I'm not a drama god

Chen Ling didn't expect that the section of the Styx that Xiaoji brought actually contained Yao Qing's soul.

Yes, these special envoys like to control the residual souls of demigods to improve their combat power. Yao Qing, as a modern demigod of Qingshen Dao, is naturally on their "special attention" list.

Not only Yao Qing, Chen Ling also saw several familiar figures in the surrounding section of the Styx.

In addition to the other halls of Fu Sheng Hui, some ordinary members, and even people from the chambers of commerce in the Red Dust Realm, were all swept up in the torrent... If you look further into the distance, you can see figures from other realms.

This tributary is undoubtedly a very new tributary of the River Styx.

Maybe it was because there were too many ghosts that made Chen Ling a little dizzy. He vaguely saw a graceful figure in a yellow dress flashing through the rushing torrent of ghosts.

Chen Ling didn't care about anything else and poured his mental power into the red paper umbrella frantically. A powerful gravitational force enveloped the tributary of the Styx!

A large number of ghosts deviated from this tributary. Except for those ghosts that had been entangled by Xiaoji's chains, the other ghosts in the tributary were actually sucked away by Chen Ling and poured into the flying red paper umbrella!

He's trying to block the River Styx!

It sounds like there are not many ghosts after being diverted again and again, but in fact, Chen Ling absorbs nearly ten thousand ghosts every second. The Styx itself is so huge that even a tiny branch has an extremely terrifying number.

Moreover, although Xiaoji was using the technique of controlling ghosts, his targets were only those Shintoists who could provide him with combat power, so the number of ghosts he actually controlled was only about a hundred. Except for those Shintoists who were "filtered" by Xiaoji, all the others in this tributary flowed into Chen Ling's red paper umbrella.

"Damn..."

Chen Ling felt that his mental power was being consumed at an extremely exaggerated rate.

While the red paper umbrella could hold an unlimited number of souls, the process would constantly drain Chen Ling's mental energy. At this rate, it would drain him completely in just a dozen seconds, or even completely destroy his mind. At best, he would be in a coma for over ten days, or, like Doctor Han before him, suffer brain death.

But he couldn't close the red paper umbrella. Once he did so, the power of the nearly one hundred ghosts restraining Xiaoji would disappear, and Xiaoji's combat power would reach a terrifying level.

Bang-bang-bang!!

While Chen Ling was frantically restricting Minghe, the confrontation between Jiang Xiaohua and Xiaoji had also become increasingly intense.

Half of Xiaoji's body had been cursed to turn into blood, and his other arm was also cut with blood marks by the flying bandages. Even though there were embroidery silk threads constantly helping him to block Jiang Xiaohua, Jiang Xiaohua was now fighting with a completely reckless attitude. He didn't even blink an eye and just kept attacking even though the sharp embroidery silk threads pierced through his body!

Most of the ghosts controlled by Xiaoji were held back by Chen Ling, and his own combat power was extremely limited. In this situation, he had almost no way to withstand Jiang Xiaohua's suicidal attack.

"Crazy! You are a bunch of lunatics!!"

The extremely embarrassed Xiao Ji looked at Jiang Xiaohua who was attacking madly in front of him, and Chen Ling who was blocking the Styx with his own strength above him, and couldn't help but speak,

"You are rebelling against the way of ghosts! You are destroying the balance between life and death! You will suffer the consequences of karma!!"

Jiang Xiaohua had no intention of answering him at all, but just focused on the crazy attack.

Only Chen Ling's voice rang out from above:

"Ghost path?"

"Is the ghost way correct?"

"No... You don't care about the balance between life and death at all. All you care about is this world of the dead."

"You don't care how many people die in the world of the living, otherwise you wouldn't send out the Void, and you wouldn't try to make the human realm wipe out their respective Nine Lords to prevent the arrival of the Red Star!"

"You know full well that once Jiujun dies, the human realm will cease to exist. By then, the world of the living will be almost completely destroyed, and your world of the dead will simply see the Styx flow faster... You only want to preserve the Ghost Path under the Red Star, and you don't care how many people die outside..."

"Is this the 'balance between life and death' that you are pursuing?"

Chen Ling's questioning was not just directed at Xiao Ji... His eyes were always fixed on the nothingness above his head.

What he really wanted to talk to was Guidao himself.

Xiaoji was startled, then said angrily:

"Death is the fate that all living beings cannot escape!"

"Since the earliest days of life, how many races have been wiped out by natural disasters? Dinosaurs, mammoths, trilobites, Archaeopteryx... so many once-thriving races have vanished from the world of the living. Why can't humans be next?"

"Even if the Nine Lords die and humanity perishes, this world will not be destroyed by the Red Star. Perhaps thousands of years from now, new life will be born, and the balance between life and death will be restored. The world will still be a world of order..."

"The only thing that changes is the form of life."

The red paper umbrella that blocked the Styx kept shaking, and Chen Ling's mental strength had been overdrawn.

His face gradually paled, and he subconsciously raised his hand to grab the umbrella handle... Almost at the same time, a terrifying aura of demigod level emanated from his palm! !

Xiaoji's expression changed drastically in an instant! !

A demigod aura? Why did this guy suddenly have a demigod aura in his hand?!

This seventh-tier skill, the Red Paper Umbrella, not only holds souls, but also burns them, unleashing a destructive force equal to the combined strength of all the souls within...

There are already hundreds of thousands of souls in Chen Ling's umbrella now. If they are all burned to pieces and turned into nutrients for the red umbrella, the power that will be unleashed will definitely be at the demigod level!

A blow from the demigod is enough to kill the exhausted Xiaoji in seconds, and is also enough to shake the foundation of the ghost path!

but……

The familiar faces that had just passed by his eyes and flown into the red umbrella appeared in Chen Ling's mind.

The demigod's aura only brewed for a moment in Chen Ling's hand, and then gradually disappeared as he released his palm from the umbrella handle... Chen Ling did not choose to release this attack.

"The cycle of life and death, the replacement of races, is indeed the eternal and unchanging law of the world."

"But this doesn't mean we have to accept death without hesitation... Life will always find a way out."

"Everyone has the opportunity to pursue life. They want to survive. This is instinctive. But the difference between humans and other life forms is that some of them are willing to overcome their instincts for a higher belief."

"The owner of the breakfast shop, the servant in the theater, the daughter of the guild, the rat in the sewer..."

“Human beings are great because of their existence.”

"You, the Ghost Dao, claim to uphold rules and consider yourselves righteous, so why do you proactively intervene in the world of the living, wanting to exterminate humanity before life and death are even decided? Where were your rules when you sent the Void to the surface?"

"Humanity hasn't given up yet. Too many people are still fighting for this. What right do you... have to sentence humanity to death?!"