Chapter 1434: Burning the Bridges

No...

This won’t do!

With its current body, there is no way it can outrun the Calamity of Mockery...

The Calamity of Thought felt its lungs like a broken bellows and its heart that seemed about to dissolve. Its thoughts turned rapidly. The overwhelming aura of the Calamity of Mockery pressed down on it, triggering its most instinctive crisis perception as a world-ending calamity.

It knew that if it didn’t find a way to break the situation, the ruins of the Ruo-Shui Domain would be its burial ground!

It couldn’t beat the current Calamity of Mockery. To break the situation, it either had to find a way to make itself stronger...

Or...

The Calamity of Thought looked at the figure in the theatrical robes walking slowly toward it, and a glimmer of light appeared in its violent thoughts.

A scarlet and ferocious smile hung on that pitch-black audience face. The face of the figure in the theatrical robes was full of the playfulness of a cat catching a mouse, as if it were very satisfied with this enjoyable hunt and still wanted more.

Its gaze seemed to be saying:

[Run...]

[Why aren’t you running anymore?]

The Calamity of Thought didn’t intend to run anymore. The longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it was for it. A deep look flashed across that aged face. It raised its fingertips and began to outline in the void before it...

The Ninth-Order demigod domain expanded, instantly shrouding the entire Ruo-Shui Domain. Broken door plaques, yellowed newspapers, road signs buried under ruins, books almost burned to ash... these remaining literary civilizations in the ruins all seemed to be guided by something, trembling slightly!

One character after another flew up from the paper, door plaques, and road signs. Dense black dots surged out from this silent ruin, like a sky-covering swarm of black insects, swirling and gathering in the direction of the Calamity of Thought!

These characters gathered around the aged body, building higher and higher, and finally gradually outlined the silhouette of a magnificent obelisk!

In this moment, thousands of years of character evolution seemed to possess an unspeakable weight of civilization. A sense of oppression capable of crushing everything expanded outward with the character obelisk as the center!

Path of the Book God, Ninth-Order, [Obelisk of Ancient Scripts].

DONG—!!

The invisible power of suppression, like an obelisk of the void, smashed heavily onto the shoulder of the figure in the theatrical robes!

The figure in the theatrical robes shook violently, as if it had been staggered by the weight of the inscription. Immediately after, a giant abyss-like crater exploded with it as the center. The thickness of the earth was as thin as paper under the weight of this giant stele, and it was torn apart instantly. Both the earth and it were crushed and fell wildly, as if they were going straight to the center of the earth.

At the same time, a torrent carrying the history of the entire domain, using these characters as carriers, drilled frantically into the mind of the figure in the theatrical robes!

Every newspaper printed, every door plaque hung by hand, every baby babbling in front of a book, every student answering questions on a test... every character contained emotion and the past. When they gathered together, the power that erupted was something even the King of World-Ending Destruction could not easily break free from.

Scarlet blood flowed from the seven orifices of the aged body, and the Calamity of Thought’s vitality was lost at an astonishing speed!

This time, the Calamity of Thought launched Pu Gui-Zong’s power almost regardless of the consequences. If this power had been used by Pu Gui-Zong thirty years ago, it might have been released stably, but for this aged body today, it was undoubtedly an act of suicide.

But the Calamity of Thought no longer had the time to consider how much longer this body could hold out.

As the figure in the theatrical robes was suppressed into the center of the earth by the Obelisk of Ancient Scripts, a moment later, a scarlet beam of light that pierced heaven and earth erupted directly from that abyss-like giant crater!!

That was the power to negate everything;

Every character that made up the obelisk, the past they carried, and the meaning they contained were all negated by the malicious audience. A gap also exploded in the characters surrounding the aged figure!

At the same time, a figure flew up directly from the incomplete obelisk. The theatrical robes with a red background and black patterns fluttered in the air, and anger emerged in those scarlet pupils!

Clusters of red clouds exploded from its body, and countless scarlet tentacles frantically crashed toward the characters around the Calamity of Thought. Continuous explosions rang through the sky.

One ruin after another was beaten into fly ash. The slaughter of the two world-ending calamities could easily raze an entire domain to the ground!

While the Calamity of Thought was using the Path of the Book God to forcibly resist the Calamity of Mockery, one hand pointed to the sky.

The void storm of thoughts surged frantically. This bizarre ghost lurking in the spiritual world of thoughts exerted its own power to the extreme at this moment!

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

The Calamity of Thought seemed to have split itself into two existences, one in charge of the peak of the human Path of the Book God, and one in charge of the world-ending power of thoughts. Matter and spirit attacked the Calamity of Mockery at the same time!

If the Calamity of Thought were given more time to repair this human body, its combat power, possessing both human demigod and world-ending power, would reach a terrifying level, and it could even go head-to-head with the Calamity of Mockery at its peak... It was just a pity that it met the wrong “person” at the wrong time.

The frantic depletion of the aged body destined that this all-out life-and-death struggle of the Calamity of Thought could not last long.

At the same time, the figure in the theatrical robes, trapped in both the Obelisk of Ancient Scripts and the storm of thoughts, was struggling frantically...

In terms of fighting in the material world, the Calamity of Mockery, which possessed the power to negate everything, would absolutely not lose to the Path of the Book God. But in the spiritual world, no one could defeat the bizarre ghost at the end of the storm, not even the Calamity of Mockery.

Countless characters were frantically consuming the power of the figure in the theatrical robes, forcibly keeping a part of its energy in the real world. At the same time, the consciousness of the Calamity of Thought had already drilled into the mind of the Calamity of Mockery, and a battle of thoughts that the naked eye could not touch had already erupted!

The storm swept, and countless consciousnesses were floating and sinking within the Calamity of Mockery. The Calamity of Thought could clearly feel the existence of each of them, feel their malice toward it, and their frantic struggle for control of this body.

Under normal circumstances, if the Calamity of Thought’s storm invaded the mind of the Calamity of Mockery, these audience consciousnesses would have already risen up to resist. But now they were caught in infighting, and a large part of their energy was spent killing each other. Even if they noticed the arrival of the Calamity of Thought, they couldn’t exert their full power to resist...

In other words, the mind of the Calamity of Mockery today was a scattered mess, the best time for external power to invade.

Just like when the Red King invaded here back then.

The surging storm spread within the consciousness of the Calamity of Mockery. It did not launch an attack on these personality consciousnesses, because it knew that there were simply too many of these personalities. Even if it killed dozens or hundreds now, it would be meaningless. Instead, it would make more of the audience wary of it, or even put down their infighting to deal with it first...

The Calamity of Thought was searching for something among these consciousnesses of the Calamity of Mockery.

That was its last hope for a comeback.

Just as it was praying that it must find it before its life ran out, that calm figure who had always sat alone outside the many consciousnesses like an audience member caught its attention...