Chapter 844: Jumping Clown

Chen Ling could feel that the foundation secret treasure in his hand seemed to be a one-time use item.

Precisely because of this, once this foundation secret treasure was activated, the suppression it exerted was far beyond what other foundation secret treasures could compare to!

Once the law of "All Living Things Take Their Seats" was triggered, wherever Chen Ling went, all living beings would be forcibly pressed into audience seats, as if watching a performance that could not be interfered with... And Chen Ling, Jian Changsheng, and Sun Bumian were the actors on stage, watched by all.

"Let's go!"

Sun Bumian also saw the cracks gradually appearing on the token and spoke immediately, "While this thing is still in effect, we'll charge straight into the Gray Realm... Once we're there, they shouldn't be able to follow us."

Chen Ling and Sun Bumian simultaneously stepped out with [Cloud Steps], their figures rising into the air in the Old District.

"Wait... what about me??"

Jian Changsheng watched them fly away, anxious and about to bite his fingertip to use the Blood-Drop Pagoda to catch up... But as Chen Ling flipped the token in his hand, a void staircase of cloud steps was sketched out beneath Jian Changsheng's feet.

The token contained the foundation of the Play God Path. After Chen Ling grasped its mysteries, he could temporarily create a staircase of cloud steps to provide movement for Jian Changsheng.

Jian Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief, immediately stepped onto the void, and chased after them. The three figures rushed out of the edge of the Old District just like that!

Watching the three escape, the Twilight Society members' eyes were filled with pleasant surprise.

Like everyone else, they were locked in place by [All Living Things Take Their Seats]. Seeing Chen Ling and the others actually escape successfully, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but curl upward...

But seeing the organizer's logistics personnel nearby, they didn't dare to laugh out loud, so they had to cover their uncontrollable laughter with curses:

"What?? They actually let those little brats run away?!"

"My second aunt's eldest son died in Aurora City, and it definitely has something to do with them... Let me go! I want to find them and take revenge! I want to tear them to pieces!!"

"They just let them run away so coolly and stylishly?! Damn it! What are the higher-ups of the five major domains doing?!"

"They really deserve to die! They really deserve to die!!"

"The Twilight Society is worse than pigs and dogs!!"

"Let me go! I want to fight the Twilight Society villains to the death!!"

“……”

Hearing the continuous curses from these people, the faces of the higher-ups of the five major domains grew increasingly ugly. They stared fixedly at the direction in which Chen Ling and the others had left, their teeth almost ground to dust!

……

Jian Changsheng stepped cautiously onto the cloud steps, walking through the air.

This was Jian Changsheng's first time stepping on cloud steps. As soon as he looked down, he saw the empty void and the city streets far below... This feeling of emptiness beneath his feet made him somewhat uneasy, and his speed was slightly slower than Chen Ling and the other.

"Heart 6! I won't fall, will I?!" Jian Changsheng's face was a bit pale.

"You won't."

"...But we're so high up right now."

"What? You, a Soldier God Path practitioner, are afraid of heights?" Sun Bumian raised an eyebrow, "This height is already very low, probably only a few dozen meters off the ground... With your physical fitness, you wouldn't die even if you fell straight down."

"Who... who's afraid of heights?! I'm just not used to flying for the first time."

Sun Bumian couldn't be bothered to expose Jian Changsheng's "toughness." He looked back at Chen Ling, "How about it, how much longer can this secret treasure last?"

"More than enough to last until we enter the Gray Realm," Chen Ling replied calmly.

"That's good."

The three of them stepped on the void, crossed the edge of the Old District, and arrived in the city area of the Tianxuan Domain.

The originally indignant crowd, seeing Chen Ling and the others emerge from the Old District, suddenly froze in place... The shouting and anger that had been continuous just moments ago had now vanished.

The crowded street fell into a deathly silence.

Confusion, incomprehension, astonishment... Pair after pair of eyes watched Chen Ling and the others stepping through the air, as if none of them could believe what they were seeing.

One had to know that the representatives of the five major domains had already entered the fray, yet now there was no movement in the Old District, and the Twilight Society people had actually run out?

What on earth were those domain representatives doing?!

Feeling thousands of gazes staring straight at him from below, Jian Changsheng felt uncomfortable all over... Hostility, fear, wariness—it was like ants crawling all over him, making his brows knit tighter and tighter.

They hadn't done anything wrong, yet they had to be looked at with such gazes, which made him feel a sense of imbalance.

Just then,

Something was thrown up from the ground, flew past beneath the three of them, and then fell back to the ground.

The three were slightly startled, because what flew past wasn't an attack or pursuers, but an egg... or rather, an egg that was already emitting a foul odor.

"Screw you, Twilight devils!!"

An elderly-looking figure in the crowd, carrying a vegetable basket, was glaring angrily at the three of them, "Others might be afraid of you! But my Tianxuan Domain isn't! Go back to your mother's womb!!"

In the silence, the old man's cursing was crystal clear, even spreading to the surrounding streets.

The old man's shouting seemed to stir up the blood and resentment of some people. Plus, seeing the continuous stream of figures starting to rush over from the Tongtian Tower as if to surround and annihilate the three, they unconsciously straightened their backs!

Borrowing this heat and cohesion, more and more people began to point at the three in the sky and curse:

"A bunch of villains who fear nothing but chaos!! You are the shame of humanity!"

"Executioners! Murderers!!"

"You don't deserve to step foot in the human domain!! Get out!"

"A bunch of jumping clowns, you won't be jumping for much longer! The five major domains will wipe you all out!"

"You only deserve to live in the sewers like rats!! Tuck your tails and run away!!"

“……”

The surging public anger turned into substance here. Countless rotten leaves, stones, and shoes were continuously thrown into the sky. But the strength of these ordinary people was limited, and they couldn't touch the three at all, but this didn't affect their "morale" in the slightest.

Vicious curses were like feathered arrows, surging toward the three from all directions;

For a time, they became the target of thousands of fingers.

"You actually wanted to hurt our young prodigies and lay a finger on the Tongtian Star Position?! What are you things? Do you even deserve to??"

A curse drilled into Jian Changsheng's ears, and his whole body shook.

He lowered his head, his fists silently clenching. His nails pierced the skin of his palms under uncontrollable force, and bright red blood dripped onto the earth along his knuckles...

No one had worked harder than Jian Changsheng.

After so many life-and-death battles, so many times on the verge of his limits, from the very beginning, Jian Changsheng had been seriously preparing to win the Tongtian Star Position... Excluding Kong Wang, he was the one who had killed the most in the Old District, and the one who had been injured the most severely.

He gritted his teeth, fought to the very end, and just as he was about to obtain the Tongtian Star Position, he had stepped forward to defeat Kong Wang and protect everyone...

In the end, he only received the eight words: "jumping clown" and "do you even deserve to."