Chapter 1705: Red King VS Lord of Lingxu

In the ruins of the Lingxu Ancient Temple.

A one-armed monk in a gray robe coughed up blood while looking at the direction of the explosion in the distance.

His monk's robe had been completely stained red, his messy curly hair danced in the air, and his pale knuckles pinched the remaining chess pieces, as if searching for Chen Ling's position...

The next second, a sharp, cold light flashed in his eyes.

Swish—!!

The blade of the bone-cleaving knife appeared out of thin air from the void, like a ghostly blade slashed from a shadow. Behind the blade, a surging World-Ending pressure poured out from the figure draped in red and black.

The moment the stone was thrown by the Lord of Lingxu, Chen Ling locked onto the opponent's position. Through [Wall-Breaking] transforming into two dimensions, he crossed several kilometers in an instant and arrived behind him like lightning...

Chen Ling knew very well that this was not the ordinary battle he had experienced before; this time, his enemy was a true, strongest Nine Lord!

He had to go all out from the beginning.

This strike could already be called the pinnacle of Chen Ling's assassination. When the Lord of Lingxu sensed Chen Ling's dimension-breaking killing intent, Chen Ling's blade was less than half a centimeter from his neck...

However, the next second, the speed of the bone-cleaving knife weakened rapidly, as if slowed down a hundred times, moving forward slowly.

Lingxu Number, tampered with the speed formula.

Bang—!!!

Almost simultaneously, the second Lingxu Number flickered.

The mass-energy equation was also tampered with to an exaggerated degree. The Lord of Lingxu just raised his palm and flicked it lightly behind him, and Chen Ling's body was hit like a meteor, flying backward amidst a roar!

Chen Ling's humanoid body was shattered by more than half by this finger, blood mist accompanied by fluttering red paper flew in the air, but under the replenishment of more red paper, the hideous gap repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning back into a monster body covered in cracks...

The black-red figure landed heavily on the ground, sliding backward for nearly a hundred meters under inertia before barely stopping.

"You finally came."

The Lord of Lingxu stood quietly in place, his weary eyes filled with bloodshot veins, watching Chen Ling.

"Wu Tongyuan!" Chen Ling said in a deep voice, "What did you do... to my Senior Brother and the others?"

"Are you talking about that child with white ash smeared on his nose?" The Lord of Lingxu said lightly,

"He wanted to kill me, so of course I killed him."

The chill in Chen Ling's eyes grew even richer!

Things had come to this, and there was nothing left for him and the Lord of Lingxu to say. No matter how the other party explained it, Chen Ling had to kill him... Only by recovering the corpse of the Lord of Lingxu could the world be restarted!

"You... are courting death!!"

Chen Ling took a step forward!

Ghostly calamities from the Abyss of Ghostly Ridicule were flung by Chen Ling's sleeves, directly possessing the surrounding ruins.

The earth beneath the Lord of Lingxu suddenly seemed to come alive, opening a hideous centipede mouth and biting upward, as if to tear him into pieces directly!

[Abyssal Ghost Ferry]!

This strange attack clearly didn't conform to any mathematical laws, so the Lord of Lingxu couldn't guard against it in advance. He just slowed down the speed around him at the first moment, then modified the gravity formula, and his whole person rose rapidly toward the sky!

And as he rose, a centipede gathered from rubble also rushed out of the earth. At the same time, several dilapidated buildings around also strangely turned into the silhouettes of toads, geckos, scorpions, and poisonous snakes, stepping through the air to chase the Lord of Lingxu!

These five, possessing the building ruins, were none other than the Five Poison Heads of the Abyss of Ghostly Ridicule!

In that battle on the Forbidden Sea, the Five Poison Heads fought all the calamities except the Calamity of Ridicule one-on-one, almost killing them all. It was a pity that they were outnumbered and eventually exhausted and died in battle one after another...

Before they died, they also triggered the backup plan Chen Ling had left on them, and eventually, their ghosts were summoned.

And [Abyssal Ghost Ferry] directly allowed their ghosts to temporarily possess the battlefield, becoming an aid and fighting side-by-side with Chen Ling!

It could be seen that the Five Poison Heads felt very novel about this form of "rebirth," and coupled with being able to fight side-by-side with Chen Ling, they were all like they had been injected with chicken blood, surrounding the Lord of Lingxu!

Beneath the sky of red and black, the figure in the monk's robe looked around, his gaze like a winter lake, extremely calm.

He raised his only remaining right hand. The surface of his two fingertips seemed to be covered with extremely thin flammable powder. With a light rub of his two fingers, a small ball of fire burst from the void.

As the Lingxu Number jumped, the value of the formula was blessed to a terrifying degree. A scorching sun, as hot as a nuclear explosion, obscured the sky, instantly swallowing the bodies of the Five Poison Heads. The dazzling brilliance even burned a large hole in the red and black that shrouded the sky!

Boom—!!!!

The scorching sun burned fiercely, and fragments of debris burned into ashes drifted down from the sky.

Just as the Lord of Lingxu's figure walked out of the embers, a red-paper hand that obscured the sky, like a giant palm of divine punishment lowered by the Buddha, pressed down horizontally toward the figure in the monk's robe!

A pair of ruby-like eyes opened from the sky. Chen Ling seemed to have completely turned into that black-red sky. Every piece of drifting red paper was a part of his body. In this posture, he could crush half a domain with just one palm!

As the hand obscuring the sky approached, the Lord of Lingxu's gaze froze. Just as he was about to take action, his whole person suddenly coughed violently!

"Cough, cough, cough, cough—!"

Crimson blood flowed down the corner of the Lord of Lingxu's mouth. The dozen or so embroidery needles remaining in his body now brought unspeakable twisting pain, and his movements lagged for a moment.

Boom—!!!

That giant red-paper hand roared and submerged the Lord of Lingxu's figure, smashing him from high altitude and pressing him heavily onto the messy ruins!

Chen Ling could feel that this strike had indeed hit the Lord of Lingxu. He didn't think the Lord of Lingxu in his prime would be injured by this move. It seemed that the injuries caused by the Lord of Red Dust, the Lord of Infinity, and those Eighth-Order combatants were more serious than imagined.

Chen Ling knew this was an excellent opportunity. His figure immediately reappeared from the flying red paper, holding the bone-cleaving knife, and charged like a ghost toward the shattered earth that had been crushed into a spiderweb!

[Audience Expectation +3]

[Current Expectation: 88%]

The cold light fell to the earth like a meteor. Amidst the scattering dust, a hunched monk's figure was half-kneeling on the cracked earth, spitting out mouthfuls of blood.

Chen Ling held the handle of the bone-cleaving knife with both hands, and [Wall-Breaking] was activated again. He almost turned into a stream of light that didn't exist, his speed so fast that the naked eye couldn't capture it...

However, just as that bloody moon was about to slash the Lord of Lingxu in two, the weak figure half-kneeling on the ground suddenly looked up and pointed at the sky!

Beneath him, a line of formulas that had been written at some unknown time burst with intense light!

Chen Ling only felt a force precisely shroud his body, and his whole person disappeared into thin air... When the light dissipated, the spiderweb-like earth ruins were already empty.