Chapter 1854: Savior

Aurora Prison.

Boom—!

The towering waves of the Frozen Sea crashed heavily against the frost-covered outer wall. Large chunks of ice were shattered against the steel surface, and countless calamities leaped from the Frozen Sea, rushing into the prison.

At the same time, numerous figures stood on the outer wall of the prison like rivets, desperately resisting the attack of the calamities.

"No... if this continues, we really won't be able to hold on."

"Are these guys doing this on purpose? Do they know that our manpower has been transferred to the Red Dust Prison?"

"No matter what, we must hold on! There are still millions of citizens in the city!"

"Quick, keep calling for reinforcements!!"

“……”

Anxious and turbulent voices came from the outer wall.

Black robes billowed in the cold wind. On the highest watchtower, Tan Xin looked down at the battlefield with a solemn expression.

"Lord Tan Xin, we have already mobilized the civilian Divine Path practitioners to help resist the calamity attack... but these calamities are truly too crazy, as if they don't care about their lives. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on for much longer," a figure said in a deep voice.

"...I know."

Tan Xin took a deep breath. "The Calamity of Taboo has been killed; they will definitely retaliate crazily... First, evacuate the citizens near the outer wall to the underground shelters."

"Yes."

As the figure hurried away, Tan Xin pondered for a moment, his peripheral vision shifting toward the void to the side.

There, an illusory figure was constantly climbing along a twisted Divine Path... and a city light and shadow, also flowing with aurora, was flickering around him.

Tan Xin understood that he had also been drawn into this encirclement of the World-Ending Chen Ling by wish power, witnessing the Divine Path Self-Verification happening far away in the Red Dust Prison.

But the development of events seemed to be somewhat beyond his expectations.

He saw something different in the past of Chen Ling's Divine Path Self-Verification...

"Aurora Realm... Aurora Prison... Law Enforcer."

Tan Xin muttered to himself, "Could it be... that it has really been restarted before?"

Tan Xin turned his head to look at the inner wall standing in the deepest part of Aurora Prison, and the Aurora Base behind the inner wall that only a very few people had permission to enter, falling into deep thought.

Just as Tan Xin was about to continue watching the "Aurora Realm" in Chen Ling's past, he seemed to notice something, a look of doubt flashing in his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"The Divine Path Self-Verification, has it been interfered with by something?"

……

Red Dust Prison.

The light and shadow around the twisted Divine Path suddenly climbed with a strange blackness, just like a television screen that was playing normally, becoming intermittent and flickering.

The citizens, who had just been piqued with doubt and interest by Chen Ling's Divine Path Self-Verification, were all stunned.

"What's going on?"

"It was complete just a moment ago... why can't we see some of it now?"

"He stepped onto that twisted path, and then what? How did he suddenly end up on a boat in the sea?"

"It flashed back to Aurora Prison again... but has Aurora Prison ever encountered so many calamity attacks? And what is that train full of citizens?"

“……”

When the revealed past of the self-verification was obscured by some force, Chen Ling, who was stumbling forward on the twisted Divine Path, narrowed his eyes slightly.

*Screech*—

On both sides of the twisted Divine Path leading straight to the sky, pitch-black spectators were slowly crossing the theater boundary and climbing onto the steps!

This twisted Divine Path was itself a manifestation of the power of the Calamity of Mockery. Chen Ling could walk on it, and other spectators could naturally do so as well...

Although they wouldn't disappear even if Chen Ling mastered the complete power of the Calamity of Mockery, the stronger Chen Ling became, the lower the probability of his death, and the lower the possibility of them regaining control of this body.

How could they just sit back and watch Chen Ling walk this Divine Path and fully master the power of the Calamity of Mockery?

"At a time like this..."

Chen Ling looked at the pitch-black spectators rushing over one after another, his blood-soaked hands slowly clenching into fists.

A fierce light of burning his bridges climbed into his eyes!

"You want to stop me..."

"Then let's see if you have the ability!"

The blood-colored theatrical robe, swaying and tottering, lunged forward like a wild beast toward the first spectator rushing over!

[Audience Expectation +3]

[Current Expectation: 68%]

……

The fragmented past flickered before the eyes of many citizens through wish power.

Under the influence of the spectators, it seemed that not only them, but even heaven and earth couldn't see Chen Ling's past clearly. Gray clouds churned on the twisted Divine Path, and even though Chen Ling had stepped onto the third step, it didn't trigger any resonance.

Everyone saw Chen Ling standing on the train, crashing open the gates of Aurora City; the next moment, endless calamities surrounded the entire Aurora Realm. They saw coal being frantically looted, and extreme cold taking the lives of one citizen after another in the city...

Then, a group of figures in black suits, under the aurora, laid the Aurora Monarch to rest.

"Aurora Realm... Aurora Monarch."

"So, the Aurora Monarch really exists? He's in the depths of the base? Alive for over three hundred years?"

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean every prison has a Nine Monarch sitting in it?"

"But why are there only eight prisons when there are clearly nine monarchs?"

"Funeral Realm, laying the Nine Monarchs to rest..."

"Is this the goal of the Twilight Society?"

"No, what does this even mean? I don't understand..."

"Me neither, it's headless and tailless. How did Aurora Prison suddenly get destroyed?"

“……”

As Chen Ling's past became fragmented, most of the citizens couldn't understand it at all... They didn't even understand what reversing the era and restarting the world meant, let alone the relationship between the Aurora Realm in the images and Aurora Prison.

But a very small number of people seemed to realize something, their hearts shaking violently!

……

At this very moment,

In a remote cave in the Red Dust Realm.

"Hey... Brother Lu." Yang Muquan looked at the peaceful village full of small bridges and flowing water in Chen Ling's past and couldn't help but swallow his saliva. "This place... could it be..."

"Yes, there's no mistake."

Lu Liangren looked at those familiar buildings and nodded solemnly. "It's the Red Dust Realm."

"But... but how does the Red Dust Realm in his memory look so much more beautiful?"

"Look closely, you can actually see the traces of the Green Divine Path's depiction." A hint of complexity flashed in Lu Liangren's eyes. "The Red Dust Realm in his memory was also carefully depicted by someone, and it's better and more comprehensive than what we did."

"How could this be?" Yang Muquan was incredulous. "Who exactly is this Chen Ling? Why is there a world in his memory that is completely different from the current one?"

"Don't you understand yet?"

"'Reverse the era, restart the world'..."

"Chen Ling and the Twilight Society have already done it." Lu Liangren pointed to the figure in the theatrical robe fighting against the eerie black shadows in the image. "He is not some World-Ending Calamity... he is the person who personally created this world."

"He is the savior of humanity."