Chapter 838: "[Action]"

"This is..."

In the theater, Chen Ling looked at everything in the picture, shock appearing in his eyes!

Everything in the outside world had entered a certain mysterious domain, and everyone except Chen Ling was involved in it. Now, only Chen Ling's perspective in the theater could clearly see the whole process.

Lines of text scrolled before him, constantly pushing forward from the present, just like flipping backward from the last page of a script, encompassing all the actions, dialogues, and environmental changes that had occurred in this area.

【……】

【Action: Kongwang beheads Tu Tian with a 'blade'】

【Kongwang (Activates Soul-Quaking): "Quake!"】

【Special Effect: Finger of Truth-Breaking sweeps across the Old District, cutting open the bodies of Pu Xiazhan and the Young Sect Master, earth dissolves】

【Special Effect: Finger of Truth-Breaking breaks the rock moon, pierces through Li Shengmen's body】

【Sun Bumian (Expression changes): "Oh no!!"】

【Action: Kongwang is sealed into the rock moon by Li Shengmen】

The text stopped abruptly at this line.

8 seconds...

This domain had backtracked a total of 8 seconds from the moment Chen Ling activated it. This seemed to be the limit of this domain, or perhaps, it was Chen Ling's current limit.

Chen Ling, wearing the bright red opera robe, stood calmly above the void. Wherever his gaze fell on a line of text, the surrounding world would be locked at the corresponding frame, just like edited footage...

He was like a director on a stage, and all the "performances" within the domain were like playthings in his hands.

Finally, his fingertips stopped at the second-to-last line of text:

【Sun Bumian (Expression changes): "Oh no!!"】

"I negate it."

As Chen Ling's hoarse, mechanical voice sounded, this line of text instantly slid away and disappeared, and in its place, a line of small characters began to be recompiled!

It was like the hand of fate writing again, rewriting a line of script for the world.

[Fate-Weaving].

During this process, crimson blood began to flow from Chen Ling's seven orifices, and large patches of red began to seep out from under his skin, as if a large number of capillaries had ruptured and collapsed!

But Chen Ling, in his out-of-control state, did not have much of a reaction to these changes; every move he made was extremely calm.

Soon, a new line of text replaced the original script:

【Sun Bumian (Suddenly realizes something): "Get down!! He's going to use the Finger of Truth-Breaking again!"】

Immediately afterward, Chen Ling added two words to the following two lines of the script respectively:

"Almost," "nearly."

Tampering with one line of the script and adding two words. After completing these changes, Chen Ling had turned into a bloody person. The blood flowing from his seven orifices made him look shocking, and his face was as pale as paper.

Then, Chen Ling raised his palm and snapped his fingers in the air:

“【Action】。”

Snap—!

The world line was instantly reset.

Chen Ling's original out-of-control state came to an abrupt end. His consciousness, still in the theater, instantly returned to his body. Chen Ling, who hadn't yet recovered, felt the current state of this body, and the world spun before his eyes!

An unprecedented sense of weakness enveloped Chen Ling's mind. He staggered and almost fell to the ground, only able to barely support his body with both hands, and began to vomit blood crazily.

"Ugh—"

Everything around them seemed to flow backward, returning to eight seconds ago.

The Old District had not yet been destroyed by the Finger of Truth-Breaking, a massive rock moon was suspended in the air, and almost at the same time, Sun Bumian seemed to think of something and spoke abruptly:

"Get down!! He's going to use the Finger of Truth-Breaking again!"

Everyone present was stunned, and then quickly leaned down!

BOOM—!!!

A black turbulence erupted from the depths of the rock moon, instantly punching a hole through it, almost piercing 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, nearly cutting Pu Xiazhan and the Young Sect Master in half. Fortunately, they both leaned down in time, letting the turbulence fly past their heads, and finally slammed into the distant earth!

The earth was annihilated into nothingness under the power of the Finger of Truth-Breaking, and the terrifying shock sent almost everyone vomiting blood, flying backward in all directions like kites with broken strings.

Kongwang's figure flew out from the shattered rock moon, charging straight toward the nearest Tu Tian, appearing behind the other party like a ghost.

"[Quake]!"

The Soul-Quaking technique left Tu Tian briefly frozen in place, and Kongwang's hand rose and blade fell, severing the other party's head.

The earth was annihilated beneath Tu Tian, and a figure wreathed in ancient killing intent swept out from the side, but was slapped down into the abyss by his timely Force Divine Path transformation.

Feeling the weakness brought by using the Finger of Truth-Breaking twice in a row, Kongwang knew he couldn't maintain it any longer. Fortunately, now that everyone was either dead or injured, they were already a scattered mess.

"Ghost Gate, close."

The slowly closing Ghost Gate was held up by an invisible force, and a soul slowly opened its eyes above him, purple pupils exposed to the air!

"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..."

“……”

Everything was moving backward in an orderly manner, like a play that had already been arranged. And the director behind the scenes, after vomiting blood for a long time, finally recovered a little.

Chen Ling looked at the familiar yet strange plot development before him, feeling a strong sense of unreality.

Chen Ling had imagined what his domain would be, such as singing opera, transformation, or manipulating some scenes or similar stage tricks... But he never expected it to be a "director."

From [Formless], [Crimson Trick], to [Fate-Weaving], as well as the secret techniques of the Opera Path of singing, reciting, acting, and fighting, and [Painting the Red Face]... Having traveled here for so long, Chen Ling's mastery of "opera" was gradually extending, to the point where he almost forgot that he was once a professional director.

Director Chen was very shocked by this domain that belonged to him, and Director Chen liked it very much.

Undoubtedly, this domain was extremely perverted. Chen Ling could freeze, examine, and tamper with the established plot within a certain period of time, but its limitations were also numerous.

The first was the consumption of mental energy. Freezing the world and re-examining the plot actually didn't consume much. After all, freezing the world wasn't stopping time. When he shouted "Cut," although everything was still, Chen Ling couldn't affect the world itself; he was just examining everything from the perspective of a "director," and the same was true for re-examining the plot.

But once it involved modifying reality, the consumption was terrifying. Chen Ling only changed one sentence of Sun Bumian and added two words to the following two lines, and he almost vomited blood to death... This was not only a consumption of Chen Ling's mental energy, but also an extreme burden on his body!

The second was the logical loop. Chen Ling had to ensure that the modified script was logically sound. For example, the sentence of Sun Bumian he modified... Sun Bumian himself was extremely knowledgeable about Kongwang's divine abilities, and his ability to warn in advance was completely consistent with his character. But if it were changed to Jian Changsheng saying this, it would be "out of character," and Chen Ling could not complete such a modification.