Chapter 1858: Did You Really Think I Wouldn't Discover You?

"This is..."

Duke Jun looked at the ten thousand miles of auspicious light flowing endlessly above the sky, disbelief appearing in his eyes.

Not just him, every high-level Divine Path practitioner who saw this scene was shocked... In this era, there hadn't been auspicious light from a Divine Path Self-Verification for too long, and most people had even forgotten its existence.

And the auspicious light triggered by Chen Ling at this moment covered ten thousand miles, illuminating the entire firmament in a colorful and beautiful way, making people feel as if they were in a dream world.

This was heaven and earth's recognition of Chen Ling, or rather...

Gratitude.

"Mom, the sky is so beautiful..."

"Why didn't I understand? How did that winding road disappear? Where is Chen Ling?"

"Does this count as him succeeding?"

"What was the meaning of the last scene just now? He stood in the middle of several coffins, and then what? What was that big whirlpool..."

"How did it end so suddenly? What happened in the end?"

“……”

Most citizens didn't understand what the ten thousand miles of auspicious light meant, nor did they understand Chen Ling's final scene, only feeling confused.

"He... did he really restart the world?" Jing Si could no longer maintain his composure at this moment. His worldview was subverted. "Is the world we are in the result of a restart?"

Jing Si was not one of those ignorant citizens. He knew that before the last moment, Chen Ling's past was actually being obscured, but the "anchor" at the very last instant not only completed the self-verification but also brought out ten thousand miles of auspicious light...

He knew that everything else could be fake, but heaven and earth would not lie... It descended ten thousand miles of auspicious light and completed the Divine Path Self-Verification, which meant that Chen Ling really restarted the world, and even this heaven and earth existed because of him.

Other high-level Divine Path practitioners scattered in different prisons and realms who witnessed this scene also realized this.

The impact this scene had on them left them unable to recover for a long time.

Twilight Society Red King Chen Ling is not some heinous World-Ending Calamity...

But a savior who restarted the world once.

……

"Chen Ling..."

Far away in the Hanging Jade Prison, Tian Huai looked at the ten thousand miles of auspicious light in the image and muttered to himself.

"Brother." Huai Mang sat beside him and asked in confusion, "What are you thinking about?"

"This Chen Ling... played a good hand."

Tian Huai replied slowly, "Through the Imperial Seal, he used the most indisputable method of Divine Path Self-Verification to tell all Divine Path practitioners the truth of the world... Not only did he reverse his identity, but he also directly shook the hearts of the Cheng Tian Dynasty."

"The Cheng Tian Dynasty gathers the heroes of the world, but now these people... how many of them are feeling reverence for Chen Ling, the savior who restarted the world?"

Huai Mang blinked and continued to look at the image brought by the wish power...

"Huh?"

Huai Mang said in surprise, "Brother, why am I slowly unable to see clearly?"

"The wish power of the Imperial Seal is connected by the hostility of the citizens... You no longer have hostility toward him, and even feel some worship, so of course you can't see clearly." Tian Huai smiled, touched his head, stood up, and walked out of the room.

Tian Huai knew his younger brother best. He only needed to look at his brother's eyes to know what he was thinking.

Huai Mang was stunned. His thoughts were exposed by Tian Huai, and he looked a bit flustered and embarrassed... But looking at Tian Huai's departing back, he suddenly seemed to remember something and asked:

"What about you?"

"Can you still see him clearly?"

Tian Huai smiled and didn't answer, his figure gradually disappearing at the end of his sight.

……

The phantom of the Divine Path gradually disappeared into the air.

Under the ten thousand miles of auspicious light,

An actor in red walked out slowly.

The hem of his theatrical robe fluttered in the wind. The moment he appeared, the protection of the Divine Path Self-Verification completely vanished, and the Imperial Seal shook again, falling toward him at high speed!

A fair, slender finger extended from beneath a sleeve, pointing into the air at the whistling Imperial Seal:

"Click."

Chen Ling’s voice sounded faintly.

In the next second, the Imperial Seal, brimming with majestic imperial might, was frozen dead in the air above Chen Ling!!

Seeing this, the Duke of Zhao and the Duke of Jun felt their pupils contract violently.

The Imperial Seal, which had been suppressing and tormenting Chen Ling just a moment ago, was now like a weightless toy, easily manipulated by Chen Ling in mid-air... At the same time, a terrifying sense of oppression that made even them tremble with fear surged out from the figure in the theatrical robes like a scarlet tide!

The red mark on Chen Ling’s forehead pulsed rhythmically like a heartbeat, and the Red Star wish power sealed within it poured into his body in an endless stream. His aura climbed step by step at an astonishing speed!!

Stepping into the Ninth Rank was not Chen Ling’s destination; it merely shattered a heavy shackle for him.

Without the restriction of rank, Chen Ling began to devour the Red Star wish power frantically. The power that An Qingyu had locked away in his forehead became the foundation for Chen Ling’s skyrocketing strength.

It is no exaggeration to say that at this moment, Chen Ling was the creature on this planet who controlled the most Red Star wish power.

And directly in front of this terrifying, world-ending aura,

the auras of the two demigod Dukes were like two tiny reefs in a vast ocean, battered by waves and spray, not daring to move an inch.

"He just stepped into the Ninth Rank... how can he be this strong?" the Duke of Jun said, his face pale. "He’s almost on par with His Majesty in his prime."

One must know that Ying Fu’s strength came from this unprecedented prosperous era of heaven-bearing; the accumulation of the demigod Dukes under his command had created the strongest emperor in history...

But Chen Ling was not of the Imperial God Path; his strength could not be accumulated in this way. Precisely because of this, his power was even harder to comprehend.

"It’s not just because he’s too strong..." The Duke of Zhao’s eyes were fixed tightly on the Imperial Seal above Chen Ling.

"The wish power carried by the Imperial Seal is also much weaker than before."

The Duke of Jun looked toward the Imperial Seal and realized that the hostility from the populace on the seal was now less than a third of what it had been... Chen Ling’s self-verification of his God Path had invisibly influenced a vast number of people.

"Then what do we do?" The Duke of Jun’s expression was grim. "He has already broken through to the Ninth Rank, and we don’t have the Imperial Seal... will we be his match?"

The Duke of Zhao did not speak.

He simply stared fixedly at the figure in theatrical robes, who was walking slowly, stepping on the void.

The absolute, world-ending pressure, carrying monstrous hostility, was frantically scouring the bodies of the Duke of Zhao and the Duke of Jun. They could actually feel that even if they joined forces now, they would be no match for Chen Ling...

Yet even so, they did not retreat, standing stubbornly in place, watching the approaching Chen Ling as if facing a formidable enemy.

The wildly dancing theatrical robes drew closer.

Just as the Duke of Jun felt his scalp tingle and was about to make a move... Chen Ling, carrying that monstrous hostility, suddenly raised his hand and grabbed at the empty air!

Rip—!!

The void behind the Duke of Zhao and the Duke of Jun was torn open like a piece of rag, exposing a pitch-black, world-ending figure to the eyes of the entire Red Dust Prison!

"Watching the show for so long..."

"Did you really think I wouldn't be able to find you?"

Chen Ling’s bone-chilling voice echoed in the air.