Chapter 1733: The Fifth Final Chapter

That night, the Opera Dao Ancient Treasury was brightly lit.

The fragrant aroma of food drifted in the air, and faint laughter came from under the eaves where colorful flags danced.

Whether it was guilt, responsibility, or regret, Chen Ling briefly let go of everything, as if he had returned to that grassland in the Fifth World, chatting and eating carefree in his senior brothers’ home.

By the time they finished the last dish, and incidentally stopped Wenren You who was still preparing to cook, this feast where they ate until they were stuffed finally entered halftime.

“Third, the amount of food is a bit too much; we really can’t finish it...” the Mo role said, laughing and crying.

“How is it too much? It’s always been this amount.”

“That’s true... when the fifth one was here, he ate more than all of us combined.”

“But at this time, the fifth one probably hasn’t been born yet, right?”

“Sigh...”

“With the fifth one gone, this ancient treasury is still a bit cold.”

As soon as this sentence was spoken, everyone at the dining table fell silent.

Chen Ling slowly placed the chopsticks in his hand on the table.

“No... he is right here.”

Everyone looked at Chen Ling with some confusion.

Chen Ling beckoned, and a red paper umbrella opened in the void, and a ghost slowly drifted to the ground.

It was a child with white ash smeared on his nose. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Ling and the senior brothers. He immediately let out a surprised “Ya” and pounced toward them excitedly with his arms wide open...

But the next second, his figure drifted lightly through Ning Ruyu and the furniture, and the senior brothers and sisters didn’t seem to notice his existence, just looking at Chen Ling in confusion.

The Clown stood blankly in place, tilting his head, looking very confused.

Chen Ling sighed softly in his heart.

In the previous world, the Clown’s ghost was left behind by the Lingxu Monarch, and later it successfully followed his red paper umbrella to this world... It’s just that, now he is a ghost, invisible and untouchable to ordinary people. Even if the Clown is here, except for Chen Ling, other senior brothers and sisters cannot interact with him.

Moreover, ghosts cannot stay in the human world for a long time.

With Chen Ling’s ability, bringing them over from the previous era was already the limit of what he could do now. He also wanted to resurrect these people, but he had no idea how to do it at the moment...

The Clown is like this, and other Twilight Society members are like this. They finally came to this world, but they can only be locked in the red paper umbrella. If only there were a way for them to move freely outside in their ghost state.

Wait...

At this moment, in Chen Ling’s mind, he suddenly recalled the girl named Jiang Er he met outside the world.

She was an extremely special existence. Except for not having a physical body, she seemed to have no restrictions. She could be seen, could exist for a long time, and could even make sounds through electronic devices...

“Surprised? ...Her ability is a bit special; she can allow souls to exist in a stable form... and it doesn’t just work on herself, you know.”

Chen Ling clearly remembered that when An Qingyu said the last sentence, he deliberately raised his tone.

Chen Ling had thought he was just proud of his lover... but now that he thought about it, it seemed to be more than that? His tone and eyes were as if he were... reminding him of something?

But... how could this be?

With this thought emerging in his mind, Chen Ling couldn’t keep calm. He immediately stood up from his chair:

“Senior brothers and sisters, you eat first, I’ll go out for a moment.”

The opera-robed figure hurried out of the room.

At the dining table, several senior brothers and sisters looked at each other...

Only the Clown in ghost state, as if discovering the fun of hide-and-seek, waved his hands and jumped around in front of the senior brothers and sisters, playing happily.

……

Ding-ding-ding-ding—

Spotlights lit up one after another from above the stage, and Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes.

He ignored the quiet audience below and walked straight to the bookshelf. At this moment, there were already several scripts on the bookshelf.

【The King of Solitude, Returning in Wrath】——《Red King Returns》.

【Completing an Impossible Performance on an Unattended Stage】——《When the Stars Shine》.

【Completing the First World-Destroying Performance Witnessed by at Least Fifty Thousand People】——《Wind and Rain Hide Clouds》.

These three scripts were completed before Chen Ling restarted the world. He promoted from the sixth rank to the eighth rank, making the originally empty bookshelf more complete and substantial.

And as Chen Ling walked to the table again, a brand-new script had already taken shape:

“Congratulations on completing the play, 《The Fifth Final Chapter》.”

“Maximum audience expectation for this play: 94%”

“You have obtained a designated lottery right.”

“After using it, you can designate a character from all the appearing roles in this play and randomly draw one of their abilities. The probability of drawing a rare skill is related to the comprehensive audience expectation of this play.”

The length of this script was very long. As Chen Ling turned to the second-to-last page, after he reversed the era and restarted the world, a blank page appeared strangely in the script... Chen Ling had completed so many scripts, but this was the first time such a situation had occurred.

It should be because he was forcibly squeezed out of the world halfway through the restart, touching the outside of the world?

When Chen Ling turned to the last page, his meeting with An Qingyu and Jiang Er was recorded in a disjointed way, as if some force was affecting the script, until Chen Ling returned, and this script was finally completely finished.

Seeing this last page, Chen Ling also felt a bit nervous.

So far, the theater's ability has never let him down. Beyond humans, it can even extract the abilities of World-Ending Calamities... If that’s the case, since Jiang Er’s name also appeared in the repertoire, perhaps she could also be an extraction target?

Having completed the performance for the promotion from the Eighth Stage to the mid-stage of the Half-Stage, there are two lottery opportunities remaining that can be used.

Chen Ling picked up his pen, hesitated for a moment, and then decided to use one of the lottery chances from "The Fifth Final Chapter," solemnly writing a name on the paper:

——Jiang Er.

When Chen Ling looked up again, several strangely shaped cards rapidly took form in the void!

It’s working!

Chen Ling felt a surge of joy.

Unlike the cards of all previous extraction targets, Jiang Er’s cards were translucent, as if existing between being and non-being. Moreover, the moment these cards appeared, they seemed to be affected by some force, vibrating violently!

In Chen Ling’s stunned gaze, those cards began to self-destruct into the void, one after another!

At this moment, Chen Ling’s heart sank to the bottom. He knew he had likely failed; abilities from outside the world must be beyond the theater’s extraction range...

Just as he was losing hope, the final card did not dissipate. Instead, it remained with a corner missing, floating quietly in the air.