# 888
Chapter 889: Liberate the Black King
Under the terrifying pressure, Chen Yangrong couldn't help but swallow hard.
"What kind of monster is this?"
Chen Yangrong let out a low roar, his eyes filled with scarlet light. He thrust both hands into the stomach wall behind him once more, and the already mutilated flesh around him began to twist with great difficulty.
But Lin Qiye was not going to give him another chance.
The Godzilla-sized body crashed into the stomach wall like a mountain. Its sharp, powerful claws dug fiercely into the stomach lining, tearing away large chunks of flesh and slicing all those flesh balls about to burst forth with tentacles into bloody mist.
The brilliant magic array light erupted once more. Within the sea of blood, Godzilla's form vanished. Lin Qiye, having returned to his true body, carried Jialan on his back and held [White Slash] in his hand, streaking across the sea like lightning. His pair of golden eyes blazed furiously!
A sliver of snow-white blade light ignored the space between them, gently landing on Chen Yangrong's neck.
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Fishing Village.
Beneath the crimson moon.
In front of the scorched houses, Shen Qingzhu's eyes brightened when he saw An Qingyu walking toward him from afar, carrying a coffin on his back.
But when he亲眼 saw An Qingyu pick up that blood-stained firewood knife from the ground, the hand holding his cigarette suddenly trembled, and his brow furrowed tightly.
After hesitating for a moment, he still rose from the steps and walked to stand before An Qingyu.
"Zhuai-ge." An Qingyu's gaze shifted away from Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang tied together in the distance, settling on Shen Qingzhu before him. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine."
Shen Qingzhu held the cigarette between his teeth, staring into An Qingyu's bloodshot eyes. "But... you don't seem to be doing well."
An Qingyu seemed to realize something. He rubbed his eyes with both hands and explained, "I'm actually fine too. These eyes... it's because I saw something I shouldn't have just now."
Earlier, when he had forcibly analyzed the pollution corrupting Chen Gou, An Qingyu's eyes had also been damaged. The red veins in them had not yet faded, making them appear equally bloodshot.
Shen Qingzhu nodded, his gaze falling upon the blood-stained firewood knife in An Qingyu's hand.
"So, what are you planning to do?"
An Qingyu fell silent.
After a long moment, he raised his hand and pointed the blade in his grasp toward Cao Yuan, who was bound in the distance, speaking calmly. "Kill him."
Shen Qingzhu's eyes narrowed.
"Your mind is no longer clear." Shen Qingzhu said decisively.
"I'm very lucid."
"Do you want to reconsider what you just said?"
"I said, I'm very lucid." An Qingyu repeated. He looked into Shen Qingzhu's eyes and spoke with utmost seriousness. "I must kill Cao Yuan, otherwise, the law of time here will erase all of us."
"I won't let you kill him."
"Cao Yuan's body contains the Black King. Even if I kill him, he won't die... I know this sounds absurd, but I don't have time to explain to you right now." An Qingyu's peripheral vision swept across the crimson moon in the sky, which was about to become full. He looked at Shen Qingzhu and said earnestly,
"Zhuai-ge, you have to believe me!"
Shen Qingzhu furrowed his brow and stared at An Qingyu, falling into silence.
When An Qingyu saw that Shen Qingzhu still showed no signs of yielding, anxiety surged within him. A hint of crimson tinged those eyes... but quickly, he suppressed this restlessness.
He took a deep breath and spoke again:
"Zhuai-ge, who am I?"
Shen Qingzhu was taken aback.
"I'm An Qingyu... Vice-captain of the [Nightfall] squad, An Qingyu." An Qingyu met his gaze. "I can go mad. I can kill everyone in this world, but I will never harm my brothers... Do you understand?"
Shen Qingzhu did not answer. White smoke rose from his cigarette. His eyes, shrouded in the haze, fixed on An Qingyu, flickering slightly.
After a long while, as if having made a decision, he let out a long breath of smoke.
"What do you need me to do?"
Hearing this, An Qingyu's heart finally relaxed. He set down the coffin from his back and said, "Take Pangpang and Jiang Er, get as far away from here as possible. Go to the very edge of the village and wait. No matter what happens later, don't look back.
If a gap appears in the time loop, don't hesitate—just charge through."
Shen Qingzhu did not ask further. He silently shouldered the coffin, then dragged the bound Baili Pangpang behind him. Compressed air gathered beneath Pangpang's body, forming an air cushion that悬浮ed above the ground, swiftly carrying them toward the village's edge.
After taking a few steps, he still couldn't help but stop and turn to ask:
"What about you? What will you do?"
"Don't worry about me. After I get out, I'll find you." An Qingyu smiled faintly.
"...Alright."
This time, Shen Qingzhu did not look back. He swiftly departed with the two others.
Burning embers mixed with dust rose slowly beneath the crimson moon. In the empty, scorched street, An Qingyu, firewood knife in hand, walked slowly toward Cao Yuan, who was bound on the ground.
An Qingyu walked up to him, crouched down slowly. The pale lenses reflected the crimson moonlight. Behind those lenses, those reddened eyes gazed quietly at the frantically thrashing Cao Yuan.
"Cao Yuan... I'm sorry." he murmured to himself.
He took a deep breath, raised the firewood knife in his hand, and pressed the blade against Cao Yuan's chest...
And thrust it in abruptly!
The blade sliced through flesh and pierced Cao Yuan's beating heart. The raging Cao Yuan's voice cut off abruptly, freezing in place like a sculpture.
A wisp of jet-black flame drifted out from his shattered heart.
BOOM——!!!!!
In an instant, endless torrents of baleful fire gushed forth from within Cao Yuan's body like a raging river, transforming into a pillar of black fire hundreds of meters in radius that shot straight into the sky!
An Qingyu's body vanished in an instant within the pillar of black fire, followed by the scorched streets around him and the scattered houses... The churning baleful fire swept across the fishing village at an astonishing speed. Within moments, the entire fishing village was reduced to a sea of black flames.
An extremely terrifying and violent aura descended abruptly!
Shen Qingzhu, who had barely managed to escape the outer edge of the baleful fire sea, felt his heart jolt. An unprecedented sense of dread washed over him. Dense cold sweat continuously seeped out. The joints throughout his body emitted faint clicks, as if some invisible pressure was pressing down on his body from the sky, making his steps suddenly heavy.
He猛地 turned and looked back.
Crimson moonlight spilled down, but was devoured entirely by the jet-black sea of baleful fire. Deep within the blazing flames, a towering black figure rose slowly from the ruins.
It was a giant composed entirely of black flames. On its arms, shoulders, knees, and chest, there were circular apertures, each nearly ten meters in radius. Through these holes, the crimson sky behind could be seen clearly...
Seven jet-black chains extended from the void, firmly locked within those apertures, like a cage of fate, imprisoning its body.