Chapter 476: Emperor God Path vs. Mockery Disaster

*Thump, thump, thump—*

The sound of spotlights came from overhead. On the bright stage, a figure in red slowly opened his eyes.

Waking up after death this time, Chen Ling no longer had the panic of the previous few times. He looked calmly at the missing section of the audience seats and his gaze fell on the screen in front of the stage.

"Expectation value stayed at 15%... Good."

Everything was going according to Chen Ling’s plan.

He turned his head and looked at the bright red curtain. Through the gaps in the curtain, he could see the scene in the performance.

In the sky between the mountains, a red paper monster hung in the clouds like a red sun. Its slender paper strips were like tentacles, stretching and extending at will, and a scarlet, eerie aura stained half the sky red!

As the paper strips around the monster’s body contracted sharply toward the center, the next moment, they shot toward the earth like a rain of blood. The red paper strips, capable of piercing through everything, riddled the mountains and forests with countless fine holes, and a redness began to spread across the earth!

Compared to the previous few times, Chen Ling clearly felt that the "Mockery" state was more irritable this time. Perhaps it was because it had been tortured by him for too long in the Theater Path Ancient Treasury and was bored, so once it had the chance to come out, it began to vent frantically on Ying Fu.

This was exactly what Chen Ling wanted. Watching Ying Fu’s figure dodge through the dense red rain, dragging afterimages across the devastated earth, a faint, mocking smile curled on Chen Ling’s lips.

"So this is the joy of becoming the 'Audience'..."

The original performer became the audience, and the original audience began to perform... The roles on and off stage reversed according to Chen Ling’s plan. At this moment, he felt as if he had sat into the audience seats, becoming one of the many thrill-seekers.

*Thud—!!*

With a dull boom, the thousands of red paper strips that had pierced the earth suddenly turned, like red snakes slithering across the broken ground, swirling toward Ying Fu in the center, completely sealing off all his escape routes!

Rich purple energy surged in Ying Fu’s pupils. His slightly slanted phoenix eyes narrowed, and imperial majesty overflowed involuntarily... The palace behind him became more solid, and the vast imperial energy suppressed the void around him like a mountain, forcibly tearing open a vacuum zone in this scarlet vortex.

"Just a beast, and you dare to offend the Emperor’s might?" Ying Fu raised his hand and pressed it into the earth. Dense arcs of electricity wandered around him, and the broken earth shook violently!

"【Reshape】."

As these two words were uttered, the atomic structure of the soil was broken and reorganized, the wandering arcs of electricity became more brilliant, and at the same time, divine weapons flashing with golden luster were extracted from the broken earth...

Swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks—cold weapons that dazzled Chen Ling rose amidst the coiling electricity, hanging beside Ying Fu like dazzling golden stars.

Immediately after, Ying Fu raised his hand and pointed into the air at the red paper monster.

"【Heavenly Wolf】."

A massive wolf’s eye opened in the void, locking onto the irritable red paper monster in mid-air. Mysterious power began to weaken its defense and reaction speed. Even with the naked eye, one could see the red paper monster’s state was suppressed, its movements sluggish.

The next moment, the golden divine weapons around Ying Fu shot out simultaneously. Golden arcs streaked from the ground toward the sky, the piercing sonic booms resounding through the heavens!

*Boom, boom, boom—!!!*

Successive explosions came from the sky, and the intense firelight tore the scarlet sky into fragments. Amidst the deafening roar, the red paper monster’s body had already been blown to pieces, and the burning red paper fragments drifted slowly to the earth like fire rain...

Seeing this, Chen Ling’s eyes in the theater narrowed slightly.

"At the same stage, it actually suppressed 'Mockery'? Is this the power of the Emperor God Path..."

From the third-party audience perspective, Chen Ling could truly feel Ying Fu’s strength. On one hand, he possessed 【Reshape】, which could create divine weapons at any time, and on the other, he possessed 【Heavenly Wolf】, which was best at hunting. The combination of the two caused Ying Fu’s combat power to skyrocket more than twofold.

This guy was now completely a human missile silo, and an infinite-ammo, infinite-range, absolute-hit one at that, which could even reduce the enemy’s ability to resist from a distance!

However, wanting to win against the "Mockery" disaster... was not that easy.

【Audience Expectation -1】

【Current Expectation: 14%】

The moment this line of characters floated up, the broken red sky surged again!

The red paper monster, riddled with holes from the round of attacks, expanded and regenerated at an astonishing speed. Countless red paper strips intertwined, like a wriggling red cloud spreading in all directions.

Above that surging red cloud, a massive red sun stared straight at Ying Fu like an eyeball. Even without any expression, one could feel an unprecedented anger and pressure.

Ying Fu’s brows gradually knitted.

Although that disaster was still Fifth Stage, he could feel that its aura was now several times stronger than before, and it was only a hair’s breadth away from the Sixth Stage...

Even so, Ying Fu did not retreat. As electricity spread around him, a dozen more divine weapons floated up from the earth, streaking rapidly toward the sky under the guidance of 【Heavenly Wolf】!

The golden arcs were like missile exhaust, tearing through the sky and crashing into the surging red cloud, but this time they failed to pierce its body as desired.

Within that red cloud, countless red paper strips surged like a tidal wave, wrapping around the divine weapons and actively collapsing inward, easily unloading the kinetic energy attached to them. Then, the red paper strips acted like tentacles, wrapping around them and sealing all the divine weapons inside.

A moment later, these strips stretched and loosened. The divine weapons that had been wrapped inside were gone, replaced by flat strips printed with the divine weapons... It was as if the three-dimensional divine weapons had been forcibly compressed into two dimensions and sealed within this red cloud.

Seeing this, Ying Fu’s pupils contracted slightly...

Before he could act, the red cloud rolled again. The two-dimensional divine weapons were raised back to three dimensions and shot back at Ying Fu like raindrops. Accompanied by a series of piercing sonic booms, the violent explosion submerged Ying Fu!

When the audience expectation value dropped to 14%, the scales of victory tilted again. Ying Fu, who had originally held the advantage, was once again suppressed into a disadvantage...

Chen Ling, who was watching the battle in the theater, could even feel the grins of the "audience" beside him becoming more brilliant.

Did they enjoy the show?

Chen Ling’s gaze remained on the curtain. He saw a figure fly out rapidly from the intense firelight, but this time he didn't launch another attack on the red cloud, but wisely began to sprint outside the red cloud’s range!