508: Chapter 506 Tang Zheng's Message

This arrow spanned forty thousand meters!

It was almost the limit distance of the heavenly punishment overlord bow supplemented by the All-Cutting Slash.

Locked by killing intent, the arrow roared and shot straight at the man in the formal suit.

Flesh and blood collapsed, the rift vanished, and the island shook and roared. Accompanied by overwhelming dust and smoke, waves swept through, and a large amount of seawater surged in.

[Your spirituality value +2750]

Chu Xuan's gaze was cold and sharp. When he saw this System prompt, he immediately understood that the arrow just now had not killed Revelation.

A short while later, when the man and the chicken arrived, the dust and smoke here had faded significantly. Although it had not yet dissipated, it was clear to the naked eye that the area where the seawater was surging below was full of mangled corpses.

The crimson blood was quickly diluted by the seawater.

However, the man in the top hat was nowhere to be seen.

"I sense spatial teleportation fluctuations!"

Gaga Chicken carried Chu Xuan to where the flesh-and-blood altar had previously existed. It hooked its talons and pointed downward: "It's right here. He must have taken the opportunity to escape..."

Chu Xuan frowned slightly.

He leaped down from Gaga Chicken's back and came to the front of the vanished rift.

The threads spread to this point, barely perceptible. They no longer extended infinitely to guide him as before, but instead trembled slightly, scattered like thin smoke, as if they would disappear at any moment.

"Is the tracking failing because the distance is too great?"

Chu Xuan murmured softly.

Suddenly, something felt wrong. Before him, that wisp of thread seemed as if it would dissipate at any moment, yet it stubbornly persisted.

Chu Xuan immediately calmed his mind, his mental consciousness fully concentrated.

This wisp of thread instantly became clear.

"Gaga! This Emperor is furious! That guy is too cowardly; he actually set up a teleportation altar here long ago..." Gaga Chicken was extremely annoyed.

"No, I've already seen him!"

Chu Xuan's eyes gleamed with depth.

Following the direction the Karma thread extended, Chu Xuan suddenly turned his head. His sharp gaze abruptly fixed on an unaffected artificial flowerbed over a thousand meters away.

To the naked eye, there was no one there, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Only a few birds, having just been startled into flight by the loud noise, were slowly landing there, looking around in panic.

However, while Chu Xuan maintained the state of the Tracing Cause and Effect Divine Ability, he faintly saw another scene within the illusory image ahead.

A man in tattered clothes with mangled limbs and only half a top hat left on his head was leaning against the edge of the flowerbed, sitting on the ground. The area beneath him had already been stained a deep crimson by blood.

He sat there, motionless.

As Chu Xuan's cold gaze swept over,

Intense killing intent permeated the air. Those few birds trembled violently, their eyes went dull, and they collapsed to the ground, their bodies twitching incessantly.

The man leaning against the flowerbed also snapped his eyes open. He stood up abruptly and looked over in disbelief, his eyes full of shock.

"Even like this, you could still find me..."

Swoosh!

The bow was drawn to a full moon. A pitch-black sharp arrow shot out, instantly piercing the man's skull.

At the same time, Chu Xuan stepped through the Void Realm. Successive circular airwaves erupted as his figure transformed into an unstoppable force, flying toward the target.

The overlord bow in his hand had already been put away, replaced by a long blade covered in Black Flames.

"Wait..." The man had been shot through the head, yet he was still not dead. He opened his mouth and said, "I can tell you a secret..."

The killing intent in Chu Xuan's eyes did not diminish. He didn't have the slightest interest in listening to any secrets.

Puchi!

He slashed down.

Chu Xuan passed him by and stood atop the flowerbed. The Black Flames on the long blade extinguished, revealing an unremarkable blade edge that was not stained with a single drop of blood.

[You have triggered "Death-Dealing Blade"!]

[You have slain the World Traitor: Revelation]

[There are 10,000 points of spiritual essence remaining in this body's flesh; 6,000 points have been fed back to you]

[Current spirituality value: 8910]

[You have obtained rule fragment x1. Current remaining: 11]

[Your health points limit +100, spirituality value limit +200]

"Only this many spirituality points and rule fragments? Strong Plunder didn't trigger either..."

Chu Xuan's eyes flickered. He was slightly surprised, but since his health and spirituality limits had increased, it was still decent.

At this moment, that wisp of thread finally dissipated.

Chu Xuan felt his head throbbing slightly, and there was a faint pain between his brows.

He immediately realized that this was due to the excessive consumption of Mental Energy from continuously using Tracing Cause and Effect.

According to the System's previous prompts, his current Mental Energy was still insufficient to elevate this Divine Ability to Major Achievement.

Thinking of this, Chu Xuan kept 10 rule fragments as resources for the next Dream Return. He consumed the extra rule fragment and 1,000 spirituality points to exchange for real attribute points, adding them to his spirit attribute.

[spirit: 32 (Real Attribute)]

Although his head still throbbed slightly and hadn't fully recovered, it was basically fine now. Based on past experience, he just needed to rest for a while.

"Regardless, Revelation is dead. Future Tang Zheng should be able to recover his memories of this month..."

Chu Xuan murmured in his heart.

Regarding Future Tang Zheng, he still had a trace of doubt in his heart.

Especially before the "Dream Return," after he had seen Tang Zheng's abnormal state through the Eye of Insight, the doubt in his heart grew even stronger.

He suspected whether Tang Zheng had run into trouble in the War Dragon World and had a Specter inside his body.

Just like his own previous relationship with the Phantom Demon.

And the current Tang Zheng's strength was far beyond what his own had been back then. The Specter inside the other party's body was obviously far beyond the half-crippled Phantom Demon as well.

Especially since the Purifier sequence had already been taken by himself.

Then how did the Future Tang Zheng resolve the hidden danger of the Specter in his body?

Chu Xuan urgently wanted to enter the next dream.

"Besides... according to what Future Tang Zheng said back then, my level wasn't high enough to answer many questions. Now that I've advanced, I should be able to know more things..."

"Especially, what kind of method is used to contact the past me..."

Chu Xuan's eyes flickered.

He suddenly thought of another question.

In the process of communicating with Future Tang Zheng, it seemed that no matter how many times he died or how the future changed, the other party could always contact his past self.

Especially when facing the threat of the Azure Dragon, the future world had changed in the most exaggerated ways.

In one instance, the Azure Dragon had endured and bided its time, planning for a long time, and even nearly sacrificed the entire world, coming only one step away from success.

Thinking of this, Chu Xuan's heart stirred, and he took out a circular device from his storage space.

[communication radar: You can use this item to send messages and locate others.]

Before the Dream Return, Tang Zheng had given him this communication radar before heading to the War Dragon World.

During the Dream Return, Chu Xuan had chosen to retain his personal state and everything within the System space, which naturally included the [communication radar].

"Items should have uniqueness..."

Chu Xuan's eyes flickered slightly.

He immediately thought that before the Dream Return, when Gaga Chicken was still an egg, it was placed on the greed tank sucking high-grade life essence.

After the Dream Return, the high-grade life essence inside the greed tank had long been drunk dry.

"So, on Tang Zheng's side, is there only one communication radar corresponding to mine, or is there still a matching pair?"

Chu Xuan pondered for a moment and pressed the red button on the edge of the radar.

The dim screen lit up, and a small red dot appeared within the crisscrossing green grid.

"This dot should represent my location. If he's within a certain range, a second dot will appear, which would be Tang Zheng's location..."

Chu Xuan recalled the usage method Tang Zheng had told him earlier.

Pressing the red button with his thumb, as the System prompt for "spirituality value -10" sounded, Chu Xuan spoke: "Tang Zheng, I'm Chu Xuan. Where are you now?"

As his voice fell, the same segment of text appeared on the radar screen.

This meant it was sent successfully.

It also meant that Tang Zheng, who possessed the other corresponding communication radar, was still alive.

He waited for a while, but there was no reply from Tang Zheng.

Just as Chu Xuan was contemplating,

A System prompt suddenly appeared.

[Mandatory Mission:

Please head to the "St. Lianna Hospital" in the capital within 2 hours and enter the Place of Gloomy Convergence to complete this Mandatory Mission.

Special Note: If you do not respond, you will be subject to the penalty of forced erasure.]

[Countdown begins!]

[01:59:59]

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"Gaga? Subordinates have to perform Mandatory Missions too? I don't want to go there!"

Gaga Chicken let out a howl. It had retained its memories from before the Dream Return and knew very well that the hospital contained many S-rank Specters with instant-death rules.

"Where there are missions, there are rewards. Since we can't refuse, let's face it head-on."

Chu Xuan had long since grown accustomed to this. He put away the radar, returned to Gaga Chicken's back, patted its head, and said calmly, "Let's go back."

"Big brother, you have to cover for me." Carrying Chu Xuan, Gaga Chicken took to the air, soaring over the sea and rushing toward the capital more than five hundred kilometers away.

Gaga Chicken's speed was a bit slower than before, but at this rate, they would arrive in just over half an hour.

Chu Xuan closed his eyes to rest.

About ten minutes later, Chu Xuan suddenly sensed a movement in his Exclusive Space.

He immediately sent his consciousness in to check and found that the communication radar placed inside was vibrating gently.

Chu Xuan's spirits lifted, and he immediately took out the radar.

As Chu Xuan pressed the red button, lines of text appeared on the screen, accompanied by Tang Zheng's voice sounding from within:

"Chu Xuan, I've returned to the War Dragon World. I'm currently dealing with a thorny matter. How are things on your end?"

"You said before you were going to hunt S-rank Specters to get rule fragments. Did the operation go smoothly?"

"Blood rain is falling from the sky; our world is undergoing a mutation. It's highly likely that even more terrifying Specters will descend! If things get too bad, find a place to hide. Wait for me to finish my business, then I'll come find you and take you back to the War Dragon World with me!"

Hearing Tang Zheng's continuous stream of words, Chu Xuan's pupils suddenly constricted.