Chapter 1715: Possibility

The Silver King seemed puzzled; he raised his fingertip and reached toward this direction...

At this moment, Chen Ling’s pupils contracted sharply.

Without hesitation, he unleashed his power, using the Akashic Tower to forcibly negate the current reality. Before the Silver King’s hand could fully rise, the entire deep cosmos regressed to its initial state, and endless points of light submerged Chen Ling once again!

At some point, a fine layer of cold sweat had already covered Chen Ling’s back.

How is this possible??

Wasn't what he saw a world-line simulated by the Akashic Tower? Everything happening inside should be virtual... How could the Silver King of that world possibly perceive the existence of the Akashic Tower?

Fortunately, Chen Ling had completely negated that world before the opponent could take action...

"Li Laide, he could actually reach this point?"

Chen Ling was incredulous.

Stealing the space where Earth was located and playing hide-and-seek with the Red Star in the universe was a solution Chen Ling couldn't have imagined even if he racked his brains... This seemed to be the best solution for humanity to fight the Red Star so far, but it still had flaws.

The biggest flaw was the Silver King himself.

The Silver King was inherently an extremely unstable existence. After gaining absolute power, all of humanity became his playthings... While it couldn't be called tyranny, he certainly made life miserable for the populace and those who were once powerful.

He even wiped out the Twilight Society of that era, destroyed the era archives, and completely extinguished the possibility of restarting the world.

This was something Chen Ling absolutely could not accept.

The Silver King’s solution, while seemingly the best, carried too much risk, and Chen Ling still did not intend to adopt it.

Thus, he continued to steel himself and proceeded to the next simulation...

In the subsequent simulations, there were developments that caught Chen Ling’s eye... for instance, Ying Fu single-handedly unified the human Divine Path practitioners. He resurrected the demigods who had existed in history one by one, establishing an unprecedentedly powerful "dynasty."

Among the fourteen Divine Paths, excluding the Play God Path, Book God Path, Prostitute God Path, and Thief God Path, the remaining ten Divine Paths each had a demigod under his command. The combined power of ten demigods made Ying Fu himself powerful to an unprecedented degree. If the Akashic Tower allowed cross-world-line combat, the Ying Fu in this world would be even stronger than the peak Silver King who stole ten Divine Paths.

Most importantly, the absolutely dominant Ying Fu did not throw humanity into chaos like the Silver King. Under his governance, the human realms became increasingly prosperous, and everything was in perfect order...

In this world-line, Ying Fu ultimately led numerous demigods to surround and attack the Red Star, but at the critical moment, their Divine Paths seemed to be influenced by the Red Star...

And then, the entire army was wiped out.

Chen Ling felt it was a great pity. The Red Star seemed to have a strong suppressive effect on Divine Path holders; once in close contact, their own Divine Paths would be affected... It seemed that pinning hope on Divine Path holders was also not very feasible.

The Nine Lords, the Divine Paths—Chen Ling had tried both paths, and by now, his physical state was approaching its limit. Even the Red Star fragment he had brought was absorbed until only a thumb-sized piece remained.

Clouds of blood mist exploded from Chen Ling’s body. At this point, he no longer looked human, with only endless red paper fluttering in the air...

"Only two chances left..."

Chen Ling took a deep breath, his thoughts stirred, and he simulated once more!

This time, Chen Ling did not pin his hopes on anyone else. He included himself in the simulation, cultivating the Nine Lords and Ying Fu according to the experience from previous world-lines while improving himself.

At the same time, he methodically cultivated the next generation of Heart 6. The one he chose was none other than Li Qingshan, who also possessed extremely high talent for the Play God Path.

Everything moved forward methodically. Chen Ling completed the final performance of the eighth stage, achieved self-verification of the Divine Path, became a ninth-stage demigod, and fully mastered the power of the Mockery Disaster...

Then, when the Red Star returned for the third time, he joined forces with several of the Nine Lords to fight the Red Star.

But even they did not ultimately defeat the Red Star. The result of this battle ended with his death and the death of the Nine Lords... and then, Li Qingshan became the next generation of Red King, barely restarting the world.

"Is this the limit of what I can do..." Chen Ling shook his head bitterly.

This was the only time Chen Ling had achieved a "restart" ending by following the steps. Facts proved that even if he, the world-ending Mockery Disaster, became the Red King and restarted the world, he could not reverse the fate of humanity in the next world.

Chen Ling’s mindset was complex. He once thought he was special... and in fact, he was indeed special.

But in front of the Red Star, his uniqueness was merely a losing ending that deviated slightly from the original trajectory among thousands of possibilities.

"No..."

"There must... be another possibility!"

The disappointment in Chen Ling’s eyes lasted only for a moment, and then a madness and determination never seen before occupied his pupils.

He had experienced too many setbacks and self-doubts along this journey, and his heart was already incredibly strong. Even if he truly felt the terror of the Red Star, he would never easily despair... Conservative development might lead to a losing ending; since that was the case, he might as well be bolder!

Thoughts flashed through Chen Ling’s mind. He frantically simulated the most extreme possibility, then squeezed out his last ounce of strength to negate the world!

Pfft——!!

The red paper drifting in the air shattered into a sky full of blood mist again, then fell powerlessly...

At the same time, endless points of light flashed around the red paper, as if experiencing the changes and development of a world. The computing power of the Akashic Tower was pushed to the limit, deep blue radiance flickered frantically, and even the tower in the real world began to sway and crumble!

The world was being simulated under Chen Ling’s will, and a "possibility" was gradually taking shape!

Just then, a powerful force of negation suddenly flashed out from that world, and the radiance of the entire Akashic Tower suddenly stalled!

Boom——!!

Amidst a violent roar, hideous cracks appeared on the surface of the Akashic Tower. The tower in both the imaginary world and the real world collapsed at the same instant. The half-simulated world shattered, and Chen Ling was sent flying out of that world as if hit by a heavy truck.

Blood splattered over the fluttering red paper. This fictional world collapsed completely along with the destruction of the Akashic Tower, and the contours of the real world enveloped his body...

A battered figure of red paper fell from the high altitude of the Lingxu Realm.