Chapter 1079: Walking Towards the Abyss

Rustle, rustle, rustle...

The large red paper umbrella spun silently amidst the dust. As Chao Zai's figure slowly approached the direction where Ning Ruyu had fallen, Luan Mei and the others' hearts were in their throats.

They struggled to get up, but their injuries were too severe. Mo Jiao gritted his teeth, clinging to a last sliver of hope, and yelled at the advancing dark figure: "Junior brother!! Wake up!!!"

His voice changed nothing. The will to destroy the world could not be defeated by a few words. The gap between Chen Ling and all the spectators was too vast, and a fairytale ending could not unfold.

Just as the figure was about to reach Ning Ruyu, a dense swarm of puppets suddenly descended from the sky. One black puppet, exuding an eighth-tier aura, held a heavy, four-meter-long broadsword, which whistled as it crashed down towards his head!

CLANG—!!

The broadsword, weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds, slammed against the seemingly weightless paper umbrella with a loud crash of metal. But no matter how hard the puppet pushed, the blade could not cut through the umbrella's surface even an inch.

The rim of the red paper umbrella was gently lifted slightly, and a pair of scarlet eyes swept over the puppet.

The next moment, the broadsword in the puppet's hand was saturated with the color of the red paper. As if alive, its hilt transformed into a monstrous maw, biting off half of the puppet's body into fragments!

The instant the puppet shattered, another figure shot out!

The Butcher used all his strength, swinging the cleaver in his hand. Layer upon layer of gray halos stacked up from his hands. With each halo, his power received a terrifying amplification. Brilliant light bloomed like a blazing fire. The force of this one strike was enough to level mountains and cleave seas!

Just as this strike was about to touch the figure's neck, a pitch-black hand calmly rose and astonishingly, grasped the blade head-on. The chaotic power was like an uncontrollable hurricane, leveling all surrounding buildings.

Chao Zai, holding the umbrella with one hand and deflecting the blade with the other, effortlessly withstood the full power strikes of two eighth-tier masters.

"Go—!!" The Butcher, seeing his full-power strike blocked, was not surprised. He merely widened his eyes, his roar like a booming bell!

The ground before the figure suddenly cracked open. The Farmer's figure stood in the abyss beneath the earth, and with a forceful grab towards him, Chao Zai, who was held in place by the puppet and the Butcher, was suddenly dragged deep into the earth, disappearing as if falling into an endless abyss.

As the Farmer raised his hand again, the cracks in the earth instantly healed. The battlefield was now devoid of Chao Zai's figure, plunged into a dead silence.

The Butcher's chest heaved violently. He looked with uncertainty at the direction where Chao Zai had just fallen, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Tian Huai, the Farmer, and the Butcher knew very well that as long as Chao Zai was present, they could not escape this domain. With their power, it was impossible to defeat Chao Zai. So the only way was to make Chao Zai leave, or rather, to banish him.

While the four K's of the Twilight Society were struggling in battle, the three of them had already formulated a plan. Using the Farmer's ultimate control over the earth, they would make Chao Zai sink into the earth's core. As long as his distance from the surface was great enough, the Calamity Domain would be lifted, and they could save their lives.

Now, their plan seemed to have succeeded.

The Butcher loosened his grip on the cleaver, his hand numbed by Chao Zai's power. He seemed to sense something and looked into the distance.

The distant "Bridge" had fully activated. A golden link lit up in the sky, and hundreds of thousands of figures, guided by the Heavenly Constellations, swiftly evacuated beyond the domain.

"We should leave quickly too," Tian Huai's voice was extremely serious. "No one knows when Chao Zai will crawl out; we must seize the moment!"

The Butcher nodded, and was about to step forward to help Luan Mei and the others, when suddenly, a soft sound came from behind him.

*Pffft—*

The Butcher froze, turning to look. He saw a sharp spike of red paper, thrusting from beneath the ground, had already pierced through Tian Huai's body.

"Tian Huai's" body began to exhibit the characteristics of a puppet. Before the Butcher could react, the sharp tip of the red paper burst open like a dandelion, with even finer spikes piercing into the surrounding void from all directions, riddling every "box" with holes!

A painful sound of coughing blood came from one of the Earth Fiend "boxes." Tian Huai's true body struggled for only a moment, then completely lost all signs of life.

"Tian Huai!!" the Butcher yelled, and the red paper immediately retracted, directly tearing a gap in the earth...

A figure holding a red paper umbrella, carrying the Farmer's unblinking corpse, slowly emerged from the depths of the earth.

Playful scarlet eyes, under the umbrella's rim, gazed at the Butcher's pale, terrified face. The next moment, the figure vanished into thin air. Immediately after, the vibrant umbrella rim spun lightly in the dead silence, and Chao Zai's foot gently landed behind the Butcher...

A huge, grotesque head rolled to the ground with a thump.

"Today, none of us will leave this Calamity Domain alive..." The Farmer's words from earlier still echoed in the Butcher's ears. With his remaining vision, he watched the figure calmly step over his head. As his last trace of life completely extinguished, darkness enveloped everything.

Instantly killing three Arbiters, Chao Zai did so as casually as if crushing a few ants. Just then, intense spatial fluctuations in the distance, and the golden link in the sky, caught his attention.

Under the rim of the large red paper umbrella, a peculiar glint flickered in the scarlet eyes.

Someone actually wanted to leave this Calamity Domain, right under his nose...

Chao Zai's eyes seemed to pierce through the void, instantly perceiving the essence of the "Bridge" and the hundreds of thousands of civilians packed within it, fleeing for their lives. His pitch-black fingers slowly rose, and he reached out into the air towards the center of the "Bridge."

"He... he's going to attack those hundreds of thousands of civilians?!" Jian Changsheng, sitting amidst the ruins, witnessed this scene with his own eyes, and spoke in shock.

Ever since Ning Ruyu helped him suppress Bai Qi's aura, Jian Changsheng had regained consciousness. However, he had no idea what was happening, only feeling his heart pound wildly. This "battle of gods" left no room for him to intervene, so he could only watch from a distance.

"In the Mortal World Domain, Chao Zai's attention was completely drawn to Ji Zai, even crossing the Gray Realm to pursue him. To him, the humans around him were like air... But now it's different. In the Boundless Domain, there is no Ji Zai, his mortal enemy. He won't stop until he has slaughtered every human within his sight."

Liu Qingyan's voice came from behind. The coffin she had been carrying on her back was now gone. She watched Chao Zai in the center of the Calamity Domain, her voice incredibly complex.

Jian Changsheng stood frozen.

Before Chao Zai's outstretched hand, the "Bridge" was as fragile as a Lego toy. The people still desperately running on the "Bridge" at that moment felt as if the surrounding void had plunged into darkness. A pair of scarlet eyes, like a demonic blood moon sketched against the night sky, silently gazed at each and every one of them.