Chapter 218: Black Eyes

Boom—!!

Jian Changsheng felt a shadow engulf him and dodged with successive flashes without hesitation. The next moment, the foot of an architectural beast crashed down, creating a giant crater dozens of meters wide where he had just been.

Before he could rejoice at dodging the blow, hundreds of scarlet paper strips wound around him from all directions like swimming snakes. These strips seemed to have seen through the mechanism of his [Blood-Dropping Top] ability, completely predicting all his movements and sealing off his escape route in advance.

Jian Changsheng's pupils contracted sharply!

Scarlet paper strips quickly climbed onto his body, binding and restraining him like an execution. Jian Changsheng gripped the short sword in his hand tightly, trying with all his might to stab the blade into his own throat. Only by piercing a major artery and letting blood splatter could he have a glimmer of hope to escape.

However, just as he tried to raise his arm, those strips easily locked all his limbs. A strip wrapped around the surface of the short sword, easily reducing it to a drawing stroke on paper. No matter how hard Jian Changsheng grabbed, he couldn't pull it back out.

Jian Changsheng felt his body gradually losing control, and despair was undisguised in his eyes.

From the time he started fleeing to being caught, less than ten seconds had passed. Under the gaze of that Tier 6 pupil, everything about him seemed to be seen through. Like a turtle in a jar, he had no way to escape despite his best efforts...

"Damn it... I'm really unlucky."

Jian Changsheng was completely numb. Ever since the Military Dao Ancient Treasury, his life had been one of extreme misfortune... He was about to complete the trial and become a genius, only to be killed on the spot by the suddenly appearing Chen Ling; he inexplicably came back to life, only to collapse from exhaustion while crossing the Frozen Sea, and upon waking, was searched for evidence by Soul-Shattering; when he thought things couldn't get any worse after living in a dog kennel, he was grabbed and dragged back to the Star Chamber of Commerce, falling into a desperate situation once again...

God seemed to be playing a joke on him, giving him hope for survival at the most desperate moments, only to cast him back into the hell of despair just as he started to think things would get better.

Just like now, Jian Changsheng couldn't figure out for the life of him why that god-like Calamity had targeted him, a mere Tier 2 ant??

Masses of red paper intertwined, forming a world-destroying scarlet palm that descended from the firmament. Compared to the size of this palm, Jian Changsheng was like a tiny ant. He watched with his own eyes as the writhing palm expanded rapidly before him, the wind it carried making him almost suffocate!

Boom—!!!

The scarlet palm crashed onto Jian Changsheng's body, slamming him from mid-air into the earth. Amidst the thunderous roar, the palm embedded itself deep into the estate grounds, and gully-like cracks spread wildly!

Visible shockwaves spread in all directions. Amidst the swirling dust, a crater with a diameter of a hundred meters slowly appeared!

Above the churning paper clouds, the sun-like pupil watched the dust-filled estate. As if sensing something, the pupil contracted slightly...

The next moment, a cold and deep voice resounded through the sky!

"—Calamity!!!"

Crack—!!

A dark red thunderbolt, like a long spear, pierced down from the firmament, instantly tearing a gap in the churning red clouds and falling precisely into the crater created by the scarlet giant hand!

At this moment, both the sky and the estate were illuminated in blood-red, as if they had returned to some ancient, murderous battlefield.

Lightning roamed through the ruins, countless arcs of electricity biting at the scarlet paper strips. At the deepest part of the crater, a pillar of killing intent, now solidified, surged into the clouds!

"Ancient killing intent from the Military Dao Ancient Treasury?" Chu Muyun, watching from afar, felt shock resurface in his eyes.

"How could it appear here..."

If the red paper monster that escaped from Chen Ling's body was within Chu Muyun's expectations, then the suddenly appearing ancient killing intent was completely beyond his range of understanding... Could it be that some ancient existence buried in the Military God Dao had reappeared in the world?

In the battlefield where lightning and red paper fought, a blood-soaked figure walked slowly out of the swirling dust...

Jian Changsheng slowly raised his head. Those eyes, swallowed by darkness, were as cold as if they came from an abyss of killing intent;

With his appearance, the killing intent, seemingly from ancient times, swept out like a tide. A projection of a divine path leading to the endless void slowly extended beneath his footsteps. The sounds of clashing weapons and roaring battles faintly emanated from it, as if coming from a history once remembered by this world.

"'Mockery' Calamity, heaven and earth shall purge you together."

A deep, hoarse voice came from his mouth. It didn't belong to Jian Changsheng. At this moment, he was like a completely different person; every move he made carried a heart-palpitating pressure.

His palm slowly raised, grasping at the void above his head.

Crack!!

Another thunderbolt crashed down, turning into a blood-red spear that landed precisely in front of him.

Amidst the flying dust, his palm slowly pulled the spear shaft from the cracked earth... The moment the spear tip left the ground, arcs of electricity danced wildly on the shaft!

The next moment, his figure shot up from the ground like a cannonball!

Ancient and sharp killing intent wrapped around him, like a spear of slaughter from the Military God Dao, and the spear tip pointed directly at the massive pupil overlooking the mortal world!

His actions enraged the pupil above the red clouds. The churning clouds twisted violently, and thousands of tentacles intertwined with red paper descended from the sky, rushing toward him like countless red monsters covering the sky!

Black-eyed Jian Changsheng gripped the spear shaft tightly and crashed into the endless sea of red like lightning!

Countless monster roars engulfed him. After a brief pause, dark red lightning, like a blooming blood-red lotus, blossomed in the sea of paper. The arc swept by the spear tip created a vacuum zone, and all the paper strips within it shattered into pieces, vanishing into the void!

After this blow, a gap flickering with lightning appeared in the red clouds, only to be filled by endless red paper the next moment. But no matter how the red paper churned, the black-eyed figure holding the spear remained standing.

"It seems that ancient existence is not in its complete state either."

Chu Muyun stood on a nearby rooftop, looking up at the great battle in the clouds, lost in thought.

"But to be able to fight a semi-liberated [World-Destroyer], that existence's strength in its prime shouldn't be simple... For a Star Chamber of Commerce to have two such mysterious ancient existences appear at the same time, is it a coincidence, or..."