Chapter 637: Invasion of the Mortal World Base

Chu Muyun was back.

It had indeed been a long time since Jian Changsheng sent out the distress signal. However, setting aside the mail delivery time itself, by the time Chu Muyun saw the letter, several days had already passed. He then packed his bags, boarded a realm train, transferred through three realms consecutively, and finally arrived in Red Dust.

Not only Jian Changsheng, but other Twilight Society members present also showed surprise in their eyes when they saw Chu Muyun appear with Bai Ye on his back.

"Senior Chu! You're finally here!"

"If your handwriting weren't so terrible, making me search for the theater for half a day, I could have arrived even sooner," Chu Muyun said, pushing up his glasses, his gaze at Jian Changsheng filled with disdain.

Although immediately jabbed by Chu Muyun, Jian Changsheng remained cheerful. He looked at the unconscious Bai Ye on Chu Muyun's back and couldn't help but ask, "Has Senior Bai Ye not woken up yet?"

"Nightmares caused by dark witchcraft are not easily dispelled. Whoever attacked him must have been top-tier Seventh Rank, and there was more than one."

"Are you saying Senior Bai Ye was besieged by Seventh Ranks in the Borderless Realm? Can he still wake up?"

"If it were anyone else, dispelling these dark witchcrafts wouldn't be so easy," Chu Muyun said, glancing at Bai Ye slumped on his back, then added calmly, "But you're lucky you found me."

"You have a way?"

"Hehehe," Heart of 9 suddenly chuckled. "Newcomer, it seems you don't know yet? Our 'Corpse-Smasher Chu' is originally from the Borderless Realm, and his path is quite peculiar... he's dealt with too many patients related to witchcraft."

Chu Muyun ignored Heart of 9 and continued, "I've already removed most of his dark witchcraft; the rest is up to him. I heard from Diamond of 10 that you're in a hurry to rescue Chen Ling and Plum Blossom of 8, so I just rushed over with him on my back... Although he's still unconscious, he probably won't be for much longer."

Plum Blossom nodded. "If Heart can wake up, our chances will be even greater."

Just then, Liu Qingyan suddenly spoke, "Found it."

Everyone looked simultaneously. Liu Qingyan pointed to an inconspicuous small flower within a field of white blossoms and stated confidently, "Lord Chen Ling is in there."

"Isn't that the Red Dust Realm? We just came out of it, and now we have to go back in?"

"Not the flower, but the leaf beneath it. The Red Dust base is there."

"The leaf..."

Everyone's gaze fell on that leaf simultaneously. Heart of 9's eyebrow slightly raised. "A flower protector, huh... This Floating Life Scroll is quite interesting."

"This must be an Eighth Rank's domain, right? How do we get in?"

"If so many of us enter this domain, its owner will surely discover us... won't we be ambushed as soon as we enter?"

"Leave it to me," Plum Blossom said, raising his hand and taking off his black magician's top hat with a slight smile. "Making people disappear is something I'm very good at."

With that, he walked over to Liu Qingyan with the top hat and gently placed it on her head. The moment the hat was on, Liu Qingyan vanished as if she had been scooped into it.

Next were Jian Changsheng, Heart of 9, Diamond of 10, Chu Muyun, and Bai Ye.

Everyone present was magically put into the top hat by Plum Blossom. In the swaying field of pale blossoms, only Plum Blossom remained standing.

His magician's black robe fluttered in the wind. He unhurriedly held the edge of the top hat with his fingertips and placed it back on his head.

"Let's give the Red Dust base a small Twilight shock..."

The moment the top hat touched Plum Blossom, he and the hat vanished simultaneously. In the empty flower sea, no human figures remained; only pale blossoms stood, eternal.

***

Red Dust Base.

"Elder Lu."

"Hello, Elder Lu."

A figure in white passed through the palace corridor, his eight-foot-long ink brush notably prominent. As he walked by, all passing Floating Life Scroll members and young people in blue robes respectfully bowed their heads in greeting.

Lu Liangren walked through the crowd expressionlessly, his footsteps echoing under the perforated dome. He finally stopped before an embossed door at the deepest part of the corridor.

"Have all the calamities been cleared?" An abstract human face emerged from the blank frame of the embossed door.

"Ninety percent have been cleared. Some smaller calamities are well hidden; it will take time to ferret them out individually, so I've assigned others to that," Lu Liangren paused, "However, that largest convergence point in the sky is a problem."

"A problem?"

"Not exactly a 'problem'... it's just too large and hangs directly above Red Dust's main city. Although your painting has temporarily sealed it, every time I look at it, I get the feeling... something might crawl out."

"Calamities below Eighth Rank shouldn't be able to crawl out in a short time," the Second Hallmaster paused, "If they are Eighth Rank calamities, as long as there aren't too many, the two of us can handle them."

"What if a Ninth Rank crawls out?" Lu Liangren's voice was exceedingly low.

"Do you really think the Crimson Sky Cult summoned a Calamity Queller?"

"I don't know... but my intuition tells me that convergence point is very troublesome."

The Second Hallmaster remained silent, and the air suddenly fell quiet... After an unknown period, the abstract face slowly spoke:

"I hope your intuition is wrong... otherwise, the Red Dust Realm will be in big trouble."

"Aren't we already in big trouble?"

"We'll only know for sure once the Sixth and Seventh Hallmasters return..."

Before the Second Hallmaster finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to sense something, and his abstract features froze.

The next moment, a burst of ink exploded out of nowhere in the void, like a dazzling fireworks display, and a blood-soaked figure fell to the ground from it.

It was the Sixth Hallmaster.

Seeing this, Lu Liangren's expression instantly changed. He stepped forward to help the Sixth Hallmaster up, only to find that most of her body was mangled and bloody, and her breathing was extremely faint.

"Where's the Seventh?!" Lu Liangren asked, frowning.

"He sacrificed himself to cover my retreat, putting all his defenses on me..." The Sixth Hallmaster's face was ashen. As if remembering something, she gritted her teeth and spoke, "That guy was just too strong... Without that method, none of us would have escaped."

"Who?!"

"Monarch of the Infinite."

The moment the three words "Monarch of the Infinite" echoed, the air seemed to freeze.

Lu Liangren was stunned for a moment, then abruptly raised his head, looking in disbelief at the Second Hallmaster on the embossed door... The Second Hallmaster's abstract face showed no expression, but an oppressive aura spread out from within the painting frame.

"Sixth Hallmaster, tell me everything that happened during your trip to the Borderless Realm... Don't miss any detail."