Chapter 1045: The Silver King's Arrangement

**Chapter 1045: The Silver King's Scheme**

"He wants to kill Crimson? Isn't that perfect?!" Jian Changsheng clapped his hands, looking as if an agreement had been struck. "Crimson wants to die himself, which saves us the trouble..."

"It's not the same. After we kill him once, Crimson can recover... But if that Thief Sage abducts Crimson, he might not just kill him once. And what if he uses methods like memory exchange again? That would complicate things even more." Sun Bumian sighed deeply.

Jian Changsheng's brows furrowed tightly. After careful thought, he also understood the gravity of the situation. They had paid such a high price to snatch Chen Ling from the Silver King, and with their departure from the Boundless Domain imminent, how could they let all their efforts go to waste?

"Damn it, where on earth did that Thief Sage hide Crimson?!"

"This place is too far from the city center. Going back to seek help from the seniors of the Twilight Society would take a lot of time..." Sun Bumian couldn't help but look at Jian Changsheng. "Can't you really act like a sniffer dog?"

"I'm a person! Not a dog! I really don't have such a sensitive nose!" Jian Changsheng was anxious, tinged with annoyance, as if genuinely regretting not having a dog's nose to sniff out Chen Ling's scent.

"How about we split up and search?" Jiang Xiaohua scratched her head.

"It's no use. 'Hide-and-seek' isn't real hide-and-seek; it's a spatial concealment ability... It's like how the Monarch of Red Dust hid the Red Dust Domain within a flower; we can't find it with our naked eyes."

"So, according to you, Crimson is doomed? And there's nothing we can do??"

Just as Sun Bumian was about to say something more, a voice suddenly rang out from behind them...

"I can find him."

The three of them froze, then turned their heads simultaneously. They saw a black-dressed girl, carrying a massive coffin on her back, who had appeared behind them at some point. Seeing the somewhat familiar face, Jian Changsheng thought hard for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise:

"It's you!! GPS Path!!"

The space, like the shell of a bubble, silently emitted colorful light. Chen Ling felt completely detached from everything around him, his entire body continuously falling.

"What is this... ability?"

The coffin continued to descend above him, slowly rotating. A lifelike female corpse was almost pressed against his face, its empty eyes emitting an eerie, dark yellow glow. Chen Ling looked down. Below him was not the ground, but a substance also resembling a bubble's shell. No scenery was visible around him; everything seemed isolated by blurred glass, placing him within an independent space.

Meanwhile, a voice sounded from behind the coffin:

"You colluded with Bai Ye, subdued Mo Lian, and killed Chi Tong... I never imagined you'd still end up in my hands."

Huang He casually took off his straw hat and ran a hand through his sparse hair, pushing it back. He watched Chen Ling with a half-smile, revealing two rows of dull, yellowish teeth... He looked like a grave robber who had spent years wandering among yellow earth and desolate tombs.

Although he was already captured, Chen Ling seemed accustomed to it. He calmly watched Huang He, without a trace of panic in his eyes. Instead, he countered:

"Neither Mo Lian nor Chi Tong could kill me. What makes you think you can?"

"Still trying to bluster at a time like this?" Huang He grinned. "After all this time in the Boundless Domain, I've completely figured out your tactics... Let me tell you, I don't care how much influence you have outside, enough to mobilize the entire Twilight Society to rescue you. But this space is independent; they won't be able to find it in a short amount of time... Here, you're isolated and helpless."

Chen Ling watched him coldly, saying nothing, but casting a sidelong glance at the void beside him.

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"If you just wanted to kill me, you wouldn't have needed to specially take me away..." Chen Ling looked around, as if realizing something. "Where is this bubble taking me?"

"Heh heh, killing you is a must, but there are some indispensable steps in between." Huang He narrowed his eyes, watching him. "After all, this is humanity's first execution of a 'world-ending' level disaster. Since we've already announced it to the whole world, we naturally have to show something..."

As Huang He snapped his fingers, the spatial bubble finally stopped its descent, as if having reached its destination. The blurry bubble shell around them began to quickly fade and disappear. Chen Ling looked around, and after seeing the scene before him, his eyes narrowed even further.

At some unknown point, he found himself in the center of a building resembling a courtroom. Rows of seats extended outwards from him as the focal point, and dozens of figures dressed like reporters were already seated, cameras in hand, as if they had been waiting for a long time.

Click—Click—!

Seeing Chen Ling appear, they all rose, and the pale beams of camera flashes flickered on and off his body. He had instantly become the target of every reporter present. Chen Ling froze. He seemed to recall something, and sneered:

"This is the 'Justice Judgment Court'? The organization you hastily set up five days ago just to execute me?"

Amidst the crowd of reporters, Huang He slowly walked down the aisle, finally stopping in front of him. Surprise appeared in his eyes. "You actually know?"

Chen Ling had heard that term from his Fourth Senior Brother. According to him, when the Silver Government announced its intention to execute Chen Ling, it specifically emphasized the name 'Justice Judgment Court' and listed numerous charges against him, aiming to stand on the moral high ground of human interests and maximize the impact of the execution... However, in reality, the Boundless Domain originally had no such organization. This was a makeshift group concocted by the Silver King specifically for Chen Ling.

"The Silver King certainly has a good plan, trying to use me to whitewash the Boundless Domain." Chen Ling had figured everything out, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes. "They'll use media hype to publicly execute me, then claim 'Mocking Disaster' unexpectedly went berserk... I bet the next step is for the Silver King to lure the berserk 'Mocking Disaster' to attack other domains. While using me to tear open their defenses, they'll then dispatch a righteous host of 'Usurpers' and 'Arbitration Agents' under the pretense of hunting me down, thereby completely taking control of the attacked domains..."

"Firstly, this would whitewash their image in the public eye; secondly, they could use me to break down the combat capabilities of other domains; and most importantly, they could legitimately take over the attacked domains while always maintaining the moral high ground, as they would be the ones 'stepping in to help humanity'..."

If Chen Ling hadn't understood before why the Silver King would choose this particular moment to widely announce his execution, then upon seeing the already prepared "Justice Judgment Court" before him, everything suddenly made sense...

This arc has too many characters involved, so Sanjiu will be reorganizing the subsequent outline today. There will only be one update (´ω｀) ... Also, Merry Christmas, everyone.