Chapter 837: "[Cut]"

The black turbulence jumped silently from the cracks in the shattered earth, like burning flames surging toward the sky.

The assassins hiding around the rock moon waiting for a fatal blow, as well as Sun Bumian standing in the air, were caught off guard and sent flying while spitting blood from the aftermath of the [Finger of Truth-Breaking]!

The sudden turn of events left Tu Tian and many other "participants" stunned. They had thought the [Finger of Truth-Breaking] was extremely lethal, but they hadn't expected it to be this fierce. This was still a case where Kongwang had swept it across specifically to kill people; if he had poured it directly into the earth from the beginning, the Old District would likely have been completely reduced to ashes.

But even so, one-third of the Old District area had already been dissolved by the black turbulence!

Just as Tu Tian was about to retreat, a ghostly figure instantly appeared behind him, with countless chains gripped in Kongwang's palm.

"[Quake]."

Taking advantage of Sun Bumian still being sent flying by the aftermath of the [Finger of Truth-Breaking], Kongwang directly used the Soul-Quaking technique. The next moment, Tu Tian, who was waving his flag and about to fight him, was caught off guard and frozen in place.

As Kongwang's hand rose and "blade" fell, Tu Tian's head was split open, and blood splattered into the void.

There was no ground left on this battlefield, only a pitch-black abyss of unknown depth. With a low roar, Jian Changsheng stepped heavily onto a piece of falling high-rise debris, flying rapidly toward Kongwang with a divine ring on his back!

Kongwang held the "Blade" character, turned abruptly, and fought with the rapidly charging Jian Changsheng. After the two exchanged several clashing blows, Kongwang directly waved his hand to disperse the "Blade" character, transformed into the Force Divine Path, descended from the sky, and slapped Jian Changsheng, who was briefly airborne due to inertia, down into the abyss!

All of this happened too fast. From Kongwang releasing the [Finger of Truth-Breaking] to three deaths and three injuries, only four seconds had passed in total...

The great situation that had originally been under the joint siege of the prodigies was directly overturned by that world-destroying blow, proving that there was indeed an insurmountable chasm between Kongwang and this group of young people!

What they were facing was a sixth-stage Ghost Divine Path practitioner who had opened the Ghost Gate and gone completely berserk!

Kongwang's figure floated silently in the void. Using the [Finger of Truth-Breaking] twice in a row made it impossible to hide the fatigue in his eyes, and the chains restraining the numerous souls also became vaguely faint and ethereal.

Having maintained the opening of the Ghost Gate for so long, Kongwang was also struggling to hold on. Fortunately, the overall situation was now settled, and the remaining few seriously injured people and the rabble could not pose a threat...

"Ghost Gate, close."

As Kongwang formed a seal in front of him, the Ghost Gate behind him began to close slowly.

Just at this moment, among the army of souls entangled by chains, a young figure wearing a gray padded jacket silently and slowly opened his eyes...

Purple pupils were exposed to the air, mysterious and sharp. As he backhanded and gripped the snow-white chains on his wrists, a force surged crazily from the ghost face on his collarbone!

The closing Ghost Gate was suddenly held up as if by a pair of invisible hands, frozen in the air!

Kongwang's pupils contracted sharply. He turned his head abruptly to look behind him, meeting those purple eyes... The original owner floated in the air, calmly looking down at Kongwang, the corners of his mouth lifting involuntarily.

"Thank you for your gift... If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have been too weak to even dissipate into nothingness..."

The original owner pulled on those chains, suddenly exerting force, and an aura spread from the ghost face on his collarbone to all the chains... That aura was connected to the World-Ending Disaster at the deepest part of the Forbidden Sea, and the God-Sacrifice Land that had been lost in its belly for hundreds of years!

The next moment, as if some kind of witchcraft had been triggered, all the surrounding souls gradually withered as if they had been drained, drilling into the original owner's body one after another!

"How is this possible?!!" Kongwang spoke in disbelief. "How can a soul counter the Ghost Divine Path!?"

"I'm just swallowing a little soul nutrition. Don't worry, I'm a soul; I can't cause you any substantial harm." The original owner raised his hand and pointed into the distance. "Compared to me, you'd better worry about him..."

"He is the real monster."

Kongwang was startled. Following the original owner's fingertip, he saw a streak of crimson stepping through the void in the shattered Old District, walking slowly toward him!

The bright red opera robe fluttered amidst the flying dust. Chen Ling's eyes were hollow like an abyss, and half of his skull was broken and missing, still slowly squirming and repairing itself. At this moment, one could even see the blood vessels and brain matter squirming within...

He walked step by step, slow and stiff, like a zombie from the netherworld, or a sleepwalking ghost. It looked hair-raising!

"What... what kind of monster is that?!"

The assassin, who had been sent flying to the distance and was dying from serious injuries, saw Chen Ling in this state, and unprecedented fear appeared in his eyes!

The "participants" on the side were also shocked!

"It's him! It's definitely him!"

"Just as the rumors said... dead and resurrected, but terrifying to the extreme!"

"Is this the oppression of a World-Ending level?? So cool!!"

“？？？”

"The aura of the Mocking Disaster isn't as massive as imagined; it shouldn't be the World-Ending Disaster descending... He is still Chen Ling."

"Then this appearance of his..."

“……”

Kongwang stared fixedly at Chen Ling before him, as if facing a great enemy!

The first time he restrained a soul, he restrained a bizarre Witch Divine Path; the second time he wanted to beat him until his soul dissipated, but he didn't die... He didn't know what kind of monster this guy in front of him was, but at this moment, he indeed sensed an extremely dangerous aura from the other party!

At the same time,

Chen Ling, whose eyes were as hollow as an abyss, slowly opened his lips and spat out a word vaguely and obscurely:

"[Cut]."

The next moment, everything around them suddenly froze!

It was like time standing still, or space being fixed. In short, all matter and living beings except for Chen Ling in the opera robe stopped moving at this moment.

Dust hung in the air, terror remained in the eyes of the crowd, Kongwang's expression was deep, and Jian Changsheng, who was struggling to climb up the cliff in the abyss, took a step with one hand and one foot, like a lifelike sculpture...

Immediately afterward, a second word was spat out from Chen Ling's mouth:

"[Re-examine]."

Everything around them began to rewind, like a video with the rewind button pressed. Dust returned to the distance, the expressions of the crowd changed from terror to solemnity, Kongwang flew back toward the sky, Jian Changsheng first crawled back into the abyss in an uncoordinated manner, and then floated back toward the sky along with a pile of rubble...

At the same time,

Lines of void text, resembling a script, began to scroll beside Chen Ling.

【Action: Kongwang looks back】

【Original Owner (Calm) (Raises hand to point in a certain direction): "I'm just swallowing a little soul nutrition. Don't worry, I'm a soul; I can't cause you any substantial harm. Compared to me, you'd better worry about him... He is the real monster."】

【Kongwang (In disbelief): "How is this possible?!! How can a soul counter the Ghost Divine Path!?"】

【Special Effect: Original owner swallows souls, chains are entangled by witchcraft incantations】

【Action: Original owner slowly opens eyes】

【Kongwang (Fatigued): "Ghost Gate, close."】

【……】