Chapter 1729: Twilight

Boom—!!!

An earth-shattering roar came from the depths of the Red Dust Prison.

The residents of the outer city were stunned and looked toward that direction simultaneously. The next second, the massive steel dome exploded like fireworks, and intense fire mixed with eerie scarlet rushed into the sky!

“This...”

“What happened?!”

“It’s the prison... was the prison attacked?”

“No way, isn’t the Marquis stationed at the prison? Who could hurt the Marquis?”

“Wait... why do I feel the ground shaking?!”

“……”

The residents in the outer city were terrified by this scene. They looked at the ruins of the steel dome billowing with smoke in the distance, discussing among themselves...

Immediately after, the ground beneath their feet trembled violently. A hideous crack extended directly from the depths of the prison, instantly piercing through the entire outer city like a dragon. It was as if some force was tearing the entire prison apart, and even the super-high wall on the outermost layer began to twist and deform!

Whoosh—!!

As the residents screamed in terror, an afterimage streaked across the sky like a meteor!

It was so fast that the public couldn’t see what it was. It wasn’t until it crashed into the outer wall, causing spiderweb-like cracks to spread for kilometers, that everyone saw clearly...

The eighth-rank Marquis Nan, who had been stationed at the Red Dust Prison, was now pinned to the wall by a retracted red paper umbrella. Blood blurred across the wall, and his gradually dimming eyes still held extreme horror!

Witnessing the Marquis stationed at the prison being pinned to death, unprecedented fear surged into the hearts of all the residents. They fled in panic, and the sound of crying and chaos echoed through the sky.

Rolling dust drifted through the ruins of the steel dome...

Two corpses, almost cut in half, lay messily in a pool of blood. A few minutes ago, they were laughing and discussing the identity of the attacker; now, they were souls under the butcher’s knife.

They didn’t know what they had experienced, but like Marquis Nan just now, their faces remained frozen in terror and despair.

At this moment, above the pool of blood, an opera robe fluttered in the bloody, cold wind.

Chen Ling held the last eighth-rank marquis by the neck with one hand, lifting him into the air like a chick. His ruby-like eyes were filled with indifference and sharpness.

“Why...” The eighth-rank marquis was covered in blood. Because his neck was locked by Chen Ling, he couldn’t even breathe.

“Three hundred years ago, when you launched a sneak attack on the eight major bases to kill and seize power... you should have expected this day.”

Chen Ling said indifferently.

The eighth-rank marquis’s eyes widened in anger. He didn’t know where he found the strength, but he forcibly activated his divine path again. A cold light of killing intent bloomed from the tip of his tongue, shooting straight toward Chen Ling’s face!

But the next moment, that cold light vanished strangely, as if its existence had been forcibly denied by someone...

At the same time,

as Chen Ling’s palm suddenly tightened, the eighth-rank marquis’s head flew into the air, and scarlet blood sprayed onto the ground like a fountain.

Gurgle...

The heavy head rolled in the pool of blood.

The red paper tentacles winding and curling in the air gradually reorganized into Chen Ling’s palm.

The breeze, mixed with the smell of blood, blew the hem of his opera robe. Chen Ling’s gaze swept calmly over the corpses beneath him, then he slowly turned his head to look in a certain direction.

“I hope you like this reunion gift...”

“...Ying Fu.”

……

“Four marquises, wiped out?!”

“At this rate, the other guards of the Red Dust Prison probably won’t be able to hold out either...”

“According to the message sent out before Marquis Nan died, the attacker is likely a world-ending disaster!”

“What?!”

“Quick! Stop him before he massacres the public!”

“But if we rush over now, will we really make it in time...”

“……”

Several figures shuttled rapidly through the Gray Realm. Looking at the billowing smoke of the Red Dust Prison in the distance, their hearts sank to the bottom.

The news of the Red Dust Prison falling spread, and the entire Chengtian Domain was shocked. Since they took over the major domains, no one had dared to attack the prisons... Hearing that someone had broken into the Red Dust Prison and killed four eighth-rank marquises in public, they had already anticipated the most tragic and worst outcome.

If the Red Dust Prison were truly washed in blood, and if the Red Dust Monarch were truly erased... the consequences would be unimaginable.

But when these figures from the Chengtian Domain rushed into the Red Dust Prison, the scene before them made them pause.

The defensive line used by the Red Dust Prison to resist the Gray Realm had not been breached, and the towering city walls had not collapsed, despite having many cracks... In the outer city, the imagined scene of rivers of blood did not appear. The residents seemed to have recovered from their fear and were pointing at the direction of the steel dome in the distance.

Everyone was a bit bewildered for a moment.

A world-ending disaster appeared like a ghost in the Red Dust Prison, piercing through all the defensive forces... yet it didn’t massacre a single resident, and didn’t even open the outer wall?

This left everyone, who had prepared for the worst, feeling confused.

“Go check the status of the Red Dust Domain.”

They sent people to check on the residents while flying toward the shattered steel dome.

When they brushed away the smoke covering the ruins and saw the situation below, their brows furrowed tightly...

Hundreds of steel chains that had originally connected to the Red Dust Domain had been severed by some force. The broken chains swayed gently in the wind, and the thirty-six watchtowers had been reduced to ruins.

Several shattered corpses lay messily in the pool of blood below, motionless.

“Look over there...”

One of them seemed to have discovered something and pointed in a certain direction.

Everyone turned to look simultaneously. On the shattered ground, two huge characters composed of scarlet blood, written stroke by stroke with sharp, extraordinary vigor, looked like a sword of vengeance, stinging everyone’s eyes...

——【Twilight】.

……

Outside the Red Dust Prison.

On the desolate, pitch-black earth, a figure in an opera robe walked slowly forward.

Rolling smoke surged from the Red Dust Prison behind him, and the noise and chaos passed through the city walls into the Gray Realm... He saw those from the Chengtian Domain rushing into the Red Dust Prison in a hurry, but they didn’t take any action.

He was like an unnoticed ghost, silently stepping off the chaotic stage he had built with his own hands.

The cinnabar-like earrings swayed silently.

Chen Ling took a deep breath... A strange glimmer appeared in his eyes.

“Liu Qingyan.” He called out softly.

The next second,

the void behind him stirred violently, and the outline of a woman in a black dress was sketched out from it!

No one knew when she had arrived. She looked at the opera-robed back in front of her, and two lines of clear tears flowed silently down her cheeks... I don’t know how much time passed before she tremblingly knelt on one knee and spoke respectfully:

“Twilight Society Gray King, Liu Qingyan...”

“Greets Lord Red King.”