At this critical moment!
On the hospital bed, Ling Chen, who had been “struggling in terror,” suddenly stopped all movement!
He slowly raised his head.
All the weakness, fear, and bewilderment on his face… vanished instantly, as if wiped away!
In their place was a coldness! And… an indifference that seemed to come from the bottom of an abyss! As well as… a faint smile?
Below his outer eye corner, the fifteen blood-red patterns appeared, flickering in the darkness, and his pupils turned completely blood-red from black as he smiled at Elder Wu.
“You…”
The insane smile on Elder Wu’s face instantly froze!
An indescribable, immense fear, stemming from his primal instincts, instantly wrapped around his heart like a cold viper! He wanted to scream! He wanted to retreat! But his body was frozen as if by invisible ice, unable to move!
Ling Chen’s gaze slowly swept over Elder Wu’s face, twisted by extreme fear, then over the two puppet soldiers standing like wooden dolls, and finally… landed on the Soul Co-resonance Instrument, which was flickering with a faint blue electric arc.
The corners of his mouth… very slowly… curved into a cold arc.
“Wu Zhengde…”
Ling Chen’s voice rang out, no longer weak and hoarse as before, but cold, clear, and piercing like the clash of metal, with a penetrating power that seemed to pierce the soul.
“In my previous life… you nailed me to the dissection table, cut open my skull with lasers, stirred my brain with probes, stimulated my nerves with electricity… again and again… asking me… ‘Why can you still remain conscious’…”
Elder Wu was struck as if by an invisible lightning bolt! His whole body trembled violently! His pupils instantly contracted to pinpricks! He stared fixedly at Ling Chen’s bottomless dark eyes!
“You… you are… a Reincarnator!” Elder Wu’s voice was like a broken bellows, filled with unbelievable horror and… bone-deep fear! The immense amount of information overwhelmed his mind, making him incoherent.
“No… impossible… you already…” Elder Wu’s body began to tremble violently, uncontrollably!
“Now…” Ling Chen’s voice interrupted him, cold, devoid of any human emotion, “it’s my turn.”
Before he finished speaking!
Boom—!!!
A visible, almost tangible, dark purple mental shockwave, like a destructive storm, violently spread out from him as its center!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
First to bear the brunt! Several faint blue probes on top of the Soul Co-resonance Instrument instantly shattered into pieces like fragile glass!
Exploding into a sky full of metal fragments! The main body of the instrument emitted a piercing wail! The screen instantly went black! Billowing black smoke rose! It was completely scrapped!
Thump! Thump!
The two puppet soldiers, controlled by drugs, were struck hard on the head as if by an invisible heavy hammer! Blood instantly gushed from their seven orifices! The emptiness in their eyes was replaced by extreme pain and fear! Their bodies slumped to the ground like mud! After a few twitches, they completely lost all signs of life!
Their spiritual cores… under Ling Chen’s will impact, instantly annihilated like bubbles!
“Ugh ah—!!!”
Elder Wu let out a distorted, shrill scream! He felt as if his brain was simultaneously pierced by billions of steel needles!
It was also as if he had been thrown into a scalding furnace! Excruciating pain! Tearing! Burning! The terrifying will impact ignored all his mental defenses, drilling into the depths of his soul like a maggot attached to bone! Madly tearing and burning his consciousness!
He clutched his head, collapsing to the ground like boneless mud! His body twitched and rolled violently! Thick blood and white foam overflowed from his mouth and nose! His gold-rimmed glasses shattered!
His eyes were filled with indescribable fear, pain, and… a trace of unbelievable… regret!
He understood! He finally understood! Why this young man could “luckily” escape death again and again! Why his spirit was so “resilient”! Why… his reactions were so “perfect” when faced with those tests!
He wasn’t lucky! He wasn’t resilient! He was… disguised! He was simply… not human!
“Mercy… mercy…” Elder Wu used his last ounce of strength to beg, his voice like a mosquito’s buzz, his eyes filled with humble pleading.
Ling Chen slowly sat up from the hospital bed. The restraints snapped piece by piece like rotten straw ropes. He walked barefoot on the bone-chilling alloy floor. Step by step, he walked towards Elder Wu, who was twitching and rolling on the ground like a maggot.
His footsteps echoed in the silent laboratory, like the death knell.
He stopped in front of Elder Wu, looking down at this enemy who had brought him endless pain and humiliation in his previous life. There was no pity in his eyes, only… a coldness… as if looking at a dead object.
“Wu Zhengde…” Ling Chen’s voice was flat, even with a hint of mockery, “It’s too much trouble to turn you into my possession, you might as well just die.”
He slowly raised his right hand. At his fingertip, a wisp of extremely condensed, almost tangible, dark purple lightning silently flickered.
Around the lightning, the air seemed to freeze and distort!
“No… don’t…” Elder Wu’s eyes burst with his final despair! He struggled to retreat, but his body was no longer under his control!
Ling Chen’s fingertip gently touched Elder Wu’s glabella.
Poof—!!!
There was no earth-shattering explosion. No horrific scene of flesh and blood flying.
Only an extremely faint sound, like a bubble bursting.
Elder Wu’s body suddenly stiffened! All twitching and struggling stopped instantly!
The fear, pain, and pleading in his eyes… froze completely, as if a pause button had been pressed.
At his glabella, an extremely tiny, pinpoint-sized charred black spot appeared.
No blood flowed out.
But his life essence… his soul fluctuation… instantly… completely extinguished, like a blown-out candle.
Wu Zhengde.
Chief Scientist of the Panshi Fortress. The devil who treated Ling Chen as a guinea pig in his previous life.
The madman who greedily coveted the reverse scale pendant in this life. Now… slumped on the cold floor. His pupils dilated, his face frozen in extreme fear and… a solidified, unbelievable bewilderment.
He died… silently. He died… without value.
Ling Chen didn't even look at the corpse on the ground. His gaze, like the most precise magnet, instantly locked onto… the reverse scale pendant quietly suspended in the central isolation chamber!
Killing is just a matter of convenience; killing for the sake of killing is ultimately meaningless.
Its ink-black dragon scale form.
Dark golden light flowed around its edges. That familiar, cold summons that seemed to come from the depths of his soul and… terrifying pressure… was clearer than in his previous life! More… eager!
He walked step by step towards the isolation chamber.
His steps were steady and firm. The Soul Jade Physique’s cold will surged and roared within him like boiling lava! The blood patterns burned like fire, emitting an unprecedented red glow!.
Now, only a thin energy shield of the isolation chamber separated Ling Chen from the reverse scale pendant.
Ling Chen stopped in front of the shield. He slowly raised his right hand.
In his palm, dark purple lightning wildly condensed and compressed! Forming a blinding ball of lightning, like a miniature sun, radiating destructive aura!
“Break.”
A cold word was uttered.
Boom—!!!
The ball of lightning, like a cannonball, slammed heavily onto the faint blue shield!
Screech—!!!
A grating sound of electricity tearing instantly exploded! The faint blue shield rippled and distorted violently, as if a huge stone had been thrown into a lake! Countless fine cracks spread out like a spiderweb instantly!
It only lasted less than a second!
Bang—!!!
A crisp sound, like glass shattering! The entire faint blue shield exploded with a crash! Turning into countless energy light spots, like fireflies, dancing in the air! Dissipating into the air!
The isolation chamber door silently slid open.
A more intense, colder, and terrifying pressure, as if it could freeze time and space, instantly swept across the entire laboratory like a surging flood!
The air seemed to be instantly sucked out! The temperature plummeted below freezing point! A thick layer of white frost instantly condensed on the ground and walls!
The reverse scale pendant! It floated unhindered before Ling Chen! Within reach!
Ling Chen’s breathing became slightly rapid. Not from fear, but… an indescribable excitement!
He slowly extended his right hand. His fingertip… gently reached out to touch the ink-black dragon scale.
Buzz—!!!
The moment his fingertip touched the cold surface of the reverse scale pendant!
An unimaginable, terrifying torrent of will, as if from primordial antiquity, like billions of icebergs collapsing, with an absolute pressure that could freeze souls and crush all things, fiercely rushed into Ling Chen’s mind!
Cold! Silent! Majestic! Dominant! Like a sleeping dragon opening its eyes! With an absolute will that transcended all beings and disregarded everything!
“Ant… how dare… covet… dragon scale…”
A grand, cold thought, as if pieced together from billions of soul fragments, exploded like thunder deep within Ling Chen’s soul!
In his previous life! Ling Chen was instantly severely wounded by this will! His soul almost annihilated! In the end, he could only rely on the tenacious vitality of the Soul Jade Physique and the destructive energy that erupted when the reverse scale pendant was forcefully activated, to narrowly counter-kill!
But in this life!
“Hmph!”
Ling Chen’s eyes burst with cold light! The blood patterns burned, and the Soul Jade Physique’s cold will let out a silent roar! An equally ancient, equally cold, but purer and more dominant will, like an invisible giant hammer, fiercely crashed into the invading Ancestral Dragon Will!
Just kidding, although he only lived for a few hundred years in his previous life, the cruelty and bloodshed he experienced were beyond the reach of others!
Have you ever tasted what your own arm tastes like? Have you ever felt the despair of your stomach being punctured by bone fragments from your own arm? Have you ever personally seen your own face peeled off and used as a decoration? Have you ever had the experience of being chopped into meat paste if you couldn't cook a meal well?
Boom—!!!
Silent thunder exploded deep within Ling Chen’s soul! Two equally absolute and dominant wills collided fiercely like two stars!
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
Only a kind of… absolute silence… that seemed to freeze time and space, and annihilate souls!
The Ancestral Dragon Will was full of majesty and dominance, like an emperor ruling over all things! But… it was only a remnant soul after all! Only a fragment! And… it had been sealed for too, too long!
The will of the Soul Jade Physique! Cold! Pure! Like the hardest boulder! The deepest abyss! It had no emotions! No distracting thoughts! Only the most absolute stubbornness and coldness!
The stalemate! It lasted only an instant!
Crack—!!!
A sound, as if something shattered, echoed deep within his soul!
The invading Ancestral Dragon Will, like a wave crashing against a reef, instantly… disintegrated! Collapsed!
It was devoured by the Soul Jade Physique’s cold will like a gluttonous maw… wildly swallowed! Absorbed! Refined!
“Latercomer, your strength is not bad.” The Ancestral Dragon Will suddenly calmed down at the last moment and looked at him.
“I will come for you…”
Ling Chen’s body suddenly trembled! Not because of fear; fear, for him, had long been worn away by countless pains.
An indescribable, pure energy, like a torrent, instantly surged into his limbs and bones! Surged into the depths of his soul!
Below his outer eye corner, the fifteen blood patterns grew wildly! In less than an instant, they had grown back to 30, and their color became even deeper! Like the purest darkness! The patterns became more complex and profound!
Bone Eater Realm… mid-stage!
Ling Chen slowly closed his eyes. He felt the surging, unprecedented power within him! He felt the more condensed, colder will deep within his soul! He felt… the blood-connected, absolute sense of control… between himself and the reverse scale pendant, like an arm directing a finger!
Cold! Heavy! Yet… incredibly fitting!
He lowered his head, looking at the ink-black dragon scale with dark golden light flowing in his palm. The corners of his mouth slowly curved into a cold and… disdainful arc.
He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the thick alloy walls, as if seeing the huge dark gold sarcophagus deep within Mount Li, and within the sarcophagus… the Ancestral Dragon Will that had just awakened a trace, but was now enraged and… slightly surprised… due to the loss of connection with the reverse scale pendant.
The storm… was coming.
Ling Chen no longer lingered.
With a slight thought, the reverse scale pendant in his palm flickered with a faint light and instantly disappeared (taken into his mental space).
He turned and walked to the corpses of the two puppet soldiers, his fingertips flickering with dark purple lightning, gently touching their glabella.
Puff! Puff!
The two corpses, like wax figures thrown into strong acid, instantly melted and vaporized! Not even a trace of ash was left!
He then walked to Elder Wu’s corpse. He looked at the distorted face frozen in fear and bewilderment. There was no ripple in his eyes. The lightning on his fingertips flickered again.
Puff!
Elder Wu’s corpse also instantly vaporized! Completely disappeared!
Destroying the evidence! Leaving no trace!
Having done all this, Ling Chen walked to the scrapped Soul Co-resonance Instrument. He condensed a faint wisp of lightning at his fingertip and gently touched the instrument’s core processor.
Sizzle—!
A burst of electrical sparks flashed. A burnt smell emanated from inside the instrument. The last data records… were completely erased.
He looked around. In the laboratory, apart from the damaged energy shield and the scrapped instrument, there were no other traces. It was as if… Elder Wu and the two soldiers had never appeared.
Ling Chen walked to the hospital bed. He lay down. Pulled the quilt over himself. Closed his eyes.
The ink-black blood patterns at his left outer eye corner slowly dimmed, finally receding beneath his skin. All outward-emanating aura instantly retracted.
His breathing became faint and steady. His complexion returned to being pale and weak. As if… he had never left this hospital bed.
He lay quietly, like a severely injured, unconscious patient.
Only the vanished reverse scale pendant in his palm, deep within the Soul Jade Physique, emitted a cold and restrained faint glow, like… the opened… Dragon’s Eye in the abyss.
He was waiting.
Waiting for… the storm to arrive.
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