up by the shockwave of the killing intent, shattering into a sky full of bone dust on the spot.

After piercing through the tide, the spear of killing intent automatically adjusted its direction in the air, streaked across the sky, and landed back in the palm of a woman wearing a law enforcer’s trench coat.

Her fiery red hair fluttered in the wind, and Hong-Xiu’s gaze was as cold as frost.

“The situation is still under control, why are you looking so gloomy?”

A voice came from the side. Lu Liang-Ren, carrying a giant calligraphy brush on his back, walked out with a hint of confusion in his voice.

“Still under control... really?” Hong-Xiu retorted.

“The devices buried underground by the Heaven-Reaching Tower are very effective. These calamities from the Sighing Wilderness cannot fly; as long as they step on the ground, they trigger them almost 100% of the time, which has greatly reduced the pressure on us,” Lu Liang-Ren pointed to the Heaven-Reaching Tower behind him.

“Plus, with Mr. Han, the leader of the Path of the Medical God, sitting in command, his domain can limit the state of the wounded to ‘near-death,’ which means we can minimize casualties to a great extent and preserve our combat strength... While the situation isn’t exactly bright, it’s at least not too bad.”

“Before the South Sea Domain was breached, they were just as optimistic.”

With a single sentence, Hong-Xiu left Lu Liang-Ren speechless...

“And don’t you find it strange? It’s been so long, and the Calamity of Breath still hasn’t shown its face.”

“Even if the Calamity of Breath appears, its threat level is limited, right?” Lu Liang-Ren said hesitantly. “After all, we have one of the Nine Sovereigns at their peak sitting in command.”

“...Perhaps.”

Hong-Xiu’s few words made Lu Liang-Ren feel increasingly uneasy. He opened his mouth to say something else, when a booming sound suddenly erupted from the end of the sky!

A streak of ink, like a blade mark cutting through the sky, instantly pierced from the south to the north. The moment it appeared, the light between heaven and earth dimmed slightly... An afterimage sped rapidly within this ink streak, moving at an incredible speed!

The vast aura of a Ninth-Order demigod swept through the air. Its movement was so massive that the entire Tian-Shu Domain felt its presence.

“A demigod of the Path of the Book God?” Hong-Xiu was startled, appearing somewhat surprised. “Is it Pu Gui-Zong? Isn’t he guarding the South Sea Domain?”

“Wait...”

Lu Liang-Ren seemed to have sensed something. “No... his aura...”

He was not the only one to notice the abnormality in the demigod aura. Almost simultaneously, a terrifying aura erupted from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and a figure in a white training suit broke through the air!

Sovereign of Red Dust, Su Zhi-Wei!

The aura of the Nine Sovereigns surged over the Tian-Shu Domain. Su Zhi-Wei stared fixedly at the strange existence that simultaneously radiated the aura of a human demigod and a world-ending calamity, her brows locked in a frown, seemingly filled with wariness and doubt.

This was the first time a human domain had observed such a bizarre phenomenon. Su Zhi-Wei didn’t know what had happened to Pu Gui-Zong, but logically, Pu Gui-Zong could not easily leave the South Sea Domain, and now the South Sea Domain had been conquered by world-ending calamities... For him to appear here in this state was absolutely abnormal.

Su Zhi-Wei stood above the Tian-Shu Domain, her aura surging, and reached out a hand directly toward the “Pu Gui-Zong” within the ink streak!

The next second, a storm of thoughts exploded directly from within that person’s body!

BOOM—!!

This storm of thoughts not only engulfed Su Zhi-Wei but also covered half of the Tian-Shu Domain.

Everyone on the battlefield who looked up at the sky saw with their own eyes a terrifying storm that had almost condensed into substance sweeping across the firmament. Hollow pupils were outlined within the storm, and at the same time, a giant abyss-like mouth, as if it were about to swallow the entire Tian-Shu Domain, suddenly opened!

“—GET OUT!!!”

In that instant, everyone’s thoughts were disturbed, and even Su Zhi-Wei, who was about to strike, paused for a moment.

It was in this brief gap that the Calamity of Thought transferred rapidly from the ink streak, leaving the sky above the Tian-Shu Domain in full view of everyone, moving straight toward the north without looking back.

Everyone within the Tian-Shu Domain was somewhat dazed...

The sudden appearance of the Calamity of Thought had kept everyone on edge, and they thought they were about to face a fierce battle. But they never expected that the Calamity of Thought would just pass over the Tian-Shu Domain like that... no conspiracy, no trap, leaving people’s emotions on a roller coaster.

“Is it my imagination?” Lu Liang-Ren said thoughtfully. “Why do I feel... like it’s in a bit of a panic?”

Before everyone could recover from the appearance of the Calamity of Thought, an aura even more terrifying than that of the Calamity of Thought descended from the south!

HUM—!!!

A large red paper umbrella streaked across the sky like a meteor, its speed more than three times that of the Calamity of Thought. At the same time, the sky full of red paper looked like red clouds surging from the horizon, staining the entire firmament in the blink of an eye!

“Calamity of Mockery?!!!”

If the sudden appearance of the Calamity of Thought had only shocked and alerted everyone, the arrival of the Calamity of Mockery now caused their hearts to tremble violently and their faces to change drastically!

But because the Calamity of Mockery was faster than the Calamity of Thought, before anyone could react, that streak of red clouds had already passed over the Tian-Shu Domain, leaving only the heart-palpitating aura of world-ending destruction echoing within the domain—a testament that the King of World-Ending Destruction had once passed through here.

“I must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed... to actually see the Calamity of Mockery chasing down the Calamity of Thought...”

“What on earth happened in the South Sea Domain?”

It wasn’t just the humans in the domain; even the calamities from the Sighing Wilderness that were frantically trying to attack were stunned for a moment before launching their assault again.

As the two world-ending auras vanished, everything returned to its original state, as if neither the Calamity of Thought nor the Calamity of Mockery had ever appeared... but that bizarre scene left a veil of doubt over everyone’s hearts.

“Keep your spirits up! Guard the Tian-Shu Domain!”

On the battlefield of the Tian-Shu Domain, a stern voice rang out. The traps at the edge of the domain acted like millstones, continuously reaping the lives of the calamities.

Time passed second by second.

I don’t know how much time had passed, when the earth suddenly began to tremble!

At the same time,

Another terrifying world-ending aura erupted strangely from beneath the earth!

Having witnessed the passage of the Calamity of Thought and the Calamity of Mockery, everyone’s first reaction was: is another world-ending calamity about to pass through here? But they quickly realized... this time, the world-ending aura wasn’t bypassing the Tian-Shu Domain from above, but truly existed beneath the Tian-Shu Domain!

This world-ending calamity was targeting the Tian-Shu Domain.

The many practitioners of the Path of the Ingenious God who were controlling the underground traps at the edge of the domain felt their connection to all the underground devices being severed. Immediately after, thick roots burst out from the ground, detonating hundreds of traps all at once!!