Chapter 1564: Giant Collapse

"Chen Ling..."

As a human-shaped outline was sketched out from the ground, Lord Wuji's deep voice sounded, "Why... do you have the same material authority as me?"

There wasn't much anger in Lord Wuji's voice. He was a good loser; Chen Ling was indeed capable of escaping. But he didn't understand... Chen Ling was clearly not one of the Nine Lords, so why could he reshape materials?

Chen Ling naturally wouldn't answer his question, but just smiled lightly:

"Guess?"

In the gap between their conversation, a hurricane rolled away the surrounding ash snowflakes, and a six-winged figure that blotted out the sky and sun slowly descended, shielding Chen Ling's side.

Shen Qingzhu glanced at Lord Wuji, who was in the process of reshaping, and raised his right hand directly, as if he were about to snap his fingers again.

Lord Wuji's expression changed, and his soul was forced to escape and disappear again!

"Truly troublesome."

It wasn't until Lord Wuji's body turned into a stone sculpture that Shen Qingzhu withdrew his palm. After sighing helplessly, his gaze began to search for the opponent's position again.

"Thank you," Chen Ling looked at Shen Qingzhu and said sincerely, "I owe my escape this time to you."

Shen Qingzhu waved his hand indifferently:

"I've stayed in these Civilization Embers for too long, bored to death... It's nice to have someone to fight. Even without you, I would likely have fought him anyway."

"Then why didn't you fight me when I came?"

"You were too weak back then."

“……”

Shen Qingzhu said he was weak back then, and he really had no temper about it. After all, if Shen Qingzhu had really wanted to fight him back then, he probably could have crushed him with one hand.

Of course, that would be a different story if the Mockery Calamity had come out.

Chen Ling seemed to remember something, took two packs of cigarettes from his bosom, and handed them to Shen Qingzhu.

"Right, the cigarettes you wanted."

As soon as these words were spoken, Shen Qingzhu's eyes brightened instantly. He didn't care about Lord Wuji anymore, and lowered his head to pick up the cigarettes. He saw three large characters written on the packaging:

——【Tongtian Tower】.

Shen Qingzhu: ...?

"What's wrong?" Chen Ling was somewhat puzzled. "I don't know about cigarettes, but this seems to be the best-selling cigarette in the Tian-Shu Realm... Isn't this what you wanted?"

That's right, there probably wouldn't be any Yellow Crane Tower in this era... But the outer packaging of this [Tongtian Tower] actually looked better than the Yellow Crane Tower.

"No, it's fine. As long as there are cigarettes."

Shen Qingzhu opened the packaging without a word, put a cigarette in his mouth, and then rubbed his fingertips gently, and a wisp of flame lit the cigarette tip.

The orange flame lit up silently, Shen Qingzhu took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke...

In the hazy mist, his expression was more relaxed and peaceful than ever before.

Finally...

After staying in these Civilization Embers for so many years, he had finally waited for this puff.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—

Just as Shen Qingzhu's attention was drawn by the cigarette, the earth trembled, and a massive, pitch-black giant shadow crawled slowly out from the ground... It was a giant that blotted out the sky and sun, standing hundreds of meters tall. It stood beneath the five suns, and large pieces of rubble fell from it with a rustle, while the six mysterious gem patterns flickered silently.

Shen Qingzhu's repeated interruptions of his reshaping seemed to have made Lord Wuji somewhat angry. The massive body, composed of unknown materials, radiated a biting cold light in the dimness. Lines that seemed to flow with coronal energy roamed over his body, and at the position of his chest, a super reaction furnace with a diameter of a hundred meters was churning.

Shen Qingzhu's gaze passed through the hazy smoke and looked at the super giant in the distance. Having gotten his wish, his state was excellent, and his eyes were as bright as stars.

"Truly... tired of living."

Six gray wings extended behind him, and the swirling ash snowflakes flew again!

However, just as he was about to flap his wings and fly toward the giant, an unexpected change occurred!

The unstable space suddenly collapsed at this moment. Several vortices were sketched out in the air, attracting each other and rapidly triggering a more violent collapse. A massive area resembling a black hole formed above the battlefield!

The scale of this collapse was larger than all the previous ones combined. Especially as the collapses overlapped and expanded, it swallowed several other collapses that were further away, forming a terrifying chain reaction. Just in terms of area, it was already approaching an entire city!

Under this terrifying gravitational pull, Chen Ling's body left the earth almost instantly. Fortunately, Chen Ling reacted extremely quickly, and half of his body turned directly into a dancing red cloud, using the power brought by the Calamity body transformation to resist the gravitational pull in the sky, thereby stabilizing his figure.

But the earth beneath them had already cracked into dense fissures under this force, and then large tracts of land rose out of thin air, flying toward the giant collapse in the sky...

Chen Ling's red paper theatrical robes fluttered in the wind. He seemed to suddenly realize something and looked abruptly toward the other side of the sky.

He saw that the Eternal Realm, which had always been floating quietly in the sky, was now also affected by the giant collapse close at hand. It tilted rapidly, visible to the naked eye, and then moved toward the direction of the collapse, like a spaceship grabbed by a black hole.

Bursts of terrified cries for help sounded from every corner of the Eternal Realm. The residents who had already been lying in bed and about to fall asleep only felt a sense of vertigo, and they fell directly from their beds, which were tilted at forty-five degrees, landing with confused expressions.

The clinking and clanking sounds of objects falling to the ground echoed from every corner of the room. The residents could only step on the tilted walls to barely stabilize their figures...

And the tilt angle of the entire Eternal Realm was still constantly expanding!

"Damn it!"

Lord Wuji, who had originally intended to vent his anger on Shen Qingzhu and the other, saw this, and his pupils contracted slightly. He abandoned the battlefield before him without hesitation. The massive giant body ran with difficulty against the gravitational pull of the collapse, and every step he took triggered a roar like an earthquake.

As the super-large reactor erupted with terrifying energy, the giant rushed to the edge of the Eternal Realm at an unimaginable speed. The massive arms grabbed the bottom of the Eternal Realm directly, as if trying with all his might to drag it out of the range of the collapse.

As Lord Wuji's pupils erupted with blinding light, more than twenty massive steel engines extended from the side of the Eternal Realm near the collapse, and scorching fire erupted simultaneously. Under the support of terrifying power, he was barely able to stabilize the Eternal Realm at the edge of the collapse.

But that was as far as it went.

This was the deepest part of the Civilization Embers, and also the place where space was most unstable. In front of this giant collapse, the Eternal Realm was like a ribbon tied in the middle of a tug-of-war rope. Even if Lord Wuji pushed his power to the limit, he could only fight the gravitational pull of the collapse to a draw.

But the Eternal Realm was still too big. If Lord Wuji hadn't already reinforced it with materials of super-strong toughness and hardness, the unevenly stressed realm earth would likely have split in two under the tug-of-war between the two... But under the confrontation of the two giant forces, cracks were still visibly appearing on the surface of the Eternal Realm.