Chapter 1527: Escape

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Chu Muyun’s coughing sounded from within the dust.

A bandage was tied around his waist, extending deep into the ground, seemingly binding something tightly...

Chen Ling and the other three were all severely injured and exhausted. Sun Bumian’s Awakened Lion could no longer be summoned, so they had to rely on Chu Muyun to drag all four of them, forcibly climbing out from underground. The faint rumbling from earlier was the sound of him using his hammer to smash the earth and climb up rapidly.

And now, Chu Muyun was the first to climb to the surface.

As the dust settled and he saw the situation around him, his expression turned incredibly ugly!

Numerous heavily armed figures had surrounded the area like ambushers waiting to slaughter their prey. Hostile weapons were pointed coldly at them, and most terrifying of all were the three suffocatingly powerful figures above...

One of the Nine Lords and two top-tier Eighth-Stage experts?!

Damn it!

Had the Tian-Shu Domain known they were entering the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury all along? Were they here specifically to wipe out the Twilight Society?!

But this formation was far too large!

A flash of determination crossed Chu Muyun’s eyes. He immediately pulled out a scalpel, intending to cut the bandages on his body...

Right now, only he, Chu Muyun, was exposed. Chen Ling and the others were still below. It didn't matter if something happened to him, but if these people discovered that the Red King and the rest of the "6" generation were all severely injured, it would be like having the entire Twilight Society’s throat held in their hands!

No matter what, the Red King must be protected!

The scalpel swung down, but it only cut through empty air... The bandages that had been wrapped around Chu Muyun’s waist had disappeared without a trace.

Chu Muyun stood frozen in place.

*Woo—woo—*

A cold wind swept across the ruined land.

Before anyone knew it, four figures stood like four oppressive mountains at the four corners of the cave entrance.

The black theatrical robe with red patterns fluttered silently, and a pair of bright earrings flashed with sharp, cold light.

The tattered leather jacket emitted a thick scent of blood, and one palm was already gripping the invisible sword hilt behind his waist.

The small round sunglasses on the bridge of his nose were gently pushed up, and a pair of eyes nested with rings scanned the surroundings coldly.

White hair drifted and danced in the sky, and one figure began to silently loosen the bandages on his body... A bizarre, cursed aura spread through the air.

The four of them stood back-to-back, surrounding Chu Muyun. On them, there was no longer any sign of exhaustion or severe injury; they looked like fierce generals who had just slaughtered their way out of a sea of corpses and blood, their gazes dangerous and lethal.

"Twilight Society??" Someone in the crowd gasped!

Who could have expected that their stakeout in the Tian-Shu Domain would run into the Twilight Society?

And wasn't that figure in the red theatrical robe with black patterns the new Red King who had just negotiated with Lord Lingxu a while ago and made the newspapers?

How could the people of the Twilight Society be here??

Seeing these four people, not only the crowd below but even Su Zhiwei, Hongxiu, and Lü Liangren were stunned...

The theatrical robe fluttered silently as Chen Ling slowly looked up at the three people above.

His gaze was deep and calm.

"Everyone..."

"Long time no see."

Although Su Zhiwei was not the Su Zhiwei Chen Ling knew from the archives, she had had several encounters with him. They had also dealt with Lü Liangren and the others in the Red Dust Domain. As for Hongxiu, it went without saying—in the Wuji Domain, Chen Ling had personally awakened Hongxiu, whose "Yesterday" had been stolen, and they had joined forces to defeat the Fire Tamperers.

These three were indeed all old acquaintances of Chen Ling.

"Chen Ling..."

Su Zhiwei frowned slightly in surprise. "What are you doing in the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury?"

"Retrieving some things." Chen Ling’s thoughts raced, but he remained calm on the surface. "Since you’ve been guarding here, you must have encountered others, right?"

"If you're talking about that Wang Jian, he is now a prisoner of the Tian-Shu Domain," Lü Liangren answered truthfully.

As expected...

This Wang Jian was truly unlucky.

Chen Ling’s gaze swept over the crowd, and he suddenly chuckled:

"Why, Dr. Su... do you also want to make us prisoners of the Tian-Shu Domain?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the three people above fell into silence.

Lü Liangren didn't have a particularly good impression of Chen Ling and the others, but he had no hostility either. Hongxiu was already thinking about how to go easy on them if a fight broke out, so that Chen Ling and his group could leave safely...

Su Zhiwei looked at Chen Ling with a complex expression; no one knew what she was thinking.

Just as rustling sounds began to rise from the crowd below, Su Zhiwei finally let out a long sigh...

"Clear the way."

The rustling in the crowd vanished instantly. Everyone who had surrounded Chen Ling quickly retreated to the sides, opening a wide path for the four of them.

Chen Ling didn't seem surprised. He raised his hand slightly to thank Su Zhiwei:

"Thank you."

Chen Ling gave the others a look.

Jian Changsheng, Sun Bumian, and Jiang Xiaohua understood immediately and slowly began to walk, turning and leaving at a leisurely pace...

They walked very slowly, and with every step, they brought immense pressure to the surrounding crowd, as if they were not the surrounded prey, but the crowd on both sides were their targets... Steady, calm, like a lion looking down on the world.

The crowd didn't dare to move, just watching Chen Ling and the others walk toward the end of the road.

Hongxiu watched their backs, the confusion in her eyes gradually turning into something strange...

She opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.

"Lord Red Dust, are we just letting them go like that?" someone asked in a low voice after they had walked far away. "There are residential areas ahead. I'm afraid there might be accidents... Should we send people to follow them and ensure they leave the Tian-Shu Domain?"

"No need," Su Zhiwei replied calmly. "They won't attack civilians."

When Chen Ling and the others completely disappeared from everyone’s view, Su Zhiwei ordered everyone to leave. Hongxiu took one last look at the direction Chen Ling and the others had left in, then followed Su Zhiwei and the others toward the temporary base.

Almost at the same time, on the other side of the road.

*Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!*

Four figures collapsed to the ground one after another.

Chen Ling and the others were so severely injured that they couldn't possibly have recovered instantly. Just now, they were completely forcing themselves to put on a show of strength... If someone had really tried to stop them, the four of them would likely have been finished.

Now that they had finally left the other party’s sight, their forced bodies could no longer hold up, and they fell into unconsciousness one by one, collapsing in the deserted alleyway.

Chu Muyun’s mouth twitched. He immediately looked around quickly, trying to find somewhere to hide them temporarily. After all, the Tian-Shu Domain was not the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury; dragging them through the streets on four wooden carts would definitely be discovered.

Just as Chu Muyun was feeling anxious, a beggar carrying a broken bowl walked leisurely from under a bridge not far away...

"...Hmm??"

Seeing the four people lying neatly in front of him, Jin Fugui froze in place.

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The God-Slaying series is finished, taking a day off for the signing event~