Chapter 696: Chen Ling's Anger

Chen Ling was stunned.

He looked down at his arms again. The girl was holding him tightly, a blood-stained gold bracelet swaying gently in the wind... Clouds flowed past them, and the world was silent.

This time when he looked down, he no longer saw the flush on the girl's cheeks, nor the shifting light in her eyes...

Only a pale little face buried in his arms.

Huang Suyue stopped moving.

Blood drifted from the air like raindrops. Chen Ling's hands and opera robe were stained scarlet. The girl no longer had any breath, and her body was gradually turning cold...

Everything was so sudden that Chen Ling hadn't even reacted. The girl who had been arguing with him just a moment ago had no more breath after saying her last sentence. It was as if the fire of life she had gathered at the end had flickered out in an instant, bursting with unparalleled brilliance.

Ink-black dark clouds brushed past the red-clad figure. Beneath his feet was the city billowing with smoke and the city walls ravaged by war...

Huang Suyue, in the end, had not been able to leave Red Dust Main City.

"I am willing to spend a lifetime to redeem you."

Even in the dead silence, this sentence echoed in Chen Ling's ears like rolling thunder.

He held the cold body and stopped his steps...

Chen Ling was bewildered at this moment. His absolutely rational thoughts were shattered by a single sentence; he stared blankly at Huang Suyue in his arms, like a robot with a malfunctioning algorithm, motionless.

I don't know how much time passed before a thought slowly surfaced in his mind, like an error message popping up after a program crash—

She likes me?

Crack—

The moment he realized these three words, a soft sound echoed from the void around him. It was like a crack appearing in a hard wall.

"Like" is an emotion that transcends rationality. When Chen Ling realized its existence, it meant that his soul had begun to transform toward emotion. The fourth wall that had blocked him from this world was wavering because of the existence of "like."

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Chen Ling had never noticed Huang Suyue's affection for him. Before this, his attention had been entirely on the Twilight Society, the Red Dust Base, and the Realm War. He hadn't seen the light that often flashed in the girl's eyes, nor had he noticed her selfless help...

If life were a script, in Chen Ling's storyline, Huang Suyue's role wasn't large. Even from his perspective, Huang Suyue, like other supporting characters, was just a "passerby" who had appeared at a certain time... In Huang Suyue's life script, although Chen Ling's appearance wasn't extensive, these few strokes had stunned her entire life.

Since transmigrating, Chen Ling had never received "affection" from others. Tracing back further, he had received love letters in high school and college... but what did that feel like again?

Chen Ling couldn't seem to remember.

Crack—crack—

As the first crack appeared, more and more fissures began to spread on the fourth wall. Chen Ling stared blankly at Huang Suyue's corpse, his mind constantly wavering... Strands of the emotions he had once been isolated from were returning to his body.

He seemed to remember.

In the eyes with which Chen Ling looked at Huang Suyue, the coldness of the "spectator" gradually receded, and a softness slowly emerged...

He had never felt romantic love for Huang Suyue, only appreciation and recognition, as well as pity for her talent... Huang Suyue's final confession had shrouded their relationship in an indescribable veil, a feeling that couldn't be described in words... What Chen Ling was thinking, even he himself didn't know.

He only knew that he could now feel intense guilt and anger.

But now, only Huang Suyue's corpse remained in his arms. No matter what the past was, it had all turned to smoke...

Chen Ling's fists clenched involuntarily.

Just then,

Chen Ling vaguely seemed to see a wisp of faint white mist drifting out from Huang Suyue's corpse, as if gripped by an invisible giant hand, and suddenly dragged toward the massive alchemical array in the distant sky!

Everything happened too suddenly, and Chen Ling had only seen the moment the white mist left her body. He hadn't reacted to what was happening for a moment, standing frozen in place.

But the next moment, he saw the complex array hidden in the clouds, and his pupils contracted sharply!

Soul Alchemy Stone!!!

Chen Ling had almost forgotten that the Wuji Realm had started the Realm War just to refine the Philosopher's Stone as quickly as possible, allowing the Wuji Monarch to return to his best state... And the material for refining the Philosopher's Stone was the souls of humans who died unnatural deaths.

In other words, the soul of anyone who died in the Red Dust Realm now would be dragged away, trampled into material for the Philosopher's Stone, and never be reincarnated... including Huang Suyue.

The cold touch came from his fingertips. Chen Ling looked at the pale little face nestled in his arms, and a long-lost anger ignited from the bottom of his heart... The ice sheet was melting, and beneath those layers of frost was a sky-filling sea of fire!

Anger, unprecedented anger!

Chen Ling had just regained a portion of his emotions, and Huang Suyue had already died in his arms... His guilt and anger were accumulating, and now, the Wuji Monarch was going to drag the girl's soul away in front of him, trampling it like a rag.

How could Chen Ling stand by and watch all this happen?

"WU! JI! REALM!!!"

Mad killing intent swept out from Chen Ling's body. It was an explosion of emotions that had been suppressed for who knows how long, even condensing into substance, causing his bright red opera robe to flap violently!

Crack—

Dense cracks spread wildly on the fourth wall as his anger erupted. The wall in the void was being pounded hard, one blow after another, shaking incessantly.

The fourth wall was about to collapse;

Chen Ling's chest heaved violently. He knew that with his current self, he was definitely no match for the Wuji Realm... He forced himself to calm down, his brain running at high speed, and finally, his gaze landed on the devastated Red Dust Main City...

He seemed to have seen something, and a sharp glint flashed in his eyes!

Chen Ling held Huang Suyue's corpse, stepped on the void, and approached a certain street...

Finally, he arrived before a pitch-black abyss in the ruins.

It was a gray abyss the size of a basketball court. At this moment, a thin film was attached to the surface of the abyss, with geometric patterns occasionally flying across it... That was the seal left by the former Second Hall, but with the death of the Second Hall, this seal had long since become fragile.

Chen Ling took a deep breath. The figure in the bright red opera robe walked to the side of the abyss, slowly raised his foot, and then stepped down with force!

Thump—!!

The massive force landed, causing the surface of the seal to shake and emit a roar.

But even if the seal was weakened, it wasn't something Chen Ling could shatter with a single stomp. After a roar, the seal fell silent again... But Chen Ling hadn't intended to shatter it with one stomp.

The roar traveled along the abyss, straight into the deepest darkness. After a brief silence, pairs of scarlet eyes opened one after another in the darkness!!

The bright red opera robe danced wildly in the wind. Chen Ling looked down at those scarlet eyes and slowly spat out two words:

"—Come out."