Chapter 1662: Eternal Dilemma

Under the lead-gray sky,

several figures were sitting on the back of a giant centipede, speeding toward the Tianxue Domain.

Chen Ling sat on the centipede's head, with Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua behind him, and a napping Jin Fugui lying further back... As for Chu Muyun and Bai Ye, they were not traveling with Chen Ling and the others.

Now that Cangyun had been destroyed, most Twilight Society members could only stay in the Lingxu Domain or the Tianxue Domain. But to avoid being targeted by Lord Lingxu, everyone's routes had been dispersed; after all, the more people gathered together, the more dangerous it was.

"Diamond... tell me, what is Heart thinking?"

Jiang Xiaohua saw Chen Ling sitting alone in the front, his theatrical robes fluttering, motionless, and couldn't help but whisper to Sun Bumian.

"He is the Red King; he has a lot to think about." Sun Bumian patted his shoulder. "Don't disturb him now, okay?"

"Oh... alright."

Jiang Xiaohua was a bit disappointed. He paused for a moment and then asked, "Then, can't we help at all?"

"Of course not." Sun Bumian looked at Chen Ling's lonely back, his tone carrying a hint of firmness. "We can definitely help... just not right now."

After saying this, Sun Bumian also sat cross-legged. Wisps of auspicious energy spread in his pupils, and the bottleneck that was infinitely close to the Eighth Stage began to loosen again.

Having received Sun Bumian's answer, Jiang Xiaohua seemed a bit more at ease. Like Jin Fugui, he lay down on the spot and let out a lazy yawn...

At this moment,

Chen Ling's thoughts had already arrived a thousand miles away.

……

Eternal Domain.

"Tian Xiaochen..."

"Tian Xiaochen!"

Tian Xiaochen, still in his dreams, was startled awake by a voice.

He climbed up groggily and looked around, but didn't see anyone in the room... When the voice echoed in his mind again, he gave a violent start!

"Tian Xiaochen, it's me."

"Red... Lord Red King!!" Tian Xiaochen was incredibly excited. "Lord Red King, you finally came to find me!"

After Tian Xiaochen exchanged memories with Chen Ling last time, he had been arranged by Chen Ling as an external member of the Twilight Society, specifically responsible for monitoring and collecting intelligence within the Eternal Domain. Now, after such a long time, he finally waited for the gaze of Lord Red King again.

Chen Ling's figure slowly outlined itself in Tian Xiaochen's thoughts. He sat down at the previous Go table and looked at Tian Xiaochen solemnly:

"Xiaochen, has anything happened in the Eternal Domain recently...?"

Tian Xiaochen didn't say a word, jumped off the bed, crawled on the ground to fumble under the bed for a while, and pulled out a thick stack of papers.

"Yes! I've written everything down!"

Tian Xiaochen organized the papers. One could see that many things were written on them in immature handwriting, along with some relationship lines and highlighted circles. If one looked even closer, one could even see annotations Tian Xiaochen had made with different colored pens.

Seeing this, Chen Ling's face showed surprise... Who would have thought that the once bratty child could now be so meticulous. It was clear that he was really trying hard to do his job as an external member.

"Should I tell you in chronological order, or by importance?" Tian Xiaochen was clearly a bit excited, as if he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

"Tell me by importance."

"Okay." Tian Xiaochen pulled out a paper filled with red ink without hesitation. "Just a short while ago, the Eternal Palace was surrounded by residents."

"...What?"

Tian Xiaochen's first sentence surprised Chen Ling immensely.

He had personally been to the Eternal Domain and knew how much the people here adored Lord Wuji... They would actually surround the Eternal Palace??

"Why?"

"Because for some reason in the Eternal Domain... a plague has started."

Chen Ling stood frozen on the spot.

This sentence was like a bolt of lightning flashing through Chen Ling's mind, and those previously disorganized thoughts were instantly connected!

So that's it... so that's how it is?

From the memories of the Fifth Red King, one could know that this plague was not an ordinary plague, but after the Red Star crossed for the second time, it caused the virus itself to regress to a more ancient state. This was not limited to a certain area, but something that would definitely happen as long as there was air, water, and living organisms.

Even if the Eternal Domain floated in the sky, completely cut off from the ground, and there was no way for contact transmission, a plague would still occur here, and even multiple viruses would overlap... because the change in human immunity could never keep up with the change in viruses.

Even without any contact or communication, the plague would still appear out of thin air in the Eternal Domain!

Could this be the reason for Lord Wuji's failure?

Even if he could provide the residents of the Eternal Domain with infinite resources, even if he himself could be eternally immortal, even if his judgment was absolutely rational and fair... even if everything here, including himself, was eternal, his subjects were only flesh and blood.

Humans are just too fragile.

"Anything else?" Chen Ling immediately pursued.

Tian Xiaochen flipped through his notes one after another:

"Recently, the frequency of the Eternal Domain docking with the ground has increased."

"Suddenly, many free public medical clinics have appeared in the domain, and those doctors seem to have some special powers... but they are also helpless against this plague."

"Some sick people have started to protest, clamoring to return to the ground, saying that only by going to the ground can they find a way to cure themselves."

"According to rumors, some critically ill patients have started to be secretly sent into the Eternal Palace, and then never came out."

"Oh, right..."

"Lord Wuji hasn't come out of the Eternal Palace for a long time either."

“……”

After listening to Tian Xiaochen's report, the vague guess in Chen Ling's heart had been confirmed.

Mr. Han's sudden disappearance could not have been the work of the Lingxu Domain or the Tianxue Domain; after all, he had just come out of those two domains after touring them for treatment... So among the current human forces, the only one that could possibly take action against him was the Eternal Domain.

If nothing unexpected happened, Mr. Han must have been targeted by the Eternal Domain and captured in an attempt to solve this plague...

But if the people of the Eternal Domain had inquired about the situation from the ground even a little bit, they would have known that this plague could not be solved by a Medical God Path at all. Even if they captured Mr. Han, it would be of no help.

Chen Ling believed that Lord Wuji should already know this information by now, and had even seen the fate of the Cangyun Domain with his own eyes.

Chen Ling slowly stood up from his seat and walked slowly to the window, gazing at the towering Eternal Palace in the distance...

"Now, you should have seen the end of everything..."

"What..."

"will you do?"