Chapter 1792: Early Return

Lord Wei nodded without hesitation:

"Since you have asked, I will tell you everything I know, without reservation."

"Then I ask you," Chen Ling said calmly, "In this world, who is the next person to ascend to Demigod?"

Lord Wei was startled. He looked at Chen Ling in surprise:

"This question... I actually divined it in advance a few years ago... and the final answer was beyond my expectations."

"The next person to ascend to Demigod... is actually a practitioner of the Path of the Azure God."

Lord Wei continued:

"Looking across the Chengtian Dynasty and the Eight Great Prisons, there have been no exceptionally gifted Azure God practitioners in this era, yet the result of the divination pointed to the Path of the Azure God... This is something I have never been able to fathom."

"I originally intended to divine the identity of that Azure God practitioner, but there was interference in their destiny, so I did not investigate further."

Chen Ling took a calm sip of tea, not at all surprised by Lord Wei's answer.

Calculating the time, it was indeed time for Yao Qing to ascend to Demigod. In fact, he could have ascended hundreds of years ago, but he had poured all his energy into preparing the human embroidery for Su Zhiwei. As for the interference in destiny that Lord Wei mentioned... perhaps it was because he had crossed paths with him.

This first question served to test Lord Wei's strength. Chen Ling immediately threw out the second question:

"Then can you calculate when the Red Star will return?"

Hearing this question, Lord Wei's expression immediately became solemn:

"To tell you the truth, I have spent half my life calculating the time of the Red Star's return... but the Red Star itself is too bizarre. The Path of the Diviner's foresight regarding it is restricted at every turn, and every time I divine it, I suffer a backlash..."

"I am ashamed to say that I still cannot calculate a specific time... however, there is an approximate timeframe."

Lord Wei paused for a moment and slowly uttered eight words:

"A year at the shortest, two years at the longest."

Chen Ling's brow furrowed slightly.

In the Fifth Generation world, the Red Star's return was at least two and a half years away from the current point in time... but Lord Wei's foresight had shortened the time to one to two years.

Chen Ling had tested this Diviner twice in a row, and the man was indeed capable. If his prediction of the Red Star's return time was correct...

Did that not mean that this time, the Red Star's return had been accelerated?

Was it because of his own appearance as a "variable" containing a massive amount of Red Star Will?

Chen Ling knew very well that a major reason for the Red Star's return was the large amount of residual Red Star Will on Earth. This Will came not only from the Nine Sovereigns but also from the destruction of the Gray Realm, which had completely merged with Earth...

In the simulations of the Akashic Tower, Chen Ling had tried guiding all the Nine Sovereigns to their deaths at the very beginning so that no Red Star Will existed on Earth, but immediately afterward, the Gray Realm merged, and humanity was completely wiped out after holding on for less than ten days under the impact of the Calamities.

And his own arrival from the Fifth Generation world to the Sixth Generation world had undoubtedly added a large portion of Red Star Will to Earth, so it was normal for the progress of the Red Star's return to accelerate.

But the Path of the Diviner was, after all, only a divine path of Earth; being able to vaguely sense the time of the Red Star's return was already impressive. If he wanted a more precise time, only Sovereign Tian Shu could do it.

"One last question."

Chen Ling finished the tea in his cup, slowly set the cup back onto the table, and stared into Marquis Wei’s eyes.

"Even if it’s just fragments... tell me everything you can foresee about what happens when the Red Star returns in a year."

……

Boom—!!

An earth-shattering roar erupted from the inner wall.

A surging tide of skeletons relentlessly battered the final line of defense of the Ruoshui Prison. Hideous cracks spread across the wall at an alarming speed, and under the violent tremors, even the watchtowers snapped in half, crashing toward the ground with a thunderous roar!

At the same time, several skeletal vultures flew directly over the high wall, diving like lightning toward the chaotic battlefield!

"Heart 9!!"

"You lunatic!!"

Spade 9, who had been composed just a moment ago, now let out a rare, low curse. His figure transformed into numerous brushstrokes, struggling to maneuver through the tide of calamity, barely avoiding the fate of being trampled into pulp by the massive skeletal horrors.

It wasn't just Spade 9; aside from the J and Q ranks, the other members were also in a dire situation due to the sudden appearance of so many calamities...

The good news was that the original defenders of the Ruoshui Realm had basically all become corpses in the ruins, along with the shattered inner wall watchtowers.

The bad news was that they now had to take the place of the original defenders and protect the Ruoshui base amidst the tide of calamity.

The mission Chen Ling had given them was only to breach the inner wall and liberate the Ruoshui base... not to destroy it entirely, as the Lord of Ruoshui was still inside, not yet fully awakened.

"This newcomer is a total madman! Once we're done with this, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!"

Heart 10 rode on the back of Spade 10, her red hair dancing in the wind. Her once fair face was now covered in dust, and she cursed indignantly. She patted Spade 10 on the head, and he immediately transformed into a black calamity wolf over ten meters tall, crushing the nearest skeletal calamity into fragments with a single claw.

Li Shangfeng seemed to realize he had caused a massive disaster, but he showed no signs of remorse. Instead, he grew even more excited, putting his full strength into the fight while laughing heartily as he battled the incoming calamities.

"Awesome!!"

The various weapons he had developed over the years finally had a chance to be deployed. He seemed to have turned into a war fortress, using overwhelming firepower to suppress a whole section of the calamity, drawing side-glances from the other members...

As for Club 8 beside him, he was relatively much more low-key. He silently used his brush to draw traps, placing them in the areas where the calamities were densest. Whenever the defense line was about to be breached, they would trigger at just the right moment, stalling the calamities for a period of time.

"No... there are too many calamities."

Diamond Q stood tall in mid-air, his pale cyan hair fluttering in the wind. He looked down at the many members below who were frantically holding back the tide of calamity around the Ruoshui base, his expression grave.

The Twilight Society was in a difficult spot, not because Heart 9 had actually attracted that many calamities—with his strength, even if he went all out, how could he possibly attract enough calamities to overwhelm the Twilight Society?

Diamond Q’s gaze shifted to the distance, where he saw that as time passed, the area where the Gray Realm intersected within the Ruoshui Prison was expanding at an alarming rate...

A larger intersection area meant more calamities could pass through, and the calamities that could enter would be stronger. This was the key reason why the Twilight Society was struggling to hold them back.

After all, no matter how powerful they were, how could they face an entire Sighing Wilderness head-on?