Chapter 474: Ying Fu

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Lines of dark green characters flashed before Chen Ling's eyes. The USB drive was currently plugged into the ground in front of him, and mysterious patterns spread wildly throughout the room. The next moment, his consciousness began to sink.

Boom—!!!The instant Chen Ling opened his eyes, an earth-shattering explosion erupted behind him! Shattered rocks whistled past his ears, and the reverberating shockwave slammed into his back, sending him flying into the air and plummeting towards the ground below...

Fortunately, Chen Ling had now learned the Cloud Step. He stabilized himself with a single step in mid-air, gracefully moved past the core of the explosion, and stopped hundreds of meters away above the forest.

Chen Ling looked back, seeing ferocious ravines and cracks spreading across the ground. A golden spear was impaled in the center of these fissures, gleaming brightly under the sunlight.

Seeing the golden spear, memories from his previous session in the 'Era Archive' flooded his mind.

Before he logged off last time, the mysterious Imperial God Path had locked onto him with the Heavenly Wolf. He had also pulled a golden spear from the ground with one hand and hurled it at Chen Ling with astonishing force... It was that very spear that had nearly killed him on the Twilight Society's dilapidated tractor.

“Such powerful destructive force,” Chen Ling murmured, narrowing his eyes at the cracked earth before him.

The good news was that perhaps because he had logged off midway, the 'Heavenly Wolf' lock previously attached to him had vanished. He was now back to his peak condition, without a single wound on his body.

At the same time, a figure slowly emerged from the cracked earth amidst the rising dust.

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Dark green characters flashed across the void in front of him. His ink-dark eyebrows were sharp as swords, and the corners of his phoenix-like eyes lifted, unconsciously revealing an air of majesty and indifference.

“Still only Tier 3...” the man snorted coldly. “I thought you would hide until you broke through to Tier 5 before daring to challenge Me to a battle.”

Chen Ling's large red opera robe fluttered in the air. He watched the man, speaking in a deep voice:“Who exactly are you?”

The man stopped in front of the golden spear. Hearing the question, a profound glint flashed in his eyes.

He remained silent for a long time before slowly uttering two words:“Ying... Fu.”

“Ying Fu?”

To be honest, Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat when he heard the surname 'Ying'. After all, a certain emperor with that surname was far too famous... If the man before him truly was Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng, Chen Ling would likely have freaked out on the spot.

And upon closer thought, given that Bai Qi existed within the Ancient Military Archive, it wouldn't be impossible for an Ying Zheng to emerge from the lost Ancient Imperial Archive... Thus, after hearing the name 'Ying Fu,' Chen Ling breathed a deep sigh of relief.

“I haven't provoked you. Why do you want to kill me?”

“One world does not need two ideologies,” Ying Fu stated calmly. “The era needs no turning back; history can only move forward... To sweep away humanity's decline, there must be unwavering resolve and the courage to fight without fear! Only through unifying the world and gathering the strength of countless people can humanity forge a path to survival. You... you, the Twilight Society, since you refuse to submit to Me, you are naturally My enemies.”

Chen Ling was stunned for a moment before he barely grasped Ying Fu's meaning...

If the Twilight Society was a conservative faction with the ideology of 'reversing the era and restarting the world,' then Ying Fu before him was an absolute radical... He believed history did not need to regress; only by unifying all of humanity could they carve out a path to survival.

And in this process of unification, the Twilight Society was a stumbling block to Ying Fu's ideology...

This ideology was far too overbearing.

Chen Ling glanced at his own 'audience expectation value'. He redirected his gaze to Ying Fu. He no longer had time to debate human destiny or the rightness and wrongness of their stances with this guy. Once his expectation value dropped below 64, it would be troublesome to escape later.

“Let me leave,” Chen Ling said in a deep voice from mid-air, his large red opera robe draped over him. “Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite.”

“You are a seed of the Twilight Society. I will not let you leave.”

Ying Fu's slender hand slowly gripped the golden spear in front of him. His domain reopened, and a magnificent, domineering palace rose from the ground seemingly out of nowhere. Dense purple energy surged ceaselessly within his pupils!

“Since you willingly returned to this era to seek death... I shall grant your wish.”

Bang—!!As the golden spear was pulled from the earth, the surrounding mountains trembled slightly. Dense electric arcs crackled around the spear's shaft. As the spear tip lifted, a wolf's eye opened in the void, and its icy killing intent locked onto Chen Ling in mid-air from afar!

Military God Path, Heavenly Wolf.

The moment he was locked by the wolf's eye, a familiar sense of powerlessness began to surge within him. He knew that negotiating peace was now impossible. His eyes narrowed slightly...

He reached into his pocket, and the pistol he had taken from the military personnel was now clutched in his hand. He pressed it against his own chin, a look of madness flickering in his eyes.

“I don't care if you're the Imperial God Path or something else... killing me won't be that easy.”

Whoosh—!!Ying Fu flung his hand with force, and the golden spear shot across the ground like a golden bolt of lightning. A terrifying sonic boom ripped through the air, uprooting trees in its path. The gale caused Chen Ling's clothes to whip and flap loudly!

In Chen Ling's pupils, the rapidly approaching spear tip was reflected. He pulled the trigger without hesitation!

Bang—!A bullet pierced Chen Ling's head, blood splattering into the air. The next moment, his body was impaled by the golden spear, and more than half of it was instantly annihilated into dust...

Fine electric arcs coursed through the sky. Half a blood-stained head slowly fell. One bloody eye still stared fixedly at Ying Fu's distant figure.

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Boom—!!Innumerable red paper fragments burst forth from the half-head, like a grand and magnificent fireworks display, instantly spreading across hundreds of meters of the sky. A terrifying aura, in no way inferior to Ying Fu's, erupted with a roar!

“What is that...”Ying Fu's brows furrowed slightly. His figure rapidly retreated in mid-air. The next moment, the blossoming red papers swept over his original position like a tide, and faint roars emanated from within them!

As the red papers obscured most of the sky, they began to converge at an astonishing speed, coiling into a mass around Chen Ling's corpse, like the grasping tentacles of an octopus!

From a distance, a bizarre, paper-crafted red sun stood erected in the firmament.

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