Chapter 836: Performance and Red Carpet

[Actor connection lost, performance interrupted]

[Audience Expectation -50]

[Current Expectation: 24%]

Ding—ding—ding...

The spotlights opened one after another on the dark stage like piercing swords, the dull sound like thunder.

Chen Ling opened his eyes hazily, seeing the bright light source above, and knew he had succeeded... After much hard work, he had finally completed a rebirth within the Old District!

He slowly crawled up from the stage, looked at the few lines of small characters on the screen, and just as he was about to take action, the surrounding environment suddenly changed!

The environment of the stage gradually faded away, and a twisted divine path leading to the sky appeared before Chen Ling. Crimson audience eyes crowded both sides of the path, staring straight at him, their exaggeratedly upturned corners of mouths filled with mockery and anticipation.

"Another new performance, is it..."

Chen Ling looked down; on this divine path to the heavens, he was already in the middle of the fourth step.

It hadn't actually been long since Chen Ling stepped onto the fourth stage, but ever since he "devoured" those of the Jiangtian Sect in the Red Dust Realm, his mental energy had grown rapidly. Not only did it push him directly to the fourth stage, but there was also a large amount remaining after the promotion...

It was precisely by relying on that residue that Chen Ling was able to progress so quickly in such a short time. By the time the energy from the Jiangtian Sect was exhausted, he had finally reached the middle of the fourth stage.

Chen Ling's gaze fell upon the small characters before him:

【Under the gaze of the masses, walk a grand and perfect 'red carpet'】

Walk the red carpet??

Seeing this requirement, Chen Ling was stunned... Although every performance brought him surprises, this angle of walking a red carpet was something he had never expected.

In his impression, only famous actors and big stars walked the red carpet, and he had only seen the grand scenes of stars gathering on the red carpet on television before the Great Cataclysm.

Never did he expect that he, too, would now have to walk a "red carpet" as an "actor"?

But how exactly should this red carpet be walked? He could understand "under the gaze of the masses," but what would count as "grand and perfect"?

Chen Ling had no clue, and he had no time to think about it for now. As soon as his surroundings returned to the theater, he immediately looked at the stage curtain behind him;

Through the images on it, Chen Ling could clearly see the situation outside.

The distant melee was earth-shattering; Kongwang seemed to be suppressing the joint efforts of numerous prodigies single-handedly... but Chen Ling didn't care about that. His attention was entirely focused on "himself," who was crawling up from the ground, staggering with half a skull.

The half-skull was silently repairing itself, and the originally severed arm had already fully regrown. A strange, chilling aura drifted from "himself," and those eyes had already turned into the crimson of the audience!

"Is this... what they call a promotion 'out of control'?" Chen Ling muttered to himself.

Chen Ling knew that he would lose control after every promotion, but in the past, he had no consciousness during the loss of control, as if he had just woken up from a sleep and forgotten everything...

But this time, perhaps because the promotion loss of control had been glitched by the emergence of the Mocking Disaster, he was able to witness the entire process of "himself" losing control from this perspective on the stage of the reborn theater.

"My consciousness hasn't intervened, the audience hasn't left their seats, and the original owner isn't in the body... Then what is it that is controlling my body now?"

Chen Ling muttered to himself.

……

BOOM—!!!

Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, Tu Tian's figure was like a kite with a broken string, crashing through several buildings in succession before finally coming to a halt amidst a pile of broken walls and debris.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Crimson blood trickled down the corner of his mouth. He stared fixedly at the [Fudi] soul that was proudly looking down at him, his fists clenching tighter and tighter.

Under the enhancement of a large number of souls, the strength of the Force Divine Path that Kongwang could unleash had already surpassed the original Fudi. In a head-on collision, even Tu Tian, who also practiced the Force Divine Path, could not withstand it...

Originally, Tu Tian did not want to make a move.

In his original plan, seizing the Heaven-Reaching Star Position was naturally the primary goal, but Kongwang's existence already threatened the lives of everyone here. Moreover, there was still some time before the final locking of the Heaven-Reaching Star Position, so he still rushed to the battlefield.

Rumble—

In the distance, Pu Xiazhan floated toward the sky with her arms spread, her black hair dancing in the wind...

Her lips opened and closed continuously, as if she were saying something. Thick clouds began to churn in the firmament, and dense thunder intertwined into various complex patterns according to the frequency of her words!

As Pu Xiazhan pointed her hand, a giant thunder dragon, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression, pierced down from high altitude, charging straight toward Kongwang on the ground!

The roaring thunder struck the earth, and the overflowing electric arcs wandered through the air. In the center of the scorched earth, Kongwang held a massive "Rock" character in one hand, hard-carrying this strike from Pu Xiazhan.

"Go." Li Shengmen stood on a giant rock and spoke indifferently.

As a domain expanded, a "bullseye" mark appeared on Kongwang's body. The next moment, all the electric arcs wandering in the air were instantly frozen, and then shot toward Kongwang in the center from all directions!

A secondary thunderstorm roared in the ruins. This time, Kongwang had no time to defend. As the Ghost Path divine ability was released, his figure turned into Yin and Yang energy, instantly re-emerging hundreds of meters away.

This was the instant-movement technique he used to avoid Chen Ling's fatal blow just now!

"You can't run." Li Shengmen's eyes narrowed slightly.

Immediately afterward, all matter within the domain, including soil, blood, and rocks, seemed like metal affected by a super magnet, rolling toward Kongwang in the center!

Under the omnidirectional, no-dead-angle "throwing," Kongwang's figure was instantly sealed by soil and stones, and it piled up more and more. In the blink of an eye, it became a massive rock moon with a radius of three to four hundred meters, suspended in a deep crater in the earth!

"These guys, they've got some skills..." Sun Bumian, seeing this scene from afar, seemed somewhat surprised.

But as a ripple undulated, Sun Bumian's expression changed again!

"Oh no!!"

A black turbulence erupted from the depths of the rock moon, instantly punching a hole through it. At the same time, it pierced through the confident Li Shengmen, who was standing not far away!

This wasn't the end; the black turbulence swept across in a very short time, drawing an oblique arc, cutting Pu Xiazhan and the Young Sect Master in half, and finally slammed into the distant earth!

BOOM—!!!

Ghost Path divine ability, [Finger of Truth-Breaking]!

The trump card of Kongwang that Chen Ling had once risked his life to stop was finally activated again at a critical moment. The world-destroying aura pierced through the entire Old District, instantly taking three lives and vaporizing the earth into nothingness!