Chapter 1719: Beyond the World

As extreme radiance shrouded Chen Ling’s vision, a strange deep blue enveloped his entire being.

Chen Ling felt as if he were being pulled by some force, traveling between the boundaries of reality and the virtual. He saw endless light and shadow flashing before his eyes. If he looked closely, those were things he had experienced in the era archives.

From the first time he entered the archive, pushed open the bathroom door, to later participating in the Nine Lords’ exploration and getting to know the Nine Lords...

The traces he left in the era archives were bit by bit covering reality. It was no longer a virtual "archive," but had truly become history.

At the same time,

A rich red power exploded from his body!

Chen Ling didn't even know what was happening. A volcano seemed to erupt in his chest. His body, wrapped in blue light, shattered by more than half in an instant, like a broken blood-colored kite, drifting uncertainly.

What is this?!

At this moment, Chen Ling’s mind was blank. He hadn't expected this change at all. He didn't know why his body would explode during the restart process. This feeling was like he had swallowed too much Red Star power...

Wait.

Red Star?!

A thought suddenly flashed through Chen Ling’s mind.

Chen Ling remembered... when he was exploring Shennongjia with the Nine Lords in the era archive, he had also absorbed a portion of the Red Star fragments.

At the time, he was a bit strange as to why the nine scientists became the later Nine Lords after absorbing the Red Star power, but he had no reaction at all. Later, Chen Ling guessed that perhaps it was because the archive itself was fake, and the Red Star power within it was naturally fake too.

Fake power could not truly bring Chen Ling power; but at this moment, the fake world was replacing reality, and those Red Star power phantoms that Chen Ling had absorbed were also transforming into reality!

He had truly absorbed the genuine Red Star power along with the Nine Lords back then!!

This Red Star power was much larger than the piece Chen Ling had taken out from the Embers of Civilization. With such a massive amount of power suddenly stuffed into his body, his body would naturally collapse and explode...

No, it wasn't as simple as collapsing and exploding.

Chen Ling’s body was being squeezed and exploded by the Red Star power every second, then rapidly reorganized with red paper. If Chen Ling hadn't forcibly absorbed that small fragment in the Embers of Civilization, and his body hadn't developed a certain resistance to the Red Star power, he would likely have exploded completely and died instantly.

But Chen Ling had experienced numerous collapses and reorganizations; his body was already the "flesh" most capable of carrying the Red Star power in this world. Even with a massive amount of Red Star power suddenly stuffed in, Chen Ling didn't die immediately, but was on the edge of "life" and "death."

Chen Ling’s consciousness blurred rapidly again. He felt as if his body had broken free from its shackles, floating upward continuously, like a box injected with air in the deep sea.

He could feel that as he floated up, the "pressure" around him was constantly changing. In the end, he seemed to be in the void, where neither time nor space could be perceived.

Then, he seemed to touch something...

In front of him.

Hard, flexible, like some kind of "membrane" with extremely high density, or rather, some kind of barrier?

It extended infinitely in the void, impossible to bypass from any direction. Chen Ling’s consciousness was already blurred, unable to see the shape of this thing, but he could feel that this was definitely not something from Earth.

Filled with a large amount of Red Star power, Chen Ling’s body couldn't help but continue to "float up." He was squeezed bit by bit onto the surface of this "membrane," and then, like a thin needle, he kept piercing into it...

At this moment, a conversation with Shen Qingzhu suddenly surfaced in Chen Ling’s mind for no reason.

That was the first time he saw that Red Star fragment in the Embers of Civilization and intended to reach out and touch it...

"Don't touch it..."

"Why?"

"You are not the Nine Lords of that year. You already have a large, complete Red Star fragment in your body... You have reached the critical point of this world. If you rashly absorb so much Red Star power in one breath, there will only be two outcomes." Shen Qingzhu’s tone was very serious,

"Either you get blown up, or like me back then, you exceed the critical point of this world and become an existence rejected by it."

Chen Ling suddenly seemed to understand something.

The Mockery Disaster was born because it devoured a large amount of Red Star power; and at this moment, another amount of Red Star power of the same magnitude as the Nine Lords was stuffed into Chen Ling’s body...

The total amount of Red Star power in his body had already exceeded the limit of this world. His tempered body didn't shatter immediately, but under the rules of the world, he would still be forcibly rejected.

The "membrane" he was currently in was likely the barrier of the world.

"No..."

"It can't be..."

"The world has just restarted, there is still so much I need to do... I have to go back... I have to go back!!"

Chen Ling’s already blurred consciousness erupted with strong unwillingness at this moment. He sank deeper and deeper into the world barrier, struggling frantically to escape, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't change the reality of being rejected by the world.

Even Shen Qingzhu couldn't fight the rules of the world and could only stay in the Embers of Civilization. How could he, now dying, do it?

Chen Ling could only watch helplessly as he sank deeper and deeper into the "membrane"...

Then,

With a soft sound,

His body suddenly broke through the limitation of the "membrane," and his whole body felt light.

This was an indescribable feeling. If Chen Ling felt like he was in the deep sea just now, then at this moment, he had suddenly arrived in the cosmic void... No gravity, no rules, no air. He seemed to be in some world that didn't exist at all, floating silently in the dead silence.

Clouds of blood mist exploded frantically from Chen Ling’s body;

Under the tearing of the massive Red Star power, his body was covered in cracks again, and this time, the speed at which the cracks spread was far faster than the last time.

A figure clad in a red-bottomed, black-patterned opera robe bloomed with blood mist in the void, seemingly about to dissipate completely before long.

Chen Ling sensed that he had been completely squeezed out of the original world, and his heart turned cold. Coupled with the fact that his body had reached its limit, he was irreversibly heading toward destruction. His consciousness, which could have been supported by unwillingness, blurred rapidly.

Just then, he vaguely sensed something. He didn't know where the strength came from, but he finally forced his eyelids open a crack...

Deep in the pitch-black void,

One after another, gorgeous meteors drifted across the sky.

Each of them was like the Red Star, emitting indescribable, terrifying power. Purple, red, black... hundreds, thousands, brilliant and gorgeous, like a grand meteor storm!

The moment he saw this scene, Chen Ling’s pupils contracted sharply...

The next second,

His consciousness went completely black.