Silence, deathly stillness, oppression
As Chen Kong watched the crimson figure approaching him and Vivian, a large amount of cold sweat suddenly seeped from the palm of his hand holding Vivian's wrist.
Whether it was the wildly beating heart in his chest or the trembling he felt for Chen Xing etched deep in his soul.
They were all warning him that he must escape this crimson monster that walks among humans as soon as possible.
Even if that person is his own sister.
"Walk!"
With a low shout, Chen Kong dragged the still-unresponsive Vivian and sprinted towards the steam train station.
Faster, faster!
The cold cobblestone streets of the Upper City rushed past beneath their feet, the wind whistling sharply in their ears and whipping up Vivian's loose hair.
However, the silent gaze and palpable sense of oppression behind them did not diminish as the distance from Chen Xing increased.
Instead, it became even heavier.
"Red Lotus. Karma Fire ".
Just after Chen Kong and Vivian had run a certain distance, a cold voice suddenly rang out behind them.
The next second, a wave of fire, hot enough to distort vision, rushed towards us!
A wall of fire cut off their escape route.
The wall of fire is made up of a very strange dark red flame.
Not only was the flame as deep as congealed blood, but a faint smell of blood and the burnt smell of a corpse suddenly filled the air.
It was as if the Karma Fire of the entire hell had been poured out here, and every wisp of flame exuded a chilling aura of death.
Immerse yourself in this scorching, fiery hell.
With each breath Chen Kong took, he could feel a distinct burning sensation.
Without any hesitation, as he ran, he faced the sudden sea of fire in front of him and abruptly raised his right hand.
In an instant, a silver pattern lit up on the back of his hand— 'Mark of the Void: Return to Dust '.
Wherever Chen Kong's palm touched, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire began to dim and disappear like melting ice and snow, finally revealing a narrow path to survival behind it.
There is hope!
The moment he saw the gap appear, Chen Kong's heart skipped a beat, and his expression became excited.
However, this excitement did not last long before it was dampened by harsh reality.
Because more and more surging crimson flames instantly flooded into this gap like a tidal wave.
They filled the gap in an instant, and even emitted flames that were more intense than before.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Chen Kong once again unleashed his full power with his ' Mark of the Void ', attempting to forcefully open the ever-closing 'path to life'.
However, his ' Return to Dust ' is still assimilating the sea of fire.
However, the regeneration speed of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire was significantly faster than the assimilation speed of his ' Mark of the Void: Return to Dust '!
"How is that possible?"
As he watched the slowly closing 'path to life', Chen Kong murmured in a low voice, his face drained of all color as if it had been drained of its color.
His star energy was being consumed rapidly, but the Red Lotus Karmic Fire of Chen Xing seemed inexhaustible.
"Kong, do you still think this is a child?"
A cold voice suddenly rang out from behind Chen Kong. He turned his head sharply and found Chen Xing standing in the middle of the road ten steps away.
The Karma Fire fire flickered on her face, and although her crimson eyes were cold at this moment, they also carried a strange and eerie beauty.
"Your Mark of the Void is indeed amazing, and it is enough to restrain most of the Star Envoy in this world."
"But that only applies to ordinary people."
As he spoke, Chen Xing slowly drew the Demonic Blade from his lower back.
With a slight metallic scraping sound, Chen Xing slowly drew out a Demonic Blade with an ancient design, a dark red blade, and a hilt wrapped with knotted rope.
"The principle of Return to Dust is to assimilate and disintegrate the Star Energy Technique you touch, turning them into the most primitive Attributeless Star Energy."
Chen Xing's gaze fell on the silver pattern on Chen Kong's right hand, and he said expressionlessly, "But this assimilation has a clear upper limit—an upper limit called basic star energy."
Clang!
The moment the Demonic Blade was drawn, a blindingly cold glint flashed across Chen Xing's exquisite face.
She held the sword in one hand, the blade angled horizontally, the tip lightly touching the ground. Dark red star energy flowed slowly down the Demonic Blade and onto the ground.
"As long as my star energy replenishment speed exceeds your assimilation speed, your so-called ' Return to Dust ' will ultimately be in vain."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xing flipped his wrist and plunged the Demonic Blade in his hand into the stone slab beneath his feet.
Buzz—!
A deep humming sound rang out, and from the Demonic Blade as the center, circles of eerie, dark red Star Energy Technique patterns suddenly appeared on the stone slabs surrounding Chen Xing.
Immediately afterwards, countless twisted black shadows struggled to rise from these Star Energy Technique runes, densely gathering behind her.
Those were all sorts of remnants of souls, including Dark Star Envoy dressed in tattered clothes and with tragic deaths.
There are Star Beast with ferocious faces and powerful auras.
There were even some mechanical remnants made of gears and metal, covered in machine oil and smelling of rust.
Each of them exuded a strong aura of death and a venomous roar, their scarlet eyes fixed on Chen Kong and Vivian, like a group of hungry ghosts waiting to be fed.
Chen Xing stood in the center of this group of 'evil spirits', his dashing figure standing out against the backdrop of a large number of distorted, remnant souls and shadows, making him resemble a Rakshasa returning from hell.
At the same time, even the light of the Karma Fire dimmed around her, as if silently expressing her fear of the monster that was toying with the ' Karma Fire '.
Chen Xing raised her head and looked at Chen Kong, a faint expectation flickering in her crimson eyes.
"Come on, Kong, let me see how you've changed over the past few years."
"But if you can't satisfy me, then you might become the 151st 'collection' in my collection."
The moment the words fell, the hundred ghosts behind Chen Xing let out a deafening roar.
In an instant, blood-red light shot into the sky, and ghostly energy filled the air.
The remnant soul of En Gui swept towards Chen Kong and Vivian like a fierce tide!
But even faster than these remnant souls and evil spirits were the bullets in Chen Kong's hands.
Amidst the flashes of gunfire, a barrage of ' Mark of the Void Bullets ' transformed into a dense rain of bullets, accurately striking one after another the remnant souls of evil spirits.
Hit by the Mark of the Void Bullets with the ' Return to Dust ' ability, a large number of remnant souls and evil spirits disintegrated into attribute-less star energy particles like punctured balloons.
The speed at which the remnant soul of the evil spirit fell was far slower than the speed at which it rushed towards Chen Kong and Vivian.
At this moment, Chen Xing is alone.
But the commotion she caused was greater than that of a thousand troops, so powerful it was suffocating.
"Roar!"
After sacrificing a large number of remnant souls, a remnant soul of Dark Star Envoy with red glowing eyes finally rushed to Chen Kong's side.
Before Chen Kong could retaliate, a cold light flashed past his side, precisely piercing the head of the remnant soul of the Dark Star Envoy.
Chen Kong his head and saw that Vivian had already summoned her ' Seconds Hand Rapier '.
The rapier, which resembled a second hand, gleamed in her hand, while the gear patterns on its blade turned Glimmer, like the rapidly passing of time.
This highlights the urgency of their current situation.
"Don't get distracted, let's rush out together."
Vivian's voice was very calm, and her eyes showed a resolute determination as if she were facing death, without a trace of fear.
Chen Kong paused for half a second, then nodded vigorously, "Okay!"
The moment the two stood back to back, their unspoken understanding created an invisible barrier.
Vivian's rapier moved like a silver snake, precisely slicing through the approaching shadow.
Chen Kong kept firing his gun, creating bursts of silvery light mist in the distance.
With their combined efforts, the originally ferocious wave of evil spirits began to thin out at a visible rate.
But at this moment, in this sea of fire called 'Despair', the Karma Fire is still burning, and the ghostly shadows are still surging.
But the two figures standing side by side, amidst the roar of gunfire and the slicing of swords, briefly suppressed the low growls of the surrounding demons.
However, both of them knew very well that all of this was merely the prelude to hell.
Because what truly stopped them was neither the evil spirits and remnants before them, nor the sea of fire not far away.
Instead, it was the indifferent figure standing beside the Demonic Blade in the distance.
She is the real hell that the two of them are about to face.