Chapter 1455: The Death of the Red King

The Gray King’s words rolled like thunder in Chen Ling’s ears.

He seemed to understand what the Era Archive really was...

If this world were compared to a game, when a game is about to reach a failed ending, the only choice to save everything is to "load the save."

Let everything return to the "save point" and start over from there. The USB drive in Chen Ling’s hand is the key to that "save point"... As long as he uses the save file in his hand to overwrite history, the entire world will reload, and everything that happened within the Era Archive will rewrite the existing history, leading everything toward a new ending.

Chen Ling suddenly remembered that the first time he entered the Era Archive was when the Red Star was first observed streaking across the sky on Earth.

That was the beginning of everything,

and also the only "save point."

Actually, thinking about it carefully, if one wanted to save the world, the best way would be to return to the time before the Red Star arrived and prevent it from approaching Earth. But the Era Archive couldn't do that... because Ruoshui Jun’s power also came from the Red Star. No matter how he changed things, he couldn't roll back the save time to before the Red Star’s arrival.

Therefore, the Red Star’s arrival on Earth was an unchangeable inevitability. The only thing that could be rewritten was everything that happened after the Red Star arrived...

The alliance of the Nine Sovereigns, the establishment of the Realms, the war of extinction, and even... the Hibernation Project?

"If this world has been restarted more than once, that means the Twilight Society has also succeeded more than once... So the person who restarted the world last time... was my master?" Chen Ling frowned at the Gray King.

The Gray King nodded slightly:

"Yes."

Chen Ling had basically sorted it out.

This world had been restarted more than once, and the one who restarted it last time was the Red King... He used his former Era Archive to overwrite the world’s history, giving humanity a chance to start over.

And the Nine Sovereigns of this era must have had some contact with the Red King; perhaps their attitude toward him was also related to the Red King.

"How many times has the world been restarted so far?"

"Five times."

"So the save file in my hand is the key to starting the sixth world..." Chen Ling muttered to himself. "But the world has already been restarted five times by the Twilight Society, and we still haven't found a way to break the cycle?"

"...I don't know. Perhaps you can only ask your master that question." The Gray King shook her head.

"But the arrival of the Red Star is an unchangeable necessity. On that basis, wanting to rewrite the ending of the world... is too difficult."

Chen Ling remembered when he was in the Embers of Civilization, the Silent Angel had mentioned information about [Y-012], the Red Star.

[Y-012] could directly pierce through "civilization" itself, and so far, it seemed that no world that had encountered a Y-series meteor head-on had survived... Chen Ling didn't know how strong those so-called worlds were, but the fact that none survived was enough to demonstrate the Red Star’s terrifying destructive power.

In fact, their own world hadn't survived the impact of [Y-012] either. Ultimately, they were just using the power of the Red Star to load the save again and again, struggling to survive amidst repeated destruction.

Wait... had the Silent Angel been calling him "Generation Six" since then?

Did he also know about the world restarts?

What exactly did the so-called fifth and sixth generations refer to?

What happened to the Red King after he stepped onto the Red Star? Was it possible for them to succeed in this world? Or had they already failed? Could they only pin their hopes on the next world?

Countless questions surged in Chen Ling’s mind. Just as he was about to ask something else, the Gray King suddenly stopped.

She reached out and made a gesture in the void. The empty space parted like jelly. In this seemingly empty and desolate place, there was actually a mysterious region hidden, invisible to the naked eye.

"This is..."

"The Ancient Treasury of the Chang Dao." The Gray King replied calmly, "Follow me closely."

The Gray King stepped into the ancient treasury. Chen Ling did not hesitate and followed right behind her. As the last person, Liu Qingyan, stepped in, the jelly-like portal slowly closed, as if nothing had ever happened.

This was Chen Ling’s first time in the Ancient Treasury of the Chang Dao. He was actually very curious about this divine ancient treasury that had always been full of mystery. But after entering, he couldn't see the surrounding environment at all. He only felt a flash of moonlight in the air, and the three of them seemed to traverse the void, directly crossing a vast area...

Finally, Chen Ling landed on the surface of a calm lake.

"I know you still have many questions, but those are not questions I can answer." The Gray King raised her hand, pointing to a coffin in the center of the lake. "You... go find him yourself."

Seeing the red coffin in the center of the lake, Chen Ling’s heart trembled violently!

He immediately stepped forward.

As he gradually approached, a familiar figure was lying quietly in the center of the coffin. A bright red opera robe was spread neatly inside. The young face had its eyes closed, the complexion pale, as if he were just sleeping...

Chen Ling’s pupils constricted slightly. He stiffly reached out his hand to touch the Red King’s body...

It was bone-chillingly cold.

He was dead.

No temperature, no breath, no vitality whatsoever. It was as if even his soul had dissipated, leaving only an intact shell.

"He... he’s dead????" Chen Ling turned to look at the Gray King in disbelief. "How could this happen?!"

"...I don't know."

The Gray King shook her head bitterly, her eyes filled with confusion and doubt.

"The second after he stepped onto the Red Star, his corpse appeared here... I don't know how he appeared, nor do I know the specific cause of his death. But I have checked repeatedly; he is indeed dead, and his soul has scattered.

Furthermore, the civilization artifacts on his body all shattered into dust, and even his clothes disappeared, as if something had directly annihilated 'civilization' itself."

Chen Ling looked back at the corpse, his brain short-circuiting for a moment...

Stepped onto the Red Star one second,

dead the next?

What kind of evil place was that Red Star? To be able to instantly wipe out a Ninth-Order Demigod? And in such a bizarre way?

"However, he seemed to have foreseen his own death." The Gray King paused for a moment before speaking again. "Before boarding the Red Star, he had already arranged everything. He instructed before he left... that once I found his corpse, I should find you and bring you here."

"He knew he would die? Then why did he still board the Red Star??"

According to the Gray King, the Red King probably knew what would happen if he stepped onto the Red Star, and even knew that his corpse would return to Earth after he died on the Red Star... Chen Ling guessed that perhaps in the previous four world restarts, someone had also tried to board the Red Star... But if he knew he would die, why go?