Chapter 1814: Seeing Bai Qi Again

Upon seeing those eyes, Chen Ling felt as if he had realized something, his entire being plunging into an icy abyss!

"...Bai Qi???" Chen Ling stared at him intensely. "How could it be you... Where is Spade? Where is Jian Changsheng?"

"Him?" Bai Qi spoke leisurely.

"So, you didn't know... In order to rapidly increase his strength, help you reverse the era, and restart the world... he already made a deal with me, giving me his body in this lifetime."

Chen Ling stood frozen in place.

After a long while, he spoke in disbelief:

"You..."

"What about it?"

"You don't believe me?" Bai Qi flipped his palm, and the Bai Qi Command appeared out of thin air. He extracted an invisible thread from it and pressed it toward the center of Chen Ling's brow...

"If you don't believe it... see for yourself."

The moment the thread touched the center of Chen Ling's brow, a memory sealed within the Bai Qi Command flooded into his mind!

……

"What do I need to do to become stronger?"

"You have no chance."

"No, there must be a chance... Since you chose me and want to use my body to attain the Dao of the Soldier Demigod, you must have a way to help me break through my current talent limitations and become stronger!"

"Why should this general help you?"

"Isn't it resurrection you want? Although you failed in this world, it doesn't mean you won't have a chance in the future."

"Once I help Chen Ling successfully reverse the era and restart the world... in the next new world, I will give you my body to assist in your resurrection."

“……”

A conversation echoed in Chen Ling's ears.

It felt as if thunder were roaring in Chen Ling's mind. He recognized that voice as Jian Changsheng's. Then, his vision blurred, and a scene surfaced in his mind.

The heavens and earth churned beneath the red theatrical robes, the brilliance of the era archive shining to its absolute limit. A figure clad in armor walked step by step toward the figure in the robes...

Chen Ling was stunned.

This was when the Fifth Generation world was about to be annihilated by the Red Star, the moment he restarted the world.

He saw Jian Changsheng holding a sword in one hand, standing before him, his gaze filled with complexity...

"Chen Ling..."

"We might not meet again..."

"I don't know how we should say goodbye, but... if it weren't for you, there would be no Jian Changsheng today."

"Thank you... for giving me a wonderful life."

"In the next world, we might not be by your side anymore. Don't be sad, don't feel guilty..."

"We will become stars of the Divine Dao, following behind you forever."

The next moment,

Jian Changsheng drew his sword and took his own life.

The scene in Chen Ling's eyes came to an abrupt halt.

The thread from the Bai Qi Command gradually withdrew from Chen Ling's brow, but Chen Ling remained standing there blankly, like a pale statue.

At this moment, his heart had been torn to shreds amidst the roaring, thunderous shock.

Jian Changsheng...

Actually made a deal with Bai Qi?

Chen Ling still remembered that when he, Jian Changsheng, Sun Bumian, and Jiang Xiaohua lived under the bridge, Jian Changsheng's behavior was very strange. He not only washed the walnuts Sun Bumian had been fondling for years, but also did everyone's laundry, swept the floors, and would stare blankly at the setting sun in the distance...

At the time, Chen Ling thought Jian Changsheng's departure was just a trial, and that once he finished his training and grew stronger, he would return and everything would go back to how it was... But thinking back now, in Jian Changsheng's eyes at that time, that was the final farewell.

Whether he died in the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury or survived to restart the world, he had no way to stay with the '6' generation...

He knew that Spade 6, Jian Changsheng, was destined to be absent.

Even the final words Jian Changsheng spoke to him before taking his own life had been delayed by nine years before reaching his ears.

"No..."

"That's not right..."

The youth's body trembled continuously. Chen Ling suddenly looked up at Bai Qi, a hint of madness flashing in his bloodshot eyes!

"Even if you made a deal! Even if you occupy this body... his soul should still exist!"

"You can take this body, but give his soul back to me!"

"Soul?" Bai Qi said indifferently.

"He has long since had his soul scattered."

Chen Ling's body jolted violently.

"What... did you say?"

"I said, his soul has long since been scattered..." Bai Qi narrowed his eyes, staring straight at Chen Ling. "What... do you care about him that much?"

Bai Qi sneered:

"Stop pretending."

"You are nothing but a World-Ending Calamity. No matter how well you pretend now, deep down you are still that Mockery Calamity who loves to toy with human hearts... You don't care about these people at all."

Chen Ling stared fixedly at Bai Qi, his chest heaving violently, his whole person like a volcano about to erupt.

"Bai... Qi..." Chen Ling said chillingly.

"Unconvinced?"

The tip of Bai Qi's sword pierced slightly into the youth's skin, and scarlet blood immediately flowed down his neck. "The current you is nothing but a coward possessing an ant. You wouldn't even dare to approach the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury..."

Bai Qi paused for a moment, his pitch-black eyes radiating contempt and disdain:

"Let alone crushing this ant, even if your true form were here, killing you... would be as easy as turning over my hand."

Whoosh—

The cold wind swirled in the desolate deep pit.

Chen Ling let the sword tip pierce his neck, and the face that had been twisted with rage suddenly began to laugh...

He laughed painfully and madly.

He didn't speak, but his fingers flicked through the void, as if spinning the cylinder of a revolver, a crisp click echoing in the nothingness.

"Bai Qi..."

"Do you think that by hiding in the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury like a turtle, I have no way to deal with you?"

Bang—

A gunshot rang out in the void out of thin air.

The youth before Bai Qi's sword tip collapsed silently to the ground.

Bai Qi looked at the unconscious youth, his eyes narrowing slightly. He didn't draw his sword to kill the boy; instead, as if sensing something, his gaze suddenly shifted toward a certain direction...

"That is..." Bai Qi's brow furrowed deeper.

BOOM————!!!!!

The next second,

A world-ending aura of rage, like a thousand thunderclaps, suddenly rose from the frozen sea!

The previously calm sea surface suddenly churned violently as if boiling, and massive icebergs were shattered into slag.

Amidst the surging seawater, a mass of red paper monsters, blotting out the sky and sun, expanded rapidly. Like a purgatory beast crawling out from the seabed, it extended in all directions while letting out a roar that seemed to tear the eardrums toward the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury!!

At this moment, whether it was the figures on the ships or the youths training on the edge of the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury, all clutched their ears in pain... They simultaneously looked toward the direction the sound came from.

A red paper beast, blotting out the sky, was trampling the towering waves, crazily charging toward the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury!

"That... that is..." The youths of the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury trembled like chaff, terrified to the point of almost kneeling on the ground. "Mockery... Calamity?"

"Am I going crazy..."

"Mockery Calamity... is charging toward the Ancient Soldier Dao Treasury??"