# 1975
Chapter 1962: Under the Night Curtain
He still had a trump card.
Even though he was running on fumes, there was still one final card to play...
It was one he had never wanted to use. He would rather wager his own life for three minutes than动用这张底牌，但此刻，他别无选择。
Seventeen grand divine pressures shrouded the heavens and earth, encircling his aged form. The wind stirred his disheveled silver-white hair as a pair of complex eyes gazed at his palm...
It was a coin glowing with pale blue light.
King's Star Coins.
"...If possible, I hope I never have to use you again, but my strength alone has reached its limit..."
Lin Qiye's wrinkled face forced out a bitter smile. He looked at the coin in his palm as if speaking softly to an old friend.
"All these years, I've imagined this moment countless times. Perhaps in reality we can never gather again, but the power of the star coins can recreate our shared past... But after that, I will forget everything about us. Glory or obscurity.
Now I'm going to die...
Being able to fight alongside you all once more before death doesn't seem so bad?"
Lin Qiye smiled. This time, the smile held no bitterness, only hope and anticipation... He seemed to have become that少年 once more, standing on the walls of the Purification Chamber ten years ago, his clear eyes reflecting the distant sunrise and the sea, but his side was empty...
Lin Qiye knew he was going to die. No amount of faith power could reverse the withering of life. His body was about to reach its final end.
And there were still seven minutes left before the three passes of Great Xia could be relocated... In these final seven minutes, he needed to burn through everything this body had.
And even in death, he must not die under the gaze of others. Countless eyes were waiting for him to create a miracle. He had to maintain the image of Commander Lin until the very last moment of his life.
Therefore, his final trump card... was memory.
In the past ten years, the most precious and unforgettable memories... Only that kind of memory could possibly reverse the battle and give him a perfect ending.
The crimson cloak fluttered in despair, the earth's lament echoed across the sky. The old man standing before the scattered curtain fragments was like an actor about to take his final bow, tearfully kissing the stage that once belonged to them.
His trembling hand raised the flickering star coin, gently pressing it against the blood-stained earth.
"Let this world remember our appearance one last time..."
"Under the night curtain."
Ding—!!
The pale blue coin spun through the blood pool.
Fragments of memory danced with the coin, rippling across the blood. In the next instant, the void around Lin Qiye churned rapidly.
A stretch of ink-black night dyed the sky like spilled ink. The chaotic battlefield was instantly shrouded in darkness.
Among the scattered curtain fragments, figures in deep crimson stepped out from the void, standing shoulder to shoulder beside Lin Qiye!
A powerful might erupted from those crimson-cloaked figures, shattering in an instant the combined divine pressure of seventeen divine corpses. A visible wave of momentum swept through the void, driving them all back several steps!
"That, that's..."
At this moment, in the shelters scattered across Great Xia, Night Watch members watching the broadcast all widened their eyes, disbelief filling their gazes!
"Night Curtain!! It's the Night Curtain!!! The Night Curtain has returned!! We're saved!!"
Anyone who had served in the Night Watch for any significant time could recognize those deep crimson cloaks. They were Great Xia's former legend and Great Xia's eternal regret... Seeing the Night Curtain reappear, most people were both excited and confused, not understanding what was happening.
The captain had stayed in Great Xia as the seventh Supreme Commander. The vice-captain had become one of the three pillars of the Cthulhu Faction. Members had either died, disappeared, or vanished into the cosmos as Great Xia's Heavenly Venerables... Almost no one had ever imagined the Night Curtain could reunite one day.
Only the few Night Watch high-ranking members who knew about the King's Star Coins' abilities saw this scene and felt not joy, but profound sorrow...
To personally recreate the past from memory, with the price being eternal forgetting... What must Commander Lin be feeling right now?
On the blood-stained earth, countless black goat offspring came charging forth.
Among the floating curtain fragments, one figure draped in a Crimson Cloak slowly raised their arm and pressed down on the empty air before them.
"—Annihilate."
The moment the word fell, the nearly thousand black goat offspring at the front suddenly froze, then exploded into countless bits of bloody mist!
This was suppression from the same origin, an absolute display of rank. As a wisp of gray mist drifted from beneath the cloak, countless pink Migos shot out from the void, swarming across the sky to slaughter the rushing wave of offspring!!
Night Curtain Squad Vice-Captain, Key to the Gate vessel, An Qingyu!
This was the An Qingyu Lin Qiye had recreated from memory, specifically from the time after leaving Shangjing University but before being seduced by Chaos to betray the Heavenly Court... During this period, he already possessed the power to control Migos and could even exert absolute suppression over certain Cthulhu Faction lifeforms.
This was the point in Lin Qiye's memory where An Qingyu was still part of the Night Curtain and at the peak of his power...
Seeing this, Chaos's expression turned livid. He never expected Lin Qiye could summon An Qingyu from that period... Although the An Qingyu of that time couldn't compare to his current self, to these black goat offspring, he was still an overwhelming force of destruction!
The seventeen possessed divine corpses, seeing this, joined hands once more to suppress the group. Multi-colored divine light erupted violently, pouring down like a waterfall!
"Primordial Infinite Void, reversal of heaven and earth."
From within the group, another figure stepped forward. The Primordial Infinite Void opened in the void, forcibly swallowing all the divine power from the seventeen divine corpses.
With a series of hand seals, the yin and yang energies reversed beneath his feet. The swallowed divine powers intertwined into Daoist flames, erupting from the Primordial Infinite Void and instantly incinerating five divine corpses that had clustered together. The red flames illuminated half the sky!
A Supreme God might swept across the earth. This figure standing upon the Primordial Infinite Void stood among the group, fighting the seventeen divine corpses single-handedly, wiping out five in an instant!
Night Curtain Squad member, "True Self Reincarnation" Lingbao Tianzun, Baili Pangpang!
Moo—!!
At the same moment, two Cthulhu Faction deities seemed to sense the terrifying aura emanating from these crimson-cloaked figures. Their massive bodies surged forward like two mountains crackling with lightning, bearing down upon the shattered curtain fragments!