Chapter 1565: Assistance

"What's going on?!"

"Why is there an earthquake???"

"Xiaochen! Where is Xiaochen?!"

The sudden giant tremor caused the man and woman sleeping in the room to roll directly onto the floor. The woman stumbled and climbed up while holding the wall, her first reaction being to push the door open to see if the child in the bedroom was safe.

She had just pushed the door open when she saw the dining table in the house sliding across the tilted floor with a creak... The vase on it swayed and fell to the ground, and sharp fragments also slid across the floor.

The woman didn't see these; her gaze was fixed on the tightly closed bedroom door, and just as she was about to step forward, a palm grabbed her arm.

"Mom! I'm fine! Don't run around now!"

The woman looked back and saw her son already standing beside her, his face equally panicked and ugly.

"Xiaochen! Why are you here?"

"I came out to drink water because I was thirsty, I didn't expect there to be a sudden earthquake."

"Are you hurt??"

"No, I'm fine."

"That's good..."

Creak—!!

Cracks emerged from the ground, piercing straight through the floor of the house. The walls and ceiling began to sway precariously, and fine sand and gravel rained down from above. This scene, resembling the end of the world, filled them with sheer terror.

"The Eternal Domain... is it splitting apart??" the man asked in disbelief.

"How is that possible? The Eternal Domain, how could it possibly split?"

The woman muttered to herself, staring blankly at the ceiling above, her entire being stunned.

"...It won't," Tian Xiaochen suddenly spoke up.

"What?"

"The Eternal Domain will not split."

The couple didn't know why Tian Xiaochen was so certain, and they had no heart to ask further at this moment. They could only watch as the cracks beneath their feet spread further; it seemed that even the foundation of this domain, constructed from super-alloys, could not withstand the uneven forces pulling at its sides.

Boom—!!

Just then, another tremor surged from beneath their feet.

The ground, which had been on the verge of collapse, suddenly stabilized at this moment. Even the cracks beneath them stopped spreading, as if another force was countering the gravity from the spatial collapse.

……

Wuji Jun, who was pulling with all his might to hold the Eternal Domain together, felt the tension in his hands lighten slightly; the gravity caused by the collapse seemed to have diminished.

He was slightly startled and looked toward the other side of the Eternal Domain. There, a red-and-black giant, as towering as himself, was also using its hands to support the crumbling Eternal Domain. Dense red paper surged around its body, and the power of the World-Ending Calamity churned wildly!!

"...Chen Ling?" A flash of astonishment crossed Wuji Jun's eyes.

He...

is actually helping me??

"One thing at a time," the deep, thunderous roar of the Calamity Giant echoed from the other side of the domain. "Regardless of whether you can ultimately achieve this so-called 'Eternity,' at least for now... the outcome is not yet decided. Everything remains unknown."

The Chen Ling of today was no longer the man who had been forced back into the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery, indifferently watching the life and death of humanity. He still didn't have much affection for humans, but since he had become the new Red King—the bell-ringer for the restart of human civilization—he had to stand from the perspective of humanity and oversee the big picture.

Perhaps Wuji Jun was destined to fail, but he should never fail here. The destruction of Eternity could be due to natural disasters or fate, but it must never be because he, Chen Ling, stood by and watched... In any case, Wuji Jun's path itself was not wrong.

Wuji Jun stared blankly at Chen Ling, a complex look in his eyes...

He didn't say anything more, simply remaining silent as he pushed the power output of the Eternal Domain to its limit, resisting the spatial collapse in the distance.

Chen Ling's intervention did not directly rewrite the stalemate; his power was limited, after all, and he could only temporarily balance the forces acting on the Eternal Domain to prevent it from splitting in two.

"Hoo..."

A hurricane swept away the swirling ash and snowflakes. With six gray wings unfurled, a figure slowly approached beneath the sky-obscuring Eternal Domain, exhaling a puff of smoke.

He glanced at the black shadow above and spoke indifferently:

"The Embers of Civilization are not a tourist attraction..."

"Once you get out this time..."

"Don't come back."

As he finished speaking, he pressed his palm gently against the underside of the Eternal Domain.

As his six wings vibrated suddenly, the dense ash seemed to be guided by something, all of it surging upward into the sky. It pressed against the bottom of the Eternal Domain like the arms of a giant. With the veins on Shen Qingzhu's hands bulging, he exerted force suddenly!!

Hum—!!!!

A terrifying force instantly broke through the collapse and the stalemate between Wuji Jun and Chen Ling. Wuji Jun felt the pulling force on the opposite side lighten, and the Eternal Domain wobbled as it broke free from the gravitational vortex of the spatial collapse. Aided by the surging power engines, it moved rapidly away from the Embers of Civilization.

At the same time, the tilted Eternal Domain gradually leveled out. The residents, whose nerves had been stretched to the breaking point, waited for a long while, and when the apocalypse didn't arrive, they finally let out sighs of relief and wails.

"Damn, I really thought the Eternal Domain was going to split apart just now!"

"That was terrifying... wasn't it just supposed to be a bit of turbulence?"

"Is it possible that all of this was actually under Lord Wuji Jun's control?"

"Lord Wuji Jun, please don't play like that! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"It's fine now, it's fine..."

“……”

The residents who had stayed within the Eternal Domain didn't know what had happened outside, nor did they know that the one who ultimately helped them escape the death trap was the "Heart of Red 6" who had terrified them not long ago... except for one person.

Tian Xiaochen didn't pay attention to his parents, who were weeping with joy at their narrow escape. Instead, he looked down at the floor tiles and silently pressed his palms together.

"Thank you, Lord Chen Ling..."

……

With engines roaring, the Eternal Domain, having escaped the spatial collapse, moved through the air toward the outskirts of the Embers of Civilization.

Wuji Jun reverted from the giant form he had prepared for battle back into his human form. He stood hundreds of meters away from Chen Ling and Shen Qingzhu, his black robes fluttering in the wind.

"What? Still planning to lock me in the Eternal Palace?" Chen Ling asked, seeing that Wuji Jun's gaze remained fixed on him.

Wuji Jun did not respond.

He was indeed considering that very question...

Chen Ling had helped the Eternal Domain, which made Wuji Jun grateful, but the fact that Chen Ling could not be locked in the Eternal Palace was a source of regret for him... Standing from the perspective of "Eternity," it would be best to keep Chen Ling contained. This had nothing to do with personal feelings; it was purely the optimal solution for "Eternity."

"If you think you have the confidence to use brute force to lock me in the Eternal Palace... you can try," Chen Ling said with a cold sneer.